The Future of Art & Science collaborations waag.org/en/project/future-art-science-collaborations Project Luca di Tommaso 2012 The Future of Art & Science Collaborations is a series of lectures by eminent international researchers and practitioners in the field where art and science interact. The first lectures series was held in October 2013, when the presentations took place at institutions that position themselves in the midst of the development of art & science interactions in Leiden, The Hague and Amsterdam. This series was an initiative of The Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends, in collaboration with Waag Society, the Royal Academy of Arts, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, The Arts & Genomics Centre and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Museum Boerhaave and Hortus botanicus Leiden. Watch the videos of the lectures here This first series of Future of Art & Science Collaborations was realized with the financial support from Creative Industries Fund, Mondriaan Fund and Stichting Doen. Living tissues and living issues Living tissues and living issues was a second series in February 2014 of three evenings presented by the Open Wetlab, that looked at how technology shapes new relations between organisms and in turn how technology is shaped by those organisms. From an artistic, academic and sociopolitical perspective we looked at issues of hybridity, performativity and food as these seemingly unrelated topics have a very strong influence on how we perceive the Other and each other in modern society. These were the three evenings in this series: 13 February 2014: Hybrids, Chimeras and Other Monsters Lecture: Joanna Jeśman, interview: Laura Mudde, interviewee: Guy Ben-Ary, moderation: Lucas Evers 20 February 2014: (Per)Formativity of BioArt Lecture: Joanna Jeśman, interview: Laura Mudde, interviewee: Maria Verstappen en Erwin Driessens (tbc), moderation: Lucas Evers 27 February 2014: Gustatory Semantics Lecture: Joanna Jeśman, interview: Laura Mudde, interviewee: Chloé Rutzerfeld, moderation: Lucas Evers Living tissues and living issues is part of The Future of Art and Science Collaborations, a joint project of Waag Society and Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek, supported by the Mondriaanfund and Doen. Past lectures overview 7 October 2013 Communicating art, communicating science (@ Hortus botanicus, Leiden) Svenja Kratz , currently working as an artist in one the biotech labs of Leiden University and Kat Austen, trained both in science and art and writing for The New Scientist, explain from their own practice. 8 October 2013 Art, Science and DIY (@ Waag, Amsterdam) What can Bio Art, DIY Biology and the Life Sciences learn from each other? Dr. Denise Kera, Assistant Professor at the University of Singapore has published extensively about Citizen Science and DIY and follows and supports science community labs and alternative R&D places. Dr. Ingeborg Reichle wrote her dissertation at Humboldt-University Berlin about artists moving their practice from the art studio to bio-technology laboratories and her current research deals with looking "at contemporary science, where the search for truth and beauty and the production of compelling images suggests an almost artistic endeavour". 9 October 2013 Positivist arts, fundamental innovation (@ Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague) Artist Bradley Pitts tells about his relation to science, scientific institutions and scientists and Professor Petran Kockelkoren about his research into “the technological mediation of perception and the influence thereof on art and design". 10 October 2013 Art, science and the future of medical collections (@ Museum Boerhaave, Leiden) Associate Professor of Medical Science Communication at Copenhagen Medical Museion Louise Emma Whiteley and Manon Parry, Assistant Professor Public History at Amsterdam University explain. Partners The Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends, The Hague The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden The Arts & Genomics Centre, Leiden Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam Museum Boerhaave, Leiden Hortus botanicus, Leiden University, Leiden Duration of the project: 07/10/2013 to 10/10/2014 Lab: Open Wetlab Partners: Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek Links Video channel at Vimeo.