BIOSTETICA Open Call
Type
Residency
Category
Activism, Conceptual, Design, Digital, Drawing, In...
Status
Archived
Deadline
April 2, 2017
Application Fee
Not Available
Host
Location
Zaragoza, Spain
Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation offers a total of 3 on-site residencies lasting for a maximum of two months are offered about bioart projects. They will take place between the months of May, June and July 2017 at Etopia,Centre for Art and Technology, of Zaragoza (Spain).
The artworks produced will form part of the contents of the BIOESTETIC exhibition, which will be programmed at the same centre in September 2017, as part of the activities of the European Digital Art and Science Network (http://www.aec.at/" target="_blank">http://www.aec.at/artandscience/).
Our project BIOESTETICA beguins with this open call which aims at artists and creators who wish to develop artistic works and projects in residency. These works and projects will reflect upon the concept of postnature and will be framed within one of the following three lines:
• Identity
Projects that address the redefinition of identities of all types, the dissolution of the borders between “self” and the “other”, the natural and the artificial, the individual and the group, always within a reflection framework related to nature, where the latter has lost its condition of “natural” to become an “artificial” entity.
Key concepts: postnature, identity portrait, DNA, post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism.
• New ecologies
Projects that address new ways of conceiving the relationship between agents (human and not human), new eco-systems that alter the traditional conceptions of ecology, ecologist initiative (visibilisation, restitution, transformation), emergence of new post-nature agents that pose new ecosystem relationships.
Key concepts: post-nature, cyborg, bionic, new species, ecologisms.
• Living natures / Dead natures
Projects that address nature in terms of “vibrating matter”, through initiatives that work with biomaterials, transforming, processing, self-producing parts, in which time plays a main role, as well as the reflection upon the dissolution of the limits between life and death (or nonlife), the permanent and the ephemeral.
Key concepts: post-nature, vanitas, time, cycle,natura naturans, living art.
• Identity
Projects that address the redefinition of identities of all types, the dissolution of the borders between “self” and the “other”, the natural and the artificial, the individual and the group, always within a reflection framework related to nature, where the latter has lost its condition of “natural” to become an “artificial” entity.
Key concepts: postnature, identity portrait, DNA, post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism.
• New ecologies
Projects that address new ways of conceiving the relationship between agents (human and not human), new eco-systems that alter the traditional conceptions of ecology, ecologist initiative (visibilisation, restitution, transformation), emergence of new post-nature agents that pose new ecosystem relationships.
Key concepts: post-nature, cyborg, bionic, new species, ecologisms.
• Living natures / Dead natures
Projects that address nature in terms of “vibrating matter”, through initiatives that work with biomaterials, transforming, processing, self-producing parts, in which time plays a main role, as well as the reflection upon the dissolution of the limits between life and death (or nonlife), the permanent and the ephemeral.
Key concepts: post-nature, vanitas, time, cycle,natura naturans, living art.
Click here for more information http://www.zaragoza.es/cont/paginas/actividades/documento/Convocatoria-Bio-Estetica1.pdf
Deadline is April 3, 2017