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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Visual Culture Program - "Peggy and Fred in Hell"

Film Screening Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmaker
Leslie Thornton, Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech; Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University,
  • Public Event
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

A Crash History of Drones
Katherine Chandler, Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University,
  • Public Event
Monday, April 29th, 2019
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Visual Culture Program - "Encoded Textiles"

Encoded Textiles: Engineering and Craftwork
Abdoulaye Konaté, Artist; Founding General Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseké Kouyaté in Bamako, Mali,
Daniela Rosner, Assistant Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering and Co-Director of the TAT Lab, University of Washington,
  • Public Event
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Maps, Monsters, and Natural History in the Age of Exploration
Surekha Davies, Cultural Historian and InterAmericas Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library,
Friday, April 19th, 2019
12:00pm 1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

Natural Features: Artists, Architects, and Scientists Imagine Space
Lize Mogel, Artist and Counter-Cartographer,
Jeff Stuart, Mission Design & Navigation Systems Engineer, JPL,
Dilip da Cunha, Architect and Planner; Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Adjunct Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University,
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Do Art and Science Share a Common Foundation?
Landon Ross, Los Angeles-based Artist,
Scott Chimileski, Microbiologist, Photographer, and Author, Harvard Medical School,
Monday, February 25th, 2019
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program

Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World
Scott Chimileski, Microbiologist, Photographer, and Author, Harvard Medical School,
Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Art + Tech Seminar

Registers of Time
Leslie Thornton, Media Experimentalist and Filmmaker,
Monday, November 12th, 2018
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis, Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587
Chet Van Duzer, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
5:00pm 7:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

The Space Barons and the New Space Age
Christian Davenport, Author, Staff Writer, The Washington Post,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Art + Tech Seminar

Critical Making
Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Director, Critical Making Lab; Director, Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing,
Monday, April 16th, 2018
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

"By far the most important event in my life": Charles Darwin's recollections of his voyage on HMS Beagle
Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University,
Monday, March 12th, 2018
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Exploring the solar system: Who has done it, how, and why?
Peter Westwick, Lecturer in History, Caltech; Research Professor of History, USC; Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West,
Monday, February 12th, 2018
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory

Maayan Amir, Artist and Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela, Artist and Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon, Senior Data Visualization Engineer, Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez, Professor of History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Monday, January 29th, 2018
7:00pm 8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art

Nonny de la Peña, Founder & CEO, Emblematic ,
Johnnemann Nordhagen, Founder of Dim Bulb Games; Co-founder of Fullbright ,
Brian Schrank, Professor of Game Development, Theory and Design, Depaul University ,
Friday, May 5th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

What are the ‘Global Middle Ages,' and Why Do They Matter?
Geraldine Heng, Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies, University of Texas, Austin,
Monday, April 24th, 2017
6:00pm 7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Computational Literature

Xtine Burrough, Artist, Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, UT Dallas,
Nick Montfort, Poet, Professor of Digital Media, MIT,
Brian Kim Stefans, Poet, Associate Professor of Literature, UCLA,
Eran Hadas , Poet, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist, Caltech,
Monday, February 27th, 2017
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

The Iberian Voyages of Discovery and the Origin of Modern Science: A Geological Perspective
Walter Alvarez, Professor of the Graduate School, Earth and Planetary Science Department, University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
6:00pm 7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Machines and Vision

Daniel Landau, Artist; Senior Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel; PhD Researcher, Alto University Media Lab, Helsinki,
Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
Janet Vertesi, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University,
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology
Ronald G. Blom, Principal Scientist (Retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
6:00pm 7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary

Sara Hendren, Artist, Design Researcher, and Assistant Professor of Design, Olin College of Engineering,
Ken Pickar, Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Friday, April 15th, 2016
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
6:00pm 7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Information Systems and Culture

Ricardo Dominguez, Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD,
Keller Easterling, Writer, Architect, and Professor in the Yale School of Architecture,
K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, Caltech,