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STARTS RESIDENCIES DAYS March 27 & 28, 2019 2-8 PM, CENTRE POMPIDOU, PETITE SALLE FREE ENTRANCE Art/Science collaboration in Europe: Art as a driver for technological innovation PRESS RELEASE
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STARTS Residencies Days
STARTS
STARTS (Science, Technology, and the
ARTS) Initiative, launched by the European
Commission – DG CONNECT – promotes
the inclusion of artists in innovation
projects. It aims to remove the boundaries
between art and engineering to stimulate STARTS
creativity and innovation.
Residencies Days
The STARTS Residencies Days are
STARTS organized by the STARTS Residencies
European Program coordinated by
Residencies IRCAM. The results of this program of
collaboration of artists with technological
STARTS Residencies is one of the STARTS projects throughout Europe will be
Pillars. This programme is to support presented through contributions
and fund between 2017 and 2020, by 30 artists and researchers involved,
45 artistic residencies that bring original roundtables and participatory events.
artistic contributions to technology-based The laureates of the third call are
research projects. During each STARTS to be announced and the new modes
Residency, a tech project collaborates with of contribution of artists to innovation
an artist, leading to the creation of an processes will be discussed with the
original artwork, and to the development heads of institutions and communities
of the innovative aspects of the tech involved.
research. A grant (up to 30,000€) is
awarded to the artist of each STARTS
Residency as a contribution to her/his
involvement in the residencies programme. Mutations / Creations
Additional support to the residency can
also be brought by a producer. and the Vertigo Forum
The STARTS Residencies Days are organized
as part of the VERTIGO Forum, a series of
symposia and societal debates on art-
science relationships at Centre Pompidou
from March 27th to 30th on the theme
“La Fabrique du Vivant” together with
the exhibitions “La Fabrique du Vivant”
and “Erika Verzutti” which constitute
the 2019 edition of Mutations / Creations,
a joint yearly event by Centre Pompidou
and IRCAM.
Programme
Wednesday, March 27
2 PM
Introduction
HUGUES VINET
(IRCAM, STARTS RESIDENCIES
PROJECT COORDINATOR)
2:15 PM
New Physics
Presentation of residencies:
Atom Chasm
Sci-Fi Miners
Spelaion
Print Your City
Orbital River Station
15h15 4 PM
“Close the loop“ Mixed Reality
Panel Discussion: assessment Presentation of residencies:
of the first residency round Froth of the Daydream
This panel gathers contributions by artists Immersive Minimalism
and researchers involved in the first stage My fears murmured to you
of STARTS Residencies and who completed Sleep in the City
their collaborations in order to establish
a first feedback on the program and on 5 PM
the collaboration modes it has enabled.
Presentation of the STARTS
In Song of Soil lighthouse pilots and their
KASIA MOLGA (ARTIST) residency opportunities
AND FEIMATTA CONTEH (PROGRAMME
MANAGER - FUTUREEVERYTHING)
5:30 PM
Magic Lining
KRISTI KUUSK (ARTIST) Future STARTS Here
AND ANA TAJADURA JIMENEZ (RESEARCHER, Pitch Session on
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID)
art+tech+science projects
Blueprints for an emergent personality
KATE ASPINALL (ARTIST)
AND GEMMA BOLEDA (RESEARCHER,
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA)
Watch live on Youtube!
All round tables are broadcast
live on Ircam’s Channel.
Thursday, March 28
2 PM 4 PM
Participatory Performance Augmented experiences
Pollution Explorers by Ling Tan Presentation of residencies:
In this public performance designed Embryonic
by artist Ling Tan in the neighborhood Transhuman Expression
of Centre Pompidou, 20 adult participants Chatroom of things
will be proposed to wear connected Wind Avatar
clothes developed in the project and Data Union Fork - Tools for Data Strike
express through gesture their subjective
feeling of the air pollution, contributing 5:30 PM
to a collective artistic situation.
Announcement of the
3 PM laureates of the third call
Panel discussion for STARTS Residencies
on participatory design
6:30 PM TO 8 PM
Artists, designers and curators specialists
of participatory design are gathered Panel: Art and technology:
in order to present their related projects Disruptive Frames
and experience feedbacks.
This high-level concluding round table
LARISA BLAZIC bringing together industry leaders,
(ARTISTE, DATA UNION FORK) designers and scientists takes stock
of latest experiments involving artists
CLARE PATEY in disruptive innovation processes.
(DIRECTOR, EMPATHY MUSEUM)
PIERRE J. MAGISTRETTI
PANOS SAKKAS AND FOTEINI SETAKI (PROFESSOR OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, PRESIDENT,
(ARTISTS, PRINT YOUR CITY) INTERNATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION)
LING TAN SILVIO NAPOLI
(ARTIST, POLLUTION EXPLORERS) (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD,
SCHINDLER HOLDING LTD)
MODERATOR
RAMA GHEERAWO LIZA PRZIODA
(DIRECTOR, THE HELEN HAMLYN (PROJECT INNOVATION
CENTRE FOR DESIGN) MANAGEMENT GLOBAL, BOSCH)
ANNELIEK SIJBRANDIJ
(FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
OF THE VERBIER ART SUMMIT)
MODERATOR
NICOLAS HENCHOZ
(DIRECTOR, EPFL+ECAL LAB)
2017-2019 Residencies
18 Residencies resulting from the first
and second calls for tech projects and artists
ART ATOM X EVELINA DOMINITCH CRITCAT
& DMITRY GELFAND X JOÃO MARTINHO MOURA
ATOM CHASM SCI-FI MINERS
In collaboration with the 5th Physical The platinum group metals are noble
Institute of Stuttgart University, the artists and precious elements, important
propose to develop Atom Chasm, in modern manufacturing and in ICT
a laser-cooled atom observatory probing industry in particular. As their availability
the slippery frontier between quantum is critical, CritCat aims at developing
and quotidian reality. The first artwork new catalyst nanoparticles from Earth-
to ever be presented on the atomic scale, abundant materials for hydrogen-based
Atom Chasm will be an immersive ion clean energy applications. The artist
trap installation, enabling audiences intends to work with the data generated
to intimately confront such paradoxical with the study of the main parameters
phenomena as quantum jumps and the of the nanoparticle catalysts. He intends
symmetry breaking of the early universe. to turn those concepts accessible
to the general public, through interactions,
RESIDENCY FROM OCT, 2018 TO MAR, immersive experiences and gameplay.
2020 – THE NETHERLANDS
RESIDENCY FROM SEPT, 2018 TO APR,
2019 – PORTUGAL
DEAN X COLLECTIF TOAST PTWIST X THE NEW RAW
SPELAION PRINT YOUR CITY
Spelaion offers the public to explore In the project Print Your City, urban dwellers
and interact with an ever-changing transform their plastic waste into raw
surface. This surface, made out of material for public space, creating a circular
a new and intelligent material, hangs stream within the city. This is achieved
from the ceiling. The public is invited by recycling household plastic waste
to enter the space underneath the surface with robotic-3d-printing and producing
and interact with the material by moving. components that upgrade the built
Together, people influence the surface environment through citizen involvement
and create shapes that simulate and the principles of circular economy.
geological formations found in caves.
RESIDENCY FROM AUG, 2018 TO JULY,
Each individual interaction adds up 2019 – SWITZERLAND
to create a collective piece.
RESIDENCY FROM SEPT, 2018 TO MAR,
2020 – FRANCE
18 Residencies resulting from the first
and second calls for tech projects and artists
NANO2WATER X HEHE LE CUBE X JULIE DESMET WEAVER
O.R.S FROTH OF THE DAYDREAM
O.R.S. (Orbital River Station) is a large-scale The challenge of the project is to prototype
floating sculpture. Its form and colour an immersive and interactive content
resemble an oversized life ring used for collective virtual reality based on the
to rescue people in water. O.R.S. is an artist’s scenarios of Froth of the Daydream
“observatorium”, a vehicle for collecting by Boris Vian: imagining and realizing
and analysing environmental information. together an experience using 360°
Observations about the water are made projection and both individual and crowd
directly in the river itself. O.R.S. collects interactive technologies (Motion Capture,
data about velocity of the river current, leap motion, gesture recognition,
monitors water quality and identifies audiometer, augmented reality) to serve
pollutants with analog and digital devices. the artistic project and create a sensitive
and emotional experience for the public.
RESIDENCY FROM NOV, 2018 TO SEPT,
2019 – PORTUGAL RESIDENCY FROM JULY, 2018 TO JULY,
2019 – FRANCE
IMMERSIFY X THERESA SCHUBERT VIRTUAL CLOSE UP IMMERSIVE MINIMALISM X LAURENT BAZIN 3D Immersive Minimalism investigates MY FEARS MURMURED TO YOU the mechanisms of immersion and its While working with Virtual Close Up basic principles through a series of by Gengiskhan, Laurent Bazin would like custom-developed studies established to demonstrate that it is possible on theories of perception that aim at to shoot simple yet overwhelming things (re-) defining methods of immersion. in immersive filmmaking, if and only Based on these findings the artist wants if we have the technological means to create an immersive environment to capture them. If these details can be called “vibrant matter” of micro-macro caught with a 360° camera, then one will landscapes with real UHD video footage be able to tell very delicate stories, filled in combination with digital generative with unsaid things and without resorting graphics depicting non-human life. to dry emphasis. RESIDENCY FROM NOV, 2018 TO JUN, RESIDENCY FROM OCT, 2018 TO JAN, 2019 – POLAND 2020 – FRANCE
18 Residencies resulting from the first
and second calls for tech projects and artists
DANCE X HASEEB AHMED 3D PRIME X VALERIA ABENDROTH
WIND AVATAR EMBRYONIC
Working with the Brain and Emotion Lab, With the objective of improving
the project Wind Avatar creates an artistic the learning process and training
experience of the body with the wind. of medical students and professionals,
Body movements express emotion in subtle 3D PRIME has started a project
and highly coded ways. The practices to produce realistic and accurate
of dance stabilize the expression of emotion 3D models of a particular patient.
into patterns of movement. The Wind Embryonic will be a three-dimensional,
Avatar creates a direct relationship interactive room installation that
between these patterns of expressive body represents a developmental laboratory,
movement in dance and turbulence including biomorphic sculptures
patterns in the wind and allow a person that seem to be alive and growing.
to literally inhabit the wind and its freedom. These sculptures are being developed
in cooperation with the development
RESIDENCY FROM SEPT, 2017 TO FEB,
2019 – BELGIUM
team of 3D PRIME and the artist.
RESIDENCY FROM JAN, 2019 TO JUL,
2019 – GERMANYWE DRAW X LIAT GRAYVER CREATE-IOT X SO KANNO
TRANSHUMAN EXPRESSION CHATROOM OF THINGS
Transhuman Expression investigates Computing processes are becoming
the relation between the physical actions invisible and possible to embed in most
and the visual representation. It aims is of everyday object without visual
to create a new artistic tool to teach kids awareness. The ideal showroom of IoT
concepts of arithmetic and geometry. is a two-part composition. The room
This is achieved by exploring behavioural is made with state-of-the-art technology.
and decision-making patterns by extracting And the system tries to capture information
them from the underlining logic of our from participants as much as possible while
physical behaviour, revealing mathematical exposing them the related messages from
and geometrical components. connected objects. With this installation,
participants experience both of observed
RESIDENCY FROM SEPT, 2018 TO DEC,
2018 – ITALY
and observing sides.
RESIDENCY FROM JAN, 2018 TO FEB,
2019 – NORWAY18 Residencies resulting from the first
and second calls for tech projects and artists
AARHUS CITY LAB X WALID BREIDI DECODE X LARISA BLAZIC
& VIRGILE NOVARINA DATA UNION FORK:
SLEEP IN THE CITY TOOLS FOR DATA STRIKE
The aim of the project is to sensitize There is enough evidence of a need
people to the profound importance for mass organised collective action
of sleep through performance, interactive regarding data: to defend and manage
art and network. The idea is to connect personal and population-wide data.
city sleep with networks and open data This organisation should come “from
in order to create interactive poetic videos below“. Data Union fork - tools for data
projected all around the city in real time strike is an idea building on DECODE OS,
during the participants’ sleep time. blockchain-based, operating system
and nodes for decentralised ownership
RESIDENCY FROM OCT, 2018 TO JUL,
2019 – DENMARK
and control of data. It is a proposal to
conceptualise, articulate and co-create
an assertive “smart contract“ model
enabling additional protective layer
for citizens’ digital rights whilst promoting
solidarity and mutual aid.
RESIDENCY FROM SEPT, 2018 TO JAN,
2020 – THE NETHERLANDSGROW X KASIA MOLGA AMORE X THEO IN SONG OF SOIL BLUEPRINTS FOR AN EMERGENT A large-scale durational installation piece PERSONALITY created by Kasia Molga in collaboration Theo approaches the AMORE computational with sound artist Robin Rimbaud - Scanner system as an infant consciousness dealing with soil condition and biodiversity. developing its cognitive abilities. Theo In Song of Soil (working title) - a playground translates the responses of the system for earthworms - healthy soil full of into data points and emotive sketches micro-organisms, microbes, bacteria suggested by these slippages. The artist and earthworms will resurrect dead soil. then presents this data to child psychology This will be transmitted to the visitor and development specialists in order through audio and visual means, creating to build a picture of the personality behind a multi-sensory experience which gives them and finally construct images of voice to sound of life. a mature and embodied self. RESIDENCY FROM NOV, 2017 TO MARCH, RESIDENCY FROM MARCH, 2017 TO DEC, 2019 – SCOTLAND 2018 – SPAIN
18 Residencies resulting from the first
and second calls for tech projects and artists
HACKAIR X LING TAN MAGIC SHOES X KRISTI KUUSK
POLLUTION EXPLORERS MAGIC LINING
Pollution Explorers is a participatory project Magic Lining builds on the insights from
co-created with the hackAIR community MAGICSHOES project and proposes
to help citizens make sense of the complex a garment that allows the wearers to feel
issues around air pollution. Made up as if their body was made of a different
of a series of kit-of-parts experimental material. In the intersection of neuroscience
wearable devices that incorporate hackAIR research on mental body-representation,
sensors and body gesture technology, human-computer interaction and real-life
it enables users to contribute data to smart textile applications, the project asks
the hackAIR community through measuring questions about the meaning of clothing.
situated air quality and at the same time,
RESIDENCY FROM NOV, 2017 TO AUG,
record their subjective perception 2018 – SPAIN
of the quality of air in their environment.
RESIDENCY FROM OCT, 2017 TO DEC,
2018 – THE UNITED KINGDOMMEMBERS OF
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