TURNING SCIENCE AND DATA INTO COMICS
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1/1-1 - Aula "A. Rostagni"
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia - Edificio Marzolo
An internationally renowned comic artist will show how to translate technical and data-driven knowledge into compelling narrative art.
Did you know that comics could also be a great way to organize and disseminate difficult scientific, historical and journalistic information in a clearer and more impactful format? In this talk, we will look at the basic procedure of creating such a work from beginning to end, following a series of suggested guidelines that simplify the process with a focus on collaboration between scientist and artist.
Omar Khouri is a multi- and interdisciplinary artist working with painting, comics, film, video games and music, to name a few. In 2006, he co-founded Samandal Comics, the first experimental comics collective in the Middle East. He He is co-author and illustrator of the first graphic report to be included in an official UN Human Rights report. He lives and works in North Lebanon.
This seminar is supported by the Italian Ministry for University, PRIN grant 2022HSKLK9, CUP C53D23000740006, “Unveiling the role of low dimensional activity manifolds in biological and artificial neural networks” and through Mnesys: Spoke 2, Grant “Insights