Artist Discussion: Genomic Issue(s)
Friday, March 14, 6 pm
Elebash Recital Hall

Free 

Dr. Helen Donis-Keller combines her interests in art and science, believing that each field informs the other in significant ways. "As a scientist and artist I investigate the complex relationship between genotype and phenotype," says Dr. Donis-Keller. "The genetic potential (genotype) is modified by the environment to produce the observable self (phenotype)." As a scientist she has been involved in mapping the human genome and identifying genes and mutations which give rise to heritable disorders such as cystic fibrosis, some forms of thyroid and breast cancer, and unipolar depression. As an artist she uses visual and sonic metaphors for genetic concepts to make them more accessible and increase her understanding of them.

http://www.olin.edu/faculty_staff/bios/bio_hkeller.asp
http://www.geneart.org/genome-keller.htm  

Eva Sutton is an artist and programmer living in New York. Her current work explores the boundary between static images and interactive databases in which users change the visual state of the system. Sutton was previously a software engineer working primarily in the fields of biotechnology and large-scale database management, and later as a senior network administrator at the School of Visual Arts in New York.  Sutton is an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design where her current focus is to use off-the-shelf technology in building robots which function as aesthetic and performative systems.

http://geneart.org/offerings.htm

http://www.art.uh.edu/dif/e_sutton_1.html

Steve Miller has been working with art, science and technology since 1980.  He has exhibited world wide.   He is represented in New York by UCU Gallery.  Miller’s last show in New York entitled “Neolithic Quark” investigated particle physics in collaboration with Brookhaven National Labs using their Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.  Since 1988 Miller has been working with molecular biology creating portraits and vanitas still-lifes using the imaging techniques of medical science.  At present he is investigating proteomics and bioinformatics working with Rod MacKinnon at Rockefeller University.
http://www.stevemiller.com/

Adam Bly is President and Editor-in-Chief of Seed magazine.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/

Michael Rush, Moderator, is Director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. A seasoned arts executive, he is the founder of NHAT, Inc. (CT) and Seated Man, Inc. (NY), two institutions devoted to the development and presentation of experimental art works in multimedia, as well as curatorial projects. He is the author of the recently published New Media in Late 20th Century Art and the forthcoming Video Art, both commissioned by Thames and Hudson. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Art in America, and newsweek.com. He has published more than 300 articles and reviews on contemporary artists, especially those working in video, film, digital art and performance.

http://www.kmoser.com/pbica/
http://www.kmoser.com/pbica/staff/staff2.htm

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The Science and the Arts Series is presented by the Science Center and is part of the Continuing Education and Public Programs at The Graduate Center. 

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The Science and the Arts series is presented by the Science Center and is part of the Continuing Education and Public Programs at The Graduate Center, (212) 817-8215, email: continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or visit the web site http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp

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