Hosted by SCI-Arc History + Theory coordinator Marrikka Trotter, this episode of the Arc is about embodiment. We hear from artist Young Joon Kwak, whose work focuses on queer bodies, how they have been represented in art history, and how they form communities. Then, speculative architect and SCI-Arc faculty member Jennifer Chen talks about world-building and how design can flesh fictions into alternative realities. Finally, Dr. Sunita Puri speaks on dying, the unknowability of the universe, and the different ways of being embodied within it.
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Hosted by SCI-Arc History + Theory coordinator Marrikka Trotter, this episode of the Arc is about embodiment. We hear from artist Young Joon Kwak, whose work focuses on queer bodies, how they have been represented in art history, and how they form communities. Then, speculative architect and SCI-Arc faculty member Jennifer Chen talks about world-building and how design can flesh fictions into alternative realities. Finally, Dr. Sunita Puri speaks on dying, the unknowability of the universe, and the different ways of being embodied within it.
Examining ‘Scale’ through the prevalence of architectural models with Tom Wiscombe, discussing the usefulness of models within film with production designer for James and the Giant Peach
and Nightmare Before Christmas Bill Boes, and delving into the way that scale is interpreted within the brain with neuroscientist Dr. Yawende Pearse.
SCI-Arc Undergraduate Program Chair Tom Wiscombe's work involves creatively reimagining the role of models in architectural design. Dr. Yewande Pearse, a researcher at the Lundquist Institute at UCLA with a PhD in neuroscience and genetics focusing on rare diseases of the brain, investigates DNA—the smallest building blocks from which we are made—as well as the simultaneously massive datasets that track mutations across entire populations. Finally, Bill Boes, production designer and art director best known for his work on productions like Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Planet of the Apes, and Alien, will talk about how scale factors into filmmaking.
The Arc
Hosted by SCI-Arc History + Theory coordinator Marrikka Trotter, this episode of the Arc is about embodiment. We hear from artist Young Joon Kwak, whose work focuses on queer bodies, how they have been represented in art history, and how they form communities. Then, speculative architect and SCI-Arc faculty member Jennifer Chen talks about world-building and how design can flesh fictions into alternative realities. Finally, Dr. Sunita Puri speaks on dying, the unknowability of the universe, and the different ways of being embodied within it.
