Events, Public Presentations & Closed Sessions

Paralelo will take place at the Museum of Image and Sound and the Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo from 29th March to 1st April 2009, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It brings together artists, researchers, scientists and designers from three countries for a unique series of discussions. The theme is how media artists, designers and researchers are working in various ways with science and technologies to address environmental challenges.

The setting of Brazil is an ideal context for this discussion which we hope will lead to future research across and between the countries and disciplines. The programme has a number of elements - public presentations, closed discussion based events and workshops and we hope also time to network and see some of the city.

Participants are encouraged to share thoughts and examples of their projects and approaches to research in fields of crossover between art, design, science, technology and ecology.

The Monday-Wednesday daytime sessions will be held at the Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo and will be a space for close working among participants from the three countries. Following the Open Space model, those invited will be encouraged to share ideas and develop collaborative processes with a view to further development of projects and research proposals in future. These sessions will allow all Paralelo participants to talk in detail about their approach to work across disciplines and sectors. The daytime sessions are not open to the public but will be documented in various ways in order to reach a larger audience both during and after this event. For more information about the Open Space sessions please see Open Space sessions section.

The public aspect of the programme will be held at the MIS venue and the detailed timetable is below.

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PARALELO PROGRAMME OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Sunday 29 March
MIS

14h30 - OPENING welcome speeches
Daniela Bousso Director MIS
& British Council representative

15h00
REFLEXIVE ENERGIES - THE HISTORY AND VISION FOR ART, ECOLOGY, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN BRAZIL
Opening the five day programme of debates, workshops and intensive discussions with practitioners and researchers in the fields of art, design, science and technology from three countries, this panel of leading artists, curators and researchers from Brasil will set the scene, reflecting on their work and on the work of other leading figures within Brasilian cultural history who have engaged in many ways with the issues which Paralelo seeks to address.

Chair: Martin Grossmann - director of CCSP, founder of Forum Permanente
Cicero Silva - Software Studies Group in Brasil http://www.softwarestudies.com.br
Marcus Bastos - PUC-SP / arte.mov http://www.artemov.net
Karla Brunet - artist and researcher at UFBA in the fields of art, science and technology
Laymert Garcia dos Santos – social sciences researcher at Unicamp
Analívia Cordeiro - coreographer, architect and researcher in technology

17.30
ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
CASE STUDIES FROM THREE COUNTRIES

This panel will show some of the leading edge work happening in the three countries taking part in Paralelo. Artists and designers will present projects which are currently under way and will share some of their research challenges and questions with the audience. How can international networks and 'knowledge exchange' help support and improve the progress of individual projects? What can learn from our cultural differences? Case study presentations will be followed by audience discussion.

Chair: Rob la Frenais - The Arts Catalyst, UK
Jane Prophet - Professor of Interdisciplinary Computing (Goldsmiths College) and artist UK
Koert van Mensvoort - Next Nature, Netherlands
Flavia Vivacqua - Cultural Designer and Sustainability - BR
Alexandre Freire - des).(centro artist and researcher - lab 100linhas - Brazil
Rombout Frieling - Designer, Engineer, Royal College of Arts (UK & Netherlands)

20:00
Screening "Magnetic Movie", 2007 (4.47 min)
A Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt shot at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA.

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Monday 30 March
MIS

19:00
TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE - STRUCTURES OF SUPPORT NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY

This panel considers the challenge of finding support for collaborative and transdisciplinary initiatives? What funding models exist and what can we learn from key examples from different countries? How important is it to have joined up policies and strategies across the arts and science divide? Is it possible to work on collaborative research across international borders? What are the opportunities and challenges?

Chair: Bronac Ferran - researcher and writer Royal College of Art UK
Calvin Taylor - Professor, Leeds University, UK
Afonso Luz – Secretaria de Política Culturais, BR
Susan Amor - Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
José Geraldo de Souza - writer on Education & Development, BR
Annette Wolfsberger - Virtueel Platform, NL

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Tuesday 31 March
MIS

19:00
NOMADIC RESEARCH AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

How can the public become involved with the work of artists, designers and scientists who are often doing research-based work - in isolated places or in far flung laboratories? This panel will consider strategies for public engagement using games, storytelling techniques, mobile media and other forms of interaction - what can we learn about the artforms of the future from considering some of today's experiments? Is this work really of any value in tackling issues such as climate change and ecological disasters? How can curators provide a route for connecting research with new audiences? What can democratisation of access to tools and resources offer in relation to largescale global challenges?

Co-chairs: Tapio Mäkelä - AHRC Year Research Fellow, University of Salford, UK,
Gisela Domschke, Independent curator, BR
Presenters:
Tapio Mäkelä - (FI/UK)
James Wallbank - Access Space Network (UK)
Wapke Feenstra - myvillages (NL)
Rejane Spitz - artist and coordinator of Núcleo de Arte Eletrônica da PUC-Rio (BR)
Rachel Jacobs & Matt Atkins, Active Ingredient, Nottingham (UK) and Dominic Price - Mixed Reality Laboratory, Nottigham (UK)
Mike Stubbs - curator and director of FACT, Liverpool (UK) and Professor of Art, Medi and Curating LJMU

21:20
Screening of "Brilliant Noise", 2006 (05.55 mins)
A Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt made at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA. 2006

21:30 Performance by VJ Spetto

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Wednesday 01 April
CCSP

13:15 Performance NomadicGrazing by Esther Polak

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