[spectre] HABITATS 4 Day Festival NYC 9-12 November

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EIDOLON CULTURE presents

HABITATS a 4 day Cultural Festival

Program:         Artists, scientists, and cultural commentators are 
joining together to create a  collective vision of a sustainable 
habitat. The Habitats conference and festival is a 4 day event organized 
to promote an exchange between art, technology, and environment. With 
public and private cooperative efforts leading to cleaner water,  the 
Gowanus Canal area has experienced an increase in wildlife and improved 
prospects for commercial and cultural revitalization.  Habitats 
celebrates this process. Instigated by Eidolon Culture, The Habitats 
conferences will include speakers such as best-selling author Steven 
Johnson (“Emergence” and “Mind Wide Open,”); long-standing community 
organizers such as the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation 
(GCCDC) ; electronic artists such as Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening 
Foundation) ; site specific sound and video recordings, live music 
performances, site specific installations, collaborative projects, 
recycled art, workshops and active audience participation .


Date:                           November 9th – 12th , 2006
Time:                           Programs begin daily at 12:00pm until 11pm

Location:                    The Brooklyn Lyceum 227 4th Ave, Brooklyn, 
NY 11215
                                       N Train to Union Street, Corner 
of President Street

Contact:                      mwarren at eidolon.org

Admission:                  $5 for environmental + cultural conferences, 
$15 for live performance program

Web Site:                    www.global-habitat.net

Sponsors:                  CEC Artslink, Experimental Television Center, 
Brooklyn Arts Council, Material for the Arts, GCCDC, Brooklyn Polytech:IDMI


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PrESS CONTACT

Madalyn Warren
eiDOLON cuLtuRe
41 Belvedere, 4th FL, Brooklyn, NY 11206
cell 646 775 5055, farm 607 326 2809. mwarren at eidolon.org

HABITATS
@ The BrooklynLyceum
227 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.global-habitat.net
November 9-12, 2006
“Art and science meet in New York at a shelter for the human spirit...”

October 18, 2006 ,Gowanus Brooklyn: Artists, scientists, and cultural 
commentators are joining together to create a
collective vision of a sustainable habitat. The Habitats conference and 
festival is a 4 day event organized to promote an
exchange between art, technology, and environment. Habitats provides a 
model for dialogue between urban developers
and environmentalists through conferences and panels, participatory and 
collaborative art, and educational programs.
With public and private cooperative efforts leading to cleaner water, 
the Gowanus Canal area has experienced an increase
in wildlife and improved prospects for commercial and cultural 
revitalization. Habitats celebrates this process.
Instigated by Eidolon Culture, The Habitats conferences will include 
speakers such as best-selling author Steven
Johnson (“Emergence” and “Mind Wide Open,”); long-standing community 
organizers such as the Gowanus Canal
Community Development Corporation (GCCDC) ; electronic artists such as 
Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening Foundation)
; site specific sound and video recordings, live music performances, 
site specific installations, collaborative
projects, recycled art, workshops and active audience participation .
The placement of the artworks in their site-specific rendition, the 
sharing of thought provoking ideas of contemporary
cultural relevance, and the active role of audience interaction all 
create a “Habitat” -- a place defined by the
indispensable nature of everyone and everything within it.
Habitats is being Presented by Eidolon Culture and Sponsored by the 
Brooklyn Arts Council, Polytechnic University: Integrated Digital
Media Institute (IDMI), CEC Arts Link, New York State Council on the 
Arts, and Material for the Arts.

ArT. ENVirONMENT. CULTUrE. COMMUNiTY. gOWANUS

CONfirMED CULTUrAL SPEAKErS
Steven Johnson – author of “Emergence, the connected
lives of ants, brains and cities”
Douglas Rushkoff – author of “Media Virus”
Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon
Daniel Pinchbeck – author of “Breaking Open the
Head”
ENVirONMENTAL CONfErENCE
Coordinated by
Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp
COMMUNiTY ArTS AND WOrKSHOPS
Carol Caputo, IRUBNY
Walking Tours of Gowanus with NY Acoustic Ecology
Workshop with the Prospect Park Zoo
iNSTALLATiON/ PErfOrMANCE ArTiSTS
Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Foundation
Amoeba Technology, NYC
Kim Holleman, NYC
David Linton of Unity Gain
Bill Etra, NYC
Michael Schumacher of Diapason Gallery
free103.9, NYC
Share, NYC
Keiko Uneshi, NYC
Disney NasaBorg, NYC
Harlan Emil, NYC
2012, sponsored by CEC Arts Link
Project503, Russia
Antartic Project, Russia
Efi Amantidou, Greece
Luis Maurette, Argentina
Klauss, Argentina
Eva Sjuve, Sweden
Ken Hiratsuka, Japan
Also… Zarah Cabanias, Hans-Christoph Steiner,
Kathi von Koerber, Marianna Ellenberg, Lary Seven,
Zemi17, Peripheral Media, Claire Barrett, Ne(x)twork

GCCDC is a neighborhood preservation
non-profit organization dedicated to the
revitalization of the Gowanus Canal area
in South Brooklyn, New York, for twentyfour
years. A community-based group
with an extensive record of initiatives and involvement in the physical 
improvement of the Gowanus
Canal, Red Hook and Carroll Gardens communities.
GCCDC’s efforts are focused on the environmental remediation
of the Gowanus Canal, housing, economic development,
and commercial revitalization.

Eidolon Culture is a Brooklyn based non-profit arts
organization, directing and producing onsite and online
platforms for interdisciplinary projects, bridging
the gaps of specialization between disciplines and
geographical distances. Eidolon Culture focuses on the
potential for creative activity at the intersections of art, technology, 
and culture. Eidolon Cultures identity is based on interactive
sustainable business practices, promoting collaboration and partnerships
between government, industry, foundations, non-governmental organisations
and the general public
FOR aDDitiONaL iNFORMatiON pLease visit www.global-habitat.net.
Day aND eveNiNg pROgRaM scHeDuLe aND DetaiLs wiLL sOON be avaiLabLe.
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