Kohler Fellows: Call for Artists – Paid Opportunity
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery CALL FOR ARTISTS “Life As We Don’t Know It” The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is seeking undergraduate student artists to be featured in an art-science fusion project culminating in the Spring of 2022. Artists will collaborate with scientists across disciplines to imagine what alien life might …
Kohler Fellow Blog: Science-Art Fusion and the Fundamental Nature of Life, Lena Vincent
Like so many others, I’ve been stuck at home for the better part of this year and unable to carry out my research in person. Normally, I’d be spending most of my days in the lab tending to my experiments designed to study the origins of life. Now, I’m …
Kohler Fellow Blog: The Workshop of Science, Kushin Mukherjee
The Workshop of Science Kushin Mukherjee I like to spend my moments of leisure practicing drawing. During my non-leisure hours, I’m a cognitive scientist in training, so my job is to think about thinking. Among the myriad questions about the human mind one could pursue, what I choose to think …
Kohler Fellow Blog Post: Inclusive Art, Aedan Gardill
My name is Aedan Gardill and I’m a physics graduate student at the UW, as well as an artist! I am very excited to join the Kohler fellowship as one of the art fellows to use both my science and art backgrounds! For the past 5 years I’ve been making …
Kohler Fellow Blog Post: “Evermoving wanderers:” Astrophotography and the Anthropocene, Kaitlin Moore
In November 1886, an essay by the director of the Lick Observatory, Edward S. Holden, appeared in Overland Monthly magazine. Holden, an astronomer and professor of mathematics (and former employee at the Washburn Observatory at UW Madison) devoted significant column space to the experimental promise of photography in the discipline of “physical” astronomy, soon …
Kohler Fellow Blog: The Reality of Pretending, Katherine E. Norman
When I was small, there were zombies in the basement. The light switch was at the bottom of the stairs which meant that, when coming upstairs, one had to flick the switch before climbing. Without fail, flicking that switch set my heart racing and legs bounding up the stairs …
Kohler Fellow Blog: Color Culture, Matt Ferens
Imagine living in a world where you did not have access to artificial colors – the color wheel, paints, computer screens, and so on. Imagine living, say, in ancient Greece. Would you use such words as “blue” or “green?” As it turns out, the ancient Greeks do not seem to …
