Il 22 marzo negli spazi dell’Auditorium del Museo MAXXI di Roma, in una sala gremita di gente, Acqua Foundation ha presentato per la prima volta a Roma Nobilis Golden Moon, film di Maria Grazia Pontorno, artista che da tempo indaga il confine tra naturale e artificiale, inizialmente attenta alla sperimentazione digitale in 3D, da qualche tempo allargando il suo sguardo verso la ricerca al confine tra arte e scienza.

Nobilis Golden Moon è stato girato a cavallo tra due pandemie, due lune piene e due città: Valencia e Sant’Antioco. Il corto è stato presentato per Maritima01 e promosso dall’Associazione Culturale Art Made di Elena Posokhova con sede a Valencia, sviluppato in collaborazione con istituzioni come la University of Valencia, the French Institute, the EASD, the Nau or Carmen Center of Comteporanry Culture e con la partnership della Acqua Foundation.

La Pinna Nobilis è il più grande mollusco bivalve del Mediterraneo. La Pinna Nobilis, nota anche come “Sentinella del Mediterraneo” supera il metro di altezza, a rischio di scomparsa per una malattia pandemica. Da questo mollusco è ricavato il bisso, una fibra tessile utilizzata anche nell’antichità per tessere tessuti pregiati.

La prima tappa di Maria Grazia Pontorno, a Valencia, è scandita dal primo plenilunio. Qui un gruppo di scienziati cerca soluzioni per combattere l’ estinzione della Pinna Nobilis con il progetto LIFE PINNARCA che porta assieme ricercatori da tutta Europa. Jose Tena e Jose Rafael Garcia March, parte del progetto, raccontano come, attraverso lo studio di alcuni esemplari tenuti in cattività nelle vasche dei loro laboratori, cerchino di riprodurli in un ambiente protetto, oltre ad indagare quali fattori nelle componenti marine siano causa della loro estinzione.

La seconda tappa, del viaggio, in concomitanza con il secondo plenilunio, è a Sant’Antioco in Sardegna dove vive Chiara Vigo, l’ ultima sacerdotessa del bisso, che questo mollusco lo conosce meglio di chiunque altro al mondo. È qui e con lei che si conserva il segreto della sua lavorazione, raccogliendo il testimone dalla nonna. L’estrazione e la lavorazione di questo filo sacro porta assieme abilità artigiane e pratiche esoteriche. Entrare in questa lavorazione significa intraprendere un vero e proprio viaggio tra scienza e magia.

La sacerdotessa chiarisce l’importanza della presenza di questo mollusco, depuratore delle acque da impurità inquinanti chiarendo il suo interesse scientifico. La ghiandola sebacea che attraversa il mantello della Pinna Nobilis, spiega la sacerdotessa a Mariagrazia Pontorno, espelle una bava che a contatto con l’acqua marina si solidifica per diventare seta purissima. «Il bisso è l’anima dell’acqua e l’uomo senza acqua non può sopravvivere», dice Chiara Vigo nei toni di una profezia. Il racconto si dispiega attento a non liberare nessuna traccia del segreto che lega la lavorazione del bisso ad una tradizione orale tramandata in un passaggio che avviene in un rituale elettivo esclusivo. «La trasmissione orale è fatta di anima che si coltiva in una vita intera. È un’anima che cresce con piccole cose grandi gesti, situazioni che gli altri non devono capire, segreto fra nonna e nipote».

Con questo dialogo dove scienza ed esoterismo convergono nella magia della tradizione e del paesaggio sardi, il film arriva al suo ultimo capitolo. Il viaggio non finisce. Prosegue tra tutto ciò che il film portato alla nostra conoscenza: la Pinna Nobilis, l’importanza del suo ruolo nell’ecosistema, la sua trasformazione nella vita inanimata degli oggetti, come i tessuti ricamati con il sacro bisso. Il film è l’incontro tra uomo e natura, tra arti e scienza, il tutto sigillato da un rituale intriso di conoscenza, esperienza e magia.

Mariagrazia Pontorno, Nobilis Golden Moon, (Volume I della Trilogia del Pensiero Magico), 2020

Il film è stato prodotto da Acqua Foundation e Maritima01

immagini (tutte): Mariagrazia Pontorno, Nobilis Golden Moon, 2020, fermo immagine da film, 50′

 

 

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The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a presentation, discussion and a reputable publication forum in computer science and intelligence systems. The forum invites researchers and practitioners from around the world to contribute their research results focused on their scientific and professional interests in a chosen area of computer science.

Arts at CERN and Copenhagen Contemporary welcome proposals for the second edition of Collide Copenhagen. Artists and collectives from any country are invited to submit their proposals for a fully-funded two-month residency shared between CERN in Geneva and Copenhagen Contemporary.

The Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology will be held in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain on May 17, 2024. We are currently looking for artists and technologists from around the world who want to join this exciting event as a speaker and share their vision of the fusion between art, science and technology.

Our conference is asking: “What would Science, Technology and Innovation look like in a world not driven by the endless pursuit of economic growth? What exciting futures would begin to take shape if we harnessed technological and scientific advances for something other than growth alone? What new worlds might we be able to conceive if human wellbeing and the natural environment were the primary focus of innovation?"

ISEA2024 sets out to explore human perception of timescales and challenge our understanding of past, present and future in the days of singularity and climate change – the Everywhen. The Everywhen is the concept of all time simultaneously present in a place and describes the notion that past, present and future are co-habiting any given location. Where many western cultures believe time is the constant and travels in a linear progression from now to then, First Nations Australians describe the before then, then, now and the future then existing in the constant presence of place: The Everywhen.

S+T+ARTS AIR launches a new S+T+ARTS residencies programme focused on two main themes: Resilient interspecies urban ecosystems and Human AI Ecosystems, presenting a unique opportunity for artists to collaborate at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

The Award is open to individuals, teams or organizations, regardless of nationality. Eligible submissions must present projects, initiatives and tools that communicate climate change through various forms such as arts, theatre, video making, podcasts, music, photography, journalism, gaming, education, data visualization, editorial contents and the use of digital channels and tools. Scientific reports and capacity building projects are not intended as communication projects, therefore are not eligible.

Apply to share your climate adaptation solutions and challenges, content proposals, posters and creative arts at ECCA2023. Once you have registered, simply read our Submission Guidelines, select the most appropriate theme and submit your application.

Deadline: 15 February 2024
Call for entries

mur.at – Open Call 2024 Artist in Residence Program
May 1 -June 30, 2024

We offer a couple of virtual and one onsite Artist in Residence at the net art & digital culture initiative ‘mur.at’ in Graz, Austria.
For whom is this residency?

This residency program offers artists / digital activists / researchers who work in the fields of digital humanities, media & net art, tactical and critical media / network studies an opportunity to develop new and adapt already existing artworks.

What does mur.at offer?

To the artists-in-residence, mur.at offers its infrastructure and possible assistance by the ‘mur.at’ admin team and the wider mur.at-community. Artists can involve the community in the research process, develop ideas together, collaborate with others and produce digital artworks. For the onsite residency in Graz (Austria), an appropriate accommodation in the ‘Künstlerinnenwohnung†located in the same building as the ‘mur.at’ headquarter will be provided.
What is the focus of the residency?

In 2024, ‘mur.at†celebrates its 25+ years anniversary. For this year we draw special focus on

Do-It-Together archiving strategies,
collaborative storytelling and different formats of
on- / off-line community participation.

The focus of the residency links into this yearâ€s overall activities.

The aim is to collaboratively document ‘mur.atâ€s†history by collecting and processing audiovisual material, stories, and (sometimes obsolete) technologies in order to create artistic projects with it. A group of local artists from the ‘mur.at†– community will elaborate on this topic throughout the year in continuous meetups. The residency project is expected to connect with those ongoing activities, creating links and engaging with the local community.

The residency will take place before and during the annual mur-worklab, organised as an “un-conference” taking place in Graz (Austria) in June 2024. It consists of theoretical and practical input sessions, such as public keynote speeches, discussions and hands-on workshops which center on the annual theme. The artists-in-residence contribute to the worklab with content-related impulses (demonstrations, lectures, etc.) which are related to their residency projects and/or their overall fields of expertise. The participants of the worklab will be of local actors and external invited guests. Outcomes from the residency and worklab will be publicly presented at the end of the worklab as well as in a permanent online documentation on mur.at-servers.
About the program

Key data for on-site residency in Graz

Residency timeframe: May 1 to June 30, 2024 (2 months).
A fee of €3000.- to compensate extra costs an onsite residency generates.
Travel, accommodation and a workspace at ‘mur.at†are provided.

Key data virtual residencies

Residency timeframe: May 1, 2024 onwards
A production fee is provided.
Projects will be hosted at mur-servers. Projects can use the existing infrastructure and/or propose extensions to it.

Expectations & Outcome

The invited artists will actively participate and co-curate the worklab in the end of June 2024.
Process documentation, artist talk, radio interview & the creation of one (or several) artworks using Open Source software & hardware.
Outcomes will be presented at the worklab.

Procedure

We pre-review applications on a rolling basis! Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2024.
Please fill out the form
Selection and awarding is done by the operative mur-team, board members and invited community members.

About us

Since 1999 ‘mur.at’ operates a server farm in Graz (Austria) which is connected to the global network via ACOnet (Austrian Science Network).

The NETWORK ‘mur.at’ is a virtual, constantly expanding platform of artists and cultural workers from different sectors for the development and promotion of network culture, Web-Art, Sound Art, Software Art and Media Art in general. The INITIATIVE ‘mur.at’ is committed to technology development using Free/Libre & Open Source Software. Difference-forming media diversity, unrestricted flow of information and transparent knowledge transfer form the core content parameters of the NETWORK INITATIVE.

The TEAM ‘mur.at’ is organized as a self-administered, non-commercial company and forms the infrastructural basis (backbone) for the work of the ‘mur.at†COMMUNITY at a high technical level. ‘mur.at†creates conditions and expands the possibilities for net art and digital culture. The COMMUNITY consists of artists and cultural initiatives from Austria and other countries who use mur.at‘s infrastructure, share its values and collectively create events and art projects on the NETWORK and in physical space.
About the worklab format

For years ‘mur.at’ is organising worklabs as a core format within their yearly artistic program. Worklabs are “unconferences” lasting several days, to which open calls are invited. mur.at creates a temporary space in which local artists, technicians as well as guests and experts can discuss topics from the field of digital technology, art and their social implications. People from different fields and with different backgrounds meet and work together on ideas and drafts that become the starting point for future projects, publications and productions of the current and coming year. The worklabs are aiming to be both incubators for projects and open spaces for discussion where ideas, tools, practical and creative approaches are developed and tested collectively.
Key data Worklab

Timeframe: June 26-30, 2024.
Location: Graz (Austria).
Who: Virtual and on-site residents + local community members, invited guests.

https://mur.at/post/opencall-air24/

No entry fee
https://mur.at/post/opencall-air24/

MUSAE aims to set up a Human-Centred Factory Model, based on the Design Future Art-driven (DFA) method, and integrate it into a (European) Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) network, to support companies in guiding strategic digital technology innovation and address future challenges in the food domain to improve people and planet wellbeing.

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Science Gallery Melbourne is inviting proposals for projects to be included in our 2023 exhibition ‘Dark Matters’. This open call is extended to everyone, from every level of experience and from every discipline and every culture.

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