From the tide pool to the stars: Art/Science Collaborations on the High Seas


Session ID#: 36437

Session Description:
In Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, co-authors Ed Ricketts (a marine scientist) and John Steinbeck (a writer) expounded on "... the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time." They recommended that "it is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.” Since their collaboration was published in 1951, innumerable other connections between artists and scientists have educated and energized participants in both fields. This session is a celebration of the art in science and of the science of art, and invites submissions from "the sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer", and, indeed, the poet, the painter, printmaker, photographer, performer, filmmaker, fiber artist, and architect. Submissions of scientific visualizations, artistic products, "Artist on Board" collaborations, and daily logs of research cruises are all invited.
Primary Contact:  Eric Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Presenters:  Hillary King, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, Ester, United States and Hoffman Michele, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Marine Science and Sustainability, Chicago, United States
Cross-Topics:
  • ED - Education, Outreach and Policy
 

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