The Art-Science Forum, or more appropriately, An Exchange of Words, is a five-monitor video installation of a “conversation” that took place amongst five organizers and participants of HackteriaLab 2014 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The five speakers were Marc Dusseiller (a Swiss artist-engineer and co-founder of Hackteria: Open Source Biological Art), Spela Petric (a Slovenian artist classically trained in Biochemistry), Andreas Siagian (an artist, civil engineer, and cofounder of LifePatch: citizen initiatives in art, science, and technology based in Yogyakarta), Pei-Wen (a Taiwanese sound-artist based in Switzerland), and finally Grace Samboh (a Yogyakarta-based curator who runs community art-space Hyphen, and also the location where the project took place). The project was initiated by Pei-Ying, a Taiwanese-based artist hailing from a collective called TWBioArt. Recruited on the project were Lin Yung-chieh, a skilled photographer and artist also from TWBioArt, and Mary Tsang, an artist-biologist and documentarian of biohacking and bioart practices.
An Exchange of Words was an experiment of the unknown, just like any other HackteriaLab14 projects and workshops that had taken place. But, unlike the other HackteriaLab14 projects that were focused on the hacking and making, An Exchange of Words was much more conceptual, and played within the realm of ideas, philosophies, and personal experiences. The most important part of this experiment is that the participants dedicated their time for the discussion, and allowed for full recordings that later displayed in the installation. The audience is able to get a glimpse of what was happening during this very short but intense event. An Exchange of Words was a very different trajectory towards exploring the possibilities of Art and Science, and provided a window into the participants' minds that otherwise wouldn’t be revealed or asked for.
on display at Langgeng Art Foundation (LAF)
https://hackteria.org/wiki/HLab14-Exhibition
HACKTERIALAB14: YOGYAKARTA (WHAT IS IT?)
April 13th - 26th 2014
"HackteriaLab, our version of a production workshop, is a form of cultural intervention, contributing to the development of our contemporary culture and art milieu. It creates a melting pot of the practices of art and science, of culture and environment. It aims to broaden the intercultural knowledge exchange and realizes this know-how through workshops, participatory prototype exhibitions and online wiki-like documentations.
HackteriaLab 2014 invites international artists and scientists to collaborate with local communities, which have been intensively working with specific local social and ecological issues in Yogyakarta."
hackteria.org
lifepatch.org
https://hackteria.org/wiki/HackteriaLab_2014_-_Yogyakarta
