Panel Discussion: Science Portrayed in Art, Monday, April 19th, 1pm at the Moraine Valley Library
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as the first science fiction novel, initiated a long running dialog between science and art. From Jules Verne, to Stanley Kubrick, to Eduardo Kac (artist who created the glow in the dark rabbit), artists have been absorbing scientific ideas and extending them to new dimensions within the laboratory of the mind. This panel will discuss the ways in which artists applied scientific ideas and techniques to their art, and ways that artists have communicated the possibilities that scientific discoveries hold.

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