The event is aimed at the CERN community and CERN Alumni and Retirees, therefore physical attendance will require having a valid CERN access card. 

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The author of the new book "Scienza Arte Tecnologia: Alleate per l'ambiente" will give a talk at the CERN Library:

Abstract:

The book SCIENZA ARTE TECNOLOGIA ALLEATE PER L'AMBIENTE written by scientists, science communicators is illustrated by art photography, published at the moment only in italian adress environmental and tecnological issues and emphasize the needs of collectives and individual actions to protect the glaciers,  forests and bees and combact plastic pollution. . The wellbeing by living in harmony with nature is obvious as the modification created by anthropogenic activities. An invitation to a dialogue with a scientist studying the glaciers, an AI  artist having scientific background,  a science communicator engaged to assess and combat plastic pollution and an art-science education promoter. 

The event will be followed by a Q&A and signing sessions. The book is available from the CERN Library & Bookshop.

About the authors: 

Kerstin Petrick, born in Baden-Baden (Germany), earned a degree in restoration from the University of Florence and a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. She has lived in Reggio Emilia since 2011. She is a communication and language teacher, artist, art curator, and designer. Her current work in AI generative art is the fruit of deep research, exploration, and intuition. She creates prompts and uses AI tools to generate artistic images. Her pioneering journey at the intersection of art and science in the evolving landscape of AI-driven creative artistic expression is illustrated in the Prinz Gallery, an online art platform she created. In 2024, she founded Contento Consulting, where she offers companies and individuals her expertise in generative AI for creative use in graphics and illustration.
Gianalberto Losapio, a PhD in Ecology from the University of Zurich and former researcher at ETH Zurich and Stanford University, is currently Professor of Botany at the University of Milan. Director of the Biodiversity Change laboratory, which studies changes in biodiversity (www.biodiversitychange.org), as expert in ecology, environment, and Alpine flora and fauna, he is particularly interested in the symbiotic interactions that are threatened by climate change.
His work has highlighted the impoverishment of biodiversity resulting from the retreat of glaciers and has been published in prestigious international journals.
 
Marilena Streit-Bianchi eit Bianchi has been working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, where she carried out research, and occupied managerial positions on safety training and technology transfer. She has been responsible for communication and exhibitions in Nairucu Arts, a non-profit Association in Mozambique. She is co-editor of books published by Springer aiming at science, art, physics and environmental education.  She has published in collaboration with Italian and Macedonian artists poems She is Vice-president of the international association ARSCIENCIA.: http://www.arsciencia.org