Filigrees of Form: A Stitch in Time

Moderated by Suzanne Anker with Joseph DeGiorgis, Frank Gillette, and Margaret Wertheim

Time is being accelerated as new technologies and biological degradation bring forth rapid alterations in nature—from genetic engineering to tissue culturing, from the incessant depletion of coral reefs and their ecology to botanical farming moving indoors. How can we adjust to these environmental changes? Can we propose a new arcadia, coupled with advances in mathematical models and their projections, or are some of nature’s forms too complex to execute in that manner? Looking at biology as technology, our panel discussion will underscore the sensitivities inherent in forms of living entities and the roles these forms play in knowledge production through art and science.

This program is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS.