Neuroscientist and author Dr. Daniel J. Levitin and composer/songwriter Daniel Knox will discuss the art and science of writing music followed by a short performance. About Daniel Knox Daniel Knox is a songwriter and composer living and working in Chicago. He has scored for theater (Annie Baker's The Aliens at [...]
Clifford Ross pushes past the limitations of digital media in a variety of ways—from creating large-scale, high-resolution images that offer an ultra-sharp view of the natural world to advancing computer animation to dramatic levels of colorful abstraction. Ironically, he is equally committed to the craft of “analog” art—constantly seeking out [...]
Famed architect Daniel Libeskind in conversation with The Watermill Center Artistic Director, Robert Wilson, discussing the cultural discipline of architecture as it relates to the city as a stage About Daniel Libeskind An international figure in architecture and urban design, the architect Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to [...]
The Amazon basin is the world's largest source of fresh water. Yet as indigenous communities there have developed and their populations have become concentrated around government and missionary school houses, their traditional health and social systems have been overwhelmed by a series of challenges including parasitic, gastrointestinal. respiratory and other [...]
Moderated by Fernanda Eberstadt, writer Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the best-known members of Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot, is known for her dissident “performances” and indictments of Putin’s autocratic regime. After spending 21 months in jails and Siberian labor camps on charges of “hooliganism” following a 2012 performance that [...]
Moderated by Ben Sackler, musician and student Philip Glass is an American composer of innovative instrumental, vocal, and operatic music. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. [...]
Former astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman is currently Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hoffman has 36 years of experience related to spaceflight at NASA and MIT. Hoffman was working at MIT's Center for Space Research in [...]
Widely credited with transforming New York Fashion Week into one of the big four fashion events on the international circuit, native New Yorker Fern Mallis is a celebrated fashion consultant. Mallis is president of her own international fashion and design consultancy, Fern Mallis LLC. She also hosts a conversation series [...]
“Creativity equals self-knowledge. This knowledge can lead to wisdom, and wisdom to the understanding of others, and this understanding undoubtedly leads to tolerance,” explains opera legend Jessye Norman. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, Jessye Norman grew up amid the challenges of Jim Crow racism with the Civil Rights Movement [...]
Founder and creative director of Thinc, Tom Hennes is a distinguished designer and thought leader in exhibition design. His award-winning designs delight and awaken the senses, intellectually and aesthetically. His approach to design is grounded in a deep knowledge of history and world cultures, and a profound respect for the [...]