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November 2020
Underwater HOA at “A Festival of Climate Action: It’s Time”
Xavier Cortada is proud to be showing his Underwater HOA participatory art project at “A Festival of Climate Action: It's Time.” To learn more about the Underwater HOA, click here. In the first week of November, the British government was supposed to host COP26, the United Nations’ climate change conference, in Glasgow, Scotland. But it’s been put back a year because governments are too busy with coronavirus. COP26 has been postponed, but the climate crisis has not.…
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“Pandemic | Miami Corona Project” Virtual Exhibition
Xavier Cortada Pandemic | Miami Corona Project The University of Miami Department of Art and Art History presents Pandemic | Miami Corona Project, a virtual exhibit by artist Xavier Cortada. Though the Wynwood Gallery remains closed to the general public due to the global health emergency, you can still enjoy our exhibitions virtually. Xavier Cortada’s “Pandemic | Miami Corona Project” will be exhibited virtually at the University of Miami Wynwood Gallery. In keeping with the reality of our times, the solo exhibition can…
Find out more »December 2020
Presenting “Socially Engaged Art: Using Slow Activism to Tackle a Climate Emergency” at SciVizNYC
On December 2nd, Xavier Cortada will deliver a 20-minute presentation, "Socially Engaged Art: Using Slow Activism to Tackle a Climate Emergency" to attendees of SciVizNYC 2020. Talk Summary: Understanding that Miami’s climate emergency is a race against the clock, in my practice, I double down on slow activism. For instance, in my “Underwater HOA” project (www.underwaterhoa.com), residents find their property’s elevation and install a “marker” in their front yard, this marker being a yard sign that depicts the…
Find out more »Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting – December 2
UHOA Home | About | Meetings | Participate | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Archive https://youtu.be/eJAzRHLT7ss On Wednesday, December 2nd, join the Underwater HOA for our final virtual monthly meeting of 2020 with featured speaker Alberto Cairo, Ph.D., Author, Lecturer, and Professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. Dr. Cairo will present: Reading Between the Lines: Data Visualization and Climate Change. The presentation will be followed by…
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Panelist at the Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference
Reimagining Creativity: Inspiring Behavior Change Moderator: Marda Kern, EcoArts Connections Panelists: Xavier Cortada, Artist and Professor of Practice at the University of Miami, and Eve Mosher, Artist Images, storytelling and experiential activities are increasingly used to improve climate change communication. Allieship with artists increases the suite of tools and creative capacity in addition to "inviting people in" to inspire attitude and behavior change successfully. Join two internationally respected artists, Eve Mosher and Xavier Cortada, to learn about their science-informed, collaborative, and participatory projects that engage…
Find out more »Presenting “Using Socially Engaged Art to Make the Invisible Visible” at SWS International Conference on Social Sciences
Using art’s elasticity to work across disciplines, Cortada creates processes that engage community in problem-solving. Focusing on the pandemic and our climate emergency, Cortada takes us on a journey through his science art and socially engaged art practice. This year we invite you to participate in a very special gathering. We will witness the unpredictable meeting between Science and Art – the two most beloved children of the human civilization. SWS Society is planning yet another incredible rendezvous, between the modern…
Find out more »Convening Culture Conference at Vero Beach Museum of Art
Citizens for Florida Arts, Inc. proudly presentsConvening Culture 2014: Connecting the Arts with Environmental Conservation. This statewide cultural conference will provide opportunities for meaningful professional development for Florida artists and individuals involved in Florida's cultural organizations. The conference will also offer specific opportunities for participants to learn about the potential long term collaborations and crossover between arts programming and environmental conservation. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about these two areas from nationally recognized leaders in addition to…
Find out more »January 2021
Inauguration of the Office of the Citizen of the United States
https://youtu.be/c0JcC5i0W4g Today I launch the Office of the Citizen of the United States in order for 328 million of my fellow citizens to inhabit it. To reset our democracy. To set it on the right course. This participatory art project invites us to utilize our social media spaces to intensify our sense of public purpose, civic duty, and connection to one another. By abandoning the weaponry of partisanship and assuming the mantle of citizen leadership, Americans are encouraged as individuals…
Find out more »Launch of “I Rebuke You”
https://youtu.be/5jNUT87kNCY Senators and Members of Congress, As Citizen of the United States of America, I Rebuke You for objecting to the results of Electoral College without cause whatsoever. Our fellow Citizens overwhelmingly elected Joe Biden president. Please apologize to the American people for breaking your Oath, defiling the Constitution and weakening our Democracy. -- Click here to learn more.
Find out more »Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting – January 6
On Wednesday, January 6th, join the Underwater HOA for our first virtual monthly meeting of 2021 with featured speaker Brian Haus, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Ocean Sciences at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Haus will present: Transformative Advances in Environmental and Ocean Sciences.
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