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Joshua Portway (UK) and Lise Autogena (DK) have worked together since the early 90’s, developing largescale multimedia installations, site-specific works and performances. Using video, custom-built technologies and largescale data visualisations, their projects include: Growing Cities Like Plants (the regulatory system of plant growth applied to city planning - (Sainsbury Plant Laboratory/Cambridge University, 2016). Most Blue Skies (locating and visualising the bluest sky in the world (Domaine de Chamarande, Paris 2012, Arts Catalyst, 2011,Tensta Kunsthal, 2010, Nikolaj Kunsthal/COP15, 2009, Gwangju Biennial, 2006). Black Shoals; Dark Matter - stock market Planetarium (Somerset House, ArtScience Museum Singapore, 2016; Nikolaj Kunsthal, 2004; Tate Britain, 2000). Superorganism - a simulated ant mill (Anthropocene Monument - Les Abattoirs Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Globale: Exo-Evolution, ZKM 2015), ‘Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld’ - exploring uranium mining as a means towards Greenland’s independence (Perpetual Uncertainty - Bildmuseet, Sweden 2016, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Belgium 2017, Malmo Kunstmuseum 2018, Nuclear Art and Archives 2016, ‘Conflict

Minerals’ Arts Catalyst 2017, ‘Slow Violence’ Charlottenborg 2016, ‘This Rare Earth’ Artefact Festival/STUK 2017, The International Uranium Film Festival, Berlin/Brazil 2018).

In 2013 Autogena and Portway developed Foghorn Requiem, a concert for a disappearing sound, performed by Souter Lighthouse foghorn, 3 brass bands and 50 ships on the North Sea. Lise Autogena is a Fellow of the Arts Foundation and The National Endowment of Science, Technology and The Arts. She is a Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art at the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute

(C3RI) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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Akitoshi Honda is an artist. He is interested in the relations between human perception and media in the realm of art, design and science. Akitoshi worked with physical computing and programming for several of his projects to express his idea and concept. He has had exhibitions in several places in Europe and Asia such as Japan Media Arts

Festival, ISMAR, Enter festival. He lives in Berlin since 2007. From 2016 he is working as research fellow at Chora,Technical University Berlin.

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XIII ciclo di Dottorato
"Decadenza o Transizione"
(6 - 29 giugno 2018)

Luciano Canfora - Il V secolo come storia e come mito.

Jill Townsley is an artist who works predominantly with sculpture, though her practice has expanded to include time-based media, especially time-lapse animation that documents her process or the temporality of her large sculptures. Her exhibitions may also include drawing and photography. She studied Sculpture at the Royal College

of Art and has a practice-based PhD in Fine Art from Liverpool University, for which she received a Gladstone Fellowship from the University of Chester.

Her work has been reviewed in the journal Artfractures and featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines such as: the Washington Post, New York Times, Korean Elle Magazine, AD magazine, Craft Magazine and the Independent. She has had work commissioned by the Towner Contemporary in Eastbourne, UK and by the architects’ firm Gensler for the offices of Clifford Chance in Washington DC, USA.

Highlighted exhibitions include a solo exhibition ‘TOIL’ at Project 4 Gallery also in Washington DC and work included in ‘Second Lives – Remixing the Ordinary’, at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, where she exhibited alongside Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, Do-ho Suh et-al. She has exhibited widely in the UK and has had

solo exhibitions at the Nunnery Gallery London, Huddersfield Art Gallery and Hatfield University Gallery.

Jill was a finalist in the 5th international Arte Laguna Prize, exhibiting at the Venice Arsenale where she won the Juried Press Award. Jill is also a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Huddersfield.

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While completing his undergraduate degree in Fine Art at Bath Spa University, Nicolas Strappini collaborated with a researcher at Bath University for an outreach event to do with visualizing physics. He recently helped organise a round table discussion on the intersection of arts and science co-organised by CSM Art & Science at Central Saint Martins and Art at CMS at CERN. The panel was composed of theoretical and experimental particle physicists, art students and educators. He also gave a presentation at CERN about my work.

He exhibited his work at the Museo Marca 'Asemic Writing' exhibition in Calabria. He also has recently shown his physics and science work at Imperial College, London and been involved with the Royal Society's 'Museum of Extraordinary Objects' exhibition. He gave a talk and showed work for the first art exhibition at the Department of Physics (the Cavendish Laboratory) at Cambridge University where audiences were invited to interact with His machines and works. He is currently collaborating with scientists at CERN to visually analyse particle tracks in cloud chambers.

He graduated from the MA Art and Science course at Central Saint Martins, London. He has worked with Gustav Metzger, Andy Goldsworthy and Robert Whitman.

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Caroline Sinders is an artist, researcher and designer with a speciality in machine learning and conversation. As the Eyebeam Fellow, Caroline is building chat bots and machine learning commenting systems to mitigate abuse. Prior to her fellowship, she was a user researcher at IBM Watson. Caroline holds a master's degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her work focuses on the intersections of ethnography, visual systems, machine learning, language, data, trauma, and online harassment. Caroline’s work has been featured in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Style.com, Fusion News, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Eyeo, IXDA and the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32c3). She recently completed a residency at Studio for Creative Inquiry on her Designing Consent Into Social Networks research.

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Daniel Djamo (b.1987, Bucharest) is a Romanian artist, interested in personal and group histories and stories and in themes such as the national identity. He combines film with performance and video art, while also installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.” Winner of the 2013 ESSL award CEE (offered

by the ESSL museum), the 2013 Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE (given by mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - and KulturKontakt Austria), the 2011 Startpoint Prize Romania (awarded by Arbor vitae Foundation and the Czech Ministry of Culture) and the 2011 Grand Prize of the National University of Fine

Arts from Bucharest. In 2015 he won Premio Combat’s Video art award at Museo Giovanni Fattori, in Livorno, Italy. Also, in 2015, Djamo won the Special Award for Documentary Film given by the Romanian Filmmakers Union, while

also being nomineed for the 2015 Best Debut for a feature film (Opera Prima award) by the Romanian Filmmakers Union. He was also nomineed for the 2015 Arte Laguna Prize, in Video Art section.

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