TO ICTP Scientists and Staff
Subject: Collaboration with Scuola Media Corsi on a video to
be produced by the School students with ICTP scientists and
staff.
Dear Scientists and Staff,
In the framework of the institutional outreach activities with
Trieste schools, ICTP and Scuola Media Corsi are following up
their fruitful collaboration in staging the plays Nikola
Tesla, Hypathia, Rossum's Universal Robots,
and the video Ramanujan by working together again on a
video project. The video will be shown on 12 April 2018 at the
ICTP in the Budinich Lecture Hall.
This year’s theme will be reality/virtual reality, the impacts
the digital era has on our present and future lives, the
potentials and the dangers of technology on humankind in
general.
The video will be based on a script, freely inspired by Samuel
Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and will include brief
interviews to scientists/staff conducted by the students.
Should you be interested in taking part, you may do so by
sending us a a written contribution expressing personal ideas
regarding a specific theme (the contribution will be included
in the script) or you may prefer to take part more actively by
being interviewed directly by the students. The students and
their teachers should be visiting the ICTP on 21 or 28 February
(the date will be confirmed soon) and will conduct a number of
interviews on the spot. Interviews can be held in English or
Italian, or your native language, providing an English version.
Kindly contact us by 15 February if you are interested: zmakkawi@ictp.it
We look forward to your participation!
Best regards
Zina Makkawi
N.B Links to previous performances / videos produced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfy7L9_pN0M
Hypathia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShRrjP6Qe0A (eng. ver.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Bp7KaRBGY (Itl. ver.) R.U.R https://youtu.be/nHF8FHW0sY0 (with English subtitles) https://youtu.be/vTvMFv_ZNkY (with Italian subtitles) Ramanujan http://indico.ictp.it/event/8184/material/video/ (Ramanujan)
-- Zina Makkawi (Ms) Director's Office The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Strada Costiera, 11 34151 Trieste, Italy T +39 040 2240507