Marjolein Berger on Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:04:03 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-nl] MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects inVariable Gravity |
- apologizes for cross posting - MIR Campaign OPPORTUNITY FOR ART OR SCIENCE PROJECTS IN VARIABLE GRAVITY (INCLUDING ZERO GRAVITY) and OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS at the GAGARIN COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTRE Call for Proposals deadline 21 October 2002 The MIR partnership invites proposals from European and Europe-based artists and scientists to undertake projects/research in variable gravity conditions on a parabolic flights or using other facilities, such as the centrifuge and the hydrolaboratory/neutral buoyancy facility used for EVA training, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC), Star City, Russia. A parabolic flight provides up to 20 cycles of 30-second periods of weightlessness (zero gravity/microgravity) in freefall, interspersed with periods of double gravity (2g acceleration) and normal gravity. This is the pilot project of the MIR (microgravity interdisciplinary research) initiative, which seeks to open up space and space industry related facilities by matching artistic processes and scientific research to give a new impulse to space art and space research. The MIR partnership comprises 5 European art organisations focusing on art, science and technology: The Arts Catalyst, science-art agency, London, UK Leonardo/Olats, Leonardo journal of art, science & technology and Leonardo observatory for the arts and the techno-sciences, Paris, France Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia Projekt Atol, arts-technology organisation, Ljubljana, Slovenia V2_Organisation, institute for the unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherlands The selection committee will be made up of representatives from these organisations. The opportunity includes a cultural exchange and working trip to Moscow and Star City in early 2003, including the potential to participate in one or two parabolic Ozero gravityı flights with the GCTC. The opportunity is open to artists and scientists in any discipline, where the lead proposer is based in any European country, whether or not EU members. We will select up to 6 artistsı projects and up to 3 scientific experiments for participation. For information and proposal form, go to: http://mir.v2.nl/ Please email your intent to make a proposal as soon as possible to : mir@v2.nl The MIR initiative is supported by the European Unionıs Culture 2000 fund. ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (grootveld@nrc.nl).