Hi CRUMB-ers
As Beryl recently indicated, I have asked her if I could facilitate
conversation on this list for August. I have to admit to running a little
late, as I was in Perth, Australia, in early August for the Biennial of
Electronic Art, Perth. <http://www.beap.org> They are putting many of the
presentations online as I write, so it is definitely worth checking out!
The conversation I would like to facilitate centres around notions of
collaborations across the arts and sciences.
I am currently undertaking a consultancy for the Australia Council
<http://www.ozco.gov.au> - the Australian Federal Government's arts funding
and advisory body - who have been exploring ways to support this area of
practice. The project is titled: synapse - enabling collaboration between
art and science.
As part of my research, I am interested in looking at artists, scientists
and organisations who have been doing work in this area internationally. I
would like to hear about how you may have set up models for such
collaboration (organisationally and on a project by project basis), how they
have been supported, who was involved and most importantly, what the
perceived successes and failures of the collaborations might have been, in
order that I can feed this information back to the Australia Council as part
of my research.
To follow is a brief overview of the project to date:
"synapse is a new initiative of the Australia Council which aims to
encourage creative and experimental collaborations between scientists and
artists.
Australian artists and scientists have a long history of cooperation, with a
strong reputation internationally for innovation in experimentation and
research.
Through synapse the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council aims to
maximise the benefits of these creative collaborations by supporting
projects and promoting their outcomes widely through a series of
inter-linked strategies.
The first stage of synapse will see the Australia Council provide support as
an industry partner for arts/science research collaborations funded through
the Australian Research Council's Linkage grants.
The synapse database is also a major component of the initiative and is
currently being developed by the Australian Network for Art & Technology
<http://www.anat.org.au>. The synapse database will be an essential
networking and information tool in the on-going development of art and
science collaborations. This resource will provide details of artists,
scientists, organisations and projects in the area of cross-disciplinary
research across the fields of arts and sciences in Australia. The database
will be available online from 31 August 2002 at http://www.synapse.net.au."
Further information on the strategy can be found at
http://www.ozco.gov.au/newmediaarts/synapse.html
Looking forward to hearing from you!
With regards
Amanda
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Amanda McDonald Crowley
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consultant - New Media Arts Board, Australia Council
Synapse: enabling collaboration between art and science
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