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   CBC publica artigo sobre o projecto "Experimentação: Arte, Ciência & Tecnologia"

   [7-8-2008]

   
   

   A grande cadeia de rádio e televisão CBC [Corporação Canadiana de Radiodifusão] divulgou ontem, dia 6 de Agosto, na internet, o artigo "The power of the mysterious", sobre o projecto "Experimentação: Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia" produzido pela Direcção-Geral das Artes. O artigo, da autoria do jornalista e escritor Stephen Strauss, pode ser lido em www.cbc.ca, na secção "Tecnologia e Ciência".

   
   

   Este artigo surge no seguimento da presença de Stephen Strauss no "Euroscience Open Forum", que decorreu em Barcelona no passado mês de Julho. O interesse de Stephen Strauss pelo projecto "Experimentação: Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia" terá despertado após a apresentação do mesmo, efectuada por Mónica Guerreiro [em representação da Direcção-Geral das Artes], na sessão do encontro intitulada "Art and Science: Opportunities for Interaction".
   
   The power of the mysterious
   By Stephen Strauss, CBC News
   
   "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein
   
   One of the great mysteries of my life is how hard people have worked to link up art and science. The argument always seems to be that because they both come up with things that often amaze us, they must be fundamentally the same and ergo, must fundamentally be able to speak to one another.
   
   Bosh, I say. But before I expand on that response, let me first refer you to a session entitled "Art and Science: Opportunities for Interaction" I attended at the Euroscience Open Forum held in Barcelona in July. There, Monica Guerreiro of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture showed participants the creations that had resulted when eight Portuguese artists were allowed to spend three to six months in scientists' laboratories. She began by describing some previous efforts to link up art and science. There was "bio artist" Eduardo Kac's creation of a transgenic bunny. It had the gene of a jellyfish inserted into its DNA so that when a type of blue light was shown on Alba the rabbit, the creature lit up a florescent green.
   
   Then there was Marta de Menezes, who went into a lab in Holland and bred butterflies to create wing patterns never before seen in nature. These are efforts that suggest Victor Frankenstein should not be seen as a mad scientist but as perhaps the pre-eminent modern artist.
   
   The Portuguese program was more wide-ranging. One artist, Soraya Vasconcelos, went into a laboratory to create new prosthetic devices. She produced a modern Pinocchio made out of aesthetically combined prosthetic parts.
   
   Patrícia Noronha integrated herself into a biology lab and was inspired to create acrylic works of art out of the patterns that micro-organisms produce while growing in petri dishes.
   
   André Igor Oliveira e Castro installed himself in a physics laboratory where various meteorological measures - temperature, pressure, humidity, wind - were being taken. The artist transformed the measurements into sound, which some might call music. [...]
   

   
   

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   Mais informações:
   
   Experimentação: Arte, Ciência & Tecnologia
   Site do Projecto "Experimentação: Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia": www.dgartes.pt/arteciencia/Index.htm
   Notícias relacionadas [no site da DGArtes]: Exposição Experimentação: Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia [publicada a 20-06-2008]
   
   Euroscience Open Forum [ESOF 2008]
   Site do Euroscience Open Forum: www.esof2008.org