[spectre] MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in

[Inke Arns]

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Date sent:      	Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:20:44 +0000
Subject:        	MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in =
Variable
	Gravity
From:           	The Arts Catalyst <info@artscatalyst.org>
To:             	Undisclosed Recipients <zero@artscatalyst.org>

MIR Campaign

OPPORTUNITY FOR ART OR SCIENCE PROJECTS IN 
VARIABLE GRAVITY
(INCLUDING ZERO GRAVITY) 

and OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS at the GAGARIN 
COSMONAUT TRAINING
CENTRE

Call for Proposals =AD deadline 21 October 2002

The MIR partnership invites proposals from European and
Europe-based artists and scientists to undertake projects/research
in variable gravity conditions on a parabolic flights or using
other facilities, such as the centrifuge and the
hydrolaboratory/neutral buoyancy facility used for EVA training,
at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC), Star City,
Russia.

A parabolic flight provides up to 20 cycles of 30-second periods
of weightlessness (zero gravity/microgravity) in freefall,
interspersed with periods of double gravity (2g acceleration) and
normal gravity.

This is the pilot project of the MIR (microgravity
interdisciplinary research) initiative, which seeks to open up
space and space industry related facilities by matching artistic
processes and scientific research to give a new impulse to space
art and space research.

The MIR partnership comprises 5 European art organisations
focusing on art, science and technology:

The Arts Catalyst, science-art agency, London, UK

Leonardo/Olats, Leonardo journal of art, science & technology and
Leonardo observatory for the arts and the techno-sciences, Paris,
France

Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia

Projekt Atol, arts-technology organisation, Ljubljana, Slovenia

V2_Organisation, institute for the unstable media, Rotterdam,
Netherlands

The selection committee will be made up of representatives from
these organisations.

The opportunity includes a cultural exchange and working trip to
Moscow and Star City in early 2003, including the potential to
participate in one or two parabolic =8Czero gravity=B9 flights with
the GCTC.

The opportunity is open to artists and scientists in any
discipline, where the lead proposer is based in any European
country, whether or not EU members. We will select up to 6
artists=B9 projects and up to 3 scientific experiments for
participation.

For information and proposal form, go to:
http://mir.v2.nl/

Please email your intent to make a proposal as soon as possible to
: mir@v2.nl

The MIR initiative is supported by the European Union=B9s Culture
2000 fund.


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Inke Arns
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