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'Biophotologia' - Photography exhibition

 As part of the Dublin City of Science Festival 2012, former UCD researcher and freelance photographer Pablo Rojas will be hosting a photography exhibition at UCD Conway Institute, running from November 23rd to 30th 2012. The opening ceremony will take place on Friday, November 23rd 2012 at 4pm followed by a short lecture about his work.

'Biophotologia' explores the elusive interplay between science and art by discovering their common matters of contention and working means. The exhibition portrays the imaginative process shared by both disciplines where the conventional frontiers between them can no longer be detected. The work is characterised by a subtle depiction of these differences and the productive tension that results from their constant friction.

The exhibition will include a wide variety of artworks, including photographs from the ZoonosisArt initiative showcased at Science Gallery, Trinity College and the EU Week for Veterinary Medicine, and a set of Anaglyphs illustrating the “FISH” diagnostic technique exhibited at the History of Medicine Museum in Berlin. The exhibition will also feature a series of human portraits created in an aesthetic experiment between volunteers and bacterial biofilm images, and several videos that creatively re-imagine diagnostics. The event will be accompanied by a short presentation entitled "Progressive synergism between photography and microbiology, an aesthetic approach". More information about 'Biophotologia' can be found at: www.biophotologia.com

Artist Biography:
Pablo Rojas is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University in Berlin and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biotechnology and a Masters  of Science in Bacterial Epidemiology from the School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD. He also studied photography at university and has been collaborating with other artists and working as a freelance photographer for the last eight  years. His scientific career has taken him on a journey across several continents, from South, Central and North America to Eastern Europe and the UK. His images are currently being used by a diverse number of prestigious scientific and political bodies, including the Wellcome Trust, FAO, the Government of Ecuador, various NGOs, UCD Research, and The Health Research Board in Ireland. His work is characterized by its constant emphasis of the very thin, fluctuating line that “divides” art and science. Recently, three of his projects have been selected and exhibited by the Centre for Contemporary Art in his hometown of Quito, Ecuador. Find out more about the work from Pablo Rojas at www.dadafoto.com