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Podcast available for download now “FABLES AND FORMULAS: The Sciences and the Arts and Humanities Look at Each Other” How do the arts and the humanities matter to scientists and to their work? Where might there be common ground for collaboration?
Introduction: James Harris, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
Moderator:Liz Lerman, choreographer, MacArthur "genius award"-winner
Panelists:
Jordan Goodman, Professor of Physics, UMD Sandra Greer, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Molecular and Biomolecular Engineering, UMD Eduardo Kac, Chicago artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English, Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, UMD Moderator:
Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker. Described by the Washington Post as "the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art," her dance/theater works have been seen throughout the United States and abroad. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976, and has cultivated the company's unique multi-generational ensemble, with dancers whose ages span five decades, into a leading force in contemporary dance. Liz has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the American Choreographer Award, the American Jewish Congress "Golda" Award, and Washingtonian magazine's 1988 Washingtonian of the Year. In 2002 her work was recognized with a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, and she was recently designated for the National Foundation for Jewish Culture's Achievement Award and induction into the University of Maryland's Hall of Fame. Her current projects include Ferocious Beauty: Genome, an investigation of the impact of genetic research in our lives, and a commission from the Harvard University School of Law for a work observing the human rights legacy of the post-WWII Nuremberg Trials. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Milwaukee, Liz attended Bennington College and Brandeis University, received her B.A. in dance from the University of Maryland, and an M.A. in dance from George Washington University.
Liz Lerman - http://www.danceexchange.org/index.html
Sandra Greer - http://www.chbe.umd.edu/facstaff/profiles/greer.html Eduardo Kac Chicago-based artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Kac (pronounced "Katz") emerged in the early '90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. His visionary combination of robotics and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. At the dawn of the twenty-first century Kac opened a new direction for contemporary art with his "transgenic art"--first with a groundbreaking installation entitled Genesis (1999), which included an "artist's gene" he invented, and then with his fluorescent rabbit called Alba (2000). Kac's work has been exhibited internationally, and featured both in contemporary art publications and in the mass media. The recipient of many awards, Kac lectures and publishes worldwide. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany, the Museum of Modern Art of Valencia, Spain, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others.
Eduardo Kac - www.ekac.org Matthew Kirschenbaum
Associate Professor of English, Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, UMCP; specialist in digital humanities, electronic literature and creative new media (including games); author of upcoming Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT, 2008); a principal investigator for MONK, a multi-institutional Mellon-funded project to develop advanced analytical and visualization tools for digital text collections.
Matthew Kirschenbaum - http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/
Jordan Goodman - http://umdgrb.umd.edu/goodman/jag.html
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