European Public Art Centre - Ectopia and Marta de Menezes are curating António Caramelo's Work at Palacio Galveias' Garden.

http://www.epacpublic.eu/

European Public Art Centre – EPAC is programme which consists of eight multipurpose outdoor exhibition spaces established in eight participating countries (Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Poland, United Kingdom and Iceland), first exhibition in the centre – Public Technologies simultaneously taking place in all countries involved and focussing on collaboration between art and science, workshops Art/Science/Technologies, roundtable discussion Art Technologies, seminar Public Technologies and launch of network CAST (Contemporary Art, Science and Technologies).

The primary aim of programme European Public Art Centre – EPAC is to found the first public art centre in Europe that exists and have permanent physical exhibition spaces in most European countries, to foster interdisciplinary contemporary culture and particularly collaboration between art and science, to create experimental visual art projects in public space that seek innovative solutions for breaking down elitism in artistic and cultural space through openness and accessibility, to involve passive segments of society in cultural processes and the integration of Europe's cultures.

António Caramelo (1969)

Master degree on digital art's at MECAD (Media Centre of Art and Design), Barcelona, 2005/2006
Teaches at the University of Évora, Portugal, in particular Media Arts classes in the Department of Visual Arts, since 2001.
As Visual Artist he has collaborated on several projects in different areas such as Sound, Dance and Theatre, working with real-time audiovisual systems.
Participates in several art exhibitions since 1997, mostly in Portugal, but also in Spain, Scotland, USA, Germany, Norway and Finland.
Lives in Portugal.

Marta is going to FieldNotes organized by "the finnish bioart society"

 

@Kilpisjärvi Biological Station

FIELD_NOTES – Cultivating Ground

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi/ Lapland/ Finland.
26. September – 2. October 2011
Organized by the Finnish Bioart Society in the context of the Ars Bioarctica project together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

“ Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds” is a week long field laboratory for theory and practice on art&science work. It is organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart and takes place at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in Lapland. Five expert working groups will develop, test and evaluate specific artistic approaches based on the interplay of art&science.

contact: erich.berger (at) bioartsociety.fi


My Group is:

Body Nature

Body/ Nature relationship
- hosted by Marta de Menezes with Dave Lawrence, Niki Passath, Melissa Murphy, Tiina Vainio
- in the sub-Arctic nature, in the lab and in the study
The Body/Nature connection refers to nature as a body, something akin to an organism, but also to the body, our body as a sensor, part of nature and immersed in it: an interface with the rest of nature connecting us, linking us and transforming our relation to it. This relation, this communication is part of what defines us as humans, as animals and as natural. This group will try to explore the possibilities of manipulating life, nature and our own nature to express awareness and concepts close to the idea of nature’s identity and our own in present times.