Networks

Artsactive

DISONANCIAS is the headquarter of artsactive.net, an international network that includes primarily the main organisers of programs of collaboration between artists and science or industry research labs, but also collaborators that study, influence or otherwise motivate such programs. It was created in 2005.

Current membership includes:

• Organisers of collaboration programmes: ANAT (Melbourne, Australia), ArtistsinLabs (Zurich), The Arts Catalyst (London), Arts Council England, Arts and Genomic Center (Amsterdam), Disonancias, Ectopia (Lisboa), FUSE: cadre_montalvo artists research residency (California), ITEM (Liverpool), SymbioticA (Perth, Australia); Tillt (Goteborg, Sweden), Transgenesis (Praga).
• Support organisations: Leonardo/ISAST, Leonardo/OLATS.
• Researchers, observers and advisors: Samuelle Carlson, Bronac Ferran, James Leach (Kings College, Cambridge), Emmanuel Mahé (France Télécom R&D) and Robert Thill.

Tillt Europe

DISONANCIAS is participating in a European project during 2009 headed by Skådebanan Västra Götaland (organisers of Tillt in Goteborg) with the aim of analysing programmes that promote exchange between the fields of culture and business and evaluating their socio-economic impact. The final aim of the project is to guide European policies in this field. The WZB (Social Science Research Center Berlin) is also part of the project, helping to measure the impact of the artistic interventions in the organizations.