A November 4, 2024 ArtSci Salon notice (received via email and visible here, along with some embedded images, for a limited time) announces a series of events and a book launch,

Fall 2024 has brought us climate and political uncertainty. In November, we bring you some food for thought: join us at these events to reflect on uncertainty, shapeshifting Matter, Unstable Universes and Viral Phenomena .

Mark Your calendars on November 14, November 18 and November 21
see details below (in reverse chronological order)

Shapeshifting Matter for an Unstable Universe
artist talk and discussion with 
Daniela Brill Estrada 
Thursday, November 21, [2024]
5:30-7:30 pm
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science

Shapeshifting matter for an unstable universe is an in-disciplinary artistic project that challenges taxonomies and categories that divide nature into different boxes, not allowing bodies to exist freely, simply as part of the shapeshifting matter that inhabits this universe. The research tackles topics from astrophysics to origin of life research, and is based on daniela’s own experiences in understanding her own existence outside of these categories.

DANIELA BRILL ESTRADA is and artist and researcher from Bogotá based in vVenna [?]. inspired by origin of life research and astrobiology, she explores chemical trajectories, particularly those based on carbon. Currently, Daniela is an artist in residence at the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] institute and at the University at Buffalo, and a PhD candidate at the art x science school for transformation in Linz, Austria.

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Join us at Celebrate Research Week and
ORIHI launch (Osler Centre Institute for Health Innovation)  

November 18, 2024 
1. 11:00 am -12:00 pm
Opening of Art and Science Exhibition with Daniela Brill Estrada and others
2. 2:00-3:30 pm
Discussion and artist talk with Daniela Brill Estrada and Roberta Buiani

Osler Centre Institute for Health Innovation
Brampton Civic Hospital Atrium 
2100 Bovaird Drive
East Brampton, ON L6R 3J7

Stay tuned for the the link to the Hybrid Event
see more information and full program below

Click Here to see program and to register

Book Launch
Viral Behaviors
by Roberta Buiani

Bloomsbury Visual Arts 
part of the series Biotechné. Interthinking Art, Science, and Design

Discussion and Q&A
Thursday November 14
5:00-7:00 pm
D.G. Ivey Library
20 Willcocks Street
Toronto

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In a new era of global virology that requires novel methodologies to improve the comprehension of viruses and viral phenomena, Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viruses and viral phenomena.

The book contains a decade of research across art, science and technology and examines the struggles and successes of science and technology to tame the elusive nature and behavior of viruses, and the potential of art-based and cross-disciplinary collaborations to better communicate their complex making and intense entanglement with the world at large. Combining perspectives from art, philosophy, science and technology, it places biological and informational viruses alongside each other, revealing that, while the two types of agents affect the world in very different ways, their histories and manifestations contain surprising similarities that speak to a cultural continuum.

Find more information HERE

The book can be also borrowed from the University of Toronto Library and York University Library.
don’t forget to tell your library to get a copy!

I wonder why they’re using the US spelling for ‘behaviours’. Leaving that aside, I’m sure it’s possible to enjoy one or more of the events and/or the book.