March Mondays: BioDesign Lecture Series
About this Event
03/02 | Starr Founation Hall, U L102: Jeni Wightman is a research scientist specializing in greenhouse gas inventories and life cycle analysis of agriculture, forestry, waste, and bioenergy systems at Cornell University. Her art practice began in 2002 and employs scientific tropes to incite curiosity of biological phenomena and inform an ecological reflexivity. Her art has been commissioned by NYC parks, featured at the Lincoln Center, BAM, and Imagine Science Festival, and is held in collections such as the Morgan Library, Library of Congress, Gutenberg Museum, Bodmer Museum, and the Danish Royal Library. RSVP
03/09 | Starr Founation Hall, U L102: Ani Liu is a research-based artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. She imbues scientific processes with narrative and emotional expression, humanizing technology and blurring boundaries between rational/emotional, hard/wet, human/machine, engineered/organic. Ani is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. She currently teaches at Princeton and her studio is based in New York City. RSVP
03/23 | Hoerle Lecture Hall, U L105: Danielle Trofe is a biodesigner, biomimicry specialist and founder of a Brooklyn-based design studio that’s been creating sustainable solutions at the intersection of science, technology and design for nearly a decade. Danielle received a master’s degree in biomimicry from Arizona State University and is a certified biomimicry specialist through Biomimicry 3.8. She consults organizations using nature-inspired design thinking strategies and also teaches biodesign and biomimicry courses at The Pratt Institute and Parsons The New School. Her most notable work includes the award-winning MushLume Lighting Collection, a biofabricated product line grown from mushroom mycelium and hydroponic vertical gardens. RSVP
03/30 | Starr Founation Hall, U L102: Tal Danino is an interdisciplinary artist and biologist exploring the emerging field of synthetic biology. He engineers some of the smallest forms of life, in the form of “programmable” bacteria and transforms living microorganisms like bacteria and cancer cells from the laboratory into bioart works using various forms of media. He was selected as a TED Fellow and some of his recent work has been featured in The New York Times, Nature, and WIRED. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Columbia University and directs the interdisciplinary Synthetic Biological Systems Laboratory. RSVP