in collaboration with the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo del Cnr
Our civilisation stems above all else from our ability to develop language, which enables us to communicate facts and emotions, have a historical memory and elaborate abstract concepts. Today there is a vast array of different and increasingly specialised coexisting languages. Beneath our common culture, the languages of art, science and in particular mathematics have created worlds which are at times very distant from each other, and which frequently run the risk of not communicating. In this meeting we will discuss the relations between some of these languages which, if cultivated, can bring us towards a new unitary knowledge.
Roberto Natalini (Roma, 1960) mathematician, popularizer, he is the director of the Institute for the Applications of Calculation "Mauro Picone" of the CNR. His main research interests concern the study of partial differential equations and their applications. He is chairman of the commission of the European Mathematical Society for the public promotion of mathematics. Together with Andrea Plazzi he coordinates the scientific communication project Comics & Science.
Cesare Pietroiusti, artist, born in Rome in 1955, lives in Rome. Degree in Medicine with thesis in Psychiatric Clinic (1979). Co-founder of the Centro Studi Jartrakor and the Rivista di Psicologia dell'Arte, Rome, 1977. One of the coordinators of the residencies and projects "Oreste" (1997-2001). Professor of "Visual Arts Laboratory", IUAV, Venice (2004–2015); MFA Faculty, LUCAD, Lesley University, Boston (2009-2016). Co-Founder and President of the Lac o Le Mon Foundation, San Cesario di Lecce, 2015. President of the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in Rome, since July 2018. Since 1977 he has exhibited in private and public spaces, deputies and not, in Italy and abroad. Pietroiusti identifies in the laboratory practice a model that, combining training and exhibition activities, offers possibilities for horizontal and collective development of thought and forms of overcoming disciplinary specificities.
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Chiara Valerio (Scauri,1978) has written novels, short stories, literary criticism and theater. Her latest book is La matematica è politica, Einaudi, 2020. He collaborates with L'Espresso, La Repubblica and Vanity Fair. With Fabiana Carobolante and Lorenzo Pavolini he curates Ad alta voce of Radio 3 and, always for Radio 3, leads, every Sunday morning, the program L'isola deserta. For the nottetempo publisher, she translated and edited Flush, Freshwater and Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf and Ti basta l'Atlantico? (Letters between Virginia Woolf and Lytton Stratchey with Alessandro Giammei). She is the head of Italian fiction of the Marsilio publishing house. He has a PhD in Probability Calculus.
Informazioni
Entrance ticket to the exhibitions and the meeting: special rate of € 4.00, from 6.00pm, until places last
Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Rotonda
via Nazionale 194