Biologists craft stories about the living world through intricate and often intimate practices of making, thinking, and communicating through images. The field of developmental biology in particular has retained, perhaps more than any other life science, its roots as a visual science in an increasingly data-infused era. Figure 1. In the Beginning meditates on the status of images of developing organisms as sites of observation, delineation, framing, exploration, and storytelling across art and science. It experiments with what happens when images are brought out of dematerialized scientific knowledge systems through media now primarily considered the purview of art.
Beatrice Steinert, will be defending her dissertation, Multicellular Media: Visual Practice in Developmental Biology, 1860-present to her ad hoc Committee on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and History of Science as well as her CMP Capstone Figure 1. In the Beginning on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 2 p.m. in Science Center B-10 and over Zoom.
The defense will be followed by a viewing of her Capstone installation in the Science Center Central Arcade as well as reception outside of SC B-10.
2:00 PM (SC B-10 and Zoom): Presentation of dissertation and CMP Capstone
3:00 PM (Science Center Central Arcade and outside SC B-10): CMP Capstone viewing and reception
Email Program Coordinator Cozette Russell to request Zoom link.