Almon recently received the award and opportunity to attend the Banff Center Artist Residency in the analogous fields art and science this coming May 2009 - June 2009. Below outlines information on the residency opportunity.
In the West there has been a convergence and divergence between the fields of arts and science since the Renaissance. More recently much has been said and written about the need for a sustained engagement between these fields of inquiry whose structures and origins, though quite similar, function differently culturally and aesthetically. Though there has been a great amount of borrowing between the two fields in recent years, this has been restricted to the area of technology. The arts and sciences respective relationship to qualitative and quantitative knowledge has traditionally created a distance between the two fields, inhibiting a sustained interaction. The intent of The Banff Centres Analogous Fields residency is to bring together scientists, researchers, and artists in order to explore, in theory and practice, the collaborative potential between the arts and sciences.
The thematic residency at Banff was created and supported by:
Faculty: Saul Ostrow, Charles Tucker
Guest Faculty: Suzanne Anker, Ellen K. Levy, Sam Bower
http://www.banffcentre.ca/