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Valencia, first Spanish headquarters of the Leonardo LASER Talks – MIT international program on art and science
- Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit
- March 10th, 2022
The LASER Talks program (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), based on international meetings of artists, scientists, humanists and technologists who interact with the public to provide knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue, has established its first official headquarters in Spain at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), with the support of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia (UV), the Science Pirates association and the Carme Contemporary Culture Centre.
This year LASER Talks Valencia consists of four talks. The first one will take place next Friday, March 11 at 6:00 p.m. at the Carme Contemporary Culture Centre with talks by JoséRamón Bertomeu Sánchez (chemist and director of the López Piñeiro Interuniversity Institute of History of Science of the UV) and Salomé Cuesta (artist and vice-rector for Art, Science, Technology and Society at the UPV). To end the act, there will be a performance by the Valencian sound artist Martí Guillem.
LASER Talks Valencia has been promoted by the Vice-rectorate for Art, Science, Technology and Society of the UPV, and is co-directed by an interdisciplinary team led by MoisésMañas, artist and professor of Fine Arts at the UPV, and Guillermo Muñoz Matutano, researcher at the Institute of Materials Sciences of the UV and member of the “Piratas de la Ciencia” (‘Science Pirates’) team.
The project lands in Valencia with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary relationships at the local level, without neglecting the marked international aspect of the LASER project. Therefore, the action wants to serve as a link to encourage participation with other local and regional entities, and thus expand the impact of this international project in the local context.
The Leonardo/ISAST network (a non-profit organisation, created by the pioneer of astronautical engineering and kinetic artist Frank Malina in 1968) represents the most relevant international society in the panorama of relations between Art, Science and Technology. The creator’s son, Roger F. Malina (executive director of Leonardo magazine), was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UPV in 2016. The main mission of this international society continues to be to promote the interaction of the Art, Science and Technology trinomial, generate inclusive and interdisciplinary networks and promote cross-border and collaborative knowledge communities.
More information about the next LaserTalks: https://www.leonardo.info/laser-talks
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