The first festival for science and art in Berlin will transport its visitors into a parallel world between disciplines, inviting you to experience science from a new perspective. The theme of this year’s 4-day STATE Experience Science Festival is “Time”. What is time? How does it influence our lives? Over 60 international scientists and artists will present their interpretation of the festival theme in installations, films, performances, talks, workshops and panel discussions. The language of the festival will be English.
Film screening “The Creeping Garden” at PLATOON Kunsthalle
28 and 29 October, 21:00 - 22:20, Schönhauser Allee 9, 10119 Berlin
Join the European premiere of the film “The Creeping Garden” by British filmmaker Tim Graham - a surreal view of a genus of peculiar organisms and the scientists and artists who have dedicated their lives to it.
British speakers and artists at Alte Münze
Julian Barbour: Time's Arrow and the Big Bang - 1 November, 15:00 - 15:45
Time marches on. But we’re not exactly sure why. Under the quantum laws that govern the subatomic world, time could flow in either direction. The famous second law of thermodynamics – i.e. over time, entropy (disorder) increases – argues for a direction of flow, but this doesn’t hold up against our observations of a highly ordered universe. Julian Barbour will discuss these problems and talk about his latest work on gravity and the arrow of time.
Luke Jones: Alterations In The Perception of Time - 1 November, 18:00 - 18:45
Our childhood summers seemed to stretch on forever but now slip by so fast. Heart-stopping moments unravel as if in slow motion, but we barely even noticed this morning’s commute to work. How do our brains measure the passage of time? What makes it speed up or slow down? And what does subjective “brain-time” influence our experience?
Alistair McClymont: Artist - 31 October and 1 November
Unix Time - Projection & application for iOS
Unix Timeshows a 24-hour time lapse of the sky, with one minute of real time taking one second. A long number is overlayed on the sky showing the current time in unix time, the number of seconds since midnight, 1st January 1970.
Leap Seconds - Photoseries
Leap Second is a series of artworks showing the 25 leap seconds that have been added to our time so far. Leap seconds are added occasionally due to the earth gradually slowing down, primarily due to the tides.
Tickets
Main event: Two-Day-Pass
- €45 Supporter
- €24 Regular
- €18 Reduced
Film Festival: One-Day-Pass
- €15 Supporter
- €8 Regular
- €6 Reduced