Offers a look at the achievements of Fulbright graduates in Israel, and within it, visitors will be able to wander between several exhibition environments, which will be located in the space of the Academy of Sciences building
The Beautiful Knowledge exhibition will open on Wednesday, June 29, in the Polonsky Academy building, at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. The exhibition, initiated by the USA-Israel Education Foundation, which administers the Fulbright programs in Israel, to mark 60 years of activity, offers a look at the achievements of Fulbright graduates in Israel, and as part of it, visitors will be able to wander between several display environments, which will be located in the space of the academy building.
According to Dr. Anat Lapidot-Pirilla, CEO of the USA-Israel Education Foundation, the desire to enrich human knowledge and bring hearts together drives the Fulbright programs around the world and the exhibition will present these values, using and focusing on the achievements of the foundation's Israeli scholars. "The exhibition emphasizes that ideas, theories and research procedures benefit from growth as cultural, geographical and even disciplinary barriers are broken down," says Dr. Lapidot-Pirilla.
Among the prominent exhibits:
"Bright" - an animated clip produced by students from the Holon Institute of Technology, follows the process of knowledge migration by tracking scientific citations. The video, based on data analysis carried out in collaboration with the ELSEVIER company, illustrates, in a giant projection, the migration and impact of articles by several scholars in the fields of science on various fields of academic research. The articles are illustrated as planets and their influence on various studies is illustrated through clusters of stars marked with colors according to the various disciplines.
In a joint installation, dealing with a selection of writers who graduated from Fulbright, among other things, "Shir in a test tube" - a translation of a poem into a DNA molecule - and items and works collected from the authors will be presented. In addition, the exhibition will feature analyzes conducted by Sinai Rossink, using computer algorithms, of literary works by poets and writers who graduated from the foundation who participated in the creative writing program in Iowa. Among the graduates of the program are many well-known names, including A. B. Yehoshua, Meir Visiltir, Aharon Maged, Roni Somek, Dorit Rabinian, Savion Liebricht, Etgar Keret, Shimon Adaf, Sami Berdugo and Dan Tselka.
A time capsule (the time capsule), jointly designed by the designers Ran Kazes, Liran Elbaz and the curator of the exhibition, Avi Muller: the capsule, created especially for the exhibition, will attempt to summarize the work of Fulbright graduates in the past and provide a forecast for the next forty years of research and creation. The materials in the capsule will be preserved, as raw material, until the time of the foundation's 100-year celebrations, which will be held in 2056. The time capsule will preserve in voice, image and objects the predictions of prominent researchers and creators, as well as the thoughts and messages of the visitors to the exhibition.
"Angle of Death" - as a special tribute to the Israeli Nobel Prize winner (and Fulbright scholar) Prof. Aharon Chachanover and his partners Avraham Hershko and Irwin Rose (who discovered the biochemical labeling mechanism used by cells to break down damaged proteins), the sculpture of the American artist Mike Tika will be displayed Tyka) a biochemist by training, who illustrates, according to the sculptor, "the beauty of the protein that is the object of research in a physical way."
Additional displays will include reference to the evolution of wheat and the "mother of wheat" and will present a selection of original items collected by Aharon Aharonson, Rivka Aharonson and their successors (on loan from the herbarium in the national nature collections at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The exhibition will include a tribute to Israel Prize laureate and Fulbright scholar, Prof. Avitar Nebo.
Prof. Hussam Hayek, a professor from the Technion's Faculty of Chemical Engineering, will present developments that have received worldwide publicity, including "an electronic nose that will enable non-invasive detection of cancer".
The exhibition will feature a "library" built in the shape of a US map and containing books chosen by Fulbright graduates. In each book, a kind of personal "reader's card" will be placed, in which there will be a mention of the inspiration and beauty of a certain field of knowledge through a quote, illustration and personal statement chosen by the scholars.
"The exhibition is an attempt to sample and give meaning to the fruits of scientific research and the literary work of Fulbright program graduates," says the curator of the exhibition, Avi Muller. "She does this while examining the relationship between knowledge and beauty and translating it into display environments, projections and objects. At the same time, the exhibition deals with an attempt to evaluate the directions of development of human knowledge in the next forty years. In this sense, the exhibition is a process in which we produce, together with the visitors, materials for the future conference that will celebrate the Fulbright Foundation's 100th anniversary in 2056. Our assessments regarding the future of knowledge, technology and art are based on the predictions of a variety of prominent scientists and a number of artists and creators, all graduates of the program . Along with the professional evaluations, we invite visitors to the exhibition to take part in the process of creating the time capsule and contribute their personal forecast along with a message to their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren."
The exhibition will be open to the general public, free of charge, between June 29 and July 13, 2016 (not including Saturdays) - between 9 am and XNUMX pm.
The US-Israel Education Fund is a binational fund financed by the governments of both countries. The foundation aims to contribute to the promotion of understanding between the two peoples, to the development of social leadership, to the encouragement of academic excellence and to the expansion of the limits of human knowledge in any way. The US-Israel Education Foundation, through the Fulbright program, encourages student and faculty exchanges between American and Israeli institutions and thus plays a significant role in promoting scientific relations, developing intellectual discourse and creating academic and social excellence.
