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.
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Zavod Kersnikova

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

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

Češka republika (EU)
Københavns Universitet (partner)

Danska (EU)
The Arts Catalyst (partner)

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