October 24, 2019

Free Radicals Art Science Symposium

November 9 and 10 at ArtCenter College of Design

 

Artists and scientists set to explore robotics, space science, botany, augmented and virtual reality, and museology

The Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter College of Design, Fulcrum Arts and Pitzer College Art Galleries will present Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe, a symposium on Saturday, November 9, and Sunday, November 10, at ArtCenter’s Hillside campus, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, Calif. 91103. The event is free with RSVP.

Free Radicals brings artists and scientists together for a two-day program of artist talks, performances, and panel conversations to present an array of diverse viewpoints and approaches to understanding the phenomenon of “awe” through the lens of art and science.

Robotics, space science, botany, augmented and virtual reality, and museology, will all be addressed and positioned within a greater conversation that recognizes the allied importance of both the arts and the sciences to the dynamic tenor of our time.

The symposium is a program of Fulcrum Arts’ AxS (art + science) initiative and LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) and Leonardo/ISAST’s international program of gatherings.

Theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin will deliver a keynote presentation. The symposium will feature presentations by Rana Adhikari, Bill Anthes, I.R. Bach, Nancy Baker Cahill, Beatriz Cortez, Ciara Ennis, Tom Hall, Ian Ingram, Karen Lofgren, Kyle McDonald, Rebeca Méndez, Chris Parks, Archie Prakash, Brittany Ransom, Christopher Richmond, Sasha Simochina, Jana Winderen, The World in a Cell and Jenny Yurshansky.

Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe is made possible with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pasadena Art Alliance, the City of Pasadena, and LACMA Art & Technology Lab.

Symposium Schedule

Saturday, November 9
10:00am Welcome Brunch
10:50am Stephen Nowlin – Opening Remarks
11:00am Janna Levin – Keynote
11:40am I.R. Bach – Artist Talk
12:20pm Jana Winderen – Artist Talk and Quadraphonic Sound Dispersion
12:50pm Lunch (the cafeteria will be open)
02:00pm Kyle McDonald – Artist Talk
02:40pm AR/VR Panel with Sasha Samochina, Nancy Baker Cahill, The World in a Cell, moderated by Archie Prakash
03:50pm Christopher Richmond – Artist Talk and Screening of Viewing Stone
05:00pm Day 1 concludes

Sunday, November 10
10:00am Coffee
10:30am Chris Parks – Fluid Films Screening
11:00am Rana Adhikari – Science Presentation
11:40am Rebeca Méndez – Artist Talk
12:20pm Tom Hall – Artist Talk and Quadraphonic Audio Visual Performance
12:50pm Lunch (the cafeteria will be open)
02:00pm Botanic Potentials– Panel Discussion with Beatriz Cortez, Karen Lofgren, and Jenny Yushansky, moderated by Ciara Ennis
03:10pm Robotics Panel with Ian Ingram and Brittany Ransom, moderated by Bill Anthes.
04:10pm Reception
05:00pm Day 2 concludes

Schedule is subject to change

About the Presenters

Janna Levin

Janna Levin is the Director of Sciences and Chair of the Science Studios at Pioneer Works. She is also the Claire Tow Professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. A Guggenheim Fellow, Janna has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the presenter of the NOVA feature Black Hole Apocalypse, aired on PBS—this first female presenter for NOVA in 35 years. Her previous books include How the Universe Got Its Spots and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines , which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. Her latest book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space , is the inside story on the discovery of the century: the sound of spacetime ringing from the collision of two black holes over a billion years ago.
http://jannalevin.com/

Rana Adhikari

Rana Adhikari is an experimental physicist with interests in fundamental physics including tests of gravity and quantum mechanics. His group focuses on techniques for precision measurement as related to gravitational wave detection, measurements of short scale gravity, and bounds on quantum mechanics at the macroscopic scale using precision opto-mechanics.
https://labcit.ligo.caltech.edu/~rana/

Bill Anthes

Bill Anthes is a professor in the Art Field Group at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. With a background in studio art, art history and the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, he teaches and writes about art in terms of multimedia practice and intercultural and interspecies exchange. His current research focuses on global indigenous modern and contemporary art in the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, decolonial methodologies for art history in settler nations such as the United States, Canada, South African, Australia, and New Zealand, and artistic engagements with animals and nonhuman nature. He is author of the books Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960 (Duke University Press, 2006) and Edgar Heap of Birds (Duke University Press, 2015). He is also contributing author to the textbook Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice, by Rebekah Modrak (Routledge, 2010). He has received fellowships and awards from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University, the Rockefeller Foundation/Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal American Indian Quarterly.
https://billanthes.com/

I.R. Bach

I.R. Bach is a multidisciplinary artist and a philosopher specializing in electronic media. He has created many visual installations and site-specific proposals using sound and music. His work is characterized by a variety of means, what he calls experiential art. In I Want to Know, his recent exhibition at LACMA, Bach worked with mirrors, optics, and other surveillance technology to pursue a work that both examined and mimicked a mysterious encounter the artist experienced while camping in a mountain range in Mexico. Visitors to LACMA were able to view a light drawing composed of three points of light emanating from a distant mountain. Bach was a 2016 LACMA Art & Technology grant recipient.
https://www.nachorodriguezbach.com/2016-onwards

Nancy Baker Cahill

Nancy Baker Cahill is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of fine art, new media and activism. She is the Founder and Creative Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) public art platform exploring resistance and inclusive creative expression. She initiated “Coordinates,” an ongoing series of collaborative, site-specific AR public art exhibitions, including Defining Line along the LA river, and Battlegrounds in New Orleans. She is the recipient of an ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, and was a 2019 nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Baker Cahill was a featured 2018 TEDx speaker in Pasadena, was recently profiled in a 2019 Bloomberg Media Art and Technology short documentary, and received an “Impact Maker to Watch” award at LA City Hall. She is an international public speaker and was a participating artist in the 2019 Desert X Biennial.

Solo exhibition highlights include the Pasadena Museum of California Art, her Virtual Reality (VR) public art project on the IF (Innovation Foundation) sponsored Sunset Digital Billboards, a VR/AR event at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), and Boston CyberArts. She has been profiled by Forbes Magazine, ARTnews, Fast Company, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Art Newspaper, VRScout, ZDNet, Artsy, the Los Angeles Times, KCET’s award-winning “Artbound” series, Aesthetica, Good Magazine, LA Magazine, The Boston Globe, LA Weekly, La Stampa, Peripheral Vision Arts and on several podcasts, including Voices of VR, Feminist Crush, No Proscenium, Bookish, and State of the Art. She has spearheaded and participated in multiple collaborative community engagement projects in Los Angeles and other cities. She served for years as a member of the Hollywood Public Art Advisory Board, is an Advisory Board member of Fulcrum Arts and is the current Chair of the Board of Directors at LACE.
https://nancybakercahill.com/

Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez (b. 1970, San Salvador, El Salvador; lives and works in Los Angeles) has lived in the United States since 1989. She received an MFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts in 2015, and a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University in 1999. Cortez’s work explores simultaneity, life in different temporalities, and different versions of modernity, particularly in relation to memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of migration, and in relation to imagining possible futures. She has had solo exhibitions at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Clockshop, Los Angeles (2018); Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles (2016); Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador (2014); and Museo Municipal Tecleño (MUTE), El Salvador (2012). Selected group exhibitions have included her work at Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, China (2017); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador (2016); and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016). Cortez has received an Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts (2019), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2018), the Artist Community Engagement Grant (2017), and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2016). Her work is currently on view as part of the Chronos, Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space exhibition at the Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas at the Queens Museum, New York; The Autotopographers at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX. She teaches in the Department of Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge. Beatriz Cortez is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.
https://beatrizcortez.com

Ciara Ennis

Ciara Ennis has taught and been director and curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries. While there she has curated dozens of exhibitions including Racial Imaginary, a visual art corollary to the book of the same name by MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine, as well as exhibitions by Andrea Bowers, Mark Dion, and Charles Gaines. Last year she co-curated Juan Downey: Radiant Nature (2017) as part of the Getty Pacific Standard Time’s far-reaching initiative exploring the relationship between Los Angeles and Latin America. While Downey is primarily known for his post-1975 pioneering video work, this exhibition focused on three early bodies of work: Electronic Sculptures, Happenings & Performances, and Life Cycle installations, made between 1967 and 1974, which had not been seen or experienced for decades. This exhibition was followed by, Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal (2018) for which she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, Ennis has been a panelist/moderator/guest speaker for the American Studies Association, the International Sculpture Conference, the AAMG conference, the California Community Foundation, the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, and most recently, the Victoria and Albert Museum. Ennis has an PhD in Cultural Studies; her current research explores the appropriation of Wunderkammer tactics in contemporary exhibition and curatorial practice.

Tom Hall

Tom Hall is an Australian audio/visual artist, residing in Los Angeles. His practice involves exploration into space and time, inspired by peripheral environments found in the everyday. Hall uses multiple approaches to engage and recontextualize these spaces through sound and imagery, translating and creating hybrid environments and temporal translations. These outcomes include elements of drone, melody, found sound, glitch and installation; portrayed using analog and digital synthesis, computer programming and reactionary visuals.

Hall has released a number of recordings in the past two decades on labels such as Elli, Overlap, Arlen, and Presto!? along with exhibitions and live AV tours worldwide. Hall also works as a Content Developer for the revered Cycling ’74, creators of the visual programming language Max/MSP & Jitter.
http://tomhall.com.au/

Ian Ingram

Ian Ingram is a Los Angeles-based artist who is interested in the human-made body's future as a willful entity and the nature of communication. He builds robotic objects that borrow facets from animal form and behavior, from the shapes and movements of machines, and from our stories about animals.

The resulting works–often intended to cohabitate and interact with the animals in their own places–explore our relationship with non-human animals, behavior and object performance as artistic media, and the interface between the built and the grown.

The work is playful, humorous even, but is cloaked in mock seriousness. Under the seriousness, is the humor. Under the humor is gravity. It is an open-faced sandwich built on aspirational profundity.

Ingram has exhibited internationally, including at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, U.S.A); Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, Denmark); the Museum of Modern Art (Toluca, Mexico); Yada Gallery (Nagoya, Japan); Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek, U.S.A); Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax, Canada); Purdue University (West Lafayette, U.S.A); Zone2Source (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Hasbro (Pawtucket, U.S.A); Popular Science Magazine; the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, U.K.); and the Beall Center for Art + Technology (Irvine, U.S.A). His work is in the collections of the Carnegie Science Center and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. Ingram has a BS and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.ianingram.org/index.html

Karen Lofgren

Karen Lofgren is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in sculpture and artist books from a feminist and decolonial perspective and holds an MFA from CalArts. Her research centers on ritual, history, mythology, and the construction of consciousness over time, forming relationships between cultural systems and other wild systems. She is a 2019 Pollock-Krasner grant recipient; received a Canada Council Grant in 2018/2019; and was Fulbright Core Scholar at UAL, Central St. Martins College in 2017/2018. Recent solo exhibitions include What is To Cure at Royale Projects Contemporary Art; Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050 with High Desert Test Sites, as well as solo shows at LACE; Pitzer Art Galleries; and Machine Project. Group exhibitions include Palm Springs Art Museum; Commonwealth & Council; MASS Gallery; LACMA; Human Resources; Bank of America; Carter & Citizen; Royal College of Art; Daniel Hug Gallery; Nicodim Gallery; and OCAD University. Her projects have also received support from Mike Kelley Foundation; Durfee Foundation; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Ranch Projects; and West of Rome Public Art.
www.karenlofgren.net

Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code. He crafts interactive installations, sneaky interventions, playful websites, workshops, and toolkits for other artists working with code. Exploring possibilities of new technologies: to understand how they affect society, to misuse them, and build alternative futures; aiming to share a laugh, spark curiosity, create confusion, and share spaces with magical vibes. Working with machine learning, computer vision, social and surveillance tech spanning commercial and arts spaces. Previously adjunct professor at NYU's ITP, member of F.A.T. Lab, community manager for openFrameworks, and artist in residence at STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at CMU, and YCAM in Japan. Work commissioned and shown around the world, including: the V&A, NTT ICC, Ars Electronica, Sonar, Todays Art, and Eyebeam.
http://www.kylemcdonald.net

Rebeca Méndez

Rebeca Méndez was born in México City in 1962. She received her BFA (1984) and MFA (1996) from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California. Méndez’s art practice is in various media—photography, 16mm film, video, and installation—with which she explores the nature of perception and media representation, specifically how cultures express themselves through the style of nature that they produce at a given time and the medium through which they construct this nature. She moves through different scales with ease—from photographic prints, to immersive sound and video installations, to murals of more than 25,000 square feet, to installations involving sixty-foot boulders and tons of lava rock. She considers the journey as a medium in itself and has produced a significant body of work based on travels to unfamiliar and extreme places such as Iceland, Patagonia, Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic, and the Sahara, where she is awakened to a heightened level of perception.

Méndez’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Latin America. Selected solo exhibitions include: Rebeca Méndez: At Any Given Moment at the Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada (2012); Each Day at Noon: Rebeca Méndez, Café Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Rebeca Méndez, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico (2011); Rebeca Méndez: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998). Méndez was the 2012 recipient of the National Design Award bestowed by The White House and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Méndez was awarded the 2010 California Community Foundation Mid Career Fellowship for Visual Artist. She taught at ArtCenter College of Design and is currently a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
http://www.rebecamendez.com

Chris Parks

Having studied Engineering at Imperial College, London and then Design at the Royal College of Art, all of Chris's professional life has been concerned with film and photography. The fluid paintings that he creates are both inspired by and draw on the movements and dynamics that he has discovered whilst filming some of the smallest organisms that inhabit the oceans. In turn the fluid paintings have attracted the attention of some of Hollywood’s biggest directors who have commissioned Chris to contribute to films such as ‘The Fountain’ and ‘The Tree of Life’.

Through a combination of his feature film work and his Stereoscopic 3D photography, Chris has found himself supervising the 3D on a number of features, including Tom Cruise's 'Edge of Tomorrow', JK Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them' and the film recognized as the best 3D film of all time, ‘Gravity’.

Chris works with a small team of people who have been involved in many of the projects over the years. The fluids work has evolved out of work that his father, Peter started over 40 years ago when he was filming plankton on the Great Barrier Reef and was asked by Richard Donner to create some effects for Superman I. Indeed, the biggest influence on Chris’s work comes from the natural world and his work as a natural history cameraman. Peter and Chris have been responsible for filming some of this planet’s most alien looking creatures, particularly those from the oceans and it is the way these creatures move, and the play of light and sound in their world, that is a recurring theme in much of Chris’s work.
http://www.chrisparksart.com/

Archie Prakash

Prakash is a computer scientist, 3D artist, and Professor at USC's Interactive Games & Media department. He has worked in a technical capacity in multiple industries from AAA games, motion graphics to film VFX. He is also the co-founder of Glitch City, a video game art collective based in Culver City, CA.
https://nodontdie.com/arjun-prakash

Brittany Ransom

Brittany Ransom is an artist and educator currently living in Long Beach, California. Ransom is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the competitive ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Fellowship (2019), Willapa Bay Artist Residency (2019), Workshop Residency in San Francisco (2016), the Arctic Circle Research Residency (2014), University Research council and Instructional Technology Grant Awards (2013-2014), and the prestigious College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship (2011). Ransom has shown internationally and nationally and has been featured in numerous publications. Her most recent work has been exhibited in Berlin (as part of Transmediale 2017), Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas. Ransom’s writing has been featured in numerous publications including the Leonardo Journal published by MIT Press, The 3D Additvist Cookbook (2016), and The Routledge Handbook on Biology in Art, Architecture, and Design, Routledge Press Essay (2016).

“As an artist I strive to probe the lines between human, animal, and environmental relations while exploring emergent technologies. Using ready-made and custom computing interfaces, code, and utilizing sensory data as a material, my work introduces concepts that explore the conflicted relationship between our human culture, the way we interact with one another via digital interface, and the concern for nature.”
https://www.brittanyransom.com/

Christopher Richmond

Christopher Richmond creates videos, photographs, and drawings that interweave the realism of documentary with the fantasy of science fiction and myth. Human and cosmic characters grapple with issues of identity, loneliness, and nature in extra-terrestrial landscapes, with works exploring the tension between reality and illusion and structure and chaos. Handmade props and highly-technical photographic techniques combine to evoke the wonderment of childhood, where space travel, alien creatures, and imaginary beings coexist with fragmented monologues about being and belonging. He earned his MFA from the Roski School of Art and Design at USC in 2014. His video and photographic works have been widely exhibited in galleries around the world, and his work can be found in notable collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He lives and works in Los Angeles.

http://www.christopherchristopher.com

Sasha Simochina

Sasha Simochina is the Deputy Lead of the Ops Lab at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. She joined the team at JPL after working in New York in the fields of video and web development and in Chicago where she was a Media Producer at The Field Museum of Natural History. After dreaming up words, GIFs and videos for NASAJPL, Mars Curiosity and other JPL social media channels, she was inspired to explore the world of 360 video and VR and AR. Through Sasha’s visualisation skills, she pioneered the very first 360° video release on social media for NASA. Sasha helps create web and mixed reality experiences to aid scientists, engineers, and astronauts in transforming their workflow, and leverages that same experiential technology to educate and inspire the public to engage in STEAM. She loves all things digital, animal, sound-emitting, cosmic and views the world through XR-colored glasses.
https://www.cloudsasha.com/

Jana Winderen

Jana Winderen currently lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Jana pays particular attention to audio environments and ecosystems which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally; deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible for humans. She focuses on particular ecosystems and issues through listening. Amongst her activities are immersive multi-channel sound installations and concerts which have been exhibited and performed internationally in major institutions and public spaces. Recent work included Rising Tide at Kunstnernenes Hus in Oslo, Listening with Carp for Now is the Time in Wuzhen, Through the Bones for Thailand Art Biennale in Krabi, bára for TBA21_Academy and Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone for Sonic Acts. In 2011 she won the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica for Digital Musics & Sound Art. She releases her audio visual work on Touch (UK).
http://www.janawinderen.com

World in a Cell

In early 2017, the World-building Media Lab (WbML) led by Professor Alex McDowell at USC School of Cinematic Arts, began this major collaboration with the Bridge Institute, to create a fully experiential virtual world of a single Pancreatic Beta Cell, using the metaphor of the complex systems of a city. The continuing goal is to use storytelling and world building to immerse both the lay-person and expert and engage them in levels of detail that are both scientifically accurate and approachable.

By creating a virtual world inside a cell, based on the structure and function of a pancreatic beta cell, this art-science collaboration will allow people to explore a rich biological world while engaging concepts, pathways, and implications through narrative, all backed by scientific rigor.

The World in a Cell project brings together a broadly interdisciplinary team of scientists, storytellers, artists, programmers, and conceptual thinkers, all with a proven track record of creating the next wave of content and experiences. This project contains aspects of healthcare, education, and STEAM and their outcomes, as well as providing an opportunity to further empower women moving into the scientific education and training pipelines. This project is also intended to reverse the City/Cell metaphor, using the PBC to investigate the diverse ways nature and her processes might inform and be applied to future urban design. We envision that our “World in a Cell” can serve as an extensible framework/platform that will allow other scientists to add their results, expand details, and connect related work.
http://worldbuilding.usc.edu/projects/worldinacell/

Jenny Yurshansky

Jenny Yurshansky received her MFA in Visual Art from UC Irvine and was a post-grad in Critical Studies at the Malmö Art Academy. Yurshansky received the 2019 City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship along with an exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. In 2020 she will have a solo show at Platt and Borstein Galleries and Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles. In 2019 she was part of the exhibition A NonHuman Horizon at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Yurshansky was also part of the 2018-19 Mexicali Biennial showing both in California and in Mexico. In 2018 Pitzer College Art Galleries published her artist photo book and she was an Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. In 2016 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Arts Initiative Tokyo. In 2014 she was the first Artist-in-Residence at Pitzer College Art Galleries followed in 2015 by her solo exhibition as part of the Emerging Artist series curated by Ciara Ennis. In 2015 Yurshansky was also a Guest Artist Researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, which she concluded with a solo show. In 2010 she was the first international artist awarded the Maria Bonnier Stipend from Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm.

Yurshansky has also participated in group shows at Bonniers Konsthall, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach Art Museum, MAK Center, LAXART, the Torrance Art Museum, the Armory Center for the Arts, the 7th Istanbul Biennial, the Hammer Museum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, and the Toyota Museum. She is the recipient of numerous artist and curatorial grants. From 2011-15 she was the co-founder of Persbo Studio an artist residency, sculpture park, and creative space in Sweden.
http://jennyyurshansky.com/

About the Alyce De Roulet Williamson Gallery: The Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter has established a broad reputation for exploring the intersection of science and art. Through a two-decade series of programs and exhibitions, it has contributed to the emergence of an international movement among universities, journals, conferences, artistic studio practices, and design strategies that promotes an intensified collaboration between the humanities and sciences.

About ArtCenter: Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. ArtCenter offers 11 undergraduate and seven graduate degrees in a wide variety of industrial design disciplines as well as visual and applied arts. In addition to its top-ranked academic programs, the College also serves members of the Greater Los Angeles region through a highly regarded series of year-round educational programs for all ages and levels of experience. Renowned for both its ties to industry and its social impact initiatives, ArtCenter is the first design school to receive the United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status. Throughout the College’s long and storied history, ArtCenter alumni have had a profound impact on popular culture, the way we live and important issues in our society.

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Photo of Rebeca Mendez.
ArtCenter alumnus Rebeca Méndez will speak at Art Science Symposium Free Radicals on Sunday, November 10. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo of Jana Winderen.
Artist Jana Winderen will speak on Saturday, November 9 at ArtCenter College of Design. Photo by Finnbogi Petursson.
Photo of Rebeca Mendez.
Artist Rebeca Méndez in the field. Courtesy of the artist.