ETTAS presentation at ESTEC April 2013

TOWARDS A COOPERATION BETWEEN THE ARTS,

SPACE SCIENCE RESEARCH AND THEEUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:

PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF

THE ESA TOPICAL TEAM ARTS & SCIENCE

ETTAS CoChairs:Dr. Barbara Imhof, Liquifer Systems Group (LSG), Austria, [email protected]

Mr. Christian Waldvogel, Switzerland, [email protected]. J. Michelle Kotler, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, [email protected]

Dr. Sarah Jane Pell, ARTi Aquabatics, Australia, [email protected]. Marko Peljhan, Interdisciplinary Studies: Art, Science, Technology, Performance,

Digital Media and Space Art, University of California Santa Barbara, US [email protected]

European Space Agency Topical Team Arts & Science (ETTAS) 2013

“Only minds can conduct science

and produce art.”

(Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1978)


ETTAS = Artists, curators, scientists, philosophers, engineers

The ESA TOPICAL TEAM ARTS & SCIENCE


“establishing and sustaining a transdisciplinary professional community consisting of ESA representatives, engineers,

scientists and artists that would fuel knowledge transfer, and mutual

inspiration towards mutually beneficial discovery.”

The ESA TOPICAL TEAM

ARTS & SCIENCE

ETTAS 2011


BenefitsFormats of cooperation

Suggestions for Art InitiativesTopical Team Platform www.esaartscience.com

The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE workshop

report:


BENEFITS TO SCIENTISTS and ENGINEERS

Internally: different perspective on own work might stimulate new views and ideas, and communicate the scientific findings amongst different scientific or engineering communities

within ESA.

Externally: publicity, broad impact, new audiences, positive connotation, different perspective of

ownership amongst citizens, collective participation. ESA scientists

could profit from the artists’ work visualizing and contextualizing their scientific findings

As with all explorations, the discovery of new and

unexpected results can be expected.


ARTS & SCIENCE report:




Possibility to learn from ESA representatives expertise.

Add to the field of arts-based research, thus strengthen this field of

artistic operation and contribute space topics to the academic community from the cultural perspective.

Ability to have artworks realized (or, in some cases, realize themselves) in otherwise inaccessible environments:

ESA laboratories, simulators, Antarctica, ISS, deep space

BENEFITS TO ARTISTS


COOPERATION FORMAT




Artists are exposed to ESA infrastructure, operations and people.

Scientists are exposed to artist environment and mindset.

ESA provides support in implementing artistic work using their Earth and Space

infrastructure.

Artists provide reflections on ESA’s work for the public and new audiences.

Artist enters into close contact with and is inspired by various ESA exponents.

Artist develops a project in cooperation with ESA exponents.

Artist receives access to ESA personnel, which is otherwise hard or impossible to

reach.

Artist is allowed to visit / get to know / use ESA infrastructure.



ARTIST PREFERENCE


A variety of possibilities for artists and scientists to collaborate



TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT

SOLO

TANDEM

CLUSTER

STRATEGIC

CONSULTANCY


TYPES OF COOPERATION



1.Unsolicited project OR Project as a reaction to an open / invited call

2.Residency3.Fellowship

Cross-over criteria, e.g. standard of collaboration ethics, legal aspects (IPR)


STRATEGIC RELATIONS



Partnerships with

Higher education (art academies and universities): Engineering, science and arts & humanitiesWell-known art academies in ESA member states such as, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (KHM), Goldsmiths, University of London, Central St. Martins, London, AIA, London, La Sapienza GAUSS, Rome, University of applied arts Vienna, Kunstuniversität Linz, ZHdK ZurichWell-known scientific institutions with art collaborations: CERN, Ars ElectronicaCultural institutions : libraries, archives, art galleriesWell-known museums in ESA member states such as Tate Modern, London, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, MAK Vienna, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Stejdelijk Museum, AmsterdamOrganizations: International Astronautical Federation (IAF) - space and society, European Commission, European Research Council, JAXA, NASA, Roskosmos, Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation (I-TASC), Arctic Perspective Initiative (API), The Arts CatalystMedia cooperation with art magazines such as Frieze, Art Review, Parkett, Art Forum, Neural, WIREDExperts: Well-known individuals (scientists, artists, engineers, theorists, any kind of persons)




DISSEMINATION

Publications (ESA Arts Initiative Publication Series, co-branding with an art-magazine,

scientific publications)

Collaboration with Science community (e.g. poster sessions, abstract submissions,

presentations)

Exhibitions (local and global)

Website within the ESA website, ESA social media


The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE report: LOCAL/GLOBAL

IMPACTESA will multiply the platforms and

audiences

ESA will additionally be perceived as a culturally committed organization (example:

CERN)

ESA will receive increase of being mentioned in different kind of media

ESA will be more connected




FINANCINGFunding provided by ESA• No cost option through branding• In-kind options through existing infrastructures• Financed options through mechanisms already in place• Financed options through new activities to be installed

Possible in-house funding mechanisms• ESA Arts Fund• Percent for Arts : a percentage of a permille of all ESA

science project budgets to finance EAI• ESA-Young Graduate Trainee Programme (YGT)

External funding provided• National government grants (for citizens of member

states)• European science foundation (collaboration for people with

scientific background)• European commission (cultural programs, science and

society)• Private art foundations• Other scholarships / grants




QUALITY MANAGEMENT


• Projects which are pre-imagined by the artist and implemented with / by ESA.

• Artworks which use ESA results as starting point, aesthetic guide or inspiration.

• Artworks which use ESA infrastructure as generating agent• Artworks which contribute to ESA projects.



TYPES OF RESULTS


Projects which are pre-imagined by the artist and implemented with / by ESA.

Space Musical Instruments, 2009-2012 © 2012 JAXA & Ayako Ono / So Negishi

Projects which are pre-imagined by the artist and implemented with / by ESA.

The Earth turns without me, 2010/11 ©2010 Christian Waldvogel

Artworks which use ESA results as starting point, aesthetic guide or inspiration.

Makrolab, 1997-2007 Zavod Projekt Atol, Marko Peljhan

Artworks which use ESA results as starting point, aesthetic guide or inspiration.

From the Distant Past, ©2010/2011 Tim Otto Roth

Artworks which use ESA infrastructure as generating agent

SINGULAR OSCILLATIONS, ©2008 Bradley Pitts

Artworks which contribute to ESA projects.

Spot Painting / Beagle 2, ©2003 Damien Hirst, photo by Mike Levers

The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE outputs

2012/13:

Meeting of the Topical Team Co–Chairs June 2012 Panel Presentations ESA Conference June 2012 Video Screening ESA Life Science Conference UK June 2012 Presentation TEDxISU, US July 2012 Video Screening ISU SSP12 FIT, US July 2012 SEAD White Paper Contribution, Aug 2012 IAC – Naples presentation, Oct 2012 ETTAS second meeting ESTEC Nov 2012 Free Enterprise! The Art Of Citizen Space Exploration, Ca., USA, Jan 2013 QUER magazine – featuring ETTAS (http://www.quer-magazin.at/home/nr.4-2012/185) Update website incl. showcase video, lecture series and radio broadcasts Report online


http://www.quer-magazin.at/home/nr.4-2012/185

http://www.quer-magazin.at/home/nr.4-2012/185

International Space University, NASA Kennedy Space Center

Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) Gleason Center for the Performing Arts 6th July 2012

Dr. S.J. Pell Every space project needs an artist


Life in Space for Life on Earth Symposium,

University of Aberdeen, UK 18-22 June 2012

The ESA TOPICAL TEAMARTS & SCIENCE plans

2013/14:


Symposium in connection with the space art exhibition Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2014

Investigate EU-calls for arts-based research /arts-science context

Preparations for Life Science Conference, CAN, 2014


ARTS & SCIENCE Dr. Alexander Chouker Dr. Alexander Martos

Alicia Framis Dr. Barbara Imhof

Dr. Angelo Vermeulen Anna Hill

Ayako OnoBradley Pitts

Claudia DichterChristian Waldvogel

Eva Schlegel Dr. Jean-Pierre de Vera

Dr. J. Michelle Kotler Dr. Kirsten Johannsen

Dr. Marco DuranteProf. Marco Peljhan

Dr. Roger MalinaDr. Sarah Jane Pell

Dr. Stephan AndreaeTim Otto Roth

Dr. Tristan Weddigen http://www.esaartscience.com