Welcome to WATER WORKS! online event & exhibition on Waterwheel ! 250+ entries, 150+ scientists, artists, activists and youth from 5 continents contributed to the call for the online exhibition: WATER WORKS! Contributors responded to the questions: 1. how WATER WORKS despite climate change, financial crises, war, and global environmental damage, 2. how art, science, design, and activism can reinstate the social, cultural and environmental value of water and 3. how we can give recognition to the indispensable and invaluable ways that water works.
A fantastic group of 22 curators from 19 countries will discuss selected entries and respond to online audience, in a streaming event on the Waterwheel video-collaboration system, the Tap.
Currators are: Special Guest (IN) - opening - live performance - Mahesh Vinayakram, Michele Guieu (US), Ian Clothier (NZ), Pascale Barret (FR/B), Joanna Hoffmann (P), Katarina DJ Urošević (RS), West D.L. Marrin (US), Claudia Jacques & Victoria Vesna (US), Leah Barclay (AU/PE), Eric Leonardson (US), Ricardo Dal Farra (AR/CA), Eklavya Prasad (IN), Atefeh Khas (IR), Catherine Lee & Margaret Shiu(TW), Tracey Benson (AU), Amin Hammami (TN/SA), Camilla Boemio (IT), WORKSHOP - with SOUNDCAMP (UK), Annie Abrahams (NL/FR), Russell Milledge (AU), Jason Grant (AU), Special Guest (IN) - live performance - Mahesh Vinayakram
This event can be described as:
- a live forum between audience, curators & contributors, interspersed with short performances & videos
- a celebratory event of World Water Day and the closing of the internet platform Waterwheel, after 5 years of successful activities and the building up of a dynamic global community
Special guest, world-famous classical Indian singer Mahesh Vinayakram will sing for the opening & closing of the event.
An additional special workshop DIY Audio Streaming will be held on Waterwheel by SoundCamp streaming technician Grant Smith, on Sunday 20 March 9-11 am (UK time).
Audience is invited to watch and interact from their own computers anywhere in the world, free of charge!
DAYS: 18-20 March 2016
PROGRAMME, DATES & TIMES: program-WaterWorks
