Engineering cuts across all three domains, but especially those of science and technology. The relationship with art is more complex. In some cases the art component is clear, as in the interface ...

A synthetic biology game, an interactive map of Chicago, data-influenced jewelry — these are all innovative projects made this past Fall Quarter by artists and engineers in Northwestern’s Data as Art ...

Three years ago, leaders at Northwestern Engineering and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art had an idea— to directly engage artists with engineers by embedding an Artist-at-Large with the ...

Examines the aesthetics, design, and engineering of sculpture, installation, and public art. Through research presentations, readings, and field trips, students learn about the complexities of making ...

Art has changed. It is no longer just the way we have expected it to be - provocative, beautiful or both. Over the past century, art has been bestowed with hi-tech engineering and suddenly this ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago in the Fayum region of Egypt—an agriculturally rich area west of the Nile Valley—a relatively healthy five-year-old girl died, likely of a bacterial or viral infection. Though ...

In turning the raw stuff of urban life into cinematic art, most directors work like potters: They focus on a single, representative point, shaping its curves to express the greater whole. Edward Yang, ...

The artist toiling in solitude has long been a romantic ideal. But it rarely holds in reality, especially for those who work at the civic scale, making pieces that straddle the blurry boundary between ...