A wealth of art + science projects are addressing topics of environmental importance. The cutting-edge ideas and experiments from the field hold great potential for transforming policy - but how does the message get across?

Prof Ingeborg Reichle moderates this panel organised by JRC SciArt as part of the Leonardo LASER Network   online, on 17/05/2024 on the recently published, "The Art + Science + Policy Nexus", written by artist and researcher Dr Kat Austen.

Artist JD Whitman has been implementing numerous art and science workshops for her project, Plastic Magnitudes- currently being produced in the framework of NaturArchy, with an upcoming exhibition at iMAL - with community members from County Clare and County Galway, Ireland. 

On Monday 29/04 Dr Ele Carpenter (Umeå University, Sweden) will give a talk at JRC Ispra, introducing her curatorial research into nuclear art and culture, tracing the movement of uranium across the planet.

NaturArchy artist Kristin Bergaust presented the project Ocean Connections - currently being developed in the framework of NaturArchy together with  Guillermo Garcia Sanchez and Evangelos Voukouvalas - at the Politics of Machines (POM) Conference 2024 in Aachen (DE). 

Professor Geert Buelens will be at JRC to give a conference on the forgotten history of climate change as part of the Belgian Semester 2024 programme of events, in collaboration with JRC SciArt.

The Resonances IV exhibition on the theme of NaturArchy will take place at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, (30 Quai des Charbonnages, Koolmijnenkaai, 1080 Brussels), opening on the 24th May. 

The exhibition is being co-curated by JRC SciArt, Claudia Schnugg and Ingeborg Reichle as external curators, and iMAL.

On 11/04/2024 JRC SciArt is participating to the two afternoon working sessions of the Archipelago of Possible Futures Symposium, organised as part of the New European Bauhaus Festival.

Roberto Paci Dalò will present his eBAU book, portraying artists' perspectives on the New European Bauhaus, on the 10/04 at the NEB Antenna  section of the New European Bauhaus Festival. 

A JRC Publication concerning synergies and potential trade-offs in combating climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as the relevant EU policies and projects, of relevance to the concept of NaturArchy and grounding its artistic and epistemological roots within EU research and policy.  

TEDx Talk in Varese on civic sentinels and the intersection of law, activism and art.

Jan Boelen returns to JRC as part of the Belgian Semester, following his Techno Green lecture at the 2022 SciArt Summer School, to discuss transdisciplinary, local and sustainable methods to come close to a real green technology. 

Check out artefacts to make future scenarios more concrete and begin critical discussions by the Futures Garden. 

Within the scope of the Innovation for place-based transformations. ACTIONbook, practices and tools, art-science collaborations are recognised as tools to help make innovation policies be part of the collective purpose-driven change necessary to achieve place-based transformations. 

JRC SciArt organises the first in a series of talks as part of the Leonardo LASER Network on 23/02/2024. The talk will weave through the intricacies of the current situation as to the Rights of Nature, from an artistic, philosophical and governance point of view, within the context of the current NaturArchy curatorial theme and upcoming exhibition. 

JRC SciArt is delighted to announce that a scientific paper written as part of the Synocene project has been accepted to the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 

Help Nonhuman Nonsense make chemical cocktails from their Haunted Waters for the NaturArchy exhibition.

The production of the NaturArchy project Lament advances with a community engagement aspect in Portugal. 

We're delighted to announce the release of the official Catalogue of the Resonances III Datami Festival.

 Get lost in the flurry of SciArt snowflakes and explore what we got up to in 2023!

Ever wondered what happens at the nexus of Art, Science and Policy? Check out this JRC publication by artist Kat Austen, which surveys the landscape of the art-science-policy network, focusing on how and when art-science projects interact with policy and policymakers.

Sam Nester presents the project Anthos at the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. 

Haunted water workshop by Nonhuman Nonsense at Gallery im Turm, Berlin on September 7, 2023. Check out their stories about contaminated water!

On November 9, 2023 we met STANZA at the JRC to introduce our research to him and hear more about his work. Read more about how the discussion and Q&A went!

Catch up with Matina Halkia (one of the researcher/actresses) on how the performance of Feeling Science went down in Monte Carlo (MC) on the 20/10/2023, supported by JRC and the Italian Embassy in Monaco. 

We have a new production update for Jemma Woolmore's, These Relations are Forever @ JRC Ispra 10/10/2023 - 13/10/2023.

Apply to take part in the Science, Technology and Innovation beyond Growth joint conference at the University of Vigo (June 2024).

A blogpost about the researcher's experience of her ritual with Jemma Woolmore for their NaturArchy project.

Feeling Science Workbook and Script published on the JRC Publications Repository.

Feeling Science, the theatre and science initiative kick-started by JRC SciArt in 2021 in collaboration with the Parola di Donna festival in Varese, returns with a performance at the Théâtre des Variétés in Monte-Carlo (MC) on the 20/10/2023, supported by JRC and the Italian Embassy in Monaco. 

Synocene team organises Citizen engagement workshop in Glengarriff Harbour and Natura 2000 site.

JRC SciArt joins the Leonardo LASER network as a host for future interdisciplinary, community building talks.

Conference by the Material | Art | Science | Environment | Research group of Bath Spa University on Indigenous performing arts activism on water and climate issues.

Resonances IV artist Kristin Bergaust presenting on Oslofjord Ecologies and Ocean Connections @ "META FORUM Sci-art your life!" in Timisoara (RO). 

Towards a Science-engaged Society: How to Create Radical Change Together. Check out the Jury statement and winners of the European Union Prize for Citizen Science 2023.

Jemma Woolmore returned to the JRC Ispra between 03/08/2023 - 09/08/2023 to move forward with the production of her artwork.

Resonances III artist Alexander Peterhaensel representing JRC SciArt and the European Union at the Bihar Museum in occasion of their exhibition, Together We Art for the upcoming G20

Documentary of the solo exhibition by former JRC artist-in-residence, Siobhan McDonald. 

JRC Report by artists Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter.

Considering plants and the question of extinction by Janise Yntema

Help Nonhuman Nonsense collect stories of Haunted Waters!

Here's an update & summary of our NaturArchy residencies.

Some pics from us, to you, to enjoy throughout the summer months!

Resonances IV artist Penelope Cain showing part of her NaturArchy research @ SACO Biennal

JRC SciArt @ Biobehavioral Arts & Culture for Health, Sustainability & Social Cohesion conference

Track proposal by JRC SciArt featured @ Eu-SPRI Annual Conference 2023

Gala Berger @ JRC Ispra for two weeks ! 

Penelope Cain @ EU Green Week 2023 

Ingrid Mayrhofer Hufnagl & Sofia Greaves @ Resilienze Summer School