Ars Electronica Garden Adriatic Sea

aqua_forensic 2.0

Gjino Šutić, UR Institute, Dubrovnik (HR), Robertina Šebjanič, PiNA, KOPER (SI)

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The Ars Electronica Festival 2020 programme Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0 | sonoAdriatic tales gives special attention to the commitment to the values of care, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking and cooperation with the Adriatic Sea and its creatures. The project framework is the aqua_forensic, an ongoing art and science research method developed by Robertina Šebjanič (SI) and Gjino Šutić (HR), which sheds light on the presence of invisible anthropogenic chemical pollutants in the water environment.

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Art, science and citizen science coalesce within the framework of Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0, opening up a wider discussion on our solidarity and empathy with waters beyond human perception.

Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0 features on-site and online exhibitions, a round table discussion and workshops and focuses on the ecological and climatic changes/challenges of the Adriatic Sea. The entirety of the programme will also be accessible on the project’s online platform.

A distributed on-site exhibition programme will be presented at Art workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik (HR), at City Art Gallery in Ljubljana (SI), at LaBoral in Gijon (SP) and at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (AT).

The Adriatic Garden online platform will enable audiences to immerse themselves in the above or underwater world of the sea through video and the soundscapes of under/above water locations found in the sonic wilderness of the Adriatic. The online sound exhibition program sonoAdriatic tales is co-curated by Robertina Šebjanič and Manja Ristić.
The sonoAdriatic tales featured artists: Brane Zorman, Saša Spačal, Roberto Vodanović Čopor, Ivo Vičić, Leah Barclay.

The round table Aquaformations (International S.A.I.N.T. Caffe) will feature local and international experts and citizens, among them prof. dr. Alenka Malej (SI), Melina Sakiyama (BR), Mario Benkoč (SI), dr. Milena Mičić (HR) and Marija Aleksandra Del Dajković (HR), Gjino Šutić (HR) and Robertina Šebjanič (SI). Among other topics, the discussion will focus on the anthropo-socio-technological relationships with the sea, describe the impact our enterprises have on waters and address the issues we have to tackle to achieve sustainable collaboration among researchers, artists, institutions and citizens, who work in the field of maritime research and conservation.

The Aqua_forensic at the Adriatic Garden citizen science workshops engaging local and global audiences will focus on the topics of water pollution and climate change and will be held at the Youth center/UR Institute in Dubrovnik (HR) and at PiNA in Koper (SI). The workshop methodology was developed by Gjino Šutić, Robertina Šebjanič and Miha Godec with the support of UR Institute and PIFcamp.

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ADRIATIC GARDEN, Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
ADRIATIC GARDEN, Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
Credit: Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
ADRIATIC GARDEN, Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
ADRIATIC GARDEN, Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)
Credit: Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Šutić (HR)

Timetable

Program

Journey: Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0

Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0 connects two places by the Adriatic Sea: Dubrovnik (HR) and Koper (SI) and gives special attention to our commitment to the values of care, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking and cooperation with the Adriatic Sea and its creatures. The project framework is the aqua_forensic, an ongoing art and science research method developed by Robertina Šebjanič (SI) and Gjino Šutić (HR), which sheds light on the presence of invisible anthropogenic chemical pollutants in the water environment.

The SonoAdriatic tales

The Adriatic Garden will host a wide array of activities: exhibitions, installations, panel discussions, workshops, and much more, while enabling audiences to immerse themselves in the underwater world of the sea. Art, science and citizen science coalesce within the framework of Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0, opening up a wider discussion about our solidarity and empathy with waters beyond human perception. Within the project, we would like to give special attention to the values of care, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking and cooperation with the Adriatic sea and its creatures.

The Aqua_forensic Workshops at the Adriatic Garden

With it, we wish to help illuminate the human impact on our waters at the micro / macro level and provide a guideline to the fascinating world of aquatic flora, fauna and minerals and its plight. The aqua_forensic project is known for its special devotion and affinity to participatory engagement through workshops. We all have the capacity to pause, listen, observe and recognize the diversity and quality of the present environment. The aqua_forensic aims to encourage global and local audiences to familiarize themselves with the topics of water pollution and climate change, as well as actively engage in community work on these issues through citizen science oriented workshops. Scientific environments provide the sophisticated tools needed to undertake analysis and build predictive ecological models.

The Sonic Adriatic Garden

In this 40-minute-long program, we will present fragments of compositions by selected artists, which showcase the above or underwater sonic scapes of the Adriatic Sea. All of the featured sound works can be listened to in their entirety within the sonoAdriatic tales program. The Sonic Adriatic Garden is a special part of the project, devoted to the sonic wilderness of the Adriatic Sea, which offers the audiences a chance to immerse themselves into under/above water soundscapes of the region. Audiences are invited to open their ears and listen to the vast array of sounds, among them the sound mapping of the Korčula Island, an artist’s reflection on the tides, the circulation of the water body, and the melodies of diving in submerged caves of the Quarner bay area. Some of the tales deal with underwater noise pollution and showcase the human sonic impact on the underwater habitat and marine life, as well as the presence of morphologies hidden in the palimpsests of memory of the places once heavily exploited in the name of urbanization, tourism and industrial progress that marks the Adriatic Sea

The “Aquaformations” Roundtable

The round table Aquaformations, (International S.A.I.N.T. Caffe) which is part of the Adriatic Garden project, will extensively focus on the values the project aims to stress, namely care, kindness, compassion, environmental justice, action-taking, and cooperation with the Adriatic Sea and its creatures. In discussion with local and international experts and citizens, we will delve into the anthropo-socio-technological relationship with the sea, describe the impact our enterprises have on waters, as well as address the issues we have to tackle to achieve sustainable collaboration among researchers, artists, institutions and citizens, who work in the field of maritime research and conservation. We will also point out how the collaborative endeavors of artists, scientists, citizen scientists and active individuals have the potential to provide excellent support to their local communities. We will host experts on environmental law, biodiversity, marine science, artists addressing ecological / environmental topics, experts working in the commercial sector, educators and many more.

The “Aqua_Forensic” Exhibitions

Aqua_forensic is an artwork that will be exhibited at various locations during the Ars Electronica 2020: This includes the group exhibition Living Objects at the City Art Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Project Credits / Acknowledgements

Adriatic Garden | aqua_forensic 2.0
by Robertina Šebjanič (SI) and Gjino Šutić (HR), UR Institute (HR), PiNA (SI) and Ars Electronica (AT).

In partnership with: IZIS festival (SI), Youth Center Dubrovnik (HR); Art Workshop Lazareti (HR); Kontejner / Touch Me festival 2020 (HR); The City of Dubrovnik – Administrative Department for Education, Sports, Social Welfare and Civil Society (HR); City Art gallery Ljubljana (SI); Projekt Atol Institute (SI); Marko Vivoda (SI); Manja Ristić (SB); Computer History Museum Society (SI); Sektor (SI), Miha Godec (SI); Sektor (SI), RUK (SI); KONS (SI); PIF camp (Sl)

Aqua_forensic (since 2018) supported by: Ars Electronica within the EMAP/EMARE project (AT), Projekt Atol Institute (SI), UR Institute (HR), Čistoća Dubrovnik, The Ministry of Culture of the R. of Slovenia, and The Ministry of Culture of the R. of Croatia, Sektor Institute (SI), Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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