Navigating Cancer with Science and Art (NCSA)
Sci/Art Organization for professionals who are interested in exploring cancer. Housed at and supported by the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center located at Biodesign, a research facility at Arizona State University.
NCSA
NCSA germinates and supports collaborations between professional artists and scientists that empower multidisciplinary approaches to the discovery of novel ways to communicate cancer to diverse communities.
The C Word Exhibition
Now at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Facility at New Lebanon, New Hampshire. (https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/arts)
Who Are We?
Core Team
Cristina Baciu
Max Dean
Erin McGee Ferrell
Diana Murray, Co-chair
Pamela Winfrey, Chair
Chengyue Wu
Members
Our members are made up of professional artists, scientists, and researchers who are eager to create projects with people outside of their own disciplines.
Representative Members (list will keep growing)
Pamela Winfrey
Pamela Winfrey is currently the Director and Curator of the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center’s Arts Program and the Scientific Research Curator for the Athena Aktipis Lab (cooperation and conflict) at Arizona State University (ASU). Her expertise is in the intersection between science and art and the human narrative that connects these two disciplines. She has a long history of curating exhibitions, performances, and events that explore a wide variety of topics including cancer, mental health, brain computer interface (BCI), digital clothing, and largescale performance. She is also an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist and enjoys writing works that explore the relationship between surrealism, science, and perception. She is an emeritus at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (2016), served as the lead curatorial consultant for emerging artforms at Creative Capital (2009, 2018), and represented the United States on the Interactive Arts panel at Ars Electronica in Linz (2006). She has an MFA in television and screenwriting from Stephens College, MO. (2017), an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State (1994), and a BA in theater from Macalester College in St. Paul, MINN. (1979). For more information, go to: www.pamelawinfrey.com
Brenda Hutchinson
My work is based on interaction with the public and non-artists through personal, reciprocal engagement with listening and sounding. I am interested in collaborating one on one with individuals as well as with groups of people (of all ages) to develop projects, performances, and interactive devices based on our conversations and shared experiences. Through workshops,
residencies and events using storytelling, games and activities with sound, music and listening, we may also create personal artifacts and tangible evidence of our interactions to share with
others.
More information is available on the website: http://www.sonicportraits.org
(bio not updated for a long time!!!) other links are useful
Link to article about interactive device I created with/for Ann Chamberlain:
https://econtact.ca/12_4/hutchinson_memory.html
boredomresearch
Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, as boredomresearch have been collaborating with scientists to produce digital artworks that engage audiences with new ideas for over 20 years. Using gaming, animation and film tools they create poetic and cinematic expressions, presenting biological insights and creative speculations that encourage us to understand our being from unfamiliar perspectives. They are interested in concepts of environmental health, both inside and outside the body, with recent works developed in collaboration with: cancer researchers, immunologists, neuroscientists, ecologists and epidemiologists. boredomresearch engages with individual researchers to understand their methods and motives as well as their feelings and intuitions, opening new channels of expression not normally available to the scientist.
Cristina Baciu, Ed.D.
Cristina works as a research program manager collaborating with interdisciplinary teams at the intersection of cooperation and cancer evolution research at Arizona State University. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the ACE Scholars Program and the Cooperation Scholars Program, training opportunities for undergraduate students that combine scientific mentoring with career and professional development sessions. Cristina holds two bachelor's degrees (economics and psychology) and a doctorate in educational leadership in higher education. Both practice and research-wise, Cristina is interested in mentoring undergraduate college students, barriers to students’ success, and the intersection between technology and higher education.
Cristina is an expert on mentoring. She has developed both mentoring (in-person) and e-mentoring (online) programs for various labs and research centers at Arizona State university and beyond. She is experienced in developing and administering mentoring climate surveys and using the data to inform decision-making and creating responsive programs that meet students where they are at.
There are three Cs at the core of Cristina's work on mentoring: collaboration, communication, and community.
For more information, please visit Cristina's website.
Michael Torlen
Michael Torlen is a painter, printmaker, author, and Professor Emeritus of Purchase College, State University of New York, where he taught painting and drawing in the School of Art+Design. He earned a BFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MFA at The Ohio State University. He has exhibited widely, and his work is in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections.
Intellect Books will release his book, STUDIO SEEING: A Practical Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Perception in 2023. In 2016, after moving to Maine, Torlen received a cancer diagnosis. During cancer treatments,
two inspiring ideas for paintings emerged: medical technological imagery and cancer chemo colors. These ideas informed Memento Mori, an ongoing series of paintings exhibited at Cove Street Arts in 2022. Jorge S. Arango wrote in the Maine Sunday Telegram Audience Art Review,
February 20, 2022, “Torlen’s ‘Memento Mori’ paintings don’t come off as moralizing. Instead, they feel open, vulnerable and, ultimately joyful.”Torlen’s curiosity about medical imaging technology used to envision and treat cancer, as well as his interest in learning more about the professional scientists and artists who are exploring cancer attracted him to the Navigating Cancer with Science and Art (NCSA) working group.
For more information see
www.michaeltorlen.comErin McGee Ferrell
Embedding Technology into 2D Art
Erin McGee Ferrell is a contemporary Maine artist working with technology and science. Along with creating large scale interactive paintings, McGee Ferrell offers workshops where participants create embedded audio and video 2D art. McGee Ferrell is creator of The Pirate Crew Paper Doll Educational Tool for newly diagnosed patients facing mastectomy.
She would like to offer original artwork, artist talks, and workshops.
For more information go to: www.ArtistAMERICAN.com
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