LASER Talks in New York City | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

LASER Talks in New York City

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LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) is Leonardo/ISAST's international program of evening gatherings that brings artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations.

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CHAIRS: Ellen Levy and Patricia Olynyk

NY LASER is a series of lectures and presentations on art and science projects, in support of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF initiative (Leonardo Education and Art Forum).  Former LEAF Chairs, Ellen K. Levy, former IDSVA Special Advisor in the Arts and Sciences and Patricia Olynyk, Director, Graduate School of Art, Washington University co-direct these presentations to promote dialogue at the highest level among artists, scientists, scholars, and historians. Space is limited, so please rsvp by sending an email to levy@nyc.rr.com or olynyk@wustl.edu. There will be feature presentations by Christine Davis, Patricia Olynyk, and Meredith Tromble.


Christine Davis is a Canadian artist and editor based in NYC. She is co-founder of the international journal PUBLIC: Art/ Culture/ Ideas. Davis will discuss her 16 year project, “Knowledge of Life (or the imagination is a function without an organ). Through a process of “speculative infection,” as the artist describes her method, a nineteenth-century edition of Euclid’s Elements has been collaged to create a series of recombinant panels. The work is an anti-opera for turbulent times, exploring  the ever shifting tension between wonder and alienation. In the words of film scholar Olivier Asselin: “Davis’ work establishes a link between artistic abstraction and scientific abstraction…[F]orm is chaotic; it is one of those complex phenomena, like climate change and liquid turbulence, which are determinate, but non-linear, and, as a result, remain largely unpredictable. 

 

Patricia Olynyk is Chair of the Graduate School of Art at Washington University, an artist, and a writer. Her work investigates science and technology related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of science, human life, and the natural world. Working across disciplines, she frequently collaborates with scientists, humanists, cinematographers, and industry specialists. Many of her multimedia environments call upon the viewer to expand their awareness of the worlds they inhabit—whether those worlds are their own bodies or the spaces that surround them. Olynyk will discuss her current work in Umwelt, a three-person exhibition at BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, including The Mutable Archive, a multi-layered performance video project that explores the fictitious foundations of human taxonomy. 

 

Meredith Tromble is an artist and writer based in California who is working internationally, often in collaborations. She is known for a wide-ranging oeuvre mingling images, text, and performance. In 2008, Tromble embarked on an ongoing artist residency at the Complexity Sciences Center at the University of California, Davis which has fueled multiple exhibitions, and performances including an evening-length dance performance with the Los Angeles company Donna Sternberg & Dancers and a long-term collaboration with geobiologist Dawn Sumner making art with interactive 3-D visualization technology developed for scientific research. Their collaboration and related artworks by Tromble, currently on view in the Umwelt exhibition at BioBAT Art Space, will be the focus of her presentation.

 

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NY LASER is a series of lectures and presentations on art and science projects, in support of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF initiative (Leonardo Education and Art Forum). Former LEAF Chairs Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk co-organize these presentations on behalf of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively.

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. LASER Talks were founded in 2008 by Bay Area LASER Chair Piero Scaruffi and are in over 30 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website

The mission of the LASERs is to provide the general public with a snapshot of the cultural environment of a region and to foster interdisciplinary networking.

When
November 3rd, 2019 from  4:00 PM to  7:00 PM