Talk 36: Narratives – Artistic Language and Ewing Sarcoma – Part 1

Based on materials that Bela has received from the researchers, he begins to visualize processes and gets knowledge of a visual representations of what the researchers do in their work. Bela tells about his plans to work in a more abstract way, he wants to establish a graphic language. He plans to build virtual 3D-sculptures and than to make photographs of them. Photographs will be the result of his artistic work and will show a process of something (e.g. moving of cells, changing of cells).
Sources of inspiration for such art works were amongst other things reference works from artists like Francis Bacon or Bruno Gironcoli, showing complex things in one piece. Furthermore, Heinrich and Eleni discuss with Bela about his art pieces, graphic novels and the ’story‘, the narrative of their research work.

Eleni Tomazou and Heinrich Kovar are scientists at the St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), Bela Borsodi is a photographer and artist in New York and Vienna. The project Art4Science enables the scientists of St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute to develop a specific method of collaboration, by working with artists of different fields. In order to present scientific processes and research works in an innovative way, the artists will create music pieces, visual works of art and fashion collections as well. To provide the public with first-hand information, the meetings will be documented in radio shows and podcast recordings.

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