Laser talks
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Parte integrante do Blend será uma série de seminários regulares baseados num diálogo que inclua um cientista (idealmente da comunidade académica local), um artista e um moderador convidado. Para a seleção dos participantes tentaremos tirar partido da vinda a Portugal de artistas que trabalham em áreas na fronteira da Arte e Ciência para criar um programa de seminários atrativos e desafiantes. O horário (dia da semana e do mês, e hora de realização) deverá também ser definido em função das atividades previstas no campus da FMUL/iMM/CHULN.
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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.
LASER TALKS 2 per year (dates to be anounced)
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LASER – Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous. Uma forma de trazer reconhecimento aos seminários.
A revista de arte Leonardo fundou um programa de seminários que cruzam arte e ciência designado por LASER. Este programa tem sido implementado em algumas das principais universidades do mundo e tem grande reconhecimento (Stanford, UCLA, Cambridge, ETH Zurich,…). Saiba mais aqui.
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LASER – Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous.
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 for more information.
29/06/2023
Nigel Helyer
Title:
Imaginary Beings; three characters walk into the Bar LUCA…
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Três personagens entram num bar, um Vírus, um Humano e o Pai Natal. O empregado do bar recusa-se a servir o Humano e o Pai Natal, por considerá-los quimeras, mas serve alegremente o Vírus com três Gin tónicos, que o Vírus partilha generosamente com os seus dois colegas.
O bar está vazio e, por isso, o empregado junta-se a eles à mesa, onde se inicia uma animada discussão sob a forma de uma exposição clássica e de um discurso argumentativo destinado a testar a identidade, a integridade e a soberania de cada um dos bebedores.
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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.
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.
BIO
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O Dr. Nigel Helyer é um escultor e artista sonoro de renome internacional, cuja prática interdisciplinar combina arte e ciência para abranger os nossos ambientes sociais, culturais e físicos. Ele reúne estas preocupações em projetos criativos que levam a comunidade a envolver-se com as suas histórias culturais, identidade e sentido de lugar; convidando-nos a examinar as condições abstratas do nosso mundo e as nossas complexas relações com ele.
Nigel é um forte defensor da arte experimental e é especialista em colaborações entre arte e ciência. É também ativo no pensamento crítico e é um colaborador prolífico em revistas, conferências e emissões. É membro da direção da Association Internationale de Critiques d’Art, sediada em Paris, e foi o editor fundador e editor da PraxisM, a revista de arte contemporânea da Austrália Ocidental. Nigel é autor de vários livros, incluindo Crayvox, The Deluge Ark(ive), Culturescape: An Ecology of Bundanon e When Science Meets Art. A sua escrita abrange ficção especulativa, incluindo a novela gráfica Sonique e o romance Freeze Frame, uma ficção sobre a relação entre o cinema e a vida após a morte – concebida para ser acompanhada por uma exposição com o mesmo nome.
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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.
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’Art 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.
12/09/2022
FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology 2022
As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2022 “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” 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 Évora, hosted in the Convento de São Bento de Castris and the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida.
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 Évora, two public sessions that aim to encourage participation and attendance among all individuals interested in the topics of the conference independently of their gender.
Launched in 2017, the idea behind the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” 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 Direcção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo, this year with the support of Fundação Eugénio 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 México (MX), Windsor University (CA), University of Western Australia (AU), I3S – Institute of Health Innovation and Research (PT), Science for Change (ES) and Leonardo/Olats (FR).
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 João Lobo Antunes and Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte – Hospital de Santa Maria with Ectopia Experimental Art Laboratory.
- Official website
- Full program here
- Speakers
- For more information: femeeting@cultivamoscultura.org
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Program: September 12 | Public Session in Lisbon – Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM)
13:00h
Marta de Menezes | Welcome to LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks
Dalila Honorato | Welcome to FEMeeting
Maria M. Mota | Welcome to iMM
13:20h
Maria M. Mota | Women in Science
13:40h
Joana Magalhães | Opening up science
14:00h
Marta de Menezes | Women Stories at Cultivamos Cultura
14:20h
Cristin Millett and Cynthia White | Ex-Utero: The Future of Human Reproduction
14:40h
Q&A (30 minutes)
Check the abstracts here and the speakers bio here.
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14/07/2022
Maro Pebo e Luis Graça hosted by Marta de Menezes
Title:
“Self as other” “O próprio como outro”
Weaving collaborations, Maro Pebo works on defying anthropocentrism and on skeptical environmental accountability. Her transdisciplinary work subverts the monopoly of the life sciences to think biological matter and aims to release the indiscipline of living cells. Ph.D. in Creative Media at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, her research revolved around art and biology, epistemology, history of science, new materialism, biohacking, wetware, and bacteria.
Luís Graça is currently Associate Professor at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, directing a research group in cellular immunology at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes. His most significant scientific contributions have been related with the development of strategies to teach the immune system not to reject transplanted organs, also known as immune tolerance. Currently he is extending his findings to the fields of allergy and autoimmunity (where the immune system attacks its own body).
