• Performance of Nolan Gasser's Cosmic Reflection at Bing Concert Hall
  • Poet Tracy K. Smith, the first speaker in the Imagining the Universe speaker series, reads from her poetry collection, Life on Mars
  • Stanford alumna and former astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison meets with Stanford students
  • Dr. Mae Jemison
  • Artist and Stanford Arts Research Resident Alyson Shotz discusses her work at the Cantor Arts Center
  • Alyson Shotz
  • Stanford Professor and physicist Dr. Andrei Linde delivers his lecture, "Universe or Multiverse?" at Cubberley Auditorium
  • Dr. Andrei Linde
  • Performance of "Imagining the Universe from Music, Spirituality, and Tradition" at CCRMA. This network concert was broadcaset live over the internet, and featured Khenpo Sodargye and musicians from UC Santa Barbara, Virginia Tech, and University of Guanjuatobe
  • Artist Matthew Ritchie speaks about "The Temptation of the Diagram" at Cantor Arts Center
  • The Stanford Symphony Orchestra's performance of Holst's The Planets at Bing Concert Hall
  • Students take a bow after performing The Planets
  • Loose in Some Real Tropics: Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Project, 1969-70 Exhibition at Cantor Arts Center
  • Loose in Some Real Tropics

Imagining the Universe – Photo Gallery

Stanford Arts | August 21, 2015

In 2014-2015 we let our imaginations soar to the cosmos.  An interdisciplinary consortium drawing on departments and programs from across the university presented a program that sought to deepen our understanding of the universe, and to appreciate what we can learn about ourselves from the way we depict our cosmos. Through exhibitions, performances, public conversations, and courses, this year-long collaborative project brought together scientists, artists, and humanists to explore the nature of the universe. 

Imagining the Universe was a collaborative campus-wide program at Stanford University reflecting the joint efforts of :

Themes:     Genres: Art & Art History, Music