"Trust me, I'm an Artist" investigates the new ethical issues arising from art and science collaboration and consider the roles and responsibilities of the artists, scientists and institutions involved.

Listening to Vegetal Otherness

The audio recordings from Špela Petrič‘s Trust Me I’m an Artist performance, Vegetal Otherness, is now available on the project’s new SoundCloud account. If you’d like to listen to the performance, the audio files have been embedded below:

CREATE! PROGRAM! FORCE TO LIVE!

CIANT Prague is organizing another installment of the Trust me, I’m an Artist series. The main ethical struggle in human dealings with technology has its roots in the very core of our approach towards the creation of otherness. The human dream of creating a higher level of intelligence and higher way of being is shattered … Continue Reading

Diary Entry: Watching the grass grow

Recently, Annick Bureaud published her impression of the performance by Špela Petrič that took place at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana on September 10, 2015: Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis. Annick’s original journal entry is available here in French. Below, you will find an English translation. Watching the grass grow On Thursday, September 10, having only just arrived in … Continue Reading

Špela Petrič: ‘Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis’

As part of the ‘Trust Me, I’m an Artist’ project, Kapelica Gallery presents a work by Špela Petrič. In the series Confronting Vegetal Otherness, intermedia artist Špela Petrič explores the possibility of intercognition between humans and plants based on the innate biosemiotic processes, that is the physico-chemical signs that facilitate a senseful interaction. Through the … Continue Reading