Dear Spectrites,
It is with great pleasure that we'll welcome you on
September 23rd to this LASER Paris special Roots & Seeds XXI
with *Amandine Cornille, Marjolijn Dijkman, Marc-Williams
Debono.*
Registration is now open (still free, but still need for
registration)
All the info below
Annick Bureaud
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*"Next To My Tree ..."*
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*LASER Paris Meeting*
/special "Roots & Seeds XXI"/
//
*Thursday 23rd Septembre 2021*
*Cité internationale des arts*
(Auditorium)
*18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville*
*75004 Paris*
19h00 - 21h30
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http://www.olats.org/
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*with **Amandine Cornille, Marjolijn Dijkman, Marc-Williams
Debono*
Free admission in the limit of available seats, registration
required
(https://tinyurl.com/4cfttf82)
*/Wearing a mask and sanitary pass are mandatory /*/(an ID
may be requested)./
and we start on time!
LASER Paris takes place in French but Marjolijn Dijkman
presentation is in English (not translated).
Some species are more attractive to us than others. Whether
we like it or not, we have a hierachy of the Living. Until
recently, animals took precedence over plants. Today plants
have reclaimed their place and are at the heart of
innumerable scientific researches, artistic creations,
discourses and theories. Some, however, are more desirable
to us than others. The Tree is one of those emblematic
plants that we are highly attracted to. It is one of the
common threads of this LASER Meeting which is part of the
European project Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity crisis and
plant resistance of which Leonardo / Olats is a partner.
*Programme*
*> **Amandine Cornille*/Researcher laboratory "Quantitative Genetics and Evolution"
//- Le Moulon" (University Paris-Saclay - INRAE - CNRS -
AgroParisTech)///// "The Travel of a Tree" about the research *The
tribulations of the apple tree cultivated in Eurasia: a
complex history of domestication and towards a reasoned
conservation of its wild relatives***
In the beginning was the apple. Ours, those that we find in
the markets and in our stores, are the distant descendants
of the same species of apple tree native to far away Asia.
From wild, it became domestic and multiplied its varieties,
helped in this by generations of humans. Domesticated and
wild apple trees now face new threats.
Amandine Cornille and her team combine laboratory
experimentation, field experiments, as well as genomics and
population genetics to understand the impact of climate
change and the emergence of new pests on fruit trees. This
research aims at the reasoned conservation of wild species
related to domesticated fruit trees, in particular through a
conservatory, experimental and educational orchard of wild
apple trees on the Saclay plateau.
*>**Marjolijn Dijkman**,*Artist// "Disappearance" about the
project */Between the Lines/* (Presentation in English, not
translated)
There are traumatized lands, in which the violence of humans
between themselves is inscribed. Eastern France and its war
fronts is one of them, which still contains a toxic arsenal.
The pine forests that were planted there after the First
World War as compensation and to neutralize a territory that
had become dangerous are now subject to the combined effects
of climate change and the attack of an insect (/Ips
Typographus/) which destroy them.
With /Between the Lines/, Marjolijn Dijkman combines field
research, data analysis, biotechnology and research for a
vaccine against the disease caused by the insect, and
artificial intelligence to draw the monumental outlines of
the impact of climate change and the beetle on the pine
forests in the disrupted landscapes of the 'Red Zone' of
North-East France.
*>**Marc-Williams Debono**,*/Neuroscientist,/ /in charge of
the/ /Art & Science Section of the Collectif Culture 91 ///
"Relation" around the topic *Art & Science : A Sensitive
intelligence.*
Relation between plants of the same species, between plants
of different species, between different species. Living
beings never exist alone and all living beings have the
means to apprehend, perceive, interpret and act on / in
their environment, with "others".
Science opens up to another understanding of plants and art
approaches plants in a thousand other ways than the
canonical botanical illustration. The two enrich each other.
Based on scientific observations and his research on the
electrogenic and cognitive nature of the relations between
plants and the environment as well as on his experience of
art-science collaborations and projects, Marc-Williams
Debono questions the role of relational intelligences and
the return of the sensitive to contemporary
transdisciplinary practices in art & science, as well as the
cultural mutations they generate.
Moderator: Annick Bureaud
Initiated by Leonardo/ISAST(www.leonardo.info
<http://www.leonardo.info/>), *LASER (Leonardo Art Science
Evening Rendez-vous*) (www.leonardo.info/laser
<http://www.leonardo.info/laser>) is the *sharing of
experiences* about *art-science projects* in *semi-formal*
meetings outside the institutional format.
The LASER Paris Meeting of September 23rd 2021 is
co-organized by*Leonardo/Olats *(www.olats.org) and *La
Diagonale Paris-Saclay
*(http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr) with the support
of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
(https://www.fondationcarasso.org/
<https://www.fondationcarasso.org/>) and the Creative Europe
Programme of the Eurpean Union, in collaboration with the
*Cité internationale des arts
*(https://www.citedesartsparis.net/
<https://www.citedesartsparis.net/>) and the *Laboratory
TEAMeD* of *Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University* and
the *Research University School ArTeC.***
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The LASER Paris Meeting of September 23rd 2021 is organised
as part of the *"Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity crisis and
plant resistance"*project and receives as such a support
from the Creative Europe progamme of the European Union.
"Roots & Seeds XXI" partners, Quo Artis (lead), Ars
Electronica, Leonardo/Olats, University of Barcelona, in
collaboration with the Botanical Institut Barcelona.
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