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Science Café Fort CollinsSecond Wednesday of every month Beet Street Science Café connects the local scientific community with the general public to create a forum of critical thinking and discussion. They are informal and accessible – much more interactive than just a public lecture. The café takes place in a downtown restaurant making it a casual presentation over dinner and drinks. The goal is to engage and educate broad audiences about the incredible discoveries and research going on in our own community. No cover charge for presentation.
Novelist E.M. Forster writes: “Only connect.” Those two words summarize Todd Siler’s philosophy of art, science and life, which are manifested in this exhibition, THE MIND AND ALL IT CREATES. In fact, over three decades ago, he coined the term and practice of “ArtScience” to describe the process of connection-making or integrative thinking, that is, how art integrates science (and vice versa) to better understand our world, as well as catalyze breakthroughs, discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Todd enjoys parallel playing with his passions for art history, fine arts, biology, nuclear and neural sciences, in exploring how nature connects things: creatively, deliberately and accidentally. His artworks interpret these connections and interrelates them in ways that aim to inspire wonder while challenging our imagination. They represent his unique creative inquiries into the potentially infinite meanings and possibilities of nature’s connectivity: from infinitesimally tiny strands of subatomic particles to clusters of stellar matter to human neural tissue to the multilayered concepts of cities, cultures and civilizations born from our collective brains. Todd refers to himself as a “Cerebralist,” invoking the philosophy of the father of modern biological psychology, William James. Sir James respectfully regarded Cerebralists as individuals who combine the sensual and conceptual, the body and mind, the physical and spiritual. Siler describes his form of Cerebralism as “a visionary activity of the arts’ transforming all information, knowledge and experiences into new, purposeful, and useful things that enable us to realize human potential. For Todd Siler, A.R.T. encompasses All Representations of Thought, using any and all mediums, methods and tools to express and represent the human experience. See Todd's WorkTODD SILER: ‘THE MIND AND ALL IT CREATES’ AND ‘MIND ICONS’ The Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art will present two exhibitions that explore how our understanding of the world and ourselves is informed by science and art. For the past 30 years, Siler has used art to search for the hidden meanings of nature’s connections: from the invisible strings of subatomic particles that connect massive clusters of stellar matter to the invisible strings of neurons and their cell-assemblies that connect us to our intellectual and creative endeavors. For more information please visit Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art. Meet Todd SilerTodd Siler graduated from Bowdoin College in 1975 (BA in Art History and Fine Arts) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981 (Master of Science in Visual Studies). Siler was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT from 1981-83 and 1991-92. He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology and Art from MIT in 1986, the first visual artist to receive a doctorate from this Institute. |
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