Arts
With the occasion of the screening of “The Optics of Space” at Heureka science center, we start off with a conversation on the cross-pollination between art and science. The film projection was developed for a planetarium by curator Aily Nash with works by artists Lucy Raven, and James N. Kienitz Wilkins, and commissioned by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York’s and PUBLICS, Helsinki. Gathering perspectives from the art field and space science, we to tap into the cinematic experience, the educational and research potential of visual information, and the ways in which art appropriates technological tools to convey different meanings. The invitees are Aalto professor of astronomy Dr. Joni Tammi, director of the Metsähovi Observatory, and curator Marina Valle Noronha, PhD researcher in Aalto School of Arts. Though the two conversations we bring forward the stakes and merits of films, by putting them in direct connection with scientific perspectives on space observation, the dissemination of astronomical knowledge, and the role of art in shaping human vision of the universe.