TOWARDS A COOPERATION BETWEEN THE ARTS,
SPACE SCIENCE RESEARCH AND THEEUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:
PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF
THE ESA TOPICAL TEAM ARTS & SCIENCE
ETTAS CoChairs:Dr. Barbara Imhof, Liquifer Systems Group (LSG), Austria, [email protected]
Mr. Christian Waldvogel, Switzerland, [email protected]. J. Michelle Kotler, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, [email protected]
Dr. Sarah Jane Pell, ARTi Aquabatics, Australia, [email protected]. Marko Peljhan, Interdisciplinary Studies: Art, Science, Technology, Performance,
Digital Media and Space Art, University of California Santa Barbara, US [email protected]
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
“Only minds can conduct science
and produce art.”
(Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1978)
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
ETTAS = Artists, curators, scientists, philosophers, engineers
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM ARTS & SCIENCE
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
“establishing and sustaining a transdisciplinary professional community consisting of ESA representatives, engineers,
scientists and artists that would fuel knowledge transfer, and mutual
inspiration towards mutually beneficial discovery.”
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE
ETTAS 2011
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
BenefitsFormats of cooperation
Suggestions for Art InitiativesTopical Team Platform www.esaartscience.com
The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE workshop
report:
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
BENEFITS TO SCIENTISTS and ENGINEERS
Internally: different perspective on own work might stimulate new views and ideas, and communicate the scientific findings amongst different scientific or engineering communities
within ESA.
Externally: publicity, broad impact, new audiences, positive connotation, different perspective of
ownership amongst citizens, collective participation. ESA scientists
could profit from the artists’ work visualizing and contextualizing their scientific findings
As with all explorations, the discovery of new and
unexpected results can be expected.
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
Possibility to learn from ESA representatives expertise.
Add to the field of arts-based research, thus strengthen this field of
artistic operation and contribute space topics to the academic community from the cultural perspective.
Ability to have artworks realized (or, in some cases, realize themselves) in otherwise inaccessible environments:
ESA laboratories, simulators, Antarctica, ISS, deep space
BENEFITS TO ARTISTS
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
COOPERATION FORMAT
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
Artists are exposed to ESA infrastructure, operations and people.
Scientists are exposed to artist environment and mindset.
ESA provides support in implementing artistic work using their Earth and Space
infrastructure.
Artists provide reflections on ESA’s work for the public and new audiences.
Artist enters into close contact with and is inspired by various ESA exponents.
Artist develops a project in cooperation with ESA exponents.
Artist receives access to ESA personnel, which is otherwise hard or impossible to
reach.
Artist is allowed to visit / get to know / use ESA infrastructure.
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
ARTIST PREFERENCE
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
A variety of possibilities for artists and scientists to collaborate
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT
SOLO
TANDEM
CLUSTER
STRATEGIC
CONSULTANCY
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
TYPES OF COOPERATION
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
1.Unsolicited project OR Project as a reaction to an open / invited call
2.Residency3.Fellowship
Cross-over criteria, e.g. standard of collaboration ethics, legal aspects (IPR)
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
STRATEGIC RELATIONS
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
Partnerships with
Higher education (art academies and universities): Engineering, science and arts & humanitiesWell-known art academies in ESA member states such as, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (KHM), Goldsmiths, University of London, Central St. Martins, London, AIA, London, La Sapienza GAUSS, Rome, University of applied arts Vienna, Kunstuniversität Linz, ZHdK ZurichWell-known scientific institutions with art collaborations: CERN, Ars ElectronicaCultural institutions : libraries, archives, art galleriesWell-known museums in ESA member states such as Tate Modern, London, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, MAK Vienna, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Stejdelijk Museum, AmsterdamOrganizations: International Astronautical Federation (IAF) - space and society, European Commission, European Research Council, JAXA, NASA, Roskosmos, Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation (I-TASC), Arctic Perspective Initiative (API), The Arts CatalystMedia cooperation with art magazines such as Frieze, Art Review, Parkett, Art Forum, Neural, WIREDExperts: Well-known individuals (scientists, artists, engineers, theorists, any kind of persons)
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
DISSEMINATION
Publications (ESA Arts Initiative Publication Series, co-branding with an art-magazine,
scientific publications)
Collaboration with Science community (e.g. poster sessions, abstract submissions,
presentations)
Exhibitions (local and global)
Website within the ESA website, ESA social media
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE report: LOCAL/GLOBAL
IMPACTESA will multiply the platforms and
audiences
ESA will additionally be perceived as a culturally committed organization (example:
CERN)
ESA will receive increase of being mentioned in different kind of media
ESA will be more connected
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
FINANCINGFunding provided by ESA• No cost option through branding• In-kind options through existing infrastructures• Financed options through mechanisms already in place• Financed options through new activities to be installed
Possible in-house funding mechanisms• ESA Arts Fund• Percent for Arts : a percentage of a permille of all ESA
science project budgets to finance EAI• ESA-Young Graduate Trainee Programme (YGT)
External funding provided• National government grants (for citizens of member
states)• European science foundation (collaboration for people with
scientific background)• European commission (cultural programs, science and
society)• Private art foundations• Other scholarships / grants
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The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE report:
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
• Projects which are pre-imagined by the artist and implemented with / by ESA.
• Artworks which use ESA results as starting point, aesthetic guide or inspiration.
• Artworks which use ESA infrastructure as generating agent• Artworks which contribute to ESA projects.
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ARTS & SCIENCE report:
TYPES OF RESULTS
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
Projects which are pre-imagined by the artist and implemented with / by ESA.
Space Musical Instruments, 2009-2012 © 2012 JAXA & Ayako Ono / So Negishi
Projects which are pre-imagined by the artist and implemented with / by ESA.
The Earth turns without me, 2010/11 ©2010 Christian Waldvogel
Artworks which use ESA results as starting point, aesthetic guide or inspiration.
Makrolab, 1997-2007 Zavod Projekt Atol, Marko Peljhan
Artworks which use ESA results as starting point, aesthetic guide or inspiration.
From the Distant Past, ©2010/2011 Tim Otto Roth
Artworks which use ESA infrastructure as generating agent
SINGULAR OSCILLATIONS, ©2008 Bradley Pitts
Artworks which contribute to ESA projects.
Spot Painting / Beagle 2, ©2003 Damien Hirst, photo by Mike Levers
The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE outputs
2012/13:
Meeting of the Topical Team Co–Chairs June 2012 Panel Presentations ESA Conference June 2012 Video Screening ESA Life Science Conference UK June 2012 Presentation TEDxISU, US July 2012 Video Screening ISU SSP12 FIT, US July 2012 SEAD White Paper Contribution, Aug 2012 IAC – Naples presentation, Oct 2012 ETTAS second meeting ESTEC Nov 2012 Free Enterprise! The Art Of Citizen Space Exploration, Ca., USA, Jan 2013 QUER magazine – featuring ETTAS (http://www.quer-magazin.at/home/nr.4-2012/185) Update website incl. showcase video, lecture series and radio broadcasts Report online
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
International Space University, NASA Kennedy Space Center
Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) Gleason Center for the Performing Arts 6th July 2012
Dr. S.J. Pell Every space project needs an artist
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
Life in Space for Life on Earth Symposium,
University of Aberdeen, UK 18-22 June 2012
The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE plans
2013/14:
European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013
Symposium in connection with the space art exhibition Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2014
Investigate EU-calls for arts-based research /arts-science context
Preparations for Life Science Conference, CAN, 2014
The ESA TOPICAL TEAM
ARTS & SCIENCE Dr. Alexander Chouker Dr. Alexander Martos
Alicia Framis Dr. Barbara Imhof
Dr. Angelo Vermeulen Anna Hill
Ayako OnoBradley Pitts
Claudia DichterChristian Waldvogel
Eva Schlegel Dr. Jean-Pierre de Vera
Dr. J. Michelle Kotler Dr. Kirsten Johannsen
Dr. Marco DuranteProf. Marco Peljhan
Dr. Roger MalinaDr. Sarah Jane Pell
Dr. Stephan AndreaeTim Otto Roth
Dr. Tristan Weddigen http://www.esaartscience.com