[ecrea] 'Polytech.Science.Art' program

POLYTECHNIC MUSEUM PRESENTS “POLYTECH.SCIENCE.ART” PROGRAM


Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, Russia, announces the launch of 
'Polytech.Science.Art' program dedicated to one of the most significant 
phenomenon of contemporary culture – interdisciplinary collaboration 
between artists, scientists and technology specialists. The program 
starts in 2014 with a series of workshops and lectures of international 
and Russian experts, artists, researchers, including influential 
representatives of science art, the experts acknowledged by 
international scientific community and granted with numerous awards and 
prizes, as well as young professionals. Many of them will present their 
projects in Russia for the first time.

'Polytech.Science.Art' program experts (Danja Vasiliev, Sonia Cillari, 
Stefania Serafin, Artemis Papageorgiou, Robert Henke, Julian Oliver and 
some others are among them in 2014)  will help to formulate a 
comprehensive idea on the synthesis of science, art and technology as an 
artistic method, a space for innovation, will present art projects 
showing scientific and technological approaches, innovative methods. The 
experts and Russian participants' collaboration results will be not only 
of artistic, but also theoretical significance as every project of the 
program is a research of interaction between science, art and technology.

'Polytech.Science.Art' in 2014 is a unique series of workshops embracing 
such scientific disciplines as information technology, neurobiology, 
physics, psychoacoustics, fibertronics and others. Each workshop lasts 
from 3 to 5 days and consists of lecture and practical sessions. There 
will be open call before every workshop to select from 8 to 15 
participants. For those who is selected by the experts, participation is 
free of charge. In the end of each event an open-attendance presentation 
(exhibition, performance) will be held. Open access will be provided for 
a number of lectures within the framework of the program.

The first workshop opening the program is OTHERNET by Danja Vasiliev. It 
starts on March 19 until March 21 at the ARTPLAY Design Center. Danja 
Vasiliev is a Russian media artist based in Berlin. Danja has been 
awarded by the Europe’s most representative new technologies art award 
Prix Ars Electronica in the nomination Cyberart (Newstweek project). 
Danja Vasiliev’s OTHERNET workshop debuted in January, 2014 in Berlin 
during Transmediale, one of the largest festivals of digital art and 
technology advancements. OTHERNET is dedicated to information technology 
in arts, tactics and technical realization of independent, hidden 
networks, avant-garde media and hacktivism within the framework of 
“Post-Internet now” concept.

'Polytech.Science.Art' program curator - Natalia Fuchs.

For the reference:
In the 21st century the division between science and art is being 
overcome successfully: artists tend to use cutting edge technologies in 
their work, not merely a dialogue between art and scientific community 
is being observed, but creative collaboration yielding unexpected, 
prominent results as well. Thanks to the great advance of science and 
technology, the worldview has been changing dramatically, that has had 
its effect on the outlook, on the treatment of the verges of 
possibility. Methods used in contemporary art objects creation and in 
the field of scientific innovations intersect and complement each other, 
communication between artists, scientists and technology specialists 
kick-starts the development of common space of ideas and discoveries. 
Polytechnic Museum plans to support the development of that promising 
cultural movement and create a platform for innovation activities, 
collaborative projects, information exchange between artists and 
scientists and technology specialists of different fields in future. In 
2010-2011 Polytechnic Museum  in Moscow presented a number of 
experimental projects together with art&science curators and artists 
working in Russia (in particular, the exhibitions Columbus’s Egg 
(Laboratoria Art&Science Space, Moscow), Illusion. >From a Fair Sideshow 
to the Media Installation (NCCA, Nizhny Novgorod) and Mythology Online). 
In the historical building of the Polytechnic Museum the international 
symposium “Brainstorms. The Artist in the Context of Neuroscience“ was 
also conducted in 2012 (curator – Daria Parkhomenko).

'Polytech.Science.Art' program
Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia
Email: (polytechscienceart /at/ gmail.com)
Web: http://www.polymus.ru/en/




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Natalia Fuchs /

Interdisciplinary Projects Curator

Polytech.Science.Art:

Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia
Cell: +79104320152
Web: http://www.polymus.ru


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