Call for applications:
Ars Bioarctica art&science residency in 2012

Ars Bioarctica is a long term art&science program by the Finnish
Society of Bioart together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

Since 2010 it is organizing an artist-in-residency program at the
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in
the sub-Arctic Lapland.

The emphasis of the residency is the Arctic environment and art&
science collaboration and is is open for artists and art&science
research teams.

The residency takes place in the facilities of the Kilpisjärvi
Biological Station. It provides the residents with a combined
living and working environment, a basic laboratory, internet
connection and sauna.

The Kilpisjärvi Biological Station offers to the visiting artists
the same possibilities and infrastructure as its scientists and
staff. This includes access to all scientific equipment, laboratory
facilities, the library and seminar room as well as the usage of
field equipment. A dedicated contact person in Kilpisjärvi will
familiarize residents with the local environment and customs.

The basic costs of a residency period which have to be covered by
the applicant include:
* travel to Finland
* travel within Finland to Kilpisjärvi
* accommodation and provisions at the Station.

The free form applications have to include the desired residency duration,
a work proposal, a working plan with time schedule, the desired residency
outcome, a list of necessities for the work to be carried out and
the artists CV.

The application deadline is 31st of January 2012.

The evaluation of the applications emphasizes the quality of the
proposal, its interaction of art&science, its artistic and or
scientific significance, the projects relation to the thematic
focus of Ars Bioarctica, and its feasibility to be carried out at
the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in the given time.

For questions please contact Erich Berger:
erich.berger (at) bioartsociety.fi

More info:
http://www.bioartsociety.fi/residency/
http://www.helsinki.fi/kilpis/english/index.htm

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“Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds”
26.9-2.10 Kilpisjärvi Biological Station Lapland/ Finland
LINK to the FIELD_NOTES:    http://bioartsociety.fi/field_notes/

“ 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 groups will
develop, test and evaluate specific artistic approaches based on the
interplay of art&science.

With Anu Osva, Andrew Paterson, Anne Lehtelä, Antti Tenetz, Beatrize da
Costa, Benjamin Pothier, Brian Degger, Corrie Van Sice, Dave Lawrence,  
Ellen Roed, Erich Berger, Ionat Zurr, Jeni Valorinta, Jennifer Gabrys,
Julie Freeman, Jūratė Jarulytė, Kerstin Hosa, Laura Beloff, Luis Graca,
Marta de Menezes, Melissa Grant, Melissa Murphy, Niki Passath, Oron
Catts, Paz Tornero, Rosanne Van Klaveren, Sarah Alden, Tapio Mäkelä,
Terike Haapoja, Tiina Vainio, Till Bovermann

contact: erich.berger (at) bioartsociety.fi
Erich Berger
Coordinator Ars Bioarctica
The Finnish Bioart Society

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Art&HENVI – avoin kutsu taiteilijoille tehdä yhteistyötä Helsingin
yliopiston Ympäristötutkimuksen ja -opetuksen yksikön kanssa

Hakemuksen takaraja on 14. lokakuuta 2011.
Suomen Biotaiteen Seura järjestää Art&HENVIn yhteistyössä Helsingin
yliopiston Ympäristötutkimuksen ja -opetuksen yksikön (HENVI) kanssa.
Art&HENVI on osa World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 -hanketta.

Haemme kolmea taiteilijaa tai taiteilijaryhmää, jotka ovat halukkaita ja
kykeneviä työskentelemään vuoden ajan yhdessä HENVIn kolmesta uudesta
tutkimusohjelmasta. Taiteilijat työskentelevät osana tutkimusryhmiä, ja
heitä kannustetaan luomaan taiteellinen projekti tutkimuksiensa
tuloksena.

Lue Lisää

Art&HENVI – Open call for artists to work with the Helsinki University
Centre For Environmental Research

Deadline October 14th 2011

Art&HENVI is organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration
with the Helsinki University Centre For Environmental Research (HENVI)
in the context of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

We are looking for three artists or artist groups who are interested and
capable of working along one of three newly started research groups of
HENVI over the period of one year.

Read more

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Dear everybody!

Welcome to visit the CityBeat installation of Mina Arko and Ben
Dromey at Lasipalatsi Square !

CityBeat is part of a public art exhibition focusing on relations between art, science and society is being held simultaneously across eight European countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, Germany and Finland. CityBeat brings the heartbeats of Riga, Lisboa, London and Helsinki for us to touch. We are live recording sound in central places in these cities and translating it to a heartbeat. You are able to feel and compare the changing pace of the cities by touching the installation form.

CityBeat suggests that we are losing touch with our cities. By giving life to a
city through the metaphor of a heartbeat, something we can universally
identify with, we bring back into focus what a city is, an organism
created, inhabited and continuously changed by man.

EPAC is the European Public Art Centre, a collaborative engagement between
organisations across Europe with the aim to exhibit art&science artworks
in urban outdoor public settings. The project is coordinated in Finland by
the the Finnish Society of Bioart.

http://citybeatproject.com/

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Workshops 2011:

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Summer 2011 in Kilpisjärvi: New posts by Antye Greie and Emilio Zamudio Murillo & Berenice Rodríguez Ramírez in  Ars Bioarctica residents’ blog http://www.bioartsociety.fi/residency

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Today is July 3. Our time in the residency has ended days ago and I am writing this post from a flooded, chaotic Mexico City. Since we had a busy couple of weeks working at Kilpisjärvi and traveling back to Mexico, we couldn’t publish the development of the project in real time. However, there are some important things that shouldn’t be left unpublished an we will post them in the following days, in chronological order.  More complete log of the project: http://lightofthemidnightsun.blogspot.com/

-Emilio