We are please to announce that i-DAT’s Coral Manton has been awarded a South West Creative Technology Immersion Fellowship….

IMMERSION 2018-19

We are please to announce that i-DAT’s Jane Grant has been awarded a South West Creative Technology Immersion Fellowship….

IMMERSION 2018-19

CODEX, an international Postgraduate Research network operating in the volatile and dynamic space that frames new interdisciplinary art and design practices is launched in January 2018. The Full-Time PhD consists of an 18-month Residency Period in the UK followed by a Mobility period in the collaborating institution.
Introducing: http://codex-research.net/

The first link in this network is signed between the School of Design, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China and the School of Art Design and Architecture in Plymouth UK.

 
Professor Zhang Linghao, Dean of the School of Design Jiangnan University and Professor Mike Phillips at the CODEX signing ceremony.

Dr. Gianni Corino has been selected to be part of the GLUON scientist in residency program. The programme is a collaboration between Ars Electronica, BOZAR, the Serpentine Gallery and several universities and research institutions . Gianni will be working work with famous Belgian painter Luc Tuymans in his studio in early 2018.

Dr Corino’ GLUON launch presentation at Ars Electronic, Linz.

GLUON Session at Ars Lectctronica with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Dujardin, Rachel Rose, Manthia Diawara, Damian Ortega, Jan de Cock, Beatrice de Gelder, Gerfried Stocker, Christophe De Jaeger.

Gluon launches Scientist in Residence program
What happens when the ‘artist in residence’ model reverses into science? The GLUON Scientist-In-Residence programme is designed for a new generation of scientists interested in collaborating with artists.
Our intention is to challenge the hierarchy between the arts & empirical sciences predominant in the twentieth century, and challenge the technological and scientific determinism by enabling artists’ to input experimentally creative, critical and societal ideas.
The GLUON Scientist-in-Residence programme is a collaboration between Ars Electronica, BOZAR, the Serpentine Gallery and several universities and research institutions. For the 2017/18 edition of the programme Hans Ulrich Obrist has been invited as the lead curator along with invited artists Rachel Rose, Manthia Diawara, Jan De Cock & Damian Ortega.
The initiative will be accompanied by two exhibitions: a poster show with slogans and statements from the participating researchers, as well as a historical exhibition on highlighting arts and technology organisations which have added significantly to shaping the future of interdisciplinary collaborations.

Delighted to be invited to contribute to:
http://www.techniqua.it/assets/techworks/glossa-ordinaria/western_blank-space.htm

“Space: In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs(characters). Conventions for spacing vary among languages, and in some languages the spacing rules are complex.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(punctuation)
Techniqua is the latin Id of the italian designers Francesca Giuliani and Lino Mocerino.

 
Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai, China
Beyond Digital – Toward Biological 
2017.12.20
Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Stig Anton Nielsen, David Kadish, Stavros Didakis
Chronus Art Center (CAC) is China’s first nonprofit art organization dedicated to the presentation, research / creation and scholarship of media art. CAC with its exhibitions, residency-oriented fellowships, lectures and workshop programs and through its archiving and publishing initiatives, creates a multifaceted and vibrant platform for the discourse, production and dissemination of media art in a global context. CAC is positioned to advance artistic innovation and cultural awareness by critically engaging with media technologies that are transforming and reshaping contemporary experiences.

 
Degenerative Cultures
Project runtime: December 13, 9 AM – December 15, 2017, 2 PM
Locations for viewing and interacting:
Fungal feedback loop at Classense Library (via Alfredo Baccarini 3, Ravenna, Italy)
Project ephemera at MAR (Museum of Art in Ravenna, via di Roma 13, Ravenna, Italy)
Fungal twitterfeed at @HelloFungus (twitter feed on Internet)

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Cesar & Lois advance the fungal colonization of human knowledge systems through the merging of fungal networks and Internet-based communications. A growing fungal colony tweets as it grows over/redacts the text of a book. Fungi grow on physical books about the human endeavor to dominate nature, with degenerative readouts tweeted by fungi as it grows. In a reversal of typical planetary dynamics, the fungal network overtakes the human system. Retweets by human viewers impact the fungal readings. Through this “bhiobrid” network, Internet users can communicate with the fungus and help to spread a kind of “digital spores.”
If one considers human societies as a biological culture on Earth, our substrate is the global ecosystem. Incongruously, human societies consistently destroy this substrate, resulting in a massive cumulative loss of data in the form of species extinctions and environmental devastation. This behaviour is conceptualized, planned and justified with ideas of control, domestication and the superiority of humanity proliferated through religion, science, philosophy and other contexts of society. Degenerative Cultures integrates different forms of life in a poetic act of cooperation, crossjng boundaries between biological and digital networks in order to corrupt the cultural patterns of the more devastating aspects of modernity.
Degenerative Cultures accommodates the opposite flow of information degradation and allows nature to disrupt human cultures through the degeneration of text. The algorithmic scaling of the biological culture’s growth and resulting censoring of human culture generate a continuous series of fungal tweets by @HelloFungus. Retweets produce a responsive feedback loop between these natural and technological networks.
Fungi form a natural Internet, sending signals and connecting nodes through mycelia. This project combines this Internet of Natural Things with the Internet in a “bhiobrid” system that permits a feedback loop between human and microbiological cultures. Books, as symbolic objects, are the storage vaults of human knowledge. For most human societies, knowledge, even when digitized, is stored in text, which is ultimately essential for storing/restoring human culture.
The project is a collaboration between Cesar Baio and the League of Imaginary Scientists (LOIS) under the artist pseudonym Cesar & Lois. The project has a basis in Cesar Baio’s art on the playful disruption of systems of technology and power and LOIS’ data play with nature. In their various bodies of work, Cesar Baio shows that disruptions to algorithms are natural to autonomous systems, while LOIS replicates degradative datastreams sourced in nature.
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The project is part of Generative Art International Exhibition at Museum of Art of Ravenna, on view from 13th to 15th of December.
Project runtime: December 13, 9 AM – December 15, 2017, 2 PM

Locations for viewing and interacting:
Fungal feedback loop at Classense Library (via Alfredo Baccarini 3, Ravenna, Italy)
Project ephemera at MAR (Museum of Art in Ravenna, via di Roma 13, Ravenna, Italy)
Fungal twitterfeed at @HelloFungus (twitter feed on Internet)
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Online documentation and images can be found at:
http://imaginaryscience.org/project/bhiobrid/
For publications and exhibition histories, please visit:
cesarbaio.net
imaginaryscience.org
[su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ margin=”5″] Research and lab work for Degenerative Cultures was supported by:
Scott Morgan, Biologist at California State University San Marcos.