Maltese and Viennese artists recently met University of Malta scientists in the run up to the Science in the City festival happening on September 28 in Valletta.
The artists and scientists will be working together to transform Valletta through a number of scientific and artistic projects planned for the festival.
They will be creating a large computer mouse that can be driven around Valletta, high-tech augmented reality art works, and transforming our ideas of carbon, the human body and our history – more to be revealed later.
The project has been nearly two years in the making, with Virgil Widrich and Nemanja Popadic from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna collaborating with professor Vince Briffa, Edward Duca and Angele Galea from the University of Malta, supported by the Valletta 2018 Foundation.
Artists Daniela Brill Estrada and Lala Nomada met archaeologist John Betts who combines drone technology with ancient sites, and molecular chemist David Magri with his Lab-on-a-chip technology.
Artist Michael Bachhofer met neuroscientist Nowell Zammit and game AI researcher Georgios Yannakakis, whose research inspired a Black Mirror episode.
Artists Matyou Galea and Matthew Attard met researcher Vanessa Camilleri who created an AR experience highlighting autism, and cognitive scientist Ian Thornton who studies how the brain represents information that changes over time.
The Science in the City – European Researchers’ Night festival, is organised by the
University of Malta, the Research Trust of the University of Malta and the Malta Chamber of Scientists together with a large number of partners.