In the frame of the ongoing exhibition We love science at the Institute, we are glad to invite to a talk about how to build a bridge between so different fields as art and science. Taking part in the talk, we’ll hear the Italian artist Giulio Bensasson, whose work is now exhibited at the Institute, and the Norwegian artist Jeannette Christensen and professor Dirk Linke, both participating at the REAL art program at the University of Oslo. The REAL art program is in fact a similar project to We love science , both facilitating contact between artists and scientists and where artists have been invited to visit and be inspired by scientists and their work. The talk will be introduced and moderated by Anja Røyne, senior lecturer at Department of Physics and KURT – Centre for Teaching and Learning in Science and Technology, and responsible for the REAL art program.
Giulio Bensasson‘s research is centered on the action of time on various materials, organic and inorganic, which Bensasson records and then stops to give the deterioration an aesthetic and conceptual nature. For the We love science project, Bensasson visited the Marine Engineering Institute of the CNR, and there he was struck by studies into fluid dynamics and the tests conducted on the impact of water on aircraft and vessels, according to time-tested processes. The work created for the project is made up of three images that capture various moments of the transformation and deterioration process of a photograph randomly affected by mold, in order to retain the same uncertainty as the experiments conducted at the Marine Engineering Institute of the CNR.
Jeannette Christensen is one of the guest artists of the REAL art program since the autumn of 2024, with the project Jelly Works, in a collaboration with professor Dirk Linke and his research team at the Department of Biosciences at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Oslo. In Jelly Works, Christensen and Linke’s research group are investigating how various microorganisms contribute to the breakdown of jelly materials that Christensen uses in her art. In collaboration with Linke, Christensen wants to further develop her investigation of organic material from a microbiological perspective, to explore the balance between control and lack of control in the creative process.
