Arts & Lectures Event Examines the Roles of Fungi
The third Arts & Lectures event of the spring semester features a panel of scientific and artistic thinkers for a deep look at the roles of fungi on the planet and microscopic elements within complex systems.
“From Fungi to the Planet: Complex Systems in Science and Art” starts at 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 17 in the USU Ballroom. Reserve tickets online via the Arts & Lectures website.
Scientists from the Treseder Lab at UC Irvine will examine fungi’s layered relationship to planetary life and discuss how fungi mediate and connect distant ecosystems. David Familian, also from UC Irvine, will introduce life webs and AI as complex systems, a topic that comes to focus in the art exhibition “Future Tense: Art, Complexity and Uncertainty.” Moving across perspectives in art and science, the panelists will reframe how we picture the planet. The lecture will be preceded by a workshop from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Scientists from the Treseder Lab include Kathleen Treseder and researchers Eduardo Misael Choreno Parra and Melanie Taleen Hacopian. CSUSM arts, media and design professor Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio, a Brazil-based professor at UNICAMP, also will be featured at the event.
CSUSM’s Arts & Lectures series offers a diverse lineup of artistic, cultural and scholarly events every semester based on input and proposals from students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members.
What: Arts & Lectures event “From Fungi to the Planet: Complex Systems in Science and Art”
Who: Scientists from the Treseder Lab include Kathleen Treseder and researchers Eduardo Misael Choreno Parra and Melanie Taleen Hacopian; David Familian, artistic director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine; CSUSM arts, media and design professor Lucy HG Solomon; and Cesar Baio, Brazil-based professor at UNICAMP
When: 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday, Feb. 17
Where: USU Ballroom
Cost: Free for CSUSM students, faculty, staff and alumni; $5 for community members
Tickets: Visit the Arts and Lectures ticket webpage
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