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Science Man
Valentin Godard (FR)
“He welds circuits / and codes all night / Science-man! He makes robots / secretly in his lab, Science-man! He mixes chemicals / without any technical problems, Science-man!” Part human, part dog, Science-Man is a fictional character who is embodied in various ways: newspaper, comics, performances, figurines, etc. He is halfway between our reality and a sensitive and complex technological future.
Galleria Artericambi, Verona
Artericambi Gallery was founded in 2002 by Francesco Pandian. The Gallery introduces a new approach to contemporary art with great attention on scientific and philosophical thought.
Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you
Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR)
March 2016: Start of Trans*Plant project, which engages in human>plant hybridizations. December 2017: First chlorophyll IV injection @ Kapelica Gallery. March 2036: The annual Earth resources are exhausted > global Internet final shutdown. December 2037: A bio-hacker community connects a VPN to Mycorrhiza network. This mixed-media installation aims to present the work behind Trans*Plant, as well as produce a speculative fiction. A piece where leftovers from the past and the future get entangled.
50 shades of forest
Afra Sonmez (TR)
A textile as an electronic instrument: the artist specifically for this performance created a flexible and modular interface of electronic textile consisting mainly of snap fasteners to make all parts freely movable.
[re]BO[u]NDS ~ expanded media
LOXOSconcept – Giulio Colangelo (IT), Valerio De Bonis (IT)
[re]BO[u]NDS is an electroacoustic composition/performance for three electromechanical performers (drippers), reactive and synchronized lights, real time audio processing + electronic sounds.
Artist Walk – Marta de Menezes & Luis Graca
Marta de Menezes (PT), Luis Graca (PT)
Artist Marta de Menezes and scientist Luis Graca will take a critical look at the intersection of art and science with an emphasis on bioart.
Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive research
AnneMarie Maes (BE)
The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is an artwork and a prototype for a speculative research project. It is a mobile shelter for swarming honeybees that combines in a radical way smart materials, biomimetic forms and biotechnology.
Selbst mit Hund, Selbst mit Fisch
VALIE EXPORT (AT)
VALIE EXPORT was born in Linz in 1940, VALIE EXPORT and lives in Vienna.
Disrupted Sensations
AnneMarie Maes (BE)
A series of lightboxes containing smart materials and Scanning Electron Micrographs (SEM) of Honeybee parts and pollen grains. The artist studies the processes by which nature operates and how she can use these processes to create her own intelligent materials.
KIDS
Michael Frei (CH), Mario von Rickenbach (CH) / Playables
Where does the individual end and the group begin? Who is steering the crowd? What if it is heading in the wrong direction? In the interactive installation KIDS the visitors can control the behavior of the masses. The characters in a crowd behave much like matter: They attract and repel, lead and follow, grow and shrink, align and separate. They are purely defined by how they relate to one other – without giving them distinguishable features.
