Through October to December 2016, Aerocene will be working together with members of the Exhibition Road Cultural Group – 16 prestigious cultural and scientific institutions, among them Imperial College London, the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Serpentine Galleries – to create an open and collaborative research platform.
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Aerocene together with Exhibition Road institutions announce an open call to join the Aerocene project for an extended collaborative hack to imagine and prototype the tools of our Aerocene future. We’re looking for developers, designers, artists, data scientists, creative technologists, and enthusiasts.
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From October to December 2016, Aerocene came to Exhibition Road for an interdisciplinary artistic project, gathering together 17 prestigious cultural and scientific institutions in London, among them Imperial College London, the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Serpentine Galleries.
Hello Aerocene friends and pilots. Join us for the next leg of the Aerocene “Around the World” carbon-free solar journey! This Saturday, 27 August at 7:00 a.m., we will be launching Aerocene solar balloon sculptures with atmospheric recording sensor payloads in Schönfelde, Germany (2 hours from Berlin by train). Aerocene traveling sculptures transcend boundaries between art and science and have become a visionary open participatory platform of knowledge production and distribution. In addition to the launch, we invite you to a participate in two challenges and win a prize.
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Throughout the months of May, June, and July, participants from IAK (Institut für Architekturbezogene Kunst), architecture-related Art Institute at TU Braunschweig, directed by Tomás Saraceno, are conducting a series of test flights of Aerocene solar sculptures in various locations in Germany. Tests will be of solar balloon materials, sensoring and tracking devices, and payload options, and are already yielding fascinating results.
Participants from IAK architecture-related Art Institute, directed by Tomás Saraceno, joined him on 10 June 2016 at a refugee camp to test some Aerocene solar sculptures.
Participants from IAK architecture-related Art Institute, directed by Tomás Saraceno, joined him on 3 June 2016 at a refugee camp to test a number of Aerocene solar sculptures.
In May 2016 at Cappadox Festival for contemporary art and music in Cappadocia, Turkey, Tomás Saraceno led an Aerocene performance and excursion together with his students from IAK-Braunschweig.
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Participants of the ‘Knowing (in) the Anthropocene’ seminar at Haus der Kulturen der Welt met at Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin on 18 April 2016 to witness Aerocene achieve lift through the power of the air and the sun. #sustainability #Aerocene #solar
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Aerocene was presented at Meta.Morf in March 2016 – a biennial for art and technology in Trondheim, Norway. The project reflects upon this year’s biennial’s motto “Nice to be in orbit!”, making the dynamics of celestial and non-celestial bodies visible and sensible.
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