STARTS is about thinking out of the box and building bridges between Science, Technology and Arts.
Back in April 2023 a very special project was kicked off by an international consortium, led by the MSC. Part of a long tradition of similar projects within the “S+T+ARTS” ecosystem, “Artistic Innovation for European Resilience” (AIR) is a new iteration of the European Union’s approach to art-driven innovation: artists and scientists working together on high-tech artistic experiments, learning from each other and transferring complex topics and methods to the general public through the means of art.
The first half of the project was dedicated to the selection of ten artists through an open call. This culminated in ten artistic residencies at four regional hubs (Stuttgart, Barcelona, Rome and Koper) starting their activities in December 2023.
On January 18th/19th 2024 Hièn Hoàng, one of the artists closely collaborating with the MSC (as well as our core partner HLRS), visited our facilities for the first time for a kick-off collaborative working session with the HLRS visualization department. Based in Hamburg, Hièn Hoàng creates art exploring how humans perceive and interact with their environment. In her AIR project “Garden of Entanglement”, she strives to create an immersive visual and auditory landscape that lets participants experience the inner life of trees to gain a better understanding of how human movement affects trees in urban settings. The residency will be concluded in October 2024 at the AIR Festival in Barcelona.
The second artistic residency at the MSC/HLRS is by Uncharted Limbo Collective and their project “Monolith”. The London and Athens based artists and creative coders Eleana Polychronaki, George Adamopoulos, Philip Pappas and Chris Waters have already begun working on their residency and will visit us in early February for an on-site working session.
