Marta de Menezes, Herwig Turk and Andrew Carnie present art works that they developed as part of the Enlight-Ten research consortium.
Enlight-Ten research tries to understand our immune system better by looking at the functioning of T cells, specific white blood cells, by cross-disciplinary research between T cell immunology and big data analysis. The three artists have a long-standing practice of working with scientific knowledge and artefacts as material for art work production.
Often their works are produced in laboratories, be it of scientific research groups or of their own. De Menezes work for this exhibition involves working with T cells themselves; Herwig Turk’s work is again a reflection on the immortality of nature through the understanding of the 'unmortality' of DNA and a simultaneous analysis of the immune system as biological defence system and the way human language describes it in military wordings; Andrew Carnie’s creates print media derived from human pathogen microorganisms.
Exhibition
Art Enlightening Immunology will open on 30 August in Amsterdam.
Join us for the opening on 30 August 20:00 when the artists Marta de Menezes, Herwig Turk and Andrew Carnie present their work.
To celebrate the 50th aniversary of Leonardo - the network of networks reimagining the future with you at the forefront - one of its eminent directors, artist, curator and educator Nina Czegledy will open the exhibition Art Enlightening Immunology and will together with us toast on the numerous past and future collaborations between the arts, sciences and technology of Leonardo, the exhibition and alike to come.
The exhibition will be accessible daily from 31 August until 5 September at the Waag in Amsterdam, from 12:00 till 16:00 hrs.
Entrance is free.
