Questions: Exhibiting Creative Hypotheses

The Multimedia Labs and the Science Center at Brown University are proud to announce a new collaboration centered around the idea of merging creative practices with the fundamental scientific process of asking questions, the hypothesis. Together, the MMLs and Science Center provided programming, support, and resources for members of the Brown community to engage in the idea of creative constraint and how thinking like a scientist may lead to some unexpected creative results. For a look at this year's submission process, click here.

The theme of this year's exhibition is “living in our new normal”. This pandemic has affected us all and has changed the way that we live in, process, and accept the world around us. What you see here, are the results and response by members of our community to an open call that we hoped would:

• generate creative ideas that could potentially lead to solutions, however fantastical to combat or think about COVID.

• produce work that explores new rituals created around quarantining, testing, social distancing, etc.

• experiment with new forms of expression around social relationships in our digital age.

• generate personal narratives that reflect our shared experiences of this new normal.

• construct other forms of creative work we have not anticipated.

Questions Exhibiting Creative Hypothesis was produced by Leo Selvaggio and Nicole Williams on behalf of the Multimedia Labs, Science Center, and Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, with support from the Brown Arts Initiative and others.