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Annemie Maes – Connected Open Greens

22/05/2011; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
Pierottijeva 11, Zagreb, Croatia

If we really want to reshape our urban way of life on a sustainable and ecological basis, we will have to take tangible measures. But how and where can we create green oases in the concrete jungles of our towns? On the window ledge, the balcony or the rooftop?

The multimedia artist and activist Annemie Maes will give us some answers and practical tips. She has long been involved in eco-technologies and grass-roots activism. In 2004, she and Guy van Belle set up OKNO, an artists collective that aims to develop innovative cultural projects linking art and technology. For example: Connected Open Greens – the outskirts of town where culture and nature can come together symbiotically, where regenerative energy technologies meet traditional gardening and where art projects might make new biotopes. The question is this: to what extent can new organisms, new surroundings and new landscapes be generated by merging the artificial with the natural?

OKNO members operate two Open Green Rooftop Gardens in Brussels. They observe and record the growth, flowering and decay of plants as well as providing a habitat for insects and keeping bee colonies.
In Zagreb, Annemie Maes will be talking about the Connected Open Greens project, one feature of which is urban bee-keeping.

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Network Cultures Wintercamp

03/03/2009 to 07/03/2009.
Amsterdam

Upgrade! International has been invited to participate in Wintercamp,
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/ , an event organized by the Institute of Network Cultures that will take place from March 3-7, 2009 in Amsterdam. Upgrade!Zagreb will participate as node of the Upgrade!International. The other participant networks are Blender Foundation, Bricolabs, Dyne.org, Edufactory, Floss Manuals, freeDimensional network, Genderchangers, MyCreativity, and Planetart.
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Andreja Kuluncic

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Andreja Kuluncic is an artist who lives in Zagreb, Croatia. Her artistic practice is characterised by an interest in socially engaged themes, a confrontation with different audiences, and a collaboration on collective projects. She sets up her own interdisciplinary networks, regarding artistic work as a research in progress, a process of cooperation (co-creation) and self-organisation. She often asks the audience to actively participate and “finish” the work. Kuluncic’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as documenta 11, Manifesta4, Istanbul Biennial, as well as in the Whitney Museum and in PS1.