CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S)
Capture the Future(s) is both the ASN’s motto and a series of events focused on various aspects of evolution, that influences not only biological sciences, but the changing perception of ourselves and our relationship to the natural, social and technological environments.
Capture the Future(s) project was initiated by the necessity to provide a platform for knowledge and experience exchange on the topic of how we shape today and the future realities. The new landscape of dynamic, post-digital reality raises questions regarding the coordinates of modern human identity. Is the elusive border of human and nonhuman a potential beginning of the brave new world? How can we navigate the fast-evolving future, while constantly redefining ourselves? Art and science together might provide potential directions.
OUR BIOT-TECH PLANET
An international, cross-disciplinary, art/science/tech event held – THE FINAL EVENT OF CHIC CONSORTIUM Horizon Europe.
OBTP sprouts from a five-year-long collaboration between ASN and our 16 partners in the EU Horizon 2020 supported Chicory Innovation Consortium (CHIC) which offers a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations between top EU scientists, artists, food experts, and the general public. The intercultural, cross-disciplinary art/science/technology one-week event invites us to reflect upon the interdependence of plants and humans and our combined future through an art exhibition, daily panel discussions, workshops, and live performances.
October 24 – 30, 2022, the Botanical Garden in Rome
A virtual exhibition premiered at the Plant Biology Europe Congress 2021 with participatory online events, workshops and panels.
The exhibition combines two interdisciplinary projects: Rhizosphere: The Big Network of Small Worlds, a comprehensive art, research & education project inspired by research on plant network strategies (rhizosphere) and CHIC Innovation Consortium ASN Artists-in-Residence/Labs Program, focused on the root chicory and New Plants Breeding Technics. The exhibition, accompanied by panel discussions and workshops, investigates the potential impact of the gained knowledge on the process of cultural paradigm change, on future food and agriculture, an increase of ecological awareness, and the development of social ecosystems
EVOLUTION
Evolution is most often associated with complex biological processes that cause changes in the characteristics of entire groups of organisms following the course of generations. The result is the formation of biodiversity at all levels of biological organization, including species.
The research on various aspects of evolution significantly affects not only the biological sciences but also other fields, i.e. anthropology, psychology, artificial intelligence research, IT and more. It changes the perception of ourselves as a set of data, and our relation to the natural, social and technological environment. In the age of growing Big Data and dark knowledge, of the multiplicity and richness of new scientific discoveries and philosophical concepts, what can we say about the nature of human uniqueness and the future of humanity as the global population is growing dramatically?
The ASN inauguration event organized in the beginning of 2015. An exhibition comprising selected artwork and event “BIO·FICTION @ Berlin” – screening of ASN selection of short films from the second BIO·FICTION Science Art & Film Festival. Capture the Future(s): Opening was organized as an inauguration act of the Art Science Node initiative. The event comprised also the ASN Forum, led by the ASN Chair Joanna Hoffmann. It gathered organization’s founding members and special guests.
A forum comprising a science-art film program, an exhibition exploring various science-art themes and scientific debates and discussions organized at the opening and closing days. ASN organized the event along with the Club for Science & Art in Poznań. The exhibition and film series were organized at the Small Aula and Science & Art Art Gallery in the Collegium Biologicum of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Attendees had the opportunity to engage with scientific debates and discussions, and explore the topic of evolution in the context of its artistic interpretations.
Event completed within Transmediale Art & Ditigal Culture 2017 Festival. It comprised “Elusive Identity” exhibition combined with a panel discussion and workshop, and was hosted at the German Patent and Trademark Office – Information & Service Center Berlin. The new landscape of dynamic, post-digital reality raises questions regarding the coordinates of modern human identity. Is the elusive border of human and nonhuman a potential beginning of the new world? How can we navigate the fast-evolving future, while constantly redefining ourselves?