I don’t often get the chance to participate in an interdisciplinary presentation like the September 25th panel at the William Benton Museum of Art, usually it’s artists talking to an art audience or scientists talking to those interest in the scientific subject matter. I got a lot of positive feedback from people there afterwards — they felt like they learned something. And so did I, from the other speakers, Ann Fridlund from NASA, who studies clouds and climate change, and Miad Yahzani from RTX, who explained his research into how contrails form and spread from airplanes, in order to find ways to reduce their contribution to global warming. UConn Professor George Matheou and Museum Director Nancy Stula deserve the credit for having the vision to mount the exhibition and put on this program.
If you’d like to know more about what we actually discussed, the UConn student newspaper published a recap of in which I was the artist referred to in the title “A scientist, artist and engineer walk into a room…” The program was in conjunction with the exhibition Clouds: A Collaboration with Fluid Dynamics which is on view at the museum through Dec. 14 and has six of my photographs in it.