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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.

HENVIn uudet tutkimusohjelmat ovat:
*Metsät ja ilmastonmuutos

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/tutkimus/OptimisingForest.htm

*Ekosysteemipalvelut ja kestävä kaupunkisuunnittelu (ENSURE)

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/tutkimus/ENSURESuom.htm

*Monitieteinen Itämeri-tutkimusohjelma (MULTIDOM)

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/tutkimus/multidomSuom.htm

Tämän poikkitieteellisen ja -taiteellisen yhteistyön tulokset
julkaistaan syksyllä 2012 osana World Design Capital Helsinki 2012
-hanketta.

Valituille taitelijoille tai taiteilijaryhmälle myönnetään jokaiselle
3000 euron suuruinen apuraha. Projektin edetessä on mahdollista saada
lisäavustusta.

Lähetä hakemuksesi 14. lokakuuta 2011 mennessä sähköisesti osoitteeseen
erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi tai  postin välityksellä osoitteeseen
Suomen Biotaiteen Seura ry, Kalevankatu 31 A, Ylähuone, 00100 Helsinki
14.10.2011 mennessä (postileiman päiväys riittää).

Edellytämme hakijalta:
*kirjallista kiinnostuksen ja motivaation osoitusta
*biografiaa
*ansioluetteloa/CV:tä
*portfoliota, jossa valikoituja työnäytteitä

Taiteilijan kyky työskennellä itsenäisesti monitieteisessä ympäristössä
sekä aikaisempien töiden laatu ja temaattinen suuntautuneisuus
vaikuttavat suuresti taiteilijan valintaan. Valintatuloksista
tiedotetaan lokakuussa 2011, ja projekti alkaa marraskuussa 2011.
Valintaraatiin kuuluu Suomen Biotaiteen Seuran ja HENVIn jäseniä sekä
kansainvälisiä asiantuntijoita.
Lisätietoja Suomen Biotaiteen Seuran internetsivuilta osoitteesta

http://bioartsociety.fi

Muita linkkejä:
Helsingin yliopiston Ympäristötutkimuksen ja -opetuksen yksikkö

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/

World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 http://wdchelsinki2012.fi/

Lisätietoja saa osoitteesta erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi

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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:

*Forests and Climate Change

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/research/ForestClimateChange.htm

*Ecosystem services and sustainable urban development (ENSURE)

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/research/ENSURE.htm

*Multidisciplinary Baltic Sea- Research (MULTIDOM)

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/research/MULTIDOM.htm

The artists will work as part of the research groups and are encouraged
to produce an artistic project as result of their investigation.

The results of the interdisciplinary collaboration will be presented in
fall 2012 in the context of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

Each artist/group will receive an initial grant of 3000.- Euro.
Additional support will be acquired during the production phase.

Application deadline October 14th 2011
Send your application via email to: erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi
or via mail to: Finnish Society of Bioart, Kalevankatu 31 A, Ylähuone,
00100 Helsinki Finland
Date of post stamp counts (latest 14th of October).

Required are:
* Application statement / letter of motivation
* Biography
* CV
* a portfolio with selected works

The selection of the artists will be strongly based on the artists
ability to work independently in interdisciplinary environments as well
as the quality and thematic orientation of previous works. The
notification of the results will be end of October 2011 and project
start November 2011. The jury will be composed of members of the Finnish
Society of Bioart, HENVI and international experts. We welcome
international applications but want to point out that on-site presence
(for some time is) is essential.
More details at http://bioartsociety.fi

Additional links:
Helsinki University Centre For Environmental Research

http://www.helsinki.fi/henvi/

World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 http://wdchelsinki2012.fi/

For questions please contact erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi

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/

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Kilpisjärvi/ Lapland/ Finland.
26. September – 2. October 2011

Deadline 30th of June 2011

Organized by the Finnish Bioart Society in the context of the Ars Bioarctica project together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

“ Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds” is a week long field laboratory for theory and practice on art&science work at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in Lapland. Five working groups, each hosted by an expert (Oron Catts, Marta de Menezes, Anu Osva, Tapio Makela and Terike Haapoja) together with a team of four, will develop, test and evaluate specific artistic approaches based on the interplay of art&science. The outcome of Field_Notes will result in a publication published by the Finnish Bioart Society in 2012.

We warmly welcome artists, scientists and practitioners to participate and contribute to the development of the field.

“Cultivating Ground” refers to the intention of Field_Notes to develop and strengthen art&science practice with a specific focus on the locality of Kilpisjärvi. The local nature and ecology, as well as the scientific environment and infrastructure of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station will act as a catalyst for the field work carried out.

Field work is an activity referring to the collection of raw data. Fieldwork is something what one does locally on the field and about the field. It is a form of practice which cannot be done elsewhere. However it is not opposite of theoretical work, but a crucial component of it. One could say that the fieldwork keeps one close to the research topic. A very similar type of practice is inherent in the arts. This is specifically apparent with art forms that aim at creating awareness, mobilizing the public, and working locally with people in their environment. In these kinds of practices the artistic research, production and implementation are happening in the field, close to the topics and to the public the artist wants to reach.

Practitioners, in both art and science, repeatedly argue that their disciplines loose touch with the actual research subject or topic while the focus is directed on lab work or gallery presentation. Field_Notes aims to investigate and point out the importance of field work in art&science. The fields where Field_Notes will be carried out specifically are the subarctic nature, ecology and landscape, the lab, the workshop, the study, the infosphere and the Field_Notes working groups as such.

During one week the groups will organize themselves in working groups, think tanks and workshops. They will carry out their work in the related field environment as well as have common activities of lectures, presentations and feedback sessions. Expected results include abstracts, code, collaborations, data, documentation, future workshops, hardware, ideas, knowledge, photos, presentations, prototypes, skills, sounds, projects, videos etc. The languages used are Finnish and English

Field_Notes working groups:

* Exploring the biological milieu – in search of substrates at the sub-Arctic – hosted by Oron Catts - in the sub-Arctic nature, in the lab and in the study
There is a growing realisation among biologist that the substrate plays an important role in biological processes such as cell differentiation and development. Some argue that the Extracellular matrix (ECM) and the milieu are more significant than DNA in the development and processes of complex organisms. This is a major shift from the reductionist privileging of the database (the genome) towards a more complex application of context as a major driver in engaging with our understanding of life. We will collect materials form Kilpisjärvi and to try and transform them into different types of substrates/biomaterials for tissue growth, as an opening for a broader exploration concerning the cultural importance of the biological milieu.

* Body/ Nature relationship - hosted by Marta de Menezes
- in the sub-Arctic nature, in the lab and in the study
The Body/Nature connection refers to nature as a body, something akin to an organism, but also to the body, our body as a sensor, part of nature and immersed in it: an interface with the rest of nature connecting us, linking us and transforming our relation to it. This relation, this communication is part of what defines us as humans, as animals and as natural. This group will try to explore the possibilities of manipulating life, nature and our own nature to express awareness and concepts close to the idea of nature’s identity and our own in present times.

* Arctic Waters – hosted by Anu Osva
- in the sub-Arctic nature, in the lab and in the study
Kilpisjärvi is an important site for research on Arctic freshwater ecosystems. During the last few years also Finnish artists have been involved with water ecosystem research in Kilpisjärvi, with a focus on phytoplankton and water fleas. The group will focus on the topic of Arctic waters through artistic, anthropological, ecological, philosophical, geophysical and other relevant tools. It will also reflect and process previously collected raw data, experiences and workshop methodologies achieved during the Arctic Waters workshop held earlier this summer. Special attention will be given to collaborative artist and scientist lead field work in nature.

* Politics and affect of environmental computing – hosted by Tapio Mäkelä
- in the workshop, sub-Arctic nature and amongst data sets.
Politics and affect of environmental computing looks at how researchers and artists work with environmental data in the field and how it is post produced to info graphics as well as into affective interfaces. What kind of a sense and sensibility informs the data gatherer that connects the information with a living environment? How can such contextual and tacit experience be carried over alongside with the data? Artists, activists and researchers are invited to bring along different kits for sensing environmental data, yet more importantly, to engage in a field and file note-taking experience of writing a mind map around how to make data something to be felt. Is there perhaps a way in which affect of environmental data may also become more political, an agent for change?

* Laboratory Life – hosted by Terike Haapoja
- amongst the working groups and in the study
The laboratory life group does research on all the other groups. The group will disguise itself in the form of anthropologists in order to look at how art&science projects on the field are created. The aim is to critically look at the methods and practices of the field and to see whether there are ethical or aesthetic questions specific to local practices. The group uses the tools of ecocritisism, philosophy of science, art history, interviews and documentation.

We are looking for 20 artists, scientists and practitioners, which are interested to develop, collaborate and work in one of the groups.

Please send your application including CV, Biography, group preference and a max A4 letter of motivation and/or direction of possible Field_Notes research/contribution to erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi

For the chosen collaborators Field_Notes will take care about the expenses for a journey from Helsinki to Kilpisjärvi and back, as well as full board and accommodation at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station.

Best regards

Field_Notes executive team: Erich Berger and Terike Haapoja

Field_Notes advisory board: Laura Beloff, Prof. Antero Järvinen, Anu Osva, Antti Tenetz, Leena Valkeapää

Contact:  Erich Berger erich.berger[at]bioartsociety.fi, Terike Haapoja  mail[at]terikehaapoja.net

Deadline is the 30th of June 2011

Biotaiteen seura valitsi kaupungin ääniä ja liikkeettä havainnoivan ja tuntoaistin varaan rakentuvan   CityBeat -teoksen  Public Technologies -näyttelyn Helsingin osuuteen.  CityBeat -teoksen toteuttavat nuoret,  Aalto yliopistossa opiskelevat taiteilijat Ben Dromey ja  Mina Arko. Teos tuo näyttelytilaan kaupungin sykkeen ja tunnun.  Näyttely on avoinna elokuusta syyskuun loppuun. Näyttelyn ensimmäisessä vaiheessa kukin yhdeksästä osallistujamaasta esittää omassa maassaan valitsemansa teoksen. Toisessa vaiheessa teokset kiertävät eri maissa. Suomen teos nähdään Latviassa ja Suomessa nähdään teos Isosta Britanniasta lokakuussa.

For English version please scroll down!

Kutsu Art&Science työpajaan Kilpisjärvelle

ARKTISET VEDET

28.6.-3.7.2011

Työpajan vetäjät: Tutkija Laura Forsström ja  taiteilija Anu Osva

Kieli: Finnish and English

Järjestäjä: Ars Bioarctica / Suomen biotaiteen seura

Arktiset vedet on työpaja luonnosta, tutkimuksesta ja taiteesta. Tieteelliseltä kannalta työpajassa tutkitaan subarktisia vesiekosysteemejä keskittyen kasvi- ja eläinplanktoniin.  Kysytään miksi ja miten  tutkimusta tehdään? Minkälaisia kysymyksiä pohjoisten vesien ekosysteemien tarkkailuun liittyy? Taiteellisen työskentelyn näkökulmasta työpaja on johdatus taiteellisesti orientoituneeseen kenttätyöskentelyyn tunturimaastossa ja laboratoriossa.

Tieteellisena asiantuntijana ja ohjaajana toimii tutkija Laura Forsström (Environmental Change Research Unit, HY). Hänen oma tutkimuksensa keskittyy perustuottajiin*)  ja  liuenneeseen orgaaniseen hiileen arktisissa ja  subarktisissa järvissä   http://www.helsinki.fi/bioscience/ecru/people/laura_f.htm

Taiteellinen osuus perustuu osallistujien keskinäiseen tiedon ja taitojen vaihtoon ja aiheeseen liittyviin keskusteluihin. Alustavasti sovitut aiheet:
Vedenalainen videokuvaus ja äänitys, Antti Tenetz
Käytännöllinen johdatus taiteelliseen kenttä- ja laboratoriotyöskentelyyn, Anu Osva
Ympäristötaide ja paikallinen kulttuurimaisema, Leena Valkeapää
Environmental computing; sensorit ja reaaliaikainen data, Erich Berger
Johdatus art&science kysymyksiin, Laura Beloff

Lisätietoja erich[dot]berger[at]bioartsociety[dot]fi or anu[dot]osva[at]welho[dot]com

Lähetä vapaamuotoinen hakemus  CV:n kera Suomen biotaiteen  seuralle erich[dot]berger[at]bioartsociety[dot]fi

Info:

• Saapuminen Kilpisjärvelle 27.6. tai 28.6.
  Lähtö Kilpisjärveltä 4.7. tai 5.7.
• Osallistujilta peritään 40e  materiaalimaksu.
• Osallistujat maksavat omat matkansa Kilpisjärvelle ja takaisin sekä majoittumisensa asemalla.** )
• Työpajan aikana liikutaan paljon tunturissa. Kiipeäminen korkeille tuntureille vaatii kohtalaista kuntoa ja hyvät vaelluskengät.

*) Perustuottajat = organismit jotka ekosysteemissä tuottavat biomassaa epäorgaanisista yhdisteistä

**) Esim. Helsinki-Kilpisjärvi-Helsinki juna+bussi n. 350 e.  Majoitus 10,00e/yö, Lakanat 7,00e/viikko

Call for workshop participation in Kilpisjärvi

ARCTIC WATERS

28.6.-3.7.2011

Workshop leaders: Researcher Laura Forsström and artist Anu Osva

Language: Finnish and English

Organizer:  Ars Bioarctica / Finnish Bioart Society

Arctic Waters is a workshop on nature, research and art. From a scientific perspective it investigates sub Arctic water ecosystems, especially phytoplankton and zooplankton. The key questions hereby are why this research is done and in what way monitoring of specifically arctic freshwaters is done.  From an artistic perspective the workshop is thought as an introduction to artistic motivated field work in the mountains and laboratory.

Scientific support is given by PhD, Laura Forsström, researcher Environmental Change Research Unit (ECRU) Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki. Her main interests of research are related to primary producers* ) and dissolved organic carbon in arctic and subarctic lakes http://www.helsinki.fi/bioscience/ecru/people/laura_f.htm.

For the artistic support the aim is that the participants  themselves are supporting each other with skills, knowledge  and through discourse.  Pre-confirmed contributions:
Underwater video- and audio-recording, Antti Tenetz
Introduction into practice-based artistic field- and laboratory-work,  Anu Osva
Environmental art and the local culture-landscape, Leena Valkeapää
Environmental computing; sensors and real-time data, Erich Berger
Introduction into issues in art&science, Laura Beloff

More information erich[dot]berger[at]bioartsociety[dot]fi or anu[dot]osva[at]welho[dot]com

Please send your application with CV and a letter of  motivation to erich[dot]berger[at]bioartsociety[dot]fi

Practical information:

• Arrival to Kilpisjärvi 27.6. to 28.6.
• Departure from Kilpisjärvi 4.7. to 5.7.
• A workshop fee of 40 Euro will be asked for material costs.
• Participants have to pay travel costs from and to Kilpisjärvi as well as the accommodation at the station.**)
• During the workshop we will be a lot outside and on the mountains. Fair physical condition and good hiking shoes are required from the participants.

*) Primary producers = organisms, which produce biomass from inorganic compounds.
** )  For example Helsinki – Kilpisjärvi-Helsinki train+buss approx 350 €. Accommodation  10,00 €/night, linen  7,00 €/week.