tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51946184627487367672024-02-19T17:33:37.138-08:00Us and ThemUmwelten :
“Where classical science saw a single world that comprised within it all living species hierarchically ordered…Uexkull instead supposes an infinite variety of perceptual worlds that…are all perfectly equal & linked together…The fly, the dragonfly, & the bee that we observe flying next to us on a sunny day do not move in the same world as the one in which we observe them, nor do they share with us – or with each other – the same time & the same space.”
-Giorgio AgambenJasmine Targetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04611639734050956410noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194618462748736767.post-48438536560846022402012-05-07T05:01:00.003-07:002012-05-07T05:01:45.552-07:00Exhibition Opening this Thursday<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
We are pleased to invite you all to the opening of <i>Us & Them: Umwelten</i> this Thursday night at RMIT Project Space!!</div>
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Exhibition to be opened by Linda Williams and Kate Rigby </div>
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For further details on the exhibition opening click here - <a href="http://schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au/PSSR/exhibitions/2012/umwelten.html" target="_blank">http://schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au/PSSR/exhibitions/2012/umwelten.html </a></div>Jasmine Targetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04611639734050956410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194618462748736767.post-73652333981365949712012-05-07T03:02:00.001-07:002012-05-07T03:04:01.011-07:00Catalogue - fresh off the press!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are delighted to announce Linda Williams' wonderful text </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">- New Perspectives in
environmental Art: Us and Them – Umwelten</span></i>, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">will feature in the Exhibition catalogue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a snippit from the text.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The
concept of umwelten, is a term derived from the work of the early 20th Century
biologist and ethologist Jakob von Uexküll. In the German umwelt means
‘surrounding world’, or ‘self-centred world’ and for von Uexküll, umwelten
conveyed the idea of the vast range of creatures occupying worlds whose meaning
could be understood from their specific point of perspective. Within myriad
umwelten then, diverse creatures experience their umwelt differently, yet von
Uexküll’s findings led him to conclude that communication, or semiosis, was a
process of interaction common to the umwelten of all organisms: whether human
or non-human. The study of these processes of communication formed the basis of
biosemiotics, of which perhaps one of the best-known studies is the
‘information dance’ of bees......</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">to read more click here - <a href="http://usandthem-umwelten.blogspot.com.au/p/about.html">http://usandthem-umwelten.blogspot.com.au/p/about.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image- <i>World Species Market,</i> Debbie Symons </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linda Williams is</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Associate Professor in Art, Environment and Cultural Studies and
Program Coordinator of the Honours Program in the School of Art. She leads the </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">RMIT Global Ecologies Research Group. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Along
with her work as a widely published art critic, she has published in
the field of the history of culture and science, philosophy and
critical theory, and is an active member of the Globalization and
Culture project in the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT. She is
also an international reader for the ARC.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">for more on Linda and the Global Ecologies research cluster, click here - <a href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/art/artandenvironmentalsustainability">http://www.rmit.edu.au/art/artandenvironmentalsustainability</a></span></div>
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Jasmine Targetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04611639734050956410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5194618462748736767.post-58734358538600939332012-04-04T23:09:00.000-07:002012-05-07T02:47:40.022-07:00Us and Them- Umwelten Begins<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Us and Them - Umwelten,</i> has emerged from eight artists from the RMIT Global Ecologies Research Group. The works presented in the exhibition respond to German ethologist Jacob von Uexkull’s
theory of ‘umwelt’, which suggests that each and every animal, including
humans, lives in its own perceptual world that is separate from any other, yet
perfectly equal and linked together.</span>..<br />
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Curated by Catherine Clover & Jen Rae. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To read more on the exhibition click here - </span><a href="http://usandthem-umwelten.blogspot.com.au/p/about.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://usandthem-umwelten.blogspot.com.au/p/about.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Steve Baker, <i>Roadside XII</i>, 2011, Photograph, dimensions variable
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