Residency
Open Call
Who can participate? | Artists of any age who are interested in addressing the scientific questions of our cooperation partners. |
What do we offer? | A remuneration of 2.000 €, accommodation and studio as well as production and travel allowances. |
Where does it take place? | The project will take place at the |
When does the project happen? | Presence time 01.07.22 — 03.10.22 |
How can I participate? | If you are interested, please send us a CV, portfolio and an outline of your project proposal. We accept applications up to and including 29.05.22. |
We are looking for artists who would like to visit the labs and engage with the research of the scientists. This exchange should then lead to exhibitable artworks according to your ideas. Due to the space available, we are especially looking for visual artists. However, other art forms such as performing arts, literature and music are also welcome. We are especially happy about cross-disciplinary ways of working. Experience in the field of Arts & Science is desired.
Your working time will be accompanied by an opening event as well as workshops of the participatory program or our Arts & Science soirées. You should be willing to actively participate in the program, as our residency thrives on dialogue, exchange and presence. It is therefore important to us that you are on site for a large part of the residency period. We would be happy if you stay in contact with the scientists during the whole time and of course if you share the project through your channels.
After the end of the exhibition, we will take care of the safe storage of the work. As a central point of contact for interested parties, we take care of transport and price arrangements. In the future, we plan to organize smaller exhibitions in Central Germany from the works that emerge from the residencies. For this purpose we will sign a commission contract with you at the beginning of the program.
Detailed information
Institutions
Marina Pekmezovic & Jakob Sprague
Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 124 - FungiNet,
Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies & Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms,
Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
Candida albicans on the human mucosa
The FungiNet research group investigates how pathogenic fungi interact with human hosts. One of these organisms, which can transform from a commensal to a pathogenic organism, is the fungus Candida albicans. The fungus is in general living as a commensal meaning harmless microorganism on the human mucosa, such as the mouth, gut or vagina. Once the microbial balance on mucosal surfaces is disrupted, Candida albicans shifts to a pathogenic form and causes infection. Especially, the interaction between Candida and epithelial cells in the gut resisting translocation of the fungus is of interest. Accordingly, the translocation of the fungus is replicated and visualized in the laboratory to quantify the resistance of the epithelial cells and to develop therapeutic options that render Candida albicans harmless to humans.
Ekaterina Podlesnaia, Andrea Csáki & Wolfgang Fritzsche
Nanobiophotonics
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT)
Nano_bio_photonics
Research group Nanobiophotonics focuses on plasmonic nanoparticles, which are usually made of noble metals such as gold, silver, or platinum. They can be shaped in various geometric shapes that are only visible at the nanoscale using electron microscopic methods. On a larger scale, such nanoparticles form colorful colloids due to the selective light absorption within the visible spectrum. Manipulating the optical properties via the material, size, and shape of nanoparticles is essential for applying them as optical signal converters in sensor technologies. Moreover, functional nanostructures based on biomolecular components and plasmonic nanoparticles, such as plasmon nanoantennas, can be used for the targeted manipulation of biomolecules, catalysis or materials processing.
Olivia Engmann
IMPULS research consortium
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Universitätsklinikum Jena
Please contact our science coordination team for more audiovisual material.
Tension – Chronic stress
The impulse working group investigates how lifestyle and aging change the response to stress. Although stress is by definition a subjective event, it leads to measurable changes in the brain and body that can be replicated in mouse models. The stress response is studied at the molecular, neuroanatomical and behavioral level, all of which are closely interrelated.
Gyula Kovács
Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences
Department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
World – Brain Tensions
In the department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences, one of the questions being investigated is in which respect tension arises from the discrepancies between the reality surrounding people and the world perceived by the individual. In general, the human brain processes its environment according to certain rules, which depend, for example, on prior experiences and one's own level of knowledge. However, the divergence between the existing reality and the reality processed by the brain leads regularly to tensions. The predictive coding theory is currently trying to explain these tensions and is used to investigate which neuronal processes take place when personal expectations of the observed world are subverted.
Timo Mappes
Deutsches Optisches Museum (D.O.M)
Tension in glas
The Deutsches Optisches Museum (D.O.M.) and its depot of antique optical apparatus are currently undergoing a phase of renovation and reorganization, the exhibition is scheduled to reopen in 2025. Optical and photonic phenomena will be explained with real-life experiments within the new exhibition, in addition current research topics will be presented. In this very context the museum is dedicated to the communication and visualization of tension in glass. The latter being a challenge to overcome in optical systems. One means to analyze tension in glass is to characterize it between crossed polarizers. Here the birefringence leads to defined colored interference patterns. This will be exhibited and explained within the new exhibition at D.O.M. The “Künstlerische Tatsachen” project is to happen in the UNESCO International Year of Glass 2022.
Martin Klapper
Paleobiotechnology
Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
Natural product research with biosynthesis genes from archaeological samples
The Paleobiotechnology group analyzes highly fragmented biological information found in archaeological samples using modern bioinformatics and genetic methods. Research on this genetic information, so-called metagenomic data, contained in archaeological remains is used, among other things, to gain insights into the evolution of biosynthetic genes. In terms of natural product research, the genes of interest are precisely those that allow the production of natural chemical substances. The research process can be situated between basic research and applied science, i.e. between bioinformatic analysis of DNA sequences and the production and testing of enzymes, respectively isolated natural products in the laboratory. Within this process, numerous scientists are working together, literally under tension, as the attempt to resurrect biosynthetic genes and biologically active enzymes from archaeological samples is an experimental approach without prospect of definitely predictable research results.
Cláudia Vilhena & Zoltán Cseresnyés
Infection Biology, Applied Systems Biology
Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
How pneumonia-inducing bacteria learn from their human host
Human pathogenic bacteria pose a great threat to society because we do not yet fully understand how they interact with our bodies to cause diseases. As a most acute problem, the infection mechanisms of pneumonia-inducing bacteria, where the existing vaccines have limited availability and affordability, especially in developing countries, is studied at the HKI. To find more accessible ways to fight these infections, the scientific approach of Cláudia Vilhena and Zoltán Cseresnyés and their colleagues at the HKI turns things around: instead of only trying to understand how the human system reacts to the pathogen, they examine how the pathogens learn from us as they interact with the human body. During these studies high-resolution microscopy and computer-aided image analysis are used, where one has to address the challenges of visualizing 3-dimensional structures that represent the bacterial membrane. By utilizing a combination of shape, size and color, and building them into animations as well as computer models, structural and functional details about the bacteria that help us build better defense strategies against pathogen-related diseases are revealed.
Ilona Croy
Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie
Department of Clinical Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-UniversityJena
Neuroscience: Development and maintenance of mental illnesses
The Department of Clinical Psychology investigates the conditions for the development and maintenance of mental illness from a neuroscientific perspective. One research focus is on interoceptive perception, which is the conscious or unconscious perception of internal bodily processes, such as heartbeat, respiration, etc. Those processes represent how the body adjusts to the external environment. In general, the body's ability to regulate itself in response to external circumstances is studied. With regard to panic disorders, for example, the extent to which the body adapts and is placed in a strong state of tension is investigated.
Cynthia Möller, Dr. Andreas Beelmann, Annika Kleinschmitt, Frederike Wistuba & Matthias Koch
Zentrum für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Demokratiebildung und gesellschaftliche Integration (KomRex)
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
The science of science or: What does scientific actually mean?
One of the main tasks of the Center for Research on Right-Wing Extremism, Democracy Education and Social Integration (KomRex) is the transfer of scientific findings to the public, the media and political decision-makers. In terms of science communication, two aspects can be distinguished: One is the communication of findings on a specific phenomenon, such as the emergence of radicalization processes among young people. A second aspect concerns the communication of concepts and methods of knowledge production. This consideration is by nature abstract and initially independent of the research content. However, it is significant when misconceptions and expectations prevail in the public or in politics, thus hindering the transfer of scientific content and, in extreme cases, devaluing or ignoring scientific knowledge. Therefore, this project is dedicated to the production and dissemination of knowledge as well as its evaluation, i.e. the presentation of empirical social science studies and the question "What can science achieve?"
Kalpana Jain & Devasena Thiagarajan
Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Research Group Olfactory Coding
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI-CE)
From the outside to the inside: Sensory information in the neuronal circuit of Drosophila melanogaster
The research concerning the sense of smell of flies focuses on the species Drosophila melanogaster. Especially, the fly’s specialized organs like the antennae and proboscis, the insect’s nose and mouth, are of interest for the researchers. The hair-like structures on the antennae are investigated, as they contain olfactory neurons including specific olfactory receptors. The aim is to investigate how the membrane potential (electrical tension) of the neurons changes in relation to specific odors. The neuronal response can be analyzed by measuring the calcium level in the neurons. The research likewise indicates that insects such as Drosophila melanogaster learn sensory signals related to odors to make future decisions. Thus, the neuronal circuit that performs the integration of different inputs and generates behaviors can be pinpointed by using behavioral experiments and functional imaging techniques.
Klaus Rothermund & Clara de Paula Couto
Chair of General Psychology
Department of General Psychology II, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
What does it mean to be a “good old person”? The tension between norms of active aging and disengagement
Prescriptive age norms, i.e. conceptions about how older people should be and how they should live play a central role for development in old age. What is a "good old person"? What are society's expectations of the elderly? These so-called age norms are dominated by apparently opposite ideals: active aging (“Old people should stay fit, healthy and engaged in order to make an important contribution to society”) and disengagement (“Old people should withdraw from their positions, and should not stand in the way of the younger generation”). Fueled by demographic change, this tension between active age and withdrawal is constantly being renegotiated in the context of social debate. In addition to analyzing conflicting norms of aging among specific groups of people, research is equally interested in demonstrating how norms of withdrawal and activation simultaneously coexist and are internalized as helpful guidance for healthy aging by many older individuals.
Residency
Open Call
Who can participate? | Artists of any age who are interested in addressing the scientific questions of our cooperation partners. |
What do we offer? | A remuneration of 2.000 €, accommodation and studio as well as production and travel allowances. |
Where does it take place? | The project will take place at the |
When does the project happen? | Presence time 01.07.22 — 03.10.22 |
How can I participate? | If you are interested, please send us a CV, portfolio and an outline of your project proposal. We accept applications up to and including 29.05.22. |
We are looking for artists who would like to visit the labs and engage with the research of the scientists. This exchange should then lead to exhibitable artworks according to your ideas. Due to the space available, we are especially looking for visual artists. However, other art forms such as performing arts, literature and music are also welcome. We are especially happy about cross-disciplinary ways of working. Experience in the field of Arts & Science is desired.
Your working time will be accompanied by an opening event as well as workshops of the participatory program or our Arts & Science soirées. You should be willing to actively participate in the program, as our residency thrives on dialogue, exchange and presence. It is therefore important to us that you are on site for a large part of the residency period. We would be happy if you stay in contact with the scientists during the whole time and of course if you share the project through your channels.
After the end of the exhibition, we will take care of the safe storage of the work. As a central point of contact for interested parties, we take care of transport and price arrangements. In the future, we plan to organize smaller exhibitions in Central Germany from the works that emerge from the residencies. For this purpose we will sign a commission contract with you at the beginning of the program.
Detailed information
Institutions
Gyula Kovács
Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences
Department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
World – Brain Tensions
In the department of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences, one of the questions being investigated is in which respect tension arises from the discrepancies between the reality surrounding people and the world perceived by the individual. In general, the human brain processes its environment according to certain rules, which depend, for example, on prior experiences and one's own level of knowledge. However, the divergence between the existing reality and the reality processed by the brain leads regularly to tensions. The predictive coding theory is currently trying to explain these tensions and is used to investigate which neuronal processes take place when personal expectations of the observed world are subverted.
Timo Mappes
Deutsches Optisches Museum (D.O.M)
Tension in glas
The Deutsches Optisches Museum (D.O.M.) and its depot of antique optical apparatus are currently undergoing a phase of renovation and reorganization, the exhibition is scheduled to reopen in 2025. Optical and photonic phenomena will be explained with real-life experiments within the new exhibition, in addition current research topics will be presented. In this very context the museum is dedicated to the communication and visualization of tension in glass. The latter being a challenge to overcome in optical systems. One means to analyze tension in glass is to characterize it between crossed polarizers. Here the birefringence leads to defined colored interference patterns. This will be exhibited and explained within the new exhibition at D.O.M. The “Künstlerische Tatsachen” project is to happen in the UNESCO International Year of Glass 2022.
Olivia Engmann
IMPULS research consortium
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Universitätsklinikum Jena
Please contact our science coordination team for more audiovisual material.
Tension – Chronic stress
The impulse working group investigates how lifestyle and aging change the response to stress. Although stress is by definition a subjective event, it leads to measurable changes in the brain and body that can be replicated in mouse models. The stress response is studied at the molecular, neuroanatomical and behavioral level, all of which are closely interrelated.
Marina Pekmezovic & Jakob Sprague
Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 124 - FungiNet,
Adaptive Pathogenicity Strategies & Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms,
Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
Candida albicans on the human mucosa
The FungiNet research group investigates how pathogenic fungi interact with human hosts. One of these organisms, which can transform from a commensal to a pathogenic organism, is the fungus Candida albicans. The fungus is in general living as a commensal meaning harmless microorganism on the human mucosa, such as the mouth, gut or vagina. Once the microbial balance on mucosal surfaces is disrupted, Candida albicans shifts to a pathogenic form and causes infection. Especially, the interaction between Candida and epithelial cells in the gut resisting translocation of the fungus is of interest. Accordingly, the translocation of the fungus is replicated and visualized in the laboratory to quantify the resistance of the epithelial cells and to develop therapeutic options that render Candida albicans harmless to humans.
Martin Klapper
Paleobiotechnology
Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
Natural product research with biosynthesis genes from archaeological samples
The Paleobiotechnology group analyzes highly fragmented biological information found in archaeological samples using modern bioinformatics and genetic methods. Research on this genetic information, so-called metagenomic data, contained in archaeological remains is used, among other things, to gain insights into the evolution of biosynthetic genes. In terms of natural product research, the genes of interest are precisely those that allow the production of natural chemical substances. The research process can be situated between basic research and applied science, i.e. between bioinformatic analysis of DNA sequences and the production and testing of enzymes, respectively isolated natural products in the laboratory. Within this process, numerous scientists are working together, literally under tension, as the attempt to resurrect biosynthetic genes and biologically active enzymes from archaeological samples is an experimental approach without prospect of definitely predictable research results.
Cláudia Vilhena & Zoltán Cseresnyés
Infection Biology, Applied Systems Biology
Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology)
How pneumonia-inducing bacteria learn from their human host
Human pathogenic bacteria pose a great threat to society because we do not yet fully understand how they interact with our bodies to cause diseases. As a most acute problem, the infection mechanisms of pneumonia-inducing bacteria, where the existing vaccines have limited availability and affordability, especially in developing countries, is studied at the HKI. To find more accessible ways to fight these infections, the scientific approach of Cláudia Vilhena and Zoltán Cseresnyés and their colleagues at the HKI turns things around: instead of only trying to understand how the human system reacts to the pathogen, they examine how the pathogens learn from us as they interact with the human body. During these studies high-resolution microscopy and computer-aided image analysis are used, where one has to address the challenges of visualizing 3-dimensional structures that represent the bacterial membrane. By utilizing a combination of shape, size and color, and building them into animations as well as computer models, structural and functional details about the bacteria that help us build better defense strategies against pathogen-related diseases are revealed.
Ekaterina Podlesnaia, Andrea Csáki & Wolfgang Fritzsche
Nanobiophotonics
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT)
Nano_bio_photonics
Research group Nanobiophotonics focuses on plasmonic nanoparticles, which are usually made of noble metals such as gold, silver, or platinum. They can be shaped in various geometric shapes that are only visible at the nanoscale using electron microscopic methods. On a larger scale, such nanoparticles form colorful colloids due to the selective light absorption within the visible spectrum. Manipulating the optical properties via the material, size, and shape of nanoparticles is essential for applying them as optical signal converters in sensor technologies. Moreover, functional nanostructures based on biomolecular components and plasmonic nanoparticles, such as plasmon nanoantennas, can be used for the targeted manipulation of biomolecules, catalysis or materials processing.
Ilona Croy
Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie
Department of Clinical Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-UniversityJena
Neuroscience: Development and maintenance of mental illnesses
The Department of Clinical Psychology investigates the conditions for the development and maintenance of mental illness from a neuroscientific perspective. One research focus is on interoceptive perception, which is the conscious or unconscious perception of internal bodily processes, such as heartbeat, respiration, etc. Those processes represent how the body adjusts to the external environment. In general, the body's ability to regulate itself in response to external circumstances is studied. With regard to panic disorders, for example, the extent to which the body adapts and is placed in a strong state of tension is investigated.
Kalpana Jain & Devasena Thiagarajan
Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Research Group Olfactory Coding
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI-CE)
From the outside to the inside: Sensory information in the neuronal circuit of Drosophila melanogaster
The research concerning the sense of smell of flies focuses on the species Drosophila melanogaster. Especially, the fly’s specialized organs like the antennae and proboscis, the insect’s nose and mouth, are of interest for the researchers. The hair-like structures on the antennae are investigated, as they contain olfactory neurons including specific olfactory receptors. The aim is to investigate how the membrane potential (electrical tension) of the neurons changes in relation to specific odors. The neuronal response can be analyzed by measuring the calcium level in the neurons. The research likewise indicates that insects such as Drosophila melanogaster learn sensory signals related to odors to make future decisions. Thus, the neuronal circuit that performs the integration of different inputs and generates behaviors can be pinpointed by using behavioral experiments and functional imaging techniques.
Klaus Rothermund & Clara de Paula Couto
Chair of General Psychology
Department of General Psychology II, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
What does it mean to be a “good old person”? The tension between norms of active aging and disengagement
Prescriptive age norms, i.e. conceptions about how older people should be and how they should live play a central role for development in old age. What is a "good old person"? What are society's expectations of the elderly? These so-called age norms are dominated by apparently opposite ideals: active aging (“Old people should stay fit, healthy and engaged in order to make an important contribution to society”) and disengagement (“Old people should withdraw from their positions, and should not stand in the way of the younger generation”). Fueled by demographic change, this tension between active age and withdrawal is constantly being renegotiated in the context of social debate. In addition to analyzing conflicting norms of aging among specific groups of people, research is equally interested in demonstrating how norms of withdrawal and activation simultaneously coexist and are internalized as helpful guidance for healthy aging by many older individuals.
Cynthia Möller, Dr. Andreas Beelmann, Annika Kleinschmitt, Frederike Wistuba & Matthias Koch
Zentrum für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Demokratiebildung und gesellschaftliche Integration (KomRex)
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
The science of science or: What does scientific actually mean?
One of the main tasks of the Center for Research on Right-Wing Extremism, Democracy Education and Social Integration (KomRex) is the transfer of scientific findings to the public, the media and political decision-makers. In terms of science communication, two aspects can be distinguished: One is the communication of findings on a specific phenomenon, such as the emergence of radicalization processes among young people. A second aspect concerns the communication of concepts and methods of knowledge production. This consideration is by nature abstract and initially independent of the research content. However, it is significant when misconceptions and expectations prevail in the public or in politics, thus hindering the transfer of scientific content and, in extreme cases, devaluing or ignoring scientific knowledge. Therefore, this project is dedicated to the production and dissemination of knowledge as well as its evaluation, i.e. the presentation of empirical social science studies and the question "What can science achieve?"
