Verifying Art and Science #92
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
Verifying Art and Science - Panel discussion / presentation
Is there a possibility to look at ArtScience as a specific field of practice in the Arts? What is Art and how combine it with Science? A panel discussion with Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand moderated by Theresa Schubert will offer some concrete examples on the overlapping processes between making Art and researching Science. A moment of verification in this intersection does not easily offer a single result, since a certain freedom of Art collides with the structured and ruled method of Science.
Experiencing the Unconventional. Science in Art”, the recent book by Theresa Schubert, herself active in producing bio-art projects, offers an attempt to describe a landscape in a field rich in diverse approaches, a common territory of research on unfolding nature. Evelina Dominich and Dmitry Gelfand will share with us their personal way to look at the phenomenon by applying multidimensional visions of physics science to philosophy and underground studies.
Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival
Dmitry Gelfand (b.1974, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Evelina Domnitch (b. 1972, Minsk, Belarus) create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Current findings, particularly regarding wave phenomena, are employed by the artists to investigate questions of perception and perpetuity. Such investigations are salient because the scientific picture of the world, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, still cannot encompass the unrecordable workings of consciousness.
Having dismissed the use of recording and fixative media, Domnitch and Gelfand's installations exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen phenomena take place directly in front of the observer without being intermediated, they often serve to vastly extend the observer's sensory envelope. The immediacy of this experience allows the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion.
In January/February 2016 Domnitch and Gelfand are taking part in a residency for CTM festival, where they will be developing the new project Force Field together with computational artist Paul Prudence, acoustic physicist Alexander Miltsen, and the Hydrodynamics Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Theresa Schubert is a post-media artist, researcher and curator in everything concerning the intersection of art, science, and its social impact. She studied Media Art & Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, and Fine Art at the University of Newcastle. In her artistic practice she combines variable media to works, which can take on aesthetic expressions such as audiovisual installations, public art, photographs, or works on paper. She treats nature's phenomena not only as inspiration but as a material and critical process to better understand the complexity of our lives by combining biological matter with digital art. Hence she employs transdisciplinary methodologies of scientific experimentation, shared creativity, and theoretical analysis. This results in bio-poetic arrangements that offer new possibilities for visitor’s engagement and interaction. Currently she is a PhD-candidate at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Faculty of Fine Art/Media Art, where she pursues research on the aesthetics and reception of biological (inspired) installation art.