Today, environmental concerns are some of the most pressing issues faced by the society. During the third Art x Science Dialogue, we’ll bring Photography x Environmental Ecology into our focus and present projects created from research laboratory to life through art and photography. We’ve invited Ms. Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi, Scientist & Researcher on Solar Energy, Founder of Compáz Studio, Mr. Lats Kladny, Co-founder of Compaz Studio and Ms. Yining He, writer and curator on photography for a collaborative dialogue.
We’ll discuss environmental ecology in the art and photography field and try to explore new possibilities by combining science, technology and photography to bring to environmental revolution in the context of globalization.
Event Rundown
18:00 Webinar Starts
18:00-18:05 Opening Remarks
(Cissy Sun – Head of Art-Science at Swissnex in China)
18:05-18:25 Presentation – Where Art and Science Meet
(Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi & Lats Kladny – Co-founders of Compáz Studio)
18:25-18:40 Presentation – From Waters to Mountains: Three Environmental Ecological Projects from Sino-Swiss Photographers
(Yining He – Writer & Curator)
18:40-19:00 Discussion, Q&A
Speakers
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Bio
Ms. Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi
Founder of Compáz StudioLaure is an accomplished scientist, as a former manager at the Photovoltaic division of CSEM, she considers herself to be a passionate and committed researcher. She is driven by studying the impact technology has on our society and how we relate to it’s ever increasing importance in our daily lives.
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Bio
Mr. Lats Kladny
Co-Founder of Compáz StudioFounding member of Compáz and Founder-CEO of Inox Communication, Lats has been a successful entrepreneur for more than 20 years. His journey is marked by many successes, both local and international by lending his talents to companies in order inform their digital transformation and to enhance their strategic positioning in a globalized world. He is a contemporary art lover, passionate about new technological innovations and emerging economical revolutions. He seeks to create an ideal world where there is a harmony of mobility, technology, good business practices and strong ethical values.
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Bio
Ms. Yining He
Writer & CuratorHe Yining (1986), curator and writer of photography, graduate of London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. In 2010, she began to work as a curator, translator, and writer specializing in photography and visual culture. Her work is principally focused on the way in which photography is able to freely straddle the boundaries of fine art, responding to and raising questions about contemporary and historical social issues through effective, diverse, and interdisciplinary means. In early 2014, He Yining launched the Go East Project, which aims to promote contemporary Chinese photography in the West through blogs, exhibitions, and publications. Yining’s exhibitions have been held in museums, art spaces, and photography festivals in China and Europe.
Institution
Compáz seeks to bring out the beauty of the environment, the interaction between man and nature, demonstrate that there is hope.
Compáz is a collective of scientific and artistic skills, an incubator of ideas that seeks to create, produce and promote projects that will assist social progress. The projects of Compáz are spaces designed to allow for questioning big ideas about society. They are spaces that allow for a growth in consciousness, a different way of looking and conceiving of the world.