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Please find here the approved applications to the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening. The open call was closed on 1 May.

The next Open Call for the Social Art Ward will be opened in 2023.

 

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The Solar Sound System machine, 21th version
by Cedric Carles
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Title:
The Solar Sound System machine, 21th version

Author:
Cedric Carles

Description:
The Solar sound System is an art installation and interactive object designed by Cedric Carles. SolarSoundSystem's antenna in Paris opened in 2013. Solar Sound System started in 1999 in Lausanne, this 100% energy autonomous dj booth has proposed a unique way of addressing the energy resource issues of today through a cultural lens. This concept continues to inspire more and more cultural and educational organizations on a global scale. SolarSoundSystem has invested in projects around the world in Hong-Kong, Tel Aviv, Biarritz, Lausanne, Berlin, Marseille and Paris, all the antenna shared a web radio hosted by solar energy RadioSolarSoundSystem. The project has been certified by UNESCO Switzerland under the category of " The decade of United Nations for the Education of sustainable development ". The team joins the COP21, COP22 and COP23 villages of civil society to present their systems. Recently, he was collaborating with Tomas Saraceno and Aerocene foundation for “on air” on Palais de Tokyo in Paris and for “ALBEDO” installation in Art Basel Miami 2018. Art that is in a indefinite, moving and reconfigurable space that leads artists to conceive, to program, to deal with. Blending an experimental approach with a real reflection on our spatial and climatic environment, the artist's practice is plural and polymorphic. Each time artworks that are catalysing a new Greening, incorporate a willingness to deal with the environment surrounding us, to reconcile the economical-efficient relationship that finds its meaning in the expression "What you create is what you Get", a slogan that echoes with "Do it yourself”. Furthermore, art is a catalyst for change and militantism, which can foster the climate change emergency.
Description:
The Solar sound System is an art installation and interactive object designed by Cedric Carles. SolarSoundSystem's antenna in Paris opened in 2013. Solar Sound System started in 1999 in Lausanne, this 100% energy autonomous dj booth has proposed a unique way of addressing the energy resource issues of today through a cultural lens. This concept continues to inspire more and more cultural and educational organizations on a global scale. SolarSoundSystem has invested in projects around the world in Hong-Kong, Tel Aviv, Biarritz, Lausanne, Berlin, Marseille and Paris, all the antenna shared a web radio hosted by solar energy RadioSolarSoundSystem. The project has been certified by UNESCO Switzerland under the category of " The decade of United Nations for the Education of sustainable development ". The team joins the COP21, COP22 and COP23 villages of civil society to present their systems. Recently, he was collaborating with Tomas Saraceno and Aerocene foundation for “on air” on Palais de Tokyo in Paris and for “ALBEDO” installation in Art Basel Miami 2018. Art that is in a indefinite, moving and reconfigurable space that leads artists to conceive, to program, to deal with. Blending an experimental approach with a real reflection on our spatial and climatic environment, the artist's practice is plural and polymorphic. Each time artworks that are catalysing a new Greening, incorporate a willingness to deal with the environment surrounding us, to reconcile the economical-efficient relationship that finds its meaning in the expression "What you create is what you Get", a slogan that echoes with "Do it yourself”. Furthermore, art is a catalyst for change and militantism, which can foster the climate change emergency.