Press Release / Medienmitteilung AIL-Project HGKZ (fwd)

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Media Release (for immediate release)
Zurich, March 15, 2004


Artists in Swiss Science Labs


The Artists-in-Labs-Project of the University of Art and Applied Sciences
Zurich creates new research opportunities in Switzerland at the interface
between art and science. 14 artists from Australia, Germany, India, Austria,
Singapore, UK, USA and Switzerland were chosen and awarded with a 3 to 5
months AIL grant.



The Artists-in-Labs-Project (AIL) of the University of Art and Applied
Sciences Zurich encourages education, research and innovative processes and
methods of production, which blend the disciplines of art and science. It is
assumed that innovative research basically takes place in novel
collaborative environments like these, so artists can now work between April
and November 2004 in Swiss science laboratories.



The project is a new development for Switzerland. It opens up the horizon
for creative strategies, which address the changes currently taking place in
the art world and in its context. Similarly, the analysis and observation of
these changes in the new fields and contexts of Science is also the main aim
of this program. Here, the central component of this exchange and
collaboration between art and science incorporates communication, perception
and imagination as well as comparisons of the aesthetic experience.
Therefore, the AIL-Project offers new applied research potentials, which
open up the discourses about the interface between art and science. It also
offers artists, designers and teachers at the HGKZ the possibility to
collect new experiences, improve their technical know-how and have access to
research ideas in nine unique contexts from the science community.




Selection of Artists took place in January


The jury consisted of: Prof. Dr. Ruth Durrer, Theoretical Physics,
Departement de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve, Beat Gerber, Head
of Communication, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Kaspar Kasics,
Independant Filmmaker, Zurich, Dominik Landwehr, Head Science & Future,
Migros Culture Percentage, Prof. Dr. Moira Norrie, Director, Institute of
Informations Systems, ETH, Zurich, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott, Media Artist, HGKZ,
Zurich. In January the jury selected 12 from 206 applications. Artists were
favoured whose proposals indicated an interest in building bridges between
art and science through innovative, interpretive and original conceptual
ideas. This included the ability to communicate creative ideas, processes
and methodologies. The jury was looking for solid projects, which have
interactive potentials and in this light the relevance of the artist