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Carmen Salas, one of the curators of the Sea Blindness project, wrote a text on the Medium analysing how the project, and her residency at NeMe, affected her practice.

On the 2nd of December, Quo Artis’ presentation, “Challenges and confluences: Quo Artis, towards eco-literacy through art and science,” was part of the 2-day conference ‘Art and Contemporaneity in Menorca: Third edition of the Conference of Discussions and Debate: Art and Science,’ organized by Institut Menorquí d’Estudis in Maó, Menorca.

On November 29th, Quo Artis presented “A Sea Change” during the panel discussion titled “Curating Within Crises,” as part of the Blue Futures Gathering—an all-day event curated by Dr. Suzy O’Hara, University of Sunderland —at The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, Market Place, South Shields, United Kingdom.

Tatiana Kourotchkina, the founder and director of Quo Artis, presented the latest activities of A Sea Change at PUZZLE X in Barcelona, on the 9th of November at 12 p.m.

A Sea Beyond (its Aesthetics) photography workshop
The catalogue is published online.

Creative Europe Desk Greece organised a two-day conference on 20 and 21 September 2023, with the participation of invited representatives of cultural and creative institutions from Greece and from the Creative Europe Desks of Norway Kreativt Europa Kulturdesk Norge, Estonia Loov Euroopa and Latvia Radošās Eiropas birojs Latvijā / Creative Europe Desk LV.

In the framework of RESOURCE, the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Tatiana Kourotchkina, Founder & Director of Quo Artis will present the project A Sea Change at the opening of the exhibition Sources @ RE:SOURCE, which will take place on Friday, September 15th at Scuola Grande dei Carmini Sestiere Dorsoduro 2617, Venezia, starting at 8 p.m.

Humans invented computing machines to use them as tools. However, these tools have developed to such an extent that, what not long ago was thought to be unimaginable, for example, computational generated texts or machines creating new machines, is now common-place.

KONTEJNER is participating in the initial presentation of the project Adriatic Sea Sources, which marks the start of MADE IN Dialogues as part of the Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design, that includes experts from the field of arts, design, science, museology and crafts. We are happy to present our program Heard by the Deep (part of KONTEJNER’s EU project A Sea Change), which we organized in Split in May 2023. A series of lectures will be held on Tuesday, June 27 in the premises of the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb, starting at 10 a.m.

Curator Davorka Begović (KONTEJNER) will present latest ASEA activities at KIC Zagreb, during a round table panel on June 6th 2023 starting at 7 p.m.

On June 10th, at 7.30 p.m. , Tatiana Kourotchkina, founder and director of Quo Artis, will be part of the public conversation : ART AND AI FOR THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION, where she will be presenting the project “A Sea Change”. Her contribution to the conversation will be addressing the way by which the project encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and innovation, by fostering a holistic and comprehensive approach to addressing environmental issues.

The MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts is promoting an open call to young designers who would like to participate in the product design workshop entitled “Mass Souvenirs”, led by the internationally acclaimed product designer Athanasios Babalis and his team, George Giannikopoulos and George Bosnas.
The program links issues of mass tourism, souvenir production and ecology with identity practices and memory production/manipulation.

As part of a short residency at the NeMe Residency Space, Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield UK, delivered a talk at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta at the Visual Art And Visual Communication Design department. The subject of Ruth’s presentation was community collaboration, a key concern of NeMe’s 6 month long project Living with Others which focuses on coastal degradation in Cyprus caused by global change, tourism and related coastal development.

KONTEJNER is participating in a presentation of creative and successful European practices by Croatian partners within the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, on Friday, 21st of April 2023 in Split.

Quo Artis presented the project “A Sea Change” in the first webinar of Tabadul, by Revolve Media, which took place on the 22nd of March at 3 PM (CET)

KONTEJNER I bureau of contemporary art praxis is inviting Croatian and international artists / artistic collectives to apply for two new open calls within the project A Sea Change.

Irini Papadimitriou interviewed by Yiorgos Savvinides of Phileleftheros about the Money, Ruins, and the Sea exhibition.

Money, Ruins, and the Sea exhibition was promoted by the Cyprus Mail newspaper.

Money, Ruins, and the Sea exhibition was promoted by the Phileleftheros newspaper.

In collaboration with Creative Europe Desk – Culture Office Croatia, NGO KONTEJNER has presented the A Sea Change project as a part of the conference programme “Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Creative Europe and in the Cultural Routes of The Council Of Europe” in Paestum, Salerno, Italy.

We were pleased when the ArtForum notified us of their selection.

Flood tide of resistance exhibition was promoted by the Phileleftheros newspaper.

_Flood Tides of resistance _ exhibition was promoted by the Cyprus Mail newspaper.

Sea Blindness programme was promoted by the Phileleftheros.

Sea Blindness exhibition was promoted by the Parathyro.

Oliver Ressler was interviewed by We Make Money not Art.

Quo Artis presented “A Sea Change” at the Foundations for Science Council Meeting of FECYT in Madrid by highlighting the scientific research that underpins the project.