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Conference Cicle Image in Science and Art

CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION |AUDITORIUM 2 | 18.00

Conference Cicle Image in Science and Art

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Center of Philosophy of Sciences (Lisbon University) have pleasure to extend a warm invitation to the  international conferences Image in Science and Art, which will take place from November, 17th 2010 until February, 2nd 2011 at the auditorium 2, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ((Lisbon, Av. Berna, 45 A).

PROGRAM | Image in Science and Art | Science Conferences 2010 | 2011

Gulbenkian Foundation | November to February | 18h00 | Aud. 2

17 NOVEMBER 2010
"Taking it on Trust" in Images of Nature
Martin Kemp

Abstract

"Taking it on Trust" in Images of Nature

Images in the natural sciences exploit visual rhetorics (invented in art to some extent) to put us in the position of a virtual witness, to convince us of the reality of the image, or are used to assert the irrefutable precision of the visual data.  They also play into the social settings for the production and marketing of the books in which they appear. The examples will extend from the Renaissance to the present day. Then as now we take a good deal "on trust" when accepting the veracity of a representation.

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Martin Kemp has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. Leonardo da Vinci has been at the centre of this endeavour, and has been the subject of a number of his books and exhibitions, including Leonardo (Oxford University Press, 2004). His wider research has involved the sciences of optics, anatomy and natural history in various key episodes in the history of naturalism. In 1989 he published The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale University Press).

FOLLOWING CONFERENCES:
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15 DECEMBER 2010
The Problem of a Picture of an Atom

Christopher Toumey
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19 JANUARY 2011
Visiting Time: The Renegotiation of Time through Time-Based Art
Boris Groys

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2 FEBRUARY 2011
Functional Images of the Brain: Beauty, Bounty, and Beyond
Judy Illes

More information:

T. +351217823525
W. www.gulbenkian.pt/scienceandart | E. scienceandart@gulbenkian.pt |
Online live transmission: http://live.fccn.pt/fcg/

A credibilidade da nanotecnologia advém em grande parte do facto de produzir imagens detalhadas e atraentes de átomos, moléculas e outros objectos da nanoescala. Mas essas imagens não são como as fotografias. No caso da fotografia, pode comparar-se a foto de um objecto com o objecto em si, de forma a verificar se a foto constitui uma imagem fiel do objecto. As nanoimagens, porém, são interpretações visuais de dados electrónicos, e geralmente incluem uma série de melhorias artificiais. Isto significa que uma imagem de um átomo ou de uma molécula não é uma imagem fiel de um átomo ou de uma molécula.
Christopher Toumey irá falar-nos sobre a história da microscopia electrónica até aos nossos dias e da situação actual da nanoimagens. Em seguida, para explorar o modo como se pode obter o máximo benefício a partir do conhecimento visual contido nas nanoimagens, irá rever alguns princípios da teoria Cubista inicial. Pode-se aplicar esses princípios às nanoimagens: em vez de abandonar nanoimagens problemáticas, poderá entender-se melhor as imagens de objectos à nanoescala olhando para eles da mesma forma com que os primeiros Cubistas olharam os objectos por eles pintados.

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