Join us for a presentation with the artist Marta de Menezes as she discusses her work as an artist, curator, and director of Cultivamos Cultura, the leading institute for experimental artists and scientists in Portugal. Her work straddles the intersections of art and biology, and has been exhibited in major venues across every continent. She is currently an Associate Artist at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
BioArt
Art Laboratory Berlin
Art Laboratory Berlin curates and presents international, interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of contemporary art, science and technology.
Co directors Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz will be presenting on February 7th 2 – 3pm in Zoom. Register for link: go.osu.edu/artlab
Visiting artist Laura Splan
The Department of Art is pleased to announce visiting artist Laura Splan’s talk on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at 4pm. Please register here to receive the zoom link.
Visiting Artist – Stephanie Rothenberg
Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces her work investigates the power dynamics of techno utopias, global economics and outsourced labor. She has exhibited throughout the US and internationally in venues including Eyebeam (US), Sundance Film Festival (US), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art / MASS MoCA (US), House of Electronic Arts / HeK (CH), LABoral (ES), Transmediale (DE), and ZKM Center for Art & Media (DE). She is a recipient of numerous awards, most recently from the Harpo Foundation and Creative Capital.
Artist Website: http://stephanierothenberg.com/
When: Monday, March 8, 12pm EST.
Contact Amy Youngs youngs.6@osu.edu for zoom link.
With thanks to the Department of Art Fund to support visiting artist presentations.
Eco Art course
Professor Amy Youngs will teach this special topics course on Eco Art in Autumn 2020. Art 5001 is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Please contact me with questions.
Ruth Burke Visiting Artist
OSU Art & Tech Alumna Ruth Burke (BFA 2012) is visiting to present her recent artwork. Her work involves interspecies collaborations with animals; inspired by her relationships with them. Ruth’s visit is sponsored by the Graduate Student Art Club at Ohio State University.
More on Ruth’s Website.
Candace Thompson – Visiting Artist
Check out the Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet on Instagram
During her visit to OSU, Candace Thompson will also lead an urban foraging workshop for the students of the Art, Science, and Environment course. Contact Amy at youngs.6@osu.edu if you’d like to join us.
Thank you Livable Futures!
Jacklyn Brickman presents “Spellbreaker”
Jacklyn Brickman, MFA student in Art & Technology, was awarded a Tech Hub grant to produce an art installation that connects the human body to black walnut trees. She discusses her finished work Spellbreaker and her thoughts on the role that technology can play in helping us understand living systems.
Pinar Yoldas
Yoldas is an infradisciplinary designer/artist/researcher. Her work develops within biological sciences and digital technologies through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing with a focus on post-humanism, eco-nihilism, anthropocene and feminist technoscience. She is a is a Turkish-American architect, artist and an assistant professor at University of California, San Diego.
- Thursday April 19th, at 2:30pm
- Room 362 Hopkins Hall
Sponsored by the Student Art and Tech Club, Science and Technology Studies: a Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme and The Graduate Student Art Club.
Art-Science Panel
Art-Science Collaborations
A panel and discussion on current synergistic creative research and teaching partnerships between artists and scientists stimulating innovation, knowledge production and critical engagement. With a focus on environmentalism, the panelists will present examples of research shaped by the disciplines of art and science. Learn about projects that are created by scientists working with artists, by artists who teach and work with scientists, and by an artist who is also a scientist. What happens when there is friction? Who benefits from these collaborations? Is the career risk worth it? Join the moderated discussion at the end.
Panelists:
- Brandon Ballengée, visual artist, biologist and environmental educator
- Aaron Ellison, Senior Ecologist, Harvard University, Harvard Forest
- Ken Rinaldo, Professor of Art, The Ohio State University
- Amy Youngs, Associate Professor of Art, The Ohio State University
Moderator:
- Kim Landsbergen, Associate Professor of Biology & Environmental Science, Antioch College
Friday April 6, 2018. 12 pm – 2 pm
- Research Commons, 18th Avenue Library, The Ohio State University
- Presentations 12pm – 1pm
- Moderated discussion 1pm – 2pm
Co-sponsored by the Ohio State University’s Science and Technology Studies – a Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme, the STEAM Factory and Art and Technology in the Department of Art.