SmartArt: Exploring Science & Art
It's Science with a Creative Twist!
Opening December 20, 2008
See what happens when science and art collide in this new, family-friendly exhibit. Use sound to make a robot dance, feed a plant with your breath, turn music into shapes and much more. Discover the changes taking place all around us - from motion to sound, sound to shape, carbon dioxide to oxygen, or 3D to 2D - as envisioned by both art and science.
This exhibit, presented in English and Spanish, is brought to you by the creators of Bloodsuckers and DinoTracks. It is the fifth exhibit conceived and produced by the EcoTarium and its partners as part of the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative.
Exhibit Background
SmartArt: Exploring Science & Art is an unusual, interdisciplinary exhibit. The four museums in the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative (EEC), headed by the EcoTarium, partnered with local artists to explore change. Each EEC museum selected an artist from their state or province to partner with them in developing a pair of exhibit components. The museum-artist teams each chose a specific phenomenon to explore, such as the change from sound to motion. Thus visitors will experience the same phenomenon, or change, from both scientific and artistic perspectives. A fifth artist worked with the museums to develop a large, colorful component that serves as a centerpiece of the exhibit.
The Environmental Exhibit Collaborative
EcoTarium, Worcester, Massachusetts
ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont
Exhibition Production Center, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland, Maine
Participating Artists
Dave Blumenthal, Montpelier, VT
Exhibiting "Topoform"
www.studiozoic.com
Janet Van Fleet, Cabot, VT
Exhibiting "Disc Dance"
www.janetvanfleet.com
Peter Evonuk, Boston, MA
Exhibiting "WeBreather"
http://jameshull.com/peter_evonuk.html
Nicolas Reeves, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Exhibiting "GESTATIO o [SLUM / OPERA]"
www.hexagram.org
Randy Regier, Portland, ME
Exhibiting "Automata Dancers"
http://homepage.mac.com/rregier/
This exhibit is made possible by grants from Jane's Trust and Cabot Family Charitable Trust.