Welcome to this featured artists presentation on the intersection of art, technology and science! This public event presents featured artists through 25-min talks followed by 15-min Q&As. It’s free, open to the public, and co-presented by Kinetech Arts, ODC Theater, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
Ariel Waldman creates imaginative projects that explore the world below our feet and beyond our atmosphere. As an Antarctic explorer and microscopic wildlife filmmaker, she led an expedition to film life under the ice in Antarctica, which became the subject of her TED Talk. An art school graduate who pivoted to science, she was recognized by the Obama White House as a Champion of Change in citizen science. Ariel is a National Geographic Explorer and the author of the book What’s It Like in Space?. As global director of Science Hack Day, she has grown the event to span 30 countries and serve as the prime inspiration for NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, which became the world’s largest hackathon. Ariel has been the advisory chair to NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program and the co-author of a congressionally-requested National Academy of Sciences’ report on the future of human spaceflight. As producer and host, she is the creator of a YouTube channel documenting her science adventures. https://arielwaldman.com/
David Edwards explores new ways of improving human health and wellbeing through the air we breathe, with ramifications to how we eat, and regenerate life on the planet. His scientific research, as well as his inventions, startups, and creative spaces in France and the USA, have led to the discovery of airway hygiene and the new consumer health platform FEND. David was Professor of the Practice of Bioengineering at Harvard University in the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences from 2001 to 2019, and transitioned to Associate in 2019 to lead the science and support the launch of FEND. David’s new Cambridge-based restaurant, Senses reflects David’s interest in food — he is the founder of Incredible Foods — and follows two decades of exploration of public cultural innovation spaces beginning with Le Laboratoire in Paris in 2007. This exploration is described in a series of nonfiction and fiction books in English and French, starting with Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (Harvard Press 2008), and, with the novelist Jay Cantor, Niche (Harvard University Press 2008 and École de Beaux Arts de Paris). David has received many international honors and awards, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the USA and in France, a member of the National Institute of Inventors, and a Chevalier of the Arts & Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. His recent book Creating Things That Matter (Holt 2018) won a 2018 Nautilus Book of the Year Award. https://davidideas.com/