LECTURE: Participation in the V Symposium of Art and Science CNIO Arte 2024: Art, science and ecology in the face of climate change
It is an honor to participate as a speaker at the V Symposium on Art and Science: Art, science and ecology in the face of climate change, organized by CNIOARTE 2024, and directed by Carlos Jiménez Moreno. It will take place next Wednesday, February 21, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
The Art and Science Symposiums of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) aim to promote dialogue between artists and scientists, and are part of the CNIO Arte initiative.
Each year, CNIO Arte facilitates interaction between scientists and artists of international renown to reflect on transcendental issues of humanity through science, from quantum physics to the origins of molecular biology. Artists of the stature of Eva Lootz, Carmen Calvo, Chema Madoz, Daniel Canogar, Susana Solano and Amparo Garrido have interacted with scientists such as Margarita Salas, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Cirac, Sarah Teichmann and Elizabeth Blackburn. These collaborations culminate in the creation of works of art that become part of CNIO's heritage.
The CNIO Arte 2024 edition featured the pair formed by Dora García, winner of the 2021 National Visual Arts Award, and David Nogués-Bravo, macroecologist at the Globe Institute in Copenhagen. Under the theme of climate change and biodiversity loss, Dora García has created an audiovisual piece, END (two prologues), based on the trip to the archipelago of Svalbard, in the Arctic, that the scientist and the artist undertook together.
Both are participating in the 5th Art and Science Symposium to be held on February 21 in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, entitled "Art, science and ecology in the face of climate change", which will also feature presentations by other experts such as Carlos Jiménez, professor emeritus of Aesthetics at the European University of Madrid, historian and art critic; Esther Pizarro, multidisciplinary artist, researcher and professor at the European University of Madrid; Anna Traveset, biologist and researcher at the CSIC, and Jaime Vindel, art and culture historian and researcher at the CSIC.
After their presentations, the speakers will participate with Maria Blasco and Juan de Nieves, director and curator of CNIO Arte, respectively, in a round table discussion conceived as an enriching reflective dialogue to try to shed light, from their different disciplines and perspectives, on the transcendent subject matter proposed.
