http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/ en jo.artscatalyst@gmail.com Copyright 2010 2010-07-13T18:59:23+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/art_science_now/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/art_science_now/#When:18:59:23Z The Arts Catalyst teams up with super/collider for their monthly pop science evening to welcome Professor Stephen Wilson from San Francisco State University, author of Art+Science Now, along with artist Gina Czarnecki.Stephen Wilson will talk about Art & Resarch:  Who said that scientific research and technological innovations belong only to the technicians?  Research has become a white hot center of cultural foment.  It is affecting everything from the gizmos of everyday life to basic philosophical notions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human. He will explore the idea that the arts can assume their historical role at the edge of culture by becoming the independent zone of research, undertaking investigations ignored or discredited by commercial interests and academic science.  And will present examples from his own artworks in areas such as gps, body sensing, telepresence, and ai and from other artists around the world.  It also explores areas of emerging technolgy and scientific inquiry that call out for artist attention.  The presentation is based on material from his new book Art+Science Now and his MIT Press book, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology.Artist Gina Czarnecki will be talking about Wasted a body of inter-related artworks exploring the life-giving potential of ‘discarded’ body parts and their relationship to myths, history, cutting edge stem cell research and notions of what constitutes informed consent. This is the latest in the series of Science Fair events presented by super/collider – bringing together scientists and stylists, chemists and creative-types, artists and astronomers. with discussions, DIY experiments and a chance to ask why it's just like being back in science class. except with a bar and music and more awesome. Art + Science Now A new publication by Stephen Wilson which presents a global overview of the ways in which contemporary artists draw on scientific and technological developments to explore new forms of creative expression. In the twenty-first century, some of the most dynamic works of art are being produced not in the studio but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical, and social questions connected with cutting-edge scientific and technological research. Their work ranges across disciplines—microbiology, the physical sciences, information technologies, human biology and living systems, kinetics and robotics—and takes in everything from eugenics to climate change to artificial intelligence. This comprehensive overview covers a dazzling array of work produced by some 250 artists from America, Japan, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, and elsewhere. It presents a broad range of projects, from body art to bioengineering of plants and insects; from music, dance, and computer-controlled video performances to large scale visual and sound installations. Stephen Wilson is Professor of Conceptual and Information Arts at San Francisco State University and coeditor of Leonardo, the international journal of art and science. He is the author of Information Arts and Using Computers to Create Art. ISBN 978-0-500-23868-4 · 91/4" x 11" · 270+ color illustrations · 208 pages Websites Stephen Wilson Gina Czarnecki super/collider The Book Club   2010-07-13T18:59:23+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/experimental_ruins_workshop/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/experimental_ruins_workshop/#When:10:00:13Z The Experimental Ruins Workshop continues Neal White/The Office of Experiments' ongoing 'Overt Research Project', an ongoing series of enquiries into the experimental spaces of science and technology, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst.In this workshop, Gail Davies (UCL, Department of Geography) and artists Neal White and Steve Rowell (The Office of Experiments) invite participants to explore what constitutes an 'experimental ruin' within the fabric of our urban centres. The workshop is a collaborative engagement between geographers, artists and others interested in the experimental geographies of science and technology.In their initial field research project for The Arts Catalyst's exhibition Dark Places, Neal White and Steve Rowell focused attention on the rural landscapes of Southern England, documenting spaces in which large-scale scientific and intelligence facilities are sited, ranging from research centres to military proving grounds. In the second part of the project, London becomes the setting, a space that requires a different method of enquiry.The workshop will encompass discussion of the ways we might identify: the material traces of biological, technological, informational and radical experiments in London; the temporal and spatial imaginaries embodied in such experimental sites, whether open, closed, subterranean or aerial; the methods for encountering and expanding engagements around these spaces, and the stakes involved in doing so.The workshop will involve talks, discussion and exploration between geographers, artists, historians of science and technology, and the archivists and archaeologists of contemporary history. The aim of the event is to contribute to ongoing discussions around the 'geographies of experimentation' and the nature of experimental aesthetics; shaping future forms of enquiry around these experimental remainders that are both collective and contested. Supported by The Arts Catalyst, UCL Department of Geography and the ESRC fellowship (Grant no RES-063-27-0093) 2010-07-06T10:00:13+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/contemporary_nomadism/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/contemporary_nomadism/#When:16:30:19Z Introducing the international project behind the Arctic Perspective exhibition, a panel of artists, academics and architects explore its cultural, historical and political contexts. The Arctic Perspective Initiative aims to support a thoroughly contemporary nomadism via open and free media, environmental monitoring and communications technologies. Panel: Marko Peljhan, artist and instigator of Arctic Perspective Initiative (Slovenia)David Turnbull, science sociologist (New Zealand)Richard Carbonnier, architect (Canada)Inke Arns, curator (HMKV Germany)Chair: Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute (Canada) Places are limited for this free talk event and must be booked in advance at http://artscatalyst.eventbrite.com/ Arctic Perspective highlights the cultural, geopolitical and ecological significance of the Arctic and its indigenous cultures. In collaboration with the people of Igloolik, Kinngait, Iqaluit, Mittimatalik and Kanngiqtugaapik in Nunavut, Canada and other Arctic communities, artists and architects are devising a mobile media and living unit and infrastructure, powered by renewable energy sources. The unit will be used by Inuit and other Arctic peoples for creative media production such as film-making, communications and monitoring the environment, while moving, living and working on the land. The exhibition includes architectural models of winning designs from the Arctic Perspective open architecture competition by Richard Carbonnier (Canada), Catherine Rannou (France) and Giuseppe Mecca (Italy), with photographs, videos and maps from the project.The Arctic Perspective Initiative is led by artists Marko Peljhan (Slovenia) and Matthew Biederman (US/Canada). The exhibition has been curated by The Arts Catalyst. Collaborators: Miha Bratina, Ziga Testen. For more on the project see  http://www.artscatalyst.org. Partners and funders: Arctic Perspective InitiativeCanadian High Commission, LondonHMKV, DortmundProjekt Atol, SloveniaLorna, IcelandC-TASC, CanadaArts Council EnglandCultural Programme of the European UnionCity of DortmundFederal Centre for Civic EducationMinistry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia 2010-05-20T16:30:19+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/planetary_breakdown/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/planetary_breakdown/#When:10:00:21Z "Following Helen and Newton Harrison’s notion of the ‘Force Majeure – that we should be preparing for different forms of governance following radical blows to the existing infrastructures by inevitable climate change – Autonomous Infrastructures looks at the many models created by artists and by communities of people operating semi-autonomously in society in intentional and utopian communities. The event examines the symbolic nature of many of these initiatives and proposse the future realisation of unrealised artists infrastructures." - Rob La Frenais Produced by Intersections (Newcastle University), The Arts Catalyst and AV Festival 10. Day 1 Tuesday 9 March 2010Autonomous Infrastructures: sandpit (invited) The first day was a invited group of around 30 people, mainly artists. We looked at different approaches artists are taking to the question of change and sustainability and, working as small teams, hothouse some potential strategies.  Day 2 Wednesday 10 March 2010 Symposium: Planetary Breakdown: autonomous infrastructures for a sustainable future Day 2 was a public symposium with three panels looking at alternative approaches to: communities, trade and energy. The symposium brought together an exceptional range of artists, academics and other industry experts to look at future approaches to living. It explored the possibility of creating new autonomous infrastructures across energy, trade and transport, offering a space for everyone to contribute to an active dialogue about our futures. Speakers: Alternative Communities: Malcolm Miles, Lise Autogena, Nicola Triscott, chair David Butler. Trade: Kate Rich, Ashok Sukumaran, chair Sally Jane Norman. Energy: HeHe, London Fieldworks, Bryony Worthington, chair Rob La Frenais Reviews of Planetary Breakdown symposium   Interface 2010-03-09T10:00:21+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/destinationmoon/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/destinationmoon/#When:14:10:31Z The recent discovery of water on the moon has refocused society's imagination on our nearest celestial neighbour. The title of the panel refers to the seminal 1958 novel Destination Moon by Robert Heinlein, which helped develop the popular mythology of the Moon, something which is also Russian filmmaker Pavel Medvedev explores, whose new work Ascension is shown in the tm.10 Film & Video programme. Also showing in that programme, is Agnes Meyer Brandis' The Moon Goose Experiment which can be read a form of bio-poetic science fiction. transmediale Award nominee, Wang Yuyang and curator Li Zhenhua will discuss the monumental sculpture Artificial Moon which draws attention to the collision between the 'natural' and the 'artificial' conceptions of the moon. This Salon Talk features presentations by artists shown in transmediale.10 whose work engages with the past, present and future of the moon. This Salon Talk is hosted by Rob La Frenais, curator of The Arts Catalyst. Their future exhibition project Republic of the Moon (2010) will investigate humanity’s relationship with the moon, both in terms of cultural meaning and the possible return by humans in spacecraft to the moon in a new global space race. Salon talk: Moderator: Rob La Frenais (uk) Participants: Pavel Medvedev (ru), Agnes Meyer-Brandis (de), Wang Yuyang (cn), Li Zhenhua (cn) The Long Conversation: The Arts Catalyst Director, Nicola Triscott will be taking part in The Long Conversation on Friday 5 February between 13:00-22:00.  The Long Conversion is a world première especially crafted for transmediale.10 by transmediale Award nominees Sosolimited. Transmediale Video Archive: Stephen Kovats introduces Destination Moon Rob La Frenais introduces Destination Moon Pavel Medvedev, Ru, Destination Moon Agnes Meyer Brandis, De, Destination Moon Wang Yuyang, Cn, and Li Zhenhua, Cn, Destination Moon Discussion Session, Destination Moon   2010-02-06T14:10:31+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/darkplacesbustour/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/darkplacesbustour/#When:09:39:40Z Dark Places uncovers sites of secrecy and technology across Britain presenting a range of new works by artists that explore spaces and institutions below the radar of common knowledge. The exhibitition examines how artists are evolving strategies for art as a form of knowledge production, challenging accepted patterns in contemporary culture and society. On the final day of the show, the Secrecy and Technology bus tour took place, exploring the Cold War's legacy in the South. Neal White and Steve Rowell led the tour of sites of advanced technological development in the South of England, focusing on sites that emerged during the tensions and paranoias of the Cold War.  The tour briefly visited the sites of Chilbolton Observatory, Porton Down and RAF Boscombe Down, stopping off at a nuclear bunker, before lunch at the International School for Security and Explosives Education. In the afternoon, we went to RAF Blanford to visit the Signals Museum, pausing for tea, before heading back to the John Hansard Gallery, where a small evening event laid on by the gallery launched Neal White's publication The Redactor and allowed the bus tour participants to view the exhibition. Links to artists' websites: Steve Rowell, Office of Experiments, Exhibition supported: Arts Council England The Office of Experiments’ Overt Research Project is supported by UCL Department of Geography and The Media School, Bournemouth University. Led by Neal White with Steve Rowell and Lisa Haskell. Dark Places is commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and co-curated with the Office of Experiments, John Hansard Gallery and SCAN.   2010-01-23T09:39:40+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/interspeciescornerhouse_events/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/interspeciescornerhouse_events/#When:22:43:06Z Kira O'Reilly presented an action/installed performance featuring herself and a sleeping female pig. Nicolas Primat's video installation explores how the animals' ‘natural’ communication skills can be extended into the realm of human/ape creative collaboration. Antony Hall encouraged the public to directly communicate with live electric fish in the gallery space, through mild electrical impulses. The Department of Eagles (Ruth Maclennan)'s work examined communications between falconers and falcons. Rachel Mayeri's Primate Cinema casts human actors in the roles of mating non-human primates, while Beatriz Da Costa's PigeonBlog investigated the military use of homing pigeons. A series of talks and debates between the artists, writers, scientists and animal welfare experts accompanied the exhibition. ESOL Exhibition Tour: This gallery tour of Interspecies provides an introduction to the artists and works on show with a discussion on the issues involved in the exhibition. Artists' Open Forum: Antony Hall, Ruth Maclennan, Rachel Mayeri and Beatriz Da Costa: A two hour drop-in opportunity to meet the artists and discover more about the ideas behind Interspecies. Artist's Talk: Kira O'Reilly in Conversation: Artist Kira O'Reilly and curator Rob La Frenais discuss Kira's exhibition piece in relation to her work on sleep and dream research with humans and pigs. Workshop: Primate Cinema - How to Act Like an Animal Performance workshops led by Interspecies artist Rachel Mayeri, exploring how primates communicate, primatology and discussing animal behaviour in the wild and in cinema. BSL Interpreted Exhibition Tour led by artist Andrew Bracey, BSL interpreted by Siobhan Rocks. Open Forum: Animals in Art As Animal Studies continues to grow as a focal point of academic enquiry, this forum opens up discussion around the question of animals in art and delve deeper into the underlying concepts of Interspecies. Interspecies Exhibition Tour: An informal tour of our current exhibition Interspecies. Artist's Talk: Antony Hall An opportunity to hear artist Antony Hall discuss his Interspecies project in which he experiments with cross-species communication; allowing exhibition visitors and electric fish to communicate on the same level but avoiding the use of language. Viva: and Interspecies present: How to Kill a Lobster: Capitalising on Non-Human Animal Slaughter  As artists continue to consider ethics in relation to the role of animals within their work, this talk explored the increasing presence of animals in theatre and performance art, addressing issues such as activism, reality and animal representation. Interspecies was later shown at the A Foundation's Rochelle School in London, 1-4 October 2009 Exhibition supported by: Arts Council England, Darwin 200 2009-12-20T22:43:06+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/interspeciesLondonEvents/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/interspeciesLondonEvents/#When:10:37:21Z Interspecies asks: Can artists work with animals as equals? If not, what is the current state of the human-animal relationship? The exhibition and programme of related events centres around a durational work by Kira O'Reilly and draws together projects by Nicolas Primat and other artists who explore playful speculations on relations between species. Antony Hall Enki Experiment 4 encourages visitors to communicate with an electric fish on the same level.  Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson's Radio Animal* invites visitors to consider ‘unwelcome’ visitors but have for whatever reason found their way into what we may consider our own territories. Work includes: Nicolas Primat Portrait de Famille, The Making of Les Petits Hommes Vers.  Kira O'Reilly Falling Asleep With A Pig. Ruth Maclennan Harry and Three short films on Hawks and Men. Rachel Mayeri Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends. Beatriz da Costa PigeonBlog. Talks & Symposia: Exhibition tour with curator Rob La Frenais, 6pm Friday 2 October 2009 Non-Human Primates symposium with Sarah-Jane Vick - primatologist and psychologist; Patrick Munck - artist, videographer and collaborator with Nicolas Primat; Rachel Mayeri - artist, chaired by Rob La Frenais, 7-9pm Friday 2 October 2009 Tour of ENKI Experiment 4 with artist Antony Hall, 2pm Saturday 3 october 2009 Animals, Humans and Power symposium with Giovanni Aloi - editor Antennae; Ruth Maclennan - artist; Helen Macdonald, author of Falcon; Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir; Karen Knorr - artist and photographer, chaired by Rob La Frenais, 3-6pm Saturday 3 October 2009 Workshops: Primate Cinema workshops on How to Act like an Animal with artist Rachel Mayeri, 1-3 and 3.30-5.30pm Saturday 3 October 2009 Family day: Becoming Bowerbirds workshop with artist Sally Hampson (based on an Arts Catalyst project at Zoological Society London), 2-5pm Sunday 4 October 2009 Interspecies Tales with poet and storyteller Shamin Azad, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm Sunday 4 October 2009 Links to artists' websites: Kira O'Reilly, Antony Hall, Ruth Maclennan, Rachel Mayeri, Beatriz da Costa, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson Exhibition supported by: Arts Council England, Darwin 200, A Foundation *Animal Radio is a Story Gallery, Lancaster commission funded by the Henry Moore Foundation. 2009-12-03T10:37:21+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/eyeofthestorm2/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/eyeofthestorm2/#When:08:52:14Z From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, The Eye of the Storm brings together an extraordinary international group of artists whose work playfully and provocatively intervenes in science, scientists at the heart of these controversies, and other experts to spark two days of dynamic conversations about our changing world. Speakers include artist Eduardo Kac, whose artworks creating transgenic animals have generated controversy since he first persuaded French geneticists to produce a rabbit that glows in the dark, Sheila Jasanoff, one of the major voices in science and technology studies, artist Rod Dickinson, Oron Catts, pioneer in the use of bioscience as a medium for artistic expression, Helen and Newton Mayer Harrison, pioneers of environmental art, astronomer Roger Malina who will discuss the current crisis in astronomy with dark energy, and science sociologist Harry Collins. Selection Committee Chair: Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts CatalystMichael Bravo, Senior Lecturer, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge Bernadette Buckley, Programme Convenor, MA Art & Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London Sian Ede, Director of Arts, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Madeleine Keep, Education Department, Tate Britain Rob La Frenais, Curator, The Arts Catalyst Roger Malina, Chairman Emeritus, Leonardo, Director of Research, CNRS Links Audience blogger Audio files of the entire conference are available from Tate IQ Symposia on iTunes U podcast directory. Organisers & Support Organised by The Arts Catalyst and Tate Britain, in association with Leonardo/OLATS. Suppported by Arts Council England and SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia. 2009-06-19T08:52:14+00:00 http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/less_remote_the_futures_of_space_exploration_-_an_arts_and_humanities_sympo/ http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/less_remote_the_futures_of_space_exploration_-_an_arts_and_humanities_sympo/#When:10:00:15Z The Less Remote symposium aimed to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities. It was organised on the occasion of the 59th International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow, which hosted the symposium. Artists, thinkers and writers contributed to the debates about going back to the Moon and on to Mars, living in space, art in zero gravity, the future of the International Space Station, and the search for life and human origins in scientific missions. Less Remote featured presentations by Tomas Saraceno, Agnes Meyer Brandis, Marko Peljhan, Zbigniew Oksiuta, Rachel Armstrong, Andy Miah, Sarah Jane Pell, Fraser MacDonald, Nina Czegledy and many others.  Less Remote was organised by Flis Holland and The Arts Catalyst, in association with Leonardo and OLATS. The symposum was co-sponsored by the IAA Commission VI Schedule A full programme with abstracts can be downloaded opposite, along with speaker biographies. 30 SEPTEMBER 10:00           Opening Address        10:10           Session 1: The Introspective Urge   This session focused on humanity's self image as a determining constituent in the context of the cultural and social constructions of space science. It explored the relationship between the changing sense of self that has driven the arts and the sciences for the past four centuries relative to the engagement with space exploration. 14:00           Special Presentation: Tomas Saraceno          14:30           Session 2: Extending Our Reach           This strand focused on the search for life and its origins, the yearning for proof that we are not alone in the universe, and the long-term prospects for a human future among the stars. It will examine the cultural and philosophical implications of attempts to make contact with other intelligent life forms, what messages are sent and how they are composed. It will reflect on the search for the life on other planets in the solar system and elsewhere in the universe, how evidence is collected and whether we will recognise life when we find it. 17:30           The Arts Catalyst curated event    01 OCTOBER 10:00           Session 3: Cultural Concerns  This session addressed the interrelationship between intercultural, as well as interdisciplinary ideas of the cosmos and the nature of space exploration. It invited contributions that highlight the multiplicity of cosmologies, worldviews and utopias surrounding the idea and practice of (human) space travel today and throughout history. 12:30           Lunch + ITACCUS Open Meeting 15:00           Session 4: Inhabiting Space  In this strand we invited considerations of the continuity between the needs of humans on earth and the possible demands of future 'spacefarers' in remote and often hostile environments. It considered the impact of the technological necessities for the colonisation of space on the human spacefarer as cultural and social being. 19:00           Interactive Event *        20:30           Performance *          * Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art, 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Organisational Committee Flis Holland (Chair) The Arts Catalyst Leonardo Leonardo/Olats Peer Review Committee Flis Holland (Chair) Annick Bureaud (Leonardo / OLATS) Rob La Frenais (The Arts Catalyst) Roger Malina (IAA Commission VI) Michael Punt (Leonardo) Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Philosophy, Indian National Institute of Advanced Studies) Nicola Triscott (The Arts Catalyst) Advisory Committee Martha Blassnigg Lowry Burgess Stephen Dick Bernard Foing Roger Malina Takuro Osaka Jean-Luc Soret Support The event was supported by: Arts Council England IAA Commission VI Individual speakers and artists at the symposium were sponsored by: The Goethe Institute, Glasgow CAP Research Fund, Solent University The Australian Network for Art & Technology - Professional Development Travel Fund Media Coverage Times Online Review of LESS REMOTE:"Glasgow space congress brings it all home : Intergalactic travel is still humanity’s greatest party tricK" - Allan Brown // // = '/multimedia/archive/00409/05OL-ECOSSE-BR0WN_3_409923q.jpg'; // ]]> // = ''; // ]]> 2008-09-30T10:00:15+00:00