EVENTS


2021

SPECULATING “INTERDISCIPLINARY” FRAMEWORKS
Artist showcase at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China


BIOPHILIC CITIES @ PIONEER WORKS, SECOND SUNDAYS
Creative science showcase exploring new language, imagery, and design interventions to activate our sensory relationship to nature within our cities and daily lives.


RESIDENCIES


2021

BLUE CABLES IN VENETIAN WATERCOURSE
Online transdisciplinary residency hosted by the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.


KINGDOM SUPERCULTURES A.I.R.
Artist residency focused on microbial culture design and fermentation, hosted by Kingdom Supercultures.



ARTIST TALKS


ART AND SCIENCE SALON 
Inaugural art and science salon hosted at Columbia University Systems Biology Lab. These open, informal dialogues are aimed at facilitating more (and more interesting) collaborative work between artists and scientists. Salon talks provide a context for peer-peer relationships, development of shared language, and exploration of concrete avenues for collaboration.


RADICAL EVOLUTION
Presentations with NEW INC’s Science Sandbox-funded Creative Science Track, which explores scientific topics through art, speculative design, multispecies environments, technology, and more. Moderated by Janna Levin, internationally celebrated astrophysicist, author, PBS presenter & Founding Director of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works, along with Science Sandbox Program Officers John Tracey & Ivvet Modinou.


TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE
IN ART & SCIENCE

Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by University of Applied Arts Vienna, focuses (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

MATERIAL METAMORPHOSIS 
Pratt Institute, MFA Fine Arts


PROGRAMMING


GUEST LECTURE SERIES


SIMULATED LIFE SPRING 2021
Annelie Berner and Monika Seyfried  Artist, researcher
Yasaman Sheri Design director, researcher
Anna Ridler Artist, researcher

FLUID MACHINES FALL 2020
Ivan Henriques Artist, researcher
Saša Spačal Post-media artist
Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson Artists

HYPERNATURAL STUDIO SPRING 2020
Christina Agapakis Biologist, writer, artist
Piero D’Angelo Fasion and textile designer
Michael Sedbon Artist, interaction designer
Candace Thompson (The C.U.R.B.) Artist
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin Artist
Serena Chang Artist, fabricator
Jiwei Zhou Design engineer, researcher
Andrea Ling Designer, researcher, architect
Pei-ying Lin Interdisciplinary artist and designer
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