with
Amy Youngs, Ken Rinaldo, Anna Paltseva, Daniel Lammel,
Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz
4
June 2020, 4-6 pm CET / 10-12 am EDT
Can we break
away from current agricultural practices which are intimately connected
to desertification, water and soil pollution, antibiotic resistance, climate
change and social and economic inequalities? In a two-hour discussion we
are interested in considering a sustainable, multispecies perspective to
farming, which could start in the soil and progress through thinking about
the multiple ways we can consider food. Aquaponics, vertical farming, worms,
soldier flies, and permaculture offer real solutions, where food is grown
while respecting living beings, and the intertwined ecologies that support
them.
Humane
food can be grown in urban or rural communities, though the soil is
critical. How can we learn and care about living beings we cannot quickly
know or see? What is care like in practice? We are also interested in exploring
the concept of "citizen eco-artist" as so much of what we do resides
in the spaces between actual science, sustainable practice and speculative
fiction. (More information)
Speakers:
Amy
Youngs is an Associate Professor in art and technology at Ohio State
University. She uses electronics, kinetics, insects, plants and pixels to
create artwork about the changing relationships between technology, nature
and self. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and
her essays about art and biology have been published in Leonardo and Nouvel
Objet.
Ken
Rinaldo is internationally recognized for interactive art installations
developing hybrid ecologies with humans, algorithms, plants, animals, and
bacterial cultures. His art/science practice serves as a platform for hacking
complex social, biological, and machine symbionts. Inventing and constructing
interfaces for animals and plants, allows illuminating and amplifying the
underlying beauty, and intertwined symbiosis existent in natural living
systems. Rinaldo is author of Interactive Electronics for Artists and Inventors,
and is a Professor of Art and Technology at The Ohio State University.
Anna Paltseva holds a Ph.D. in Earth & Environmental Sciences
at the CUNY Graduate Center and Research and Program Coordinator at the
NYC Urban Soils Institute. She focuses on the assessment of heavy metals
bioavailability in urban soils. Anna Paltseva is a lecturer at CUNY –
Brooklyn College, New York University, and the New York and Brooklyn Botanical
Gardens. Anna develops educational materials, leads soil workshops and coordinates
collaborations with international researchers for the NYC Urban Soils Institute.
Daniel
Lammel is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Biology (Ecology
of Plants), Free University Berlin. His areas of research is soil ecology
and mycorrizal symbiosis as well as Soil Fertility, Plant Nutrition, Agricultural
Science and Ecosystem Ecology. Originally from Brazil, he studied at the
university of São Paulo, before competing his Ph.D. at Univ. of Massachusetts
in Amherst.
Regine
Rapp is an art historian, curator and co-director of Art Laboratory
Berlin. Her current research interests include Installation art, artist
books, hybrid art, art & science collaborations. She researches, curates
and publishes on 21st century art at the interface of science and technology.
She has taught art history at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
and is currently a researcher at the TU Berlin Institute of Biotechnolgy,
Dept. for Applied and Molecular Microbiology.
Christian
de Lutz is a curator, co-founder and co-director of Art Laboratory Berlin,
where he has curated over 40 exhibitions, including the series Time and
Technology, Synaesthesia, [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies, and Nonhuman
Subjectivities. His curatorial work focuses on the interface of art, science
and technology in the 21st century, with special attention given to BioArt,
DIY Science initiatives and facilitating collaborations between artists
and scientists.
A coproduction
of the Network
for Prototyping the Future and Art Laboratory Berlin
With
the generous support of the Berlin Senate Office for Culture and Europe:
