Humanity Reimagined - Mars Opening Symposium (Part 1)

25 November 2023 (Saturday) | 2pm - 6pm

The opening symposium of Mars: The Red Mirror, explored how Mars has long captured our collective imagination and what it represents for humanity.

Speakers included Judit Carrera (Director of CCCB), Juan Insua (Curator of Mars. The Red Mirror and Former Director of CCCB Lab), Michael Najjar (German artist, adventurer and future astronaut), Venzha Christ (Indonesian media artist and Founder of HONF Foundation and ISSS – Indonesia Space Science Society), Lynette Tan (CEO and Chairwoman of Space Faculty), Dr Masaki Fujimoto (Deputy Director General of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at JAXA), Dr Roy Ang (Scientist at Genome Institute of Singapore’s Laboratory of Biodiversity Genomics), Geneviève Galliano (Chief Curator of Department of Antiquities at Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon), and more.

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Timeline:
00:00 Opening Remarks by Honor Harger (Vice President, Attractions and ArtScience Museum)
05:18 Remarks by Judit Carrera (Director of Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona)
10:43 Juan Insua (Curator of Mars: The Red Mirror and Former Director of CCCB Lab) on the curatorial narratives of Mars
31:13 Dimitris Kontopoulos (Senior Producer, ArtScience Museum) on the evolved iteration of the exhibition at ArtScience Museum
54:29 Geneviève Galliano (Chief Curator of Department of Antiquities at Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon) on Western artefacts which survey Mars’ place in the human imagination
1:07:30 Rachel Wong (Assistant Curator, Public Programmes, ArtScience Museum) on science fiction films that imagine what life could be like beyond Earth
1:23:15 Q&A moderated by Chelsea Chye (Assistant Curator, ArtScience Museum)