- Venue
- Contact Theatre
- Date
- Friday, April 14, 2023
10:30 AM - Address
- Oxford Road Manchester M15 6JA
- Location
- North West England
- Organiser
- Castlefield Gallery
Digital Decarb is an opportunity to hear from practitioners engaged in action on digital decarbonisation. It is also an invitation to join the conversation, make connections and get involved.
Please note this is a ticketed event taking place at Contact Theatre (Oxford Road, M15 6JA. Ticket price (£17 full price, £7.50 concessions) includes HOT vegan lunch and refreshments. There is also the option of attending on Zoom (£5). For more info and to buy tickets, please go to https://digitaldecarb.eventbrite.co.uk
Please note that Digital Decarb is a blended event and not all speakers will be present in person.
As the climate emergency deepens, decarbonisation has never been more more urgent. Digital is an important part of the decarbonisation equation; on the one hand, working digitally can help us move away from carbon-intensive travel – on the other, digital technologies and media come with social and environmental costs, such as the impacts of server farms, that are often hidden from users.
Attendees to Digital Decarb will hear from practitioners engaged in
- digital residencies
- online artist exchange programmes
- the development of low carbon artists’ websites
- the co-creation of decarbonisation plans for a wider arts and cultural sector context
- building power for a just transition
Speakers
- Dani Admiss, British-Assyrian independent curator and researcher based in Edinburgh, and founder of the art, climate justice and collaborative learning project Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline
- Teresa Feldmann, designer and founder of Bank of Care and artist collective Planet Abundance
- Heidi Nikolaisen, visual artist living and working in Denmark, SUSTAIN participant and collaborator on the development of the Low Carbon Artists’ Website Checklist
- Anne Pasek, Canada-based director of Low-Carbon Research Methods Group who led on the digital decarbonisation strand of Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline, including facilitating the Decarbonisation and the Arts Consensus Statement
- Jane Lawson, Artist Environmental Lead, Castlefield Gallery
- Final speaker to be confirmed
As well as presentations and panel discussions, Digital Decarb will make space for those attending to make connections and be part of the conversation.
Ticket price includes refreshments and vegan lunch
Image: Hosted Gray – Low Carbon Artists’ Website Manifesto by Sophy King and Heidi Nikolaisen
