TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2003

GENERAL DISCUSSION - PM

Art/Science - Practical Needs and Requirements

Funding

• Arts Council
• NESTA
• Universities (justified by research outcomes)
• EPSRC
• Wellcome

Pairs/Small groups

• Petty, absurd opposition from particularly science side
• Avoiding petty obstacles

Need support - to avoid re-invention of the wheel

One page eg justification (available on internet)

• Public engagement side put forward
• Research council requirements
• Benefits to art and to science
• Standard arguments
• Not reducing art to a pr function for science

Speakers/Advocates

• Not pressure or activist approach
• To do touring and talk about positive examples > into departments,universities, art centres
• Evidence to call in as ammunition

Mentors

• To call/have a coffee - yes I will help
• Sounding boards
• Mentoring - practice based case studies
• Informality
• Brokerage

Collaboration

• Why always ‘pair’ teams
• Science and Artists In Residence schemes
• Referal situation - partners - enabling meeting points
• Simbiotica - Lab in Perth, W. Australia: runs a residency programme and linked to strong bio-tech scene
• Postings to ISEA Forum> 2004 is next meeting. Call for proposals
• Web resource for Bio-Tech - centralised pointers
• FAQ’s

• Practice based examples:
• ‘real world' projects
• Case studies - taken apart
• Relationship between research and practice/the weave and knowledge transfer
• Nitty gritty stuff - in the methodology discussion and sharing
• Documentation outputs

Monthly drinks
‘Salon’ idea/concept
Beyond London and UK
Hijacked - zerocracy
Networking and brokering
Artist and scientist participants
Dating agency: structures and socials, profiling and matching

Small community - HOW BIG IS IT? - need market research to identify market size

Need scientists ? strategic issue: development through
1. Institutions->resource investigation>longer term
2. SWOT Team->short term> project models build populations
3. Champions

Targets

• Royal Society
• Nature
• Learned Societies
• Universities
• National Research Council
• AHRB
• ANAT
• ISEA
• Horizon Zero
• Leonardo
• Fine Art Forum
• Rhizome (Subscribe)
• Mute
• Biotica

WHAT DO U NEED?
WHO DO U NEED?
WHERE CAN I FIND THESE?

START
March 03: third Monday of every month: 6pm ICA Bar - 17th March

• Meeting point for bio-tech debate
• Postings to virtual participants post event of debate topics

EVALUATION CRITERIA

• Quality
• Quantity

HYBRID AND NON HYBRID

Clear and defined questions - artists/training
Piggy back existing festivals and neuroscience conferences (27000 people)