Alessandro Ludovico of Neural was so nice to feature a picture of Common Flowers as a centerfold in the ‘Scripting Green’ issue of Neural.it. And he was also so kind to send us a copy of the fantastic magazine. Mille grazie, Alessandro. If you don’t already have one, get one. Or even better, get a subscription.
As a follow up, there is also a money shot.
We are going to present/exhibit the Common Flowers / White Out project at Coded Cultures Japan in Yokohama.
Our presentation will be at about 18h on Saturday, 17th October. Drop by if you want to know more about the Common Flowers, Flower Commons, “excorcising” DNA and about our encounter with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health / Section for Gene-Technology (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit / Abteilung für Gentechnik).
Should be fun.
More Details from the Press Release:
CODED CULTURES – Exploring Creative Emergences
Japan Festival (Yokohama / Tokyo)
http://www.codedcultures.net
Binational Festival to explore new artistic creative Ability-Profiles within media integrated Delineation Cultures
(Official Part of Austria – Japan Year 2009)
2009.10.14 – 2009.10.18
Tokyo National University for the Arts (Yokohama / Bashamichi Campus)
Yokohama Creativecity Center (YCC / Bashamichi)
Club UNIT (Tokyo / Ebisu)
ADMISSION FREE
Talk Events: 2009.10.15 – 2009.10.16, 14:00-18:00
(Tokyo Geidai, Bashamischi Campus / Yokohama)
Opening Reception: 2009.10.16, 18:00 (Yokohama Creativecity Center)
Music Night: 2009.10.16, 23:30 (UNIT, Ebisu/Tokyo)
produced by www.minimaltokyo.com
Artist Presentations: 2009.10.17, 13:00-22:00 (Yokohama Creativecity Center)
Symposium: 2009.10.18, 13:00-20:00
(Tokyo Geidai, Bashamichi Campus / Yokohama)
ABOUT:
CODED CULTURES is a binational festival (Austria – Japan) as part of the official »Austria-Japan Year 2009«. Its aim is to explore new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related arts, focusing on Japan and Europe. The main focus is to investigate the exchange of creative cultures and to give artists, curators, scientists from the field of new media related fields a platform to discuss and present their works and ideas. The festival »CODED CULTURES – Exploring Creative Emergences« is addressing questions regarding the codes of creative cultures and artistic practices, which are based on new trans-disciplinary and hybrid developments of culture and art under the conditions of a contemporary digital media-age and transformations of related artistic explorations.
PARTICIPANTS:
5VOLTCORE (Emanuel Andel & Christian Gützer, Artists – Austria), BCL (Georg Tremmel & Shiho Fukuhara, Artists – Austria/Japan), Dominique Chen (Researcher/Producer – Japan), exonemo (Yae Akaiwa & Kensuke Sembo, Artists – Japan), Mathias Fuchs (Artist/Critic – Austria), Masaki Fujihata (Artist – Japan), Ryota Kuwakubo (Artist – Japan), Elsy Lahner (Curator – Austria), Walter Langelaar (Artist – Netherlands), Yuko Mohri (Artist – Japan), Ujino Muneteru (Artist – Japan), Ivan Poupyrev (Researcher – US), Lorenz Seidler (Artist/Researcher – Austria), Sabine Seymour (Designer – Austria), Yukiko Shikata (Curator – Japan), SHIMURABROS. (Yuka & Kentaro Shimura, Artists – Japan), Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (Artists/Scienctists – Austria), UBERMORGEN.COM (Hans Bernhard & lizvlx, Artists – Switzerland/Austria), Hiroshi Yoshioka (Curator/Philosopher – Japan).
Just in time for the japanese iteration of Coded Cultures, here’s the report from the austrian version. Very kind of ORF Newton to assist us with that.
Common Flowers / White Out @ Newton from trembl on Vimeo.
Sorry, it’s neither in English nor in Japanese. (And I am not sure if it’s German either.)
And for that really dorky, “mad-scientist” look I had to spend 2 hours in Make Up? Well… it was well worth it.
The Summary Notification Information Format (SNIF) was initially published on the Joint Research Center (JRC) website on September 29 (2004). Public comments were received during 30 days, and originated from the Netherlands (3), Italy (1), Ireland (1) and the UK (1). On December 2004, a revised SNIF was published on the JRC website due to the limitation of the scope, i.e. the withdrawal of line 123.2.2. Only public comments originating from Dutch persons are addressed by the Netherlands CA in this assessment report, and are summarized below, under points 1 to 3. Public comments originating from other member states are to be addressed by the relevant CA’s under the 2001/18/EC, during their national assessment in the 60-day period.
Public comments which were addressed by the Netherlands CA were submitted by:
- Ms. Van Dort, Den Haag, The Netherlands;
- Mr. Schöttelndreier, Groenekan, The Netherlands;
- Mr. Stellingwerf, Ede, The Netherlands.
1. Ms. Van Dort is of the opinion that nature is beautiful enough and therefore sees no reason for colour modification.
Answer: Comments of an ideological nature fall outside the scope of the legal framework of Directive 2001/18/EC. A notification under Directive 2001/18/EC is assessed on possible risks for human health and the environment.
2. Mr. Schöttelndreier objects to the notification because the long term ecological consequences of introducing GMO’s in nature have not been fully assessed.
Answer: The scope of the notification is import only, so no cultivation will take place in the EU. Therefore, there is no reason to assess long term ecological effects as a result of cultivation of the colour modified carnation within the territory of the EU.
3. Mr. Stellingwerf is of the opinion that consents for the deliberate releases of GMO’s should be based on a ‘no, unless..’-basis and regards a colour modification of flowers not a legitimate ground. He also states that other alternatives are available.
Answer: A notification under Directive 2001/18/EC is assessed on possible risks for human health and the environment. If no risks are identified, there is no legal basis to withhold admission of GMO’s to the European market.
A consideration of alternatives is beyond the scope of Directive 2001/18/EC.
Any more comments? Any more questions?
