STUDIUM GENERALE RIETVELD ACADEMIE 2012-2013:

Wednesday February 06, 2013
at the Gym, Rietveld Academie
2–4 PM

WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN?

An ecosophical roadmap for artists and other futurists

PROGRAM:
(Open to the general public)

-SPOKEN COLUMN: 'Is the Revoluti- on, or off?', Clare Butcher curator and tutor at the Fine Art Dept at the Rietveld Academy asks in response to Marius de Geus lecture 'What Will The Future Bring Us, Bookchin And Naess?' (as presented at the Rietveld on Wednesday January the 30th in 2013).

-ARTIST CONTRIBUTION: Artist, educator, writer Renée Ridgway will confront the pharmaceutical industries claim that it is inventing new medicines, with the knowledge of thousands of years as it is contained in archival documents such as the Hortus Malabaricus, and in the ideas of scientist, seed activist and author Vandana Shiva.

-KEY-NOTE LECTURE: With his lecture 'Living in the Age of the World Motion Picture: Toward an Ecosophy of the Moving Image' Adrian Ivakhiv, Associate Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont, wonders how cinema is faring today; on the cusp of a digital era that heightens the speed of life in every direction – through the uncertainties of global hyper finance, the turbulence of cultural identity clashes and looming ecological collapses, and the rapid mutations of all manner of image, representation, spectacle and simulacrum.

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