A Conversation with Sarah Bryant & David Allen (2.4)

In this episode, Sara Whitver talks to book artist Sarah Bryant and ecologist and biology professor David Allen about their collaborative work over the years. Specifically, we will talk about their latest project, Acts of Translation, a five part collaborative project coordinated and designed by Bryant that addresses the communication and conversion of information across disciplines. Sarah Bryant is an internationally recognized letterpress book artist whose creation process uses multiple modes of digital creation and documentation in order to produce her final analog piece of art, a letterpress printed book. David Allen is associate professor of biology at Middlebury College, where his research focuses on forest ecology. They have collaborated multiple times to produce data-driven art. 

A Conversation with Amanda Koh (1.2)

In the second episode of ADHC Talks, Sara Whitver talks with Chemical Engineer Amanda Koh. Amanda runs the Koh Laboratory which “focuses on engineering soft materials and material interfaces to enable new stretchable electronics, soft robotics, smart devices, and porous materials.” One of Amanda’s current projects is to design a wearable device that helps singers measure their breath while singing, with the ultimate hope of making this device more widely available for breathing therapies. Amanda and Sara will talk about what it means to design and create wearable devices and what kinds of ways these wearable devices can change our perception of what it means to be human and understand our bodies relative to the world around us.