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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 ESA 2016/2017, Honorary Mention - Sarah Petkus (US)
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Credits: Sarah Petkus Press: The right to reprint is reserved for the press; no royalties will be due only with proper copyright attribution.
Credits: Sarah Petkus Press: The right to reprint is reserved for the press; no royalties will be due only with proper copyright attribution.
Credits: AEC Press: The right to reprint is reserved for the press; no royalties will be due only with proper copyright attribution.
Among Aoife Van Linden Tol the jury of the 2016 art&science@ESA Open Call also identified another promising and inventive project: The Wandering Artist, submitted by American kinetic artist and roboticist Sarah Petkus. In her proposal, Sarah pondered on the possibilities of a probe that would explore another planet in the Solar System and take decisions based on creative and artistic grounds, rather than purely scientific reasoning. “The premise of Sarah’s project is intriguing: it starts off from a seemingly standard situation in space science – a robot exploring a world other than our own – but then, as an artist, it asks what could be done differently,” adds Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica. The jury awarded Sarah an honourary mention and invited her to spend time with ESA’s planetary scientists and robotic experts in Noordwijk, and later with the Futurelab team at Ars Electronica. (Source: https://www.aec.at/artandscience/en/artists/sarah-petkus/)
Sarah Petkus at the Art&Science Website: https://www.aec.at/artandscience/en/artists/sarah-petkus/
Ars Electronica Blog: https://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2017/05/30/the-wandering-artist-project/
https://www.youtube.com/GravityRoad
http://zoness.com/
In her proposal, Sarah pondered on the possibilities of a probe that would explore another planet in the Solar System and take decisions based on creative and artistic grounds, rather than purely scientific reasoning.
“The premise of Sarah’s project is intriguing: it starts off from a seemingly standard situation in space science – a robot exploring a world other than our own – but then, as an artist, it asks what could be done differently,” adds Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica.
The jury awarded Sarah an honourary mention and invited her to spend time with ESA’s planetary scientists and robotic experts in Noordwijk, and later with the Futurelab team at Ars Electronica.