Wunder Der Schöpfung (Our Heavenly Bodies), 1925
Before being ideas, scientific theories are themselves constituted by image making. With computer-generated imagery, it has become increasingly difficult to recognize the indexicality of the film image, mainly because of simulation. In the case of scientific films, this issue is even more delicate, as the image requires a direct recognition of reality, under penalty of not constituting scientific evidence. With increasingly aestheticized images, scientific images in turn are captured from distant spaces, through sophisticated hybrid technologies, very different from the optical array images of telescopes. This program presents an overview of films considered scientific, with educational intentions on astronomy since before the invention of cinema, so that the most diverse film techniques used by filmmakers and scientists in different eras can be appreciated.
Curated by Jane de Almeida.
SCREENING
Passage artificiel de Vénus sur le Soleil
Pierre Jules César Janssen, France/Japan, 1874, digital, b/w, silent, 0:30
Wunder Der Schöpfung (Our Heavenly Bodies)
Hanns Walter Kornblum, Germany, 1925, digital, color, silent, 90 minutes
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Interdisciplinary researcher Jane de Almeida works in the arts, film and new media fields, investigating the intersection among media, subjectivity and perception. As a professor and researcher, she was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College (1999), Visiting Fellow in the Department of Architecture and History of Art at Harvard University (2005), guest researcher at MediaLabMadrid (2006), and Visiting Scholar in the Dept. of Communication at University of California, San Diego (2007). She holds a Master degree and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Currently, She has been teaching at the Art Department at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil and at the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. She coordinates the Laboratory of Scientific Image (LIC) at the State University of Campinas. She curated several exhibitions such as Harun Farocki: programming the visible at Paço das Artes, Off the Radar at the Visual Arts Gallery at UC San Diego, Ulla, Ulla, Martians, Intergalactics and Aliens at Casanova, Quantum Art at FILE 2024, Ordering and Vertigo at CCBB in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo, among others.