Art and Science:
Researching the
Work of Art

Tuesday, May 12, 4 p.m.
Telus Studio, Free

She blinded me with science. Since the Renaissance, there has been both a convergence and divergence between the fields of arts and science. Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker explore the collaborative potential between these two analogous fields.

Suzanne Anker
Artist’s Talk

Wednesday, May 27, 4 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Room 204
Free

Suzanne Anker is a New York-based visual artist and theorist working at the intersections of art and the biological sciences. Her talk “From Golden Rules to Golden Boys” explores current concerns generated by experimental reproductive technologies.

Ellen Levy
Artist’s Talk

Wednesday, June 10, 4 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building 204, Free

New York-based Ellen Levy explores the primary functions of the scientific phenomenon of attention — alerting, orienting, and executive functions — as established by neuroscientist Michael Posner, comparing them to those defining the artistic perspective.

Darwin’s Sexy Science

Friday, August 14, 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre, $10

Co-host of TV’s hippest science show, “Daily Planet,” Jay Ingram talks dirty to us when he celebrates Darwin’s 200th birthday with “Darwin’s Sexy Science.”   » More

Black Cloud
with Greg Nieyemer

Wednesday, June 10, 7:00 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Telus Studio
Free

“Bring me your CO, your VOC’s, your city lights, your endless noise, your rising heat, your damp confines. It keeps me going, wherever I am, and I am everywhere. I am the Black Cloud of pollution.” Black Cloud is a social interface to a collection of globally dispersed, networked indoor air quality sensors. Greg Niemeyer, the artist behind the project, will describe how black cloud and technologies of hyperlocal sensing can change our relationship to our personal environments and discuss best practices for sharing air quality information, and turning data into music in collaboration with musician/scientist Chris Chafe.

Analogous Fields:
Art and Science
Open Studios

Friday, June 12, 3-6 p.m.
Glyde Hall and Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building studios
Free

Spend the afternoon visiting the studios of the artists participating in the "Analogous Fields: Art and Science" creative residency.

Jon Turk:
The Raven’s Gift

Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 p.m.
Donation at the Door
Whyte Museum — 111 Bear Street

Renowned explorer, journalist, and author, Jon Turk gives a presentation on his upcoming book, The Raven’s Gift: A Scientist, A Shaman, and their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness. An academically trained scientist, Turk had his logical preconceptions turned upside down when he entrusted his injured body to the care of a 100-year-old woman, a shaman, in Siberia. Turk has widely travelled the world and yet nothing prepared him for this mystical experience. “A PhD chemist, trained in the rigors of scientific research, I inadvertently found myself standing naked on one leg in front of a Moolynaut, a 100-year old Siberian shaman who was invoking Kutcha, the Raven God, to heal my injured pelvis.”

Between the Folds

Sunday, July 26, 8 p.m.
Max Bell Auditorium, Free

A documentary film about the art and science of paperfolding. Presented as part of Bridges Banff II, a conference devoted to mathematics, music, art, architecture, and culture