The UK based non-profit organization Planet Art eXchange is looking for European partners for a project to be submitted under the Culture Programme, Strand 1.1 (deadline: 1st October 2009). The project aims to catalyse cross-sector and artists collaboration in the field of information arts, at the intersection with science and technology. The state-of-the art nomadic venue to be designed by FABRICATORS will be touring Europe with 2 exhibitions of 3 months each year. During each of the 6 months of the annual cycle, one different information art strand will be covered: Digital Art, Biology Art, Math Art, Physics Art, Communication Art, Architecture. The project is also setting an e-platform for the creation of collaborative artworks that will be exhibited / displayed in artosphere.
Partners are needed to host ARTOSPHERE in their cities and co-organise the said festivals. We have already several partners from all over Europe and we welcome any new partner wishing to bring its creative and innovative contribution to the development of the project. The curatorial panel of the project comprises:
o Steve Wilson, Head, Conceptual Information Arts (CIA) Program, San Francisco State University and Author of Information Arts (MIT Press,2002) and Art, Science and Technology Today (Thames & Hudson)
o Franz Fischnaller, Founder of FABRICATORS. Franz is an Italian media scholar, an artist, a designer, a researcher and a producer operating in the fields of art, design, archeology, architecture, science and technology.
o George W. HART, research professor – Stony Brook University , New York ( USA ), Chair, Bridges Organization
o Jacki Morie, Chair of Digital Arts Committee, SIGGRAPH, Project Manager and Principal Investigator for the Sensory Environments Evaluation (SEE) Project. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
o Mike Stubbs, Executive Director, (FACT) Foundation of Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool , UK
o Jan Edler, Architect and Director, Realities United - award winning studio for art, architecture and technology. realities:united develops and supports architectural solutions, usually incorporating new media and information technologies.
o Stanza, NESTA and AHRC award winning media artist, London
o Mark Amerika, Award winning Media artist who has had four international retrospectives of his digital art work, one at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, one at the Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, one at Ciber@rt Bilbao 2004, and one at FILE in Sao Paulo .
Expressions of interest can be sent to Dr Lotfi Kaabi / lotfi@pax08.com Tel: +44 7910 908 758 For more information: http://www.artosphere.info