The KRTU (depending from the Ministry of Culture, Generalitat de Catalunya); the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture (depending from the University of Girona and the City Council of Figueres); #Artnodes (depending from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya); and the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation of Figueres are pleased to invite you to the international meeting Dalí: New Frontiers of Science, Art and Thought, which will take place on the 2 and 3 of November 2004 at the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation of Figueres and at the 'El Jardí de Figueres' Municipal Theatre.
This international encounter intends to bring to light some of the up-to-date investigations on the relations between art and science, and to debate on the reflections that presents the new alliance among art, science and technology in the contemporary thought, in relation with the work of the painter and writer from the empordà.
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) perhaps was one of the 20th century artists really interested in the science and the scientific thought. For all is known its fascination for the psychoanalysis, the theory of relativity, the discovery of the chain of the DNA, the math or the nuclear physics, that has remained reflected in his literary and artistic work.
In November of 1985 was celebrated in the Theater- Museum Dalí of Figueres the encounter "process to chance", directed by Jorge Wagensberg, that met, in the presence of Dalí, scientifics and thinkers as P.T. Landsberg, G. Ludwig, R. TOM, E. Schatzman, R. Margalef and I. Prigogine, to reflect on the irreversible processes, cosmology, theory of catastrophes, artificial intelligence, biological evolution or on the debate around determinism and liberty.
Whitin the framework of the Dalí Year, the international encounter "Dalí. New frontiers of science, art and the thought" will recall the encounter of "Process al chance" and will invite to an open debate on the future of the relations between art and science, with the participation of prominent personalities of science, thought and contemporary creation.
