SciArt Project
The JRC SciArt project was established in January 2016, with the objective of triggering innovation in research and bring together science, art and society. Strongly influenced by the JRC mission of doing science in support of policy, it gives scientists, artists and policymakers the opportunity to meet and work together. They discuss, investigate and explore the wide intersecting plains between art and science, with a tension towards impacting our collectivities.
Yet, in the first instance, the project tries to create a safe haven to freely roam possible worlds, pursue impossible projects and to embrace failure.
As such, it is part of the ongoing innovation of the JRC as service to the European citizen.
OPENED 24/05/2024: NATURARCHY EXHIBITION
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On Thursday 13/06 at 17:30 CETResonances IV artist Jemma Woolmore will be giving a participatory performance at the Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival, organised by the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy titled I/We/They: Rhythm and Ritual for public space.
On 13/06/2024 , in the framework of the public programme adjoint to the NaturArchy exhibition, a panel will be held on What is the role of arts and science in European forest resilience against wildfires? from 10:00 - 13:00 CET at the CDMA building in Brussels (21 Rue du Champ de Mars / Marsveldstraat 21, B-1050). This panel follows the collaboration of artist Margherita Pevere with FIRE-RES Europe for the work Lament, which will be exhibited at the NaturArchy exhibition starting from 12/06/2024.
As a beautiful and illustrative example of how art and science collaborations can positively impact policymaking, two of the artworks currently on show at the NaturArchy exhibition in Brussels - by JRC SciArt in partnership with iMAL - will be showcased at the EU Green Week 2024 in the Charlemagne building, Brussels.
On 14/06/2024 at 16:30-18:00 at the Fablab iMAL(Brussels), Gala Berger and indigenous artist Metsá Rama will lead a workshop to learn about the worldview of the Shipibo-Conibo people through the practice of Kené painting.
The Invisible Seeds artwork to which the workshop references, developed after two years of collaboration between Gala, the Shipibo-Conibo artists and agricultural policy and research input from Irene Guerrero Fernandez (JRC) will be unveiled this same week at iMAL as part of the NaturArchy exhibition.
On 12/06/2024 at 19:00 at iMAL (Brussels), Margherita Pevere and the Lament team will unveil the final artwork and performance.
FREE Half-Day Nature Arts Workshop: ALL AGES WELCOME, organised by the Synocene – Beyond the Anthropocene in the framework of the NaturArchy exhibition by JRC SciArt in parternship with iMAL.
Be part of this sound art project that will bring local Sonian voices to a museum in Brussels.
Join us for the NaturArchy exhibition Opening events 24/25 May 2024.
The opening on 24 May will start at LaVallée, rue Adolphe Lavallée 39, 1080 Brussels and move to iMAL 30 Quai des Charbonnages, Brussels,for a guided tour of the exhibition by the artists. There will be a second opening in the Parc du Cinquantenaire and a workshop in the Forêt de Soignes on 25 May.
These events are open to the public and free of charge (registration is required for the Synocene workshop).
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.