How can artists, scientists, and designers collaborate to develop new methods of public engagement around marine conservation awareness?
swissnex San Francisco will host a conversation with artist, diver, and science communicator Marie Griesmar, currently based in San Francisco as a Pier 17 Science Studio fellow. In 2016, Griesmar took part in an art residency in Saudi Arabia, where, in collaboration with the “Reef Genomic Lab” of the Red Sea Research Center at KAUST University in Jeddah, she explored how to generate evolutionary sculptures in the Red Sea.
She is interested in water, both as an element and environment. Among other approaches, the practice of scuba diving regularly enabled her to invest a new space of creation to produce her work in interaction with and within the element of water.
Marie will provide insights into her artistic process and her strategies for elevating engagement around coral reefs and global environmental change.
Program
6:30 pm — doors open7:00 pm — talk with Marie Griesmar8:00 pm — networking9:00 pm — doors close
Bio
Marie Griesmar is a Swiss artist based between Lausanne and Zurich. Her practice is at the intersection between utopian aims and reality. Through installations, paintings, but also publications, Griesmar evokes the dialectic between visible and invisible as well as the phenomenology of perception. Her work on generative coral reefs led her to pursue a project with the Swissnex Pier 17 Science Studio in San Francisco, where she’ll be working during summer 2018. Deploying a range of references that combines contemporary philosophy, marine biology, or even some post-structuralist writings, she develops a polysemic work imbued with a formal, ecological and narrative research. Griesmar obtained her MFA at the University of Art of Zurich (ZHdK) in 2016. She did her BFA in 2014 at the University of Art and Design of Geneva (HEAD) and studied for a six-month period at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (AdbK).
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swissnex San Francisco will host a conversation with artist, diver, and science communicator Marie Griesmar, currently based in San Francisco as a Pier 17 Science Studio fellow. In 2016, Griesmar took part in an art residency in Saudi Arabia, where, in collaboration with the “Reef Genomic Lab” of the Red Sea Research Center at KAUST University in Jeddah, she explored how to generate evolutionary sculptures in the Red Sea.
She is interested in water, both as an element and environment. Among other approaches, the practice of scuba diving regularly enabled her to invest a new space of creation to produce her work in interaction with and within the element of water.
Marie will provide insights into her artistic process and her strategies for elevating engagement around coral reefs and global environmental change.
Program
6:30 pm — doors open7:00 pm — talk with Marie Griesmar8:00 pm — networking9:00 pm — doors close
Bio
Marie Griesmar is a Swiss artist based between Lausanne and Zurich. Her practice is at the intersection between utopian aims and reality. Through installations, paintings, but also publications, Griesmar evokes the dialectic between visible and invisible as well as the phenomenology of perception. Her work on generative coral reefs led her to pursue a project with the Swissnex Pier 17 Science Studio in San Francisco, where she’ll be working during summer 2018. Deploying a range of references that combines contemporary philosophy, marine biology, or even some post-structuralist writings, she develops a polysemic work imbued with a formal, ecological and narrative research. Griesmar obtained her MFA at the University of Art of Zurich (ZHdK) in 2016. She did her BFA in 2014 at the University of Art and Design of Geneva (HEAD) and studied for a six-month period at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (AdbK).
How can artists, scientists, and designers collaborate to develop new methods of public engagement around marine conservation awareness?
swissnex San Francisco will host a conversation with artist, diver, and science communicator Marie Griesmar, currently based in San Francisco as a Pier 17 Science Studio fellow. In 2016, Griesmar took part in an art residency in Saudi Arabia, where, in collaboration with the “Reef Genomic Lab” of the Red Sea Research Center at KAUST University in Jeddah, she explored how to generate evolutionary sculptures in the Red Sea.
She is interested in water, both as an element and environment. Among other approaches, the practice of scuba diving regularly enabled her to invest a new space of creation to produce her work in interaction with and within the element of water.
Marie will provide insights into her artistic process and her strategies for elevating engagement around coral reefs and global environmental change.
Program
6:30 pm — doors open7:00 pm — talk with Marie Griesmar8:00 pm — networking9:00 pm — doors close
Bio
Marie Griesmar is a Swiss artist based between Lausanne and Zurich. Her practice is at the intersection between utopian aims and reality. Through installations, paintings, but also publications, Griesmar evokes the dialectic between visible and invisible as well as the phenomenology of perception. Her work on generative coral reefs led her to pursue a project with the Swissnex Pier 17 Science Studio in San Francisco, where she’ll be working during summer 2018. Deploying a range of references that combines contemporary philosophy, marine biology, or even some post-structuralist writings, she develops a polysemic work imbued with a formal, ecological and narrative research. Griesmar obtained her MFA at the University of Art of Zurich (ZHdK) in 2016. She did her BFA in 2014 at the University of Art and Design of Geneva (HEAD) and studied for a six-month period at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (AdbK).
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swissnex San Francisco will host a conversation with artist, diver, and science communicator Marie Griesmar, currently based in San Francisco as a Pier 17 Science Studio fellow. In 2016, Griesmar took part in an art residency in Saudi Arabia, where, in collaboration with the “Reef Genomic Lab” of the Red Sea Research Center at KAUST University in Jeddah, she explored how to generate evolutionary sculptures in the Red Sea.
She is interested in water, both as an element and environment. Among other approaches, the practice of scuba diving regularly enabled her to invest a new space of creation to produce her work in interaction with and within the element of water.
Marie will provide insights into her artistic process and her strategies for elevating engagement around coral reefs and global environmental change.
Program
6:30 pm — doors open7:00 pm — talk with Marie Griesmar8:00 pm — networking9:00 pm — doors close
Bio
Marie Griesmar is a Swiss artist based between Lausanne and Zurich. Her practice is at the intersection between utopian aims and reality. Through installations, paintings, but also publications, Griesmar evokes the dialectic between visible and invisible as well as the phenomenology of perception. Her work on generative coral reefs led her to pursue a project with the Swissnex Pier 17 Science Studio in San Francisco, where she’ll be working during summer 2018. Deploying a range of references that combines contemporary philosophy, marine biology, or even some post-structuralist writings, she develops a polysemic work imbued with a formal, ecological and narrative research. Griesmar obtained her MFA at the University of Art of Zurich (ZHdK) in 2016. She did her BFA in 2014 at the University of Art and Design of Geneva (HEAD) and studied for a six-month period at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (AdbK).
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