[artinfo] MIR Campaign: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in Variable Gravity

[Anne Nigten]

MIR Campaign

OPPORTUNITY FOR ART OR SCIENCE PROJECTS IN VARIABLE GRAVITY (INCLUDING ZERO =
GRAVITY)

and OTHER ARTISTIC PROJECTS at the GAGARIN COSMONAUT TRAINING CENTRE

Call for Proposals =AD deadline 21 October 2002

The MIR partnership invites proposals from European and Europe-based artists=
 and scientists to undertake projects/research in variable gravity=
 conditions on a parabolic flights or using other facilities, such as the=
 centrifuge and the hydrolaboratory/neutral buoyancy facility used for EVA=
 training, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC), Star City, Russi=
a.

A parabolic flight provides up to 20 cycles of 30-second periods of=
 weightlessness (zero gravity/microgravity) in freefall, interspersed with=
 periods of double gravity (2g acceleration) and normal gravity.

This is the pilot project of the MIR (microgravity interdisciplinary=
 research) initiative, which seeks to open up space and space industry=
 related facilities by matching artistic processes and scientific research=
 to give a new impulse to space art and space research.

The MIR partnership comprises 5 European art organisations focusing on art,=
 science and technology:

The Arts Catalyst, science-art agency, London, UK

Leonardo/Olats, Leonardo journal of art, science & technology and Leonardo=
 observatory for the arts and the techno-sciences, Paris, France

Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia

Projekt Atol, arts-technology organisation, Ljubljana, Slovenia

V2_Organisation, institute for the unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The selection committee will be made up of representatives from these organi=
sations.

The opportunity includes a cultural exchange and working trip to Moscow and=
 Star City in early 2003, including the potential to participate in one or=
 two parabolic =8Czero gravity=B9 flights with the GCTC.

The opportunity is open to artists and scientists in any discipline, where=
 the lead proposer is based in any European country, whether or not EU=
 members. We will select up to 6 artists=B9 projects and up to 3 scientific=
 experiments for participation.

=46or information and proposal form, go to: http://mir.v2.nl/

Please email your intent to make a proposal as soon as possible to: mir@v2.n=
l

The MIR initiative is supported by the European Union=B9s Culture 2000 fund.
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