#2: Effects & Ambitions
Daniela de Paulis is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Netherlands. She exhibits internationally, often collaborating with other artists, scientists and radio amateurs. She holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, and a Master Degree in Media Arts from Plymouth University, UK. Since October 2009 she is the first artist in residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope and ASTRON (www.astron.nl) where she developed, together with the CAMRAS and the ASTRON team, a technology called Visual Moonbounce. Since 2010 she has been collaborating with the international collective Astronomers Without Borders (AWB), as the founder and director of the AstroArts programme. In 2013 she founded Cabine Voltaire, a pioneering online, collaborative platform for live debates on science, technology and the humanities.
Daniela is currently a PhD candidate at ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), University of Amsterdam, developing her research on Interstellar Transmissions. Her provisionary PhD title is: ‘Consciousness and the Cosmos: a thought experiment’
She is a reviewer for the Leonardo MIT Journal and the EVA (Electronic Visualization in the Arts) London conference, as well as a regular contributor for Astronomers Without Borders and www.astroblogs.nl amongst others. She has published her work with the Leonardo MIT Journal, Inderscience, Acta Astronautica and Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the international SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) committee as the speaker for SETI and culture.
Personal website: www.danieladepaulis.com
Can you elaborate on the role artistic research plays in you practice today?
Artistic research is parallel to my artistic practice, not always crossing my practice but surely offering opportunities for interdisciplinary debate and thinking. It also offers opportunities for discussing topics important for my artistic research in the broader spectrum of research fields, including the academic ones.
What role do you feel it should play in academia?
For me working in academia is an opportunity to work with specialists in various fields and to have a collaboration also on the speculative aspects of my artistic research.
If you take an average working week, what percentages would be your estimated time-investment in the activities below, in the past year?
If your entire work week would be 100%
Artistic research (reading, experimenting, attending conferences, visiting exhibitions etc.) 40.%
Artistic production (executing work, exhibitions etc.) 20%
Academic work (publications, presentations etc.) 40%
Teaching (curriculum development, meetings etc.) 05%
Other work 15%
Are you content with this devision?
I wish I could do more teaching but currently there are no teaching positions suitable for my specialism
Which are your long term ambitions?
Continuing working on long term projects informed by interdisciplinary research and possibly lecturing on a regular basis to support my artistic practice
Daniela de Paulis is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Netherlands. She exhibits internationally, often collaborating with other artists, scientists and radio amateurs. She holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, and a Master Degree in Media Arts from Plymouth University, UK. Since October 2009 she is the first artist in residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope and ASTRON (www.astron.nl) where she developed, together with the CAMRAS and the ASTRON team, a technology called Visual Moonbounce. Since 2010 she has been collaborating with the international collective Astronomers Without Borders (AWB), as the founder and director of the AstroArts programme. In 2013 she founded Cabine Voltaire, a pioneering online, collaborative platform for live debates on science, technology and the humanities.
Daniela is currently a PhD candidate at ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), University of Amsterdam, developing her research on Interstellar Transmissions. Her provisionary PhD title is: ‘Consciousness and the Cosmos: a thought experiment’
She is a reviewer for the Leonardo MIT Journal and the EVA (Electronic Visualization in the Arts) London conference, as well as a regular contributor for Astronomers Without Borders and www.astroblogs.nl amongst others. She has published her work with the Leonardo MIT Journal, Inderscience, Acta Astronautica and Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the international SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) committee as the speaker for SETI and culture.
Personal website: www.danieladepaulis.com
Can you elaborate on the role artistic research plays in you practice today?
Artistic research is parallel to my artistic practice, not always crossing my practice but surely offering opportunities for interdisciplinary debate and thinking. It also offers opportunities for discussing topics important for my artistic research in the broader spectrum of research fields, including the academic ones.
What role do you feel it should play in academia?
For me working in academia is an opportunity to work with specialists in various fields and to have a collaboration also on the speculative aspects of my artistic research.
If you take an average working week, what percentages would be your estimated time-investment in the activities below, in the past year?
If your entire work week would be 100%
Artistic research (reading, experimenting, attending conferences, visiting exhibitions etc.) 40.%
Artistic production (executing work, exhibitions etc.) 20%
Academic work (publications, presentations etc.) 40%
Teaching (curriculum development, meetings etc.) 05%
Other work 15%
Are you content with this devision?
I wish I could do more teaching but currently there are no teaching positions suitable for my specialism
Which are your long term ambitions?
Continuing working on long term projects informed by interdisciplinary research and possibly lecturing on a regular basis to support my artistic practice
