For some time now, the world of science has forged ever stronger ties with that of art. Artists enter scientific laboratories, collaborate with technicians and scientists, create works with strong scientific bases. On the other hand, the research laboratories have opened up to an increasingly close dialogue with the art world.
These interweavings are redefining both artistic and curatorial practices. How? This is the question that Mónica Bello and Valentino Catricalà want to answer. On this basis, the two speakers will take the audience on a journey that illustrates the latest trends in art in relation to science, changes in curatorial practices, the potential social impact of the union between art and science. 

 

Mónica Bello is an art historian and curator. Since 2015 she has curated the Arts at CERN program at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Arts at CERN promotes dialogue between artists and scientists in one of the most important laboratories in the world. He co-curated the exhibition Quantum/Broken Symmetries which includes ten works of art from the Arts at CERN program on an international tour from 2018 to 2020. She is the curator of the Icelandic pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2022 with the artist Sigurður Guðjónsson. She was guest curator of the prestigious Audemars Piguet Art Commission for Art Basel 2018. Previously artistic director of VIDA in the Fundación Telefónica (2010-14) and head of the educational department at the Laboral Centro de Arte Gijón (2008-2010).
 

Valentino Catricalà scholar and curator of contemporary art. He is currently Director of the SODA Gallery in Manchester and lecturer at Mancheter Metropolitan University. He is also curator of the Art section of the Maker Faire – The European Edition and art consultant for the Sony CS Lab in Paris. Together with Barbara London (ex MoMA) she curates the D'ORO/D'ART project. On these issues he is a PhD at the University of Roma Tre, he was a Part-Time Post Doc Research Fellow at the same University.
He has curated exhibitions in important museums and international institutions. He is the author of several books, including Art and Technology in the Third Millennium (Electa, 2020) and The Artist as Inventor (Rowman & Littlefield, London 2021).

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