{"id":2370,"date":"2017-07-07T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2017-07-07T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:35:35","slug":"free-radicals-conference-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/free-radicals-conference-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Radicals: Perspectives on Art & Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nOn the weekend of July 8-9, Arts Center College of Design and the Pasadena Arts Council are co-hosting Free Radicals: Evolving Perspectives on the Convergence of Art and Scienc<\/em>e, a wide-ranging interdisciplinary conference bringing together practitioners, theorists, writers and performers working at the nexus of art and science. IFF director Margaret Wertheim will deliver the opening keynote by addressing the subject of “free radicals” in a multivalent talk beginning with concept of the “free radical” in chemistry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Conference speakers include writer\/curator Ciara Ennis on wunderkamera and the Museum of Jurassic Technology<\/em>; JPL’s Dan Goods and David Delgado on their\u00a0Museum of Awe<\/em>; Christina Ondrus on the\u00a0Knowledges<\/em>\u00a0project in art and astronomy; \u00a0UCLA theorist Erkki Hutamo on media archeologies; and artist Lauren Bon on her Metabolic Studio’s project\u00a0Bending the River.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Free Radicals: Art, Science and Figuring the World<\/i><\/strong><\/div>\n
Keynote Talk<\/strong><\/div>\n
By Margaret Wertheim<\/strong><\/div>\n
In chemistry a\u00a0\u201cfree radical\u201d is an\u00a0atom or molecule with an unpaired electron, making it highly reactive with other substances. In this talk, writer\/artist Margaret Wertheim will use the model of chemistry, with its powerful graphical symbol system, as a gateway to consider scientific representation and a bunch of radical free thinkers \u2013 or \u201coutsider scientists\u201d \u2013 \u00a0who have developed their own symbolic methods for figuring the world. The talk draws on Ms Wertheim’s book Physics on the Fringe<\/em>, a seminal sociological study of “outsider physics.”
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Detail of the Periodic Table as envisioned by James Carter in his “circle” theory of physics. Image courtesy of Carter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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