Trust me, I’m an artist

The project Trust Me, I’m an Artist – Developing Ethical Frameworks for Artists, Cultural Institutions andAudiences Engaged in the Challenges of Creating and Experiencing New Art Forms in Biotechnology and Biomedicine in Europe has propagated innovative artistic production in biotechnology and biomedicineby:

Commissioning artworks that are collaborations between artists and scientists in the field of biotechnology and biomedicine with artists such as Martin O’Brien (UK), Spela Petric (SLO), Gina Czarnecki, Rod Dillon & John Hunt (UK), Jennifer Willet (CAN), Kira O’Reilly (UK), Howard Boland (UK), Maja Smrekar (SLO), Anna Dumitriu (UK), Mari Keto (FIN) & Erich Berger (FIN); David Blandy & Larry Achiampong (UK) and Francois-Joseph Lapointe (CAN). All artworks deal with and incorporate scientific findings and knowledge, laboratory techniques and theirmeanings, reflection on and elements of ethical complexities as found in bio sciences research.
These works are presented via the innovative format of Trust me, I’m an artist where an ethical evaluation panel consisting of ethical and artistic experts assesses and judges the artwork, its meaning and possible ethical implications as if it were research in biotechnology and biomedicine. The way these artworks investigate the ethical complexities in biotechnology and biomedicine and the way these art works have been presented via the format of Trust me, I’m an artist, to both a professional and generally informed audience has strongly contributed to the skills to better understand ethics of techno-sciences research such as clinical experiments, welfare of test animals, patient data protection, the understanding of ecological and human risk of biotechnologies and the understanding of the way ethics evaluation panels work in science.

From the other side the project has also informed and influenced professional practitioners in science, humanities and science & technology studies. The project researched the way in which the arts can take on the role to sensitise, convey, transmit, the ethical ambiguities and complexities found in biotechnologies and biomedicine and emerging technologies at large. Participating artists and curators have widely published about their work in the project via blogs and notably articles in the widely known art-science magazine Leonardo Journal (MIT Press). In addition to that a white paper has been written about the way this practice of can be furthered to create more innovative artworks and create more understanding about ethics in this context to reach out to the public. Social sciences scholar Wieke Betten has in part written her PhD research based on the project at Free University Amsterdam. A second PhD research is currently finalised by Agnieszka Wolodzko at University of Leiden. Professor of ethics at Delft University of Technology has been publishing articles about the project while participating in two of the ethics panel events as chair.
(Source: EC; look also Zavod Kersnikova)

Kersnikova Institute

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Stichting Waag Society (leader)

Netherlands (EU)
CIANT International Centre for Art and New Technologies (partner)

Czech Republic (EU)
Københavns Universitet (partner)

Denmark (EU)
The Arts Catalyst (partner)

United Kingdom (EU)

Funded projects

European Film Festival Network Young Programmers for Young Audiences! (Young4Film)

FILMDISTRIBUTION2025

European Films in Slovenia 2025-2027 Fivia d.o.o.

ACQUISITIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN FILMS 2026-2027

European Films in Slovenia 2024-2026 - Fivia

2023 Film Distribution - Generation stage Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania - Reinvestment into distribution and Acquisition of non-national European titles 2024-2026

European films in Slovenia 2023/2024

EUROPEAN FILM 2023-2024

DEMIURG - distribution of European films in Slovenia, years 2024 and 2025

2022 Film Distribution - Generation stage Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania - Reinvestment into distribution and Acquisition of non-national European titles 2023-2025

2020, 2021 - GENERATION SLOVENIA - REINVESTMENT INTO DISTRIBUTION AND ACQUISITION OF NON-NATIONAL EUROPEAN TITLES 2022-2024

European Films in Slovenia 2022/2023

DEMIURG - distribution of European films in Slovenia, years 2023 and 2024

2020 Generation and Reinvestment – Demiurg

2020 Generation and Reinvestment – Fivia

2020 Generation and Reinvestment – Blitz

Films on the Move 2025

Films on the Move 2024

Films on the Move 2023

Films on the Move 2022

Films on the Move 2021

Kino Otok Isola Cinema 2016

Distribution – Automatic support scheme 2014 - Demiurg

Distribution – Automatic support scheme 2014 - Blitz

Distribution – Automatic support scheme - Fivia/Cenex

Distribution – Automatic support scheme - Demiurg

Distribution – Automatic support scheme Blitz

12. Animateka International Animated Film Festival

United States od Love

Stories From The Chestnut Woods

The Last Ice Hunters

Vrnitev v Itako/Retour a Ithaque

Victoria

Long Way North

Toni Erdmann

The Girl King

Suburra

Starec in štorklja

Savlov sin/Saul Fia

Resonance Cinema. Cultural Hub for Curious Minds

Classroom Rascals

Phoenix

Ovna/Hrutar

Redemption (now Family Therapy)

Odprto morje/Fuocoammare

Nova prijateljica/Une Nouvelle Amie

Neznanka/La Fille Inconnue

A Bigger Splash

Mustang

Mon Roi

Moja mama/Mia Madre

Misija Arktika/Operasjon Arktis

Matura/Bacalaureat (aka Fotografii de Familie)

Marijina zgodba/Marie Heurtin

Marguerite

Mama/Ma ma

Maenas Down

Ma Loute/Mirni zaliv

Ljubezen na prvi pretep/Les combattants

The Innocents

Like Crazy

The Business of Revenge

A War

The Commune

Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama

I, Daniel Blake

Golob je sedel na veji in razmišljal o življenju/En Duva Satt Pa En Gren Och Funderade Pa Tillvaron

Louder than Bombs

Francofonia

Conspiracy of Faith

The absent one

Phantom Boy

Sweet Dreams

European Framework for Film Education

Eden

Dobrodušni velikan/Fúsi

Čisto nova zaveza/Le Tout Nouveau Testament

Cena slave/La Rancon de la Gloire

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