Singing Darwin

A New Media Exhibition and Performance Celebrating the 150th Anniversary

of the Publication of On the Origin of Species

Armory Gallery, School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Exhibition November 4-25, 2009

Singing Darwin will be a three dimensional installation with changing sound and imagery, natural objects, and fossil specimens from the paleontology collection of the Virginia Museum of Natural History.  On November 19, 4-6 pm there will be a public reception to meet the artists and students who created Singing Darwin.

Special Event:  November 23, 7:00 PM through November 24, 7:00 PM

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species Singing Darwin will culminate in a 24-hour live performance and new media event.  The piece will begin at 7:00 PM Eastern Time on November 23 (midnight the 24th on Greenwich Meridian Time) and it will continue until 7:00 PM on November 24.  It will be a layered combination of original music, improvisation, dance, visual imagery, performance, and reading.   The entire text of On the Origin of Species will be included in the event.

Singing Darwin will be open to the public and web-streamed from the Armory Gallery.

Singing Darwin is directed by Prof. Carol Burch-Brown, in the School of Visual Arts.  A wide network of artists, musicians, scholars, students, dancers, designers, performers, computer scientists, and life scientists have participated in creating this unique event.