Past Events

Past Events

Mindfulness & Anti-Racism Speaker Series Finale

Join us for what may be the final event in this series that began in 2021. We will learn from and reflect on the poetry of our 8th speaker Dr. Larry Ward.
Zoom

The Incubator Unbound: Storytelling

Every person, every place, and every moment has a story. These stories may change over time, but their telling influences our understanding of things, moments, processes, and people. Join us for a deep dive into the art and act of storytelling, and how it creates meanings of the past, in the present, and for the future.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

mosAIcs & brAIns : the computational aesthetics of mosaic art

The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures at Washington University in St. Louis invites you to join an exciting lineup of leaders in the field to address the synergy between art, aesthetics, and AI when applied to contemporary mosaic art. The symposium's objective is to encourage the fusion of (i) contemporary mosaic art, (ii) established computational aesthetics paradigms, and (iii) novel opportunities arising from computational creativity. We invite participants to envision links between their present research and one or more of the three listed scholarly directions.
Holmes Lounge

The Incubator Unbound: Scales of Life

Life thrives across scales, from the microbiome to the world's forests, throughout urban cityscapes, and perhaps even on exoplanets light years away. Bring your openness and curiosity for a conversation that rethinks the big questions of our time.
Lobby of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Mindfulness and the Crisis of Belonging: Finding Our Ground in a Divided World

In a time of political polarization and rising backlash against anti-racism efforts, how can mindfulness offer more than personal stress relief?
Zoom

Discover the performing arts in the digital age at Interpolations 2025

All are welcome to the public sessions of Interpolations 2025, an annual think tank devoted to exploring, envisioning, and extending the performing arts and digital technologies in the twenty-first century.
Holmes Lounge

The Incubator Unbound: Resilience and Hope

What do resilience and hope mean for you? Join our conversation on these themes with experts from diverse fields.
Lobby of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum