open programme

SUNDAY, MARCH 29

14h30
OPENING Daniela Bousso (MIS) and Stephen Rimmer (British Council) 

3pm - 5pm
ART, ECOLOGY, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN BRAZIL
Opening a 5-day programme of debates, workshops and discussions, this panel of artists, curators and researchers aims to establish historical and cultural references by reflecting on projects involving technology and the environment in Brazil – both in the arts, and in design and sciences.

Mediator: Martin Grossmann – cultural manager and director of CCSP, creator and coordinator of the Permanent Forum
Cicero da Silva  - coordinator of Software Studies Group in Brazil
Marcus Bastos  - critic and independent curator of electronic art
Karla Brunet - UFBA researcher in the arts, science and technology
Laymert Garcia dos Santos – Unicamp researcher, working in sociology, technology, education and planning
Analivia Cordeiro – choreographer, technology researcher


5:30pm - 7:30pm
ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
CASE STUDIES FROM THE THREE COUNTRIES
This panel will offer a sample of the leading work carried out in the three countries present in the Paralelo (Brazil, NL and UK). Artists and designers will present projects currently being developed and will talk about the challenges and issues found in their research. How do international networks and 'knowledge transfer' help support and improve the development of individual projects? What can be learned from our cultural differences? Four case studies presentations will be followed by a public debate.

Mediator: Rob la Frenais - curator do Arts Catalyst, UK
Jane Prophet -  (UK)
Koert van Mensvoort -  (NL)
Flavia Vivacqua -   (Brazil)
Alexandre Freire -  (Brazil)
Rombout Frieling -  (NL)


8pm
Festival of Magnetic Movie, 2007 (4.47 min)
A film of the duo Semiconductor, directed by  Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA.

MONDAY, MARCH 30

7pm - 9:30pm
RESEARCH AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE - NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT STRUCTURES
This panel addresses the challenge of finding support for interdisciplinary collaborations and initiatives. What funding models exist and what can we learn from the examples found in different countries? How important is having policies and joint strategies for the divisor arts and science? Is it possible to work in collaborative research through international borders? What are the opportunities and challenges?

Mediator: Bronac Ferran - researcher Royal College of Arts - UK
Calvin Taylor - School of Performance and Cultural Industries
Afonso Luz – State Bureau of Cultural Policy
Susan Amor – AHRC
José Geraldo de Souza - specialist in Education and Development 
Annette Wolfsberger - Virtueel Platform


TUESDAY, MARCH 31

7pm - 9pm 
NOMADIC RESEARCH AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
How can the public get involved with the work of artists, designers and scientists, who are constantly conducting research in isolated places or faraway labs? This panel will address strategies for public involvement, using games, story-telling techniques, mobile media and other forms of interaction – what can we learn on future art forms considering present-day experiments? Does this type of work have any value when we’re dealing with issues such as climate change and ecological disasters? How can curators offer a guidance to connect research to new publics? How much does the access to tools and the democratization of resources affect the possibility of reaching effective results?

Mediators: Tapio Makela (researcher, Media Studies Department, University of Turku) and Gisela Domschke (Istituto Europeo di Design, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Rachel Jacobs - Active Ingredient, Nottingham (UK) and Dominic Price - Mixed Reality Laboratory, Nottingham (UK)
Mike Stubbs - curator and director de FACT, Liverpool (UK)
Wapke Feenstra - Artist (NL)
Rejane Spitz - artist and coordinator of PUC-Rio’s Nucleus of Electronic Art (Brazil)
James Wallbank - Access Space Network (UK)

9:20pm
Brilliant Noise Festival, 2006 (05.55 mins)
A film of the duo Semiconductor, directed by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt at NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA.

9:30pm
Performance by VJ Spetto (30’)