decolonizing sciences – transformations, healing – resilience, human cluster, index
Symposium on heat, proximity, technology and violence
Symposium on heat, proximity, technology and violence
This symposium is curated by artist Susanne M Winterling and Carl Martin Faurby, program curator at the Kunsthall Trondheim, September 2022. In celebration of the exhibition of artist Susanne M Winterling, ‘A threshold-game of proximity, cluster and heat’, we meet with Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu, researcher and biotechnologist (NTNU Trondheim) and Denise Ferreira da Silva, academic and artist. On the first section of the symposium, Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu presents her research on imaging technologies : Imaging technologies from gravitational waves to spiders and the James webb, see link. This follows an online lecture by Denise Ferreira da Silva entitled on Heat.
The symposium ends with with a Q&A with all artists and researchers.
Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu is a researcher and biotechnologist, investigating the processes of scientific imagery. She pushes the boundaries of these techniques in an attempt to expand scientific imagination.
Denise Ferreira da Silva is a scholar and artist. She is the director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her work focuses on major political and ethical struggles of our times through an anti-colonial and black feminist philosophy.
