On June 18, 2020, the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics together with art practice ARTYPICAL start an open-call for participation in the international Space Art Summer School. This is a laboratory project for creative research of archives and visual culture related to contemporary ideas about space and the history of space exploration. The school will operate in an online format from July 27, 2020 to August 31, 2020. Participation in the school is free. Applications are accepted from June 18 to July 5, 2020.
The international summer school invites musicians, artists, researchers, and technologists from around the world to create new sound and visual works across disciplines, from 3D animation and digital sculpture to new literature and music production. The summer school is an online educational program with the purpose of conducting thematic lectures and seminars for both school participants and a wide audience, as well as a public audio-visual program and exhibition projects at the end of the summer school period. The following topics will be presented in the program of the Space Art Summer School: ● Space in cinematography and visual art ● Space in the work of music composers ● Sonification and audification of the cosmos and astronomy ● Media art in outer space ● Media archeology of space ● Philosophy of space and Russian cosmism ● Iconographies of human spaceflight ...and more The co-hosts of the Space Art Summer School are Natalia Fuchs, international curator, new media researcher, and art critic (Russia) and Peter Kirn, creative technologist, musician, and journalist (USA/Germany). The presenting team will also include invited experts from the field of modern culture, space technology, and international institutions related to space exploration. Space Art Summer School timeline: ● Open call for applications: June 18 to July 5, 2020. ● Selection of participants announced: July 12, 2020. ● The summer school (online) is held weekly on Mondays from July 27, 2020 to August 31, 2020. ● The school’s public program (offline) will be presented in the space of the Museum of Cosmonautics and at partner sites in 2020-2021. Participation at the school is free for participants. An application is required for participation, including a motivation letter and a portfolio (in English) by 23:59 Moscow time July 5, 2020 to [email protected] . The best projects created within the school may receive support for implementation in the framework of joint public programs (exhibition and performative). More details: The curator of Space Art Summer School of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow is Natalia Fuchs, international curator, new media researcher, and art critic. Natalia graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in cultural management in the UK and Danube University with a degree in media history in Austria. From 2013 to 2016 she was the curator of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. In addition to the exhibitions “Earth Lab” together with Ars Electronica and “On the Origin of the New”, together with the Moscow-based Garage Museum, Natalia curated the interdisciplinary program “Polytech.Science.Art: Science. Art. Technologies.” In 2015, she was awarded a diploma of the Ministry of Culture of Russia for “The best educational project in the museum”. From 2016 to 2018, Natalia worked as a curator, deputy director and head of the multimedia programs sector of the National Centre for Contemporary Art as part of ROSIZO. Under her leadership, the TECHNE platform for innovative and technological art was launched. In 2017-2019, she taught the history of media art at Moscow State University and Art & Science course at the ITMO University in St. Petersburg. Among Natalia’s space related projects is the “Matters of Gravity” exhibition at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow in 2015, which was created following training flights at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for a group of media artists from Mexico. As a result of the experiment, a creative look was born on the phenomenon of gravity, the physicist Miguel Alcubierre, Ph.D. from the University of Wales (Cardiff, Great Britain), and a specialist in Einstein's theory of relativity became a scientific consultant to the exhibition. Her recent international projects include the technological art exhibition "Open Codes - Living in Digital Worlds", created jointly with Peter Weibel at the ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), as well as “AI: More Than Human” as an adviser at the Barbican Center (London, Great Britain). At the moment, Natalia Fuchs is the curator of the festival of technological culture Gamma and the international professional forum Gamma_PRO. www.artypical.com <http://www.artypical.com/> The facilitator of Space Art Summer School of the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow is Peter Kirn, an electronic musician, creative technologist and journalist. Peter Kirn is a composer and musicologist exploring expressive technologies through writing and events. As editor of cdm.link, he has created an independent daily hub for news and insights into making music and live visuals with technology. His own music spans experimental and club sounds, with releases on Detroit Underground, Wunderblock Records, Snork Enterprises, Instruments of Discipline, Kotä Records, and his own Establishment. That has found his music everywhere from NY Fashion Week to contemporary dance to spatial sound to underground techno. He also has co-created and markets the MeeBlip line of music hardware and synthesizers. He has also been a lecturer (City University of New York, Bauhaus Universität Weimar) and produced new platforms for knowledge exchange. As a speaker on facilitator of collaborative laboratories for music and performance, he has worked with ARTYPICAL, TED, SONAR+D, MUTEK, GAMMA, Factory Berlin, and others, and continues to direct the MusicMakers Hacklab with CTM Festival. Kirn has written extensively on the relationship between media, sound, and space exploration, including advocacy of shared, open-license media from NASA and ESA. As a speaker at TEDxESA, he presented the Space Science Sound System as a lecture-performance, collecting space audio. Through that project he has also released a Creative Commons-licensed set of field recordings produced at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre. He collaborated again with ESA to release Francesco Novara’s album Astron on his label Establishment, created out of sounds from the Rosetta mission to a comet. www.cdm.link <http://www.cdm.link/> The Cosmonautics Museum is one of the largest scientific and technical museums in Russia. The history of the museum began in 1964, when a monument to the Conquerors of Space appeared on the map of Moscow. Today the Cosmonautics Museum is one of the three most visited museums supervised by the Department of Culture of Moscow. The modern museum exposition consists of eight exhibition halls. The museum’s collection has more than 99,000 storage units: rocket and space technology, material relics, documents, philately, numismatics, objects of decorative art, collections of paintings and graphics. Here are the stories of space explorers. Among them: the famous Belka and Strelka, the authentic descent vehicles of the Soyuz spacecraft, the layout of Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite, the original Lunokhod control panel, the full-size layout of the Mir station base unit and other space artifacts. Official pages of the Cosmonautics Museum: www.kosmo-museum.ru vk.com/kosmo_museum www.facebook.com/kosmomuseum @mmkspace Media contacts: Filimonova Olga, Spokesperson Cell. +7 (965) 178-05-20 [email protected] With kindest regards, Mag. Natalia Fuchs I Наталья Фукс Curator, Producer, Media Art Historian ARTYPICAL I Art Relations Practice — Cell: +79104320152 Email: [email protected] Web: www.artypical.com - Upcoming: Gamma_PRO, 10.07.2020 Hybrid Conference on Art & Technology http://gammafestival.ru/pro_en GAMMA, 5-6.09.2020 Techno Culture Festival St Petersburg, Russia www.gammafestival.ru
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