{"id":15,"date":"2022-04-19T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blend.imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2024-01-22T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T11:13:20","slug":"laser-talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blend.imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt\/seminar-series\/laser-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Laser talks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parte integrante do Blend ser\u00e1 uma s\u00e9rie de semin\u00e1rios regulares baseados num di\u00e1logo que inclua um cientista (idealmente da comunidade acad\u00e9mica local), um artista e um moderador convidado. Para a sele\u00e7\u00e3o dos participantes tentaremos tirar partido da vinda a Portugal de artistas que trabalham em \u00e1reas na fronteira da Arte e Ci\u00eancia para criar um programa de semin\u00e1rios atrativos e desafiantes. O hor\u00e1rio (dia da semana e do m\u00eas, e hora de realiza\u00e7\u00e3o) dever\u00e1 tamb\u00e9m ser definido em fun\u00e7\u00e3o das atividades previstas no campus da FMUL\/iMM\/CHULN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An integral part of Blend will be a series of regular dialogue-based seminars that feature a scientist (ideally from the local academic community), an artist and a guest moderator. For the selection of participants, we will try to take advantage of the coming to Portugal of artists who work in the area of Art and Science to create an attractive and engaging program of seminars. The day of the week, month, and time will also be defined and announced according to the activities planned on the FMUL\/iMM\/CHULN campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LASER TALKS 2 per year (dates to be anounced)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LASER \u2013 Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous. Uma forma de trazer reconhecimento aos semin\u00e1rios.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A revista de arte Leonardo fundou um programa de semin\u00e1rios que cruzam arte e ci\u00eancia designado por LASER. Este programa tem sido implementado em algumas das principais universidades do mundo e tem grande reconhecimento (Stanford, UCLA, Cambridge, ETH Zurich,\u2026). Saiba mais aqui<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LASER \u2013 Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The LASERs are an international program of gatherings that bring the humanities, arts and sciences together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. As of 2022, they take place in more than 40 universities and cultural institutions in four continents. Click here <\/a>for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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02\/02\/2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oron Catts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
The Fantastical Stories of Lab Grown Salvation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Esta palestra ir\u00e1 explorar a atual obsess\u00e3o da abund\u00e2ncia sem consequ\u00eancias no casamento de produtos cultivados em laborat\u00f3rio com sistemas de produ\u00e7\u00e3o alimentar. Estas novas abordagens tecnol\u00f3gicas \u00e0 produ\u00e7\u00e3o (que podem ser referidas como tecnologias de fenda metab\u00f3lica), s\u00e3o constru\u00eddas com base na premissa de que podemos remover e substituir a terra (natureza\/recurso natural) por tecnologias m\u00e1gicas, n\u00e3o s\u00f3 para alimentar as necessidades e desejos humanos, mas tamb\u00e9m para salvar a pr\u00f3pria natureza. Por outras palavras, as tecnologias de fendas metab\u00f3licas anulam os processos de extra\u00e7\u00e3o e explora\u00e7\u00e3o naturais dos quais derivam os seus produtos de refer\u00eancia. Argumenta-se que o objetivo subjacente a certas inova\u00e7\u00f5es da fenda metab\u00f3lica, atrav\u00e9s da ci\u00eancia e da tecnologia, necessita de uma certa mistifica\u00e7\u00e3o. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

O desejo dos seres humanos \u00e9 o de uma exist\u00eancia ut\u00f3pica em que a nossa alimenta\u00e7\u00e3o seja abundante, n\u00e3o laboriosa, normalizada, optimizada, assegurada e produzida sem explora\u00e7\u00e3o e extra\u00e7\u00e3o de recursos e sem as suas consequ\u00eancias inc\u00f3modas. Queremos que os nossos alimentos e materiais sejam isentos de culpa, divorciados da experi\u00eancia imediata e do risco de sofrimento. Este desejo irrealista pode ser simulado atrav\u00e9s de uma exist\u00eancia abstrata e livre de natureza. No entanto, \u00e9 apenas uma ilus\u00e3o; uma fantasia tecnofetichista que se deslocou do dom\u00ednio da fic\u00e7\u00e3o para o discurso da inova\u00e7\u00e3o, do investimento e da salva\u00e7\u00e3o. No entanto, onde os meios de produ\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e3o a tornar-se cada vez mais dissidentes da natureza, experimentaremos uma fenda metab\u00f3lica. Um estado em que uma natureza quebrada j\u00e1 n\u00e3o \u00e9 capaz de nos sustentar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A palestra abordar\u00e1 tamb\u00e9m o desenvolvimento do projeto Cooking Immunology como parte da minha resid\u00eancia de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o em Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This talk will explore the current obsession of abundance without consequence in the marriage of lab grown products with food production systems. These new technological approaches to production (that can be referred to as metabolic rift technologies), are built on the premise that we can remove and replace land (nature\/natural resource) with magical technologies, not just to nourish human\u2019s needs and desires but also to save nature itself. In other words, metabolic rift technologies nullify the processes of natural extraction and exploitation from which their reference products are derived. It will argue that the underlying aim of certain metabolic rift innovations, through science and technology, necessitates a measure of mystification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans\u2019 desire is for utopian existence in which our nutrition is abundant, unlaboured, standardised, optimised, assured and produced without exploitation and extraction of resources and their uneasy consequences. We want our food and materials to be guilt-free, divorced from immediate experience and the risk of suffering. This unrealistic wish can be simulated through an abstracted nature free existence. However, it is merely and illusion; a techno-fetishist fantasy which has shifted from the realm fiction to the discourse of innovation, investment and salvation. Nevertheless, where the means of production are growing ever dissident from the nature we will experience a Metabolic rift. A state when a broken nature can no longer be able to sustain us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The talk will also cover the development of the Cooking Immunology project as part of my research residency in Portugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bOron Catts \u00e9 um artista, investigador e curador cujo trabalho precursor com o Tissue Culture and Art Project, que estabeleceu com Ionat Zurr em 1996, \u00e9 considerado um dos principais projetos de arte biol\u00f3gica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9 cofundador e diretor do SymbioticA (criado em 2000), um centro de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o de arte biol\u00f3gica na Universidade da Austr\u00e1lia Ocidental. Catts foi bolseiro de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o na Harvard Medical School, acad\u00e9mico convidado no Departamento de Arte e Hist\u00f3ria da Arte da Universidade de Stanford, e professor em Design Contest\u00e1vel no Royal College of Arts, em Londres. Catts foi curador de uma d\u00fazia de exposi\u00e7\u00f5es, publicou amplamente e exp\u00f4s no Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Mori Art Museum, NGV, GoMA, Ars Electronica, National Art Museum of China e muito mais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curator whose pioneering work with the Tissue Culture and Art Project which he established with Ionat Zurr in 1996 is considered a leading biological art project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is co-founder and director of SymbioticA (established in 2000), a biological art research center at The University of Western Australia. Catts was a Research Fellow in Harvard Medical School, a visiting Scholar at the Department of Art and Art History Stanford University, a Professor at Large in Contestable Design at the Royal College of Arts, London. Catts curated a dozen exhibitions, published widely and exhibited in Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Mori Art Museum, NGV, GoMA, Ars Electronica, National Art Museum of China and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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29\/06\/2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigel Helyer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title:<\/strong>
Imaginary Beings; three characters walk into the Bar LUCA\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tr\u00eas personagens entram num bar, um V\u00edrus, um Humano e o Pai Natal. O empregado do bar recusa-se a servir o Humano e o Pai Natal, por consider\u00e1-los quimeras, mas serve alegremente o V\u00edrus com tr\u00eas Gin t\u00f3nicos, que o V\u00edrus partilha generosamente com os seus dois colegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O bar est\u00e1 vazio e, por isso, o empregado junta-se a eles \u00e0 mesa, onde se inicia uma animada discuss\u00e3o sob a forma de uma exposi\u00e7\u00e3o cl\u00e1ssica e de um discurso argumentativo destinado a testar a identidade, a integridade e a soberania de cada um dos bebedores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three characters walk into a bar, a Virus, a Human and Sant Claus. The bar tender refuses to serve the Human and Santa Claus on the basis that he regards them as chimera but happily serves the Virus with three Gin and Tonics, which the Virus generously shares with his two colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bar is otherwise empty and so the bar tender joins them at a table where a lively discussion ensues in the form of a classical exposition and argumentative discourse designed to test the identity, integrity and soverenity of each drinker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O Dr. Nigel Helyer \u00e9 um escultor e artista sonoro de renome internacional, cuja pr\u00e1tica interdisciplinar combina arte e ci\u00eancia para abranger os nossos ambientes sociais, culturais e f\u00edsicos. Ele re\u00fane estas preocupa\u00e7\u00f5es em projetos criativos que levam a comunidade a envolver-se com as suas hist\u00f3rias culturais, identidade e sentido de lugar; convidando-nos a examinar as condi\u00e7\u00f5es abstratas do nosso mundo e as nossas complexas rela\u00e7\u00f5es com ele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigel \u00e9 um forte defensor da arte experimental e \u00e9 especialista em colabora\u00e7\u00f5es entre arte e ci\u00eancia. \u00c9 tamb\u00e9m ativo no pensamento cr\u00edtico e \u00e9 um colaborador prol\u00edfico em revistas, confer\u00eancias e emiss\u00f5es. \u00c9 membro da dire\u00e7\u00e3o da Association Internationale de Critiques d’Art, sediada em Paris, e foi o editor fundador e editor da PraxisM, a revista de arte contempor\u00e2nea da Austr\u00e1lia Ocidental. Nigel \u00e9 autor de v\u00e1rios livros, incluindo Crayvox, The Deluge Ark(ive), Culturescape: An Ecology of Bundanon e When Science Meets Art. A sua escrita abrange fic\u00e7\u00e3o especulativa, incluindo a novela gr\u00e1fica Sonique e o romance Freeze Frame, uma fic\u00e7\u00e3o sobre a rela\u00e7\u00e3o entre o cinema e a vida ap\u00f3s a morte – concebida para ser acompanhada por uma exposi\u00e7\u00e3o com o mesmo nome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Nigel Helyer; is an internationally prominent sculptor and sound artist, whose interdisciplinary practice combines art and science to embrace our social, cultural and physical environments. He brings these concerns together in creative projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place; inviting us to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigel is a strong advocate for experimental art and is a specialist in Art and science collaborations. He is also active in critical thought and is a prolific contributor to journals, conferences and broadcasts. He is a board member of the Paris based Association Internationale de Critiques d\u2019Art and was the founding editor and publisher of PraxisM the contemporary art journal of Western Australia. Nigel has authored several books, including Crayvox, The Deluge Ark(ive), Culturescape: An Ecology of Bundanon and When Science Meets Art. His writing embraces speculative fiction including the Graphic Novel Sonique and the novel Freeze Frame, a fiction about the relationship of Cinema and the Afterlife – designed to be accompanied by a forthcoming exhibition of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12\/09\/2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology 2022<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2022 \u201cFEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology\u201d includes 95 presentations by 109 speakers from 27 countries as well as other activities to encourage communication among its participants. Taking place from 12 to 17 September 2022, the third conference has its kick-off in Lisbon, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, and continues its program in the city of \u00c9vora, hosted in the Convento de S\u00e3o Bento de Castris and the Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Eug\u00e9nio de Almeida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration at the level of artistic and research projects between all individuals who identify with the female gender. The conference aims to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and, as a result, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer. To facilitate personal networking, most of the program is organized as closed sessions, only to the conference speakers, but the program also includes, in the first day in Lisbon and the last day in \u00c9vora, two public sessions that aim to encourage participation and attendance among all individuals interested in the topics of the conference independently of their gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in 2017, the idea behind the conference \u201cFEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology\u201d was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato. Alike the two first FEMeetings, FEMeeting 2022 is co-organized in Portugal by FEMeeting, Cultivamos Cultura and Direc\u00e7\u00e3o Regional de Cultura do Alentejo, this year with the support of Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Eug\u00e9nio de Almeida (PT) and Intellect (UK) and in partnership with Ionian University (GR), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA), University of California Los Angeles (USA), Aalto University (FI), Universidade Nacional Autonoma do M\u00e9xico (MX), Windsor University (CA), University of Western Australia (AU), I3S \u2013 Institute of Health Innovation and Research (PT), Science for Change (ES) and Leonardo\/Olats (FR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time the organization of FEMeeting 2022 aims the debut of part of the conference proceedings in the peer-reviewed journal Technoetic Arts and is integrating its open event in Lisbon in the LASER series, with the support of Leonardo\/ISAST and as part of the project Blend, a collaboration in the field of art, science and medicine between Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Instituto de Medicina Molecular Jo\u00e3o Lobo Antunes and Centro Hospitalar Universit\u00e1rio Lisboa Norte \u2013 Hospital de Santa Maria with Ectopia Experimental Art Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n