Multi-disciplinary artist Linda Alterwitz uses the authenticity of science and the believability that comes with diagnostic imagery to create work that has an electric presence. Combined with nature, the union elevates the two elements to a place of unexpected beauty.

The fusion of opposites best summarizes her work – the known versus the unknown, the rational versus emotional. At a time when science is so often maligned, she believes it to be a vast source of creative possibilities. Her hope is that her art will encourage people to consider the mysterious relationship between the unseen rhythms of the human body and our ongoing connection to a natural world in flux.

Alterwitz will talk about her journey, practice and inspirations as she weaves us through a unique perspective merging art and science. She will address several bodies of work completed over the past 16 years using medical diagnostic imagery as a tool for artistic inspiration. Included in the presentation is her recent series "Injection Site: Making the Vaccine Visible" where she uses infrared thermography to reveal traces of humanity's involuntary reaction to vaccination.

This event is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and the Keck Department of Integrated Sciences.