Subject: Boulder Birds Art-Science Talk
Art-Science Talk at NCAR - “Interpreting Science with Art”
ABSTRACT -- This talk will focus in part on "Bird Shift", a local
art-science project by Brian D. Collier, an artist who translates research
by scientists into exhibitions that inform the public about often unknown
facts and current issues about our natural environment in unique and
interesting ways. From starlings to pikas, parrots to woodchucks, seedballs
to big box stores, Collier uses science-informed, art-based strategies to
motivate broader public conversation and engagement about our mounting
environmental crises, using enticing visual elements, humor, and a sense of
wonder.
Tuesday November 9th, 2010
• NCAR Mesa Lab
11:00 am – Noon
Those interested are invited to join Collier following the talk for a
lunch-time “Bird Shift” brainstorming session.
If you can't make it to the NCAR talk, join Brian later in the day (Nov 9)
at:
Café Scientifique - Coach's Corner at the Millennium Hotel
1345 Twenty-Eighth Street
5:30 pm Food & Drinks
6:00 pm Talk (followed by Q&A)
This presentation does not include images but does include objects.
BIOGRAPHY
Brian D. Collier is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary projects range
across a wide variety of media, including sculpture, photography, websites,
video, drawing, artist's books, installation and performance. He focuses on
elements of the non-human natural world that exist, or have reinserted
themselves, into severely human-altered landscapes. Through his
science-grounded projects, he disseminates information about these sites,
often proposing strategies to re-evaluate the weedy margins of the
human-dominated landscape. Collier has exhibited widely in the U.S. and
abroad. A partial list of exhibition venues include: Neues Museum Weserberg
Bremen, in Bremen, Germany; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO;
Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba; University of
Kansas Natural History Museum; and 60 Wall Gallery, New York, NY. Collier’s
work has been written about in numerous publications including Art in
America, The New York Times, Afterimage, and Art Papers Magazine, and Orion:
Nature, Culture, Place. He earned his MFA is from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA Cum Laude in Sculpture from the State
University of New York at Buffalo. In 2007 Collier founded the Society for a
Re-Natural Environment. He currently lives and works in Bloomington, IL.
For more information, please visit http://briandcollier.com/ and
http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-104.html
Peter R. Gent
Senior Scientist Email: g...@ucar.edu
National Center for Atmospheric Research Phone: (303) 497-1355
PO Box 3000 Fax: (303) 497-1700
Boulder
CO 80307 Web: http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/oce/gent/gent.html
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