Based upon three main concepts of this Festival: “Arts&Science,” “Error, Fake & Failure” and “Error in progress,” one list of special sessions will be held on Saturday 08.09, under the name “Artists Talks.” In each of them, selected artists from different areas of Art&Science will present their artistic work, showing from a forensic approach the deconstruction of their processes of creation and research. These sessions enable the attendants to see the connection of Error, Fake and Failure with creativity, and to learn different strategies and methodologies directly from the artist experience.
| Anna Dumitriu (UK), Alex May (UK) | ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form |
| Marco Donnarumma (IT/DE) | Amygdala: skin-cutting rituals, AI and other tales |
| Robertina Šebjanič (SI) & Gjino Šutić (HR) | aqua_forensic of aquaforming |
| Ece Tankal (TR) & Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (US/MX) | In emergency, break glass! |
| Marjan Colletti (IT/AT/GB), Daniela Mitterberger (AT), Tiziano Derme (IT/AT) | Pahoehoe beauty / Fragile 6 / architecture interfaced between technology and environment |
| Nathalie Regard (MX/FR) | I forget then I remember |
Anna Dumitriu (UK), Alex May (UK): ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May will discuss the creative process behind their project “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” an underwater robotic installation that explores what ‘life’ might mean in the future. It is based on new research about archaea (one of the three domains on the tree of life) combined with the latest innovations in machine learning & AI and builds on their extensive body of robotic artworks. myrobotcompanion.com
Robertina Šebjanič (SI) & Gjino Šutić (HR): aqua_forensic of aquaforming
aqua_forensic illuminates the invisible anthropogenic (pharmaceutical) chemical pollutants – residues of human consumption – “monsters” in the waters. The project combines art/science/citizen science in a “hunt for a phantom” and opens the discussion about our solidarity and empathy with waters beyond human perception. It’s a voyage into the relationship between the microbial seas and humans who are *aquaforming* the water habitats all around the planet. The question is: How do the oceans feel our impact?
Ece Tankal (TR), Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (US/MX): In emergency, break glass!
Hyphen-Labs experiments in immersive, computationally-driven, large scale installations that combine conceptual art, design and science. Hyphen-Labs will speak about co-collaboration and the use of emerging technology in their recent projects, highlighting themes of privacy and surveillance through the lens of speculative design, objects, neuroscience, architecture and virtual reality. Co-founders Carmen and Ece will also discuss the design processes behind their recent project, NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism; the first chapter of a science fiction story placing you in Brooks’ “neurocosmetology lab.” Here, instead of ordinary braids, customers are fitted with transcranial electrodes that combines brain optimization research with timeless black hair rituals.
Daniela Mitterberger (AT), Marjan Colletti (IT, AT, UK), Tiziano Derme (IT, AT): Pahoehoe beauty / Fragile 6 / architecture interfaced between technology and environment
“Truth to material should not be a criterion of the value of a work – otherwise a snowman made by a child would have to be praised at the expense of a Rodin or a Bernini” (Henry Moore, 1951)
The hefty weight of responsibility (in terms of economy and in particular ecology) which was recently put upon architecture’s shoulders drastically challenges the discipline’s approach and relationship to nature as much as to technology. Thus, some of us (architects) are seriously exploring ways of naturalizing architecture. At the same time, we should speculate with the notion of architecturalizing nature…
