‘Einstein’s Brain’ Explores Science & Modes of Presentation @SpacesGallery

Einstein'sBrain

Sun 1/10 @ 2-5PM

SPACES Gallery describes its upcoming event, Einstein’s Brain, as “a series of performances and experimental lectures that interrogate science, myths and rationality through the tropes of the academic symposium format, asking questions about the presentation and communication of scientific information at a moment of rampant public doubt and skepticism about the position of science in society today.” Whew.

Greg Ruffing curated the event in conjunction with the People’s Museum of Revisionist Natural Itstory, which has an installation/exhibit currently viewable at SPACES. He’s also one of the presenters, along with Fulla Abdul-Jabbar who will talk about the relationship between posters and scientists; Karl Anderson who will explore the meaning of the lecture format; Jacob Koestler who will talk about terraforming; and Kate Sopko, who discusses the meaning of “narrative justice.”

Ruffing says he will “[weave] together grilled cheese sandwiches, snowfall patterns, birdsongs, cassette tapes, photography, capitalism, and popular myth to ask us whether or not the sleep of reason really does produce monsters.” That may or may not have anything to do with the photo he provided for the event (above) which features climate-denying Senator Jim “Snowball” Inhofe (R-OK) who claimed that his being able to throw a snowball on the Senate floor proved there is no global warming.

It sounds baffling but you have nothing to lose by checking it out — it’s free.

spacesgallery.org/einsteins-brain

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