Writings

A selection of writings, chronologically ordered with links to the texts where possible.
Monograph: Baroa belaobara: berryapple released in summer 2021.  Online free PDF at the bottom of this page. The Printed version (limited version) on sale via Aalto bookshop. Videodocumentary: Blck Vlvt by Nina Pulkkis (2019, Fotoni films) on the making of the Blck Vlvt, hand-painted solar panel based upon a painting by JMW Turner. A creation by the Aamo (Aronia art morphing) artscience group at Aalto University. Mentioning in book: temporary PhotoElectric Digestopians feature in Alex Nathanson´s research on A History of Solar Power Art and Design (Routledge, 2021). Article: Stadlbauer, C & Bartaku, 2020. `The (Im)possibility of Communicating with Other Species´, Performance Research, 25:5, 45-48, DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2020.1868840. Related video – Relocation Training Program for Pinna Nobilis Article: Bartaku, 2019. `Seed Scarification´. In: Birringer, J., Fenger, J. (Eds.), Tanz der Dinge / Things that Dance.
Yearbook of the German Dance Association 2019, vo. 29. (pp. 193-198). Transcript Verlag. Bielefeld, Germany.
Mentioning in book: Bartaku, 2020. ‘Blck Vlvt’, in E Berger, K Mäki-Reinikka, K O´Reilly, & H Sederholm (eds), Art as We Don´t Know It, Aalto ARTS Books, Espoo, pp. 64-65. Paper: Aronia m.BaBe: Berry-artist(ic) Research. Presented at Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) / Festival de la Imagen. In Conference proceedings, p.772. Manizales (Col), June 12, 2017. Interview: “Encounter with prof. Kalevi Kull (Tartu University, Estonia) on a Biosemiotics view on life, cognition, consciousness” Tartu University, Oct. 9, 2015 – Full text (pdf) Essay: “Edmond A. A Displaced System for Alpha-Repair”, written during a residency at Periferry in Guwahati Assam (India), Dec. 2010 – Jan. 2011 – In: Wynants, M. (Ed.). 2010. We can change the weather. 100 cases of changeability. Brussels: Crosstalks, Brussels University (VUB). 225p. ISBN: 978 90 5487 692 2 Excerpt and order information – Essay and interview. In: Acoustic space #8. Energy. Peer-reviewed Journal for Transdisciplinary Research on Art, Science, Technology and Society Edited by Šmite, R., Medosch, A., Mey, K., Šmits, R. RIXC, MPLab, Riga, Liepaja [LAT], 2011 – Published in Assamese translation in the Assamese weekly: > Pratidin Sadin. February 12, 2010. p. 14. Assam, India. * On Resilience: interview after FoAM Resilients Gathering (What does resilience mean for you – read here)
  • To feed the interdisciplinary debate during ‘Crosstalks – The Atomium Session’ on May 14th, 2009, the speakers were asked to reflect upon some quotes and questions. This is one of them:
[…] “In investigating the roots of our current environmental dilemma and its connections to science, technology and the economy, we must re-examine the formation of a world view and a science which, by reconceptualizing reality as a machine rather than a living organism, sanctioned the domination of both nature and women. The contribution of such founding ‘fathers’ of modern science as Francis Bacon, William Harvey, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Isaac Newton must be reevaluated.” 
Carolyn Merchant in The Death of Nature, 1980 crosstalks_reflection_bartaku.pdf