Tag: science

  • HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence

    HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence

      HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence is a digital book of the European Commission on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and society from different perspectives. The eBook, edited by Freddy Paul Grunert, with Massimo Craglia, Emilia Gómez Gutierrez and Jutta Thielen-del Pozo, presents 45 texts by authors from different humanistic and scientific backgrounds. Texts’ reviewers are…

  • Interview with Vincenzo Fano

    Interview with Vincenzo Fano

      [ITA – English below] Breve bio. Vincenzo Fano è nato nel 1960, figlio di un fisico teorico e nipote di un filosofo. Ha dedicato la sua vita allo studio e all’insegnamento della filosofia. Laureato in filosofia della fisica nel 1984, ha poi frequentato un dottorato in filosofia della psicologia scrivendo una tesi su Franz…

  • David Deutsch on our place in the universe

    David Deutsch on our place in the universe

    [ITA] Il leggendario scienziato David Deutsch lascia per un attimo da parte la fisica teorica per discutere di un problema più urgente: la sopravvivenza della nostra specie. Il primo passo per risolvere il riscaldamento globale, dice, è ammettere che abbiamo un problema. [ENG] David Deutsch’s 1997 book “The Fabric of Reality” laid the groundwork for…

  • Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science

    Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science

    Science is about discovering reality. Art is about unveiling it. The KiiCS project gathers scientists and artists to bring science closer to society through artistic creativity. Interactions between art, science and new technologies will stimulate new ideas to communicate science, foster innovation and improve quality of life across Europe. http://www.kiics.eu/en/Home/Home/

  • Stranger Visions: DNA Collected from Found Objects Used to Create 3D Portraits

    Stranger Visions: DNA Collected from Found Objects Used to Create 3D Portraits

    In Stranger Visions artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg creates portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in public places. Working with the traces strangers unwittingly leave behind, Dewey-Hagborg calls attention to the impulse toward genetic determinism and the potential for a culture of genetic surveillance. http://deweyhagborg.com/strangervisions