>Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 23:57:45 +0000 >Subject: MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in Variable > Gravity >From: The Arts Catalyst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Undisclosed Recipients <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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 'zero gravity' 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 artists' 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 : >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The MIR initiative is supported by the European Union's Culture 2000 fund. >
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