[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Biological arts discussion on YASMIN
Leonardo/ISAST
isast at leonardo.info
Tue Feb 28 14:26:48 EST 2006
TO: Leonardo Network
From: Roger Malina
Leonardo/OLATS, co sponsor of the YASMIN Mediterranean art-science
network, would like to bring to your attention the ten day moderated
discussion about exhibiting biological arts. You can register for the
YASMIN list by going to:
YASMIN website: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/
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Dear Yasminers,
I would like to welcome Monica Bello from Barcelona who will discuss
with you and nine invited respondents the issue of exhibiting biological
art to a non-specialist audience. Our respondents are invited curators,
philosophers, art critics, and artists. I would like to welcome Annick
Bureaud (Paris), Pier Luigi Capucci (Bolonga), Nina Czegledy (Montreal),
Pau David Alsina Gonzalez (Barcelona), Jens Hauser (Paris), Anna
Hatziyiannaki (Athens), Beral Marda (Istanbul), Tomislav Medak (Zagreb)
and Polona Tratnik (Ljubljana). We have different ongoing exhibitions
about bioart around the MedRim, so the theme is more than actual! The
discussion is intented to last 10 days until March, 8. Please find below
the biographies of Monica Bello and the different invited respondents.
I wish you all a very interesting time on Yasmin !
Very best wishes,
Julien Knebusch
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Monica Bello (Barcelona)
Monica Bello is a freelance curator based in Barcelona with a special
interest in the junctions between art, science and technology. She has
worked regularly with Art Futura http://www.artfutura.org in a PR role,
has been assistant project manager for hostprods on international
projects and represented the Mexican video art collective TechMex
http://www.tech-mex.org at the Off Loop video festival
http://www.loop-barcelona.com
She has curated her own exhibition OEOrganismos¹, the first bio-art
exhibition in Spain, which was shown in 2004 at La Casa Encendida,
Madrid, and in 2005 at Espai Cultural de Caja Madrid, Barcelona.
Currently Monica is establishing the CAPSULA project, a framework for
conferences, exhibitions and workshops on various aspects of science,
art, technology and nature, beginning with a OEbio-art¹ related event,
'Días de Bioarte06',in Centre d¹Art Santa Monica in Barcelona in
February 2006. She is a researcher on the Res-qualia portal, a web
project focussed on art, science and consciousness due to be launched
early 2006 and has lectured on the history of digital art at 9zeros
school of animation in Barcelona.
RESPONDENTS :
Annick Bureaud (Paris)
Annick Bureaud is a new media art critic and researcher. She works and
lives in Paris, France. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats, the
French branch of Leonardo/Isast which is primarily doing online
publishing (http://www.olats.org). As an art critic she runs a regular
column on electronic art in the French contemporary art magazine Art
Press. She teaches at the Art School of Aix-en-Provence and at Ecole
Centrale Paris (engineers school). She has been guest lecturer at the
School of the Art Institute Chicago/SAIC in 1999 and at the University
of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) in 2001.
In 2002, she co-edited the book Connexions : art, réseaux, media
published by the Press of Ensba ; she co-organized the International
Symposium "Artmedia VIII: From the Aesthetics of Communication to Net
art", in Paris and edited the online proceedings published by
Leonardo/Olats. The article "Typologie des interfaces artistiques", has
been published in the collective book Interfaces et sensorialité, edited
by Louise Poissant, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2003.
In 2003, she organised the Symposium "Visibility - Legibility of Space
Art. Art and Zero G.: the Experience of Parabolic Flight" within the
'@'rts Outsider Festival in Paris.
She is the co-editor of "SpaceartS, the space and the arts database", a
joint project of Leonardo/Olats and the Ours Foundation
(http://www.spacearts.info).
Pier Luigi Capucci (Bologna)
I am concerned with systems and idioms of communications and with new
art forms, and since the early '80 I have been involved in new media and
technology applications in communications and art. I have been a teacher
at the universities of Rome "La Sapienza", Bologna and Florence.
Currently I am professor of Mass Communications and of Multimedia
Languages at the University of Bologna, of New Media at the University
of Urbino and of Phenomenology of Art and Communications at the Fine Art
Academy of Urbino.I have published the books "Realtà del virtuale"
(1993), on virtual technologies and the relationships between culture
and sensorial representations; "Il corpo tecnologico" (1994), on the
impact of technologies on the human body; and "Arte e tecnologie"
(1996), about arts, sciences and technologies. I have published over 200
texts in books, magazines and conference papers. I am director of a new
book series <mediaversi> (http://www.mediaversi.it), which aims at
reflecting in an interdisciplinary way on the relations among the media,
the emergent technologies and the society in its fundamental
expressions: culture, representations, communications, arts. I have
organized art exhibitions and have been working in european projects on
cultural network communications (like, in 2000, Cafe9,
ttp://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/work/default.xslt/
nodenr-129865, as a content manager).
In 1994 I founded and directed (until 1997) the first italian online
magazine, on the relations between arts and technologies. In 2000 I
started the “Noema” project (http://www.noemalab.org), a online magazine
devoted to culture-new technologies interrelations and influences, which
I currently am director of.
Nina Czegledy (Montreal)
Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer, has collaborated on
international projects, produced time based and digital works, and
participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. She has
exhibited her work as part of the ICOLS group at ISEA2004, and venues in
Australia and the US. Her work toured with the Girls&Guns collective in
Europe (2004). Czegledy's latest Aurora Feast Public Art Collaborative
Project has been presented at Heureka the Finnish Science Centre,
Finland (2006). Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project, Digitized
Bodies Virtual Spectacles and the Aurora Projects reflect her
art&science&technology interest. These projects focus on the changing
perception of the environment and the human body and are presented via
on-line and on-site events in Canada and internationally. Resonance
co-curated with Louise Provencher is currently on tour showing the work
of 10 Canadian media artists in five European capitals. Czegledy curated
Sara Diamond's Code Zebra, Sifting Time, Shifting Space, for the Women
Arts Resource Center, Toronto (2005) and Reconnaissance, a Finnish media
art exhibition for InterAcces,Toronto (2006). Czegledy curated over 35
digital art/video programs presented in more than 25 countries and
initiated Points of Entry, the first Canadian/Australian/New Zealand
digital arts collaboration. In 2005 Czegledy presented at the
2nd New Media Symposium in Beijing, at ARCO2005, Madrid, the Impact of
Space on Society Conference, Budapest, Altered States CaiiA conference,
Plymouth, UK, UNESCO Digiart Network African workshop, Linz and the
Refresh Forum in Banff. Her presentations in 2004 included Cyber at arts
Bilbao; Dakar Biennale, Senegal; ISEA2004, the 7th Workshop on the
Space, the Arts, 55th International Astronautical Congress, Vancouver,
Newforms Festival, Vancouver and QI and Complexity Conference in
Beijing. Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books
and journals in Europe, North and South America and Asia.
Czegledy is the president of Critical Media, a Canadian based Knowledge
Institute. She is a member of the LEAuthors as well as the Leonardo
SpaceArt Network. She has been appointed by the UNESCO DigiArts Portal
as a Key Advisor to the African Network and is member of UNESCO's Arab
States DigiArts group as well as the Yasmin group. Nina Czegledy is a
Senior Fellow at KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate
Professor at Concordia University, Montreal and the current Chair of the
Inter Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA).
Pau David Alsina Gonzalez (Barcelona)
Pau Alsina lives in Barcelona where he teaches at the Humanities
Department of the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya). He does research in Media Aesthetics at the Internet
Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) a research institute that focuses its
R+D+i activity in a specific thematic area: “Information and Knowledge
Society”. He is director of Artnodes (http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes) a
space for the study of art, science and technology (AST) interrelations.
He has lectured in places as the Runme Cenference, the World Summit
Conference on ICT and Creativity, Ciberarts Festival, Interaction
Conference, Art Futura Festival, Sonar Festival etc.. and has been
involved in the organization of several events on AST as recently the
“Randonnee: XXIst century Landscapes” conference with the Sonar
Festival, the “Hybrids” exhibition and workshop around nature, art and
technology at the Catalan Architecture Collegium and Fundació Espais
d’Art, and the “Open Access Era” lecture series at the Barcelona Science
Museum. He has published several essays on the intersections of AST,
contemporary thougth and Interdisciplinary research methodologies. He is
involved in projects as the Leonardo LABS project, a database of PhD’s
Thesis abstracts of AST, the YASMIN network, the Catalan Government ICAC
Council or the Barcelona Culture Plan at the City's Council. He recently
finished a comparative report on Medialab Models around the world and
also the Spanish Report on AST for the Spanish Foundation of Science and
Technology.
He studied Philosophy and complemented it with Modern Music, Engineering
and Theatre and Performance studies. His actual research is focused on
the development of an ontology of present through the study of the
artistic practices involved with science and technology within the
context of the Knowledge Society. He is specially interested in Life
within the nature,art,technology and society interrelationship.
Anna Hatziyiannaki (Athens)
She studied in Paris and received her honors degree in Art Methodology.
She completed her postgraduate studies in Aesthetics and Anthropology of
Art and attended cinema and theater classes at the Paris I and Paris
VIII Universities.
She has worked as editor and art critic for Greek newspapers and
magazines since 1982. She is involved with new technology applications
in art and the internet, in particular since 1994, she has given a
series of lectures on these issues and organizes exhibitions as a New
Media Curator. She is co-founder and manager of the non-profit Art &
Technology Society ART TOPOS and its website (http://www.artopos.org),
which operates on the internet since 1996.
Since 1997 until 2003, she worked for the creation and the organization
of the New Media Departement of the Journalist’s Union of the Athens
Daily Newspapers. In 2001, she was in charge of the visual arts
programme of the international Festival “Art for Human Rights” organized
by the non-governmental organisation “Open Horizons” under the auspices
of the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Council of Europe and the European
Cultural Foundation.
In 2002, together with Dimitris Skoufis anf Nikos Giannopoulos,
co-organised “e-Magic”, the 1st International Festival of Cyber Events
in the frame of the International Cinematographic Festival of
Thessaloniki. In 2003, she organised at Athens, the first Bio Art
presentation and she was invited as New Media Curator in RRF
(Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting), the experimental New Media art
project in form of an online festival, created, programmed and realized
by Wielfried Agricola de Cologne. This global collaborative project was
presented in InteractivA ’03 – Biennale for New Media Art at Museum of
Contemporary Art Merida (Yucatan/Mexico)- where RRF was invited. The
same year, she participated as new media curator at the global
collaborative project “Gates” organised by Caterina Davignio (Italy)
In 2005, she co-organised with Dimitris Fotiou the Greek collaborative
project for the 2nd Web Biennale (Istambul) at Hellenic American Union
(Athens).
In 2006 she was the curator of the first major Bio Art Event at Greece,
the “In Vivo-In Vitro” project, that included a group international
show, a meeting with the artists and a symposium titled “Bio-ethics,
Bioterrorism and Media”.
She is a member of the Editors’ Association of Athens Daily Newspapers
(ESIEA), and of AICA (International Association of Art Critics).
Beral Marda (Istanbul)
Beral Madra, a critic and curator, directed Gallery BM (1984-1990) and
directing BM Contemporary Art Center (since 1990) : http://www.btmadra.com
She coordinated the 1st (1987) and the 2nd (1989) Istanbul Biennale,
curated exhibitions of Turkish artists in 43rd, 45th, 49th , 50th and
51st Venice Biennale, co-curated the exhibition Modernities and
Memories-Recent Works from the Islamic World in 47th Venice Biennale.
Since 1984 she has organized solo exhibitions of 50 local and
international artists in her art centre and in other official art spaces
in Istanbul.
She has curated and co-curated over 20 international group shows
including Sanat, Texhn (Istanbul 1992), Treffen-Kunst ( Istanbul 1993),
Iskele-Türkische Kunst Heute (Berlin-Stuttgart) 1994), Orient Express
(Berlin 1994), Xample (1995), Concrete Visions (Istanbul 1995),
Gold-X-Change (1997), Kerteriz (1998), Berlin in Istanbul (Berlin 1998),
Reise durch das Labyrinth (Berlin, 1998) and Memories and Modernities
(Istanbul 1998), Veritas Omnia Vincit (Istanbul 2000), "In Image We
trust" (2001), "Sheshow" (2002). Curated 5 international exhibitions in
WestLB, Istanbul building, (1999-2002) Curated 3 exhibitions in
Diyarbakır Art Centre (Southeast Turkey- 2002), “Registering the
Distance- Istanbul/Los Angeles”, Crazyspace, Santa Monica (2003); “The
Sphinx Will Devour You”, KarşıSanat (2004), Bizhan Bassiri,
“Evoporations”, Tophane-I Amire (2004). April-June 2005 she curated
three major shows in Istanbul: “A Balance-Retrospective of the Art of
the 80’s şn Turkey”, karşı Sanat Gallery, Istanbul; “Registering the
Distance II- Istanbul/ Los Angeles” borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul; “A
Consumption of Justice- A Meeting and Exhibitons of artists from Turkey,
South Caucasus, Middle East and the Balkans” Diyarbakır Art center,
Diyarbakır.
Since 1980 her articles has been published in Gösteri, Arredamento
Dekorasyon, Cumhuriyet, Istanbul, Kalýn, Anons, and in three books
"Identity of Contemporary Art" (1987), "Postperipheral Flux-A Decade of
Contemporary Art in Istanbul" (1996) and “İki Yılda Bir Sanat” (Art
Every Two Years- Essays on Biennale), Norgunk Yayıncılık, 2003.
Beral Madra is representing Istanbul scholarship of Berlin Senate since
1995. Curated international shows in Borusan Art Gallery, 1997-2000.
Since 1990 she has participated in numerous international congresses and
symposiums in Europe and USA. 1998-2002 she teached in the Art
Management Department of the Faculty of Art and Design of Yildiz
Technical University. She is founding member and art advisor of
Diyarbakır Art Centre (established September 2002
http://www.diyarbakirsanatmerkezi.org
founding member and president of AICA, Turkey (established 2003):
http://www.aicaturkey.org
Recent Book: “Neighbours in Dialogue” Editors: Beral Madra/Ayşe Orhun
Gültekin, Norgunk Publishers presented at the 51st Venice Biennale, by
Wimbledon School of Art and Nuova Icona at the “Venice Agendas”
meetings, 9-11 June 2005, together with a roundtable with the
contributors of the book.
Tomislav Medak (Zagreb)
Tomislav Medak is a philosopher with primary field of interest in
constellations of contemporary social, biopolitical and media theory. He
is a free software and free culture advocate. He is co-ordinating theory
and research program and publishing activities at the Multimedia
Institute (http://www.mi2.hr/) in Zagreb. Every once in a while he's
engaging into curatorial practices, focusing on critical reexamination
of technologies as social constructs. He is active as performer and
coreographer with the Zagreb based company BADco (http://www.badco.hr/).
Polona Tratnik (Ljubljana)
(1976, Slovenia) is a Ph.D. student of »Philosophy and Theory of Visual
Culture« in the University of Primorska, Faculty for Humanities, Koper,
Slovenia. She graduated from the Academy for Fine Arts in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, in 1999 and received an M.A. in 2001. In 2005 she was the Art
Director of the Ljubljana International Festival for Contemporary Art
Break 2.3 New Species (http://www.break-festival.org). She is the
Secretary of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics
(http://www.drustvo-za-estetiko.si). Since 1994 she has organized
numerous art exhibitions, lectures and colloquia on aesthetics,
contemporary art and culture. She has co-edited the book Spaces/Places
of Art (Ljubljana 2001) and was an editor of the art magazine Art Words
(Ljubljana). She founded Horizons (Ljubljana), a magazine for the
philosophy and theory of art. In recent years Polona Tratnik carried out
projects in biotechnological art, incorporating living elements such as
human skin cells, micro-organisms, hair and the like, thereby creating
complex installations related to the human body (Hair, In(threat)timity,
In-Time, Micro Cosmos, Private Bowls, 37°C). She participated in some
major exhibitions, such as L’Art Biotech (2003 Nantes, France), In Vivo
in Vitro (2006, Athens), Biennale of Electronic Art (2004 Perth,
Australia), Breakthrough (2004 Den Haag, the Netherlands), and The Seven
Sins. Ljubljana–Moscow (2004 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Polona Tratnik also
published essays and articles on theory of art, on her own artistic work
(in Leonardo, April 2005), and fiction. She received some reputable
awards (Prešern Award, 2000; Rotary Club Award, 2001; Moje Pero – Award
for short prose). URL: http://www.ars-tratnik.si
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