[spectre] Aura/Aurora Intervention & Roundtable Discussion on Art & Science Collaborations in Vienna

[czegledy at interlog.com]

Dear All,

Aura/Aurora

Intervention & Roundtable Discussion on Art & Science Collaborations
Date: May 22, 2015.
Time: 19h
Place: Art Space Durchhouse. Werdertorgasse 17, 1010 Vienna, Austria

The breathtaking Polar Lights fascinate, scare and raise questions  
about the unknown. Therefore, they are matters of inquires in natural  
sciences as well as in the humanities, social sciences. At the same  
time they inspire societies in creating collective myths, stories and  
agency. Not least, they inspire artists to reflect and interpret and  
intervene with this spectacle. Thus the Aurora unravels and contests  
perceptions of the Aurora phenomena among artists and scientists.

Art & Science
The collaboration between art & science has the potential to create  
new knowledge, ideas and processes. New ways of seeing, experiencing  
and interpreting research fields benefiting both fields. This  
round-table discussion aims to explore trans-disciplinary  
collaborations within the creative process of art, science and  
technology in the context of the Polar Lights.

Hosts
Gerti Saxinger, Dr., University of Vienna, Department of Social and  
Cultural Anthropology, Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI)
Mark Bailey, Ambassador of Canada to Austria
Les Tardes Goldscheyder, Durchhaus Art Space
Doris Kaltenbacher, executive director of Durchhaus

Programm
Introduktion: Gerti Saxinger, Doris Kaltenbacher
Welcoming address:
Mark Bailey, Ambassador of Canada to Austria: ?The Arctic, its  
economic and social development: Looking back on Canada?s achievements  
for the People of the North during its Arctic Council chairmanship  
2013-2015?
Canadian Arctic images

Discussants
Bettina Schülke, Artist, PhD Cand. University of Lapland, Faculty of  
Art and Design
Nina Czegledy, Artist, Curator, Senior Fellow, University of Toronto,  
Concordia University Montreal, Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Dr. Stefan Donecker, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for  
Medieval Research.
Dr. Margarete Jahrmann, Artist, Curator, Dozentin for Game-Design,  
ZHdK Zürich, University of Fine Arts Vienna
Dr. Werner Gruber, Lecturer, Institute for Experimental Physics,  
University of Vienna and Director of the Planetarium Vienna, Science  
Busters.

Chair
Dr. Verena Traeger, Curator, Institute for Social- and Cultural  
Anthropology, University of Vienna & Spokesperson of the ?Working  
Group Circumpolar Regions and Siberia? at the German Association of  
Anthropologists

Durchhaus Art Space
Durchhaus is a non-govermental Viennese art-space that was founded in  
2013 by Les Tardes Goldscheyder, Domino B. and Doris Kaltenbacher.  
They seek to promote artists outside of classical gallery concepts.  
Their goal is to promote a network of national and international  
artists by creating an atmosphere that facilitates true exchange of  
different ideas and methods.

Collaboration partners/organizers
Embassy of Canada in Austria
Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Vienna
AAS: Working Group Arcitc and Subarctic
Working Group for Circumpolar & Siberian Regions at German Association  
of Anthropologists (DGV)
APRI: Austrian Polar Research Institute
Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Uni Vienna
Durchhaus Art Space