Art + Environment Conference, Nevada Museum of Art

After its inauguration three years ago, the second convergence of artists, designers, and visionaries addresses systemic thinking in cultural practice and global environments.

Even as climatic conditions worldwide continue trending for the worse—and decidedly more politicized—gone are the days when the terms "art" and "environment" together evoked visions of neo-pastoral utopias and Land Art. Initiated in 2008, the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art has holds a triennial conference engaged with the creative interdependence of the natural and the built environments, as well as the flourishing terrain of speculative practice. As William L. Fox, director of the center and host of its annual conference, says, "The study of art + environment is not just about remembering what we've done, but is also an ongoing recreation of the future through imagination, aesthetics, and technology."

The Art + Environment Conference reaches across continents, disciplines, and media to unite a dynamic group of thinkers shaping ideas about human interactions with global environments. A flagship program of the Museum's Center for Art + Environment, the 2011 Conference addresses systemic thinking in cultural practice and global environments.
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Lita Albuquerque, and Bruce Sterling at the opening reception to the 2011 Art + Environment Conference.
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Lita Albuquerque, and Bruce Sterling at the opening reception to the 2011 Art + Environment Conference.
This year's conference brings together dozens of practitioners and project leaders across numerous disciplines, including futurist Bruce Sterling, photographers Edward Burtynsky and Chris Jordan, director of the Long Now Foundation Alexander Rose, and Domus Network contributors Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley. Numerous symposia, lectures, and performances will further the emerging critical dialectics of landscape and creative practice.
<i>Landscape Futures</i> curator Geoff Manaugh and Mark Smout of Smout Allen.
Landscape Futures curator Geoff Manaugh and Mark Smout of Smout Allen.
As a backdrop to the 2011 Art + Environment Conference, the Museum's galleries will be programmed with exhibitions related to natural, built, and virtual environments—serving as a springboard for Conference sessions and keynote presentations. Among the exhibitions on view will be: The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment; Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison: Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation; Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions; Fog Garden: The Architecture of Water; This is Not a Trojan Horse: A Project by Amy Franceschini; Photographs by Jean-Luc Mylayne; Diana Al-Hadid: Water Thief; Shirin Neshat: Passage; Photographs by Robert Adams; Richard Black: Australia's Murray River; Tim Hawkinson: Totem; Linda Fleming: Modeling the Universe; Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper.
The study of art + environment is not just about remembering what we've done, but is also an ongoing recreation of the future through imagination, aesthetics, and technology.
Mark Smout presents <i>Envirographic Architecture</i> at the opening reception to the 2011 Art + Environment Conference.
Mark Smout presents Envirographic Architecture at the opening reception to the 2011 Art + Environment Conference.
Global interest in the intersections of nature and culture has broadened significantly since the first Art + Environment Conference in 2008, which brought together 18 presenters including artists Vito Acconci and Lita Albuquerque and scholar W.J.T. Mitchell. For the 2011 conference, the full roster of presenters comprises:
Diana Al-Hadid, Subhankar Banerjee, David Benjamin, Richard Black, Edward Burtynsky, Gaetano Carboni, John Carty, Pilar Cereceda, William L. Fox, Amy Franceschini, Fritz Haeg, Newton Harrison, Helen Mayer Harrison, Laura Jackson, Patricia Johanson, Chris Jordan, Thomas Kellein, Geoff Manaugh, Mandy Martin, Christie Mazuera-Davis, Paul D. Miller, Gerald Nanson, Jorge Pardo, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, John Reid, Alexander Rose, Sean Shepherd, Mark Smout, Bruce Sterling, Nicola Twilley, Leo Villareal, Stephen G. Wells, Ann M. Wolfe, Liam Young.

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