ArtSci 2019 – Hémisphères
A master of arts, a bachelor of sciences, independently undertaken in a studio or in a lab.
The natural sciences have traditionally been kept apart from the arts, enclosed in a sterile
space where anything missing a reference and a standard solution has no right to exist. And
it is the same story in the artistic realm: how can a detailed display of an insect wing
qualify as art, if it is simply a reproduction of what nature has created? No colour in my
lab, no science on my palette.
Like the phenolphthalein in acid-base titrations, we celebrate the colours in laboratories.
Like the inspiration firing through neuronal synapses formulating an output on the canvas,
we celebrate the science splatters on the palette. At ArtSci we celebrate the intersection
of Art and Science.
Hémisphères, the second edition in the ArtSci exhibition series, invites the viewer to cross
the corpus callosum. Traveling from right to left and black to white creates matter that is
anything but grey, matter that matters. Walk with us and leave the borders behind, rejoice
in the primordial soup of what life has to offer and be inspired. ArtSci – Hémipshères
presents artscience not from a country, but from both of the world’s hemispheres, waiting
for you here at ETH.
ArtSci 2018 – La Rencontre
Where Art and Science meet – La Rencontre – was the inaugural exhibition of ArtSci. Newly
founded in October 2017, ArtSci for the first time celebrated the art science interface at
ETH Zürich in April 2018 with this two week exhibition. La Rencontre took place at the green
floor at the ETH CHN building, showcasing the work of more than 35 art-scientists from
Germany, Switzerland, France and the US. The exhibit was accompanied by a range of events,
made possible thanks to our collaborators and supporters.
Special thanks go to Chiara and the Art Science Collaborative for their awesome workshops,
the Technorama museum Zürich for their hospitality and Miriam Martinovic and the Fine Art
Collective for amazing support both with materials and leading a workshop in person. We also
would like to thank Dr. Emily Scott and Christoff Kuefer for their intriguing talks and of
course Peter and Urs from SOSETH, Gabrielle Attinger from D-USYS and Gazmed Halimi for their
never-ending logistical support.
We were overwhelmed by the amount of marvelous submissions received for La Rencontre. Please
refer to our gallery to take a look at what ArtSci 2018 had to offer and be inspired –
perhaps for your own submission, this year at ArtSci 2019 Hémisphères? Although ArtSci is no
competition but a peaceful, egalitarian festival of what we call our passion, we would like
to highlight three of La Rencontre’s submissions that were awarded a special prize from our
partners at the Fine Art Collective and Boesner.
