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"Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else “. Leonardo DaVinci

The Art Talk is delighted to welcome you to another inspiring Art Talk on the Art Side of #Science

"Scientific research needs to be understood by the broad public to fulfil its purpose.” Silvia Brochet , a microbiologist and finalist of 2021 Figure 1A exhibition. In the eyes of the exhibition organizers, art is a perfect tool for translating science, making it more attractive, accessible, and captivating.

This Art Talk will “discover or re-discover” how Art & Science are connected. Our speakers will be Anna Anchimiuk, molecular biologist and Figure 1A team member; Eli Joteva, Bulgarian intermedia artist and researcher based in LA; Radoslav Mehandzhiyski EN | artandculturetoday, the Art and Culture Today founder and art curator; Giuseppe Lo Schiavo | Artist, a visual artist exploring AI and VR approaches as well as harnessing bacteria for his artwork; and Silvia Brochet, a scientist, investigating interactions between bacteria (jury award here: Finalists-2021 — [Figure 1A] Long Playing Interactions)

Radoslav Mehandzhiyski is an art historian and curator, founder of the Bulgarian based independent platform for contemporary art Art and Culture Today and IMAGO International Artist Residency. In the last six years he has held close to 100 public lectures covering some of the most recent tendencies in the field of contemporary art and has curated a series of local and international art exhibitions with participants from four continents. He is also a researcher in the field of communicating art to non-specialist audienes. His current PhD focuses on the social, aesthetical and economical values of the 21st century contemporary art.

Anna Anchimiuk is a molecular biologist trying to find a sweet spot between science, art and sports. During her PhD, she was focusing on how the DNA maintains its 3D structure inside the bacterial cells. She was previously involved in multiple initiatives of Cultural Collective in Gdansk, Poland among which the most prominent are "MUG" a music competition for young bands associated with the University of Gdansk and bringing to life Temporary Home during Documenta13 in Kassel. She found her way to [Figure 1.A.] in December 2019. 

Silvia Brochet, PhD is a microbiologist and scientific communications wizard. During her PhD she used the honey bee gut microbiota to carry out research about microbial communities. She is particularly interested in understanding how bacteria coexist and interact within communities. She is a laureate of Figure 1A 2021 jury award and an excellent public speaker involved in several science outreach activities (“L’éprouvette" public laboratory of the University of Lausanne, “Les mystères de l’UNIL” open door event at the University of Lausanne, “Happy hours de la science” organised by the natural sciences association La Murithienne and the Ferme-Asile artistic center in Sion). She believes that scientific research needs to be understood by the broad public to fulfil its purpose.

Joteva is a Bulgarian intermedia artist and researcher based in LA. With a practice rooted in photography and digital media, she is influenced by contemporary research in the fields of quantum mechanics, neurophysics and machine vision. She holds an MFA from
UCLA Design | Media Arts, a BA in Fine Arts from USC Roski and has completed The New Normal postgraduate research program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. 

Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is an award-winning visual artist based between London and Milan. His research is aiming to create a bridge between art and science. Using AI and machine learning, virtual reality, infrared systems, or microorganisms in the lab, the artist’s research often focuses on opposing elements: creation-destruction, past-future, analog-digital, real-virtual. In 2021 Lo Schiavo has been announced as the winner of the European project BioArt Challenge organised by the Museum of Science MUSE in Italy. The artist will start research on art and synthetic biology with the support of Cardiff University, Zurich University of Applied Science, the University of Trento and the Museum of Science MUSE. Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is currently an artist in residence at the Microbiology lab of UCL University in London.

Lo Schiavo’s works have been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including Saatchi Gallery in London, Aperture Foundation in New York, Mixer Gallery in Istanbul, Mana Contemporary in New Jersey, Museo Marca di Catanzaro, LACDA in Los Angeles, LA Show, Istanbul Contemporary, Abay Opera House in Kazakhstan and other solo and group exhibitions in Luxembourg, London, Tokyo, Rome, Munich, LA, Turin.

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