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Arts Catalyst - http://www.artscatalyst.org/

Founded 1994??

had performances since 1994 - at least one a year

Funding company - funds new ideas for performance and science, trying to discover new ways to explore the connection of science and art/performance also funding learning and performance workshops for everyone who is interested in this style of contemporary performance. exhibitions, events, workshops, residencies, conferences, publishing, research, and learning and participatory projects.

London Based

The Arts Catalyst is a registered arts and educational charity No 1042433 and a company limited by guarantee no 2982223 - information for there charity funding.

Arts Catalyst Video reference - Link with title [ the web address and title close with (])

Social Networking Links: http://twitter.com/#!/TheArtsCatalyst, http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Arts-Catalyst/145437980646,

Connections to the Arts Council (Funding for them?) - http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/rfo/the-arts-catalyst/

Hi Jessie, we are not a funding company, we are not a performance company. PLEASE can you fact check with us? (Tac582001 (talk))

Initial Introduction for Arts Catalyst Entry
The Arts Catalyst is an Arts Council funded group that push the boundaries of both art and science together. Commissioning artists that aim to utilize (whether critically or experimentally,) both the arts and sciences in performance. The group work around the world (mainly focusing their works in Britain,) to promote the notion of working collaboratively with people from different backgrounds and interests. Along with the artists and scientists involved the arts catalyst group aim to involve the general public in order to gain valuable opinions and thoughts on the sciences and exploring the possibilities and opportunities available to the performers and scientists involved. The arts catalyst have previously organised and commissioned collaborative events including workshops, artist residencies, conferences, publishing’s and research projects along with other styles of experimental collaborative research.

The Arts Catalyst focus mainly on commissioning new artist and presenting their work, providing funding and resources giving the artists the ability to progress and develop work to then be presented in established art venues around the UK and the world such as museums, Galleries and public spaces, Aiming to provide work to engage large audiences to appreciate the works heavily influenced by the sciences and technologies.--Jessie Megs (talk) 09:17, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Artists
The Arts Catalyst group fund projects that explore a range of themes, looking in depth into performance as an experiment and research subject, using scientific processes they develop performances that pushes the boundaries between arts and science. One particular artist that looks closely at the scientific side of performance is Brandon Ballengée Brandon Ballengée's Arts Catalyst Page. Another group of artists that have a curious drive is the group Flow Motion with the ambition to discover different elements of space, translating them into art and music. Visual Art within performance is also an interest for artists such as Carey Young working with Arts Catalyst since since 1998 working on projects such as Atomic London producing work until 2005.Critical Arts Ensemble focuses on political activism and theories between the arts, technology and critical theories, using these themes they produced performances such as 'CleanRooms' and 'Marching Plague' both of which have a political energy exploring medical conspiracy’s and government secrets.

Brandon Ballengée
Ballengée works and has worked with artists and scientist to explore the possibilities within ecological practices by going on research trips. He has been working alongside a number of scientific since 1996 researching into biological process and photographing his projects. Using creatures such as frogs Ballengée's work has been recognised not only by performance and media but by science, as his work was published as a part of "Ecoventions", a book published in 2002 by the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati. As well as working on his own projects he has also worked for Yale University, The American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at U.C. Berkeley, due to the success of his work he has been recognised within the science industry as well as performance this has allowed his to display his work around the world which have gained him a lot of media attention as well. Since his success within this field his journalistic work has also been published by the National Contemporary Arts Center in Kaliningrad, Russia. During his time researching he also spent time teaching at Costa Rica' Hartwick College, teaching ecology art and neotropical evolution.

The work Brandon Ballengée has produced with the Arts Catalyst spans from working with other artists in an exhibition to discover how to create human flight Second International Artists Air show to working with this scientific passion and working with amphibians, Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, Brandon Ballengée. With a wide range of interests Brandon Ballengée has produced some thought-provoking work within the field of art and science.

Flow Motion
The Flow Motion group aim to explore the galaxy and look into different notions of space, relating this to music and art, founded in 1996 by Anna Piva, Edward George and Trevor Mathison, there fascination with space began individually there discovery where very different Anna Piva found her inspiration for working with space when she attended a concert of Sun Ra and his Arkestra being motivated by Sun Ra's connection with the sounds of space, this encouraged her to study music, science and philosophy. Edward George interest in space and sound began it was the experience of the first man on the moon. Before Trevor Mathison left the group, he influenced the group with audio and digital media. The group engaged with the Arts Catalyst and science of space when given the opportunity to discover the feeling of weightlessness on project MIR Flight 001: ‘microgravity interdisciplinary research After working with the Arts Catalyst group twice Flow Motion has gone to produce five other performances most recent of them in 2005 The Lab a performance that spanned from 08/09/2004 – 22/07/2005.

Carey Young
Carey Young is a performing artist that began her work with the Arts Catalysts group in 1998, with performances shown in London, Nottingham and internet streamed performance in July of 2011 KOSMICA 13/07/2011. Using the media of photography and video Young explores language, public and personal political stances using performance events, instillations and still art such as photography to demonstrate her stimulus. Carey Young also looks into the concept of training and performance in order to give the audience an inquisitive view towards the message in various performances. Originally born in Lusaka, Zambia moved to study, studying in Manchester, London and the University of Brighton where she studied photography and has since got a dual citizenship for the UK/USA. Young has also been involved in gallery performances exhibiting work in galleys around the world including White Chapel Art gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art and London's Tate Gallery. Nominated in 2003 for her controversial work involving legal language including a piece shown at the Henry Moore Institute and a series of works called 'Consideration' that looks at the connection between performance art and contract law.

Critical Arts Ensemble
A performance/media group formed of specialists in various fields of arts and media. A collaborative group that not only have worked together but have also has individual careers within the media and arts spectrum. Throughout there projects together they have created controversial performances that display the performers views within politics, performance, technology and media. With their combined skills of photography, performance, book art, film/video, graphics and internet design, they are able to focus their collective skills in performance, exhibits, instillations and divisive critical work. This group is internationally known and recognised for their outgoing approach to new media, after forming together in 1987 they have had over thirty performances of various verity from video and instillations to internet performance.

Other Artists
James AcordMarcus AhlersLaurie AndersonMarceli Antunez RocaKatherine AranielloLise AutogenaBrandon BallengéeGavin BallyAnne BeanSteve BeardAnna BergströmHagen BetzwieserAndy BichlbaumMatthew BiedermanAnsuman BiswasBen BlakebroughAnne BrodieKen CampbellBrian CatlingOron CattsHelen ChadwickMiles ChalcraftRachel ChapmanEwen ChardronnetTom CorbySue CorkeRichard CouzinsCritical Art EnsembleGina CzarneckiBeatriz Da CostaJerry Dammers Spatial AKA OrchestraAdam DantAnn DickieKitsou DuboisAnna DumitriuKodwo EshunHelen EvansJan FabreSimon FaithfullJem FinerAlec FinlayVadim FishkinFlow MotionAlicia FramisLetizia GalliStefan GecBruce GilchristAlexandra Daisy GinsbergAndy GracieJoanna GriffinMichelle GriffithsVictoria HalfordAntony HallSally HampsonHeiko HansenHeHeSimon HollingtonMelanie JacksonLuke JerramZina KayeSonia KhuranaJack KlaffTim KnowlesAndrew KottingSteve KurtzKypros KyprianouYuri LeidermanLondon FieldworksJonathan MackenzieRuth MaclennanNathalie MagnanTrevor MathisonRachel MayeriAgnes Meyer-BrandisAleksandra MirKira O'ReillySinéad O'DonnellChris OakleyOffice of ExperimentsOtolith GroupLucy PanesarMarko PeljhanBenedict PhillipsEsther PolakJoshua PortwayNicolas PrimatSimon RobertshawSteve RowellTomas SaracenoSemiconductorNikky Smedley WilsonCamila SposatiLucy Stockton-SmithMike StubbsAshok SukumaranKate TierneyIvar van BekkumAndrey & Julia VelikanovMark Aerial WallerWeather PermittingNeal WhiteMorag WightmanAaron WilliamsonJane & Louise WilsonPaul WongCarey YoungAdam Zaretsky

Projects
Throughout the past seventeen years The Arts Catalyst group have supported and sponsored various types of performance, by exploring different themes and working alongside performance groups and artists the Arts Catalyst have reconnoitred the development between art and science. Looking into various themes enables the artists and company to look into many different fields of science for example: the ‘Republic to the Moon’ (a performance due to begin in December 2011) demonstrates how a group of loosely associated artists were brought together under the guidance and leadership of the Arts Catalyst group, to create a performance, this is not dissimilar to ‘Interspecies’ a performance that also was formed by various artists from within the Arts Catalyst family. However some projects delve deep into science working with science experiments and creating parallel performance experiments, this is extremely apparent in Ansuman Biswas’ CAT in 1997.

The Arts Catalyst group has produced critical work for new media and design not only has it supported and funded projects but encouraged artists to be subjective producing work that explores science by experimenting with styles and allowing artists to fuse relationships and work together has allowed projects to explore in new directions. Republic to the Moon and Interspecies proves how combining people with different professional skills together. Republic of the Moon combines the skills of film makers, photographers and artist they aim to create an image of plans for lunar mines and military bases and hopes to restore the belief in the magical view of the moon. The science within performance that the Arts Catalyst group strive to discover is captured when science and performance are create in a similar fashion this is apparent in Ansuman Biswas’ CAT in 1997 using Schrödinger's Cat as stimuli to create a human version of the quantum physics experiment. By moderating the senses as the performer was contained in a box for ten days allowed a live art durational performance that mirrored the experiment of Schrödinger's Cat. The experiment was followed up with three presentations considering non-western culture, sound and shamanic practices and Western science and Chinese medical practices. Performance group Parallel Universe: Ansuman Biswas, Paul Wong reveals that performance art, media and science can be combined as an experimental performance piece.