I had the pleasure of showing a little bit of our work on porous media flows to the French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau and the Ambassadress of France in Norway Florence Robine. They came for a visit to our group Njord at the University of Oslo to work on the opportunities for scientific collaboration between Norway and France. Both the Minister and the Ambassadress have background in physics and it really was super interesting to chat with them!

In collaboration with the art curator Mirela Vladuci, we worked on the development of sci-art project that culminated in the opening of the exhibition 𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 - 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 (video above, turn on captions, booklet here and press release here). The exhibition is hosted by the MV Sci-Art center in Timisoara, Romania and happens in the context of Timisoara being chosen as the 2023 European Capital of Culture. Marcel Moura and Alex Hansen collaborated with artists and scientists from Norway and Romania in this project. Marcel Moura also contributed with two experimental models turned into art pieces that are now in display at the exhibition. The works entitled “Porous Hypnosis 1” and “All roads are porous” allow visitors to interact with the systems and get a feeling for the intermittent dynamics characteristic of porous media flows.

You can read more about the POROUS MATTER Sci-Art exhibition here.