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<div id="gmail-:gl" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Friends and Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>What do you do when, for the first time in (your) history, you can't make it to Linz? <br></div><div>Easy: you create a new collective project that is going to be premiered at Ars Electronica 2020!</div><div><br></div><div>It is called 'The Traveling Plant', starting now, unfolding slowly over several years. <br></div><div>Have a look and Stay Tuned, more to come soon!</div><div><br></div><div>All the Best</div><div>Annick Bureaud</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">The Traveling Plant</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">The Veridical Travel Around The
World of A True Imaginary Plant</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><i><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">Le véridique voyage autour du
monde d'une plante imaginaire</span></i><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/traveling-plant/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/traveling-plant/</a></span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><a href="https://thetravelingplant.net/">https://thetravelingplant.net/</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><i><span style="font-family:Avenir">Where do you start when you are a plant
that wants to travel the world? What kind of plant are you actually? Real,
fictitious, imaginary, artificial? Which carriers are you going to take? Which
routes are you going to follow? How do you seek recommendations? Is it safe?</span></i><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">Plants travel. By themselves
with the wind and clouds. Helped by other living<b> </b>creatures such as birds or humans. Sometimes the humans carry them
</span><span style="font-family:Avenir">involuntarily<span style="color:black"> under the
sole of their shoes or hidden in their luggage, sometimes voluntarily.<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><i><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">The Veridical Travel Around The World of A True Imaginary
Plant </span></i><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">is the umbrella title for a series of
new artworks and events that will be created and take place in different times
and locations around the world, unfolding over several years, under the direction
of a network of participating organisations and curators. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">The Traveling Plant project
traces the voyage of a plant around the world, of whom and what it encounters.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Avenir">The Traveling Plant Team</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Avenir"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">The Traveling Plant
has been seeded and germinated by Annick Bureaud, Leonardo/Olats; Tatiana
Kourochkina, Quo Artis; Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura/Artist, Claudia
Schnugg, Independent Curator/Researcher; Robertina Šebjanič, Sektor
Institute/Artist. The project is collectively run by this <i>Seed Team</i>. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><i><span style="font-family:Avenir">The people</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Annick Bureaud</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, is a
French, Paris-based art critic and curator. She is the director of
Leonardo/Olats (<a href="http://www.annickbureaud.net">www.annickbureaud.net</a>).<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Tatiana Kourochkina</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, is a Russian-born producer and curator in art-science projects based
in Barcelona and Treviso. She is the co-founder and President of Quo Artis.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Marta de Menezes</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, is a
Portuguese, Lisbon-based artist. She is the founder of Cultivamos Cultura and
the co-founder of FEMeeting (<a href="http://martademenezes.com/">martademenezes.com/</a>).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Claudia Schnugg</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, is an
Austrian independent curator and researcher in art & science, based in Wels
(<span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.claudiaschnugg.com/">www.claudiaschnugg.com/</a>).<span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">Robertina Šebjanič</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">, is a Slovenian, Ljubljana-based artist and the co-founder
of the Sektor Institute (<a href="http://robertina.net/">robertina.net/</a>).<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><i><span style="font-family:Avenir">The organisations</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Leonardo/Olats</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, </span><a href="http://www.olats.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.olats.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Leonardo/Olats is a
cultural non-profit organisation based in Paris, a sister organisation of
Leonardo/ISAST (<a href="http://www.leonardo.info">www.leonardo.info</a>) and the journal <i>Leonardo</i> (MIT Press). Its aim is to support the dissemination and
knowledge about art projects at the intersection of Art, Sciences and
Technologies through rigorous online publishing, the organisation of workshops
and conferences and a residency programme.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Quo Artis</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, <span style="color:black"><a href="http://quoartis.org">quoartis.org</a></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">Quo Artis is an international
non-profit organization that seeks to generate connections between art, science
and technology, acting as a bridge between professionals in these fields.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">The foundation curates,
organizes and produces exhibitions, expeditions, conferences and workshops, as
well as directing the production of projects on request and conducts research
related to art and science.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">The foundation aims to
establish itself as a reference space in the field of art and science, where
artists and scientists can meet and develop collaborative networks. Quo Artis
wants to contribute to the education of a responsible society, oriented towards
a more sustainable future.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Cultivamos Cultura</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir">, <span style="color:black"><a href="http://cultivamoscultura.com/">cultivamoscultura.com/</a></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Cultivamos Cultura
is a platform for experimentation and development of shared knowledge in the
theory and practice of science, technology and contemporary art. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">Cultivamos Cultura organizes
activities in the areas of production, dissemination, research, education and
exhibition. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:medium none;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">It is also part of our mission
to contribute a strong sense of cultural identity by fostering the generation
of bonds with the local community and environment. We are located in an old
farm house at the village of São Luís, within the Southwest Alentejo Natural
Park, on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, approximately 200 Km south of Lisbon.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Sektor Institute<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Sektor Institute
was founded in 2016 with the purpose of researching, connecting and promoting
various forms of media art. The founding members are active creators,
theorists, writers and curators who joined their interdisciplinary expertise in
order to collectively and actively engage in the fields of arts and human
sciences. Central activities of Sektor Institute are artistic and academic
research, production of artistic and research projects, organisation of
exhibitions and discursive events, publishing artist books and theory books,
online publishing, and educational activities in the fields of art, culture and
human sciences.<span></span></span></p>
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