Rencontre Art & Science 2023

« Horizons marins, regards croisés sur l’Art et la Science »

Invited guests:

Giulia Grossmann: artist and documentary filmmaker
Alice Barbaza: researcher and teacher
Helena Cruz de Carvalho: artist, researcher, lecturer at the Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
Christian Sardet: CNRS research director at the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-Sur-Mer and artist

Location: Chapelle – Centre Culturel La Providence
Date: 19 November, 11 a.m.

The advent of computing and digital technology has fueled both artistic creation and scientific advances, marking a distinct era. The « Horizons marins, regards croisés sur l’Art et la Science » meeting highlights the fact that partnerships between artists and scientists foster mutual enrichment, opening up new perspectives for both fields, with a particular focus on these exchanges in the field of marine biology. This synergy between art and science pushes back the boundaries of the imagination, stimulating both scientific and artistic research. Hybrid choreographies, innovative scenographic advances, astronomical installations, biological reveries and chimerical creations are all born of this collaboration. This encounter raises questions and highlights how art and science work together to transcend conventional norms, unleashing an innate, sensory creative potential that reaches a diverse audience.

Since 2022, OVNi has been building bridges between art, science and new technologies. To this end, OVNi organizes meetings on themes linked to current societal issues, open to all and attended by an artist and a scientist who are experts on a given theme. These were initiated with « La création 3.0 et 4.0 ». For 2023, OVNi is proposing an Art & Science Meeting with an environmental focus.

The Rencontre Art & Science will take place after the screening of Giulia Grossmann’s film « Mission Microbiome », made during her artist residency aboard the scientific mission ship Tara.

The speakers are Giulia Grossmann, video artist and director, Alice Barbaza, doctoral student at EHESS on the fictions of knowledge and teacher, and Helena Cruz, artist and lecturer at the Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS). She studies genetic responses to environmental stress in photosynthetic organisms, land plants and unicellular algae. Her research has led her to study non-coding RNAs, which have been shown to be major regulators of cellular processes, as well as Christian Sardet, biologist and Director of Research Emeritus (CNRS) at the Institut de la mer in Villefranche-sur-Mer.