Please join us for a conversation with EPSCoR Research Scientist Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Digital Artist Jack Lovell, and Industrial Designer David Zacher as they reflect on their experience in art+design+science collaboration to develop tools for visualization.

The conversation, entitled The Encounter, will launch the new series Conversations | Collaborations, an initiative of the Creative Arts Council at Brown University. The series is curated by Charlie Cannon.

The Encounter
Wednesday, April 11, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Englander Studio (N420)
Granoff Center 154 Angell St. Providence

How do we begin to work together; before we know what we are going to do?

Drawing from their experience developing new tools for data visualization – a biologist, an artist and a designer will reflect on the importance of vulnerability and openness in the first encounter – in the meeting that precedes a project.

Participants
Marta Gomez-Chiarri, Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, URI, Visiting Scientist at RISD

David Zacher, MFA Candidate, ID, RISD

Jack Lovell, MFA Candidate, D+M, RISD

Conversations | Collaborations is a series of events exploring the importance of conversation to successful, creative interdisciplinary collaboration.

Conversations | Collaborations is a part of the Creative Mind Initiative at Brown University, curated by Charlie Cannon, in association with the Creative Arts Council.

Artists in Context is collaborating sponsor of Conversations | Collaborations.

The Encounter is co-sponsored by RI NSF EPSCoR