Intimate Cosmologies
dal 18/9/2014 al 21/12/2014
Segnalato da
18/9/2014
Intimate Cosmologies
Cornell Council for the Arts, Ithaca
The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology. The Biennial features several events and principal projects by faculty and student investigators and guest artists - artist-in-residence kimsooja and media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - working in collaboration with Cornell scientists and researchers.
A campuswide exhibition this fall will explore the cultural and human consequences of seeing the world at the micro and macro levels, through nanoscience and networked communications.
From Sept. 15 to Dec. 22, the 2014 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial, “Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology,” will feature several events and principal projects by faculty and student investigators and guest artists – artist-in-residence kimsooja and media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – working in collaboration with Cornell scientists and researchers. Others artists examining the material and culture of nano science included in the exhibtion are Paul Thomas and *particle group* collective with Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, Amy Sara Carroll (Cornell MFA '95) and Nina Walsman.
The inaugural biennial theme was chosen to frame dynamic changes in 21st-century culture and art practice, and in nanoscale technology. The multidisciplinary initiative intends to engage students, faculty and the community in demonstrations of how radical shifts in scale have become commonplace, and how artists address realms of human experience lying beyond immediate sensory perception.
The Biennial focus brings together artists and scientists who share a common curiosity regarding the position of the individual within the larger world, CCA Director Stephanie Owens said.
“Scientists are suddenly designers creating new forms,” she said. “And artists are increasingly interested in how things are structured, down to the biological level. Both are designing and discovering new ways of synthesizing natural properties of the material world with the fabricated experiences that extend and express the impact of these properties on our lives...Today, art practice is a convergence of many disciplines – which, rather than dilute the experience of art, multiplies and opens up the ways in which artists engage the world around them. This often leads to surprising overlaps in human intention across all disciplines.”
The complete programme is on the web site.
For Information contact:
Stephanie Owens, Director, Cornell Council for the Arts
(607) 255 7274 | ccadirector@cornell.edu
Opening September 19, 2014, 5:00 PM — 7:00 PM
The reception will include music by Cornell faculty and student musicians who have been past or recent recipients of an Individual Artist Grant by Cornell Council for the Arts.
Cornell Council for the Arts
114 Sibley Hall - Ithaca, New York 14850