Where artists and scientists meet – on artistic research and scientific creativity
The table will also be streamed. Link to be announced soon
A partner event of ISEA2023, 28th International Symposium on Digital Creation.
This round table features artists, curators and scientists who collaborate at the intersection of art and science. From particle physics at CERN to polymer chemistry at the AMI Institute for nanoscience, gain insight into their artistic research and scientific creativity.
This round table features artists, curators and scientists who collaborate at the intersection of art and science. From particle physics at CERN to polymer chemistry at the AMI Institute for nanoscience, gain insight into their artistic research and scientific creativity.
Chloé Delarue completed a residency at CERN in Geneva, where she let science influence her artistic practice. Mónica Bello is the head of the Arts at CERN program where she curates different formats for artists and scientists to meet. Artist Pedro Wirz and scientist Christoph Weder collaborate on the topic of polymer chemistry and new materials in the framework of the NanoARTS funding programme. As a curator at the EPFL pavilions in Lausanne, Giulia Bini is well acquainted with various forms of collaboration between art and science and will lead through the session.
The discussion aims to show the innovation potential lying within encounters between art and science as well as the challenges of those encounters. The showcased collaborations don’t simply use art to visualize science or use scientific information to create art, but rather generate new forms and types of knowledge.
The round table is organized by the Swiss Council Pro Helvetia.
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biographies
Mónica Bello, curator and head of Arts at CERN
Mónica Bello is a Spanish art historian and curator interested in transdisciplinary approaches and technoscientific narratives. She is the head of Arts at CERN program where she is curating different residencies and exchange formats for artists.
Giulia Bini, curator and head of Artist-in-Residency Program of the College of Humanities (CDH) at EPFL
Giulia Bini PhD, originally trained as an art historian, works at the intersection of visual art, media, science, and emerging technologies in curatorial practice, theory, and writing. She is the head of program and curator for the newly established Artist-in-Residence Program of the College of Humanities (CDH) at EPFL, “Enter the Hyper-Scientific”.
Katharina Brandl, head of Visual Arts at the Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia
Katharina Brandl is the head of the Visual Arts Department at Pro Helvetia. Before that, she was the artistic director of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna. She founded various cultural initiatives in Vienna and Basel and advised various regional authorities in Austria and Switzerland on funding decisions in the arts at the state and federal level.
Chloé Delarue, visual artist
Chloé Delarue is a Swiss artist who was selected for the Simetría Residency Award by Arts at CERN in 2020. She spent six weeks at CERN in Geneva and at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. She produces sound and video installations which she calls environments.
Leonie Thalmann, responsible for the focus «Art, Science & Technology» at the Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia
Leonie Thalmann is responsible for the development of the focus area «Art, Science & Technology», which supports transdisciplinary cooperation models with the aim of fostering dialogues and an exchange of ideas between arts and sciences.
Christoph Weder, professor of polymer chemistry and materials
Christoph Weder is the former director of the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and a professor of polymer chemistry and materials. His research is focused on the development, investigation, and application of functional materials, in particular stimuli-responsive and bio-inspired polymers.
Pedro Wirz, visual artist
Pedro Wirz is a Zurich-based artist whose art is an attempt to understand the complexity of things and to illuminate the opacity of human accumulation with critical eyes. Together with Christoph Weder and within the framework of NanoARTS he is conducting research on sustainable materials, material cycles and value-added recycling.
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