Collaborating at the Intersection of Art and Science
Todd Golub and Naoe Suzuki
Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 3-4pm
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | 415 Main Street, Kendall Square, Cambridge
Presented by Catalyst Conversations and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as part of HUBweek.
A fascinating conversation took place between Broad Institute founding core member, Todd Golub, and artist-in-residence Naoe Suzuki, as they explored ideation as a collaborative effort, with results that potentially enhance both the art and research produced.
Todd Golub is a founding core member of the Broad Institute and serves as the institute’s chief scientific officer and director of its Cancer Program. Golub is a world leader in understanding the basis of cancer, by creating and applying tools of genomics. He has made fundamental discoveries in the molecular basis of childhood leukemia, and laid the foundation for the diagnosis and classification of human cancers using gene expression analysis. He also pioneered the development of chemical screening approaches based on gene expression.
Before beginning her appointment at Broad Institute, current artist-in- residence Naoe Suzuki has been the recipient of many grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Artist Grant in Drawing/Printmaking/Artist’s Book, and Artist Grant in Sculpture/Installation from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Artists’ Fellowship, Inc., Puffin Foundation, and the Blanche E. Colman Award from Mellon Trust of New England. Her residency fellowships include Studios at MASS MoCA, Blue Mountain Center, Millay Colony for the Arts, Jentel, Centrum, and MacDowell Colony. Naoe was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is based in Waltham, MA. She holds an M.F.A. in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
The artist-in-residence program at Broad Institute provides an environment where revolutionary scientists and forward thinking artists can work, communicate, and learn together to benefit both science and art, and leverage the connection between the two disciplines to collaboratively provoke the creative thinking that drives innovation.
Let's continue the collaborative conversation in the Trazos room!
Trazos.club is a web platform for collaborative drawing designed by Andres Colubri. Participants from all over the world can create animated drawings in real time on a shared canvas, combining, coordinating, and playing with their digital traces. Drawing stations will be available adjacent to the reception following Collaborating at the Intersection of Art and Science. Come play!
Andres Colubri is a Broad researcher working in the visualization and modeling of biomedical data, as well as with interactive graphics applied to arts and design. He obtained a doctoral degree in mathematics in his native Argentina, and an MFA in Design Media Arts UC, Los Angeles. He is a member of the Processing Project, a programming language for making code-based art.