[ecrea] Polytech.Science.Art 2015

The Polytechnic Museum in Moscow announces 2015 start of the 
Polytech.Science.Art program. New season of the Polytechnic Museum’s 
program Polytech.Science.Art will open with the Biosemiotics workshop by 
artist Michal Brzezinski (Poland) at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

Within Polytech.Science.Art program in 2015, Polytechnic Museum 
continues to constitute the platform for experimental and innovation 
activities related to science and technology art. The Polytechnic 
Museum’s program Polytech.Science.Art curated by Natalia Fuchs is an 
interdisciplinary collaboration, an intensive exchange between media 
artists and curators, technology specialists and scientists from 
different countries; commission of new artworks.

In 2015, Polytech.Science.Art program is made up of two series of 
workshops featuring distinguished international experts in science and 
technology art. The program’s workshops are available for all the 
applicants preselected for each event. The program results will be 
presented at the new annual international festival Polytech.Science.Art 
Week in Moscow, sided by the final exhibition of the new artworks 
commissioned by Polytech.Science.Art at the Garage Museum of 
Contemporary Art in December, 2015.

Details on the Polytech.Science.Art program workshops:

On March 11 to 14, 2015, bioartist and futurologist Michal Brzezinski 
(Poland) launches his workshop on biosemiotics of plants, the study 
researching sign systems of plants and other living organisms.

On April 14-16, 2015, media artist and industrial designer Ale de la 
Puente (Mexico) runs her workshop in Moscow. Ale studies quantum physics 
and collaborates with National Institute of Astronomy in Mexico City, 
she was one of the first participants of the CERN art&science residence.

In May, 2015, the Polytechnic Museum welcomes Peter Kirn, the founder of 
CDM / CreateDigitalMusic, PhD Candidate in Music Composition at The City 
University of New York Graduate Center, he runs his 4-days workshop on 
the topic of synesthesia.

In September, 2015, Mico Rex (Mexico) open their 4-days workshop for 
sound artists and programmers. They study algorithmic music and its 
visualization, work with Supercollider technology.

The workshops by Peter Kirn and Mico Rex are organized in partnership 
with the MIGZ International Festival of Contemporary Music and Media Art.

In October, 2015, artist and researcher in anthropology and ecology, 
postgraduate student of the Cognitive Neuroscience and Media Arts at 
Duke University Pinar Yoldas (Turkey) runs her 3-days workshop 
“Ecosystem of Excess”.

In November, 2015, artist of Belgian descent Pascale Pollier-Green gives 
an insight into the intersection between modern medicine, art and 
technology during her 4-days workshop in Moscow. Pascale is the founder 
of BIOMAB (Biological and Medical Art in Belgium), and the president of 
the European Association of Medical and Scientific Illustration.

Apart from the creative workshops and the final international 
Polytech.Science.Art Week in December 2015, the Polytech.Science.Art 
program will feature the special summer sessions throughout August 2015 
at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design dedicated to 
the Russian-French collaboration in science and technology art. The 
special project Sound & Vision by the Polytech.Science.Art program and 
California College of the Arts will be presented at the Garage Museum of 
Contemporary Art as well, scheduled to feature Genesis P-Orridge, Brian 
Eno and Kim Gordon, on September 11-13, 2015.

For reference:
Polytech.Science.Art is an experimental program by the polytechnic 
Museum, dedicated dedicated to one of the most significant phenomena of 
contemporary culture — interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, 
scientists and engineers. In 2014, the Polytech.Science.Art program 
featured a number of workshops illustrating practical interaction 
between technology and art in the today’s world. During 2014, the 
participants were learning hacktivism and avant-garde media with Danja 
Vasiliev (Russia/Germany); identified themselves within the interactive 
environment guided by Sonia Cillari (Italy); applied methods of 
augmented reality to the urban spaces directed by Arturo Castro (Spain); 
learned about fibertronics and made an interactive map of Moscow on 
e-textile enabling microcomputers and sensors together with Artemis 
Papageorgiou (Greece); visualized their own brain signals using neural 
interfaces with Enzo Varriale (Italy) and explored sonic environment at 
the improvised laboratory by Aalborg University (Denmark). The results 
of the program’s first year were presented within the 
Polytech.Science.Art Week at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in 
December, 2014. The final exhibition Hopscotch displayed seven pieces 
created during the creative workshops of the Polytech.Science.Art program.

Polytech.Science.Art program curator – Natalia Fuchs, art historian 
(Media Art Histories, Donau Universität) and cultural management expert 
(Cultural Management, University of Manchester).

See the program details: psa.polymus.ru


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