SMART HYBRID FORMS

A plant becomes a machine becomes a plant

Hybrid Forms Lab is part of a consortium, together with the Zone2Source, Rietveld Academy, de Waag Society and V2, that received an NWO Smart Culture grant.

Špela Petrič and Christiaan Zwanikken

The two years project aims at making connections between innovative artistic and scientific practices, targeting artificial intelligence.

Špela Petrič, with whom a solo exhibition in 2017, was presented at the Zone2Source, is one of two artists who will be employed as artistic researcher to work together with scientists in the Hybrid Forms Lab at the VU. Alice Smits, director of Zone2Source, is engaged as researcher at Rietveld Academy to study these new art-science methodologies as well as philosophical implications of plant representations. The laboratory of Raoul Frese collaborated earlier with Z2S on the symbiotic machine , with Ivan Henriques which won the Japan Media Arts Prize and an honorary mention at Ars Electronica. Een plant wordt een machine en een computerprogramma ben plant.
Kunstenaars en wetenschappers werken samen aan het creëren en testen van nieuwe biotechnologieën die ons helpen met het ontwikkelen van adaptieve strategieën in de nieuwe ecologie die verschijnt als gevolg van klimaatverandering.
Consortiumpartner: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, V2_Lab voor de instabiele media, Stichting ICU2, Stichting Waag Society.

Artists

Špela Petrič

She won on 6 September 2019 the Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2019, in Linz, Austria. In 2017 she showed her work in Zone2Source at “Trust me, I’m an Artist”, a exhibition we co-produced with Waag Society. Under the title Confronting Vegetal Otherness.

Christiaan Zwanikken

Dutch artist Christiaan Zwanikken (1967) has received international recognition through his kinetic and mechanical sculptures, sound works, performative and responsive installations.