[spectre] Recipients of the Roots & Seeds Open Call

[Annick2]

Dear Spectrites,

We are delighted to announce the results of the Roots and 
Seeds XXI Open Call for Residency and for the two Production 
Awards for new artworks.

We received a total of 329 applications from 32 countries, 
91 of which were for the Research Residency that will take 
place at the Malina House in Paris (April 2022).

The *recipient of the Residency Grant is Marit Mihklepp 
*(http://maritmihklepp.com), an Estonian artist based in the 
Netherlands, where she graduated from interdisciplinary 
ArtScience MA program in The Hague. Her work explores the 
existing and speculative communication systems between 
humans and other-than-humans, often using instructions and 
objects to be activated by the audience.

All our congratulations to Maritand our deep thank you to 
the members of the Jury:

- Oriane Hidalgo, Botanist, Botanical Institute of Barcelona 
(SP)

- Roger Malina, Astronomer, Executive Editor of the Leonardo 
publications at MIT Press, President of Leonardo/Olats (US)

- Ramuntcho Matta, Artist, Founder and Director of Lizières 
Cultural and Resource center (FR)

- Claudia Schnugg, Curator and Researcher in Art-Science (AT)

- Victoria Vesna, media artist and Professor at UCLA 
Department of Design (US)

With Annick Bureaud, Art Critic, Curator and Director of 
Leonardo/Olats (FR) and Tatiana Kourochkina, Producer, 
Cofounder of Quo Artis Foundation (SP).

The *recipient of the 12.500 € Production Award* 
is*Posthuman Studies Lab *(https://ferations.world 
https://cargocollective.com/18apples), an independent 
post-disciplinary curatorial and educational initiative 
based in Moscow.

The *recipient of the 5.500€ Production Award* is *Laura 
Cinti *(http://www.c-lab.co.uk),**an Italian research-based 
artist working with biology and also the primary artist and 
co-director of C-LAB, based in England.

Congratulations to both and a deep thanks to the members of 
the Jury:

- Valentino Catricalà, curator at SODA Gallery Manchester 
and lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (IT/UK)

- Lucio Montecchio, Researcher and Professor of Forest 
Pathology at the University of Padova and member of the 
Board of the Botanical Garden of Padova (IT)

- Aliya Sakhariyeva, Art historian, Director of the Art & 
Science Center and Master Degree Program, ITMO University 
(KZ/RU)

- Vid Simoniti, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of 
Liverpool, Director of MA in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural 
Institutions (SI/UK)

- Nicola Triscott Curator, co-founder of Arts Catalyst and 
the director of FACT Liverpool (UK).

Roots & Seeds 
Partners<https://www.facebook.com/quoartis/?__tn__=kK*F>

_Quo Artis<https://www.facebook.com/quoartis/?__tn__=kK*F>_

Ars 
Electronica<https://www.facebook.com/arselectronica/?__tn__=kK*F>

Leonardo / 
Olats<https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoOlats/?__tn__=kK*F>

Universitat de 
Barcelona<https://www.facebook.com/UniversitatdeBarcelona/?__tn__=kK*F>

in collaboration with 
<https://www.facebook.com/InstitutBotanicBarcelona/?__tn__=kK*F>

_Institut Botànic de Barcelona - 
IBB<https://www.facebook.com/InstitutBotanicBarcelona/?__tn__=kK*F>_

With the support of Creative Europe Programme of the 
European Union Creative 
Europe<https://www.facebook.com/CreativeEuropeEU/?__tn__=kK*F>

Photo: Iván Pérez

We are very much looking forward to collaborating with those 
artists!

Best

Annick

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