PINT OF SCIENCE FESTIVAL
19-21 MAY 2025
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The final event of Pint of Science 2024 at Belgaleiro brings together both science and art. Here our experts explore how art has impacted their scientific research, and what it could mean for the future.
Let’s not confuse the eye of the artist with the eye of the doctor
Jan Van Eijgen
PhD Researcher
KU Leuven
Wearing both an artistic as a medical identity privileged me to experience the effect of my method in their respective context. While science is art for the scientist and art is a form of science for the artist, neither is right. In this little talk I’ll speak about my own experiences, regarding the inherent value of the artistic and how there remained an intrinsic and obligatory split between those two. I’ll touch upon a future guideline where a certain, however small, distinction will prove its value.
Black Hole Imaging: from abstract equation to art
Annelien Vekemans
PhD Researcher
KU Leuven
In my talk, I will explain how one can use Einstein's equations of relativity to generate pictures of black holes and see how the background will get warped by gravity. I will compare these computer-generated pictures to the famous scene in the movie Interstellar, and explain how the producers of Interstellar managed to make it look so realistic. After my talk, the audience will have the chance to see what they would look like if they were to stand behind a black hole (without actually creating a real black hole...).
