CHAIRED BY: Profa. Dra. Clarissa Ribeiro

Theme: BÓLIDE-NATURE

Extremely bright meteors, especially the ones that explodes in the atmosphere are referred as bólides and can be about as bright as the full moon. As the very special kind of Helio Oiticica's transobjects, living entities exists throughout contexts and scales subverting every tentative conceptual container - from the idea of a limiting body isolated from the environment to the idea of an atmospheric planet earth isolated from the interstellar space. Sometimes those constructs are more a mutilation than a help for guiding or educating our perception. The LASER talks this August invites for a conversation around the ways nature scape imprisonment and reductionism bringing perspectives from both visual arts and the sciences.

EXHIBITION at the LIP GALLERY - BÓLIDE-NATURE

Exhibition of printed version of artists and scientist works exploring the theme BÓLIDE-NATURE in their production, curated by Clarissa Ribeiro, featuring Mick Lorusso, Matheus Maciel e Ana Raquel Colares de Andrade

I Building, room I-17

9-10 PM

LIP – Lab for Innovation and Prototyping

UNIFOR CAMPUS

FEATURED ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS’ SHORT BIO:

Mick Lorusso

Mick Lorusso is a cross-disciplinary artist who interweaves musings on molecules, cells, societies, and environments. He creates images, cabinets of curiosity and interactions to address questions about energy, water, climate, and health. He has been a resident artist at interdisciplinary art programs, including PLAND / ISEA 2012: Machine Wilderness (Taos, NM, USA), the 2016 Rauschenberg Rising Waters Confab (Captiva, FL, USA), and Matza Aletsch 2017 in the Swiss Alps. At a residency in Schöppingen, Germany, Lorusso harnessed electricity-producing bacteria to illuminate a sculptural village, Microbial Schöppingen, which received a hybrid art honorary mention at Ars Electronica 2013. With training in microbiology and Kundalini Yoga and education in art at Colorado College (BA) and San Francisco Art Institute (MFA), he is a research fellow at the UCLA Art|Sci Center and an instructor for the UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab Summer Institute. He is a graduate of the Waag Biohack Academy, and is a member of the Mexican interdisciplinary cooperative XOCIARTEK.

Contact: micklorusso@gmail.com
Website: https://micklorusso.net/

Matheus Maciel
Self-taught acrylic and oil painter studying Communication and Media (Marketing & Advertising) at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), he is interested in anthropology, analytical psychology and semiotics, exploring in his more recent series of paintings the relationship between body and space, stablishing a narrative from a body as free as possible from totems of social esteem, such as such as clothes, tattoos and accessory prostheses that can define a lens that discriminates a certain region or position of this body. In his paintings, groups of small archangels are placed as elements that trespass the bodies and can be read as messengers of a latent divine contrasting with scenes that refer to the profane.

Contact: matheusarrudamac@gmail.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mthsmaciel/

Ana Raquel Colares de Andrade

Ph.D. candidate in Cell Biology doing research on emerging and reemerging fungal pathogens, with a Master in Medical Mycology by the Federal University of Ceará. UFC. With a B.A in Biological Sciences, from 2014 to 2016, she joined the Medical Mycology-CEMM UFC as a junior research student. As a lecturer she teaches General Cell Biology (2013) and Basic Immunology (2016) classes.

Contact: anaraquel_colares@hotmail.com

Website:  http://lattes.cnpq.br/3722577789593062

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