Art & Science Opening Panel: Tracing Art & Science from the 1990s to Today

Art and science began to develop as a field of its own in the 1990s, and it can now look back on 30 years of collaboration. Having first made a name for itself by shaping speculative futures, it increasingly contributes to critical reflection. 

Four people who have helped shape the field look at this journey: Giulia Bini is Head of Arts at CERN, Christina Landbrecht leads the art programme at Schering Stiftung, Sara Morais Dos Santos Bruss is curator for Scientific, Digital and Media Practices (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), and Christian Rauch is Festival Director of Berlin Science Week. 

The conversation is moderated by Clara Roca-Sastre, Programme Co-Lead and Curator of Berlin Science Week.

As the opening of our Art & Science Practitioner’s Route, the panel is for everyone interested in how the relationship between art and science has developed, who shapes the field, and what this means for the scene today.

The Practitioner’s Route

Are you already working in art and science, or looking to grow your practice? On Saturday, 7 November, our Practitioner’s Route connects the field’s current debates with opportunities to collaborate. These are the key sessions to follow through the day:

• 12:00 | Art & Science Opening Panel: Tracing Art & Science from the 1990s to Today
  Berlin Science Week opens the route with 30 years of art and science.
  With Christina Landbrecht, Giulia Bini, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Christian Rauch; moderated by Clara Roca-Sastre
• 13:00 | Fertile Void | Along, Across, and Against the Grain
  HKW’s keynote on how beings emerge from and return to the virtual.
  With Cécile Malaspina, Muindi Fanuel Muindi, Sha Xin Wei
• 14:30 | Touching Boundaries
  Art Laboratory Berlin asks what drives collaboration between art and science.
  With Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Špela Petrič, Miha Turšič, Marcus Maeder, Matthias Rillig
• 15:00 | Fertile Void | (Ir-)Resolution and (Non-)Renormalizability
  Black radical sonic practices probe the limits of measurement.
  With Muindi Fanuel Muindi
• 16:00 | Europe needs a Plan: Science & Arts in the AI Age – Highlight
  Archipelago of Possible Futures asks whether Europe’s AI Factories could become Bauhaus-style ateliers.
  With Olafur Eliasson, Tommaso Calarco, Bettina Kames, Francesca Bria, José Luis de Vicente
• 17:00 | Is the Personal Generative?
  Forecast hosts an open discussion on subjectivity and curiosity as creative forces.
  With Ana Prvački, Johanna Seelemann, Freo Majer, Hili Perlson
• 19:30 | Investigating the Kill Cloud
  Disruption Network Lab on warfare as a testing ground for technology.
  With Tatiana Bazzichelli, Tiara Roxanne
• 20:00 | Lex Ecologicae
  A lecture performance on how ecology, art, science and law represent and govern nature.
  With Jol Thoms
• 21:00 | Cells’ Ears
  Living heart cells meet sound in a performance, followed by an open conversation.
  With Sofia Boarino/LOTO, Melanie Generali

Find all sessions and more information here.