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I-Node- Planetary Collegium /NEXT NATURE / juried poster exhibition/ Julia Heurling

2015/05/19 ionioncenter Leave a comment

Julia Heurling
Artist/Designer

A horizon is not flat

In the summer of 2014 I spent one month on Kefalonia participating in the “Mapping Kefalonia” workshop. The result was the project “A horizon is not flat”. It can be seen as an investigation in how to invite a viewer to read or visit a place through photography, and the limits and extensions of visual perception and representation of specific photographic works. After the stay I have continued working on the concept and the visual outcome. The poster is a result of this work.

By taking photos of the landscape in series I want to accentuate the human experience of place, focusing on ground perspective and three dimensional experience. The series aim to describe continuity, context and viewer perspective of visual appearance. When combined into patterns, the images address questions as: What do repeat do to the visual content in a photography? Will it be redundant or are other qualities than motive given attention?

Photography is often regarded as a tool of proof, or a medium of truth. A photograph proves, and reproduces the photographers visual experience. It is a sample of experienced reality. I see and use photographs as a tool for visual thinking. Photographs give opportunity to explore reality in separate constituent parts. When working with pattern, interrelations, continuity and rhythm within a composition are equally important as content of an image. The project can be seen as a subjective and slightly fictional take on a documentary medium as photography.

Similar to the idea of abstraction, pattern can be a tool to clarify, simplify and exaggerate certain visual characteristics. “A horizon is not flat” aims to communicate and highlight characteristics as shape, colour and spatial changeability of Kefalonian views and appearances. In the naturalist school sense, pattern also illustrates the idea of “reproducing nature by carrying it to its maximum power and intensity”.
“Next Nature” suggests the idea of reality as a flow of variables and I think “Ahorizon is not flat” is closely linked to this idea.
Visual experience is different to every individual, and to every moment of life. I think the differences, however small, are more interesting than what unites our visual experiences. I aim to use photography to emphasize reality as continuous, pluralistic and diverse rather than actual. Suggesting ambiguity and doubt rather than certainty is key to describing reality.

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I-Node Planetary Collegium / INTERNATIONAL JURIED POSTER EXHIBITION: “NEXT NATURE: BONJOUR MONSIEUR COURBET” I-NODE AWARDS

2015/02/09 ionioncenter Leave a comment

INTERNATIONAL JURIED POSTER EXHIBITION:

“NEXT NATURE:

BONJOUR MONSIEUR COURBET”

I-NODE AWARDS

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Organiser: The I-Node of the Planetary Collegium

Venues:

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (April 2015)
Art Athina, Athens International Art Fair (June 2015)

Submission deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015

Eligibility : high-quality research posters with the syncretic approach in Art, Science and Technology.

Exhibition Dates:

23 April – 8 May 2015
4-7 June 2015

Poster Chair:

Katerina Karoussos, Director of the I-Node, Planetary Collegium

http://plymouth.academia.edu/KaterinaKaroussos

Selection Committee:

Roy Ascott, President of the Planetary Collegium, Planetary Collegium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott

Elif Ayiter, Director of Studies of the I-Node, Planetary Collegium

http://citrinitas.com/

Francesco Monico, Director of Studies of T-Node, Planetary Collegium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Monico

PLANETARY COLLEGIUM AUTHORS

Jane Grant, Pier Luigi Capucci, Khaled Hafez, Law Alsobrook, Alejandro Quinteros, Juliette Yuan, Diane Derr, Benjamin Pothier, Paola Lopreiato, Mike Phillips

Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Seth Riskin, Mujin Bao, Andrea Traldi

Alex Barchiesi, Adam Zaretski, Lila Moore, Regina Durig

The final list of accepted posters for Next Nature includes two categories of posters:

Accepted posters, which their authors are members of the Planetary Collegium (PC1 – PC2) and

Open Call posters which will be selected from the submissions received in response to the open Call for Posters.

A selection of 30 entries from the open call posters together with the accepted posters will be exhibited at the Ionion Center of Arts and Culture on the island of Kefalonia, Greece (ICAC) in April 2015.

During the exhibition, 25 posters from all the categories will be selected to be exhibited at the Athens International Art Fair (Art-Athina) on July 2015.

We are soliciting high-quality research posters with the syncretic approach in Art, Science and Technology. Posters must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2014. Posters are intended to convey a syncretic approach to “Next Nature” theme.

THEME

In 1863 Jules-Antoine Castagnary announced that: The naturalist school declares that art is the expression of life under all phases and on all levels, and that its sole aim is to reproduce nature by carrying it to its maximum power and intensity: it is truth balanced with science 1. One of the most illustrated examples of naturalism is “The meeting”, an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet, which has been interpreted as depicting Courbet greeted by his patron Bryas, his servant Calas and his dog, while travelling to Montpellier. The Meeting was exhibited in Paris at the 1855 Exhibition Universelle, where critics ridiculed it as “Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet”. The composition is based on Doré’s “The Wandering Jew2. Courbet, one of the major representatives of naturalism, has represented himself in the image of a wanderer, without a definite context, as one would expect of expect of a naturalistic painter. Did Courbet interpret Castagnary’s words ‘carrying it [nature] to its maximum power and intensity’ as a process of metaphor, fluidity, multiplicity and metamorphosis?

Nowadays, and after 160 years of Courbet’s naturalistic metamorphoses, we assume that we have embedded the ‘truth balanced with science’, as art work is based on transidisciplinary research through a variety of syncretic approach. In an era when, according to Roy Ascott, the ‘three VRs –virtual, validated and vegetal ‘merge into a continuous flow of ‘variable reality’, it is the right moment for a future anterior step which will lead to the awareness of the Next Nature.

And, as Ascott argues: “This means, of course, not an inert, passive or genetically programmed participation but a conscious involvement in the evolution of those forms and emergent behaviours which we identify with life and which, as our powers of intelligent collaboration and participation increase, will come to constitute the new nature”3.

Katerina Karoussos

Needham, Gerald, “Naturalism.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press

Linda Nochlin, Gustave Courbet’s Meeting: A Portrait of the Artist as a Wandering Jew Art Bulletin vol 49 No 3 (September 1967)

Ascott, Roy, “Back to Nature II- Art and Technology in the 21st century” 1st publication, 1993. Fedrowitz, eds. Kultur und Technik im 21.Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, pp. 341-355. Culture and Technology in the 21st. Century Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen. 2nd publication 2013, More & Vita-More, The Transhumanist Reader. NY Wiley. Pp 438-448.

GENERAL IMFORMATION

The I-Node of the Planetary Collegium invites transdisciplinary artists /researchers to apply for the upcoming poster exhibition addressing the theme of “Next Nature”.

The final list of accepted posters for Next Nature includes two categories of posters: accepted posters, which their authors are members of the Planetary Collegium (PC),

and open call posters which will be selected from the submissions received in response to the open Call for Posters.

A selection of 30 entries from the open call posters will be exhibited as part of the Planetary Collegium poster exhibition “Next Nature’’ which will be held at the Ionion Center of Arts and Culture on the island of Kefalonia, Greece (ICAC) in April 2015.
During the exhibition, 25 posters from all the categories will be selected to be exhibited at the Athens International Art Fair (Art-Athina) on July 2015.

We are soliciting high-quality research posters with the syncretic approach in Art, Science and Technology. Posters must include original work that is unpublished or published after August 1, 2014. Posters are intended to convey a syncretic approach to “Next Nature” theme and should not include advertisements for commercial reasons.

A poster that is judged by the selection committee to be an advertisement will be subject to removal without notice.

AWARDS

The Selection Committee will select two individuals to be awarded with the Juror’s Choice Awards.

1st prize: One grant (€ 800) exclusively for a PhD research at the I-Node of the Planetary Collegium

2nd prize: Free art-in residence (max 30 days, including personal exhibition/performance or presentation) at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (travel expenses are not included)

Planetary Collegium members (faculty and researchers) are excluded from the award competition. Works previously displayed in Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture are also ineligible.

ENTRY FEES

Open Call Posters will be required to pay a poster fee of €50 for early poster submissions.
Accepted Posters from PC authors who are currently in their research updates will be eligible to submit a poster without a fee, providing their Plymouth University ID number, as part of their research session.
Accepted Posters from PC authors who are currently in their writing-up stage or have already awarded with the PhD title can submit their posters with a poster fee of €30.
Posters submitted after the deadline, and in any case prior to the Selection Committee meeting, will be considered as Late Poster Submissions and will require a non-refundable

All entry fees are non refundable

DUE DATES

Submission deadline: Monday, March 2, 2015
Notification by email of accepted works: Friday, March 28, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 23, 2015 (8:00 pm)
Exhibition dates: April 24 – May 8, 2015

4-7 June, 2015

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Application form and a poster daft should be sent to ionionode@gmail.com until the deadline.

Download the application form from the web site www.i-node.org

Files should be in PDF format, A3 (29,7 × 42 cm) maximum 5 Mb / 200 dpi in CMYK colour mode. Before sending, save the file as <name-surname.pdf>

The subject of the e-mail should be read as <surname-nextculture>.

Selected participants will be asked to submit a new file in size A0.

COMPLETE ENTRY CHECKLIST

Incomplete entries will not be considered. A complete entry form consists of the following:

Application form
Draft poster in PDF
Proof of deposit from Pay Pal Online payment service

ADDITIONAL INFO

Selected participants are welcome to be present to follow the program /or/ the reception day at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) . The I-Node of the Planetary Colegium does not cover accommodation or travel expenses. If selected participants wish to participate to the events, ICAC can provide discounts for bookings at a partner hotel and additional support for a vist/ or /residency at the Center during late April/ May / June. (info upon request).
Posters will remain in the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture.Participants who will request the delivery of their physical posters –after June 10, 2015- are responsible for the transport costs insurance/safety issues.
A selection of posters will be published on the I-Node’s web site, or otherwise the author has to state his/her disagreement in the Application Form.

INFORMATION:www.i-node.org

For questions or additional information, please contact the Poster Chair, Katerina Karoussos at inode.karoussos@gmail.com

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GRANTS 2015- 2016/Reframing the History of Civilization through the Contemporary Art In the Islands Kefalonia and Ithaca .

2015/02/09 ionioncenter Leave a comment

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

ANNOUNCEMENT / OPEN CALL

GRANTS ΥΕAR 2015-2016

Reframing the History of Civilization through the Contemporary Art

In the Islands Kefalonia and Ithaca .

VENUE : Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture /Greek Island Kefalonia

ELIGIBILITY : All disciplines and interdisciplinary projects in Arts, Sciences, Education and Research, included Environmental projects, Literary Arts , Performing Arts and Music, Applied Arts, Visual Arts , New Media.

Are invited projects personal of collective, academic projects, Schools, Colleges, Universities and in Arts, Sciences and Research involved Institutions and Organizations from all over the World.

TIME : Year 2015 – March 1^st to December 30^th

OPENING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS : November 1^st 2014 [limited space for participations] DEADLINES : On going

GRANTS : euro 30.000 grants available. 10.000 for the best project upon realization.

ACCEPTABLE : a. Proposals connected to the open programs of the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture .b. Innovative Proposals – all disciplines- not connected to the existing programs.

Information –Contact : www.ionionartscenter.gr, info@ionionartscenter.gr

Applications: http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

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Finding your Unique Voice Master Workshop – Choreography/Creative Process/ March 29th-April 4th , 2015 AT the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture /Greek Island Kefalonia.

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Finding your Unique Voice

Master Workshop – Choreography/Creative Process/ March 29^th-April 4^th , 2015 AT the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture /Greek Island Kefalonia.

‘’Finding your Unique Voice’’ is a 6 day intensive Master Workshop

Instructor : Emily Berry

Venue : The Ionion Center for The Arts and Culture , Island Kefalonia, Greece .

Time : ( March 29^th April 4^th 2015, Mediterranean Spring ,Greek Easter, when the island is transformed in a mild weather Paradise in full blossom.

Eligibility :This unique Master Workshop is open to 12-15 participants from transdisciplinary or dancing/ performing arts background, that are interested in exploring the creative process and to introduce /communicate /demonstrate a personal or professional project on the explored theme.

The selection will be based on the originality and innovation of the project.

Award: The best personal project will be warded by the Ionion Center with the opportunity of a personal presentation / performance and residency.

The workshop ‘’Finding your Unique Voice’’ will focus on a process to pull out of the participants their unique movement/ creative voice as well as discovering their own unique creative process into the new –early Spring environment of the Island . Participants will share in daily classes of movement, improvisation, discussions, and time to explore and create. The week will culminate in a public sharing of the movement/work that was discovered over the course of the week. Participants will also have an opportunity to traverse the Island, using its rich landscapes and history as inspiration for creative explorations. Participants will also engage in creating a site specific performance in relationship to the natural/architectural/cultural environment .

Open call is inviting applications . Dead line for applications : March 25^th 2015.

Participation fee is euro 380(tax and registration fee included), includes full housing accommodation, breakfast and one local traditional hot meal(lunch).

Traveling , insurance, leisure and local transportation expenses are not included.

The Master Workshop will offer Official Certificate of Participation

For details and the full program please contact: info@ionionartscenter.gr

Applications : http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

Emily Berry, MFA – Department of Health, Physical Education, and Dance

Associate Professor , Queensborough Community College NY

Education:

Master of Fine Arts: George Mason University
Bachelor of Dance Arts: University of Michigan School of Music
Bachelor of General Studies in Women’s Studies and Political Science: University of Michigan School of Literature, Science, & Arts

Emily Berry : www.b3w.org

Emily Berry is the Artistic Director of B3W Performance Group, which has performed in the

US, England and Mexico. In New York City, B3W has performed at Henry Street Settlement,

Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, BAAD!, the 92nd Street Y, The Irondale Center as part ofFlicFest, the International Dance Festival NYC, the DUMBO Dance Festival, the Manhattan

Movement Arts Center, and the Cool New York Dance Festival. The company has also

premiered two dance films in Maryland and in Switzerland. B3W received the Mondo Cane

Commission from Dixon Place where we premiered Confined in September 2010 with a threeweek

run. Emily was also commissioned to set a piece on Ann Arbor Dance Works in May of

Spin Art, B3W’s newest evening length work premiered at the Irondale Center January

30th, 2014 with live music by DBR. Spin Art will premiere as a creating public art through

performance piece with paint inside of a cube in Queens in the fall of 2014.

Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Infinite Body) describes Berry’s work as “Memorable, intelligent, strong”.

“Violent but engaging” are the words attached to Berry’s work by Clare Croft in the Washington

Post. Maura Donahue (Culturbot) writes about Confined as, “Clear expression of idea in

movement”.

Emily has performed with danceTactics Performance Group/Keith Thompson, Boris Willis

Moves, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company, Restless Native Dance/Tamieca McCloud,

Lesole’s Dance Project, and Ashe Moyubba/Alafia Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance Ensemble.

Emily is a Certified Movement Analyst. She also has a MFA in dance from George Mason

University. Her Bachelor of Dance Arts was earned from the University of Michigan along with

a Bachelor of General Studies in Women’s Studies and Political Science. She has taught at

Oakland University, George Mason University, Coppin State University, Montgomery College,

and the Community College of Baltimore County. She has also taught master classes for

ACDFA, Goucher College, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, and

numerous dance intensives. She is currently an assistant professor of dance and the director of

the dance program at Queensborough Community College.

Program

Sunday March 29^th

10:00am -11:00 am – Welcome and Introductions

11:00 am-1:00 pm – Movement class

1:00-2:00 pm – Lunch

2:00pm-3:30pm – Improvisation Class

3:30pm-3:45pm – Coffee Break

3:45pm-5:00pm – Creative Process – Discussion and Exploration

5.00pm-12.00 free evening / free exploration of the area / Argostoli by night

Monday March 30^th

10:00am-11:45am – Movement/Improvisation Class

11:45am-12:00noon- Break

12:00noon -1:00pm – Creative Process – Journal writing/Discussion

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm – Exploration/Experimentation of Creative Process/Movement Development

4:00pm-4:15pm – Coffee Break

4:15pm-5:00pm – Sharing of Explorations

5.00pm-12.00 free evening / free exploration of the area

Tuesday March 31^th

Excursion to Explore the Island

Journal Writing of Inspiration – Site Specific ideas for improvisations/performances/or inspiration for creative process/movement

9:00am-6:00pm

Wednesday April 1^st

10:00am -11:15 am – Movement/Improvisation Class

11:15am-12:15pm – Discussion/sharing of discoveries from Excursion

12:15pm-1:00pm – Planning of 2^nd excursion – creating a collective response through movement

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm – Time to Explore Creative process/Movement

4:00-4:15 – Coffee Break

4:15pm-5:00 pm– Sharing of explorations – final planning of 2^nd excursion – creating a collective response through movement

5.00pm-12.00 free evening /free exploration of the area

Thursday April 2^nt

10:00am -1:00pm – 2^nd Excursion – Performing Site Specific Work

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-5:00pm – Exploring a new creative process – Developing an Idea

5.00pm-12.00 free evening / free exploration of the area

Friday April 3^th

10:00am-11:15am – Movement/Improvisation Class

11:15am-1:00 pm– Developing an Idea/Concept

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm – Finalizing what to show

4:00pm-6:00pm – Coffee Break

6:00pm-7:00pm warm – up

7:00pm – Public event / Showing of explorations from the week

Saturday April 4^th

Evaluation process – awarding the best participation

Certificates of participation

Good buy cocktail

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Simmone Howell, The Writer’s Journal

2012/07/04 ionioncenter Leave a comment

Simmone Howell

The Writer’s Journal

August 11th, 2012

About

The journal is one of the writer’s greatest tools. It can be a storehouse for ideas, a way to document of your writing process and a safe place to experiment and explore your creativity. This workshop will introduce various journaling techniques including using maps, memory, automatic writing and visioning. We will create new writing from eclectic source material. and be inspired by our environment’s geography and mythology. The Writers Journal is a hands-on, experimental and relaxed workshop. Whether you are an absolute beginner, on brink of a new project or facing writer’s block, this workshop will guide you towards results and new vistas.

Topics covered:

– automatic writing

– generating ideas

– visioning

– mapping

– finding and keeping inspiration

About the Artist

Simmone Howell is the author of Everything Beautiful and Notes from the Teenage Underground

www.simmonehowell.com

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The Giant Sea Cave Excavation

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July 20 – 31, 2012

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Greece

In the summer 2011, Pamela Longobardi (US) swam to a massive sea cave from Liakas with Maria Rigatou (GR). It was immense and filled with many pieces of plastic, some very large. The two women swam out several large bags of material and large plastic objects. For Drifters Project/Kefalonia Phase II, Longobardi plans to clean the entire cave with a team of swimmers and to remove all the material and transport it to the Ionion Art Center to document, analyze and create a single large-scale art installation in the gallery.

In July 2012 the materials will be floated out of the cave as a giant raft of plastic, a floating island chain transported by swimmers – Pamela Longobardi herself and Claudia Lamas Cornejo (GE/PE), a Berlin-based culture manager and curator of the environmental exhibition project PACKET-SOUP.

This action will be documented by underwater and above water video to create a film that will be projected in the gallery with the array of plastic that is removed and sorted.

A forensic study will be done of the modern-day archeology of the cave, with statistical analysis, object identification of all components, and presentation of the findings.

The artist and Plastic Pollution Coalition founder Dianna Cohen (US) will in addition display her abstract paintings made of plastic bags in half of the gallery space.

Pamela Longobardi

Artist and Professor of Art (* October 1, 1958 in Glen Ridge NJ, USA)

Pam Longobardi’s work encompasses multiple mediums from painting, to photography and installation to address the psychological relationship between humans and the natural world. Her artwork was and is shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions all over the world (e.g. Venice Biennale 2009). In 2006, upon discovering the vast hoards of plastic the ocean regurgitates on remote beaches, she founded the Drifters Project, creating environmental interventions and exhibitions in Hawaii, Alaska, Costa Rica, China, Italy and Greece. Her work has been shown recently at Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Gallery Diet in Miami, and Savvy Contemporary in Berlin.

www.pamlongobardi.com

www.consciousocean.org

Claudia Lamas Cornejo

Curator and Culture-Manager (* October 16, 1983 in Munich, Germany)

Since the foundation of SAVVY Contemporary, Claudia Lamas Cornejo is responsible for Management and Public Relations as well as for fundraising exhibition and performance projects at this non-profit space in Berlin-Neukolln. She participated as a media- and press-manager in numerous national and international exhibitions and publications. In 2012 she curated the exhibition PACKET-SOUP, an environmental exhibition project about plastic pollution. She has completed a B.A. in Intercultural Communication and a Master of Culture and Media Management at the Freie Universitat Berlin.

www.packet-soup.com

www.savvy-contemporary.com

Dianna Cohen

Artist and Founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition (* May 13, 1965 in Los Angeles CA, USA)

Dianna Cohen is a Los Angeles-based multimedia visual artist, painter and curator. She is best known for her works using recycled plastic bags ranging from small hanging pieces to room-sized installations. In 2007, Cohen expanded into making wearable art pieces using recycled materials. Solo shows include Post, Art Affairs gallery in Amsterdam, the Sutton Gallery in Melbourne, and Frank Pictures in Santa Monica, CA. She has shown in group exhibitions at Affirmation Arts in NYC, the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, the Bronx Museum in NYC and the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida and many other places around the world.

http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org

http://www.diannacohen.com/_portfolio/bio.html

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is the only Arts and related Sciences Institute on the Greek island of Kefalonia.

It forms a broad and effective program of innovative activities in Arts and Sciences and announces and supports projects in Arts and Sciences in all disciplines. Exhibitions, presentations, art events and festivals, educational programs and research are into the activities program.

http://www.ionionartscenter.gr/en/

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