The exhibition AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS will bring together the results and processes of local and global creation within the framework of the second Suratómica Festival for Creation - Art and Science, to be held in November 2023.
The festival and the exhibition will be spaces of encounter, dialogue, and co-creation where creation projects by creatives connected to the Suratómica Network, guests, and creatives participating in this call, will be presented.
If you have a creative project that explores the themes proposed for this cycle, that crosses the boundaries between the disciplines of art and science, this is the space for you to present it and connect with other creatives working on these topics. Ideas, works or projects that approach arts to biology, microbiology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, complexity sciences, life sciences, chaos theory, astrobiology, life and artificial intelligence, cyborg, among many others related to new understandings of life.
To participate, you only have to read the information we share with you on this page and complete the registration form.
THE SURATÓMICA FESTIVAL
The Suratómica Festival for Creation - Art & Science is a space for encountering, creation and dissemination for local and international creatives, artists and scientists. With scientific talks, art masterclasses, workshops and spaces for dialogue, the festival seeks to propagate scientific and artistic thought in our region.
The union of arts and science is currently one of the bases for the creation of new knowledge around alternative, more open, and equitable social structures. The Suratómica Festival is above all a encountering point for dialogue from different areas of knowledge, which under the ideas of collaboration, openness of knowledge, and diversity, come together to think about new forms of organization, creation, and alternatives to the idea of development.
CYCLE: AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS
At the edge of chaos means, literally, far, far away from equilibrium. This is in contrast to a world focused on the search for equilibrium of all kinds (accounting, financial, commercial, technological and others). It is at the edge of chaos that the most exciting things happen, but also the most delicate and sensitive. There is a science that deals with this space, this threshold. Of all the phenomena far from equilibrium, the most important from many points of view is life, living systems. Life-as-we-know-it, and life-as-it-could-be-possible, a broad threshold that covers from extremophiles and protozoa to human beings and artificial life and intelligence.
Well, Suratómica convenes the second cycle focused on that dimension: the edge of chaos. Science, art, aesthetics, engineering; but also, individual existence, the state of humanity, the life of the biosphere and relations with the entire universe emerge at that threshold. Vertigo embraces us and we can rely on this sensation and devote ourselves to study and creativity far from equilibrium. What results is surprising: we gain in degrees of freedom, in possibilities and in indeterminacy. Yes: the limit is the sky. That is to say, there are no limits.
Text by: Carlos Eduardo Maldonado
COMPLEMENTARY THEMATIC CONTEXT: OTHER POLITICS OF THE LIVING
Other politics of the living arises from conversations and questions about the politics of establishing a definition of "the living", which were developed in the creation group Queer forms of life. Conversations about the forms of life to be discovered, those that may emerge and those that we will create, but also about those we already know, and a different way of understanding and interacting with them.
At the same time, it is about thinking how other ways of knowing/understanding can emerge that approach the unknown, the im/probable, the indeterminate, with a different view than that of colonizing, exploiting or dominating. To think about the Queer forms of life, as they could be, is also to rethink our place in/as nature, and how our organizational, creative, collaborative and research practices can be expanded to other spaces of the social, in a context that today, in order to resist, can find there not one, but multiple possibilities.
As part of the cycle At the edge of chaos and in collaboration with Enjambre Interzone, this context addresses the sciences of complexity, astrobiology, microbiology, metagenomics, living networks, bioinformatics, biological hypercomputing, bioart, among others, from an anarchist approach, present both in the processes of knowledge creation and in the ways in which we organize ourselves to carry them out.
Text by Natalia Rivera
GENERAL INFORMATION
Exhibition AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS
II SURATÓMICA FESTIVAL
November 2023 - Exact dates to be defined
Bogotá, Colombia
Location of the exhibition to be defined
Who can participate?
Local, national and international creatives, collectives, and organizations that work in the articulation of art and science, particularly in the themes of this cycle AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS, may participate by exhibiting their projects.
How to participate?
Creatives interested in participating must fill out the registration form including complete information, before the date and time established for the end of the call.
In the first phase the works will be pre-selected and the organizing team of the exhibition will contact the authors to review the possibilities of production of the work.
The final participation in the exhibition and the festival will depend on the agreements and production possibilities for the exhibition of the work.
Selection
The selection of the projects participating in the exhibition AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS will be made by the festival's organizing group with the support of two guest curators, who will be announced together with the results.
Timeline and deadlines:
17.02.23 - Opening of the Call
10.03.23 - Closing of the Call (23:59 GMT-5 Colombian Time)
20.03.23 - Notification to pre-selected projects
From 20.03.23 - Agreements with pre-selected projects
01.05.23 - Publication of selected projects for the Exhibition
November 2023 - Festival and Exhibition - Exact dates to be announced
Conditions for participation:
Comply with the dates of the call for proposals. Proposals that arrive after the established deadlines will not be considered.
Submit all documents required by Suratómica. Incomplete proposals will not be considered.
If the work is pre-selected, attend the meeting with the technical producers of the exhibition to make production agreements.
The components of the project that will be part of the exhibition must be finalized before the dates of the mounting. Suratómica will support the technical production of the selected proposals for mounting and exhibition, upon agreement between the authors and the technical production team of the exhibition.
The creatives must ensure that the work is in Bogota on the date proposed in the schedule and that its installation is completed within the established timeframe.
The participating creatives and collectives accept that the Suratómica Network and the connected organizations use their image and that of their works for non-commercial purposes, for the dissemination and diffusion in printed and digital media.
The participating creatives and collectives accept that the Suratomica Network publishes their participation in the festival in printed and digital pieces aimed at obtaining funding or support for the development of the exhibition and/or the festival.
The creatives are responsible for the copyright contents of their works. Suratómica is exempt from any responsibility in the misuse by the artists of copyrighted pieces.
Works with xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist or discriminatory content of any other kind will not be accepted.
The Suratómica program may modify the conditions, dates and locations of the exhibition.
Documents to participate
In the participation form we ask you for the following information:
Title of the project
Format
Short description of the project (Max. 200 words)
Long description of the project (Max. 750 words)
How does the project relate to the theme "At the edge of chaos", "Other politics of the living", new understandings of the living, or other aspects of this Suratómica cycle? (Max. 200 words)
Technical description of the work (Dimensions, materials and requirements).
Photographs, sketches, diagrams or illustrations (Max. 5 images).
URL of the registration of the work in video (optional)
Resume of the collective or artist (2 pages max.)
Portfolio (Max. 5 projects)
Participate with your project:
Register in this FORM
Note: This is a Google form, which requires you to be logged into a Gmail account to attach documents.
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Please note
The location of the exhibition will be announced in June 2023.
The information sent to this call will be the information that will be published in the various means of dissemination of the exhibition, including the proceedings.
If you have any questions, please contact us at suratomica@gmail.com
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About the Suratómica Network
Suratómica Network is an independent, self-organized and self-funded project. Our encounter and creation spaces, always open and free, are organized and carried out collaboratively with the creatives, collectives and organizations that join us.
Learn more about Suratómica Network HERE
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