Science perceived through the eyes of art
INESC Porto and the directors of the Master’s in Image Design of the University of Porto (FBAUP) inaugurated, on 16 April, the exhibition «I Am Science», which can be visited until 30 April, Monday through Friday, from 10 to 12 am and from 3 to 5 pm.
The works displayed are the result of an artistic residency, carried out in the context of the project «Nomadic.0910 – Meetings between Art and Science in the University of Porto», which welcomed, in INESC Porto, students from the Master’s in Image Design, since January 2010.
During the initiative, the students were invited to produce systems for the visualization of scientific contents, and to participate in the spaces of the research lab in order to create repertoires of documentary images that reveal day-to-day aspects and promote communication between these realities and the outside. During three months, the students produced a repertoire of images, devices and representations, registering spaces, people, habits, practices, routines, technology, among other contents.
The initiative is part of the programme of Celebrations for the 25th Anniversary of INESC in the city of Porto in 2010 and “refuses to conclude itself”, aiming to keep “choosing the path that makes it possible to raise hypotheses and provocations, thus enriching these universes through the expansion of analysis and representation processes”, the professors of the Master’s Degree guarantee.
