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Commissioned for the Stanford Computing and Data Science building (CoDa), Camille Utterback’s site-specific interactive installation Fathom raises questions regarding the connections between our physical bodies, our data, and how we seek to understand and depict ourselves in the world.
Utterback worked with Humanities and Sciences Professor and Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Risa Wechsler and SLAC Research Software Developer Ralf Kaehler to select layers from one of their 3D simulations for the glass design. Projections on this triangle include videos of dark matter simulations from both Wechsler’s and Physics and Particle Physics and Astrophysics professor Tom Abel’s research. Read more here On March 9, 2025, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’s Los Angeles Committee hosted an event for members and guests on Science and Creativity, which included a conversation moderated by Tom Rosenblum, including Risa with Andrea Ghez and Kip Thorne. They spoke about creativity within science and across disciplines. More on the conversation here: www.amacad.org/news/science-and-creativity  An article from Der Spiegel highlights the "Planetary Summit" in Venice with this beginning: "How does it feel to experience a turning point? To be right in the middle of things when the foundations of our world view are being shifted? Perhaps a bit like this November weekend at the Palazzo Diedo in Venice : confusing and educational, megalomaniacal and inspiring – and often as if a bunch of very smart people had drunk far too much coffee.
"13.8 billion years ago," cosmologist Risa Wechsler explains to the audience in the first round of discussions, "our universe began to expand extremely quickly. In this fraction of a second, all matter was created." Researcher Christine J. Winter, who is sitting with her on the stage, enthusiastically joins in. "We are all made of ten percent hydrogen - that means ten percent of each of us is 13.8 billion years old!" she exclaims. "I don't know what to think about that!" The audience probably doesn't know it at this point either. But the weekend has only just begun." |
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