Online Session 5: Living Symphonies
Living Symphonies, UK
David Jones and James Bulley are an artist duo whose collaborative practice around music composition uses sound as a way to illuminate our understanding of the world.
This session explores musical composition as a way to convey the life of a forest. Living Symphonies grows in the same way as a forest ecosystem; portraying the thriving activity of the forest’s wildlife, plants and atmospheric conditions, it creates an ever-changing symphony heard amongst the forest itself.
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image: Living Symphonies in Performance credit: Jones/Bulley
Online Session 4: Forest Technologies
Climate in Colour, UK and Ghana
Joycelyn Longdon is a 24 year old PhD student and environmental - academic activist at Cambridge University investigating the role of technology in forest conservation.
This session explores an interdisciplinary approach to forest stewardship, combining local ecological knowledge, forest ecology and sociology with bioacoustics and machine learning.
This session will be in conversation with Joycelyn Longdon, Simone Johnson and Cassie Robinson.
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image: Atewa Forest, credit: A Rocha Ghana. Please sign the petition to declare Atewa Forest a National Park, to protect it from bauxite mining: A Rocha Petition
Online Session 3: Across the network
Oceanic Connections - Leah Barclay and Mix Irving in conversation
Artist and acoustic ecologist, Leah Barclay, in conversation with Mix Irving around creative technologies in service to communities and cultural knowledge.
Leah is working with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis and photographer Tricia King on the creative research project Beeyali, a call to look after Country and its endangered ecosystems.
Mix is working on Āhau, a Data Platform developed in Aotearoa that helps whānau-based communities (whānau, hapū, Iwi) record and preserve histories, and share important information with secure, community managed databases and servers.
Small is Beautiful Weekend
You are invited to join us in March for a weekend around the theme, Small is Beautiful.
You can join us in-person at an Earth Talk in Dartington Hall, or online for special sessions with artists, technologists and activists. Across this weekend, Schumacher/Dartington students are inviting the public into a special programme of events and activities.
Online Session 2: Spheres within spheres
The Sphere is growing experimental ecologies of funding for the arts by blending techniques from circus, alternative economics and recent innovations in the field of web 3.0.
The advent of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies is a new chapter in a long and complex history of technologies of record-keeping, archiving practices, and institutionalized trust that goes back to the origin of writing itself. The Sphere is one initiative among many that imagines how these post-capitalist financial and computational infrastructures can support commons-oriented economies with the goal of redistributing the risks and opportunities of making art together.
This session will focus on The Sphere’s blending of performance and web 3.0 technologies for “speculative generosity” in cultures around the arts, involving audiences in supporting the devising creative process.
This session will be a conversation with The Sphere’s Erik Bordeleau and Lene Vollhardt, and Kate Genevieve.
Online Session 1: In the soil w. Bioleft
Bioleft is a network of plant breeders and a seed exchange exploring how open-source principles can be used to create a protected commons in germplasm in Argentina.
The session explores how open-source strategies and radical collaboration with the more-than-human contributes to seed sovereignty and better futures for the agricultural commons.
This session will be a conversation with Almendra Cremaschi - an agronomist and a co-founder of Bioleft - with Becky Ayre and Kate Genevieve.
Welcome: Introduction
An in-person welcome to ecologies, technologies at Schumacher College. An informal introduction to the program and an invitation to create and entangle with the ideas of Donna Haraway, weird ecologies, and the place-based practices of creative technology collectives.
This will be an opportunity to meet some of the crew, explore some techniques, share interests and open questions, as well as think together about the live event in early March in collaboration with the student-led events.
You are also invited to share dreams the morning of Saturday 21st January: space & time TBC
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Every other Wednesdays from Jan 25th - Feb 22nd, 5pm – 6.30pm GMT