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LASER Talks in Lisbon: Imaginary Beings; three characters walk into the Bar LUCA

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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 50 cities around the world.

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LASER TALKS in Lisbon: Imaginary Beings; three characters walk into the Bar LUCA

 

EVENT INFO

When: June 29th at 3:30pm CET

Where: Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM) - Lisbon, Edifício Egas Moniz, Auditório 52 - David Ferreira

Website: https://blend.imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/en/

 

Over the centuries, art has transposed the most relevant issues and advances of its times into its own practice. From the hunts for mammoths in prehistoric art, to religious motifs in the Middle Ages, to the present day where the concerns and hopes of humanity become present in the various forms of contemporary art. In recent years, there have been unparalleled advances in biomedical research and medicine that have influenced society’s relationship with these areas: the sequencing of the human genome at the beginning of the millennium, the development of biotechnology that revolutionized the way drugs are developed, new imaging strategies medicine and the development of communication platforms that revolutionized the consumption of information. Many artists have incorporated elements of science and medicine into their works, including the scientific knowledge and technology that are now used to create artworks.

In Blend, we seek to bring to the campus of the Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa – CAML (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon – FMUL, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes – iMM and Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte – Hospital de Santa Maria – CHULN) a set of initiatives that cross art , science and medicine.

BLEND benefits from the collaboration with Ectopia, Experimental Art Laboratory.

 

About the talk: 
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.

 

Speakers Bios

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. Principal web archive.

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.

 

SPONSORS

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BLEND is a project in collaboration with Ectopia, Experimental Art Laboratory. Seeking to bring to the campus of the Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa – CAML (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon – FMUL, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes – iMM and Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte – Hospital de Santa Maria – CHULN) a set of initiatives that cross art, science and medicine. w: https://blend.imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/en/

ECTOPIA is an Experimental Art Laboratory: we are a space hosting artists from different backgrounds interested in exploring the intersection of art and science. We foster the development of collaborative projects involving artists and researchers from different fields. w: https://ectopialab.org/

CAML: IMM / FMUL / CHULN

The event takes place at the Academic Medical Centre of Lisbon (CAML), with a biomedical research institute dedicated to fundamental, translational and clinical studies (Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, iMM), with a mission to improve human health; the Medical School from the UNiversity of Lisbon (FMUL); and the larges academic hospital in the country Hospital de Santa Maria that is part of the CHULN hospital centre - a public general hospital, highly differentiated in technology and knowledge, providing health care to a large population in Lisbon and the south of the country.

 

When
June 29th, 2023 from  3:30 PM to  5:00 PM
Location
Instituto de Medicina Molecular
Auditório 58 - David Ferreira
Edifício Egas Moniz
Lisbon, 11 1649-028
Portugal