<div dir="ltr">Dear Spectrites, <br clear="all"><div>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">You have read all the magazines you bought at the airport, you
have visited all the exhibitions at Documenta, Munster, Venice (or wherever-you-are),
you have posted all those nice pictures of cute animals, seas, lakes, mountains,
cities, food, artworks on social network, you have done none of the above? </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Well, it doesn't matter really, here something great to do:
reading the articles by the artists of the <b>FEAT/Future
Emerging Art and Technology</b> project that have just been accepted for
publication in the journal <i>Leonardo.</i>
And to make it better, the two conclusive articles of the <b>Trust Me, I'm An Artist </b>project.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Enjoy!</span>
</p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Best</span>
</p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Annick</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Articles by the artists and
organisers of the FEAT project</span></b>
</p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://olats.org/feat/articles.php">http://olats.org/feat/articles.php</a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">* Erich Prem</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">, "Truth Emerging From
Leading-Edge Art/Science/Technology Interaction"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The FEAT initiative organized and studied residencies of
leading international artists in European Future and Emerging Technology
projects. During the residencies, the artists closely collaborated with
engineers and scientists on fundamental research in visionary areas of novel
technologies not solely as an artistic endeavor, but also to investigate effects
of artistic engagement on technoscience. Effects of the collaboration are visible
on many levels including fundamental questions about the technoscientific
project objectives, ethical aspects, and the aesthetics of scientific experiments.
Interactions also resulted in long-term relations and opportunities for scientists
to engage with artists in ashared effort to uncover truth. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">*<b> <span style="color:black">Anna
Dumitriu,</span> </b>"Make Do and Mend: Exploring Gene Regulation and CRISPR
Through a FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) Residency With the
MRG-Grammar Project"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">This article documents the artistic research the author
undertook for her FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) residency. It
describes her collaboration with the MRG-Grammar consortium and the creation of
an artwork that involved editing the genome of a bacterium using CRISPR to
reflect on issues related to antimicrobial resistance, bio-hacking and control.
The article explores the author’s methodology and describes the benefits of
longterm embedded residencies to create artworks that are deeply engaged with emerging
technologies with a view to enable the public to access the concepts and
implications of cutting edge technologies and scientific research, through an
artistic lens. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(4,50,255)"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">* Spela Petric &
Miha Tursic,</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">
"</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Becoming.
A(Thing): An Artists' Perspective on High Performance Computing"</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The article summarizes the process and outcome of the Future
Emerging Art and Technology residency during which new media artists Špela
Petrič and Miha Turšič undertook the challenge of understanding and manifesting
the artistic potential of high-performance computing (HPC). As a result of the collaboration
with FET-HPC the artists developed a concept liberated from the complex
computational technicity to underscore the (un)intentional construction of
meaning by algorithmic agencies. The performance presents a congress of actors
sensing, interrogating and interrupting each other, thereby producing an excess
of relation, interpretation and translation. The heterogeneous congress performs
an expulsion of imposed (anthropogenic) meaning, substituted by authentic,
autogenic sense and non-sense.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Head" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">* </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:normal;color:black" lang="EN-US">Vicky Isley and Paul
Smith</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:normal;color:black;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US"> (Boredomresearch)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">, "</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:normal;color:black;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">Simulated Despondency for</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US"> Robots in Distress"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">It is widely accepted that increased human interaction with
natural systems is responsible for complex environmental issues, with most
current thinking, centered on the provision of advanced technological
solutions. One response emerging from current bio-inspired robotics research,
proposes artificial neural networks (ANN) enhanced with the incorporation of
artificial hormones for increased performance and efficiency. Here the authors
discuss their artistic project concept, developed in collaboration with a
bio-inspired artificial life lab, considering the affordance of emotional
robotics to develop despondency in the field. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">* Evelina Domnitch,
Dmitry Gelfand, Tommaso Calarco, "</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Trapping the Objectless"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Through the epistemological lenses of quantum theory and
phenomenological art, the authors describe their collaborative development of
several artworks exploring electrodynamic levitation. Comprising diverse ion
traps that enable naked-eye observation of charged matter interactions, these
artworks question the murky boundaries of perceptibility and objectification. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">* Kerstin Ergenzinger,
Thorsten Schumm, Simon Stellmer, "</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Nubis et Nuclei: A</span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> Study On Noise and Precision"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">This study sets out to explore the perception of noise, as
well as the relation towards meaning or information that it might contain, in
arts, science and daily life. It is realized as an installation based on a suspended
cloud of nitinol drums that create a sonic environment evolving in time and
space. The instruments are driven by digital random noise. Roaming freely and
listening, visitors become part of an ecology of noise. Exploring the differing
regions in time and space, what appears to be noise can shift to a “meaningful”
signal. This process of discovering a clear signal in a noisy background holds
strong analogies to the scientific search for a nuclear resonance performed in
the “nuClock” project. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:windowtext">FEAT is a project Co-funded by the European Union</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;line-height:15pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Project
website : <a href="http://featart.eu/">http://featart.eu/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Conclusive articles of the
Trust Me, I'm An Artist project</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://olats.org/trustme/articles.php">http://olats.org/trustme/articles.php</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">- </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">"Trust Me, I'm An Artist": Building
Opportunities for Art & Science Collaboration Through An Understanding of
Ethics</span><span style="font-family:Calibri">, by <b>Anna Dumitriu</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">This article explores how learning from the
Creative Europe funded "Trust Me, I'm an Artist" Project, and from
the author's experiences as project lead artist and as a freelance artist
working deeply embedded in laboratory settings around the world, can help build
capacity and opportunities for artists and scientists to work together in
interdisciplinary and transdiciplinary collaborations that address the societal
and cultural implications of emerging bioscientific and biomedical research
areas, attitudes to patient care and public engagement in contemporary
scientific research. Ethical issues frequently arise in the production and
exhibition of BioArt both as a subject matter and an issue in itself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">- <span>What's Art Got to Do
With It? Reflecting on Bioart and Ethics from the Experience of the "Trust
Me, I'm An Artist Project"</span>, by <b>Annick
Bureaud</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Bioart and biomedical art is a blossoming field
with a whole new generation of artists, the DIYbio movement enabling more
people to get involved, and discoveries in bioscience bringing in new
challenges. Supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union,
"Trust Me, I'm an Artist" is a project initiated by artist Anna
Dumitriu and ethicist Bobbie Farsides to provide a platform for discussing bioart
and ethics, for sharing knowledge and building capacity. This article reflects
upon my journey through the different art projects and how foregrounding ethics
challenged my usual art critic approach.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri">The </span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri">Trust Me, I'm an Artist<i> project is supported by funding from
the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.</i> </span></p>
<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>------------------------<br>Annick Bureaud (<a href="mailto:abureaud@gmail.com" target="_blank">abureaud@gmail.com</a>)<br><a href="http://www.annickbureaud.net" target="_blank">http://www.annickbureaud.net</a><br>mobile/cell : 33/(0)6 86 77 65 76<br>Leonardo/Olats : <a href="http://www.olats.org" target="_blank">http://www.olats.org</a><br>-------------------------</div></div></div>
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