Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange Programm 2009/10
Institute/Lab:  Chengdu Institute of Biology (CIB), Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Artistic background: Art
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Swiss artists-in-labs Programm 2009
Institute/Lab: Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Lugano
Artistic Background: Video, Neue Medien
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Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange Programm 2009/10
Institute/Lab:  Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) in Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Artistic background: 

Aline Veillat wurde 1967 auf der zu Frankreich gehörenden Île de la Réunion geboren und lebt und arbeitet in der Schweiz. Sie hat digitale Medien an der Ecole cantonale d’art in Lausann studierte und an der Universität Paris eine Dissertation im Bereich Ästhetik, Wissenschaft und Technik in den Künsten verfasst. Ihr künstlerisches Schaffen gründet in ihrem Interesse an der Raumwahrnehmung. Sie geht der Frage nach, woraus das Umfeld besteht, das die Wahrnehmung des Raums beeinflusst. So ist in ihren Werken die Mobilität der Besucher zentral und ihre Arbeiten werden letztendlich alle zu Installationen, in welchen sich die Besucher bewegen und welche sie erforschen können. Aline Veillats Werke wurden u.a. in der Kunsthalle Palazzo im Baselland, im kult.kino camera in Basel und im Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich ausgestellt. [..]

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. [..]

The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is located in the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich.

The goal of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is to foster intelligence in all its facets by promoting excellence in basic research, education, and society at large. With the ai lab’s activities the researcher hope to contribute – in small ways – to making the world a better place in the 21st century.

Swiss artists-in-labs 2010
Artist: Oliver Wolf

Swiss artists-in-labs 2007
Artist: Pablo Ventura

The Brain Mind Institute is located in the School of Life Sciences  of the Ecole Polytechniques fédérales de Lausanne (EPFL).

The mission of the Brain Mind Institute is to understand the fundamental principles of brain function in health and disease, by using and developing unique experimental, theoretical, technological and computational approaches. The scientific challenge addressed by the BMI consists in connecting different levels of analysis of brain activity, such that cognitive functions can be understood as a manifestation of specific brain processes; specific brain processes as emerging from the collective activity of thousands of cells and synapses; synaptic and neuronal activity in turn as emerging properties of the biophysical and molecular mechanisms of cellular compartments.

Understanding information processing in the brain and its higher emerging properties is arguably one of the major challenges in the life sciences. Research at the BMI focuses on three main areas:

• Molecular neurobiology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration;
• Molecular and cellular mechanisms of synapse and microcircuit function up to the behavioural level and including metabolic aspects;
• Sensory perception and cognition in humans. In all areas, the BMI strives to integrate knowledge gained by multidisciplinary approaches and across different disciplines and research laboratories.

EPFL is one of the two Ecoles Polytechniques fédérales in Switzerland. Like its sister institution, ETHZ, it has three missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level. Associated with several specialised research institutes, the two EPFs form the EPF domain, which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Home Affairs.

Swiss artists-in-labs 2010
Artist: Nicole Ottiger

Swiss artists-in-labs 2009
Artist: Luca Forcucci

The Centre for Integrative Genomics (CIG) is the newest department of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

Its establishment was made possible as a result of the program “Sciences, Vie, Société”, a tri-institutional program linking the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne and the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), which aimed to develop the life sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences in the Lémanic region.

The CIG has three main missions:

• The pursuit of a first rate research program in the biological sciences
   
• The development of an outstanding teaching program
   
• The development and support of core facilities offering cutting-edge technologies to the Lémanic research community and beyond.

The research at the CIG centers on genome structure and function in a number of different experimental systems and relies on a large number of different techniques. It is performed by an international community of scientists, yet the character of the CIG is one of an integrated research center, where interactions among groups are numerous both in formal and informal settings.

Swiss artists-in-labs 2010
Artist: Sandra-Jo Huber

Swiss artists-in-labs 2008
Artist: Sylvia Hostettler

Swiss artists-in-labs Programm 2008
Institute/Lab: Native Systems Group, Computer Systems Institute, ETH Zürich
Artistic background: Komponist, Medienkunst

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