Alexandre Joly
Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Aline Veillat
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) in Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Aniu
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu
Liao Wenfeng
Eidgenössischen Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL), Birmensdorf
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange Programm 2009/10
Institute/Lab: Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Artistic background: Art
Alexandre’s Website
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange Programm 2009/10
Institute/Lab: Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) in Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Artistic background: 
Aline Veillat was born in 1967 in Réunion Island in France and works and lives in Basel. She holds a PhD degree in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of Arts from Paris University and a MA degree in Digital Media from Lausanne Cantonal Art School. Her artistic work is based on her interest in the perception of space, and she often focuses on what is part of, or what constitutes the environment that influences the perception of space. As a consequence, the visitor’s mobility is crucial in her works, and they all end up as installations in which visitors can move around and explore. Aline’s works were exhibited, among other places, in the Kunsthalle Palazzo in Baselland, the kult.kino camera in Basel and the Migros Contemporary Art Museum in Zurich.
During her residency in China Aline Veillat intends to create artistic works in which she translates abstract and complex scientific data by building aesthetic relations giving the visitors the possibility to “feel” them. Conceived as a mix-media installation, the work will offer to visitors a bridge between number and phenomenon by taking them for an explorative walk through an environment influenced by the Chinese landscape approach.
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange Programm 2009/10
Institute/Lab: Eawag: Das Wasserforschungs-Institut des ETH Bereichs EAWAG, Dübendorf
Artistic background:
Aniu wurde 1969 in der Provinz Guangdong geboren und schloss seine Ausbildung 1993 am Shanghai Light Industry Institute ab. Seither lebt und arbeitet er in Shenzhen. Er ist Mitglied der französischen Fotoagentur VU und hat seine Arbeiten in China, Dänemark, Frankreich, Belgien, Italien, Singapur, Hongkong und Australien ausgestellt. Seine Publikation „Times of Fantasy“ ist 2007 erschienen. [..]
Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was founded in 1958, and was chosen in 1999 as one of the experimental institutes for implementing the Knowledge Innovation Programme of the CAS, which aims at promoting the innovative capacity of its affiliated research institutes through key input in human resources and research funds. Now, CIB has a staff of 316 people, including 1 academician and more than 100 senior researchers.
With southwestern China as its focal working area, CIB aims primarily at sustainable development and utilization, and effective conservation of biological resources. While continuously rising its institutional capacity of innovation, CIB integrates the important state needs in the fields of human health, restoration ecology and sustainable agriculture with the world frontiers of modern sciences to carry out basic and applied researches, as well as high-tech research of natural medicine, ecological restoration and rehabilitation, biodiversity conservation, pollution control, modern agriculture and food security,so as to provide knowledge bases, technical supports and policy-making sugges tions for sustainable socio-economic development of the country.
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange 2009/2010
Artist: Alexandre Joly
Die Eawag ist ein Wasserforschungsinstitut und Teil des ETH-Bereichs. Dieser umfasst die Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschulen ETH Zürich und EPF Lausanne sowie vier Forschungsanstalten. Die Eawag hat zwölf Forschungsabteilungen, in welchen Natur-, Ingenieur- und Sozialwissenschaftler innovative und qualitativ hochstehende Forschung betreiben. Die Kombination der verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen erlaubt eine ganzheitliche Erforschung des Wassers und der Gewässer. Forschungsschwerpunkte der Eawag sind Aquatische Ökosysteme, Urbane Wassersysteme sowie Chemikalien und Effekte.
Die Mitarbeitenden treffen an der Eawag auf ein internationales wissenschaftliches Umfeld. Es erlaubt Forschenden, Fachpersonen und Studierenden Fragestellungen nachzugehen, welche neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse bringen und fundamentale gesellschaftliche Bedürfnisse abdecken. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird auf innovative transdisziplinäre Projekte gerichtet.
Damit neue Erkenntnisse und Konzepte aus der Forschung möglichst rasch in die Praxis einfliessen, pflegt die Eawag rege Beziehungen zu Fachleuten aus Industrie, Verwaltung und Verbänden.
Eawag is an aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain, which comprises the Federal Institutes of Technology ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne and four research institutes. Eawag has twelve research departments, where innovative and high-quality research is conducted by natural and social scientists and engineers. The combination of various scientific disciplines permits an integrated approach to research on water and water bodies. Eawag’s research focuses on Aquatic Ecosystems, Urban Water Systems and Chemicals and Effects.
Staff at Eawag benefit from an international scientific environment, allowing researchers, specialists and students to pursue questions that yield new scientific insights and meet fundamental societal needs. Particular attention is paid to innovative trans disciplinary projects.
To ensure that new findings and approaches can be translated into practice as rapidly as possible, Eawag maintains close contacts with experts from industry, government and professional associations.
Indo-Swiss Residency Exchange 2011/2012 | pilot project
Artists: Surekha Anil Kumar
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange 2009/2010
Artist: Aniu (Qing Jun Chen)
Swiss artists-in-labs 2008
Artist: Ping Qiu
The Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) is located at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu -a state non-profit academic institution- major in the following subjects:
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange 2009/2010
Artist: Aline Veillat
Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange Programm 2009/10
Institute/Lab: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf
Artistic background:
Liao Wenfeng wurde 1984 in der Provinz Jiangxi geboren und schloss seine Ausbildung an der China Academy of Fine Arts 2006 ab. Seine Arbeiten wurden 2007 am Lianzhou International Photo Festival in Guangdong, 2006 an der Chinese Contemporary Art in Chinese Space in Shanghai und am Second Art Festival of Song Zhuang in Beijing sowie 2005 in Nanjing an der Triennal of Chinese Art gezeigt. Er hat auch als Assistenzkurator und Projektmanager für das Zendai Musuem of Modern Art in Shanghai gearbeitet. [..]
