Powered by Research Commons at University Libraries. STEAM Salon is an informal series held in the STEM Library featuring faculty and student speakers in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics who engage and inspire our university community with their current research.

Please note that all Fall 2020 events will be held virtually via Zoom. Registrants will receive an event link in their confirmation email.

For this presentation, we welcome Professor Brandon Morse of the University of Maryland Department of Art who will be discussing his latest work Equator.

Morse is a Washington, DC based artist who works with generative systems as a means to examine the ways in which physical phenomena, such as entropy and emergence, can function in ways that are both poetic and metaphorical.

Through the use of code, and the creation of custom computer software, he creates simulations of seemingly complex systems to create video and video installations that seek to draw parallels between the ways in which these systems work and the ways in which we, both individually and collectively, navigate the world around us.

Prof. Morse has been teaching at Maryland since 2000. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and his MFA in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University. He has exhbited his work in digital video and sound installation nationally and internationally, including:

• Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
• Dupont Underground, Washington, DC
• American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
• Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
• Kusthalle Detroit, Detriot, Michigan