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 ...

Helen Donis-Keller, of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, mixes art and science in self-portraits. (Images courtesy of Helen Donis-Keller) The problem with most art that deals with ...

SANTA FE — If you’re looking for art to see in Santa Fe this week, Will Clift’s “Still Points, Turning World” at Gerald Peters Contemporary is worth checking out. Feats of precarious balance, Clift’s ...

A songbird lies on bare concrete, its golden feathers askew. It twitches, chirps weakly. After several seconds, it falls silent and goes still. This tragic scene doesn’t play out on a sidewalk. The ...

“Help, stop, listen and think” appeared to artist Eva Goetz in a dream as robots’ warning to humanity. Her concerns for the ethical dilemma of technology led her to teach the project-based, ...

Art + Engineering Initiatives are opportunities for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff to explore the creative pathways that artists and engineers carve out in the world. Though their purposes ...

ARCATA, Calif.--I'm riding along through the empty streets of this coastal college town on what can only be described as the bicycle Picasso would have built if he'd been told to throw a giant ...

I recently “became one” with a work of art devised by multimedia artist Mariko Mori. The teardrop-shaped structure titled Wave UFO is large enough to hold three travelers on a journey that is a fusion ...

Deb Chachra, Professor of Engineering at Olin College of Engineering, is the author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Riverhead/Torva, 2023), which was named a Best ...