Lecture at the University of Florida: Art-Science Practice: From Higgs boson to Native blossoms

Xavier Cortada will deliver a lecture on his art-science practice at the University of Florida College of Fine Arts in Gainesville, FL.

Above:  Art@CMS — Cortada’s banners on permanent display at Point 5, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (Cessy, France).

As Art-Science Practice: From the Higgs boson to Native Blossoms

On August 3rd, 2013, Xavier Cortada will deliver a lecture on his art-science practice at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.  Cortada often collaborates with scientists in his art-making:

At CERN, Cortada worked with a physicist to develop a site-specific art installation capturing the five search strategies which the CMS experiment has used to discover a new Higgs-like particle.  The five giant banners hang at the location (100m below the ground) where the particle was discovered.
He has also worked with a population geneticist on a project exploring our ancestral journeys out of Africa 60,000 years ago, with a molecular biologist to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence randomly generated by participants visiting his museum exhibit, and with botanists in eco-art projects to reforest mangroves, native treesand wildflowers.

Cortada is currently working with scientists at Hubbard Brook LTER on an water cycle visualization project driven by real-time data collected at a watershed in New Hamphire’s White Mountains.

Cortada serves as Artist-in-Residence at the Florida International University College of Architecture + The Arts.

For further information:

Amy Vigilante, PhD

Director

University Galleries

UF Public Art

School of Art+Art History

College of Fine Arts

University of Florida

PO Box 115803

Gainesville, Florida 32611

352.273.3041

www.arts.ufl.edu/galleries