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ZER01's Executive Director Joel Slayton was invited by CCA professor and media artist Jeanne C. Finely to participate in the Grad Fine Art Satellite Lecture series in conjunction with the LAND MINDS/SITE LINES graduate seminar.

Joel’s lecture surveyed 10 years of artistic practice with C5 Corporation<c5corp.com> focused social software, cooperation models and networks and information mapping. Title of the lecture was, “The Nature of Path/Minimal Dislocation” and was focused specifically on exploring how path making closely resembles an evolving conversation.  Joel spoke specifically about C5’s research and artistic practice related to emerging innovation models.

The Christensen Fund is looking for a new Program Associate.  The Christensen Fund (www.christensenfund.org) is a fifty-year old foundation in Northern California with a long history of funding locally and internationally the arts, environmental conservation, and education.  Since 2002, the foundation has focused its mission around biocultural diversity (the intersection of people, landscape, culture and ecology). Grant programs mostly support local initiatives and stewards in specific locations around the world, which have unique heritage and are likely to play an important role for sustaining diversity. Our regions these currently include the African Rift Valley from Ethiopia to Northern Kenya, Central Asia, Northern Australia, Melanesia, and the Greater Southwest (US Southwest and Northwest Mexico). Complementing grant making in the regions, Christensen seeks to build knowledge and practice worldwide around its mission focus through its Global Biocultural Initiative.

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