Are art and science two completely different, unrelated areas of learning? Some people may think so, but the researchers, professors and students in the Science Technology Arts + Creativity (STAC) and WetLab programs in New York University’s groundbreaking Gallatin School of Independent Study know that art and science have been intertwined for centuries.
On Thursday, February 17 at 7pm, via Zoom webinar, the Bruce Museum will present The Future of Art/Science: Teaching in the Living Laboratory, a look at how one of America’s premier universities uses student-driven creativity and entrepreneurism as well as a makerspace, workshops, and even the waterfront of Governor’s Island in New York harbor to explore the latest concepts in immersive art/science learning.
The event is the 24th installment of the Bruce Museum’s acclaimed speaker series, Bruce Presents: Thought Leaders in the Fields of Art and Science. Support for Bruce Presents is generously provided by Berkley One, a Berkley Company. Speakers will include three NYU professors (Cyd Cipolla, Ph.D., Associate Director of Science, Technology, Arts and Creativity
and Administrative Director of the Gallatin WetLab; Karen Holmberg, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Gallatin WetLab; Eugenia Kisin, Ph.D., Artistic Director of the Gallatin WetLab) and three current students and/or alumni (Troy Gibbs-Brown, environmental arts theorist; Annick Saralegui, scholar of regenerative futures; and Blair Simmons, adjunct faculty, Interactive Telecommunications and Interactive Media Arts programs, NYU Tisch School of the Arts).
Bruce Presents co-producer and NYU Gallatin alum Leonard Jacobs will moderate the event. To join this online, live-streamed Zoom webinar, visit www.brucemuseum.org and click on the Reservations button to sign up. Tickets are free for Bruce Museum Members; $20 for non-members.
In a statement, Bruce Museum COO and Managing Director Suzanne Lio said, “It’s so exciting to encounter a group of people in a university setting who are exploring the latest concepts in immersive art/science learning with such a gift for experimentation and discovery. The STAC program at NYU is really the definition of interdisciplinary, sitting at the crossroads of science, technology, arts and creativity as it cultivates and shapes the next generation of innovative artists and scientists.”
For additional information, call the Bruce Museum at 203-869-0376 or visit brucemuseum.org.
