Pre-recorded

Philosophy, Computer Science and Artistic Research in University Education

Jesus Fernando Monreal Ramírez (MX), Claudia Mosqueda (MX), Edmar Soria (MX)

Discussion on digital art training at the university level, integrating the philosophy of technology, computer science, and artistic research. This is a conversation from a perspective that considers context and situated learning.

Conceptronica, Ontologica & Phenomenologica

M. (FI/US)

This performance focuses on the default staging of digital music, which most often includes someone sitting or standing behind a computer. This is especially true in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when performers and audiences alike are relegated to screen-based interactions.

#MemóriasCOVID-19

University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)

In the video the online platform # MemóriasCOVID-19 will be presented and promoted by the teachers Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel and Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, focusing on the concept of the Platform itself and its curatorial processes.

We Are Data - Experts & Mentors

Mentors: Sabrina Verhage (NL), Jeroen van Loon (NL), Coralie Vogelaar (NL); Experts: Alya AlQarni & Sara Khaled (SA), Areej Mawasi (PS), Evgeny Morozov (BY), Morehshin Allahyari (IR/US), Miriam Rasch (NL), Nagla Rizk (EG)

Click on the website link above to hear more the curated list of experts we engaged to give talks and reflect on 4 main themes relating to data.

We Are Data - Fellows

Ahmed Aiuby (EG), Ahmed Soleman (EG), Imane Ibrahim (EG), Mona Makhlouf (EG), Sabah Elhadid (EG), Shadwa Ali (EG)

Click on the website link above to learn more about the 6 Egyptian fellows and their exploratory projects that they developed during their 7 month fellowship.

Hypergravity Bio Portal

Christiaan Zwanikken (NL)

As part of the plant becomes a machine becomes a plant project of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Waag Society, V2_the lab for unstable media and Zone2Source, Christiaan Zwanikken started an experiment to grow a variety of red-leaved basil plants under hyper-gravitational conditions. Hypergravity is able to stimulate plants at a cellular level and changes the physiology in interesting ways.

Science in Residency, some kind of voodoo

Manthia Diawara (US) and Raoul Frese (NL)

In order to flip the more usual format of collaboration between an artist and scientist, Raoul Frese has taken on a three-year residency with filmmaker Manthia Diawara. Invited by GLUON (Brux. Belgium), their starting point was the impact of artificial intelligence at the village of Yene near Dakar (Senegal).

Organic fashion: Chemistry and LHBTQ+

Iza Awad (NL)

In a world of rapid consumption, we constantly deplete natural resources to deliver new fashion trends. Iza Awad, a master’s student in chemistry, a joint degree of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam, tackled this issue in his research project by producing fabrics from cellulose material that constantly grows in kombucha, a fermented tea drink. Awad also showed that the biopolymer is especially well suited to contain living plants and other photosynthetic organisms.

BINEMA

Dr Jelena Slivka (RS), Dr Nikola Luburic (RS), Jelena Joksimovic (RS), Danijela Vucicevic (RS), Marko Milic (RS)

The video includes various artistic and scientific perspectives on the creative process while working on BINEMA, the winning project of the art+science AI Lab national selection for 2021, done in collaboration with the Clean CaDET AI project funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.

Merging experiences

Evelina Domnitch (BY, NL) and Dmitry Gelfand (NL)

Science is the source of inspiration for many of the artworks of Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand. Scientists are also fascinated by art. A portrait of interactions merges the borders of disciplines from the perspective of the intriguing and the inquisitive.