TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
A MEETING POINT FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS & RESEARCHERS
PARALELO is a unique five day project - workshops, symposia and live events - supported and organised by the British Council in Brasil and the UK, hosted by the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo and the Centro Cultural de Brasil, with support also from the Mondriaan Foundation and the Virtueel Platform in the Netherlands and the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the UK. It brings together artists and designers working with media from three different countries - Brasil, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, to discuss different ways in which collaborations across disciplinary and cultural borders can enable research and new insights into global and local ecological problems.
The teamwork across artistic, design, scientific and technological borders which is increasingly a key part of the cultural canvas of the 21st century can bring about new insights and lead to new knowledge. But how are such investigations supported in different countries and what can we learn from consideration of models of exchange and intercultural dialogue?
Sunday 29 March
3pm
REFLEXIVE ENERGIES - THE HISTORY AND VISION FOR ART, ECOLOGY, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE IN BRAZIL
Opening the five day programme of debates, workshops and intensive discussions with practitioners and researchers in the fields of art, design, science and technology from three countries, this panel of leading artists, curators and researchers from Brasil will set the scene, reflecting on their work and on the work of other leading figures within Brasilian cultural history who have engaged in many ways with the issues which Paralelo seeks to address.
Chair: Martin Grossmann - director of CCSP, founder of Forum Permanente
Cicero Silva - Software Studies Group Brasil
Marcus Bastos - critic and independent curator of eletronic arts
Karla Brunet - artist and researcher at UFBA in the fields of art, science and technology
Organizing team:
Bronac Ferran (Royal College of Art, UK)
Gisela Domschke / IED and Independent, Sao Paulo (BR)
Karen Halley / British Council (BR)
Roberta Mahfuz / British Council (BR)
Sian Prime / Goldsmiths College, London (UK)
Liliane Rebello / British Council (BR)
Annette Wolfsberger / Virtueel Platform Amsterdam (NL/AT)
Louise Wright / British Council (UK)
Roberta Mahfuz / British Council (BR)
Sian Prime / Goldsmiths College, London (UK)
Liliane Rebello / British Council (BR)
Annette Wolfsberger / Virtueel Platform Amsterdam (NL/AT)
Louise Wright / British Council (UK)