Ap-ARTES

A week-long (20-25 April 2010) series of contaminating activities between art and science, built around the work of Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, at the Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito (CAMB), brought together CAMB, the IGC and the ITQB.

Science & Art workshops:

• Lab curiosities
  Using everyday lab items to build your very own memory box.
• Art & Science
  All about painting and using fungi to create art.
• Luminescent bacteria
  Drawing with bacteria that glow in the dark; learning about Vibrio harveyi, quorum sensing and the (non-luminescent) bacteria that we carry on our hands.
• Play-dough cells
  Building some of the 200 different cell types in the human body out of play-dough.
• Scientific illustrations
  Learning how to create accurate and engaging biological illustrations, with artist and biologist Diana Marques.
• A journey through the Human Genome
  From gene to protein to structure and function, just the way scientists do it in the lab.

Guided tours of the Bartolomeu exhibition:
By Rob Kesseler (Artist in residence), António Lopes (ITQB)

Café Scientifique
Breaking down stereotypes of science and scientists, and art and artists.
With: Rob Kesseler (IGC), José Pereira-Leal (IGC), Patrícia Noronha (ITQB), João Damas (ITQB), Isabel Macedo (Oeiras City Council, Moderator)

Theatre
'Anita in Neuroland'
By the PhD students of the Champalimaud Neurosciecne Programme at the IGC.


Colourful fungi in the 'Art & Science' workshop


Making fingerprints before and after hand-washing to the bacteria on our hands.