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Najma Akhtar is a singer, composer, and actress who has been in heavy rotation in the World Music orbit for over 20 years. She was born and raised in England but sings in the traditional style of India, her ancestral homeland. In this presentation from 1991, she performs many songs with her band, and openly discusses her unique cultural and musical fusions.
Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All
Date: September 17, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art Some moments are so perfectly arresting that they can change the course of our lives. Here, widely influential psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi meditates on those inciting moments of inspiration, and how we might find them anywhere.
Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All
Date: September 10, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): For John Edmark, geometry is a foundation for creating beauty. Here he explains his interest in unexpected natural phenemona, and how visitors to his kaleidoscopic piece, The Geometron, can turn simple shapes into surprisingly intricate patterns of reflection.
Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All
Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art Master weaver Stacy Speyer explains how her relationship to math morphed from casual curiosity into an intensive study of the multifaceted shapes known as polyhedra. After re-creating these fundamental geometric forms in different materials, she developed her own variations and juxtapositions.
Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All
Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Art Tauba Auerbach talks about randomness, the unity of art and science, and the way her Geometry Playground piece uses the beauty of geometry to draw visitors into a zone of comfort with math and their own artistic capabilities.
Project: Geometry Playground | Browse All
Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): In this short interview with Dan Goods, designer, artist, and visual strategist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goods discusses his art piece, "Jupiter Fog Pool." The piece, inspired by the Juno mission to Jupiter, was part of "Cosmological Constructs," our After Dark event of September 2010.
Project: After Dark | Browse All
Date: September 3, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Art, Astronomy/Space Science
