Nano ArtScience residencies in Marseille, France!

IMERA, the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (www.imera.fr),has issued a call for proposals for art science residencies with a deadline of Jan 31 2011.

They seek residencies by either artists (all disciplines)or scientists
(all disciplines, soft and hard) who wish to engage in collaborative
art-science projects that result in joint outcomes (publications, artworks, exhibitions, patents) that address ‘the human conditions of the sciences”.

For the international year of chemistry ( http://www.chemistry2011.org/) they are particularly interested in art science projects involving chemistry and nanoscience. Current residents include nano scientist Jim Gimzewski (http://artsci.ucla.edu/?q=people/james_gimzewski),co director of the UCLA Art-Sci Lab. IMERA advisors include nano scientist Guy Lelay (http://sysweb.cinam.univ-mrs.fr/cinam/spip.php?rubrique35) and chemist Denis Bertin (http://www.lc-provence.fr/)

Debate-designers are getting ever more creative: this Dutch initiative invites artist, designers etc. to participate in 'Nano Supermarket' with their new Nano-products. The submission deadline was today. I'm very curious what the results will be, and whether they will be as thought and debate provoking as you hope they will be... For now, it's too early to say anything else, but I can't wait to visit the actual event!

By the way: the organisations' website, www.nextnature.net, is definitely worth a visit on itself, because of the news items. Check it out:

http://www.nextnature.net/events/nano-supermarket/