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2-3 Statement STATEMENT ART & SCIENCE NODE HOW CAN ARTISTS AND ART PLAY A ROLE IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND THE PUBLIC? Art has multiple functions in society. It challenges the assumptions, it questions the existing orders and status quo, provokes discussions and interventions. Art imagines the futures. It enables the emergence of various meanings and interpretations, thus helping to develop public debates. Consider the role of art in the interaction between science and the public. Perception and understanding of science and scientific facts through the eyes of art & culture can greatly benefit our evolving society of knowledge. Art creates social and cultural cohesion between science and the public. Not only are the artistic experimentation & performance one of the multiple tools of communication, but also an innovative and unique instrument for disseminating knowledge. Artistic exploration can and should raise awareness about the challenges of 21st century, the impact and importance of the scientific research. A scientific discovery presented with the language of art is often better perceived by the public. Thus, it may be worthwhile to produce artistic messages containing scientific input – for the better understanding and acceptance by the general public. Artists have the privilege to enjoy more freedom in their work and language forms than the scientists. Thanks to this, they can play the ambassador role, becoming a mediator between the scientists and the public. Through the creative and unique communication strategies, through bridging various areas of human experience and research – artists can help people to see the layers of the perception of the world, previously unnoticed. Their job is to make us think out of the box and experience things out of the ordinary. Dr hab. Joanna Hoffmann ASN Chair, Art & Science Node

THE QUESTIONS WE ASK WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE? Art Science Node (ASN) is a creative & innovative community, a place, and a network. Based in Berlin, it has successfully established itself as a platform for sharing knowledge, ideas and experience since 2015. Art Science Node brings together people from both the scientific and artistic milieus. Art Science Node aims at and is committed to the creation of the synergy between art, science and technology. It provides a platform for the scientists, inventors and artists to share knowledge, ideas and experience. Public engagement and education are one of the most important challenges for the art and science communities. That is why Art Science Node develops innovative communication strategies for the benefit of the society of knowledge. ASSET: THE KEY FACTORS OF OUR ACTIVITIES We summarized our goals and ambitions in the ASSET concept, where each letter stands for the leading characteristic & aims of the activities led by ASN. A stands for art and artistic ways of exploring and interpreting the human and non-human realitites. First S explores the world of scientific discoveries and novelties, and uses them as the tools to understand, describe and create our world. The second S stands for the society of knowledge, which constitutes ASN’s stakaholders. E represents the educational aspect of all of the ASN’s projects – we perceive education as one of the most important role of our organization. At last, T symbolizes the technological innovation and input for the creation of better future. Having those factors in mind, ASN leads all of its projects with a motto stating it strives for “Capturing the future(s)” in the today’s world. SCIENCE SYNERGY ASSET ART ART SCIENCE SOCIETY EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Timeline 2015 TIMELINE Capture the Future(s): ART & SCIENCE NODE Opening established in 2015 Capture the Future(s): Evolution I 6-7 EXHIBITION + FORUM ART & SCIENCE FORUM 25 Jan – 01 Feb 2015 29 Oct 2015 – 14 Jan 2016 . Art & Science Node, Berlin, DE . Collegium Biologicum, UAM, PL An exhibition comprising BIO·FICTION @ A forum comprising an ongoing art/ Berlin – ASN selection of short films from science film program, an exhibition the second BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film exploring various art/ science themes Festival (2014) screenings, exhibition; and and scientific debates and discussions ASN Forum. organized at the opening and closing days. ORGANIZAERS & PARTNERS INFLUENTIAL EVETNS & CLUB FOR SCIENCE & ART DISCOVERIES ESTABLISHED IN POZNAŃ FIRST EVER IMAGE OF LIGHT AS BOTH A PARTICLE AND A WAVE RESEARCH ON MAGNETIC RECYCLABLE PHOTO-CATALYST TO REFINE DIRTY WATER ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVEL ABOVE 400 PPM NEW CHEETAH ROBOT WITH THE ABILITY TO JUMP OVER OBSTACLES WHILE RUNNING BREAKTHROUGH IN THE MANUFACTURE OF 7 NM COMPUTER CHIPS THIRD GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING SELF-HEALING, FLEXIBLE SENSOR DEVELOPMENT 2015 PARIS AGREEMENT Art & Science Node

2016 Art & Innovation I Micro E-motions Long Night of Science 2016 @ STATE Festival World Water Day ONLINE EXHIBITION & SYMPOSIUM EXHIBITION + TALKS EXHIBITION 21-22 Mar 2016 11 Jun 2016 3-5 Nov 2016 . online + Collegium Biologicum, UAM, PL . German Patent & Trademark Office, DE . Art & Science Node, Berlin, DE A World Water Day 2016 celebration with Long Night of Sciences 2016 – exhibition Artists get involved with the Crick’s an online exhibition made in cooperation and talks at German Patent and Trademark molecular revolution, providing it with with Water Works (completed in course of Office – Information & Service Centre another dimension – human emotions. the Water Works 2) and an art & science Berlin (DPMA-IDZ): Art Meets Science at They pose a question: what kind of tools, Symposium orgnized at the Collegium the DPMA-IDZ. O ne week long exhibition scientific and cultural, do we have or must Biologicum, UAM Poznań (Poland). provided an opportunity to experience develop to apprehend the invisible? how technical and scientific innovations inspire contemporary artists. QUANTUM TUNNELING OF WATER MOLECULES REPORTED FIRST BACTERIA TO BE ABLE TO DEGRAE PET DESCRIBED SCIENTISTS REVEAL NEW TREE OF LIFE BASED ON GENETIC FINDINGS COOPERATION WITH DPMA-IDZ INITIATED SET OF 355 GENES FROM THE LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTOR OF ALL ORGANISMS ON EARTH IDENTIFIED MERCURY OUND TO BE TECTONICALLY ACTIVE THE MAXIMUM HUMAN LIFESPAN IDENTIFIED AS 115 YEARS PARTICULATE MATTER POLLUTION BELIEVED TO BE REDUCED 7-24% NEAR TREES IN THE CITIES GENE THERAPY PROVEN TO PARTIALLY REVERSE MICE AGING CAUSAL LINK BETWEEN RNA SPLICING AND AGING DISCOVERED ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Timeline 2017 2018 Capture the Future(s): Art & Innovation II EpiMimesis Evolution II @ Transmediale Long Night of Science 2017 8-9 EXHIBITION + DISCUSSION EXHIBITIONS + WORKSHOP INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT 28 Jan – 03 Feb 2017 24 Jun 2017 from 2018 . German Patent & Trademark Office, DE . German Patent & Trademark Office, DE . various Event completed within Transmediale Art Long Night of Sciences 2017 – an An artistic project realised in the & Ditigal Culture 2017 Festival. It comprised exhibition and workshop at German interactive immersive environment three elements: Elusive Identity exhibition Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA- being developed by EpiLab Team lead combined with a panel discussion IDZ): Art Meets Science at the DPMA-IDZ. by Joanna Hoffmann. EpiMimesis is an and workshop, and was hosted at the O ne week long exhibition provided an artistic team project referring to the German Patent and Trademark Office opportunity to experience how technical perpetual human ambition to gain – Information & Service Center Berlin and scientific innovations inspire knowledge over ‘Big Data’ for tailoring (DPMA-IDZ). contemporary artists. a better future. AN AI SYSTEM PERFORMING AT HUMAN LEVELS ON A STANDARD VISUAL INTELLIGENCE TEST PROTOTYPE OF 3D PRINTER THAT WILL PRINT FULLY FUNCTIONAL HUMAN SKIN 1ST PRACTICAL BLUEPRINT OF A QUANTUM COMPUTER AI BEATS THE HUMAN WORLD CHAMPION AT THE GAME GO CREATION OF LARGEST VIRTUAL UNIVERSE EVER SIMULATED CLUB FOR SCIENCE & ART ESTABLISHED IN POZNAŃ CRISPR GENE-EDITING SYSTEM USED TO STORE A GIF ANIMATION IN BACTERIAL DNA A DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM REPORTED TO BE CAPABLE OF VISUALLY IDENTIFYING THOUSANDS OF PLANT SPECIES STUDY SUGGESTED LIFE ON EARTH MAY HAVE ORIGINATED FROM BIOLOGICAL PARTICLES CARRIED BY SPACE DUST EPILAB TEAM ESTABLISHMENT DISCOVERY OF THE INTERSTITIUM AI WITH BETTER PERFORMANCE ON A STANFORD UNIVERSITY READING AND COMPREHENSION TEST THAN HUMAN BEINGS THE FIRST 3D PRINTED HUMAN CORNEAS Art & Science Node

CHIC Rhizosphere: The Big Network World Computer Congress Chicory Innovation Consortium of the Small Worlds RESEARCH PROJECT INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT KEYNOTE SPEACH from 2018 from 2018 17-21 Sep 2018 . various . various . University of Technology, Poznań, PL A research and innovation project An innovative program in the field of ASN representation by the organisation’s supported through the EU Horizon science art and art-science education, Chair – prof. Joanna Hoffmann, with 2020 funding programme. It aims at the serving as a response to changes taking a speach on Shifting Identities. What can establishment of an innovation pathway place in the contemporary culture. we say about the uniqueness of human life for the development and application of Science-art projects aimed at the and experience in the universe of dynamic New Plant Breeding Techniques for root research of the horizontal network of the data which are never ever independent, chicory. ASN communicates the research rhizosphere in the context of the dynamic free, but always in interaction between through artistic residencies. networks elsewhere. other data or sets of data? CHICORY CONSORTIUM ESTABLISHMENT STUDY ON POSSIBLE DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION OF BURIED INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE BY THE RISING SEA LEVELS WITHIN 15 YEARS COMPLETE FRUIT FLY CONNECTOME MAPPED AT NANOSCALE RESOLUTION FOR THE FIRST TIME LAB-GROWN LUNGS ARE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSPLANTED INTO PIGS FOR THE FIRST TIME THE WHEAT GENOME FULLY SEQUENCED FIRST TIME IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN SKELETAL STEM CELLS PHYSICISTS REPORT QUANTUM BEHAVIOR CAN BE EXPLAINED WITH CLASSICAL PHYSICS FOR A SINGLE PARTICLE THE FIRST HUMAN OESOPHAGEAL TISSUE GROWN ENTIRELY FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS EVIDENCE PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS FOUND TO BE GENERATED IN OUTER SPACE & DELIVERED TO EARLY EARTH SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5ºC BY IPCC REPORT ON POSSIBLE TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE IN THE FORM OF PATERNAL TRANSMISSION OF EPIGENETIC MEMORY VIA SPERM CHROMOSOMES ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Timeline 2019 VII Saint Petersburg EpiMimesis – EpiZone[NULL] EpiMimesis – EpiZone V: Shifting International Cultural Forum @ Transmediale Identities @ Vertigo Forum 10 - 11 CULTURAL FORUM EXHIBITION ART INSTALLATION + SPEACH 12-14 Nov 2018 26 Jan 2019 27-29 Mar 2019 . International Cultural Forum, RU . Art Science Node, Berlin, DE . VERTIGO FORUM Centre Pompidou, FR ASN representation by the artist Nina An incredibly immersive digital ASN representation by the organisation’s Czegledy at the Saint Petersburg experience, the exhibition invited the Chair – prof. Joanna Hoffmann, with International Cultural Forum – a meeting viewer to enter a poetic audio-visual a speach on EpiMimesis, EpiZone V: with an aim to form the key vectors environment, in which ephemeral traces Shifting Identities made at the STARTS of the development of the culture as of elementary particles, become scraps Residencies Days 2019. The project is a progressive force that brings the of personal memory, where virtual semi- a poetic immersive labyrinth of our constructive origin into the global biological network blurs the boundaries shifting identities within a dynamic community. between micro and macro systems. scientific data environment. ORGANIZAERS & PARTNERS INFLUENTIAL EVETNS & STUDY SHOWS USE OF VIRTUAL REPORT OF BIRTH OF WORLD’S REPORT OF CROP ENGINEERING REPORT ON THE CREATION DISCOVERIES REALITY MAY INDUCE GREATER FIRST GENETICALLY EDITED WITH PHOTORESPIRATORY OF MICE WITH INFRARED COMPASSION IN PEOPLE THAN HUMANS IN CHINA „SHORTCUT” TO BOOST PLANT VISION, USING NANOPARTICLES OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA GROWTH BY 40% INJECTED INTO THEIR EYES LANUCHING OF THE EARTH IBM Q SYSTEM ONE, FIRST THE LASER OF ELI-NP IN BIOGENOME PROJECT INTEGRATED QUANTUM MĂGURELE TO BECOME MOST THE VOYAGER 2 PROBE HAS COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR POWERFUL LASER SYSTEM EVER REACHED THE INTERSTELLAR COMMERCIAL USE UNVEILED MADE MEDIUM FIRST EVER „IN BODY” HUMAN REPORT ON EARTH LIFE-FORMS GENE EDITING THERAPY TO SURVIVAL FOR 18 MONTHS IN ALTER DNA IN PATIENT WITH OUTER SPACE OUTSIDE THE ISS HUNTER SYNDROME THE FIRST IMAGE OF A BLACK HOLE Art & Science Node

Rhizosphere Fieldworks Art in the Society of Knowledge A Breath of Leonardo @ Białowieża Forest @ XLIV FEBS Congress @ VII Eurobiotech Congress FIELDWORKS KEYNOTE SPEACH ART INSTALLATION 24-28 Apr 2019 6-11 Jul 2019 23-25 Sep 2019 . Białowieża Forest National Park, PL . FEBS, Kraków, PL . Eurobiotech, Kraków, PL An intensive Rhizosphere workshop at ASN representation by the organisation’s An immersive VR art installation – the Białowieża Forest National Park, a Chair – prof. Joanna Hoffmann, with A Breath of Leonardo – presented at UNESCO World Heritage site. Working a keynote speach on Art in the Society of the 7th Central European Congress from the Białowieża Geobotanical Station Knowledge: New Challenges. The FEBS of Life Sciences (Eurobiotech). The of Warsaw University the interdisciplinary Congress aims to be an exemplary cross- 7th Eurobiotech Congress was part working group immersed itself in the discipline gathering in the molecular of the European Biotech Week and most natural forest ecosystem within the life sciences for research presentation, focused on Agrobiotechnology and temperature zone of Europe. discussion, learning and inspiration. Personalized Medicine. REPORT ON VERY LARGE MEDUSAVIRUS POSSIBLY RESPONSIBLE, AT LEAST IN PART, FOR THE EVOLUTIONARY EMERGENCE OF COMPLEX EUKARYOTIC CELLS IPBES WARNING ON THE ACCELERATION OF THE BIODIVERSITY LOSS REPORT ON 1ST PATIENT TO RECEIVE GENETICALLY MODIFIED PHAGE THERAPY TO TREAT DRUG-RESISTANT INFECTION ATMOSPHERIC CO2, AS MEASURED BY THE MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY REACHING 415 PPM, THE HIGHEST LEVEL FOR 2.5 MILLION YEARS REPORT ON FOSSILIZED FUNGUS POSSIBLE GROWTH ON LAND A BILLION YEARS AGO, WELL BEFORE PLANTS ON LAND FIRST-TIME SINGLE-STEP LASER TEXTURING PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF ANTI- REFLECTIVE TRANSPARENT SURFACES BASED ON BIOMIMICRY REPORTED MRI SCANS PERFORMED ON INDIVIDUAL ATOMS DETAIL ON NEW TECHNIQUE FOR 3D BIOPRINTING OF TISSUE SCAFFOLDS MADE FROM COLLAGEN PUBLISHED 1ST HIGH-RES. MEASUREMENTS OF AN INTERPLANETARY SHOCK WAVE FROM THE SUN REPORT SHOWING „RNA-DNA CHIMERAS” MAY BE A MORE EFFECTIVE WAY OF PRODUCING PRECURSOR LIFE BIOCHEMICALS, THAN THE MORE LINEAR APPROACHES ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Timeline 2020 FUTURE(S) EpiZone V: Shifting Identities ASN Cafe – talks Capture the Future(s): Our Bio- @ Florence Biennale Tech Planet @ PBE 2021 12 - 13 EXHIBITION ONLINE DEBATES EXHIBITION 18-27 Oct 2019 from May 2020 28 June- 4 July 2021 . Florence Biennale, IT . online . Plant Biology Europe Turin, IT EpiMimesis, Epizone V: Shifting Identities A series of online meetings initiated Exhibition CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): our presented at the XIIth Florence Biennale due to the Coronavirus pandemic and BIO-TECH PLANET. The Routes to Root was developed by Joanna Hoffmann the limitations it imposed on physycial Networks and Beyond combining CHIC together with Epilab Team – artists, contats. A platform for knowledge sharing Innovation Consortium artistic residencies scientists and engineers. They were between scientists and artists was created projects and Rhizosphere: The Big awarded by Magnus Laurentius Medices, in order to broaden perspectives on the Network of the Small Worlds projects, Biennale Internazionale dell Arte topics of bioeconomy, rhizopshere, AI, to be presented at the Plant Biology Contemporanea, Cita de Firenze. collapsology, thermodynamics and other. Europe Congress Turin, IT FIRST TIME DETECTION OF SUGAR MOLECULES, INCLUDING RIBOSE, IN METEORITES, SUGGESTING CHEMICAL PROCESSES ON ASTEROIDS CAN PRODUCE ESSENTIAL BIO-INGREDIENTS IMPORTANT TO LIFE 11,000 SCIENTISTS PUBLISH A STUDY WARNING ABOUT THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC REPORT ON AI SYSTEM BASED ON A GOOGLE DEEPMIND ALGORITHM TO BE CAPABLE OF SURPASSING HUMAN EXPERTS IN BREAST CANCER DETECTION QUANTUM ENGINEERS REPORT THAT THEY HAVE CREATED ARTIFICIAL ATOMS IN SILICON QUANTUM DOTS FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING REPORT ON COLLECTIVES OF BACTERIA HAVING A MEMBRANE POTENTIAL-BASED FORM OF COLLECTIVE WORKING MEMORY Art & Science Node

PARTNERS ASN PARTNERS German Patent and University of Arts, Poznań Studio for Adam Mickiewicz Trademark Office Faculty of Art Education Transdisciplinary Projects University, Poznań and Research Bio Markets Insights CLub for Sciences & Art, International Institute Institute of Bioorganic Poznań of Molecular and Cell Chemistry, Polish Academy Biology of Sciences RNA Research Centre, KNOW – Leading National Fraunhofer Institut for 3IT – Innovation Center Poznań Research Centre, Poznań Telecommunications for Immersive Imaging Technologies Biofaction SymbioticA Transmediale The Arts Catalyst WRO Art Center Artists-in-labs CSW Łaźnia Center for STATE Contemporary Art ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 760891 Aftertaste Biotechnology from by Jill Scott the Blue Flower & Marille Hahne by Anna Dumitriu CHIC & Alex May Artists in Residence 16 - 17 Chicory Innovation art exhibitions Consortium organization CHIC Project art animation THE ROLE OF ART & SCIENCE NODE IN THE CHIC INNOVATIVE CONSORTIUM ART & SCIENCE NODE CONTRIBUTES TO THE CHIC PROJECT THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY OF ART AND SCIENCE SYNERGY, GIVING ARTISTS AND CULTURAL ACTORS AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AT THE FOREFRONT OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION. THE ASN PROGRAM AIMS TO LINK SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND IDEAS WITH APPROACHES USED IN DIGITAL ART, FOSTERING INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK TOWARDS AN EXCHANGE OF CULTURES AND MILIEUS. Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM CHIC Chicory Innovation Consortium (Horizon 2020) CONSORTIUM AIM PROJECT COORDINATOR CHIC is a research and innovation project. It aims at the establishment Stichting Wageningen Research of a responsible innovation pathway for the development and application of New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) for root chicory CONSORTIUM PARTNERS as a multipurpose crop for the production of high-value consumer Université des Sciences et products, in line with societal needs and concerns. Technologies de Lille Leibniz – Institut fur CHIC is supported through the EU Horizon 2020 funding programme. Pflanzenbiochemie The New Zealand Institute for Plant OBJECTIVES and Food Research Limited Wageningen University I. Implementation of new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) Fondazione Edmund Mach in chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Institut za Biološka istraživanja Siniša Consortium aims at developing four different new plant breeding Stankovi techniques. They are supposed to be used to steer bioprocesses in Julius Kuhn-Institut chicory and mobilize its under-explored potential to produce dietary Bundesforschungsinstitut fur prebiotics that stimulate gut health (inulin) and medicinal terpenes Kulturpflanzen from chicory. Graz University of Technology Art & Science Synergy Foundation II. Development of co-innovation pathways with stakeholders for (ASSF) / Art & Science Node (ASN) game-changing technologies, such as new plant breeding techniques European Plant Science Organization E.P.S.O. Four different new plant breeding technologies are being assessed with respect to technological potential, risks, regulatory framework Sensus b.v. and socio-economic impacts. This is done via consultation with different industry and society stakeholders. Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica III. Implementation of innovative communication tools and JOANNEUM RESEARCH means to improve interaction with the public Forschungsgesellschaft mbH KeyGene nv A set of innovative communication tools including cultural communication and linking art to science are used to improve IDConsortium communication and understanding of NPBTs by the stakeholders, policymakers as well as the public at large. This in effect will enable informed decision making. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects WHAT IS CHIC? 18 - 19 Root chicory is an under-utilized crop. It is currently cultivated for the commercial production of inulin, which is added to many food products as a dietary fibre and sweetener. Pictures above show form & inner structure of the chicory root. CHIC Consortium includes seventeen In the course of the development of chicory varieties which produce partners – SMEs, an industrial partner, prebiotic and immunomodulatory dietary fibres (inulin) and bioactive terpenes, non-profit organizations and research CHIC Consortium will provide a socio- economic analysis of the impact of NPBTs institutes from eleven European on the chicory value chain and develop risk assessment protocols for NPBTs in countries and New Zealand. It aims chicory. Its goal is additionally to monitor at development of new breeding regulatory and policy developments tools for chicory in order to provide – relevant for the implementation of in the effect of their implementation – NPBTs in plant breeding, and to provide health benefits for the consumers. At the a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the same time, consortium develops a set environmental impacts of the novel of innovative, art-based communication chicory varieties and products throughout tools to stimulate the interaction with the the whole value chain. Two business public and increase their awareness on cases are being developed to initiate commercialization of the results. the subject matter. It is crucial to identify and investigate societal concerns and needs by publicy adressing & involving stakeholders and considering all of their views. Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM WORK PACKAGES (WP’s) WITHIN THE PROJECT WP1 Development of four conceptually different NPBTs WP2 Implementation of NPBTs in Chicory for dietary inulin WP3 Implementation of NPBTs in Chicory for bioactive terpenes WP4 Technical and Risk assessment of NPBTs WP5 Socio-economic and environmental impacts on the whole value chain WP6 Stakeholder engagement WP7 Exploitation, dissemination and communication WP8 Commercial exploitation of chicory as a multipurpose crop WP9 Management OBJECTIVE III. IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION TOOLS AND MEANS TO IMPROVE INTERACTION WITH THE PUBLIC TRADITIONAL CHANNELS TO DISSEMINATE ART & CULTURAL PROGRAMMATION PUBLISHABLE DATA presentation at symposia & journal conferences Aftertaste publications by Jill Scott & Marille Hahne social media CHIC Days communication at schools Interactive demos ACTIVITIES AIMED AT & games (apps) ARTISTS IN CHILDREN, HOUSEHOLDS RESIDENCIES & GENERAL PUBLIC CHIC’S INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT SHCs (Stakeholder in-depth art animation Consultations) interviews of the CHIC SAG (Stakeholder open days for Project Biotechnology Adivsory Group) farmers, growers From the Blue Flower ENGAGING THE STAKEHOLDERS by Anna Dumitriu & breeders & Alex May organization of art exhibitions ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects ASN & THE CHIC CONSORTIUM SCIENCE DISSEMINATION THROUGH ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS & PROJECTS 20 - 21 BOTH SCIENCE AND ART ARE HUMAN ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND AND DESCRIBE THE WORLD AROUND US. ART CAN NOT ONLY PROVIDE THE AUDIENCE WITH INFORMATION, BUT ALSO ELICIT VISCERAL, EMOTIONAL RESPONSES AND ENGAGE THE IMAGINATION IN WAYS THAT PROMPT ACTION AND A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPLEX TOPICS THAT COULD BE DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN WITH SCIENTIFIC NOTIONS. Macarena Sanz CHIC Dissemination and Communication Manager Consider the role of art in the interaction between science and the public. Perception and understanding of science and scientific facts through the eyes of art & culture can greatly benefit our evolving society of knowledge. Art creates social and cultural cohesion between science and the public. Not only is the artistic experimentation & performance one of the multiple tools of communication, but also an innovative and unique instrument for disseminating knowledge. Thus Art & Science Node (ASN) as the executive organ of the Art & Science Synergy Foundation (ASSF) has joined CHIC Consortium and works on development of the CHIC Projetc’s innovative, art & culture based communication strategy, in order to reach all of the types of audience: researchers, industry and farmers, policy makers and consumers. Jakub Kaczmarek for Art & Science Node Art animation prepared for the CHIC research & innovation project (stills) Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM CHIC – ARTISTS IN RESIDENCIES AFTERTASTE / BIOTECHNOLOGY FROM THE BLUE FLOWER In addition to the animation prepared by Jakub Kaczmarek, made to introduce the artistic input to the CHIC Consortium communication strategy, two artistic residencies at partners research institutes/ organizations were foreseen to be performed for the whole period of the project’s implementation. For that purpose ASN/ ASSF has selected artists who applied through a competitive application process. Artists were selected based on the detailed descriptions & sketches of their proposed artworks, and their experience and engagement within the art-science environment. These artists – the artistic duets of Jill Scott & Marille Hahne and Anna Dumitriu & Alex May are all deeply committed to the aims of linking scientific research and ideas with approaches used in digital art, fostering interdisciplinary work towards an exchange of cultures and milieus. The projects and their authors are: by Jill Scott & Marille Hahne AFTERTASTE by Anna Dumitriu & Alex May BIOTECHNOLOGY FROM THE BLUE FLOWER

22 - 23 Projects AFTERTASTE BY JILL SCOTT & MARILLE HAHNE 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 parts: the main artwork – installation titled Aftertaste; the public event – Quantifying Chicory and the documentary – Chicory Unpacked. Artist – JILL SCOTT Dr. Jill Scott 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. www.jillscott.org Artist – MARILLE HAHNE Marille Hahne is Professor in Filmmaking at 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 Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM PART I: the main installation: Aftertaste an interactive media artwork based on the way we perceive flavour, a combination of smell, taste and texture by Jill Scott Through interaction with three sculptural models, the audience can explore the health benefits of terpenes and inulin in chicory. This interaction will “biomimic” the sensations of flavour with images, sound compositions, film loops and additional layers of testimonies and sonifications in real-time. Additional layers can be explored, that contemplate food production of the chicory plant and its health benefits from various methods like organic growing, new breeding plant technology and plant cell cultures. molecular compounds tongue with taste buds The visitor takes one molecule from olfactory the olfactory bulb representing bulb model a compound from the chicory root. This movement creates an initial sound and one can also perceive a smell from it. When he or she screws the molecule into a taste bud on the tongue, this action triggers projected films with soundcompositions to occur. Each molecule tells a different story about the health benefits of a specific compound. When several molecules are used, more triggered film and sound loops will appear and more information will unfold. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects PART II: the public event: Quantifying Chicory PART III: the documentary: Chicory Unpacked citizen science project about chicorys‘s sensory documentary short film based on the Chic Research characteristics by Jill Scott & Marille Hahne processes and how the collection of robust knowledge is made by Marille Hahne It will take the form of an event that will explore what happens to chicory once it is eaten. How does This documentary will highlight research results and chicory affect your health or well-being? How does compare conclusions that are traceable for others the sensation of chicory linger in the mouth so one and the personal experiences of the artist-in-the-lab can smell it and register a flavour out of it? How can residency and feature the know-how transfer from the taste and smell of chicory combine to register art-science-art. flavour in the brain? What about its texture and its terpenes? Here the audience will have the chance to taste various inulin to give the scientists valuable feedback. 24 - 25 Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM Progress In 2019, Jill Scott and Marille Hahne visited five CHIC research labs and partners: 7-8.03.2019 Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited (Auckland, New Zealand) 18-30.08.2019 Industrial Biotechnology and Food Solutions, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. (Espoo, Finland) 20-21.09.2019 Wageningen University and Research (Wageningen, the Netherlands) 23-25.09.2019 KeyGene (Wageningen, the Netherlands) 26-29.09.2019 Sensus (Roosendaal, the Netherlands) The main labs of focus in 2019 were VTT, the lab of Wageningen University and Research and Keygene. In 2020 all the information is brought together and all of the components for the sculpture are built. The video will be finished in 2021 after more interviews and postproduction. Photos taken at various research labs and CHIC Consortium Partners 2019 2020 Stills from the presentation movie, as of May 2020 ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects BIOTECHNOLOGY FROM THE BLUE FLOWER Chicory Plants grown from Protoplasts BY ANNA DUMITRIU & ALEX MAY Biotechnology from the Blue Flower is a project of a new sculptural bio- digital installation which can exist across both real and virtual spaces, with a focus on the areas of the use of chicory for dietary fibre and its impact on human health and the human microbiome. The artists work with the plants themselves: the roots, chicory flour and chicory inulin and terpenes, as well as other potential materials that might be discovered. Both artists have extensive experience in working with biological media including medicines and genetically modified materials and therefore have a good understanding of health and safety, ethical and biocontainment issues. These sculptural, physical materials will be fused with video footage from the laboratory and data visualisations derived from the research processed through 3D scanning and modelling techniques to create a dramatic interactive artwork that will be brought to life using digital technologies such as video-mapping and sensor technology. 26 - 27 Artist – ANNA DUMITRIU British artist working with BioArt, sculpture, installation & digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. She has an extensive international exhibition profile including ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, The V&A Museum Philadelphia Science Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, and The Museum of the History of Science. She was the 2018 President of the Science and the Arts section of the British Science Association. Her work is held in several major public collections. www.annadumitriu.co.uk Artist – ALEX MAY British artist whose practice forges links between art, science, and technology through a wide range of digital new media, including virtual reality, photogrammetry, robotics, video projection mapping, interactive installations, algorithmic photography, video and sound art. Alex has exhibited internationally including at the Francis Crick Institute, Eden Project, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, LABoral, the Museum of Contemporary Art Caracas, the Science Gallery Dublin and the Beall Center for Art + Technology. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. www.alexmayarts.co.uk Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM CHIC & the NPBTs The artists are keen to explore the morphology of the chicory plants in the work as well as the history and cultural impacts of the plants throughout history, for example as an ancient remedy or a coffee additive in times of crisis, and then draw a thread between those histories and cutting edge contemporary research in the field and the potential future benefits of working with techniques such as CRISPR to provide healthcare and food benefits. Outreach to the audience The 3D scanning and modelling techniques may also be used to generate either augmented reality (AR) experiences or virtual reality (VR) 3D video content uploaded to YouTube, accessible via low-cost cardboard VR headsets and Smartphones – the aim is to reach out to large audiences and provide a wide range of potential ways of interaction. For example an AR experience that can be triggered by paper models that can be printed and made at home. The final artwork would also be accompanied by a participatory drop-in workshop activity using materials and techniques to create a forum for dialogue and discussion, as well as an events programme. Anna Dumitriu & Alex May Stills from a video presenting the ongoing process of 3D scanning of the chicory plant. The two pictures at the top present printscreens from the 3D scans. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects BIOTECHNOLOGY FROM THE BLUE FLOWER BY ANNA DUMITRIU & ALEX MAY Progress In 2019, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May visited Sensus b.v. – the industrial partner engaged in the CHIC Consortium. They 3D scanned several roots of the Chicorium intybus specimens provided by the Consortium partners. In 2020, artists made progress on the experimentation on the structures of the plant and its roots & are now preparing the first version of the video footage. 2019 Anna & Alex’s visit Root chicory plant to Sensus b.v. growing in the laboratory conditions 28 - 29 3D scanning of the pla 2020 Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM Experimentation on the internal structure of the Chicory Protoplasts modified by roots using various slicing and dying techniques Anna Dumitriu using CRISPR/Cas9 ants Stills from the early stage of the movie, as of May 2020 ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects CHIC PROJECT – PEOPLE CHIC Project’s kick-off meeting at European Commission Covent Garden in Brusells, Belgium – 1wt CHIC General A ssembly (02/2018) 30 - 31 CHIC Consortium consists of tens of researchers, subject SHORT QUOTATION ON THE PEOPLE matter experts and artists, all involved in development & broad FORMING CHIC INNOVATION dissemination of the research on the root chicory. With each CONSORTIUM, SHORT QUOTATION meeting we share our knowledge & experience and are learning ON THE PEOPLE FORMING CHIC from each other, all in effort to advance toward the goal of INNOVATION CONSORTIUM. implementing New Plant Breeding Techniques in chicory, in order to establish it as a multipurpose crop for sustainable Macarena Sans molecular farming of products with consumer benefits. CHIC Dissemination and Communication Manager 2nd CHIC General A ssembly at KeyGene in Wageningen, the Netherlands (11/2018), where Jill Scott & Marille Hahne presented the Aftertaste art residency project 3rd CHIC General A ssembly in Madrid, Spain (05/2019), where Anna Dumitriu & Alex May presented Biotechnology from the Blue Flower art residency project Art & Science Node

CHIC: CHICORY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM CHIC PROJECT – PROGRESS 6-7.02.2018 1st CHIC General Assembly – kick-off meeting in Brussels 11-13.06.2018 CHIC @ 3rd International Society of Plant Molecular Farming Conference (ISPMF), 14-15.06.2018 Helsinki, Finland (hosted by VTT) 28-29.09.2018 CHIC @ Food 2030 Conference: Research & Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security 28-29.09.2018 – Transforming our food systems (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) 15.11.2018 CHIC @ The European Researchers’ Night in Madrid, Spain (by IDConsortium) 18.05.2019 21-24.05.2019 CHIC @ The European Researchers’ Night in Belgrade, Serbia (by The Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”) 27-28.05.2019 20-21.06.2019 2nd CHIC General Assembly @ KeyGene in Wageningen, the Netherlands 11.09.2019 CHIC @ Fascination of Plants Day International Biennale (EPSO) 27.09.2019 27.09.2019 CHIC @ 63rd International Fair of Technics and Technical Achievements (UFI) (by The 14.10.2019 Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”) 5-7.11.2019 3rd CHIC General Assembly @ IDConsortium in Madrid 22-24.01.2020 2-4.11.2020 CHIC @ the CRISPRcon Conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands Michiel de Both (KeyGene) @ VIKKI Plant Science Centre of the University of Helsinki, Finland CHIC @ The European Researchers’ Night in Trento, Italy (by Fondazione Edmund Munch) CHIC @ The European Researchers’ Night in Indjija, Serbia (by IBISS) Euronews Science Program Futuris: a documentary about the CHIC project aired on the science programme FUTURIS (Euronews) CHIC @ PlantEd Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia CHIC @ Central European Biomass Conference in Graz, Austria CHIC @ Capture the Future(s): OUR BIO-TECH PLANET. The Routes to Root Networks and Beyond @ World Bio Markets, Amsterdam, the Netherlands CHIC at 3rd International Society of Plant Molecular Farming Conference in Helsinki, Finland (06/2018) CHIC at The European Researchers’ Night in Madrid, Spain (28-29/09/2018) ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects Opening Evolution II: exhibition & forum Elusive Identity exhibition & forum 50 - 51 CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Evolution I exhibition & forum THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOOK AT THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE, AND ASK WHY… I DREAM OF THINGS THAT NEVER WERE, AND ASK WHY NOT? Robert F. Kennedy 1968 Presidential Campaign Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) EVOLUTION ORGANIZER AIM Art & Science Node Both the ASN’s motto and a series of events focused on various aspects of evolution, that influence not only biological sciences but COOPERATION the changing perception of ourselves and our relationship to the natural, social and technological environments. Project was initiated Club for Sciences & Art, Poznań by the necessity to provide a platform for knowledge and experience BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film Festival by exchange on the topic of how we shape today and the future realities. Biofaction The new landscape of dynamic, post-digital reality raises questions Transmediale Art & Digital Culture Festival regarding the coordinates of modern human identity. Is the elusive German Patent and Trademark Office – border of human and nonhuman a potential beginning of the brave Information & Service Centre Berlin (DPMA-IDZ) new world? How can we navigate the fast-evolving future, while constantly redefining ourselves? Art and science together might Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research provide potential directions. at Faculty of Artistic Education and Curatorial Studies of the University of Arts (UAP) EVOLUTION Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznań Evolution is most often associated with complex biological processes Poznań RNA Research Centre Leading National that cause changes in the characteristics of entire groups of organisms Research Centre – KNOW following the course of generations. The result is the formation of Center for Conflict Resolution, Munich biodiversity at all levels of biological organization, including species. CTM Festival – Festival for Adventurous Music & Art 3IT – Innovation Center for Immersive The research on various aspects of evolution significantly Technologies affects not only the biological sciences but also other fields, i.e. anthropology, psychology, artificial intelligence research, IT and more. It changes the perception of ourselves as a set of data, and our relation to the natural, social and technological environment. In the age of growing Big Data and dark knowledge, of the multiplicity and richness of new scientific discoveries and philosophical concepts, what can we say about the nature of human uniqueness and the future of humanity as the global population is growing dramatically? ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects PROJECT’S CHRONICLE CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) ELEMENT ARTISTS INVOLVED 2015 Capture the Future(s): Opening 25 Jan – 01 Feb Artworks BIO·FICTION Movies Eric Schockmel Luis dos Santos Ursula Damm Lorenzo Oggiano Ethan Shaftel Sam Ireland Minsu Kim Clea T. Waite Shamees Aden Louis Rigaud Lauren Fenton Sam J. Bond Joanna Hoffmann Uwe Sleytr Andre Bartetzki Marie-Sarah Adenis WROcenter Group Hugo Kreit 52 - 53 Capture the Future(s): Evolution I 2016 29 Oct 2015 Artworks – 14 Jan 2016 Jill Scott Suzanne Anker Joanna Hoffmann Reiner Maria Matysik Katarzyna Hoffmann 2017 Capture the Future(s): Evolution II 28 Jan – 03 Feb Artworks Vesna Petresin Anna Anders Jill Scott David Glowacki Rafał Zapała Eran Hadas Joanna Hoffmann Featuring workshop with Dr David Glowacki, Dr. Basile Curchod and Becca Rose Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) SCIENTISTS INVOLVED INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED Special Guest & participants of the Forum Rob La Frenais (Dr) Ingeborg Fullep (Ass. Prof.) Ralf Schäfer (Dr) Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska (Prof. Dr hab.) Artur Jarmołowski (Prof. Dr hab.) Lecturers Organizers Prof. Władysław Polcyn Partners Prof. Jacek Radwan Prof. Borys Wróbel Prof. Krzysztof Łastowski Discussion moderators Prof. Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska Prof. Artur Jarmołowski Prof. Joanna Hoffmann Organizer Main Partners Panelists Special guests Partners Dawid Glowacki Prof. Zofia Szweykowska- Eran Hadas Kulińska Joanna Hoffmann Prof. Artur Jarmołowski Manfred Holler Prof. Dr Eliza Wyszko Jonathan Jeschke Ralf Schaefer ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects PROJECT’S ELEMENTS CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): OPENING 54 - 55 Type: EXHIBITION + FORUM Dates: 25.01. – 01.02.2015 Location: Art & Science Node, Berlin (DE) Artists: Artworks BIO·FICTION Movies Eric Schockmel Description: Luis dos Santos Ursula Damm Lorenzo Oggiano Ethan Shaftel Sam Ireland Minsu Kim Clea T. Waite Shamees Aden Louis Rigaud Lauren Fenton Sam J. Bond WROcenter Group Uwe Sleytr Joanna Hoffmann Marie-Sarah Adenis Andre Bartetzki Hugo Kreit Capture the Future(s): Opening was organized as an inauguration act of the Art & Science Node initiative. The event comprised an exhibition and the ASN Forum. The forum, led by the ASN Chair – prof. dr hab. Joanna Hoffmann, gathered organization’s founding members and special guests. The exhibition was prepared as the presentation of the ASN selection of short films from the second BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film Festival (2014) and the additional, specially chosen artworks. Screening was a part of BIO·FICTION on Tour program. The festival was produced by Biofaction – a research and science communication company based in Vienna, Austria. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) EXHIBITION: THE ARTWORK Luis dos Santos (P) | Future Now photography The photographic works presented herein try to motivate the viewer to depart from the standard norms in their respective area of action in order to reflect the future back into the present. In order to establish that cognitive association, the selection of photographs shown in this exhibition were captured at different architectural venues of the world as they can be seen today. However, this project forfeited a pure documentary approach in favour of an interpretation of what kind of living spaces could have been achieved, when reality is interpreted in the light of what we would like it to be. The process by which these photographs were created consists in the capture of several brackets using different exposure times and to combine them together during post-production in a single coherent image that represented the author’s vision. Ethan Shaftel (USA) | Flesh Computer, 2013 film, 13:16 When his cybernetic pet project is put in jeopardy, the handyman of a decaying apartment building is forced to take a stand, blurring the lines between human and machine. Flesh Computer, a short film from writer/director Ethan Shaftel, explores the nature of consciousness by jumping between the perspectives of an eclectic group of characters including a young girl, a vicious bully, and a tiny housefly. Noted philosopher David Chalmers appears in the film and raises some fundamental questions of consciousness in counterpoint to the action. Also starring Rob Kerkovich (NCIS: New Orleans), Anthony Guerino, and introducing Elle Gabriel. Clea T. Waite (USA/DE) | The Spider Project, 2000 interspecies multi-channel video installation ©ctw 2000 Inspired by the turn of the millennium, The Spider Project is a research artwork that contemplates the basic cycles of nature: creation and death, time, the elements, and the workings of the universe. Concentrating on spirals and circles as the central motif, the images derive from the micro and macroscopes which epitomize our time. An inter-species collaboration with three-hundred Nephila senegalensis spiders, The Spider Project is a requiem for the XX Century, from the mastery of the atom to DDT to space travel, a preparation for rebirth into the XXI Century. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects 56 - 57 Clea T. Waite (USA/DE), Lauren Fenton (USA) | MetaBook: The Book of Luna, 2014 transmedia electronic assemblade ©ctw, 2014 – 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. WROcenter Group (PL) | On the Silver Globe for Méliès and Zygmunt Rytka, 2012 installation – object with an interactive projection, photography On the Silver Globe is an installation referring to the history of cinema and television, inspired by photographs by Zygmunt Rytka documenting the July 21, 1969 live TV broadcast from the first manned landing on the Moon. Georges Méliès’s visionary work Voyage to the Moon (Le Voyage dan la Lune) was also used in the installation: one of the earliest films of the sci-fi genre and a classic not only in terms of the cinema, but also – or perhaps above all – in the history of human imagination and aspirations. Méliès’s film lies solicitously guarded in archives, but is at the same time widely available on the internet in countless files. One such file, downloaded from the internet, has been used in this installation as a matrix of pixels capable of generating a live 3D picture. The film is a cultural icon downloaded from the internet, but is also modified via the internet by the viewers. This installation uses excerpts from Georges Méliès’s 1902 film Le Voyage dans la Lune and Zygmunt Rytka’s 1969 photographs. Joanna Hoffmann (USA/DE), Andre Bartetzky (DE) | Proteo, 2015 hologram-like animation Work prepared for the [micro]biologies II: πρωτεο / proteo exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin (opening on January 23, 2015), presented i.a. at the exhibition Not invented by nature at BioQuant DKFZ Heidelberg and BIO·FICTION Festival in Vienna. Proteo is an animation in which a cloud of particles creates a mini-universe folded in the form of Calabi-Yau space. It gives birth to a convoluted protein molecule and its dynamic molecular dance of life, in a poetic way brings to mind a question about the relations between the energy, matter and form. The animation creates an effect of a hologram inside a transparent pyramid. It is a kind of virtual incubator, in which the process continues to develop and repeat itself. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) BIO·FICTION @ ASN BERLIN – SELECTED MOVIES Ursula Damm (DE) | The Outline of Paradise, 2012 film, 04:06 What would our cities look like if advertising messages are produced not from artificial lighting but from swarming midges, glowing like fireflies? Instead of being electronically controlled, ads could be flown and danced by swarms who have undergone special flight training. The Outline of Paradise explores the promises and capabilities of technoscience. This film explores the concept of sustainable luminosity – a new way of providing natural and sustainable light to our urban centers. Sam Ireland (UK) | Bacteria to the Future, 2014 film, 03:59 What if artificially intelligent bacteria could be connected to build communicating populations? Could we make bacterial computers? In this charming animation, Brian the Bacterium provides a possible answer. Shamees Aden, Sam J. Bond (UK) | Protocell Technology, 2012 film, 01:49 The study of protocells could dramatically change our understanding of the nature of materials. Protocells blur the gap between the non-living and the living, and can, therefore, when used as material, integrate the dynamic properties that living. Uwe Sleytr (AT) | A new way in Evolution, 2014 film, 03:41 Whereas retracing the evolution of life forms by using fossils has become increasingly possible, predicting the future development of living organisms is hardly conceivable, even more with the capacities synthetic biology brings towards the creation of entirely new species. This clip is an experimental piece, which explores an evolution that is sped up by synthetic biology, by utilizing sculptures which are presented as fossils from the future. While it tries to imagine the future of human development, the film also underlines that such an evolution is entirely unforeseeable. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects 58 - 59 Marie-Sarah Adenis & Hugo Kreit (FR) | Chlorotherapy, 2014 film, 03:58 Chlorotherapy explores a new type of utopian medicine based on a realistic technology: DNA transistors. Because access to care will become a major issue in the future, easy to access biotechnologies become highly interesting. Plants, historically related to the medical world, will be the ideal support of this exploration. Through genetic modifications, plants become able to diagnose diseases and to deliver appropriate therapeutic substances. The film offers sensual interpretations, which anchor synthetic biology in a reality that is compatible with the momentum of human life. Eric Schockmel (UK) | Macrostructure, 2013 film, 04:58 Inspired by science and video games, Macrostructure is the first episode in a micro-series entitled What If You Created Artificial Life And It Started Worshipping You. We are taken on a 3D animated journey through a world inhabited by synthetic life forms and the self-aware machines who manufacture, control and recycle them. Lorenzo Oggiano (UK) | Quasi-Objects/ Cinematic Environment #8, 2012 film, 04:32 Quasi-Objects is an on-going art project consisting of 3D generated videos and prints, a practice of organic re-design that aims to contribute to the debate of an up-coming postnatural ecosystem: life as something that is not exclusively located within a body, but rather immanent in any complex system, human or non-human. Minsu Kim (UK) | Living Food, 2013 film, 00:55 What if food were consumed alive, as a fictional character? What if food was able to play with our cutlery or create hyper-sensations in our mouth? In this film, dishes are living, moving, created things, beautiful and stomach- churning at the same time. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) ART & SCIENCE FORUM Louis Rigaud (FR) | Copy & Clone, 2010 film, 03:15 The development of biotechnologies will also lead to a fundamental change in industrial production. Copy and Clone discusses an extremely serious subject with a side order of humour: the animation displays the effects of biotechnologies on animal food industries through the window of a computer. What happens when the “copy and paste” commands of our devices step into real life? Art & Science Node provides a place for a debate and an open discussion over the numerous visions foreseen for our future. During the Opening event hosts, guests and public were discussing the special values of the synergy that can occur in the creative meetings of the researchers, artists and the public. Forum special guests Rob La Frenais, Dr curator, The Arts Catalysts, London (UK) Ingeborg Fullep, Ass. Prof. founder/dir. of Media Scape; University of Rijeka, Academy of Applied Art (APU); University of Applied Sciences, Berlin (HTW) Ralf Schäfer, Dr head of Image Processing & Interactive Media, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin (DE) Zofia Szweykowska–Kulińska, Prof. Dr hab. head the National Leading Science Centre, Poznań RNA Consortium (PL) head of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology UAM Poznań (PL) Artur Jarmołowski, Prof. dr hab.Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology UAM Poznań (PL) ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects PROJECT’S ELEMENTS CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): EVOLUTION I 60 - 61 Type: EXHIBTION + ART & SCIENCE FORUM Dates: 29.10.2015 – 14.01.2016 Location: Small Aula Gallery & CSA Gallery, Collegium Biologicum, UAM Poznań (PL) Artists: Jill Scott Description: Suzanne Anker Joanna Hoffmann Reiner Maria Matysik Katarzyna Hoffmann Art & Science Node organized Capture the Future(s): Evolution I event along with the Club for Science & Art in Poznań (PL). The exhibition and film series ran from October 29, 2015 until January 14, 2016 at the Small Aula Gallery & Club for Science & Art Gallery in the Collegium Biologicum of Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznań. Attendees had the opportunity to engage with scientific debates and discussions at the opening and closing, an ongoing art & science film program, and an exhibition exploring various art & science themes. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) EXHIBITION: THE ARTWORK Jill Scott | Jellyeyes: Evolution and Vision An interpretive augmented reality (AR) artwork, made in collaboration with Dr Stephan Neuhauss: Neurobiology, University of Zürich, Dr. Lisa-Ann Girshwin, Australian Marine Stinger Advisory Services and Nikolas Völzow, Programmer at ZKM Karlsruhe and the AIL Production Studio. 24 eyes of the poisonous Australian box jellyfish and the large round eyes of one of our favorite foods, squid or calamari, this piece draws from a combination of scientific facts. The main aim of this work is to raise awareness about evolution and encourage more reflection by the public, through interactions with metaphorical narratives based on symbiosis, co-evolution, and completion. 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. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

62 - 63 Projects Suzanne Anker | Vanitas (in a Petri dish) Petri dishes, named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), are the round, shallow glass vessels used variously in laboratories to grow bacteria, germinate plants, and view liquid samples under low-powered microscopes. For these photographs Suzanne Anker, whose multi-media works bridge the arts and sciences, fitted out Petri dishes with dense and seductive mini landscapes largely comprised of naturally occurring, but sometimes including man-made materials. Titled Vanitas and named after the genre of XVII century Dutch still life paintings that juxtaposed symbols of life and decay, this series exploits the flatness of photography to survey improbably seductive and miniature environments that Anker carefully created. The resulting images suggest natural cycles of life and death, speak to the manipulation of nature and the consequences of that, and remind us, too, that the term ‘petri dish’ is also used to describe hospitable arenas – like the science and the arts – where inquiry and new ideas can develop. Suzanne Anker is a pioneer in Bio Art, working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s new digital initiative and the SVA Bio Art Laboratory. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Reiner Maria Matysik | Prototypes for Organisms Matysik’s work became well known particularly through his models of post-evolutionary organisms, which are situated between his vision of active evolution (evolution controlled by humans) and the future forms of living biological sculpture. The artist’s motivation in creating these prototypes of future organisms stems from his conviction that the rapid advances in modern molecular biology and genetic engineering will have dramatic consequences for the process of biological evolution, as well as for art, that can hardly be assessed at present. Reiner Maria Matysik is Berlin-based aritst. He studied fine arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and at the Ateliers Arnhem in the Netherlands. In 2004, he directed the artistic development project Institute of Biological Sculpture at the HBK Braunschweig and worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Visual Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University Braunschweig. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

64 - 65 Projects Katarzyna Hoffmann | Reconstruction Inspiration for this project was humanity’s constant need to discover and explore the world through impressive and surprising scientific discoveries, which includes at least a dozen newly discovered animal species every year. It returns to old biological drawings, and the internal physiques of bugs, fishes, and arachnids and confronts them with contemporary biological pictures created using advanced technologies, creating non-existent, hybrid, new species. The works were a kind of experiment based upon creation of species which could have been another stage of evolution, perfectly adjusted to constantly changing environmental conditions caused by human activity. Pictures are created to describe nature, using digital techniques that transcribe its primary structure to a digital code. A plant registered by a 3D scanner, which documents its structure, imperceptible to the human eye. The fragmentation of the plant and removal of its “shell” or “skin” allowed people to observe its internal side. In addition, it showed the technique’s inferiority in comparison to the nature’s perfection. Katarzyna Hoffmann (Tyburska), graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań with an MA in Art Education and Curatorial Studies (2015), as well as an MA in Photography (2016). She is an artist, photographer, curator, and was laureate of the Show Off competition of the Krakow Photomonth 2016, as well as of the competition Anthropocene: Progress & Catastrophy as part of the FLOW Festival World Water Day in Poznań 2015. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Joanna Hoffmann | MicroR-evolution: Intrinsic Connections How is the evolution of space-time reflected in biological structures and their interactions? Which universal processes and geometries are hidden in “microscapes?” What perceptual tools do we have to apprehend them? In this series, an RNA molecule became a key for artistic investigations about structural emergence, alterability, and affinity in nature. The series involves short 3D stereoscopic animations and was developed in cooperation with Prof. Janusz Bujnicki, Genesilico Lab, ICMB Warsaw and KNOW Polish National Leading RNA Research Institute in Poznań. 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

Projects FILM PROGRAM A Capture the Future(s): Evolution I film program ran alongside the Capture the Future(s): Evolution I exhibition, featuring the following short films dealing with art/science topics. 66 - 67 Award-winning short sci-fi film Ethan Shaftel (USA) | Flesh Computer, 2013 Science Festival NYC, 2014 film, 13:16 Presented at BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film Festival, Vienna 2014 When his cybernetic pet project is put in jeopardy, the handyman of a decaying apartment building is forced to take a stand, blurring the lines between human and Presented at BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film machine. Flesh Computer, a short film from writer/ director Ethan Shaftel, explores Festival, Vienna 2014 the nature of consciousness by jumping between the perspectives of an eclectic group of characters including a young girl, a vicious bully, and a tiny housefly. Noted philosopher David Chalmers appears in the film and raises some fundamental questions of consciousness in counterpoint to the action. Also starring Rob Kerkovich (NCIS: New Orleans), Anthony Guerino, and introducing Elle Gabriel. Eric Schockmel (UK) | Macrostructure, 2013 film, 04:58 Inspired by science and video games, Macrostructure is the first episode in a micro-series entitled What If You Created Artificial Life And It Started Worshipping You. We are taken on a 3D animated journey through a world inhabited by synthetic life forms and the self-aware machines who manufacture, control, and recycle them. Uwe Sleytr (AT) | A new way in Evolution, 2014 film, 03:41 Whereas retracing the evolution of life forms by using fossils has become increasingly possible, predicting the future development of living organisms is hardly conceivable, even more with the capacities synthetic biology brings towards the creation of entirely new species. Video is an experimental piece, which explores an evolution that is sped up by synthetic biology, by utilizing sculptures presented as fossils from the future. While it tries to imagine the future of human development, the film underlines that evolution is entirely unforeseeable. Presented at BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film Lorenzo Oggiano (UK) | Quasi-Objects/ Cinematic Environment #8, 2012 Festival, Vienna 2014 film, 04:32 Quasi-Objects is an on-going art project consisting of 3D generated videos and prints, a practice of organic re-design that aims to contribute to the debate of an up-coming postnatural ecosystem: Life as something that is not exclusively located within a body, but rather immanent in any complex system, human or non-human. Art & Science Node

PROJECT TITLE: PROJECT SUBTITLE Matúš Vizár (CZ, SL) | Pandas, 2013 film, 11:30 After millions of generations pandas have a good chance of becoming another extinct species. But one day, an all too active primate called the human being found them and they became a pawn in man’s game. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change – Charles Darwin Award-winning film, Cinefondation Festival de Cannes, 2013 SCIENTIFIC TALKS AND PANEL During the Capture the Future(s): Evolution I opening events Art & Science Node organized and hosted a scientific discussion panel in co-operation with the Club for Science and Art, Poznań. Four presentations listed below were followed by a moderated discussion: Self-organization and the origin of life by Władysław Polcyn, Prof. Dr hab. Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, UAM Poznań (PL) Mutations: The yin and yang of evolution by Jacek Radwan, Prof. Dr hab. Eovlutionary Biology Group, Faculty of Biology, UAM Poznań (PL) Life: In art, artificial, synthetic by Borys Wróbel, Prof. Dr hab. Evolutionary Systems Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Technology (PL) Modern Synthesis vs Extended Synthesis: Towards a New Paradigm Structure of Evolutionary Biology by Krzysztof Łastowski, Prof. Dr hab. Department of Logic and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, UAM Poznań (PL) Discussion moderators: Zofia Szweykowska–Kulińska, Prof. Dr hab. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, UAM Poznań (PL) Artur Jarmołowski, Prof. Dr hab. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, UAM Poznań (PL) Joanna Hoffmann, Prof. Dr hab. Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research, Faculty of Artistic Education and Curatorial Studies of the University of Arts (UAP), Poznań (PL) ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects PROJECT’S ELEMENTS CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): EVOLUTION II 68 - 69 Type: EXHIBTION + PANEL DISCUSSION + ART WORKSHOP Dates: 28.01. – 03.02.2017 (with opening, discussion & workshop on January 28, 2017) Location: German Patent and Trademark Office – Information & Service Centre Berlin (DE) Artists: Anna Anders (DE) Jill Scott (AU/CH) David Glowacki (USA/UK) Rafał Zapała (PL) Eran Hadas (IL) Joanna Hoffmann (PL) Vesna Petersin (SI/UK) Description: Capture the Future(s): Evolution II ‘Elusive Identity’ was a partner event of Transmediale 2017 Ditigal Culture Festival ‘Ever Elusive’. The event comprised the Elusive Identity exhibition combined with a panel discussion, and workshop. The new landscape of dynamic, post-digital reality raises questions regarding the coordinates of modern human identity. Is the elusive border of human and nonhuman a potential beginning of the brave new world? How can we navigate the fast-evolving future, while constantly redefining ourselves? Art and science together might provide potential directions. A panel discussion on Elusive Identity and artist-led workshops were organized in order to debate how some of the most outstanding, international researchers and artists attempt to capture our future, and how we can redefine evolution through intensely immersive and mind opening ways. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) ELUSIVE IDENTITY – PANEL DISCUSSION Introduction speakers: Joanna Hoffmann, (Chair of ASN, Prof. Dr, University of Arts in Poznań) Kersitn Piratzky (Head of IDZ Berlin – DPMA) Evolution text by Joanna Hoffmann Evolution is most often associated with complex biological processes that cause changes in the characteristics of entire groups of organisms following the course of generations. The result is the formation of biodiversity at all levels of biological organization, including species. The research on various aspects of evolution significantly Capture the Future(s): affects not only the biological sciences but also Evolution II other fields, i.e. anthropology, psychology, artificial intelligence research, IT and more. It changes the Elusive Identity or Ulusive Unicity? – perception of ourselves as a set of data, and our relation the keywords: to the natural, social and technological environment. In the age of growing Big Data and dark knowledge, new forms of categorization, of the multiplicity and richness of new scientific common basis, genetics & discoveries and philosophical concepts, what can we epigenetics, Big Data, socialization, say about the nature of human uniqueness and the dark knowledge, creativity versus future of humanity as the global population is growing self-control, mixed-strategy dramatically? equilibrium, replicator function, population growth, capitalization Let us focus on Elusive Identity: of identity, technological impact, oligopolization of knowledge, Identity. To identify yourself. To identify with something. “postfaktisch”, Internet, Being identified by others. Identifying others. Is there an secured identity. identity without identifying? Identification is feeling a part of something or someone. This feeling of belonging also brings forth a delimitation: that is not me, that does not belong to me. In order to be able to categorize yourself, others or to be categorized by others, a common basis is needed. The genetic code defines through its individual combination which species or sex we belong to, what we look like etc. In parts it even defines our emotions or our susceptibility to illnesses, and our tastes. We possess/ own our Data, our genetic identity through our parents, who give us one set of chromosomes each. The expression of our genes is also dependent on our environment, which affects our characteristic values through genetic modifications. The complexity of interactions between the various levels, that our identity is shaped on, affects an overall picture that eventually fuses to form an identity. However, this image is dynamic, thus defining identity in all its entirety seems an impossible undertaking. Nevertheless, we can try to illuminate some of its facets and find factors that influence its shaping. The evolutionary landscape of identity can be perceived in various ways, elusively? ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

70 - 71 Projects ELUSIVE IDENTITY – PANEL DISCUSSION 28 JAN 2017: THE PANELISTS’ VISIONS Discussion was moderated by Dr Lindsay Petley-Ragan David Glowacki – Dr, Royal Society Research Fellow, University of Bristol (UK) Perpetual change is amongst the only constants in our phenomenological experience. Over the past few decades, there has been a significant evolution across many fields of scientific enquiry. Workers have increasingly adopted a time-dependent dynamical perspective in their understanding of natural systems, which recognizes the fact that bodies are in continual motion, and that their motion is governed by a network of interactions. Any specific structural identity is in fact a transient snapshot within a larger dynamical unfolding. This new perspective constitutes an important development compared to older structural perspectives, which tended to emphasize and idealize the snapshots, without recognizing that they represent simply one particular instance along a larger unfolding. There is a sort of inherent relational tension between the dynamical and structural perspectives: the ability to accurately and unambiguously characterize dynamical unfolding involves noting difference with respect to a fixed structural reference point. Similarly, the ability to accurately and unambiguously isolate what constitutes identity (the qualities of being the same) depends on analysis of the unfolding constellation of differences. In a world where the pace of change (and hence our understanding of difference) across both time and space is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, it is perhaps no surprise that identity is asserting itself. Eran Hadas – artist, poet, programmer/ Tel-Aviv (IL) Over the course of the past five years, we encounter more and more decisions being made by machines, which were thought to be within the capability of solely humans. The advent of powerful algorithms combined with the massive collection of user-generated data by Hi-Tech corporations has led to unprecedented achievements in the field of Machine Learning, especially using Deep Neural Networks. Computers have minimized the gap from humans in various tasks such as computer vision, voice recognition and more. The striking fact about all those algorithms is that in fact they are all the same. Machine Learning is about collecting the data, formatting it in a computer-friendly way, and then training the system on it; fishing for patterns in order to generalize from examples (…). Faced with the need to explain our human identity to a non-human, we are undergoing a Reverse Turing Test, having to prove that we are human and not machines. However, we can also learn something about the shallowness of deep learning, and about the difficulty of an algorithm to capture the complexities of humanity just by generalizing from data. Joanna Hoffmann – ASN Chair, Prof. Dr, University of Arts in Poznań (PL) Key words: Big and Small Data, human identity, internet of minds, creativity How can we find and define accurately beyond biometric parameters our identity within our “infinitively big and infinitely small” (B. Pascal) universe of Big Data? In the 5th Century B.C. Pythagoras introduced the concept of the World Harmony merging micro and macro scales of our world. Which model of reality/ identity do we create today in the technology driven world, by the interface between Big and Small Data, when today’s Internet of things may turn into tomorrow’s Internet of minds? Art & Science Node