On the occasion of the exhibition A Leap into the Void, GAMeC, in collaboration with Accademia di belle arti G. Carrara, presents two in-depth seminars on the topics explored in the Trilogy of Matter exhibition project.

Wednesday, April 19, 6 pm
Black Holes are not permanent: Stephen Hawking’s legacy
with Gabriele Ghisellini

Gabriele Ghisellini (1956) is a research executive at INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory. Previously, he taught astronomy at Milan’s Bicocca University and published more than 450 articles in scholarly journals worldwide. He studies radiative processes, active galactic nuclei, and high energy astrophysics.


Tuesday, May 23, 6 pm
Life Without Matter
with Rebecca Allen

Rebecca Allen (1953) is a digital art pioneer who has been working with it since the early 1970s. She was the founding Chair of the Department of Design and Media Art at U.C.L.A. University in Los Angeles, where she lives, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design and MIT Boston. Combining artistic and technological study, she has been interested in the use of computers as an artistic tool to investigate the simulation of human movement and behavior, as well as artificial intelligence algorithms.

Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara, Room B1
Piazza Giacomo Carrara, 82/d – Bergamo

Free entrance

This project is made possible thanks to the support of Sorint.Lab