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writing the diagnosis

Submitted by Caroline Wellbery on Tuesday, 07/07/2015 5:30pm
What is writing the story of one’s life if not a diagnostic exercise? We look at patterns, discard what’s irrelevant, and go through the old charts looking for early hints of trouble we’d once overlooked. The best diagnosticians see the whole picture, and within that picture discern connections that others have missed.

Quantum Dots Music

Submitted by Eathan Janney on Monday, 07/06/2015 8:11am
On Saturday I went on a morning run with fellow Djerassi resident and physicist Guillermo Munoz. As a result of a conversation about our respective fields of interest we decided to make a collaborative piece using music to explore the topic of quantum dots. I suggested that I would improvise some music which might sound like quantum dots and then ask him how to adapt it to better fit his own understanding. The idea was that the process of collaborative composition could be a tool for learning about this topic from him.

Settling In

Submitted by Tami Spector on Saturday, 07/04/2015 7:09am
Early morning, 5:30am, cup of strong PG Tips in hand I step outside Middlebrook D and snap a picture of the landscape, writ-large, with my i-phone. The moon full, or almost full, up above the marine layer covering the pacific, pushing against the green-gold hills. But enough of that -- I start reading an interview between the nature artist Alfio Bonanno and John Grande (JG) for my project on the natural and synthetic in chemistry, underlining and jotting marginalia as I read: traces in the landscape, artifice, nostalgia, estrangement.

The art of doing nothing

Submitted by Caroline Wellbery on Friday, 07/03/2015 2:44pm
The art of doing nothing   On arriving at Djerassi, I welcomed leaving productivity behind. I’d worked hard to jettison my usual obligations: teaching medical students, supervising residents, seeing patients and hardest of all to throw off, the editing tasks I normally do on a daily basis for our academy’s medical journal. So I was much reassured that I needed, while I was here for a delicious, unencumbered month, to do nothing.  

WELCOME to SDM 2.0

Submitted by Margot Knight on Friday, 07/03/2015 11:53am
I am grateful to be able to add to Patricia Bentson’s welcome to Scientific Delirium Madness 2.0. If you don’t know me, I am the Executive Director of Djerassi Resident Artists Program. With each new group of residents that arrives fresh-faced on our perch of the Santa Cruz Mountains, I feel a rush of excitement. The rush is particularly sweet for the new crop on the hill–the scientists and artists who will live in harmony and intellectual discourse for the next 30 days. It is like Christmas for me–with 13 brainy intellectual packages to unwrap.

SCIENTIFIC DELIRIUM MADNESS #2 HAS LAUNCHED!

Submitted by Patricia Bentson on Thursday, 07/02/2015 1:44pm
I'm having trouble fathoming that a whole year has gone by since the launch and first edition of Scientific Delirium Madness (SDM#1), the month-long artist/scientist residency hosted by the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in partnership with Leonardo/ISAST. Nevertheless, here we are!  I am thrilled to report that SDM#2 is indeed starting off with a bang -- and the excitement will continue, if the myriad all-over-the-map conversations among the participants during dinner last night are an indication of the energy and ideas we can expect to hear about over the coming weeks.