Museum of Science, Boston

Water is Rising (Lecture): The tiny Pacific atolls of Kiribati, Tokelau, and Tuvalu are facing the consequences of global warming first hand. Living at elevations of three to five meters above sea level, their inhabitants risk seeing their cultures become the first on Earth to be submerged by rising seas. Discover through song, ... (details).
With: Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, Director, Human Health and Global Environmental Change Program of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School; Michaele Maiava, Tokelau government councilman; Andrew Semeli, Tuvalu Parliamentarian Assistant; Water Is Rising performers from Kiribati; Eli Kintisch, Science magazine reporter and author, Hack the Planet: Science's Best Hope - or Worst Nightmare - for Averting Climate Catastrophe.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Artistic Visions, Scientific Truths (Lecture): Acclaimed artist Alexis Rockman and evolutionary biologist James J. McCarthy discuss how contemporary artists and scientists collaborate in order to advance and disseminate scientific discoveries. This program complements Harvard Art Museums' current exhibition Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in ... (details).
With: Alexis Rockman, artist; James J. McCarthy, PhD, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University; Introduction by Susan Dackerman, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Artist's Talk: Chris Jordan (Lecture): Join internationally acclaimed photographer Chris Jordan in the Museum's newest gallery for an artist's talk about his work and the current exhibition, Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption. Sociologists tell us that the human mind cannot meaningfully grasp numbers higher than a few thousand ... (details).
With: Chris Jordan, artist.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Radiolab Listening Party (Lecture): Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad shares behind-the-scenes stories and excerpts from the program called "the most innovative show on radio" by public radio's Ira Glass. Tonight's focus: our endless fascination with outer space. Listen to surprising sounds and look up at the simulated sky as you are transported ... (details).
With: Jad Abumrad, Radiolab host and producer.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Solving the Stradivarius Secret (Lecture): Since the early 1700s, "Golden Age" Italian violins have been revered for their superior tone. Scores of scientists, artisans, and musicians have sought answers to the mystery of their sound, but none has been able to duplicate the magic created by these coveted instruments. Characterizing varnish, wood, ... (details).
With: William F. "Jack" Fry, physicist and professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Rose Mary Harbison, violinist and artistic director of the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Weaving Science into Sculpture (Lecture): What do basket weaving, climate change, and sculpture have in common? Artist Nathalie Miebach literally weaves scientific data related to meteorology, climate change, and astronomy into brightly colored, three-dimensional sculptures. She describes how — and why — she creates these singular ... (details).
With: Nathalie Miebach, artist.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

The Lost City of Z (Lecture): In The Lost City of Z, author and adventurer David Grann steps into the hazardous Amazon jungle to retrace the footsteps of the great Colonel Percy Fawcett, who ventured there in 1925 in search of the fabled ancient kingdom of El Dorado, which he dubbed "Z." Hoping to answer decades-long questions about ... (details).
With: David Grann, journalist for The New Yorker, author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Cinema, Science, and Invention (Lecture): A vital new framework for invention is arising. Worlds created for movies spring from real-world science research, and in turn, science and what is built in the real world are influenced by the movies. John Underkoffler has been at the heart of this feedback loop with the human-machine interfaces he's ... (details).
With: John Underkoffler, founder and chief scientist of Oblong Industries, Inc., and science and technology advisor to Minority Report, The Hulk, Aeon Flux, and other film productions.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

The Art of Living a Second Life (Lecture): Called "the biggest digital art installation in the world" by Warren Ellis, Second Life is a highly imaginative, online, 3-D rendered environment populated with avatars (graphic representations of people). In Second Life, you can teleport, fly, live in a house, go to clubs, take classes, make and view art, or just "hang out ... (details).
With: Wagner James Au, embedded journalist in Second Life; Pathfinder Linden, community manager for Linden Lab; John (Craig) Freeman, artist in Second Life; moderated by Eric Gordon, assistant professor of new media, Emerson College.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Pulse Pool Installation (Special Program): During the Cambridge Science Festival and the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Museum of Science, Boston and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. present "Pulse Pool." Bridging art and human biology via technology — as well as two capital cities: Boston and Oklahoma City — Pulse Pool is an interactive ... (details).
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

Pulse Pool Installation (Lecture): During the Cambridge Science Festival and the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Museum of Science, Boston and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. present "Pulse Pool." Bridging art and human biology via technology — as well as two capital cities: Boston and Oklahoma City — Pulse Pool is an interactive ... (details).
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

STREB: Extreme Action In a Hard Core World (Lecture): Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' award and once called the Evil Knievel of dance, Elizabeth Streb intertwines extreme sports, circus arts, Hollywood stuntwork, and dance in her unique choreography, called POPACTION. In this lecture, she takes on the physics of kinetic energy to show how humans ... (details).
With: Elizabeth Streb, Director & Choreographer, STREB Dance Company.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

YPTRATRPY (You Play The Robot And The Robot Plays You) (Lecture): Ensemble Robot is a Boston-based organization of musicians, engineers, and programmers working together to create an orchestra of robotic musical instruments and music for them. On the afternoon of Saturday, January 27, Ensemble Robot will present an interactive exhibit featuring Giles Hall's YPTRATRPY ... (details).
With: Ensemble Robot.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series When Science Meets Art.

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