Tuesday, December 02nd, 2008

Inquiry Presents:

Show Description: 

At 9PM we speak with artist, agricultural activist, and performance cook LEAH GAUTHIER, who is currently growing a bumper crop of heirloom melons at the museum that will be served to the public as artwork you can eat. Tune in and find out about Leah’s work with sculpting fall leaves, drilling pine needles into walls and the amazing spectacle of a five foot wide raspberry tart.  Leah’s website is:

http://www.leahgauthier.com 

Then at 9:30, we speak with artist, painter and animator EVA LEE and DR. JAMES COAN, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia. Dr. Coan has been conducting fascinating experiments on creating images of the brains of subjects experiencing five different emotions. Eva Lee has taken Dr. Coan’s data and created beautiful and fantastic three dimensional animated “emotional” landscapes . Sound wild? Well tune in and found out all about this new and exciting partnership between art and science.

Dr. Coan’s website is: http://www.affectiveneuroscience.org

Eva Lee’s website is: http://www.christiansonlee.com/evalee.htm 

For more information on the DECORDOVA MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE PARK go to: http://www.decordova.org/index.html 
Air Date and Time: 
Sunday the 10th at 9pm