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Conference program

ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE

- Practices in transformation

updated 4.3.2010

Wednesday 24.3. DAY 1: PRACTICES IN TRANSFORMATION

10:00 INTRODUCTION

Terike Haapoja, Erich Berger

10:15 – 13:00 MORNING SESSION: Research as practice

10:15 MANU TAMMINEN, microbiologist, University of Helsinki

10:30 EIJA JUUROLA, forest researcher, University of Helsinki

10:45 TERIKE HAAPOJA, artist, Phd researcher KuvA: ”On the threshold of experience and knowledge”

11:15 discussion with Tamminen, Juurola and Haapoja

Moderator: NN

11:30 coffee

12:00 KEY NOTE I: ROY ASCOTT, artist, theorist, professor University of Plymouth

12:50 discussion

Moderator: Jan Kaila

13:00 lunch

14-16 AFTERNOON SESSION: Practices in transformation

14:00 ADAM ZARETSKY, artist

14:30 ERICH BERGER, artist, coordinator ArsBioarctica

15:00 ULLA TAIPALE, curator

15:30 discussion 15min

Moderator: Minna Långstöm

15:45 coffee

16:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Institutional challenges

Antti Sajantila, medical doctor, professor University of Helsinki,

Laura Beloff, artist, researcher

Helena Sederholm, art historian, professor Aalto –University / Taik

Raitis Smits, artist, curator,

Moderator: Erich Berger

16:30 Conclusion: Terike Haapoja

Thursday 25.3. Day 2: TECHNOLOGIES OF ENCOUNTER

10:00-13:00 MORNING SESSION: Technologies of encounter

10:00 ANDY GRACIE, artist

10:30 ANU OSVA, artist

11:00 TUIJA KOKKONEN, director, writer

11:30 discussion 15min

Moderator: Terike Haapoja

11:45 coffee

12:00 KEY NOTE II: JILL SCOTT, artist, researcher, professor Zuerich University of Arts

12:50 discussion

Moderator: Jan Kaila

13:00 lunch

14-16 AFTERNOON SESSION: Unwritten histories and possible realities

14:00 INGEBORG REICHLE, art historian, lecturer Humboldt-Universität Berlin

14:45 discussion

Moderator: Laura Beloff

15:00 coffee

15:15 Conclusion: PAU ALSINA, researcher, lecturere Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

15:45 discussion

EVENING PROGRAM

18:20 Opening of Pixelache Festival + the “Event Art Exhibition” in Kiasma

17:30 Cronopolitics – III memo of time

performance in Kiasma-Theatre by Tuija Kokkonen & group

RELATED PROGRAM at Pixelache-festival

Friday 26.3 – Sunday 28.3 Herboligies/Foraging Networks

Friday 26.3. 11.00 — 17.00 Camp Pixelache // Kerava Art Museum

17.00 — 19.00 Opening of ‘How to Build a Dishwasher’ + “chmod x+ art” // Kerava Art Museum

Saturday 27.3 17:30-19h Vivoarts workshop with Adam Zaretsky at Kiasma

Sunday 28.3. 16:00 – Heart Chamber Orchestra at Kiasma

Practices in transformation

A conference by the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland, in collaboration with the Finnish Bioart Society and Pixelache festival. Helsinki, 24-25.3.2010

Time: 24-25.3.2010 10-17h

Location: Auditorium, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Kaikukatu 4

Accessible for everyone and free entry

Full conference program and schedule

The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of environmental issues. Facing the threat of global warming, the findings of scientific research have become a subject of intensive political debate. The ethical questions traditionally discussed in the green-wing marginals have become mainstream, as science has become a coffee-table topic.

The field of art that interacts with the practices of science and its technologies is commonly referred to as art&science. During the past decades, this hybrid field has become more or less established, with landmark works, major institutions and written histories. However, with the new wave of environmentalism, a further wave of artists working with methods and questions related to scientific research has also emerged. The mediators of science and technology are unavoidable, whether dealing with global economy or animal rights, computer modelling or carbon emissions. Research has become a key concept in art, not only in the field of art&science, but also in university-associated art schools in general, with the development of practice-based PhD programmes around the western world. The front-lines between art and knowledge-production seem to be in transformation. The conference seeks to contextualize the practices of art&science both in the contemporary political atmosphere and the history of contemporary art.

The first day of the two-day conference focuses on the practices in transformation as a result of research-orientation and cross-disciplinarity, characteristic to the field of art&science. What challenges and possibilities do artists, curators, residency programmes or art schools face, while trying to address questions coming from the field of sciences? What can scientific research gain from collaboration with artists, and what kind of research is done in the artist’s laboratory?

The second day of the conference looks at the technologies of encounter between human and non-human worlds. The aim is to address the ethical discourse taking place in art practices which look at the interaction between humans and non-humans. How is the traditional understanding of agency, community, interaction or collaboration challenged in these works of art? What are the political implications of these approaches? On the other hand, how are these practices dealing with the questions of manipulation, objectification and abuse of non-humans?

Speakers include Roy Ascott (artist, theorist, UK), Jill Scott (artist, researcher, AUS/CH), Andy Gracie (artist, UK/ESP), Ingeborg Reichle (art historian, DE), Adam Zaretsky (artist, US), Tuija Kokkonen (director, FI), Terike Haapoja (artist, FI), Pau Alsina (researcher, ESP), Ulla Taipale (curator, FI/ESP), Anu Osva (artist, FI), Erich Berger (artist, coordinator ArsBioarctica, AUT/FI), Helena Sederholm (head of department of art Aalto University, FI), Laura Beloff (artist, researcher FI), Manu Tamminen (microbiologist, FI), Eija Juurola (forest researcher, FI), Raitis Smits (artist, curator, LV), Jan Kaila (artist, professor, FI), Antti Sajantila (professor, medical doctor, FI), among others.

Contact:
Erich Berger
Coordinator ArsBioarctica
eb at randomseed.org
+358-50-4338898
http://kilpiscope.net

Terike Haapoja
Artist, Phd researcher
mail at terikehaapoja.net
+358-50-4058341
http://kuva.fi

Erich Berger started on December (09) as the coordinator for the project. More about the initiatives, plans, and on-going developments coming soon.

—-more/ coming soon…