AESTHETICS get SYNTHETIC: Knowledge Link through Art and Science (KLAS)
A new artist in residence program is taking shape!
High profile artists, with a strong interest in the intersections
between arts and sciences, will be selected to interact with
outstanding scientist of the @Max Planck Institutes in Potsdam and the
University of Groningen
KLAS creates a link between Synthetic Biology groups of leading
institutions and aims to foster ArtSci exchanges and innovation, while
strengthening knowledge transfer.
KLAS@MPI program will also help to the development of artists as well
as helping to create a new epistemological turn. It is also consistent
with the ideas and interests of the science to society EU agenda as it
will internationalize the cutting edge research of Potsdam MPIs,
increase the awareness of the public on hot scientific topics and
favour transnational scientific partnerships establishing a yearly
event grounded in its ideas.
Aesthetics get Synthetic has gattered an excellent Honorary Board [it
includes: Prof. Horst Bredekamp (Humbolt U.), Prof. Sabine Freifrau
von Schorlemer (UNESCO chair for international relations-Dresden U.),
Dr. Jens Hauser (U. of Copenhagen), Prof. Oscar Kuipers (RuG), Prof.
Reinhard Lipowsky (MPIKG), Prof. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG), Prof.
Lothar Willmitzer (MPIMP], as well as a strong and multidisciplinary
Advisory Committee [Prof. Roger Malina (physicist, Dallas U.), Prof.
Josep Perello (physicist, Barcelona U.), Prof. Viktoria Tkaczyk
(literature and sociology, MPIWG), Prof. Nathalie Singer (Modern Music
and Sound Art, Weimar U.) and Prof. Andrew Pelling (biologist and
physicist, Ottawa U.)], DeutschlandRadio Kultur (Mr. Marcus Gammel)
had also join KLAS as media partner. With these boards of experts we
aim to maintain a high quality proposal and content as well as
relevance in the respective fields of knowledge the project touches
upon.