What is the relationship of Environmentalism to aesthetics? How do we think of cultural habit in the face of global catastrophe? What are examples of repositioning cultural habit? How does this new field of philosophy affect the academies, industries, and the mainstream? David Buuck, Glen Helfand (CCA), Sheila Lintott, Sam Bower (Green Museum), Moderator: Tirza Latimer
David Buuck
BARGE — The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics — was started by David Buuck in 2003. BARGE has organized several (de)tours around the Bay Area, investigating regional sites & spaces that are underrepresented & overlooked in more conventional touristic, commercial, & socio-political notions of place & public space. BARGE investigates how vernacular landscapes — from highways & billboards to waterfronts & public utilities, from industrial lots & server farms to military bases & surveillance zones — are constructed & inhabited, while also exploring the ways in which engaged psychogeography can provide new modes of counter-tourism & activism. BARGE's "17 Reasons Why" opens at Mission17 Gallery in late April. David Buuck teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute & the Language & Thinking Program at Bard College, and is a contributing editor at Artweek. His book THE SHUNT is forthcoming from Palm Press. [BARGE News & Notes]
David Buuck (part one)
David Buuck (part two)
Glen Helfand
Glen Helfand is a freelance writer, critic, curator and teacher. His writing on art, culture, design and technology, often concentrating on works by Bay Area artists, has appeared in Artforum, Art on Paper, Salon, SFGate, Wired, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and many other publications. He's a co-founder of the Bay Area-based arts website, stretcher.org and has curated exhibitions for the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, the San Jose Museum of Art and numerous alternative and commercial gallery spaces. He has taught lecture and seminar courses on contemporary art at SFAI, San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and Mills College. He was a 2003 Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin.
Glen Helfand (part one)
Glen Helfand (part two)
Sheila Lintott
Sheila Lintott is assistant professor of philosophy at Bucknell University. She is especially interested in issues at the intersection of aesthetics and ethics in environmental and feminist philosophy. She is co-editor (with Allen Carlson) of Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty which addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the valuable contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism. Sheila has published widely in journals such as Environmental Ethics, Hypatia, the British Journal of Aesthetics, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Ethics, Place, and the Environment, as well as numerous book chapters.
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Sam Bower
Sam Bower is the founding Executive Director of greenmuseum.org, an online museum of environmental art, launched in 2001. Prior to this, Sam created environmental art for 8 years as part of a San Francisco Bay Area collaborative art group known as Meadowsweet Dairy. He helped found Cellspace, a non-profit community art space in San Francisco, and Co-Directed Crucible Steel Gallery. [More]
