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 are visiting the ICTP on 21 February  and on this occasion 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 19 April if you are interested: zmakkawi@ictp.it  and Valerio Capellini valerio@ictp.it

We look forward to your participation!

Best regards,

Zina Makkawi


N.B Links to previous performances / videos produced:

Tesla:

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)

 
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Zina Makkawi (Ms)
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