Hybrids Presents: COLLECTIONS: Prior work from the class of 2009

Resources

RESOURCES – MATERIALS – TOOLS: Suggested

GOOD OLD FASHIONED BOOKS

About Art and Science:

• Art on the Edge and Over; Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society (1970’s – 1990’s). by Linda Weintraub.

• The Molecular Gaze; Art in the Genetic Age. By Susan Anker and Dorothy Nelkin.

About SCIENCE:

• THE CANON; A whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. Natalie Angier

About Biology:

• Ever Since Darwin; Reflections in Natural History Punctuated Equilibrium, he actually has TONS of books and articles out there. By Stephen Jay Gould.

• Rosalind Franklin; The Dark Lady of DNA. By Brenda Maddox

• Charles Darwin The Origin of Species. published 1859 . Most famous text about Evolution.

• Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: the New Science of Evo Devo. Comparative Embryological Development and new Evolutionary Theory. Copyright 2005 Sean B. Carroll, published by. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

• Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”. The science of ecology and the dangers of DDT – but written for the pubic.

• The Web of Life. By Fritjof Capra. The Interconnectedness of our environment and world, a little bit of theory, and a whole lot of awesome. Also wrote the book The Tao of Physic

• Our Stolen Future. By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and Jon Peterson Myers.

About Astronomy and Physics

• The Horse and the Iron Ball. By Jerry and Georgiana Allan.

• A Brief History of Time & Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawkings.

ON LINE RESOURCES

• Science Museum of Minnesota

http://www.smm.org/

• Listen to Science Friday’s interview about exhibit designers, watch videos and read!

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200907315

• Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/

• The Scientist

http://www.the-scientist.com/

• New York Academy of Sciences

http://www.nyas.org/WhatWeDo/SciencetheCity.aspx

• Science without Borders

http://www.scientistswithoutborders.org/default.aspx

• Science Friday

http://www.sciencefriday.com/feeds/radio

Art and Science

• Masaryk University Mendel museum in Bro, Czech Republic – Gallery of Contemporary art

http://mendel-museum.com/eng/1online/gallery.htm

• The Sciences – a now defunct art & science magazine that was just incredible!

http://www.nyas.org/publications/sciences.asp

• The new site related to this – they have a whole section dedicated to art and science

http://www.nyas.org/Topic.aspx?tid=2c70b42a-417e-4536-8946-92d4dd4ddda2

• The Green Museum

www.greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/sect1.html

• Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44922/title/Iron-ic_twist_deepens_cosmic_ray_puzzle

• Listen to Science Friday’s interview about exhibit designers, watch videos and read!

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200907315

VIDEO SEGMENTS

Biology

• ‘The Shape of Life” – PBS) -- home web site on: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/index.html

• DNA: Secret of Photo 51 – the Nova special about Rosalind Franklin – the true discoverer of the shape of DNA

Physics / Astronomy

• The Elegant Universe. (Nova on String Theory)

• Origins: 14 Billion years of Cosmic Evolution; hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

• Carl Sagan’s art filled segment from his book “the Pale Blue Dot”, the Video series “the Cosmos” etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0

Other Museums in the Twin Cities

Other museums and places to go:

• Free Museum Adventure Passes through the Minneapolis Public Library http://www.hclib.org/pub/info/MuseumAdventurePassFAQ.cfm

Locations that will donate two free admissions per pass

American Swedish Institute

The Bakken Museum

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary

Fire trucks, Railroads and Streetcars:

Firefighters Hall & Museum

Minnesota Streetcar Museum

Minnesota Transportation Museum

Hennepin History Museum

Historic Fort Snelling

Minnesota History Center

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Minnesota Zoo

The Landing - Minnesota River Heritage Park

The Museum of Russian Art

The Raptor Center (University of Minnesota)

Twin City Model Railroad Museum

Walker Art Center

The Works: A Technology Discovery Center

Bell Museum of Natural History

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Weisman Art Museum

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Prior work from the class of 2009

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