We are launching the BioARTCAMP Video Short online. Check it out!

BioARTCAMP: A Rocky Mountain Adventure in Art and Biology

A Short Video document co-produced by G-Netwerk & INCUBATOR

Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks and Jennifer Willet

http://www.incubatorartlab.com/home/projects/bioartcamp-video/

BioARTCAMP is a two-week residency program at The Banff Centre directed by Dr. Jennifer Willet from The University of Windsor, Canada. BioARTCAMP is a hybrid workshop / conference / performance event where 20 national and international artists, scientists, filmmakers, and university students will work for two weeks to build a portable biology laboratory in Banff National Park.  BioARTCAMP will serve as a “field research station” housing a functional biological sciences lab and a variety of art/science projects.

The BioARTCAMP Video was co-produced by G-Netwerk & INCUBATOR

(Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks and Jennifer Willet) and serves an evocative artwork itself, while providing a glimpse of the BioARTCAMP experience to a larger general audience.  

For more information:

http://jenniferwillet.com/home/projects/bioartcamp/
http://incubatorartlab.com/home/projects/bioartcamp/

Credits:

Direction, Interviews, Camera, Edit: Jeanette Groenendaal and Zoot Derks

Music: Angus Leech and Dylan Leech

Audio Post Production: Warning Studio’s

BioARTCAMP Project Designer and Director:  Jennifer Willet

Project Manager: Tokio Webster

Participants:

Iain Baxter&, Angus Leech, Tagny Duff, Paul Vanouse, Marta De Menezes, Marie Pier Boucher, Kurt Illerbrun, Bulent Mutus, Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks, Jennifer Willet, Jamie Ferguson, Britt Wray, Kacie Auffret, David Dowhaniuk

A special thank you to:

Grant Yocom, Louise Baxter&, Joan Linder, Dylan Leech, Jean Macpherson, Karin Stubenvoll, Cindy Schatkoski, Mark Resch, Cassandra Piroutz, Susan Kennard, Jamie Fennell, Lori Rissling-Wynn, Ann Morrow, Amanda White, Jodi Vanderbeke, Moira Robertson, Nasseme Albonaimi, Otto Ritosa, Billie McLaughlin, Victor Romao, Josh Babcock, Meghan Krauss, Jennifer Barone, Gam Macasaet, Stephen Fields, Sherri Lynne Menard, Leigh Harold, Wissam Aoun, Rachel Manno, Anthony Brook, Nick Caulford, Tony Chatham, Robert Zwijnenberg, Judy Buchanan-Mappin, Praveen K. Saxena, Melentie Pandilovski.

We are grateful for support from the following partners:

The Banff Centre, The University of Windsor, SSHRC the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Ontario Arts Council, Parks Canada, Hostelling International , Glenbow Museum, The Art and Genomics Centre, at The University of Leiden, Fonds BKVB.

Plant Tissue Culture Workshop at SVA, NY. 8th February 2012

The new Nature Lab at the School of Visual Arts was a great spot to teach about plant tissue culture to 2nd year students of Fine Arts! 

Consciousness Reframed!

The Planetary Collegium’s 12th Annual international Research Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era.

PRESENCE IN THE MINDFIELD:
Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation.

The conference will look at art as behaviour of mind, embedded in the physical world, but articulating its immateriality. Just as institutionalized art, with its tired orthodoxies of instruction, production and distribution, is challenged by the new technologies of knowing and perception, so our sense of self - its singularity and authenticity - is open to reconstruction and reinterpretation. In his assault on identity and authorship, the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa created over 70 heteronyms. “His jostling aliases,” as John Gray has put it, “expressing his belief that the individual subject - the core of European thought - is an illusion.” This exploration of the plurality of self finds is contemporary expression in the proliferation of personas and avatars through which we navigate the actual and virtual universes of our making. Transdisciplinary discourse, the adoption of new technologies, the invisible forces and fields of the sciences, the recuperation of abandoned metaphysical and spiritual models of being, can all find expression within the context of this conference.

Roy Ascott

Day 3 - December 2nd

Room Sophia de Mello Breyner

11.00	Stephan Schwartz	NONLOCALITY AND EXCEPTIONAL EXPERIENCES: A STUDY OF GENIUS, RELIGIOUS EPIPHANY, AND THE PSYCHIC
12.00	Kathrine Anker	Consciousness, Life And The Potential Of An Endobiological Evolution
12.30	Luis Miguel Girao
13.00	Dave Everitt	Is Creativity A 'Natural' Process?
LUNCH
15.00	Leonel Moura	Robotic Art: A New Kind Of Abstraction
15.30	Marta De Menezes	Art Practice And Art Research, An Experimental Aproach
16.00	Mike Phillips	Human Geography
16.30	Claudia Galhós	Consciousness Reframed 12 Report
17.00	Roy Ascott

Marta is speaking at the Science Museum in Coimbra.

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.

Marta is having lots of fun with all her new best friends at Bio Artcamp in Banff

BioARTCAMP goes Live!

BioARTCAMP is a hybrid workshop/symposium/performance event where artists, scientists, theorists, filmmakers and students will work together to build a portable laboratory in Banff National Park. Participants will contribute to the general construction of an art/science field research station at Castel Mountain, an off site and outdoors location. A variety of collaborative art actions and projects will be conducted in the outdoor laboratory. Senior Artists will present bioartworks within a camping/laboratory context at a public art/science fair event hosted live at the Castle Mountain location. The two-week residency will conclude at The Banff Centre with a symposium and panel discussion including all participants.

BioARTCAMP is hosted by Dr. Jennifer Willet from INCUBATOR Lab at The University of Windsor, Canada.

BioARTCAMP information and is available at:

The Banff Centre

http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1151

Incubator Lab, The University of Windsor

http://www.incubatorartlab.com/home/projects/bioartcamp/

And here on the BioARTCAMP Blog!

A special thanks to our sponsors: