"Observations"

Rencontre LASER Paris

with Marcus Neustetter ; Laurent Karst et Filippo Fabbri (Percept-Lab)

between a dialogue with a dysfunctionnal satellite and a poetic reinterpretation of a Galileo experiment, this LASER Meeting conjugates the verbs observe, experiment, interpret, understand, share, feel in the field of both art and science.

Free admission in the limit of available seats, registration required (https://tinyurl.com/bdfs3p9d)

COVID 19 sanitary measures of the day

and we start on time!

LASER Paris takes place in French but Marcus Neustetter presentation is in English (not translated).

PopUp Exhibition by Marcus Neustetter, mostly Lead the Way Again SumbandilaSat that has been sent to the International Space Station in February 2022 with the Moon Gallery before reaching the Moon in 2024.

Drinks and snacks after the presentations

(COVID 19 situation permitting)

Audience announcements during the break (with registration)

Programme

> Marcus Neustetter, Artist (South Africa and Austia) // "Seeking Dialogue and Unfolding Meaning" about Sutherland Reflections et Lead the Way Again SumbandilaSat projects.

From abstract telescope collaborations at the Sutherland Observatory in South Africa to attempted conversations with a dysfunctional satellite SumbandilaSat - exploring these tools for scientific pursuit has served both the creative process and the quest for sense-making in his artistic journey. His presentation touches on moments of two 10-year projects, highlighting the artistic strategies of social engagement and experimentation for meaning and local relevance to unfold.

Started in 2009, Sutherland Reflections is a project that included collaborations with archeologists and astronomers in the heart of the Karoo, a semi-desert in central Southern Africa and home to the Southern African Large Telescope and an array of international observatories. It sought to create connections to the publicly unacknowledged history of the early inhabitants of the area and to highlight the loss of expression in the current communities identities through the persistent oppression before, during and after the Apartheid regime. This project evolved into bridging art and science for social good through temporary and permanent public artworks and events.

Lead the Way Again SumbandilaSat

Before a solar storm in 2011 that damaged the onboard computer, Neustetter was receiving images and creating artworks from the vantage point of South African micro earth observation satellite SumbandilaSat. But since the damage, he has only been able to track the satellite. This has resulted in a series of artworks in attempts to both reach out and to visualise what Sumbandila’s perspective and encounters might be. In Venda language, Sumdandila means "Lead the Way".

> Percept-Lab : Laurent Karst Architect and designer et Filippo Fabbri, Associate profession at the University Paris-Saclay, composer // about the project Le Chant Gravitationnel. Un hommage à Galilée

Observing, experimenting, interpreting, understanding, feeling: all verbs and actions that belong as much to the field of science as to that of art. Based on a centuries-old experience, the installation Le Chant Gravitationnel [The Gravitational Song], also inscribed in several aspects of Filippo Fabbri's current scientific research, crosses methodologies and perceptions.

Le Chant Gravitationnel is a visual and sound installation based on a poetic and sensory transposition of Galileo's work carried out in 1624, based on an experiment demonstrating the principle of the acceleration of bodies linked to gravitational fields.

The artistic installation provides the visitor with a sensory, visual and sound experience in perpetual metamorphosis, capable of making this phenomenon physically felt. Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that govern the Universe. Le chant gravitationnel offers a poetic perception of this phenomenon, which conditions all forms of life in our world and which is at the origin of the very functioning of nature and the cosmos.

> Moderator : Annick Bureaud

> Drinks and snacks after the presentations (COVID 19 situation permitting)

> Audience announcements during the break (with registration)

Programme created by Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info), LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendez-vous, www.leonardo.info/laser) is a sharing of experiences around art-science projects in semi-formal meetings, outside the institutional framework. 

LASER Paris is co-organized by Leonardo/Olats and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay (http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr), in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts (https://www.citedesartsparis.net/, the TEAMeD Research Team (https://teamed.univ-paris8.fr/) of the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and the ArTeC University Research School (https://eur-artec.fr/), with the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (https://www.fondationcarasso.org/) and the program Investissements d'Avenir.

It received the sponsoring of ITACCUS, the Technical Committee on the Cultural Utilisation of Space of the International Astronautical Federation.

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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