“Science is a fundamentally creative practice.”
Insights from the fields of basic research often take years until they reach the day-to-day of the general public. Therefore, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria opens itself up to a new generation of interdisciplinary collaborations: Convergences between Art, Science, Design and Technology create new discourse and access to cutting-edge 21st century science.
Once a year, ISTA offers creative professionals the opportunity to spend 3-6 months in intensive exchange with scientists from the institute, to work on exciting projects and to further develop their own concepts in the field of science and technology.
Our Artist Residency Open Calls are announced annually in the fall. However, as we are working at full speed towards the opening of our VISTA Science Experience Center, there will unfortunately be no public open call in fall 2024. We look forward to receiving your applications again next year!
The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) opened its doors for the second round of the ISTA Artist in Residence program. The German conceptual artist Maximilian Prüfer and the Mexican multidisciplinary artist and former mathematician Julia Carrillo exchanged ideas with ISTA researchers from April to June 2024 and entered into exciting collaborations.
Read interviews with the artists in residence here.
Photos and more information about the Immortal Motors & Celestial Bodies exhibition can be found here.
During the Artist Residency 2023, the artists Daniela Brill Estrada (COL) and Shailesh BR (IND) gained extensive insights into laboratories and research projects and, together with researchers from biology to soft matter physics, posed exciting questions. They translated excerpts of these exchanges into installations and research diary-like collages and installations that were on view in the exhibition Roots and Trajectories in July 2023.
