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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>Ecological Futures:
Contemporary Art and Anthropocene Studies</b></font><br>
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Open Call for a seminar at Translocal Institute, February- May
2016<br>
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<i>A number of free places are available for the seminar group and
those wishing to participate are invited to send a short motivation
letter to the organisers. The group will meet at Translocal Institute
on alternate Mondays beginning on 15 February 2016.</i><br>
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This seminar will take as its focus attempts within both environmental
thought and contemporary art to imagine the ecological future. These
range from visualisations of technocratic dystopias in which all the
worst predications of environmental disaster come true, to the wished
for emergence of sustainable communities thriving in a new age of
planetary consciousness. While some have tried to imagine a literally
post-human 'world without us' in the geologically not so distant
future, others explore the idea that in the wake of large scale
anthropogenic change the natural world will never be the same again.
The notion of the Anthropocene or 'epoch of humankind' is
reshaping how we see the geologic present, but what implications does
it have for the future? Is the world on the brink of a 'good
Anthropocene' in which new technologies give humanity the power to
adjust the climate at will? Or is the race intensifying between the
forces of insatiable economic growth and the evolution of ecological
consciousness? In the face of dire scientific predictions about
climate change, mass extinction, soil degradation and rising
pollution, this course also investigates the many ways in which
contemporary artists have explored affirmative ecological models and
desirable future scenarios in their work.<br>
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The seminar on Ecological Futures is led by Dr. Maja Fowkes and Dr.
Reuben Fowkes and organised in cooperation with the Moholy Nagy
University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME) as part of Translocal
Institute's Experimental Reading Room project 2014-16. The
Experimental Reading Room creates a space to interact, experiment,
learn and dream our way to a new orientation towards ecological
empathy in contemporary art and society. Based around a parallel
program of Anthropocene Response lectures by prominent international
thinkers and thematic study circles, the project is designed to
engender the self-production of socially-embedded,
theoretically-informed and practically-oriented knowledge in the field
of art and ecology. <br>
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