Morrison House Presents: Andy Ilachinski, Photographer and Physicist
Physics and photography have always been inextricably linked. This talk will use the complexity theory to point to a vastly deeper level on which physics and art are related, and offer a glimpse of a new aesthetic grammar. In the end, the outwardly-directed journey toward objective realities, and the inner-passage toward subjective truths are revealed as but two interrelated aspects of a single creative thread of self-discovery.
Born on Long Island, NY, and the only son of an architect and artist, Andy's life has always straddled left– (analytical, logical) and right– (creative, artistic) brained worlds. On the left-brained side, Ilachinski earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. His list of accomplishments include authoring two graduate-level texts, pioneering complex systems theory for military operations, co-authoring a book on artificial-life models, and contributing to Springer-Verlag's Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science.
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On the right-brained side, Andy is an award-winning photographer who has exhibited in many shows and appeared in magazines including Lenswork, Focus, and Black & White. He is a founding member of Art's Photography Workshop in Lorton, VA. In 2010, Andy's work was featured at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD.
