Creative Science

How can we imagine new applications for science and technology through the lens of art and design?

We believe that an arts-based approach to scientific thinking has the power to enrich our society by engaging our communities in important areas of scientific inquiry.

Supported by Science Sandbox, the Creative Science track is focused on engaging creative practitioners who are exploring artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, digital manufacturing, and other science-based areas of research through their practice.

The track program includes professional development programs, mentorship, public programs, and networking opportunities tailored for Creative Science Track participants, featuring mentors and speakers from the Science Sandbox community. At the conclusion of the year, members will present at an event featuring projects incubated by Creative Experiments Track members. Additionally, we are pleased to be collaborating with the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative.

This track’s members include artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs with a specific project or an early stage business or nonprofit focused on engaging the general public in areas of scientific exploration. The common thread uniting this diverse cohort is that an aspect of their previous engages science or scientists, or they have a major project in progress that engages science and the arts.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

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Krystal Persaud

Grouphug

Grouphug is a sustainable technology company based in New York City. Founded by industrial designer Krystal Persaud, Grouphug demonstrates how creativity and design can push renewable energy to be more accessible. Grouphug’s flagship product is the Window Solar Charger, a window-mounted solar panel for apartment dwellers to effortlessly charge their devices off-the-grid. The company creates easy-to-install, stunning solar panels of any shape or size. Grouphug’s “Solar Cat” is a giant 140-watt cat-shaped solar panel installed at the historic New York Hall of Science.

Tin Nguyen & Ed Cutting

Tin&Ed are Australian artists and creative technologists based in New York. They create playful installations and experiences that illuminate the borderless dimension between art and science, the physical and the digital, the human and the non-human. They are driven by a deep curiosity for the natural world and the intricate ways we are connected to it. Their current work uses game engines and AI to simulate both real and imagined life-forms and ecosystems. They are also exploring how meteorological and biometric data can affect these digital simulations to create experiences that expand our ability to perceive the world around us. Their work has been shown at the Sydney Opera House, The Liu Haisu Museum in Shanghai, The Artscape in Cape Town, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and Pier 17 in New York.

Sue Huang

Sue Huang is an artist working at the intersection of new media, installation, and social practice. Her current work investigates our complex techno-cultural relationships to nature, exploring the ways that tactile, sensorial experiences of nature are mediated through emerging technologies. These explorations interrogate the socio-political power structures that shape our environment, suggesting a way forward through collective imagination and action. Her current project uses clouds, poetry, ice cream, and extraterrestrial communications to explore grief for the nonhuman. Other work includes a collaborative project investigating the temporalities of waste through environmental data and sound. Her past works have been presented at national and international venues, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati; Ars Electronica in Linz; and Kulturhuset in Stockholm, among others. Huang is currently an assistant professor of Digital Media and Design at the University of Connecticut.

Header image credit: Janet Biggs