Distant Brains

Date & Time: January 16th 2026, 8:00pm
Duration & Language: Video 40 min (Portuguese, with English subtitles) + Roundtable 45 min (English)
Venue: Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
Free entrance with mandatory registration here

Nuno Cera is a Lisbon-based photographer and video artist. His work operates at the intersection of art and documentary and addresses three fundamental forms of change: natural, spatial and temporal. Between December 2023 and January 2024, Nuno was an artist-in-residence at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, as part of the Bridges to the unknown Art-Science residency program.

Distant Brains features a video screening (40 min, English subtitles) exploring a sequence of episodes in which robots interact with other intelligent species in different contexts - factories, universities, laboratories, and hospitals. Focusing on the contemporary interaction between robots, humans, and plants, this new artistic research by Nuno Cera is the result of a collaboration with Julia Albani and several authors - scientists, critics, and a musician - and aims to be both an archaeology and a memory of the present time, reflecting a society in transition.

The event will also include a roundtable (held in English), with the presence of curator Julia Albani, architect researcher Joana Rafael and principle investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation, Tiago Marques.

Entrance is free. More information here.