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ABOUT ROBERTINA ŠEBJANIČ
Robertina Šebjanič (SI) based in Ljubljana. Her art – research focus is since several years into cultural, (bio)political, chemical and biological realities of aquatic environments, which serves as a starting point to investigate and tackle the philosophical questions on the intersection of art, technology and science. Her ideas and concepts are often realized in collaboration with others, through interdisciplinary and informal integration in her work. She is a member of Hackteria Network and Theremidi Orchestra. She was awarded with Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica 2016, STARTS2016 nomination and nomination for the White Aphroid award. Robertina was SHAPE platform 2017 artist. 2018 she was a resident artist at Ars Electronica (EMARE / EMAP). Her art work Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva generator (artist proof) is since 2019 part of the the BEEP Electronic Art Collection, Spain.
She exhibited / performed at solo and group exhibitions as well as in galleries and festivals: Ars electronica Linz, Kosmica festival_ Laboratorio Arte Alameda_Mexico City, La Gaîté Lyrique_ Paris, Le Cube_Paris, MONOM_ CTM Berlin, Art Laboratory Berlin, ZKM_Karlsruhe, re:publica_Berlin, Mladi Levi_Ljubljana, Centro de Cultura Digita_ Mexico City, Piksel_Bergen, OSMO/ZA_Ljubljana, Device art 5.015 at Klovičevi dvori_Zagreb, Eastern Bloc_Montreal, Eyebeam_New York, PORTIZMIR#3_ Izmir, Kiblix festival_Maribor, Spektrum_Berlin, KIKK festival_ Namur, +MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova)_Ljubljana and more….
Learn More About Robertina's Work Here >>
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Aurelia 1+Hz (2014, 2015, 2019)
Aurelia 1+Hz, is a series of research-based artworks initiated by Robertina Šebjanič the performance Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification looks into a new critical redefinition of social values and new attitude towards cohabitation of interspecies, while the installation Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva generator deals with the biopolicy of prolonging life.
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Lygophilia (2017 - 2019):
Lygophilia is a series of research-based artworks initiated in 2017 by Robertina Šebjanič in Mexico and pursued in Slovenia to explore the love (Gr.: philéō) of darkness (Gr.: lúgē) and the unknown dwellers in places inhospitable for humans.
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Aquatocene (2016 - ongoing), and aqua_forensic in collaboration with Gjino Šutić (2018):
Series of research-based artworks that are dealing with cultural, (bio)political, chemical and biological realities of aquatic environments.
Aquatocene - investigates the phenomenon of underwater noise pollution created by humankind in the seas and oceans. The sound compositions aquatocene are a re-mix between the bioacoustics of marine life (shrimps, fish, sea urchins etc.), the aquatic acoustics and the presence of human generated noise in the world’s oceans and seas.
Aqua_forensic in collaboration with Gjino Šutić - illuminates the invisible anthropogenic (pharmaceutical) chemical pollutants – residues of human consumption – “monsters” in the waters.
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM ROBERTINA
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Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
Challenging the view that caring is only human
Matters of Care presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. A singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate, it expands agency beyond the human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world.
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What Would Animals Say if we Asked the Right Questions?
A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
Vinciane Despret argues that behaviors we identify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong to humans. Combining serious scholarship with humor, this book poses twenty-six questions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what they think about, and what they want.
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Virolution
The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionizing biology and medicine.
Virolution is the product of Dr Frank Ryan's decade of research at the frontiers of this new science – now called viral symbiosis – and the amazing revolution that it has had in these few years. As scientists begin to look for evidence of viral involvement in more and more processes, they have discovered that they are vital in nearly every case. And with this understanding comes the possibility of manipulating the role of the viruses to help fight a huge range of diseases.
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UCLA SCI ART SUMMER INSTITUTE
IS FULL STEAM AHEAD!
REGISTRATION OPEN!!
We are not subscribing to the industrial, linear model based on the past -- we assume that Engineering and Math are part of Science and Technology, that Ecology is at the heart of what we need to think and learn about and believe that Mindfulness should be part of every class.
Science, Technology, Ecology, Arts and Mindfulness -- non linear quantum STEAM for the future leaders and teachers who will inherit the Earth. Our lessons are BOTTOM UP -- just like nature works and we move back and forth between analogue and digital. We start with nano and end up in space -- having fun all along the way -- as we believe PLAY and collaboration are the key.
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DAILY BRUIN ARTICLE
ALUMNUS TO CREATE TECHNOLOGICAL RETELLING OF MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN STORIES
BY TARA OLDENBURG
"For Osman Khan, flying carpets are no longer a figment of the imagination.
The alumnus and current director of the University of Michigan’s Master of Fine Arts program received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of study of fine arts this year. As of right now, Khan is conceptualizing his newest project by depicting “One Thousand and One Nights” – a collection of Middle Eastern folktales – as well as other Middle Eastern and South Asian mythologies through emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and drones ...
... His interest in studying humans through a technological lens stems from his studies, Khan said. Victoria Vesna, one of Khan’s previous design media arts professors at UCLA, said Khan recognized that definitions for media arts often describe the relationship between humans, technology and the environment. Khan said he is now applying this ideology to his current project, which relies heavily on the overlap between the past and the present."
Read the Whole Article Here >>
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LEONARDO / ISAST
COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE TOOLKIT FOR ART AND SOCIAL CONNECTING
Our friends at Leonardo are offering virtual space, creative platforms and partnership to facilitate socially connecting, even while physically distancing. This includes a curated reading list of free articles from Leonardo journal, virtual LASER programming and community resources.
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EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED THIS WEEKEND!
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30 May
Drive-by-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing)
Organized by Warren Neidich, Renee Petropoulous, Michael Slenske and Anuradha Vikram
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Victoria Vesna will be showing her work, AS THE CROW FLIES: 1 mile = 2640 dead bodies, this weekend in the Drive-by-Art exhibition. This potent work is described below:
"100,000 people will be dead in the USA by May 30th and the number is increasing daily with no end in sight. It is hard to wrap one's head around this statistic and even more difficult in Los Angeles where we are already spread about and mostly move around in our cars. Every single person dying unexpectedly is a tragedy. We do however daily think and consider our movement in space and time based on the status roads / traffic and miles to our destinations. If we calculate the number of bodies that died, using the width of a burial casket, shoulder to shoulder in a mass grave, one mile would be equivalent to 2640 bodies or almost 40 miles across the USA.
As the Crow Flies is an expression used to show a straight line from point A to B. The crow is often a symbol of bad luck and death but also may be considered as a sign of transformation and many cultures consider them keepers of the sacred laws that go beyond linear one-dimensional thinking. These street signs are meant to make us more aware of all those who unnecessarily died and to pay attention, observe and listen. Imagine that every mile you drive is equal to 2640 bodies shoulder to shoulder."
More information about the event can be found here >>>
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(Image courtesy of Isabel Beavers)
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30 May
Re-Fest | CLIMATE CHAMBER:
A Mini-Hackathon
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Facilitated by Isabel Beavers, CLIMATE CHAMBER (CC) is a mini & virtual hackathon convening artists, scientists, technologists, designers and other creatives to ignite new collaborative projects that address climate through technology and art.
Climate chambers can be used to simulate the conditions of an unknown environment in order to test and experiment. In our CLIMATE CHAMBER (CC), participants test new collaborative arrangements to inspire radical use of technology and art in the face of climate change. Cross-disciplinary teams will ideate and design new, remote, collaborative projects that imagine-art-and-tech based solutions to climate challenges while testing remote processes of teamwork.
This participatory social experiment embodies the processes of art-sci collaboration utilized by the artists in Re-Fest’s Artificial Ecologies thread, curated by Isabel Beavers. It aims to break open existing modes of teamwork and, in this fracture, formulate various small resistances.
The winning team, to be announced on May 31st, will receive a $150 honorarium and a feature in UCLA ArtSci PARTICLES, an online series of short interviews.
This hackathon is a part of Re-Fest LA 2020, taking place entirely online.
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OPEN CALL : ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
BIOFACTION
CLOSES 30 June
Biofaction is seeking applications for new Artist in Residence programmes. Four artists will be invited to work for four to six weeks at various laboratories across Europe. The residencies will start in Fall 2020 and will conclude in May 2021. They will be held in two parts, and the exact dates will be set by taking both artist and laboratory schedules into account, and with an eye to the situation in each locale (e.g. travel, safety regulations etc.).
As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with scientists working on one of three Synthetic Biology related projects that delve into fascinating areas: plant molecular farming, new-to-nature reactions, and cell factories. We welcome applications from artists, designers, biohackers, musicians, or other cultural practitioners who want to carry out artistic work with biological media. The collaborating laboratories will make sure to provide space and personal interaction for mutual exchange with the artists. Biofaction is responsible for organising and curating the residencies. At the end of the residency programmes all works and/or their processes will be documented and compiled in form of a book, initiated by Biofaction and co-created together with the participating artists and scientists.
For each artist, a stipend of up to 7000 € is provided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation projects MADONNA, NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. It covers travel, local expenses, living allowance as well as (partial) support for the production and showcasing of the artistic prototype or finished work.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY + PROCEDURE HERE! >>
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