The "Resident Fellows Program" of the "Visual Seminar" project is an attempt to synthesize two different but equally successful practices.
 
* The first one is related to the tradition of the centers for advanced studies in Europe and the world to invite for a given academic year several established writers, artists or musicians (sometimes these are theatre people, journalists, etc.) jointly with their own research fellows. These receive short-term, usually three-month, fellowships, attend the academic research seminars but are not expected to work on a specific project. Their presence in the academic community however, normally turns out to be extremely beneficial for these people have highly original ways of thinking and come up with startling ideas, that have the effect of a heuristic viewpoint with a specific angle for the scientific debate. Thus, the research team becomes an intellectual community while the artists themselves, outside of benefiting from the discussions, are in touch with the really innovative ideas in the life of science.
 
* The second one is related to our conviction that the artists are also in a position to work on socially relevant projects (as is the "Visual Seminar" itself) as well as that an artwork or an artistic project could be incorporated within a collective conceptual framework.