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A brief statement from Claus Lam Yong Schöning one of the artists who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Claus is a trained biologist and artist from Berlin. He is currently studying the master program Art&Science at the University of Applied Art Vienna. His main interests are the non-human and science theory, that which he narrates and researches through a multi-media art practice and collaboration with scientists. His works make use of sound and music, moving image and objects to demonstrate how a human condition is embedded in a scientific practice. He has worked with chemical regimes of production, biotechnology, radio and micrography and is eager to learn new scientific methods.

Instagram - https://instagram.com/claus_schoening

A brief statement with Amanda Jane Ozin-Hofsaess who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Amanda Jane Ozin-Hofsaess is a mobile Microbiologist and Molecular Geneticist. Following a long scientific career, she became a Senior Expert for the European Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) where she used scientific, strategic and coordination skills to boost public health microbiology capacities in the EU to be ready for health threats whether bird flu, ebola or now with the COVID19 pandemic. Currently, she is a Research Programme Administrator at the European Research Executive Agency (REA) using a mix of scientific, creative, communication, interpersonal and project management skills to reach programmatic goals of the Marie Sklowdowska Curie Actions (MSCA). Amanda Jane promotes the use of Art-Science Competitions to attract the interest of young people to play with their sense of curiosity, creativity and the drive to innovate.

Instagram - https://instagram.com/artlovescience

Linkedin - https://be.linkedin.com/in/amanda-jane-ozin-hofsaess-222142b6

A brief statement from Jonah Lynch who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Since childhood, I have tried to live up to the ideal of the “renaissance man”: competent in many fields, endlessly curious. My search for knowledge about origins and destinies led me first to study Physics, then Philosophy and Theology, and now History. Along with humanistic interests, I have always been interested in technology. I am excited to dedicate my wide-ranging skills and experiences to exploring intelligence and improving research and edu- cation.

A brief conversation with Peter Purg one of the scientists who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Peter Purg currently leads the New Media module in the Digital/Media Arts and Practices graduate//postgraduate programme at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, where he acts as Associate Professor, projects coordinator as well as expert across realms of digital culture and media. Since December 2021 he is Acting Dean of the School of Humanities. Next to his research and artistic interests mentioned above, he is active in the field of cultural and higher education policymaking, assessment and quality assurance. He was centrally involved in Go!2025, the winning of the European Capital of Culture title by Nova Gorica and Gorizia twin towns on the Slovenian-Italian border. With an artivist background, Peter Purg is co-funder of the cross-regional Xcenter hub of creative practices, joining art, entrepreneurship and community. He leads the Art-Science-Technology module at the School of Arts and he lead the MASTmodule.eu project that developed it. Having curated the 20th international contemporary art festival Pixxelpoint 2019, his scientific inquiries lately include media arts pedagogy, post-growth and media ecology.

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A brief conversation with Diana Ayton-Shenker, CEO of Leonardo/ISAST and one of scientists who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

Official Website - http://dianaaytonshenker.com/

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A brief conversation with Francesco Mugnai one of the scientists who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

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A brief conversation with Céline Charveriat and Jol Thoms during Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Céline Charveriat is a renowned research activist and experienced civil society leader. Céline started her career as a researcher at the Peterson Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C., focusing on poverty, social protection, and natural disasters. Céline then worked for 10 years at Oxfam International, first as a researcher on poverty and international commodity markets, then as an advocate on trade and climate change issues. As campaigns director, she conducted Oxfam’s campaigns on inequality, climate change, gender and humanitarian crises and conflict. She was the Executive Director of the Institute of European Environmental Policy (IEEP) from 2016 to 2022, during which time she created the first pan European network of sustainability think tanks Think Sustainable Europe (TSE) and the multistakeholder platform Think2030. During that time, she also served as the Chair of the Board of the Climate Action Network Europe. Celine is currently one of the Vice Chairs of the European Commission’s high-level expert group ESIR (Economic and Social Impacts of Innovation and Research). She belongs to the council of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and is on the board of Climate Catalyst. She also works as a coach and mentor for younger female civil society leaders and is one of the founding members of

civil society collectives, such as End Ecocide Belgium and Mères au front Belgique.

> Jol Thoms (he/him) is an artist, sound designer, and researcher based in London, UK where he is a lecturer on the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths University and a faculty member of Critical Ecologies. His works cross and reconfigure boundaries between the non/human, the ineffable, cosmological, and the scientific using strategies from quantum field theory, environmental humanities, and feminist anti-colonial science studies. He is the founder of the Radio Amnion sound art project commissioning and transmitting artists’ compositions of care deep in/to and for the Pacific Ocean on each full moon. Thoms’ critical transdisciplinary practice advocates for an expanded understanding and ethical engagement with diverse knowledge practices by attending to radical pluralities of sites, phenomena, and experiences beyond the measurable and quantifiable. He has participated in international film festivals and exhibitions, and publishes in peer-reviewed journals across that humanities and sciences.

Official website - http://www.jolthoms.com

Radio Amnion - http://www.radioamnion.net

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A brief conversation with Michael Hoch one of the scientist who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Michael Hoch, studied at the University of Technology in Vienna. Already during his studies, he realized some art projects. For his PhD he came to CERN, where he was subsequently employed by as a physicist to construct one of the large detectors at the CERN-LHC project in the ALICE science collaboration. Afterwards he worked as "Senior Physicist" at CERN for the Austrian Academy of Science on the CMS experiment. He restarted to work artistically again and became become increasingly involved in global interdisciplinary science communication.

In the last 10 years Hoch has initiated, planned and/or led many international cross disciplinary SciArtEDU engagement projects. For the creation of these activities, he received the award for "Science Communication" from the EPH European Physical Society in 2017. The last years he has successfully implemented projects in Korea, USA, Canada, Japan, Oman, Colombia, in the Balkans, as well as in Austria and Switzerland.

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A brief conversation with Sonja Stummerer one of the artists who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter studied both architecture in Vienna, London, and Barcelona. After graduation they worked in Tokyo, before founding the transdisciplinary studio honey & bunny in Vienna. Their work is based on social and ecological sustainability. Honey & bunny consider themselves as inbetweeners. They do publications, installations, exhibitions, performances and design. They directed the movie “food design”, curated the exhibitions “food design” at the MuseumsQuartier Wien, “food design humanity” at Lodz/ PL, and participated as designers and eat art artists in numerous international solo and group exhibitions, among others in London, Zürich, Vienna, Salzburg, Milano, Amsterdam, Gwangju, Hanover. They have performed about sustainability in Milano, London, Paris Salzburg and others. In 2009 they published the book “food design XL” (Springer Vienna/NY) and in 2013 “eat design” (Metro Verlag Vienna). Stummerer and Hablesreiter have given many international talks, were visiting professors in Bucharest (RO), Istanbul (TR), and Chennai (IN), and currently teach at the New Design University St. Pölten and the University of Salzburg.

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A brief conversation with Olga Kisseleva one of the participant who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

> The artist Olga Kisseleva‘s approach to her work is much the same as a scientist‘s. A discrepancy detected during a procedure or within the workings of a structure oblige her to formulate a hypothesis, in order to explain the complication in question, and wherever possible, to propose a solution to the problem. She then determines the skills necessary to pursue the relative study, and commissions the research. The artist calls upon exact sciences, on genetic biology, geophysics, and also on political and social sciences. She proceeds with her experiments, calculations and analyses, while strictly respecting the methods of the scientific domain in question. Her artistic hypothesis is thus verified and approved by a strictly scientific method.

Official website - http://www.kisseleva.org/

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