Distant Brains
Friday 16 January 2026
Starts 20:00 PM
Finishes 22:00 PM
Organized by Bridges to the unknown: Crossing Art with Science
Venue: Champalimaud Foundation
Address: Avenida Brasília
1400-038 Lisboa
About this event
Event featuring a video screening about robots interacting in different contexts — factories, universities and hospitals — and a roundtable.
Date & Time: January 16th 2026, 8:00pm
Venue: Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
Free entrance with mandatory registration
Nuno Cera is a Lisbon-based photographer and video artist. His work operates at the intersection of art and documentary and addresses three fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial and temporal. Between December 2023 and January 2024, Nuno was an artist-in-residence at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, as part of the Bridges to the unknown Art-Science residency program.
Distant Brains features a video screening exploring a sequence of episodes in which robots interact with other intelligent species in different contexts — factories, universities, laboratories, and hospitals. Focusing on the contemporary interaction between robots, humans, and plants, this new artistic research by Nuno Cera is the result of a collaboration with Julia Albani and several authors — scientists, critics, and a musician — and aims to be both an archaeology and a memory of the present time, reflecting a society in transition.
The event will also include a roundtable, with the presence of curator Julia Albani, architect researcher Joana Rafael and principle investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation, Tiago Marques.
Entrance is free. More information here.
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