The Polytechnic Museum in partnership with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art announces the launch of the new season of the Polytech.Science.Art program

March 11, 2015—The new season of The Polytechnic Museum’s program “Polytech.Science.Art” will open with the Biosemiotics workshop by artist Michał Brzezinski (Poland) at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

With the Polytech.Science.Art program, Polytechnic Museum continues to provide a platform for experimental and innovative art activities related to science and technology in partnership with Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2015, the Polytech.Science.Art program is made up of two series of workshops featuring distinguished international experts in science and technology art. The program’s workshops are available to preselected applicants. The program results will be presented at the annual international festival Polytech.Science.Art Week, alongside the companion exhibition in December 2015.
 

Details on the Polytech.Science.Art program workshops:

On March 11, 2015, bioartist and futurologist Michał Brzezinski (Poland) launches his workshop on the biosemiotics of plants, the study researching sign systems of plants and other living organisms.

On April 14–16, 2015, media artist and industrial designer Ale de la Puente (Mexico) runs her workshop in Moscow. Ale studies quantum physics and collaborates with the National Institute of Astronomy in Mexico City. She was one of the first participants of the CERN art&science residency.

In May 2015, the Polytechnic Museum welcomes Peter Kirn, the founder of CDM / CreateDigitalMusic, PhD Candidate in Music Composition at The City University of New York Graduate Center.

In September, 2015, Mico Rex (Mexico) run their workshop for sound artists and programmers. They study algorithmic music and its visualization, working with Supercollider technology.

In October, 2015, artist and researcher in anthropology and ecology, postgraduate student of the Cognitive Neuroscience and Media Arts at Duke University Pinar Yoldas (Turkey) runs her workshop “Ecosystem of Excess.”

In November, 2015, Belgian artist Pascale Pollier-Green gives an insight into the intersection between modern medicine, art and technology. Pascale is the founder of BIOMAB (Biological and Medical Art in Belgium), and the president of the European Association of Medical and Scientific Illustration.

The workshops by Peter Kirn and Mico Rex are organized in partnership with the MIGZ International Festival of Contemporary Music and Media Art.

Apart from the creative workshops and the final international Polytech.Science.Art Week in December 2015, the Polytech.Science.Art program will feature the special summer session at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design dedicated to the Russian-French collaboration in science and technology art.

On 11–13 September 2015, the special project Sound & Vision by the Polytech.Science.Art Program and California College of the Arts will be presented at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, scheduled to feature Genesis P-Orridge, Brian Eno and Kim Gordon.

For program details see: psa.polymus.ru

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Polytech.Science.Art is an experimental program by The Polytechnic Museum dedicated to one of the most significant phenomena of contemporary culture — interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists and engineers.

In 2014, the Polytech.Science.Art program featured a number of workshops illustrating the practical interaction between technology and art in today’s world. During 2014, the participants learned hacktivism and avant-garde media with Danja Vasiliev (Russia/Germany); identified themselves within the interactive environment guided by Sonia Cillari (Italy); applied methods of augmented reality to the urban spaces directed by Arturo Castro (Spain); learned about fibertronics and made an interactive map of Moscow on e-textiles enabling microcomputers and sensors together with Artemis Papageorgiou (Greece); visualized their own brain signals using neural interfaces with Enzo Varriale (Italy) and explored sonic environment at the improvised laboratory by Aalborg University (Denmark). The results of the program’s first year were presented within the Polytech.Science.Art Week at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in December 2014. The final exhibition Hopscotch displayed seven pieces created during the creative workshops of the Polytech.Science.Art program. The Polytech.Science.Art program curator is Natalia Fuchs, art historian (Media Art Histories, Donau Universität) and cultural-management expert (Cultural Management, University of Manchester).