Seeding and Sowing: Unpacking an Idea

Deb Todd Wheeler, Eric Gunther, and Andrew Barry

November 16, 2016

Milton Academy, Milton, MA

As a school –wide program at Milton Academy, Deb Todd Wheeler, Eric Gunther, Andrew Barry, and Deborah Davidson shared some answers to these questions, among others: How do ideas and then the manifestation of those ideas materialize? How do artists, designers and scientists deal with process and failure?

Deb Todd Wheeler is a media artist who produces installations, photographs, and sculptural objects that explore the aesthetic impact of human productivity in the natural world.

Eric Gunther is a partner in Sosolimited, which has been pioneering the creative applications of new technologies since its founding in 2003. Justin Manor, John Rothenberg, and Eric Gunther met at MIT where they collectively studied physics, computer science, architecture, arts and music. Today they are a team of experts who move fluidly between design and development to imagine and build the new. 

Andrew Berry is currently an undergraduate advisor in the Life Sciences and Lecturer on Organismic & Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He is interested in genetic and statistical approaches to detecting adaptive evolution (instances of positive natural selection) in genomes. He is especially fascinated by islands because they are so often home to remarkable evolutionary innovations and in general, Berry is captivated by the role of natural history in the development of evolutionary thinking. 

Deborah Davidson is founder of Catalyst Conversations as well as an educator and artist. She has an abiding interest in language; her work articulates her long fascination with the issue of voice, and the correspondence of sound. Underlying the work is the attempt to resolve the conversation between wanting to reveal all and the desire to obliterate at the same time.