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From Artsactive network we are establishing a list of artists that have filed patents. If it is your case, or if you know artists that have done it, please send us a mail to info[@]artsactive.net.
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Located at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia, SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research, learning and critique of life sciences. SymbioticA has just joined the network as organisers of collaboration programs.

SymbioticA

Ectopia (Portugal) is a laboratory hosting artists from different backgrounds interested in exploring the intersection of art and science. It fosters the development of collaborative projects involving artists and researchers. TransGenesis (Czech Republic) aims to explore the territory between gallery and laboratory, artistic representation and technical visualization, between the scientific emphasis on discovering the reality and the artistic insistence on re-creating and transforming it.

A "BarCamp" was organized in Rennes (France) on June 9 2007, on contemporary artistic practices (digital arts, Net art, electronic music, visual arts...) with sciences and ICT. The purpose was  to support exchanges between international experts, researchers, engineers, amateurs, artists from all horizons..., to cross methods of innovation, to make known a project or an innovating idea, to imagine new collaborations, to show experiments, to find competences... Several members of artsactive were present.

ArtCampEurope

International Festival & Conference for New Technology Art 25-29 April 2007 Cambridge (UK) PUBLIC ART EVENTS, LIVE PERFORMANCE, WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCE. First round. Enter_is a collaboration between essexdance, The Junction, Wysing Arts Centre and is funded by Arts Council England, East and the East of England Development Agency.

Enter_Unknown Territories

The public presentation will introduce the local arts/science community to the national and international opportunities and models of arts/science organisations. Speakers include Denisa Kera (Transgenesis, Czech Republic), Marta de Menezes (Ectopia, Portugal), Anne Kienhuis (Arts & Genomics Center, Netherlands), Vicki Sowry (Australian Network for Art and Technology), Oron Catts (SymbioticA, Australia). For more information: amanda[at]symbiotica.uwa.edu.au

Artsactive will be holding a think-tank over three days in July to interrogate the issues impacting upon the success and sustainability of art/science residency programs now and into the future.

The think-tank is being hosted by SymbioticA in Perth, Australia. As well as the formal sessions, the participants will also tour SymbioticA's lab facilities at the University of Western Australia and undertake a field trip to Lake Clifton - home to largest lake-bound thrombolite reef in the Southern Hemisphere.

The think-tank outcomes - a set of best-practices for the delivery of residency programs involving artists and scientists/researchers in academic and industry settings - will be disseminated immediately through an invited panel session at ISEA 2008 (25 - 31 July 2008). The panel, being co-presented by ANAT and artsactive, will be held from 2pm - 4pm on Saturday 26 July in the Ngee Ann Kongsi auditorium, Singapore Management University.

For further information on the think-tank, please contact Jane Coakley (SymbioticA) jane [at] symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
For further information about the ISEA panel, please contact Vicki Sowry (ANAT) ars [at] anat.org.au

Digital\'08: Imagination On Behalf Of Our Planet 10th International Digital Print Open Competition/Exhibition at the New York Hall of Science October 4, 2008 - January 25, 2009 Organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI). Deadline: August 10, 2008
Details: http://www.asci.org/artikel981.html. ASCI is a 20-year old nonprofit based in NYC.

The international call is open for artists to develop research projects with companies and organisations located in the Basque Country (Spain) between October 2008 and July 2009 (2008-09 round). If you want to collaborate with Bultzaki, Ezarri, Kutxa, Proiek, Seguros Lagun Aro, Vitoria-Gasteiz Town Council, the Faculty of Engineering of Mondragon, Tecnológico Fundación Deusto - S3Lab Laboratory for Smartess, Semantics and Security, or with EiTB, check out the investigations that hope to be carried out, consult the requirements for participation, and send the registration form, along with your candidature dossier, to izenematea [@] disonancias.com before Monday 7 July, 2008, at 09.00 (local time).

The Office for Science Communication (OSC) and ECTOPIA hosted the second Science and Art Symposium in Porto (Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis) on May 31, 2008. With Juan Luis Moraza, Beatrice Allegranti, Mário Montenegro, Kira O'Rilley, Oron Catts, Alexandre Quintanilha, George Gessert, Robert Zwijnenberg, Riccardo Manzotti, Sian Ede, Jill Scott, Marta de Menezes, Louis-Marie Houbedine and Jens Hauser.