Natalie is invited to lead the Pittsburgh edition WALK along with ecologist Charles Bier and landscape architect Kara Smith. City as Living Laboratory/WALKS, a project begun by renowned artist Mary Miss, brings together artists, scientists and city leaders to cast a nuanced eye on the urban landscape as the participants walk through the environment. The
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Settles speaks in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s R.W. Moriarty Seminar Series
Noon, February 22, 2016 The talk entitled A Pilgrim in Art and Science follows the trail through the past fifteen years of the artist’s work in the worlds of art and science, including recent works and directions.
Image Journal features Natalie Settles
The feature article entitled, “Ecologies of Knowing: What Natalie Settles Learned in a Lab,” overviews the artist’s four-year residency with an evolutionary biology laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. The illustrated piece is thoughtful and nuanced with an analysis of Natalie’s body of recent work, her time based in the lab, and her emerging long-term,
The Heinz Endowments h Magazine features Settles’ Evolving Wallpaper
The Heinz Endowments’ h Magazine features an article describing Natalie’s ongoing Evolving Wallpaper project and residency with an evolutionary biology laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. The Heinz Endowments are generous funders and supporters of this innovative work.
Settles invited to speak to the Dartmouth College Department of Biological Sciences
The Dartmouth College Department of Biological Sciences and the Neukom Institute has invited the artist to speak about her ongoing work in art and biology and the development of the Evolving Wallpaper, a work of art and a system of scientific experimentation. Photo credit: Eli Burkian for dartmouth.edu
Settles to speak at DRAW2014: International Symposium on Contemporary Drawing
DRAW2014 has invited Natalie to discuss her use of coding, projection, and the principles of evolutionary biology as part of her drawing practice. The conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University seeks to highlight innovative contemporary art practice in drawing.
Invitation to speak by the Evolutionary Studies Collaborative of St. Francis College
Brooklyn, NY, November 4, 2013 The Natalie Settles will speak about her ongoing work based in an evolutionary biology laboratory to the Evolutionary Studies Collaborative, an interdisciplinary partnership of the humanities and sciences of St. Francis College. She will discuss how her work and ideas in art and science have developed in light of evolutionary theory
The journal Science features the Evolving Wallpaper
The journal Science reported on the Evolving Wallpaper project which is emerging from the artist’s residency in a University of Pittsburgh evolutionary biology laboratory. This project-in-development features projected, interactive patterns that evolve site-specifically in response to viewer interaction. It is at once a work of art and a system of scientific experimentation. “Random Sample: Wallpaper
Talk at the national convening of evolutionary biologists
Society for the Study of Evolution annual meetings, Snowbird, UT, June 21-30, 2013 The artist will give a talk at the national conference for the field of evolutionary biology about the Evolving Wallpaper. The work, currently in development, is both a work of contemporary art and a system for exploring experimental evolution and open questions in