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CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Foto: David Außerhofer Manfred Holler – Prof. Dr, Faculty of Economy and Social Studies, Hamburg University (DE) Will creativity converge? This “paper” contains a formal model which analysis the interrelationship of creativity, on the one hand, and self-control on the other. The relationship of these two dimensions specifying the selected identity is given by a matrix which represents an Inspection Game (IG). The analysis demonstrates that creativity, though constrained by self-control, does not necessarily converge to the mixed-strategy equilibrium (p*, q*) which characterizes IG. In fact, the measures of self-control and creativity (e.g., p and q, respectively) circle around (p*, q*). The underlying evolutionary process is described by simple replicator functions of the Malthusian type. The model produces a cyclical process with fixed amplitudes. The size of the amplitude depends on the initial conditions and external shocks. Creativity does not converge. Jonathan Jeschke – Prof. Dr, Freie Univeristaet, Institute of Biology; Ecological Novelty Research Group, Dark Knowledge Research Group/ Berlin (DE) Identity relates to what we know about ourselves and about others. In the era of Big Data, those analyzing such data know a lot about us, whereas we know little about them. The era of Big Data thus seems to lead to a concentration of knowledge: some people and organizations (e.g. Google, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica) know a lot, whereas the average knowledge of people in the public decreases rather than increases. Should we call this the oligopolization of knowledge? Those that know a lot seem to become increasingly interested in manipulating identities based on big-data analysis, e.g. for elections. Such manipulations further decrease public knowledge, thus they increase dark knowledge. At the beginning of the era of Big Data, we were optimistic about the possibilities this era offers. Now, however, the international word of the year is post-truth (the German word of the year “postfaktisch”), and the public does not really seem to benefit from Big Data. Is there a way out? Ralf Schäfer – Dr, Head of Video Division, Chairman 3IT, Frauenhofer Institute Berlin (DE) We have involved in the topic of Identity, but more in a technical sense than in a philosophical sense. Identity is gaining more and more importance, because we need to identify ourselves for all kind of electronic transactions (e.g. communication, e-banking), to protect our private data (e.g. e-health) or for entering certain spaces (e.g. offices, labs, security areas). In this sense, we work on technologies to identify people. Our work is related to video technology in order to enable the recognition of people even under severe conditions (e.g. lighting, viewing angles). We are even partner in a Berlin-based network “Sichere Identität Berlin-Brandenburg”. Special guestes 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) Eliza Wyszko, Prof. Dr hab., Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (PL) ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

72 - 73 Projects EXHIBITION: THE ARTWORK Anna Anders | Under Cover video installation, 2011 In a dark space, an illuminated pile of white fabric lies on the floor. Under the fabric, a strange creature seems to be constantly moving around. One can hear the rustling of the cloth and observe how the bundle repeatedly reforms. The viewer can barely recognize whether the shadows and folds are real or projected. Old fears from childhood arouse. Normally, Anna Anders’ video works include actors in very colourful settings. Yet this group of works renounce color and direct illustration. Hardly anything can be seen anymore; it can only be imagined. This formal reduction and elementary nature provoke our imaginations – and can elicit a very uncanny feeling. Anna Anders has worked with video since 1986. Her films and installations were shown in numerous festivals, exhibitions and art fairs worldwide. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and 1995 she completed a postgraduate study at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). From 1997 until 2001 she was an assistant professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Two pictures on the left present screenshots fromthe video taken from http://eranhadas.com/ frankie-robot/ Eran Hadas | Frankie, in collaboration with Maayan Sheleff and Gal Eshel documentary robot, 2013 Documenting human identity – Frankie is a documentary robot that interviews people while attempting to learn what it means to be human. It responds to certain emotions both with language and eye/ camera movements, creating computer generated, emotion inspired videos. The videos are uploaded to a website, forming an archive of the robot’s research. 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. Eran Hadas is an Israeli poet, software developer, new media artist and the author of seven books. Hadas also creates hypermedia poetry and develops software based poetry generators. Among his collaborative projects is a headset that generates poems from EEG brain waves, and a documentarian robot that interviews people about what it means to be human. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects 74 - 75 Jill Scott | Jellyeyes: Evolution and Vision Joanna Hoffmann | Tones & Whispers, with soundscape by Dave Lawrence interactive art – the mobile phone version, 2016 3 channel multimedia installation, 2005 (documentation) The piece recalls Pythagorean concept of the mathematical Jellyeyes is a combination of interactive art, ecology and Harmony of the World, acknowledged as the most influential neuroscience. It is an augmented reality experience that and beautiful thought born by the human mind. The idea of gives viewers an insight into the evolution of our human eyes consonant relations between Musica Mundana (Music of Spheres) and our relationship to the eyes of the Australian box jellyfish and Musica Humana (Music of the human body and soul) has and the squid (calamari). Jellyeyes provides immersive inspired generations of both scientists and artists trying to define interactions with co-evolution, structural evolution and the elusive and transient human identity in face of the infinitude comparative evolution. The iPhone camera sees of the Cosmos and its universal laws. Today, when the existential a photograph of the Barrier Reef in real time and the viewer emptiness is being filled up with the vague cloud of Big Data can explore words, images, films and sounds to reflect upon and knowledge, Pythagorean dream does not lose its actuality. the evolution of vision and how it is related to symbiosis, Still, the updated version of Music of Sphere, with vibrating tones movement, survival and the environment. But two other reflecting the movement of planets around the Sun, opens the characters also swim in the same sea: the unaware tourist sonic essay on the Golden Record carried by spaceships Voyager I (or hunter) and the evolutionary biologist (or collector). & II on their inter-galaxy journey. These vibrations, containing data We are much closer to sea animals than we imagine but of milliards years of existence indicate not only our position in the what kind of affect is our behavior having on them? Space, but also our elusive, creative and ever-evolving identity. With special thanks to Barbara Buchholtz (theremin), dr Lauren Stewart Jill Scott and Marille Hahne, AIL Productions. Programming: Functional Imaging Laboratory, London University & European South Nikolaus Volzow, Animation; Natascha Jankovski, With special Observatory, NSSDC. thanks to the Film School Munich, Funded by Pro Helvetia, The Swiss Arts Council. Joanna Hoffmann (Prof. Dr hab.) is Professor of the University of Arts in Poznań, where she leads the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects & Jill Scott (Dr) is Professor for Art and Science Research at the Institute Research (AE/UAP). She is also co-founder and Chair of the Art & Science of Cultural Studies in the Arts, Zürich University of the Arts. She is also Node in Berlin. Her artistic works have been widely presented in Poland, founder of the Artists-in-Labs Program, and Vice Director of the Z-Node Great Britan, USA, Germany and Japan. 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. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) David Glowacki | MICRO-CHOREOGRAPHY, in colaboration with Becca Rose VR environment, 2016 The entire cosmos, at every level of organization, is in perpetual motion. Life itself emerges from the micro- choreography of invisible building blocks. (...) The perpetually chaotic motion of atomic and molecular bodies arises from the fact that any given atom is embedded in a network of complex interactions. The motion of any given atom depends on (and simultaneously influences) the motion of every other atom in the system. The “Micro-Choreography” art installation, which will premier as part of Transmediale, utilizes the latest advances in scientific computing, real-time simulation, digital aesthetics, and virtual reality to embed participants in a world where they can interact with the dynamical choreography of the microscopic world. This installation provides a unique glimpse into the dynamics of the microscopic nano-world which is taking place around us all the time, but which is too small for our eyes to see. It also offers a glimpse into the fact that our phenomenological lived experience, which depends on nano- architectures, is in fact intertwined with a larger microscopic dynamical unfolding. Dr David Glowacki is a renowned scientist, digital artist and cultural theorist who holds a PhD in physical chemistry. He is a Royal Scociety Research Fellow at the University of Bristol where he leads an eclectic research group between the Centre for Computational Chemistry and the Department of Computer Science. Becca Rose is artist, designer and educator based in Bristol, UK. She makes playful work at the intersection of folk-art, storytelling, and creative-technology. She also designs and facilitates creative learning experiences. Becca has an MA in Design from Goldsmiths College, University of London. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

76 - 77 Projects Rafał Zapała | Emotiondistortion interactive sound installation, 2017 So there is no good or bad feelings, there’s only an arousal’s level and interpretation ... Emotion is a disruption [...] meditate to be/have a stable posthuman state ... Relax – mind is a muscle AN EMOTION DISTORTS A MESSAGE, AN EMOTION IS A BLURRING B****! (anonymous ineternet quotations) The installation is a unipersonal instrument driven by data acquired from the body of the user: the registration of the voice and EEG of the brain. The emotional tensions interfere and transform the sound. The user can control these processes to achieve a post-human “clear message”. Dr Rafal Zapala is Ass. Prof. at Composition Dept. and SMEAMuz, Academy of Music in Poznań. His music was presented at contemporary music festivals, jazz clubs, experimental music venues and open, public spaces. Artist-in-residence at Stanford University–CCRMA, Culture Center “Zamek”, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic, ZK/U Berlin and other. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Vesna Petresin | The Dreams Our Thing Are Made of interactive multimedia performance, documentation [premiere: BEYOND Festival; October 1, 2016 @ ZKM Karlsruhe] In natural systems, structures emerge as transitory states at all scales, evolve under the influence of force fields and adjust their behaviour to accommodate changes; form can be described as dynamic totality of energies under transformation. Current cultural condition dictates a similar state of flux: the sense of self and identities are shifting, and the boundaries between the public and personal, between matter and media, have been blurred. By creating a new interface between the self, the other and the world beyond, information technology takes part in constructing and controlling our reality. The virtual generates a proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe, which is unconstrained by reality. But while reality may be an artifice – a projection of our minds, ambiguity may be an instrument of revealing its illusory, ever-shifting nature. Our bodies, however, are made of the same particles as the known universe. Credits: Text, narration, soundtrack composition and performance, film directing, interaction for live performance: Vesna Petresin; Soundtrack composition, sound production: Nick Trepka; Film: Rubedo, Factory Fifteen; Camera: Frank Gessner; Film editing and post-production: Jonas Piroth. Dr. Vesna Petresin (born in Ljubljana, works and lives in London and Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist and thinker. She has a practice as a time-architect, composing and performing with sound, light, rhythm, space, movement, text and code. She has exhibited and performed at Tate Modern, ArtBasel Miami, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Academy of Arts, Venice Biennale, Cannes International Film Festival & other art institutions worldwide. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

78 - 79 Projects CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): EVOLUTION II – WORKSHOP Workshop with Dr David Glowacki, Dr. Basile Curchod and Becca Rose As part of Micro-choreography installation’s premiere at Elusive Identity artists Becca Rose, Dr Basile Curchod and Dr David Glowacki have led a workshop exploring how our experiences of constructing tangible physical knots and tangles can inform our attempts to construct virtual molecular knots and tangles. In so doing, Art & Science Node aimed to explore questions of how object’s identity transfers from the physical to the virtual. Micro-choreography – workshop The workshop was part of the Capture the Future(s): Evolution II – Elusive Identity exhibition, made in course of Transmediale 2017 Festival. Art & Science Node

Capture the Future(s): Evolution II – Elusive Identity CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): EVOLUTION II Photos from the event led on January 28, 2017 at German Patent & Trademark Office – Information & Ser vice Centre Berlin. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S)

Projects 116 - 117 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

118 - 119 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 120 - 121 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 122 - 123 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 124 - 125 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 126 - 127 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 ASN PARTNER EVENTS WORLD WATER DAY 2016: WATER WORKS 142 - 143 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 A Breath for Leonardo EpiMimesis EpiZones EpiZone [NULL] 128 - 129 EpiZoneV: Shifting Identities IS ALL DATA? EpiMimesis – EpiZones The structure of the project consists of ten (9 + 0) IF WE ARE A SET OF DATA, WHICH IS separate par ts called ‘epiZones’. Each refers to various NEVER INDEPENDENT, OR FREE, AND levels of organization of matter and different research ALWAYS IN INTERACTION WITH OTHER areas. It is also connected with another mega-project, DATA OR BETWEEN SETS OF DATA? i.e. Rhizosphere: The Big Network of Small Worlds. 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 TAILORING A BETTER FUTURE WITH ‘BIG DATA’ EPILAB TEAM An artistic project realized in the interactive immersive environment being developed by EpiLab Team lead by Joanna Hoffmann. The Leader team consist of devoted artists, scientists and engineers. Prof UAP, Dr hab. Joanna Hoffmann Arts EpiMimesis refers to the perpetual human ambition to gain knowledge Ph.D. candidate, Piotr Słomczewski (UAP) over Big Data for tailoring a better future. EpiMimesis evokes the Dr Miłosz Margański (UAP) notion of mimesis as a creative method of combining art, science, and Andre Bartetzki technology, aimed at creating a new quality or orientation of mind, Humanities for stimulating imagination and reflection. Juliette Harvey Science In the universe of interacting data which are never independent/ free, Prof. Dr hab. Janusz Bujnicki (IIMCB) but always in the interactions between other data or sets of data, what Prof Dr hab Eliza Wyszko (IBCh PAS) can we say about the uniqueness of human life and experience? How Dr Agnieszka Fedoruk-Wyszomirska (IBCh PAS) can wisely guide ourselves towards what we want to be, towards the Computer Sciences world we want to live? ... Dr Thomas Koch (3IT Freunhofer HHI) Łukasz Gruszka MEANING OF EPIMIMESIS Collaborators Dr Kamil Szpotkowski The prefix epi (originated in the Greek prefix epi- (ἐπι- “over, outside Sarah Frau of, around”) refers to the influence of the environment (both physical and digital) on an individual set of data (such as mySelf) and on PARTNERS evolutionary processes. The term mimesis (from the Greek term mimeisthai, “imitate”) indicates an imitative representation of the sensual world (nature). Developed by Plato and Aristotle, the term mimesis suggests a creative interpretation or modeling of nature. Looking not only for that what “is” or “was”, but what is likely or possible. The structure of EpiMimersis is divided into several parts titled ‘epiZones’, referring to various levels of organization of matter, societal issues and research areas. EpizoneV is at the heart of EpiMimesis. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

RHIZOSPHERE: THE BIG NETWORK OF SMALL WORLDS RHIZOSPHERE: PARTNERS & CO-OPERATIONS ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

32 - 33 Projects IN NATURE, THERE ARE NO MORE IMPORTANT AND LESS IMPORTANT, USEFUL AND HARMFUL. OUR EARTH MAINTAINS A BALANCE IN WHICH EVERY BEING PLAYS ITS ROLE AND LIVES ONLY THROUGH OTHER BEINGS. WE ARE PART OF THE NETWORK, ONE OF ITS THREADS. Prof. Piotr Skubała University of Silesia Art & Science Node

RHIZOSPHERE: THE BIG NETWORK OF SMALL WORLDS RHIZOSPHERE The Big Network of the Small Worlds PARTNERS AIM Art & Science Node Rhizosphere: The Big Network of Small Worlds project is an innovative Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research and comprehensive program in the field of art-science education. at Faculty of Artistic Education and Curatorial It serves as a response to changes taking place in the contemporary Studies of the University of Arts (UAP) in Poznań culture. The intention of its creators is to become part of avant-garde Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz and increasingly developing trends based on mutual relations of University (UAM) in Poznań art, science and technology. It constitutes a manifestation of higher education strategies aiming at raising the level of artistic education LEAD TEAM and mutual openness of the academic, research and creative environments, giving students access to interdisciplinary knowledge From UAP: and experience. For us, public engagement and education are one of Prof UAP, Dr hab. Joanna Hoffmann the most important challenges for the art & science community. Ph.D. candidate, Piotr Słomczewski OBJECTIVES From UAM: Prof UAM. Dr hab. Marlena Lembicz Research Prof UAM, Dr hab. Władysław Polcyn The team researches the plant network strategies (Wood Wide Web) Ph.D. candidate, Martyna Dominiak and the potential of the gained knowledge to impact a change in the cultural paradigms, ecological awareness and the development of COOPERATION social ecosystems. Art Geobotanical Station of Warsaw University, ASN foresees and implements science-art projects aimed at the Białowieża Forest National Park research of the horizontal network of the soil environment – Botanical Garden of the Adam Mickiewicz rhizosphere – in the context of the dynamic networks elsewhere, University in Poznań i.e. the society, economics, culture and more. Research Station of the Faculty of Biology, Adam Education Mickiewicz University (UAM), Radojewo The team aims at learning and passing on the knowledge on the Kazimierz Nowak Elementary School in Dąbrówka complexity of different relationship forms from the interconnections formed by plants and other organisms in the rhizosphere. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Projects BECAUSE OF ITS INTEGRITY, THE In the interactive networks OBLIGATORY NATURE OF PLANT COMMUNITIES When we look at the starry sky at night, it is difficult for us to AND THE IMPRESSIVE imagine the galaxies in the form of the spider webs. Nevertheless, COOPERATION ABILITIES, we know that even the smallest unit of information, a single THIS NEWLY DISCOVERED photon born in the nucleus of a distant star disturbs the peace of UNDERGROUND WORLD our rods and cones, mobilizing our visual perception. Looking at HAS BEEN TERMED THE three-dimensional simulations of the structure of the universe, “WOOD WIDE WEB”. fractal systems of neural networks or visualizations of the 36 - 37 internet connections network, we wonder if there aren’t actually more links than divisions in the micro- and macroworlds; in biological and technological structures of our existence. Thanks to the progress of science and technology, we are increasingly aware that the structure of our reality is based on dynamic, interactive networks of constantly processed data: from neural networks to the World Wide Web, circulatory system or vast river basins to social, economic and cultural phenomena. Every nanosecond there is a tremendous amount of interactions connecting all levels of our networked reality. Wood Wide Web Thanks to the latest technologies, soil environment research reveals a horizontal network of signaling and redistribution of resources, the area in which an extremely extensive root zone occurs, and the local networks of microorganisms and mycorrhizal fungi participate in. Because of its integrity, the obligatory nature of plant communities and the impressive cooperation abilities, this newly discovered underground world has been termed the Wood Wide Web. A platform for interdisciplinary & creative cooperation In accordance with the strategies of the small worlds, Rhizosphere: The Big Network of Small Worlds is a platform for interdisciplinary & creative cooperation. It includes individual projects and artistic quests, joint activities, inter- regional workshops, and scientific experiments. The structure of the rhizosphere network is open. The implementation of the program is based on exploration and experiment; on inter- environmental cooperation; on knowledge and experience sharing. It comprises innovative educational, artistic and research practices that cover practical classes, workshops, consultations, lectures, seminars, discussions, fieldwork, work in the laboratory, public presentations in the form of symposia and exhibitions. Art & Science Node

RHIZOSPHERE: THE BIG NETWORK OF SMALL WORLDS PROJECT’S ELEMENTS RESEARCH FIELDTRIPS 23.04.2018 fieldtrip at the Research Station of the Faculty of 24-28.04.2019 Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM), Radojewo fieldtrip at the Geobotanical Station of Warsaw University, Białowieża Forest National Park It is best to get inspiration from the Small Worlds Network in direct Fieldwork Research Station of the contact with it. The first fieldwork prepared and led by prof. Marlena Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz Lembicz and prof. Władysław Polcyn together with students of the University (UAM), Radojewo Faculty of Biology of UAM, organized especially for students of the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research, took place in Fieldwork at the Geobotanical Station the research area of the Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz of Warsaw University, Białowieża University in Radojewo in April of 2018. Late spring is a particularly Forest National Park intense growing season for the lower parts of the forest, before the Photo. Jadwiga Subczyńska leaves of the trees will limit the inflow of sunlight. Joint workshops allowed to see the diversity of phenomena that elude the layman’s eyes and stimulated reflection on the consequences of the green blidness, which is a reapidly progressing process among the urban society. At the end of April 2019 a fieldwork at the Geobotanical Station of the University of Warsaw in Białowieża took place. It was organized by prof. Marlena Lembicz in cooperation with the station’s director, dr Bogdan Jaroszewicz. The biological, historical and cultural significance of this ancient forest cannot be preaised enough. Experiencing it had a significant impact on the awareness and imagination of all participants. Białowieża Forest is a unique place, where the cycle of life and death takes on another dimension, where what seems dead is in fact a lively link in a larger dynamic system. Spending time experiencing it reveals man’s true place in a huge network of beings, evokes respect for the forces of nature. The multi- sensory, emotional experience of the forest environment, enriched with scientific lectures and open discussions, allowed for a deeper insight into the complexity and scale of ecological problems and challenges. It also showed a need for communication between various research environments and creation of interdisciplinary, comprehensive projects that allow sharing knowledge and experience. Art can play a unique role in the communication, dissemination and democratization of knowledge, activating cognitive processes, stimulating awareness and breaking patterns of thinking. ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

LOOKING AT 3D SIMULATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE, SYSTEMS OF NEURAL NETWORKS OR VISUALIZATIONS OF THE INTERNET CONNECTIONS NETWORK, WE WONDER IF THERE AREN’T ACTUALLY MORE LINKS THAN DIVISIONS IN THE MICRO- AND MACROWORLDS; IN BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL STRUCTURES OF OUR EXISTENCE. We live in the world where various networks combine with each LIKE THE MAN other; build both physical & visual and non-physical, non-visual MADE INTERNET, relations; work in an entanglement of beings, identities and times, THE WOOD WIDE between the past, the now and the future. This page represents WEB NETWORK this world of network connections. GROWS, IT EXCHANGES Left side of the network represents the natural world, constructing INFORMATION the Wood Wide Web (pictures taken by the participants of the AND SHARES Rhizosphere fieldwork in Białowieża in 2019). RESOURCES; IT HAS ITS OWN DEFENSE Right side represents other various networks existing in us and SYSTEMS. around us: - Neurons on Track (pic. by Max-Plank-Institute for Brain Research; h t t p s : // w w w. m p g . d e / i m a g e s - s c i e n c e); - the World Wide Web (pic. 2014 by LyonLabs, LLC and Barrett Lyon; h t t p s : // w w w. 3 d i n c i t e s . c o m / 2 01 3/10/c u - p i l l a r s - w l p - i n t e r n e t- o f - things/); - Supercomputer simulations probe the formation of galaxies and quasars in the universe (pic. by an international team of astrophysicists led by researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, https://www.mpg.de/research/supercomputer- simulations-galaxies-quasars-universe); - A Web of Dark Matter (pic. by Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy; https://www.mpg.de/images-science); - Virtual Reality entanglement (still from the work “EpiMimesis, EpiZone V: Shifting Identities” by Joanna Hoffmann).

NETWORK COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN KNOWN TO NATURE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS. WE ARE ONLY BEGINNING TO DISCOVER THE PRINCIPLES OF ITS OPERATION.



CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Capture the Future(s): OUR BIO-TECH PLANET The Routes to the Root Networks and Beyond ORGANIZER We turn to the roots and networks Art & Science Node In the face of threats and challenges of the age of the Anthropocene, Plant Biology Europe 2021 we turn to the roots – not only the metaphorical ones, but, above all, the incredibly effective and durable plant root-systems that have PARTNERS evolved over millions of years. CHIC Consortium Horizon 2020 How can we use the wise knowledge “from the roots” to improve the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research quality of our shared community life, and wisely head towards what at Faculty of Artistic Education and Curatorial we want to become, towards the world in which we want to live? Studies of the University of Arts (UAP), Poznań Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz The exhibition involves interdisciplinary conversations, which aim University (UAM), Poznań to raise awareness of the environmental and socio-political issues Laboratory of Biotic Iteractions, Poznań of our time. In this mutual exchange, artists were inspired and motivated by the scientific research related to sustainable solutions in bio development, genetic engineering, ecology, etc. In their turn, scientists, bioengineers and stakeholders in the bio-economy can engage in a productive dialogue with creative people that promotes the visibility of their projects. The exhibition comprise two interdisciplinary ASSET projects – Rhizosphere: The Big Network of the Small Worlds and CHIC, providing an international survey of artworks created by renowned as well as emerging artists in collaboration with scientists in the field of life sciences and biotechnology. SUPPORT Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland Schweizer Kulturstiftung Prohelvetia ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

82 - 83 Projects Władysław Polcyn – Statement In the face of threats and challenges of the age of Anthropocene, we turn to the roots – not only to metaphorical ones, but to incredibly effective and durable plant root-systems that have evolved over millions of years. How can we use wise knowledge “from the roots” to improve the quality of our shared / community life, and wisely head towards what we do want to become, towards the world in which we want to live? The exhibition involves interdisciplinary conversations, which aim to raise awareness of the environmental and social-political issues of our time. In this mutual exchange, artists instigated by new scientific researches related to sustainable solutions to bio development, genetic engineering, ecology, etc. In their turn, scientists, bioengineers and stakeholders in the bio- economy can engage in a productive dialogu. Art & Science Node

CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S) Myccorhiza – animation by Marta Bączyk ASSET = ART, SCIENCE, SOCIETY, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY

Morphism (still) animation, 2:20, 2019

MARTA BĄCZYK MORPHISM animation, 2:20 While experimenting with overlapping silhouettes created by re-drawing the figures taken from the photos of people close to her, artist noted the biomorphic potential of the emerging work. In the final outcome, the translucent and spacious character of the multiple layers merged by the use of tracing paper generated a sense of smooth, interchangeable transformations, that can be referred to both physical and metaphorical realities; and to the relationship we build with nature. The work presented in a way to build a visual analogy with microscopic studies, revealed the network construct of the social relations. It was followed by the reflection on the interdependence between the visible and hidden realms; societies and systems; nature and technology. Morphism (stills) animation, 2:20, 2019 Marta Bączyk 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.

Anna Dumitriu in Anna Dumitriu & Alex May (in collaboration with the EU CHIC Project) collaboration with Robert 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. Sevenier CRISPR transfected Chicory protoplasts with GAS gene knockout experiments at Keygene Laboratory.

ANNA DUMITRIU & ALEX MAY BIOTECHNOLOGY FROM THE BLUE FLOWER movie & interactive installation – project documentation (work in progress, to be published in 2022) Through an ongoing artists’ residency Anna Dumitriu and Alex May are exploring cutting edge contemporary research being undertaken by the CHIC Consortium, especially the potential future benefits of working with new plant breeding methods techniques such as CRISPR to provide future healthcare and food security. In their work so far they have focussed on the internal and external morphology of the plants as well as the cultural impacts of the plants throughout history, as an ancient remedy and a natural dye, to a coffee additive in times of crisis. Chicory was one of the plants (along with the cornflower) that inspired the idea of the Blue Flower in German Romanticism – a central symbol of the movement. The movement was in part a reaction to the industrial revolution and held nature and emotion in high esteem. In our current biotechnological revolution, the idea of the Blue Flower will become an important symbol again, but this time in a more complex position at the interface of nature and technology. Central to societal explorations of what may be acceptable in terms of synthetic biology and how ‘nature’ and ‘natural’ may be defined in the future. The artists are focussing on the areas of the use of chicory for dietary fibre and its impact on human health and the human microbiome, antibiotics, and the uses of inulin and medicinal terpenes extracted from Cichorium intybus (common chicory). They are working with the plants themselves: the roots, the flowers, and the seeds, as well as chicory flour, chicory inulin and terpenes, and other relics of the research process. These sculptural, physical materials are combined with 3D data and video footage to create the installation. Artwork made as the element of the 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 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 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

EpiZone [NULL]: PapiLLa (still) immersive, multisensory VR environment EpiZone [NULL]: PapiLLa (still) immersive, multisensory VR environment

JOANNA HOFMANN (WITH SOUNDSCAPE BY ANDRE BARTETZKI) RHIZONE: PAPILLA immersive, multisensory VR environment What will happen when the Internet of Everything will turn into the Internet of Minds? Rhizone: PapiLLa refers to the transformation of human identity in a world where organic and inorganic systems will merge into a new hybrid whole. Inspired by symbiotic natural systems of Wood Wide Web, the multi-sensual poetic narrative of Rhizone: PapiLLa immerses the viewer in a complex, multi-dimensional semi-biological information network, in which the boundaries between micro and macro systems, between “internal” and “external” data processing are blurred. The piece is an immersive installation combining Virtual Reality technologies with a sensory environment. The title refers to biological nodular formations often associated with the senses of touch, taste or smell, as well as to the organs of symbiosis between plants and bacteria produced by plants on their roots. PapiLLa It is a fractal of a virtual symbiote-system. It is its sensory organ, a hybrid space in which the viewer’s feelings and imagination co-create the invigorating thread of sympoiesis. The elusive threads of internal creation, such as the invasive threads of Rhizobium, connect PapiLLa with a structure devoid of spatial and temporal boundaries. Joanna Hofmann Professor of the University of Arts in Poznań, leader of 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 venues such as: the Center for Contemporary Arts in Warsaw; the Science Museum/DANA Centre and MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in London; the Transmediale Festival and European Patent Office in Berlin; the WRO Media Art Biennale in Wrocław; MUSE Centre of Photography and the Moving Image in New York; the BioQuant Centre in Heidelberg; and the Hiroshima City Museum in Japan. Andre Bartetzki German composer, sound designer and sound engineer, living in Berlin. Author of the renowned software CMask for algorithmic composition. Collaborated with many ensembles and composers of new music around the world. Presented his own compositions at many international festivals including BIMESP São Paulo, SICMF Seoul, SuperCollider Symposium Birmingham/Berlin/London. Andre Bartetzki studied sound engineering at the Musikhochschule “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. He founded and headed the Studio for Electroacoustic Music there until 2002. From 1999 to 2004 Andre also taught at the media faculty of the Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the Musikhochschule.

The Law of Relationship and Interdependence performance documentation

MAŁGORZATA KACZMAREK THE LAW OF RELATIONSHIP AND INTERDEPENDENCE performance (photo documentation), 2017 The Law of Relationship and Interdependence – Everything in the universe is connected, it results from each other, it is a process. The law of relationship and interdependence was a performance inspired by discussions with biologists; reflection on the problem of the interdependence of man and plant at a time when one is strictly dependent on the other. The idea behind the performance is to emphasize the relationship between man and plant – man provides the plant with heat, moisture and carbon dioxide from his body, while the plant gives man oxygen, thanks to which man can breathe. Małgorzata Kaczmarek student at the Studio for Transdisciplinary Project and Research, at the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies at the University of the Arts in Poznań. She feels best in spatial, social and performative projects, as well as those bordering on science and art. In her works, she tries to refer to the loss and powerlessness understood both at the level of social situations, as well as incomprehension or confusion in relation to scientific and para-scientific issues. For two years, she has been working with researchers from the Faculty of Biology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, so that she can speak about humanities through the language of science and about scientific problems through the language of art.

Urbes #10-16 Regnum vitrum #1 photography, 2020 photography, 2020 insect farms tropical animals and plants farms

LARYS ŁUBOWICKI REGNUM ANIMALE photographic series, 2020 A series of photographs depicting terrariums and museum dioramas is a question about the definition of “natural environment” in the modern world. Naturalness remains an idea that arouses longing. At the same time, it is an unreachable longing. Did we not condemn ourselves to a postnatural age. For a life in fact limited by the glass of the terrarium, filled with objects and ideas that only resemble a lost paradise. Regnum vitae #1 photography – exhibition view, 2020 scientific collection of the specimen Larys Łubowicki doctor of dentistry, avisual artist & photograph. In his work, he deals with the issues of perception of the material world, corporeality, death and mythologies about the animal world. He is interested in cognitive errors that contribute to the above-mentioned issues and the shift between reality and human imagination. According to the artist, art is a chance to abandon the illusion of showing reality, in favor of the reality of showing illusion.

Algorithmic Photography photos

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 Going beyond one’s own perspective, although conceptually possible, becomes an extremely difficult if not impossible, challenge. In private life, in science or in social awareness alike. What possibility do we have to argue with the concepts if we discuss them only with the help of our own universe of symbolic meanings? What real possibility of forming a critical opinion on our own interpersonal relationships or on a common paradigm do we have? The series of works constitutes an invitation to make an attempt of going beyond the centrifugal perspective of assessing the reality around us; to look at various issues (related to medicine, technology or nature) from a bird’s eye view, both symbolically and literally. This is made possible by the use of miniature figures penetrating various familiar objects in an unusual way. They CALL us IN, invite us to reflect on our situation in the face of disease or treatment, which may concern us both privately and in professional life (MediCALL IN cycle); to reflect on the presence of technology in interpersonal relations (TechniCALL IN cycle) or on the superior role of man over the natural world (NaturALL IN). 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.