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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dear Spectrites,</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">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). </span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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FR"></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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EN-US" lang="EN-US">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">recipient
of the Residency
Grant is Marit Mihklepp </b>(http://</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt">maritmihklepp.com)</span><span
style="font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">, 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. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book""
lang="EN">All our congratulations to Marit</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> and our deep
thank you to the members of
the Jury:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Oriane Hidalgo,
Botanist, Botanical Institute
of Barcelona (SP)</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Roger Malina,
Astronomer, Executive Editor of the
Leonardo publications at MIT Press, President of Leonardo/Olats
(US)</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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color:black" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Ramuntcho Matta, Artist,
Founder and Director
of Lizières Cultural and Resource center (FR) </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Claudia Schnugg, Curator
and Researcher in
Art-Science (AT)</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">- Victoria Vesna, media
artist and Professor at
UCLA Department of Design (US)</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">With Annick Bureaud, Art
Critic, Curator and Director
of Leonardo/Olats (FR) and Tatiana Kourochkina, Producer,
Cofounder of Quo
Artis Foundation (SP).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">The
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">recipient of the 12.500 € Production Award</b> is</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN"> </span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Avenir Book";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Posthuman Studies Lab </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">(</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"¿tıø\/sË";color:#1155CD;
mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ferations.world">https://ferations.world</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cargocollective.com/18apples">https://cargocollective.com/18apples</a>)</span><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">, an independent
post-disciplinary curatorial and
educational initiative based in Moscow. </span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">The
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">recipient of the 5.500€ Production Award</b> is <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Laura Cinti </b>(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-lab.co.uk">http://www.c-lab.co.uk</a>),<b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"> </b>an Italian research-based artist working with
biology and also the
primary artist and co-director of C-LAB, based in England.</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">Congratulations
to both and a deep
thanks to the members of the Jury:</span></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">-
Valentino Catricalà, curator at
SODA Gallery Manchester and lecturer at Manchester
Metropolitan University
(IT/UK)</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Avenir
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lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">-
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)</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
Book";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">-
Aliya Sakhariyeva, Art historian,
Director of the Art & Science Center and Master Degree
Program, ITMO
University (KZ/RU)</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">-
Vid Simoniti, Lecturer in
Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, Director of MA in
Art, Aesthetics
and Cultural Institutions (SI/UK)</span></span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">-
Nicola Triscott Curator,
co-founder of Arts Catalyst and the director of FACT Liverpool
(UK).</span></span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
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lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">Roots
& Seeds Partners<a
href="https://www.facebook.com/quoartis/?__tn__=kK*F"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none" lang="EN-US"></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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"Times New Roman";color:blue" lang="EN"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/quoartis/?__tn__=kK*F">Quo
Artis<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"></span></a></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/arselectronica/?__tn__=kK*F">Ars
Electronica<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial"></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoOlats/?__tn__=kK*F">Leonardo
/ Olats<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial"></span></a></span></span></p>
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class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/UniversitatdeBarcelona/?__tn__=kK*F">Universitat
de Barcelona<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial"></span></a></span></span></p>
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class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">in
collaboration with <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/InstitutBotanicBarcelona/?__tn__=kK*F"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial"></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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"Times New Roman";color:blue" lang="EN"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/InstitutBotanicBarcelona/?__tn__=kK*F">Institut
Botànic de Barcelona - IBB<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"></span></a></span></u></p>
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class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">With
the support of Creative Europe
Programme of the European Union <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/CreativeEuropeEU/?__tn__=kK*F">Creative
Europe<span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"></span></a></span></span></p>
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class="d2edcug0"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN">Photo:
Iván Pérez</span></span><span
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lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Book""
lang="EN">We are very much looking
forward to collaborating with those artists!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
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lang="EN">Best</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:
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lang="EN">Annick</span></p>
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