On Dance: A Physics Lesson From Karole Armitage – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com.
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The great E.O. Wilson (whose book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge helped inspire ARTStem) was on Charlie Rose recently to tout his new book, his debut work of fiction, Anthill. He had some interesting things to say about why, late in his career, he turned to fiction: “I finally realized people respect nonfiction, but they...
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Jeremy Rifkin has a smart essay titled “Empathic Education: The Transformation of Learning in an Interconnected World” in the Chronicle of Higher Education online (full Article here). In response to some of the rhetoric adjoining President Obama’s ‘Educate to Innovate’ initiative, Rifkin asks whether too much emphasis is being placed on the goal of...
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I thought this was a neat idea. I love the idea of capitalizing on the arts power to command an audience and communicate big ideas in a potent way. To me, this is a long-range aspiration of mine for something that ARTStem might engender. An alliance between UNCSA and some slice of its performance...
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Dear 2009-10 ARTStem Participants & Friends Please join us for a end-of-year reception celebrating a successful 1st year of ARTStem on Thursday, May 27th, 5pm-6pm at the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts 1722 S. Main St. ‘Tis not a goodbye—ARTStem is currently doing a little, shall we say, “reconceptualizing,” with the intent of continuing and strengthening the UNCSA-Reynolds partnership...
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Interesting essay by David Ng from SEED Magazine. Awkward Beauty § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.
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Go here to see some of the student films supported thru the Sloan Foundation’s partnership with several film schools to support student filmmakers interested in making films with science/tech themes. http://scienceandfilm.org/films.php
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Playwright Melinda Lopez merges art and science in ‘From Orchids to Octopi’ – The Boston Globe.
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Harvard theoretical physicist and composer Hector Parra merge opera and theorizing about the nature of the universe. SEEDMAGAZINE.COM § Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes.
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Liz Lerman Dance Exchange debuting On the Matter of Origins–a major dance piece inspired by Lerman’s work with scientists at CERN in Switzerland, home of the Large Hadron Collider: http://www.danceexchange.org/performance/origins.html#aa From a new artist/scientist collaboration at the University of Chicago, some really interesting little videos that might inspire: One scientist involved writes, “An experiment that...
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An exciting step forward over in Bob King’s media lab in Workplace West III today on the UNCSA campus. Ever since ARTStemmers traveled over to Duke University’s data visualization and adjacent “sound” lab last August, multiple among us have spoken often of how we might be able to experiment with something like this. Thanks...
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Alli George, Reynolds math faculty and ARTStem participant, sent this article on recently. “Building a Better Teacher” (March 2, NYTimes) I just got around to reading it, and, wow!, it’s fascinating. I’ll admit, at first I feared it might be another of the all-too-common screed that places a disproportionate amount of responsibility for public education’s...
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A flurry of noticings about art and scientific communication from the past week. ← And don’t miss the Carl Sagan auto-tuning to the left Last week’s American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation announced winners of their annual Visualization of Science and Engineering contest. Some great stuff–including a collaboration between...
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Mike Wakeford is ARTStem’s Project Director and a member of the Undergraduate Academic Program faculty at UNCSA. . . . Came across a flyer about a new book by Steven Strogatz, The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math Strogatz is a major math...
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Ashley Witherspoon sends us some links to student SCRATCH projects. First, what’s SCRATCH, again? Back in November, ARTStem collaborated with the Center for Design Innovation— for a hands-on SCRATCH workshop that was part of the CDI’s roster of events during the Winston-Salem Arts Council’s recent “6 Days in November.” SCRATCH is a free, downloadable...
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