I wondered if an afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago speaking to Dylan Fish (MFA Candidate, Fiber & Material Studies, SAIC) and Daniel Johnstone (PhD candidate, Mathematics, UChicago) would be enough time to learn about the nature of collaboration between art and mathematics.

Having spent the past six years working as a photographer, Elisabeth Hogeman has transitioned to making films while at the University of Chicago. Her two-year film-in-progress, with the working title And you the bell, was screened for the Arts, Science & Culture Fellows this January, and enveloped us in its intimate, sensual, unsettling world.

What is the role of disorder in the formation of material structures? A perfect crystal is perfectly ordered, but in reality, crystals have defects that introduce elements of disorder into the system.

Commencing in Fall Quarter 2015, the Arts, Science & Culture Initiative began piloting a new inter-institutional program titled Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide in partnership with the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Graduate Division and the Earl & Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

Andrew McManus was selected this past year as one of six 2014-2015 Arts, Science & Culture Graduate Fellows after having received a 2013-2014 Graduate Collaboration Grant for his project Neurosonics: Rhythmic Stimulation of Epileptic Cell Cultures (with Tahra Eissa, PhD candidate, Neurobiology).

A selection of our 2014-2015 Graduate Collaboration Grantees were featured by the UChicago News. Read more here.

Williamson's work is playful, absurd, deadly serious, and often (quite literally) a little off-color.

Barbara Brotman of the Chicago Tribune discusses our new partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) as part of her report on SAIC's new focus on the intersection of art and science.

In their proposed project, Photographing Evolution, Fuldner and Dubay set out to create a photographic archive of local bird specimens that have been collected by The Field Museum over the past century.

I think poetry and history have a lot of useful work to offer one another; certainly, history helps us think about how experience has been conceptualized and modes of reading or understanding codified, and too history offers us language to begin thinking more fully and complexly about the confusions of the present.