LASER Talks at Tempe | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

LASER Talks at Tempe

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The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 40 cities around the world.

LASER Talks at Tempe


CHAIR: Pamela Winfrey 

 

Facility of Mind: How Thinking in New Ways Can Inspire New Questions

 

Panelists: media artists boredomresearch, biologist Angelo Fortunato, curator Brittany Corrales

 

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We are tackling the question: What are the benefits of interdisciplinary research?

We will be exploring this question by looking at the making of "In Search of Chemozoa" which was created by boredomresearch, aka British visual artists Vicky Isling and Paul Smith.

"In Search of Chemozoa"  is the result of a residency with the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center  also known as ACE which is housed in Biodesign at Arizona State University.  boredomresearch collaborated closely with Angelo Fortunato, an evolutionary biologist who is working with model organisms such as sponges and placozoa to research the intricacies of cancer. The resulting exhibition features multi-pronged outputs from the lyrical to the pedagogic. 

"In Search of Chemozoa"  is part of a large-scale solo exhibition that will open at the ASU Art Museum on Dec 5, 2020. Curated by Pamela Winfrey, Heather Lineberry, and Brittany Corrales, this exhibition includes several examples of the works by boredomresearch that are a result of collaborations with world class scientists.  

Panelists include boredomresearch (Vicky Isling and Paul Smith), Angelo Fortunato, and ASU Art Museum curator, Brittany Corrales.  

boredomresearch is a collaboration between British artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, who have been producing art projects embedding scientific principles and mechanics for over 20 years. Their recent projects have explored: the beauty, diversity and fragility of natural systems; critically endangered and extinct species; environmental conservation and human/animal diseases. 

boredomresearch have always been interested in nature's mechanics, presenting them with a richness they feel remains largely under explored in art. They collaborate with scientists to shift perspectives from one centered on data and understanding, to instead foster an experience of research beyond normal frames of scientific reference. In turn the scientific perspective allows them as artists to reject perspectives overly obsessed with traditional forms of representation. This allows them to present biological insights and creative speculations that encourage us to understand our being from a radically different perspective. 

Their art and science collaborative project AfterGlow (2016), commissioned by Animate Projects, won the moving image Lumen Prize award that celebrates the very best art created with technology. boredomresearch’s project Real Snail Mail (the world’s first webmail service to use real snails) challenging our cultural obsession with speed, received worldwide attention, including: BBC, TIME Magazine, New Scientist and Daily Planet Discovery Channel Canada. 

Their latest project In Search of Chemozoa (2020), created  in collaboration with Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, presents a poetic rendering of an in silico model organism, called Chemozoa, the artwork responds to mythical creatures documented in scientific literature to reveal tensions and interconnections between human and planetary health. This project combines computer animation, filmed environments and scientific speculation, to weave a poetic narrative that introduces new ideas emerging from cancer research. 

boredomresearch projects have been exhibited worldwide including: ArtScience Museum, Singapore; BOZAR Brussels; QUAD Gallery, Derby UK; DAM Gallery, Berlin; House of Electronic Arts, Basel; KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn Estonia; LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijón Spain; Gwacheon National Science Museum Seoul and Today Art Museum, Beijing. Further info at: http://www.boredomresearch.net

Angelo Fortunato biosketch 

Dr. Fortunato is an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University. He is an evolutionary and cancer biologist. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Rice University, Houston, Texas, and a second Ph.D. in Experimental and Clinical Oncology, from University of Florence, Italy.   

Dr. Fortunato has an international scientific experience acquired in different American and European laboratories. He is working to integrate evolutionary and ecological concepts into molecular cancer research to identify the molecular basis of cancer prevention, development and evolution. Different organisms have different susceptibilities to cancer. Some have evolved to be extremely cancer resistant; however, little is known about which species are cancer resistant and even less is known about the molecular mechanisms of that resistance. Dr. Fortunato is seeking to discover how nature has solved the problem of somatic cell control and cancer prevention and, ultimately, to translate those insights into improved cancer prevention and treatment for humans.

In addition, he has worked on colorectal and endometrial cancer and he is investigating the genetic heterogeneity in human breast cancer. He has published numerous articles in international scientific journals. w: http://www.angelo-fortunato.org

 

 

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The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 40 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. @lasertalks

When
November 13th, 2020 from  9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Location
Sound stage 117
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
50 N. Centennial Way Mesa, AZ 85201
Online / Tempe, AZ 85201
United States
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