Berlin Science Week FORUM Closing: A Séance for Science
Step into the ART+SCIENCE SALON and join our Séance for Science to confront the digitally-mediated myths, metaphors, and manipulations that characterise our present beliefs and behaviours.
We are delighted to conclude the Berlin Science Week 2025 FORUM with a special closing performance, a Séance of Science in an Era of Techno-Spiritualism, presented by the ART+SCIENCE SALON in collaboration with the Jazz Institute (UdK).
Part debate, part performance, part speculative theatre: As the FORUM draws to a close, this event invites audiences into a room where the line between science and belief begins to shimmer. Framed as a séance for the 21st century, our "mediums" convene a live conversation between a panel of invited experts, who will collectively confront the myths, metaphors, and manipulations shaping our current age of techno-spiritualism. The séance becomes both format and method: conjuring up the ghostly returns of past ideologies and playfully questioning how new technology becomes spiritualised in times of uncertainty. By blending historical and contemporary sources with a participatory format, we will engage with the now ubiquitous adoption of AI by society, investigate how quantum theory in art reflects ancient spiritual tendencies, and question the displacement of nature/the post-human in the emerging picture of our new world.
This is not a panel. It is not a lecture. It is a collective investigation into the cognitive and cultural landscapes of belief, hosted by the ART+SCIENCE SALON.
The evening opens with a few words from Christian Rauch, Festival Director, before dissolving into the séance, carried by live music from students of the Jazz Institute at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Berlin Science Week at the Irish Embassy
Peatlands - a wetland ecosystem found in all continents - play a fundamental role in global carbon sequestration, water storage and filtering, biodiversity preservation, and lately even national defence. Monitoring peatlands is very important, but this is difficult over large areas through traditional measures.
The AI2Peat project might have found a viable solution to this challenge by combining high-resolution satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, advanced computation and, last but not least, domain expertise.
The project leaders join THE ART+SCIENCE SALON in the Irish Embassy in Berlin for a special interview to embark on a journey not only within the eco-hydrological/technological domains, but broaching topics such as evidence-based policy making, Ireland’s relationship with its land, nature-centric regulations, climate change mitigation, and much more!
Solarigraphy Meeting 2025: Between Science, Art, and Education
Solarigraphy combines art, photography and science to produce unique images of the sky. To explore this unusual method of astrophotography, scientists, photographers, artists and teachers are invited to discuss all aspects of the process in June 2025 at Planetarium Prague.
The aim of the meeting is to discuss all aspects of solarigraphy: from its roots in conceptual art and astronomy, through photographic chemical processes, different techniques and camera types, to legal aspects and the use of the solarigraphy in education and public outreach. General aspects of the overlap between science and art will also be discussed, and an educational session will provide the opportunity for teachers to meet with professional scientists and artists.
As part of the conference’s Art-Block, Amelia McConville is delighted to collaborate with Nikita FREEBOID, a multidisciplinary digital artist from Ukraine, to incorporate visuality, poetry, soundscape, digital art, and essay form, combining creative forces to explore how poetry, visuality, and cultural commentary can be configured in a digital context.
Ecsite 2025
We are delighted to be back at Ecsite 2025 which will be held at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland.
EUSEA Conference 2025
We are excited to contribute to the #EUSEA2025 Conference, taking place in the Elder Museum of Science and Technology, in the centre of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria.
European Science Engagement Association (EUSEA) is Europe’s fast-growing network of public engagement professionals in the fields of research, innovation and education.
EDGE NeuroArt Nexus
Neuro Art Nexus - A monthly speaker series and community meeting alternating online/in-person for those interested in neuroscience and art. Organised by EDGE neuroscience & art e.V.
This month, Dr. Amelia McConville will give an insightful presentation on the connection between Neuroscience and Poetry.
“The Science of Sex” at Berlin Science Week 2024
In this live podcast recording and panel event at Berlin Science Week 2024, we explored the science of sex with experts from academia and practice for a community discussion, exploring sex from cultural, historical, and social perspectives. From kinks to orientations, identities, to technologies of sexual mediation and health, we examined the common ground from which we all came.
Beta Festival 2024
Beta Festival: A festival of art, science, and technology in Dublin 8, Ireland.
We contributed to the festival’s critical engagement with the impact of emerging technologies on society. We hosted Artist Bytes, assisted with the AI Art Assembly, and helped facilitate the digital artist networking event hosted by Creative Europe Media Desk, and participated in RTÉ’s Culture File debate.
Ecsite Conference 2024: A Community Podcast
During Ecsite Conference 2024, at the Kersnikova Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, we hosted a roundtable session and live podcast recording to examine the past, present, and future of transdisciplinary collaborations.
Science of Rave at MotionLab.Berlin
Science of Rave brings science to the club.
We contributed a short presentation on “Attentional Modes, Working Memory, and the Poetics of Partying” at this iteration of SoR held at MotionLab.Berlin Alt Treptow.
Creative Brain Week 2024
In March 2024 we assumed the role of official podcasters of Creative Brain Week – a Global Brain Health Institute innovation at Trinity College Dublin, presented in association with Creative Aging International, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and with support from Creative Ireland and the Atlantic Institute.
Berlin Science Week 2023: "Fertile Futures: Cultivating Creativity at the Crossroads"
We recorded live from Berlin Science Week 2023, in a cosy corner of the ART & SCIENCE FORUM at the bustling Holzmarkt 25.
Beta Festival 2023
Beta Festival: A festival of art, science, and technology.
We set up a pop-up podcasting corner at the Digital Lounge in the Digital Hub in Dublin 8, where we invited interlocutors, artists, scientists and more to contribute to a festival podcast.
Trinity College Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023
We relaunched the Salon at Trinity Long Room Hub’s Arts & Humanities Research Festival in 2023. During our session “Art+Science=??: Curating Cultures Outside the Academy” , we were joined by art-science & tech festival founder Aisling Murray.