The primary objective of this initiative is to facilitate horizontal collaboration among science, art, and technology, equally involving researchers, creatives, and technologists. The outcome will be a large-scale collective experiment rooted in the performing arts that contributes to research, encourages critical thinking in society, and fosters reflection on plausible futures.
ICN2 is proud to announce the participation of Dr Maria Victoria Puig, Senior Researcher at the ICN2 Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices Group, in Workshop#19 – Neurotransmitters. Organized by Fundació Épica La Fura dels Baus, the workshop will take place from April 24th to May 7th, 2023, at the Antigua Fábrica CACI in Badalona and Fundació Épica's new headquarters at the Puerto de Badalona. On Saturday 6 May and Sunday 7 May, the final result of the workshop will be presented to an open audience. It will make your neurons go wild for sure!
The primary objective of this initiative is to facilitate horizontal collaboration among science, art, and technology, equally involving researchers, creatives, and technologists. The outcome will be a large-scale collective experiment rooted in the performing arts that contributes to research, encourages critical thinking in society, and fosters reflection on plausible futures.
Workshop#19 – Neurotransmitters stems from the dialogue between Fundació Épica and research groups dedicated to the study of neurotransmitters. These chemical messengers carry messages throughout our body via a dense network of nerves that connect neurons with other neurons, muscle cells, or glands. Neurotransmitters enable us to move our limbs, sense, maintain our heartbeat, and receive and respond to information from both internal and external sources.
Expertise from various fields, including pharmacology, musicology, neuroscience, and biosemiotics, will be made available to the creative participants in the project. The knowledge will serve as both an inspiration and a challenge, goal, task, or practical experiment in which both creatives and the public can play a central role.
In 2022 ICN2 and Fundació Épica already joined forces in a previous Workshop involving GraphCAT and other resesearch institutions. It was an exciting process ending in an impactful performance entitled "Survival vs. Resilience", with graphene as one of its central narrative concepts.
The ultimate aim is to present a final showcase to an invited audience as a result of this two-week-long art-science collaboration. Dr. Maria Victoria Puig's participation as an expert in advanced electronic materials and devices increases the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop and contributes to its success.