2011 Art + Environment Conference^SM
At Nevada Museum of Art, September 29 through October 1, 2011

The Nevada Museum of Art is a private, non-profit organization featuring exhibitions by national and international artists with a permanent collection of twentieth and twenty-first century art divided into five focus collections. With an overall thematic focus on art and environment, the Museum created of the Center for Art + Environment in 2008, an internationally recognized research center , that supports the practice, study and awareness of creative interactions between people and their natural, built, and virtual environments.

A flagship program of the Center for Art + Environment, the 2011 Art + Environment^SM Conference brings together artists, scholars, designers, and writers for a dialogue that fosters new knowledge in the visual arts. The A+E Conference reaches across continents, disciplines, and media to unite more than 30 dynamic thinkers that are shaping ideas about human interactions with global environments. 

“When the Conference was first held in 2008, contemporary artists and designers across the globe were re-envisioning concepts of environments, exploring natural, built, and virtual environments,” states William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment. “The Center for Art + Environment was designed to encourage the creation of artworks expressing the interaction between people and their environments; to convene artists, scholars and communities to document, research and analyze such artworks; and to increase public knowledge of these creative and scholarly endeavors. Today, three years later, the Center is a reality and with the expansion of our archives and the continuing the dialogue we’ve fostered with our international advisory group, the Center is functioning as the nexus for the ongoing art and environment conversation.”

Global interest in the intersections of nature and culture has broadened significantly since the first Art + Environment^SM  Conference in 2008, which brought together 18 presenters including artists Vito Acconci and Lita Albuquerque and scholar W.J.T. Mitchell. The 2011 Conference welcomes Diana Al-Hadid, Subhankar Banerjee, David Benjamin, Richard Black, Edward Burtynsky, Gaetano Carboni, John Carty, Pilar Cereceda, William L. Fox, Amy Francheschini, Fritz Haeg, Helen Meyer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Laura Jackson, Patricia Johanson, Chris Jordan, Thomas Kellein, Geoff Manaugh, Mandy Martin, Christie Mazuera Davis, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Gerald Nanson, Jorge Pardo, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, John Reid, Alexander Rose, Sean Sheppard, Mark Smout, Bruce Sterling, Nicola Twilley, Leo Villareal, Stephen G. Wells, Ann M. Wolfe, and Liam Young.

Learn more about the presenters here: http://www.nevadaart.org/conference2011/presenters.html

See the schedule of sessions here: http://www.nevadaart.org/conference2011/schedule.html

Each conference registration includes: access to the complete Conference program, complimentary admission to Members’ Premiere, special Welcome Reception and a live performance by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky on Thursday night, as well as food and beverage provided during select breaks throughout the Conference and the final Wrap Party on Saturday evening.

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 including: The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment; Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison: Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation; Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions; To Go Very Softly: Photographs by Jean-Luc Mylayne; Fog Garden: The Architecture of Water; This is Not a Trojan Horse: A Project by Amy Franceschini and Mike Davis; 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; and Art, Science, and the Arc of Inquiry: The Evolution of the Nevada Museum of Art.

See the exhibitions here: http://www.nevadaart.org/ae/series-exhibitions/

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE HERE: http://www.nevadaart.org/conference2011/