Just received notice of this interdisciplinary symposium at Brandeis
on Wednesday, October 24:
Visualizing Science: Image-Making in the Constitution of Scientific
Knowledge (An interdisciplinary symposium)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
3:40-8:00 p.m.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Co-conveners: Mark Auslander (Anthropology) and Andreas Teuber (Philosophy)
This symposium explores the enigmatic relationship between science
and art, with particular attention to the power of visual images in
scientific imaginations. Do visual images simply represent
scientific data and concepts, or do images and image-making, at
times, actively inspire, catalyze or constitute scientific insight?
In what respects are scientists engaged in image acquisition
directly or indirectly influenced by iconographic conventions drawn
from the history of art? How, in turn, have artistic practices been
mediated and shaped through scientific investigations and
representational practices? Inspired by the art of Steve Miller,
whose work explores the mysteries of protein structures, we will
consider the visual dimensions of scientific thought in a range of disciplines.
Revised Schedule:
3:40 p.m. Welcomes (Michael Rush, Mark Auslander, Andreas Teuber)
3:45-4:30. Images, Protein Crystallization and Organic Forms.
Moderated by Mark Auslander. (Dagmar Ringer, Greg Petsko, John
Lisman, Daniela Nicastro)
4:30-4:50 p.m. Keynote address by Peter Galison ("Images of Objectivity')
4:50-5:10 p.m. Discussion moderated by Andreas Teubuer
5:10 p.m. Images and Complex Fluids (Seth Fraden, Zvonmire Dogic, Bob Meyers)
5:30 p.m. Images in Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Computer
Science (Albion Lawrence, Rosalind Reid)
Commentary by Rick Parmentier and Peter Kalb.
6:00 p.m. Break
6:10 p.m. Address by Natasha Myers. "Molecular Affinities, Excitable
Media, and Embodied Animations in the Lively Arts of Protein
Modeling."Commentary by Steve Miller, Claudia Castaneda, Michael
Rush, and Mark Auslander
7:00 Reception
Likely participants include: Claudia Castaneda (Brandeis), Peter
Galison (Harvard), Brian Hayes (American Scientist), Natasha Myers
(York University), Rosalind Reid (American Scientist), Steve Milller
(artist), Michael Rush (Rose Art Museum), Mark Auslander
(Anthropology & Cultural Production, Brandeis), Zvonmir Dogic
(Physics, Brandeis), Seth Fraden (Physics), Daniela Nicastro
(Biology, Brandeis), Albion Lawrence (Physics, Brandeis), John
Lisman (Biology, Brandeis), Andreas Teuber (Philosophy, Brandeis),
Rick Parmentier (Anthropology, Brandeis), Greg Petsko (Biochemistry
and Chemistry, Brandeis), Dagmar Ringe (Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis)
Part of our Fall 2007 series, Mirrors of Science
<http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/visualizing_science>http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/visualizing_science
* Please participate in our discussion of the work of Steve Miller
<http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/Steve_Miller>http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/Steve_Miller
* Please participate in our discussion of the relationship
between art and scientific imaging.
* Please read Andreas Teuber's review essay, "Camera Obscurities"
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