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ALEX MAY ALGORITHMIC PHOTOGRAPHY digital prints, ongoing Algorithmic Photography is an ongoing series of artworks by Alex May that reveal the hidden motion of the world around us through the eye of the computer. May uses digital cameras and computer code to create composite images from thousands of frames of video, capturing the world in motion in a single frame. Taking inspiration from traditional chemical photography, May replaces the pinhole camera with a viewfinder-less GoPro and photographic film with an algorithm, watching the image develop in his ‘dark room’ software. Algorithmic Photography is an innovative technique developed by artist Alex May, which explores the concepts of motion and time within contemporary digital photography. Alex May British contemporary artist whose practice forges links between art, science, and technology through a wide range of digital new media, including virtual reality, photogrammetry, algorithmic photography, robotic artworks, video projection mapping, interactive installations, generative works, performance, and video and sound art. His international exhibition profile includes Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, the Francis Crick Institute, LABoral (Spain), the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Art, ZHI Art Museum (China), and other renowned institutions. www.alexmayarts.co.uk

NaturALL IN TechniCALL IN MediCALL IN The birth of Venus The funeral The birth of Venus 13x13 cm, own technique on cardboard, 2020 13x17cm, own technique on brass, 2020 13x13 cm, own technique on cardboard, 2020 Friendship Awakening Friendship 13x13 cm, own technique on cardboard, 2020 13x17cm, own technique on steel, 2020 13x13 cm, own technique on cardboard, 2020

PAULINA MISIAK CALL IN A text on the overall of the series. 3 sentences max. Are we not all stuck in nice and even rows in the plastic and hermetic blister of our reality? We try not to overpass the even and shimmering border of our own microworlds as if from safe capsules, don’t we? Or maybe in a medicine tablet, like in a lens, our desire for freedom and happiness is focused. MediCALL IN Are we not all stuck in nice and even rows in the plastic and hermetic blister of our reality? We try not to overpass the even and shimmering border of our own microworlds as if from safe capsules, don’t we? Or maybe in a medicine tablet, like in a lens, our desire for freedom and happiness is focused, making it a symbol of achieving health and satisfaction with life. What are we able to see through it? In the presented cycle, is the world of medicine and pharmacotherapy an analogy of reality, or is it the subject of reflection itself, being explored by small plastic researchers? On which side of the transparent and perhaps already slightly damaged plastic border are we as a whole, as units or perhaps as fractions? Reflections on people first, medicine second. TechniCALL IN The Evening. The clicks of the computer mouse cut through what could be silence. The regular clatter of the keyboard seems someone’s whisper. The aluminum of the computer case, so close to the fingertips, could be human. The fluorescent glow of the matrix almost like the glow of a gaze. The eye of the camera – all-seeing and blind. The truth that must be pixel bustle. Order in folders – a settled life. Welcome screen is not a window view. It’s an invitation to the world of devices that never sleep. NaturALL IN The Evening. The clicks of the computer mouse cut through what could be silence. The regular clatter of the keyboard seems someone’s whisper. The aluminum of the computer case, so close to the fingertips, could be human. Paulina Anna Misiak born in 1984 in Poznań, Poland. She works in the field of visual arts. Member of The Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) and IAA/AIAP (International Association of Art) – UNESCO. She graduated from the Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, in 2009. Currently she prepares a master’s degree at the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies at the University of the Arts Poznan and develops research at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences. She lives and works in Poznań, Poland.



FORTUNATA OBRĄPALSKA DRAWINGS MADE FOR THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY IN POZNAŃ Around 600 drawings of root systems made with ink by the famous artist-photographer under the supervision of prof. Łukasiewicz from the Botanical Garden in Poznań were waiting to be discovered and published. Obrąpalska’s drawings have an unquestionable scientific and artistic value. In the context of the Rhizosphere: The Big World of The Small Worlds project, they gained additional significance, becoming part of a common interdisciplinary narrative and inter-environmental history. Fortunata Obrąpalska student at the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies at the University of the Arts in Poznań. She works with an interdisciplinary approach, binding the narrations derived from the human society and natural environment, in order to better convey the complex sense of human experience. She constructs her works from existing situations, fragments of everyday life and man-made products, turning them into a deformed version of the reality. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY



PEI-YING LIN VIRIOPHILIA the virus scroll, with 5000 different virus names, 90 cm x 540 cm. cook book with virus imagery, This project comes from a very simple question: Can we start to see the connotation of viruses differently, especially those that causes infectious diseases? In biological definition, viruses, unlike bacteria, are not consider as ‘living’. In other words, viruses cannot replicate themselves. They are doomed to be the ‘parasites’ on living creatures, and human is one of them. At the same time, not all viruses are pathogens, some are even crucial for our survival. The amount of viruses surrounding us also vastly outnumber what we have known now. To make it short, human and viruses depends on the existence of each other. Evolution is a non-stoping competition and collaboration. This project is to investigate the possibilities of human- virus encounter in the realm of culture. Pei-Ying Lin graduate from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Royal Collage of Art in London, is Founder of Taiwanese BioArt Community, and co-founder of Ouroboros - Organic Organism of O. Currently trying to be multiasking as designer, artist, programmer, and many other things. Currently resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://peiyinglin.net/

molecular tongue with compounds taste buds olfactory bulb model Aftertaste Project

JILL SCOTT & MARILLE HAHNE AFTERTASTE interactive installation – project documentation (work in progress, to be published in 2022) Aftertaste is based on the research about the flavor, molecular behavior and health benefits of the chicory plant. It aims at helping the public to discover the primary and secondary compounds of chicory and the specific healing properties of its roots, seeds and leaves in a new and engaging way. The three parts of the project are being designed to open up public education about the future of food production and cause more reflective discourses about the ethical side of the relationship between technology and agriculture. The work consists of three part: the main artwork – installation titled Aftertaste; the public event – Quantifying Chicory and the documentary – Chicory Unpacked. Artwork made as the element of the Supported by Chic Inovative Consortium Horizon 2020 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 760891 Jill Scott Professor for Art and Science Research at the Institute of Cultural Studies in the Arts, Zürich University of the Arts. She is also founder of the Artists-in-Labs Program, and Vice Director of the Z-Node PhD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her artwork spans 38 years of media art production about the human body, behavior, and body politics, and recently on neuroscience, ecology, and sensory perception. www.jillscott.org Marille Hahne Professor in Filmmakingat the University of the Arts (ZHDK) in Zürich, Switzerland and Documentary Filmmaker. She is the ZHdK director of the Master’s education program. She also lectured at the HFF, Munich and at the Goethe Institute, India. Since 1983, she has directed documentaries in Germany, the US and Australia. Hahne now specializes in films about Art and Science Collaborations (AIL Productions and Neuromedia). www.marillehahne.com

Contactless Root Interface Still from the animation

PIOTR SŁOMCZEWSKI CONTACTLESS ROOT INTERFACE interactive computer work/ installation, (date) I am interested in building simple algorithms with the help of which I could create a new situation to interact with other people. Contactless Root Interface was inspired by drawings of root networks by Fortunata Obrąpalska. A simple application using geometric forms constantly draws a dynamic and ever-changing graphic network that records the movement of people in the room. Piotr Słomczewski doctorate candidate at the Studio for Transdisciplinary Project & Research, at the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies at the University of the Arts in Poznań.

Marsquakes Video stills

JADWIGA SUBCZYŃSKA MARSQUAKES video, 2019 In the times when American teenagers are trained in the field of everyday life on Mars, scientists make a research on the taste of crops cultivated on Mars and Moon soil simulants – Mars as a vision of second home ceases to be an illusion and it becomes a reality. Anthropocene brought us new materiality, we are filtered with microplastics, and our everyday life is increasingly moving into the digital dimension. In the movie Marsquakes, the idea of digital plants is an optimistic the vision of transferring human needs for existing with flora to another level. Perhaps the human flight to Mars is not an escape but comes from the desire to discover new quality. Plants in this video are being the sum of data drifting in the air, they are visible to a human only to make him feel good and secure with the calming effect of green. They do not need roots nor soil, because they have the internet instead. this is manifesto written by a planetary rover far from a distant planet dear people stop miniaturizing begin with revolutionizing the idea of freedom and ownership before your cosmic law will turn into marsquakes a career in the space becomes digging a hole escaping from the cosmic radiation writing a theory of taste of martian wine to be felt by an additional robotized tongue in my dreams romanticized flora morphs into a virtual organism levitating freely with no roots, no soil Jadwiga Subczyńska Polish new media and interdisciplinary artist, based in Poznań, graduated from the Faculty of Photography of the University of Arts in Poznań. A member of the Scientific Society of Photography. In her works she uses a wide range of medium, including plant gelatin casts, holographic installations with the use of 3D, art books, and AR video. The topics she touches revolve around the Anthropocene era and its new materiality, extraterrestrial vision of the world and an idea of coming back to the roots. In her work, she integrates mystical perception of reality with scientific fantasy and technology. In the 2018 she won the main prize of OFF_Festival in Bratislava, a modern photography festival in Slovakia.

Drifting Particles/ Skin Photos of the objects

JADWIGA SUBCZYŃSKA LEAF, SKIN installation, 2020 A vision of an intelligent substance that multiplies itself by taking control of the post-apocalyptic reality. Biomass occupies dead reservoirs, the blue depths of water that man has condemned to exhaustion from life. It often takes anthropomorphic shapes, making ironies about the human shape. Intelligent, superspecific matter, the essence of which emerges from the Earth’s interior like gel lava. Objects accompanying video projection create a specific ecosystem which, thanks to its sensitive tissue, is constantly changing under the influence of oxygen and light. The burning plants above the dead reservoir drift in space, distributing information gathered in their specific layers together with the smoke. A man can see how intelligent matter finds its place in the physical world with the help of a digital device. Jadwiga Subczyńska Polish new media and interdisciplinary artist, based in Poznań, graduated from the Faculty of Photography of the University of Arts in Poznań. A member of the Scientific Society of Photography. In her works she uses a wide range of medium, including plant gelatin casts, holographic installations with the use of 3D, art books, and AR video. The topics she touches revolve around the Anthropocene era and its new materiality, extraterrestrial vision of the world and an idea of coming back to the roots. In her work, she integrates mystical perception of reality with scientific fantasy and technology. In the 2018 she won the main prize of OFF_Festival in Bratislava, a modern photography festival in Slovakia.

Broken Links Performance made on September 16, 2019 at the 18th Congress of European Mycologists (photo documentation by Jadwiga Subczyńska)

MARIA SUBCZYŃSKA BROKEN LINKS interactive installation, performance (date) The work’s title is a wordplay referring to broken connections between man and nature; broken links to the Internet (Wood Wide Web); broken bonds with ourselves. The aim of the work is to rebuild the relationship of man with the Heart of the Nature. Forest is a well communicated environment – when we open ourselves to discover interdependencies between network actors, we find great wealth, biodiversity, and we learn about life, death and rebirth. That is what mushrooms teach us – they are like the interface between the beginning and the end. They take care of the closing of the cycle, the circulation of matter, they are the organism in between. They teach us to let go of what was to go to make space for a new one. They also teach us how to accept what has been supplanted by our culture: death, old age, decay, disease. Mushrooms are guides to recovery. They teach us about boundary states, transient, healing what is not pampered, building space for a healthy relationship with the difficult areas of our reality, showing their deep meaning and broadening the spectrum of vision. Maria Subczyńska She graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of Arts in Poznań. She creates art inspired by mycelium, inter-species communication and love. She seeks ways to “rebuild links”, to create a language that would have the power to create bonds, to exchange inter-genre messages. She feels like an ambassador of plants, fungi, stones, minerals and animals on Earth.

Mikoryzator Photo documentation from various events Mikoryzator Modeling clay elements and electronics uesd in the interactive installation built during the Mikoryzator workshop

MARIA SUBCZYŃSKA, PIOTR SŁOMCZEWSKI MIKORYZATOR art installation, workshop, art education tool, from 2014 onwards Today, various forms of mycorrhiza ensure the existence of 85% higher plants around the world. This fact inspired a creation of a project on work about the communication of plants with humans. It was initiated in 2014 by the former UAP student Maria Subczyńska, who was fascinated by the discovery of information on the existence of connections of the mycorrhizal network in the context of the Wood Wide Web. In further cooperation with Piotr Słomczewski, the project has become the basis of various workshops and activities, stimulating cognitive and creative processes, as well as supporting interpersonal communication and teamwork. Inspired by an unusual underground world of root plant and mushroom networks, an interactive art installation reflects on the uniqueness of natural forms. It has been continuously growing into various forms of interactions with its creators and viewers or participants.

Model Motion Markers for Rhino + Rhino + (Faheem Ahamed) Capture standard T-pose grasshopper grasshopper Equipment Body Markers for (OptiTrack) Dimensions Sitting Poses Reorientation of Body Models in Modelling Seat Surface .obj Beanbag Human Body Sitting Poses Seat Surfaces Essential Vertices Rhino Model and Export/ Photos of Model snapping to for each Seat Surface Import 3D Model Sitting Pose Detailed/Smoothened of Human Body MoCap Markers in Sitting Poses Seat Surface Supports (Roots) Articles, References Ergonomic Behavioural Analysis Observations Processing Processing Branches Start Rhino + + Interactivity: Coordinates Generative Branches End grasshopper grasshopper Algorithm Customer Coordinates modi es Iteration Number Variable Radius Rhino (Space nal chair shape Last Branches Mesh generation Colonization) and colour Coordinates .txt Optimization for .stl 3D Printing scheme Branch Colours around the 3D printing Export/ Tree Structure Export/ SLA Import Import (Cocoon) web camera customer defined_not The process defined_not chair visualizations

DIANA TAUKIN DEFINED_NOT Defined_not is a definition of furniture, which does not determine its final shape; an interactive algorithm generating in real time unique, unpredictable, customized chairs. It was inspired by optimization in nature and the intrinsic beauty of genuinely functional natural structures. The core of the project is generative algorithm Space Colonization, which in real time builds an optimized tree like structure from a set of starting points on the ground to the previously generated seat surface. Fleeting fashions in design contribute to the problem of waste, which can be reduced by prolonging the life span of products. Personalized one-off items, as well as building an emotional connection through user involvement in the design process, show to increase longevity. Digital manufacturing and parametric design tools, used in the project, allow for an automatic adjustment of the chair dimensions to fit a particular person and for production of one-off pieces. To expand the number of use scenarios, Motion Capture and surface fitting were used to register a set of non-standard sitting poses and offer them to customer’s choice. Defined_not is an interactive application allowing users to influence the result, by reshaping the seat surface, changing the level of detail, and adding colour with the use of web camera. Such democratization of design lets users express their creativity thus creating a deeper emotional connection with the item. defined_not Testing the users’ iner face defined_not Small scale prototypes Diana Taukin architect and furniture designer; lecturer of Parametric Design course at the University of the Arts Poznań. In design practice, Diana Taukin analyses the world and encodes it in with the use of the algorithmic approach and computational tools. She chooses to focus on the process instead of the product. Interactive features of her projects enable users to co-create the products, thus democratiz-ing the design process. Artist perceives the complexity and randomization of generative algorithms mimicking nature as effective, design co-creators. https://dianataukin.wixsite.com/portfolio

122 - 123 Projects Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects 124 - 125 Art & Innovation I ART & INNOVATION Art & Innovation II WERNER HEISENBERG CLAIMED THAT ARTISTS’ CREATIVITY ARISES OUT FROM THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SO CALLED “SPIRIT OF THE TIMES” AND THE INDIVIDUAL. THE “SPIRIT OF THE TIMES” IS SURELY DETERMINED BY SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS, THUS IT IS NATURAL THAT ART AND SCIENCE GO HAND IN HAND. Joanna Hoffmann Chair of ASN Art & Science Node

ART & INNOVATION ART & INNOVATION ORGANIZER AIM Art & Science Node Art & Innovation is the crucial initiative of Art & Science Node. It aims at presenting various ways how the New comes into and affects the COOPERATION world. It reveals inherent relations between creativity and innovation. German Patent and Trademark Office – It is important to bring the world of art and the world of innovation Information & Service Centre Berlin (DPMA-IDZ) together. The chance and challenge are to raise the awareness of art and science synergy’s influence on shaping the culture of today and EVENTS PRESENTED AT the future. Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Berlin – Long The series of exhibitions Creativity and Innovation. Art & Patents were Night of Sciences Berlin organized in cooperation with German Patent and Trademark Office – Information & Service Centre Berlin. The concept is to reveal the juxtaposition between the artistic ideas and related achievements in technologies to the audience. The openings of these exhibitions correlated with the Long Night of Sciences in Berlin. Art & Innovation events deal with the spirit of our times; with questions and challenges it rises. One of these challenges lays in communication between various milieus. It constitutes the base for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and development of the society of knowledge. The process of communication has a value being a shared experience. Knowledge exchange introduces various points of view and opens new perspectives. Art plays a specific role in it – it underlines the importance of diversity, individual expression and creative powers of each human being. OBJECTIVES to present the juxtaposition between artistic ideas and related achievements in technological development to raise the awareness of the art and science synergy influence on shaping the culture to raise awareness in the society of knowledge ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

126 - 127 Projects ART & INNOVATION I: LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCE 2016 TRAILER Long Night of Science 2016 trailer Stills from the animation presenting patents related to the artwork exhibited in German Patent and Trademark Office – Information & Ser vice Centre Berlin (DPMA-IDZ) at the exhibition titled “Creativity & Innovation: Art Meets Science at the DPMA-IDZ Long Night of Sciences 2016”, 11-17.06.2016. The event was organized by Art & Science Node in cooperation with German Patent and Trademark Office. Art & Science Node

ART & INNOVATION ART & INNOVATION I: LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCE 2016 – EXHIBITION’S OPENING Speaches The President of the German Patent and Trademark Office Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer opened the event in the presence of visitors and invited guests (left picture). Other speakers were Kerstin Piratzky (Head of DPMA-IDZ; middle picture) and prof. Joanna Hoffmann (Chair of the Art & Science Node; right picture). Guided tours Guided tours with international scientists, artists and experts encouraged people to learn about their different perspectives on the present world and its development. Experts explained the connections between the artwork presented at the exhibition and the accompanying patents. Tours were facilitated by Kerstin Piratzky (head of DPMA-IDZ), prof. Dr. Jill Scott (founder of the “Artists in Labs” Program, ZHDK Zürich) and prof. Marille Hahne (filmmaker, ZHDK Zürich). ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects PROJECT’S ELEMENTS ART & INNOVATION I: LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCE 2016 128 - 129 Type: EXHIBTION + TALKS Dates: 11-17.06.2016 Location: German Patent and Trademark Office – Information & Service Centre Berlin (DPMA-IDZ) Artists: Clea T. Waite Pinar Yoldas Jill Scott Joanna Hoffmann Marille Hahne Przemysław Jasielski Description: Art & Science Node brought art and innovation together in the exhibition titled “Creativity & Innovation: Art Meets Science at the DPMA-IDZ Long Night of Sciences 2016”. The exhibition took place at the Service & Information Centre – Berlin of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA-IDZ). The artwork of renowned artists from Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey and USA was linked to a selection of patents related to the materials, technologies and techniques used in them. The exhibition presented thus various ways in which our increasingly technical-scientific world enters the world of art and culture. The viewers confronted the works that made them reflect on how innovation and innovative solutions come into the world; what happens when science meets art; what the role of patents in the technological development is. Art & Science Node

ART & INNOVATION EXHIBITION: THE ARTWORK Jill Scott | Jellyeyes: Evolution and Vision, documentation, 2016 The main aim of Jellyeyes is to raise public awareness about the evolution of vision and to allow for post-reflection through immersive interactions with three concepts of evolution: co-evolution, structural evolution, and completion. The viewer stands inside a semi-circular photograph of the Barrier Reef holding a tethered iPad that can be used to see this underwater world in real time. By pointing the iPad to different parts of the photo wall, the viewer can explore analogies of visions and sounds to reflect upon how evolution of vision is related to movement, survival and the environment. Here, the human eye can be compared to the way that two other species see the world (the Australian box jellyfish and the calamari) with whom humans share similar morphological characteristics and an evolutionary past. Jellyeyes allows viewers to discover scientific molecular knowledge about evolution as well as poetic metaphors and artistic interpretations about environmental and behavioral developments. In addition, various narratives can be explored such as humorous interactions between two characters in the sea, the hunter (tourist) and the collector (scientist). Jellyeyes also gives homage to the evolutionary biologist Lyn Margulis, whose theory on “endosymbiosis” inspired this augmented reality installation. Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Stephan Neuhauss, Neurobiology, Zürich University; Dr. Lisa-Ann Girshwin, Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services; Nikolaus Völzow, Programmer ZKM Karlsruhe; Prof. Dr. Jill Scott; Prof. Marille Hahne; Natasha Jankovski; AIL Production Studio am Wasser, Zürich. Project was made with generous support from Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council and the HFF Munich Film School. Jill Scott (Dr) is Professor for Art and Science Research at the Institute of Cultural Studies in the Arts, Zürich University of the Arts. She is also founder of the Artists-in-Labs Program, and Vice Director of the Z-Node PhD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her artwork spans 38 years of media art production about the human body, behavior, and body politics, and recently on neuroscience, ecology, and sensory perception. Marille Hahne | documentation of Artists-in-Labs Program The Artists-in-Labs Program has placing artists into many different kinds of science labs in the life sciences, physics, cognition, computing and engineering. In the presentation at the Patent Office a selection of movies documentation of artists who have worked in innovative labs where new discoveries have been made was performed. The idea of the program is to give artists the opportunity to get immersed inside the culture of scientific research in order to develop interpretations and inspire their content. Here artists have access to the solid raw materials, pertinent debates and scientific tools of the lab itself. The outcomes have helped scientists gain insight into the semiotics of communication that is understood by artists, to reach the general public. The hope is to encourage further collaboration between both parties and foster the exchange of innovative ideas. Marille Hahne is Professor in Filmmakingat the University of the Arts (ZHDK) in Zürich, and Documentary Filmmaker. She is the ZHdK director of the Master’s education program. She also lectured at the HFF, Munich and at the Goethe Institute, India. Since 1983, she has directed documentaries in Germany, the US and Australia. Hahne now specializes in films about Art and Science Collaborations (AIL Productions and Neuromedia). ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects 130 - 131 Clea T. Waite | MetaBook: The Book of Luna, 2014, in cooperation with Lauren Fenton transmedia electronic assemblade, ©ctw – documentation MetaBook: The Book of Luna is an expanded cinema installation, an electronic Wunderkammer crossed with an illuminated manuscript that narrates a poetic essay about the Moon’s place in the historical imagination. The nature of love, madness, the unknown and our capacity for the sublime are amongst the passions that have crystallized around our only satellite. The MetaBook is an immersive experience that combines the dynamic possibilities of the digital archive with the intuitiveness of the book and the engagement of cinema inviting the reader to navigate between the lunar craters or just float between them in a constant orbit. Clea T. Waite (dr) is an intermedia artist-researcher and experimental filmmaker. Her projects focus on particle physics, astronomy, climate change, water ecology, and the history of science, themes she juxtaposes with mythology, poetry, literature, and pop culture. Pinar Yoldas | Distilling the Sky, 2014 An artistic research project on air quality and air pollution that is severely deteriorating in many cities around the world. The project aims to communicate environmental science and pollution research to the larger public as well as to create a platform for increasing public awareness. For this project, the artist would like to design a large-scale mechanism or a group of architectural elements that can receive and “condense” polluted air into liquid form. From air to liquid, highly condensed drops of air pollution will become the ink for the calligraphers of the 21st century. As part of the project, the artist would like to present this poisonous ink to calligraphers in Beijing or in Istanbul, where the art of calligraphy still persists, or printmakers in Los Angeles and New York. The artists is working together with a team of scientists, experts and engineers who could actively support the design of Distilling the Sky. At the exhibition prototypes of these mechanisms at much smaller scales were presented. Pinar Yoldas is a cross-disciplinary artist/researcher based in Durham, North Carolina. Her work develops within biological sciences through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing with a focus on post-humanism, eco-nihilism, anthropocene and feminist technoscience. Art & Science Node

ART & INNOVATION Przemysław Jasielski | Leviathan, 2013 MDF board, subwoofers, audio equipment, self made electronic circuits, movement sensors, dimensions: 780/210/90 cm Project combines the artist’s previous search in the realm of technology and sound with his fascination with the utopian visions of the world dominated by machines. It is an attempt to create an artificial electronic organism showing the features of a living creature. The object is covered with sensors reacting to touch and emits various sounds and vibrations as a result of interaction with the audience. Leviathan contradicts the privileged position of a human being as regards technology and the utilitarian use of the machine. It grants the machine its own subjective identity. This unique object takes up a game with the economics of desire too. Unlike devices and gadgets purchased on a mass scale, which are to improve our lives or provide entertainment, Leviathan remains non- assimilated and in its own way – passive. It is an “alien/other”, a thing coming from a different order of reality, unpredictable and self-controllable. Przemysław Jasielski is known for his installations and sculptures combining art with science and technology. Many of his works are site specific and interactive, allowing the viewer to see the daily environment in a different way. His works usually contain specific, critical sense of humour that is not ironic or cynic, but questioning. They often perform in a way which can be perceived as impossible, useless or “ineffective”. Joanna Hoffmann | Philosopher’s Stone, 2014, with music by Dave Lawrence The scientific research was inspired by the bacterium Delftia acidovorans, which is known for generating a peptide called Delftibactin used to detoxify soluble gold and to create golden nanoparticles. By experimenting with E-coli bacteria, scientists aim to verify the potentiality of non-ribosomal peptides synthesis not only in recycling gold from electronic waste but also in pharmaceutical and basic research. The work juxtaposes contemporary scientific practice with alchemic phases of Magnum Opus with a particular interest in the philosophers’ stone seen as a metaphor for deeper and consistent knowledge (leading to wisdom), internal transformation and higher ethical values. The film refers to the deepest human emotions and desires, questioning the notion of philosophers’ stone in the age of molecular revolution. Artwork completed in collaboration with the iGEM Team, EilsLab/DKFZ/University of Heidelberg (Grand Prix iGEM Boston 2013). Joanna Hoffmann (Prof. Dr hab.) is Professor of the University of Arts in Poznań, where she leads the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects & Research (AE/UAP). She is also co-founder and Chair of the Art & Science Node in Berlin. Her artistic works have been widely presented in Poland, Great Britan, USA, Germany and Japan. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Timeline PROJECT’S ELEMENTS ART & INNOVATION II: LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCE 2017 132 - 133 Type: EXHIBTION + TALKS + WORKSHOP Dates: 24.06-01.07.2017 Location: German Patent and Trademark Office – Information & Service Centre Berlin (DPMA-IDZ) Artists: Kat Austen Isabella Retter Description: Stefan Sechelmann & Thilo Rörig Math Creations competition Ulrich Seidel Marvin Bratke & Christian Tschersich Torsten Stier Silvia Fohrer Axel Voigt & Florian Stenger Alexander Gürten Mara Wimberger Rudolf J. Kaltenbach Oliver Niemöller How does the New come into the world? What happens when math creations combine with mathematical science art? What role do patents play in this relationship? Renowned international artists and scientists presented their works together with selected patents. Have you ever wandered back and forth through a helix or heard prime numbers? Have you ever experienced M.C. Escher style of two-dimensional space graphics stirring your perception into the third dimension? The exhibition presented trending innovations in technology, biotechnology, mathematics, natural sciences and more that inspire the work of modern media-based artists. The exhibition presents 11 art pieces presented within Math Creations contest and an independent work “Vital Flows” by dr. Kat Austen. Art & Science Node

EXHIBITION: THE ARTWORK Kat Austen | Vital I Flows Project explores food as a vehicle for interrogating the ephemeral nature of boundaries be-tween self and other(s). How do we establish these boundaries and understand our relationships across them? We exist within a set of rules about the value of knowledge – a hierarchy of knowledge that places quantified data at the top and the “lower” senses at the bottom. Post-truth answers a need within us arising from our disconnect from sensory and embodied knowledge. Vital | Flows comprises multiple facets that challenge and intervene in our present knowledge hierarchy, focussing on food as a unifying theme. It is an exploration of transdisciplinary practice as a route to more integrated relationships between the self and others. Vital | Flows draws knowledge about food from multiple sources – DIY science, phenomenology, instinct, culture, myth, aesthetics... This is an exploration in breaking down the boundaries between inside and outside “myself”, redefining the concept of the individual to incorporate the reality of our permeability. By achieving this through melding knowledge from quantification, embodiment, aesthetics and more, can we reach a new understanding of the place of self and other(s)? Alongside exhibition of the artwork output of the project, Flows, visitors to LNDW are invited to gain first-hand experience of these methods by participating in the Vital “Adventures in Food” aesthetic eating workshops led by Dr Austen. Kat Austen (PhD) is a Berlin-based artist and interdisciplinary researcher with a passion for the environment, digital media and understanding the world’s complex networks. Dr Austen consults on art and science, art and technology, technology in society, futures and scenarios, multiple knowledges, interdisciplinarity, community and participatory research and design, system resilience and infrastructure design. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects MATH CREATION COMPETITION – SELECTION OF ARTISTS @ LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCES 2017 AT DPMA-IDZ 1. WINNER 2. WINNER Oliver Niemöller Marvin Bratke with Christian Tschersich Klingende 2D-Symmetrien & 3D-Strukturen Batwing 134 - 135 3. WINNER 4. WINNER Alexander Gürten Isabella Retter 3D-Escher-Parkettierung KOEBEL 5. WINNER 5. WINNER Rudolf J. Kaltenbach WANDLUNG Dr Stefan Sechelmann with Thilo Rörig Conformal Patterns on Ceramics Art & Science Node

ART & INNOVATION 5. WINNER Silvia Fohrer Mara Wimberger Betrachtung der Schöpfung Form follows Maths Ulrich Seidel Torsten Stier Das PR-Projekt – Penrose & Riemann 42 Prof. Dr Axel Voigt with Florian Stenger Long Night of Sciene 2017 at DPMA-IDZ – Karen Piratzky spacetime ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects A Breath for Leonardo 136 - 137 EpiMimesis EpiZones EpiZone [NULL] EpiZoneV: Shifting Identities IS ALL DATA? IF WE ARE A SET OF DATA, WHICH IS NEVER INDEPENDENT, OR FREE, AND ALWAYS IN INTERACTION WITH OTHER DATA OR BETWEEN SETS OF DATA? BETWEEN ALL OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS, HOW WILL OUR UNIQUE SET OF DATA CHANGE? HOW WILL THE DATA TRANSFORM? HOW WILL IT BE IDENTIFIED IN A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT, WITH DIFFERENT OPERATORS? WHAT ARE WE HERE & NOW? WHAT CAN WE BE NOW & THERE? Art & Science Node

EPIMIMESIS EPIMIMESIS ORGANIZER AIM Art & Science Node xxxx EPILAB TEAM OBJECTIVES Leader xxxx Prof UAP, Dr hab. Joanna Hoffmann ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY Arts Ph.D. candidate, Piotr Słomczewski Dr Milosz Marganski Andre Bartetzki Humanities Juliette Harvey Science Prof. Dr hab. Janusz Bujnicki Prof Dr hab Eliza Wyszko Dr Agnieszka Fedoruk-Wyszomirska Computer Sciences Dr Thomas Koch Lukasz Gruszka Collaborators Dr Kamil Szpotkowski

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Projects ASN SPECIAL EVENT EPIZONE V: SHIFTING IDENTITIES AT FLORENCE BIENNALE 144 - 145 Type: EXHIBTION Dates: 18.-27.10.2019 Location: Florence Biennale, Italy Description: EpiMimesis, Epizone V: Shifting Identities presented at the XIIth Florence Biennale was developed by Joanna Hoffmann together with Epilab Team – artists, scientists and engineers. They were awarded by Magnus Laurentius Medices, Biennale Internazionale dell Arte Contemporanea, Cita de Firenze. Art & Science Node

EPIMIMESIS ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects ASN PARTNER EVENTS WORLD WATER DAY 2016: WATER WORKS 146 - 147 Type: ONLINE EXHIBTION + SYMPOSIUM Dates: 21.-22.03.2016 Location: Collegium Biologicum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL) Description: World Water Day 2016 celebration with an online exhibition made in cooperation Artists: with Water Works (completed in course of the Water Works 2) and an art & science Symposium orgnized at the Collegium Biologicum, UAM Poznań (Poland). http://water-wheel.net Dagmara Wyskiel: JOINT GAME Mark Fischer: AGUASONIC Art & Science Node

EPIMIMESIS MICRO E-MOTIONS EXHIBITION AT STATE FESTIVAL 2016 Type: EXHIBTION Dates: 3.-5.11.2016 Location: Art & Science Node, Berlin Description: Artists get involved with the Crick’s molecular revolution, providing it with another Artists: dimension – human emotions. They pose a question: what kind of tools, scientific and cultural, do we have or must develop to apprehend the invisible? www.state-studio.com/2016 David Glowacki HUMAN CHAPERONES Julian Voss Andreae ANGEL OF THE WEST Antoine Delacharlery GHOST CELL ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects ASN AT CONFERENCES & VARIOUS EVENTS 148 - 149 World Computer Congress 17-21 Sep 2018, University of Technology, Poznań ASN representation by the organisation’s Chair – prof. Joanna Hoffmann, with a speach on Shifting Identities. What can we say about the uniqueness of human life and experience in the universe of dynamic data which are never ever independent, free, but always in interaction between other data or sets of data? A Breath of Leonardo at VII Eurobiotech Congress 23-25 Sep 2019, Kraków An immersive VR art installation – A Breath of Leonardo – presented at the 7th Central European Congress of Life Sciences (Eurobiotech). The 7th Eurobiotech Congress was part of the European Biotech Week and focused on Agrobiotechnology and Personalized Medicine. VII Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum 12-14 Nov 2018, Saint Petersburg ASN representation by the artist Nina Czegledy at the Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum – a meeting with an aim to form the key vectors of the development of the culture as a progressive force that brings the constructive origin into the global community. EpiMimesis – EpiZone V: Shifting Identities at Vertigo Forum 27-29 Mar 2019, Centre Pompidou, Paris ASN representation by the organisation’s Chair – prof. Joanna Hoffmann, with a speach on EpiMimesis, EpiZone V: Shifting Identities made at the STARTS Residencies Days 2019. The project is a poetic immersive labyrinth of our shifting identities within a dynamic scientific data environment. Art in the Society of Knowledge at XLIV FEBS Congress 6-11 Jul 2019 ASN representation by the organisation’s Chair – prof. Joanna Hoffmann, with a keynote speach on Art in the Society of Knowledge: New Challenges. The FEBS Congress aims to be an exemplary cross-discipline gathering in the molecular life sciences for research presentation, discussion, learning and inspiration. Art & Science Node

ART & INNOVATION ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

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