Art Meets Science #4: Nature Never Loses

In cooperation with Bonnefanten, Studium Generale organises special encounters between art and science. Our guest this time is the artist Carl Cheng. Together with scientist Harro van Lente, we will talk about his work. Over the last six decades, Cheng has worked in a variety of media to reflect on environmental change, the relevance of art institutions to their public and the role of technology in society.

Carl Cheng is joined by his assistant Alex Klein, Head Curator en Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary in Austin, Texas. There she is responsible for the exhibition program of the Jones Center (center Austin) and the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. Klein initiated the exhibition Nature Never Loses in close collaboration with Carl Cheng. 

They will have a conversation about art and science, the role of technology in society and the way we shape our future with Harro van Lente. He is full professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Maastricht University. He is one of the founding fathers of the Sociology of Expectations, which studies how representations of the future shape current socio-technical developments. He has published more than 140 journal articles, book chapters and edited volumes on technology dynamics, innovation policy and knowledge production.

Rob van Duijn, head of Studium Generale Maastricht, is the moderator.

The exhibition Nature Never Loses is the first in-depth survey of Carl Cheng’s prescient, genre-defying work from the 1960s to the present. From 10 May to 28 September in Bonnefanten. 

This programme is organised in cooperation with Bonnefanten