During the marathon of art and science we will talk about degrees of freedom of the human mind and the freedom of artists, of why adolescence is the age in which one can become more or less free, of the power of digital technologies to make us freer and to limit our choices, of art and science as gymnasiums of freedom, of how freedom is being killed in some countries today.
The event, planned and conducted by Giovanni Carrada and Cristiana Perrella, curators of the exhibition, will be divided into two sessions dedicated respectively to brain and freedom e youth and freedom, during which scientists, artists and witnesses will dialogue with the public.
In the first session the following take part: the neurologist Salvatore Aglioti, professor of Cognitive and Social Neurosciences at the University of Rome La Sapienza, scholar of existential neurosciences, will talk about Brain and Freedom; is Cesare Pietroiusti – who became an artist after a degree in medicine and a specialization in a psychiatric clinic – will explain to the public what is special about the freedom of an artist.
In the second session: the neurobiologist of learning Antonio Malgaroli, from the San Raffaele University of Milan, will talk about what is special about the adolescent brain; the media sociologist Marco Gui, who has dealt with individual and social differences in the use of the internet, and in particular with "digital inequality" will report on his studies on Digital Natives; the journalist and writer Christina Judges will return to the public a story about young Italian Islamists; while the reporter Yasemin Taskin will talk about the decline of democracy in Turkey and the role of youth and digital technologies in the protests.
FIRST ART – We ask Cristiana Perrella and Giovanni Carrada what were the reasons that motivated the realization of this event.
Christian Perrella – The idea we worked on was to create a non-figurative but real dialogue between art and science, but also on geopolitical reality. Therefore, presenting the students with a real dialogue on the theme of freedom in all its expressions: a theme on which the principles of the Golinelli Foundation are based. We will discuss with experts how decisions are born, what freedom is for an artist, freedom and new digital technologies, art and customs. We would like to give a voice to those who participate and that the kids and people come out with questions. Those same questions that we hope can be topics for others and new meetings.
John Carrada – It's a more unique than rare opportunity, it will be a sort of triangulation between experienced youngsters and witnesses. Here is the importance of the testimonies brought by great experts in various sectors, such as neuroscientists, sociologists, neurobiologists, who have studied the brain in all its forms, how it changes in the growth of the boy and how it can be influenced by society, by models or by technology. We also thought it was right for the interventions to be short, just enough time to explain and leave much more room for questions, thus creating an important dialogue on the very principle of freedom.
Will participate: Armando Massarenti, head of the cultural supplement of Il Sole-24 Ore.
Final greetings: Marino Golinelli, president Golinelli Foundation.
The event, which will be held at Opificio Golinelli (via Nanni Costa 14).
