ARS ELECTRONICA ARCHIVE - ART & SCIENCE

The basis of the „European Digital Art and Science Network“ is a big manifold network consisting of scientific mentoring institutions (ESA, CERN, ESO and Fraunhofer MEVIS), the Ars Electronica Futurelab and seven European cultural partners (Center for the promotion of science, RS – DIG Gallery, SK – Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, ES – Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova, SI – GV Art, UK – Laboral, ES – Science Gallery, IE. The EU funded project lasted from 2014 to 2017.
The Online Archive of Ars Electronica provides an overview of the individual activities of the network and also delivers information about the network itself, the residency artists and the involved project partners and the jury.

Artist Residency at ESO 2015 - María Ignacia Edwards (CL) 2015

Artist Residency at ESO 2015 - María Ignacia Edwards (CL)

The first art and science residency at ESO went to María Ignacia Edwards from Chile. She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries who responded to the open call. The decision was reached by a 10-member jury made up of representatives of Ars Electronica, the European Southern Observatory and the seven cultural partner institutions that make up the Art and Science Network. The artist spent the residency at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and subsequently at Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria.

The jury deliberation took place from 23. – 25.02.2015 in Linz at the Ars Electronica Center. Jury members Gerfried Stocker, Horst Hörtner (both Ars Electronica), Fernando Comerón (ESO), Slobodan Coba Jovanović (Center for the Promotion of Science), Richard Kitta (DIG gallery), Robert Devčić (GV Art London), Jurij Krpan (Kapelica Gallery), Lucía García Rodríguez (LABoral), Diane Mc’Sweeney (Science Gallery Dublin), José Carlos Arnal, Fermín Serrano Sanz (both Zaragoza Foundation) issued the following statement:

The artist works with space, endeavouring to maintain the balance, suspension, lightness, and weightlessness of objects, which are sustained by their own weight and counterweight. The constructions are the result of exquisite prior calculations, mechanisms, solutions, and interventions. María Ignacia Edwards calls these pieces self-sustainable because they require no more than their own weight to exist, and the objects tend to rotate constantly around their own axis. The artist invites beholders to observe each object as if they were stars in the firmament. While, at first sight, her approach might seem purely plastic, it transcends science and particularly physics and mathematics, and in the jury’s view, it is especially attractive for the potential it offers for the residency. The artist makes a great effort to connect both the inspiration and the outcome of the work to characteristic features of astronomy: isolated objects in weightlessness. The work is thus intended to evoke astronomy-inspired awe. The presentation is very well elaborated and clearly transmits the idea of the project, though it also promises great potential for development in both residency venues.”
Statement of the Jury

(Source: The Practice of Art and Science, p. 32)

Year of creation

2015

Urls

Feature: Inspiration Weltraum: https://www.aec.at/feature/en/cosmic-inspiration/
Interview: Inspirierende Reisen in die Welt der Wissenschaft: https://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/10/15/artandsciencejourney/
Interview: María Ignacia Edwards verbindet Kunst und Mathematik: https://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/03/10/verbindung-von-poesie-und-mathematik/

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Jan 01, 2015

María Ignacia Edwards, ESO, Ars Electronica

María Ignacia Edwards (CL) / Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT)

Chilean artist María Ignacia Edwards won the first European Digital Art and Science Network’s residency.

Photo showing Maria Ignacia Edwards together with Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer (AT) from Ars Electronica Futurelab during a residency in Linz.

María Ignacia Edwards (CHL) watching physicits and astronomers at APEX

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art& Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing María Ignacia Edwards during her pre-visit in Chile, watching physicits and astronomers at APEX close to the ALMA high site.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

María Ignacia Edwards (CHL) at APEX control room

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing María Ignacia Edwards discussing in the APEX control room in San Pedro during her pre-visit in Chile.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

María Ignacia Edwards at the SEST in La Silla during her pre-visit in Chile

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art 6 Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing María Ignacia Edwards at the SEST in La Silla during her pre-visit in Chile.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

art&science / ALMA in Chile

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing ALMA site in Chile.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

art&science / La Silla in Chile

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing SEST in La Silla.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

art&science / VLT unit in Paranal, Chile

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing VLT unit in Paranal, Chile.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

María Ignacia Edwards during her pre-visit in Chile, walking on the Star Track up to the Paranal Observatorium Platform with Ferrando Comeron (ESO)

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing María Ignacia Edwards during her pre-visit in Chile, walking on the Star Track up to the Paranal Observatorium Platform with Ferrando Comeron (ESO).

Credit: Claudia Schnugg

María Ignacia Edwards walking on the Star Track up to the Paranal Observatorium Platform

The first recipient of the residency staged under the auspices of the Art & Science Network is María Ignacia Edwards (CHL). She was selected from among the 140+ applicants from 40 countries and will be spending her residency at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab in Austria. Picture is showing María Ignacia Edwards during her pre-visit in Chile, walking on the Star Track up to the Paranal Observatorium Platform.

Credit: Claudia Schnugg