2012 Programme
Event #19
Ruggero Pierantoni
It’s all a matter of size
What does “measuring” mean? The etymology says that “dimension” comes from the Latin mensurare, “to measure”, but to day we wish we could say “trimension”. For those who wear 3-D glasses they should be three, but for a mathematician or a physicist of a few years back, there were n dimensions or only four. So the question remains: how many dimensions are there, and how to use them? There are large-sized objects and small- sized objects and we think we can “measure” everything—but is that true? It seems clear—and it is not at all—that one can “measure a painting” by Monet or Raphael, but try to measure Canova’s sculpture of Paolina Borghese, or the duration of one of Bach’s English Suites! A meeting between art, science and neuroscience on the fascinating topic of dimensions and measurements in art.
is a biophysicis. He has worked at Italy’s CNR-National Research Center where he has studied the ultrastructure of neural synapses and the development of sense systems. He has taught at Florida State University, the California Institute of Technology, the Virginia Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institut, the School of Medicine of the University of Calgary, the Carleton University in Ottawa. He is currently teaching at the Architecture Dept. of the University of Genoa. His books include: La trottola di Prometeo. Introduzione alla percezione acustica e visiva (Laterza,1996); Verità a bassissima definizione (Einaudi,1999); Vortici, atomi e sirene. Immagini e forme del pensiero esatto (Electa Mondadori, 2003). Bollati Boringhieri have published: Riconoscere e comunicare (1977), L’occhio e l’idea. Fisiologia e storia della visione (1981), Forma fluens. Il movimento e la sua rappresentazione nella scienza, nell’arte e nella tecnica (1986), Monologo sulle stelle (1994), Salto di scala. Grandezze, misure, biografie delle immagini (September 2012).
Event #3
Anna Salvo
Sorrow is like a telescope that helps us look into the distance: creatività and suffering
Event #4
Andrea Moro
I speak, therefore I am Like the starry sky: visions of language across the centuries
Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
