"Science will…produce the date…, but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need…most of all the brains of poets, (and)also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians, writers in general."

-Lewis Thomas, Scientist & Author


Michael Rush filming "Music in this House" video.


Joy Wulke Director of Projects for a New
Millennium curated an exhibition of work by artists, architects, writers, musicians, and artists. All the works were emblematic of the concept that fusing art and science as a means for discovery, appreciation, and expression of the natural world enhances learning and sustains wonder. The works reveal the cultural and physical dimensions of natural phenomena.

Included in the exhibition were:


Bill & Mary Buchen
Sonic Architecture

Bob Crelin
The Wandering Star

Leila Daw
Environmental Artist

Mary Edna Fraser
Aerial Landscape Artist

Robert Greenler
Optical Physicist

David Margolin Lawson
Composer
Flashlight
Kinetic Artist

Alan Lightman
Author Einstein's Dreams
Thomas A.Lindsey
Solar Architect
Clyde Lynds
Kinetic Artist

Robert Perron
Aerial Photographer

Otto Piene & Elizabeth Goldring
Kinetic Artists
Tim Prentice
Kinetic Artist
Ken Robbins
Photographer

Michael Ruse
Film Maker

Chris Scala
Water Sculptor

Tod Siler
Multi Media Art/Science

David Smalley
Multi Media Artist

Dava Sobel
Author
Longitude & Galileo's Daughter
Tim Watkins
Kinetic Sculptor

Webb/Johansson/Zhang
Optical Landscape Design
Diane Willow
Environmental Sculpture
Joy Wulke
Environmental Sculpture

Sacred Center Sun Dance is a sundial by Joy Wulke in collaboration with Dan Kerwin of the Mohegan Tribe uses symbols to create orientations of time in human history and as expressed through the natural phenomenon of sunlight and seasons. Tim Watkins sculpture Mystics can be seen in the background.

Bob Crelin's Hale Bopp Workshop

A series of presentations accompanying The Shapes of Time and Tide included:

  • Bob Crelin of the Wandering Star Project presenting an afternoon with Comet Hale Bopp, learning all about comets, and their roles in history. Demonstrations about the life of a comet and how their tails are formed, how to chart and catch Hale-Bopp on film .
  • Tod Siler, Ph.D. and Art/Science artist presenting his work and theories covered in his book Think Like a Genius and Breaking the Mind Barrier.
  • Storytellers form the Mohegan Tribal Cultural Council sharing ancestral stories of the stages of the moon.

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