An art & science festival for our youngest audiences. Together with Leiden University and Boerhaave Museum our young visitors will be able to experiment, learn and play with many installations provided and accompanied by researchers from Leiden University.
BRAVE NEW WORLD is an annual Art & Science conference for people who want to know what the future holds in store and how this will affect their work and life.
On Saturday, September 14, the art and knowledge festival Nacht van Ontdekkingen (Night of Discoveries) will take place at the Academy Building of Leiden University, the Hortus Botanicus, PJ Veth, and the Old Observatory.
Lecture on the observation of black holes. What does a black hole look like? Half a century before observational images of black holes were released, physicists used calculations and simulations of what they thought the environment of black holes would look like.
Discover the newest performers on stage. Audience, robots, AI and other creatures eand critters are all playing their part in this interactive expo by students, alumni and resarchers of Leiden University.
As part of the ALL ACCESS expo, the installation SMILE will be on display in the Pieterskerk. This tech-art installation transforms audience portraits into flawless replicas, engaging viewers in an uncanny dialogue with AI.
The second edition of Beyond the Canvas will be held on September 11th at the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden. This event is specially designed for artists who are eager to delve into the dynamic intersection of art and science.
This unique traveling mini-exhibition from Canada uses interactive activities, games, and videos to explain the core concepts of quantum information science and technology—from superposition to cryptography—and how it can further shape the future of our world.
Dr. Agi Haines is an internationally exhibiting practitioner, researcher and lecturer whose research looks at the propensity for design to reevaluate the nature of the material of the body in the face of nascent biomedical and healthcare technologies.
RUMOR is an interactive installation that creates a collective future out of a compilation of individual dreams. Visitors are invited through an interactive audio experience to imagine and voice their best possible future.
Scientist Oppenheimer leads the secret Manhattan Project during World War II, where he and a group of scientists attempt to develop the atomic bomb. This will drastically and permanently change the world.
When Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma, he wakes up in a completely different world. A dangerous virus that turns people into killer creatures has infected nearly the entire population within 28 days: it's up to a handful of survivors to save themselves.
On September 10th the Science Cafe Leiden has an event, "The Siege of Leiden in 1574". The author Olaf van Nimwegen will discuss the significance of the siege of Leiden in the context of the early years of the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648).
On September 14, a panel discussion on the future of culture and science in Europe will be held in Leiden, in cooperation with the European Parliament.
Curved Sounds is an interactive audiovisual experience that sonifies Lissajous curves: curves formed by combining two perpendicular sine waves, with their harmonic frequencies determining the resulting patterns.
The Transmission of Anthony: The Green Chapel - Hortus (Viktoriakas) (ROEM)