22/24.04.19
Physics Laboratories. Centro del Japón. Universidad de los Andes.
Seminar and experimental workshop on scientific and artistic perspectives on beauty, organized by the High Energy Physics Research Group of the Universidad de los Andes. At the seminar, Colombian scientists from different universities in the country who collaborate with CERN spoke about their ideas of beauty in science. Experimental workshops were held in the physics laboratories of the university, in which various artists approached the research processes that take place there.
What was discovered with the Higgs boson? What is dark matter made of? What are the different states of matter and what is the quark-gluon plasma? What is supersymmetry? What can the study of particles and quantum interactions bring to human beings, for example in the field of medicine? What links Colombian science with science at CERN?
The complicity between art and physics has always existed. Legacies such as that of Leonardo Da Vinci remind us of the very thin line between both disciplines, which in this case becomes imperceptible or even non-existent, and how essential they are for the existence of the other. Not only under technical parameters, for example, the creation of lenses in physics and the contribution to the arts from this invention, or the visualization of the different findings of physics captured through the hands of the draftsman and thus converted into information for the whole world, but also in the fundamentals, in the search that both art and science pursue of the connection between mind and matter, in the importance of curiosity, imagination and beauty.
Curiosity and imagination are the first step in the creation of artistic work. Anything that can be thought and imagined from a curiosity can be turned into a sensory result, can be brought from thought to hands. It is the same process in theoretical and experimental physics, when a scientist imagines the limits of the universe, imagines a new dimension to explain a theory, and brings it from thought to calculation and from calculation to hand through technology and experimentation. In both cases, the process is the same, starting in thought and finding its materiality through creative action. What is beauty in art, what is beauty in science, and what are their convergences and divergences?
Around these questions we met with Colombian scientists working with high energy physics, from the Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad Industrial de Santander and Universidad Antonio Nariño, to hear about their research and their perceptions of art and the poetic from science.
Workshop Leaders:
Carlos Ávila | Gerardo Roque | Leonardo Ríos
Speakers
Carlos Ávila | Carlos Sandoval | Eliana Salazar | Elkim Roa | Jairo Alexis Rodríguez | Natalia Rivera | Nelson Vanegas
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Organized by:
High Energy Physics Research Group Universidad de los Andes
Organized together with:
Creata
CONHEP Network
Contributors: Lina García | Monica Herrera
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