L’oceano che ci tiene separati, ci unisce / The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us

Italiano [English below]

 

Siamo lieti di annunciare che dall’evento “Dal Mediterraneo al Pacifico. Dialoghi attraverso i mari” (Cervia, Museo del Sale, Luglio 2018), curato da Pier Luigi Capucci, Roberta Buiani e Nina Czegledy in collaborazione con “Vital Transformations”, a cura di Ian Clothier (New Plymouth, Nuova Zelanda), è nato il panelThe ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”, a cura di Nina Czegledy, Ian Clothier, Roberta Buiani, Elena Giulia Rossi e Pier Luigi Capucci, che partecipa a ISEA 2020 a Montreal. Svoltosi a Cervia al Museo del Sale con il patrocinio del Comune di Cervia, del MUSA (Museo del Sale), di Leonardo, di Noema, della Salina di Cervia, del Gruppo Culturale Civiltà Salinara, di ArtSci Salon e del Festival della Complessità, “Dal Mediterraneo al Pacifico. Dialoghi attraverso i mari” inaugurava la seconda edizione del progetto di ricerca triennale art*science – Art & Climate Change, e aveva come tema l’impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sul livello dei mari gettando un ponte ideale tra Mediterraneo e Pacifico.

L’International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) è un simposio annuale della comunità internazionale di arte, scienza e tecnologia che comprende varie conferenze, mostre, spettacoli e workshop e si svolge in un luogo diverso ogni anno.

ISEA 2020 è alla 26a edizione, il tema è “Why Sentience?”. La presentazione recita:

ISEA 2020 turns towards the theme of “Why Sentience?”. Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. ISEA2020 will be fully dedicated to examining the resurgence of sentience—feeling-sensing-making sense—in recent art and design, media studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, anthropology, history of science and the natural scientific realm—notably biology, neuroscience and computing. We ask: why sentience? Why and how does sentience matter? Why have artists and scholars become interested in sensing and feeling beyond, with and around our strictly human bodies and selves? Why has this notion been brought to the fore in an array of disciplines in the 21st century?

Avrebbe dovuto svolgersi a Montreal dal 19 al 24 Maggio ma è stato spostato al 13 al 18 Ottobre a causa dell’epidemia di COVID-19.

L’abstract del panel The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”:

This panel consist of five experts who have collaborated across hemispheres of Earth in the context of environment. Collaboration has become increasingly common over the past 15 years, to now being a pre-eminent form of creative practice. Over the same period, the human connection to climate change has moved from being predominantly known in academia, to a situation where the climate crisis is widely acknowledged intergenerationally and across most mass media. This development has forced a revision of knowledge and theory, led to engagement with indigenous peoples and new sites for projects. The notion of the constitution of a sentient human being has changed, in particular moving out of solely Western conceptions. These forces have led to an activist re-orientation in creative practice, with ramifications for art, society, humanity and Earth which together lead to a re-shaping of language.

Keywords
Climate crisis, intercultural, interdisciplinarity, intergenerational, indigenous, new knowledge, art, science, culture, technology.

 

 

English

 

We are very glad that from the event “From the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Dialogues across the seas” (Cervia, Museum of Salt, July 2018), curated by Pier Luigi Capucci, Roberta Buiani and Nina Czegledy in collaboration with “Vital Transformations “, curated by Ian Clothier (New Plymouth, New Zealand), is born the panel “The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene”, curated by Nina Czegledy, Ian Clothier, Roberta Buiani, Elena Giulia Rossi and Pier Luigi Capucci, which participates in ISEA 2020 in Montreal. The event took place in Cervia at the Salt Museum under the patronage of the Municipality of Cervia, of MUSA (The Salt Museum), Leonardo, Noema, Salina di Cervia, the Civiltà Salinara Cultural Group, ArtSci Salon and the Festival of Complexity. “Dal Mediterraneo al Pacifico. Dialoghi attraverso i mari” inaugurated the second edition of the 3-years research project art*science – Art & Climate Change, whose topic was the impact of climate change on sea level by creating an ideal bridge between the Mediterranean and the Pacific.

The International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) is an annual symposium of the international community of art, science and technology which includes various conferences, exhibitions, shows and workshops and which takes place in a different place every year.

ISEA 2020 is in its 26th edition, the theme is “Why Sentience?”. As the presentation says:

ISEA 2020 turns towards the theme of “Why Sentience?”. Sentience describes the ability to feel or perceive. ISEA2020 will be fully dedicated to examining the resurgence of sentience—feeling-sensing-making sense—in recent art and design, media studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, anthropology, history of science and the natural scientific realm—notably biology, neuroscience and computing. We ask: why sentience? Why and how does sentience matter? Why have artists and scholars become interested in sensing and feeling beyond, with and around our strictly human bodies and selves? Why has this notion been brought to the fore in an array of disciplines in the 21st century?

It was supposed to take place in Montreal from May 19 to 24 but it was postponed to October 13 to 18, because of the COVID-19 epidemy.

The ocean that keeps us apart also joins us: charting knowledge and practice in the Anthropocene” panel’s abstract:

This panel consist of five experts who have collaborated across hemispheres of Earth in the context of environment. Collaboration has become increasingly common over the past 15 years, to now being a pre-eminent form of creative practice. Over the same period, the human connection to climate change has moved from being predominantly known in academia, to a situation where the climate crisis is widely acknowledged intergenerationally and across most mass media. This development has forced a revision of knowledge and theory, led to engagement with indigenous peoples and new sites for projects. The notion of the constitution of a sentient human being has changed, in particular moving out of solely Western conceptions. These forces have led to an activist re-orientation in creative practice, with ramifications for art, society, humanity and Earth which together lead to a re-shaping of language.

Keywords
Climate crisis, intercultural, interdisciplinarity, intergenerational, indigenous, new knowledge, art, science, culture, technology.