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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.

Partner 2017

Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute

Title: Kapelica Gallery Logo | 1992 * 883px | 92.1 KB | Credits: Kapelica Gallery
Title: Impressions from Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute | 2362 * 1697px | 3.4 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Fras, Miha | shown artwork: MaSm Metatransformation by Maja Smrekar 2011.
Title: Impressions from Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute | 1772 * 1181px | 1.5 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Švarc, Damjan | shown artwork: Myconnnect by Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj , Anil Podgornik 2013.
Title: Impressions from Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute | 5760 * 3840px | 4.4 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Žgank, Nada | shown artwork: Circadian Drift by Špela Petrič and Maja Smrekar 2012.
Title: Impressions from Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute | 5616 * 3744px | 3.2 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Fras, Miha | shown artwork: Strange Encounters: Metaphysics, Algae and Carcinoma by Špela Petrič 2016.
Title: Impressions from Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute | 4991 * 2677px | 1.8 MB | Credits: FotografIn: Fras, Miha | shown artwork: Infinite in-between by Mojca Založnik 2017.
Credits: Digital Art & Science Network, Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute
    • DESCRIPTION
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    • TEXT
    Kapelica Gallery was established in 1995 as an art space with focus on Contemporary Investigative Arts and a production platform for research, investigation and experimenting with the limits of artistic discourses and art poetics. Kapelica art program is constituted by exhibitions, performances and artistic research. The gallery presents works of artists that dare to go beyond safe and pleasant themes and are challenging visitors to contemplate and wonder with them. Together with BioTehna wet lab Kapelica is an active production platform which encourages, facilitates and showcases investigative artistic production, create public debate and stimulates a critical understanding of the time we live in.
    Links
    Website: http://www.kapelica.org/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kapelica/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/kapelicagallery/

    Blog Ars Electronica: https://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/01/30/von-der-kunst-zur-wissenschaft/

    Start:
    Oct 01, 2014
    End:
    Sep 30, 2017

    Cross reference
    Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute
    The Practice of Art and Science - text Kapelica Gallery
    Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute
    Galerija Kapelica / Zavod Kersnikova
    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Kersnikova Institute provides the framework for Kapelica Gallery and two laboratories that deal with artistic research, development, and education. The first laboratory, BioTehna, is a platform for artistic research of living systems (wet lab) in which the artists are joined by scientists and engineers and together they develop projects which will later be presented in the Kapelica Gallery. Similar activities also take place in the second laboratory, Rampa (hacker space), where new artistic projects emerge as a result of the research carried out there. The two laboratories also share intense educational activities, where children, youth, and the expert public can become inspired by artists and scientists who use the laboratory infrastructure for their projects.

    Since 1995 Kapelica Gallery has been producing and presenting artistic projects that address contemporary technological society. We mostly investigate the influence of high technologies that became ubiquitous with the ever greater accessibility to computers and the internet. Telecommunication, automation, robotics, internet, social networks, biotechnology, and aerospace are changing the relationships within contemporary society so radically that certain new social phenomena can only be reached through artistic sensibility. However, in order for artists to be able to consistently address the phenomena that have initiated their metaphysical interest, they have to understand the logic behind the technological intervention that led to this. For this reason, artists join forces with engineers and scientists who help them understand and use the technologies, materials, and scientific processes with which they create their works of art.

    In most cases artists cooperate with scientists and engineers they know from their school or neighborhood, a kind of cooperation that goes far beyond the usual collaboration between experts. The producers from Kersnikova Institute often supervise the cooperation between the artists and the scientists. By doing this, they ensure that the communication, organization, and logistics between the participants are effective, which in turn contributes to the success of the project. The project thus runs more smoothly and the artists and scientists can focus on the final outcome, while at the same time forming more sustainable connections between the gallery and institutes (including universities and companies) in which scientists and engineers work. Through this they establish long-term connections, which facilitate cooperation in future projects. With this in mind we at Kersnikova Institute established excellent yet informal connections with the Institute of Biochemistry and the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Ljubljana, the central national scientific Institute Jožef Stefan (Department for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence), the Biotechnical Faculty and the Institute of Chemistry, the Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies (Space-SI), and others.

    The invitations extended to scientists to participate in various debate panels which take place in the form of a science café, have helped sensitize them and establish connections that lead to later cooperation. Through these events they have learnt more about the hybrid activities that take place at Kersnikova Institute, and all have shown great enthusiasm for cooperating in following art projects. During this process we have witnessed extremely interesting social and expert dynamics that have inspired everybody involved in the project. The productivity of artists and scientists has almost become a general meme, but regardless of the long-term endeavors, we have so far not managed to formalize the cooperation between art and science institutions Our endeavors to establish transdisciplinary connections also apply to the institutionalized level, for we hope that the political decision makers in charge of funding will have sufficient vision to enable systematic cooperation between artists and researchers, and not discriminate against them financially. Only equal conditions will guarantee sustainable innovate dynamics, for innovation and creativity cannot be ordered on command. Innovation and creativity can emerge only if the right conditions and circumstances are established.

    Text: Jurij Krpan

    (Source: The Practice of Art and Science, p. 212-215)
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