Applications for the Synapse CSIRO Residencies have now closed.  The successful applicants will be announced soon.

ANAT’s Synapse CSIRO Residencies are available to Victorian-based artists working in any discipline and/or medium. Residencies will take place over 12 weeks full-time (or part-time equivalent) at the CSIRO’s Clayton facilities during the 2017 calendar year.

The project partners have identified three research areas that we believe have the right mix of compelling science and researchers committed to working with the artists and providing the necessary level of support. The three are:

• Metal organic framework materials
  Metal organic framework materials are an advanced structure that is extremely ordered, porous and customisable. They grow in a crystal form and are extremely flexible, especially when combined with nanoparticles for additional functionality or attributes.
  Further information about MOFs here: http://www.csiro.au
  CSIRO’s Matthew Hill explains MOFs in this video.

• 3D printed structures
  CSIRO’s Lab 22 provides access to metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies that promise high efficiency and productivity gains.
  Further information about Lab 22 here: http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF/Areas/Metals/Lab22
  Watch this video explaining the creation of a 3D-printed sternum.

• Polymer coatings for cell adhesion
  CSIRO has developed an innovative new coating that could be used to improve medical devices and implants, thanks to the ‘primordial goo’ that is thought to be have been home to the building blocks of life.
  Further information about the uses of polymer ‘primordial goo’ here: http://www.csiro.au/en/News/
  This CSIRO blog contains an animation about ‘primordial goo’.

The Synapse CSIRO Residencies are supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.