Open Classes 2020: Art & Science

Open Classes 2020

Art and science

Ilídio Pinho Auditorium

The School of Arts Open Class program for  2019-20 , under the theme “Art and Science”, will run on Thursdays, from February to the end of May 2020.

The sessions will have different formats, such as conferences, masterclasses, conversations and performances, and presentation of artistic projects in different areas: cinema, visual arts, music, sound, multimedia. The program includes special guests, including artists, scientists, critics and curators, researchers and other specialists in artistic practices. The Open Classes are free of charge and will be held at the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium, at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal

The program addresses the dialogue between art and science, which in some cases is done by approximation and convergence and in others, by distancing and divergence. Contemporary thinking is marked by a new materialism that impacts the way art and science view the world and achieve their results. The shift from the hegemony of the subject to the object and from the centrality of the human to the material has implied the emergence of a new realism that will act as a stimulus for the debate.

It is from the philosophical and aesthetic reflection based on this epistemological matrix that the relationship between art and science will be examined, through, among others, the following topics:

- work processes of artists and scientists, the presence of error, accident, rationality and intuition;

- artistic and scientific images, forms of representation and visualization of knowledge;

- the construction of speculative, fictional and material universes.

The presence of artists and scientists will broaden, according to their projects and their concerns, the problematization of the theme.

PROGRAM:

FEB 13 · Diogo Evangelista · Blind Faith

FEB 20 · Marta de Menezes · Art and Biology: Where do we come from? Who we are? Where are we going?

FEB 27 · Luís Fernandes · Scale Travels, a program on art and nanotechnology

5 MAR · Nuno Sousa · A new way of looking at the brain

13 MAR · Alexandre Quintanilha · Knowledge and creativity: a virtuous circle

19 MAR · Ricardo Jacinto and Diogo Alvim · Fragmentation and Dispersion

26 MAR · Asia Bazdyrieva · Geocinema and planetary-scale sensory networks

2 APR · Monica Bello · Arts at CERN

16 APR · Warren Neidich · Telepathic Exaptation in Late Cognitive Capitalism

23 APR · Michaël Dudok de Wit · Inspiration and rational thinking: approaches to the creative process

30 APR · Joël Vacheron · Algorithmic Creolization

May 14 · Edgar Martins · What Photography & Incarceration Have in Common with an Empty Vase

21 MAY · Erika Balsom · The Problem and Promise of Observation in Contemporary Art's Documentary Turn

28 MAY · Alexandre Estrela · Zebrafly

Curated by: Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas, Laura Castro, Diogo Tudela, César Ferreira

OPEN ACCESS | FREE ENTRANCE