Since 2015, Sporobole has run a program of artist residencies in various scientific laboratories or research groups. The residencies, which focus on research and the creation of projects at the frontier of disciplines, have a minimum duration of one year. Budgets are provided for travel, accommodation, prototyping and human resources (interns, research professionals, etc.). An initial scientific and creative cooperation agreement was signed with the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke in 2016, enabling the realization of 3 initial residencies. Focusing initially on collaborations with the Faculty of Engineering, this first cycle of residencies enabled the development of a methodology for better collaborations between scientific and artistic researchers avoiding the instrumentalization dynamics inherent in the majority of this type of collaboration. A new scientific and creative cooperation agreement between Sporobole and the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke was signed in 2021 and will enable 2 new projects to be carried out in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Past projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024-2025 : Adam Basanta and the Facult\u00e9 de Droits de l’Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke<\/a> 2022-2023 : Manicouagan<\/a> (This project is co-produced by Station Mir and Sporobole, with the support of La Tonne de l\u2019INSTITUT FRAN\u00c7AIS, the Normandy Region, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Innus de Pessamit and for which Paul Duncombe, initiator of the project, received the COAL award.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018-2019: Jean-Pierre Aub\u00e9 and the researchers from iREX, the Mont-M\u00e9gantic Observatory, and the Astrolab of Mont-M\u00e9gantic National Park<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017-2018: Whitefeather Hunter and the Canada Research Chair in Microorganisms and Industrial Processes at the University of Sherbrooke<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023 -2024: Erin Gee and the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke’s Quantum Institute laboratories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n