Valentine's Day at Science Gallery: Survival of the Beautiful - SOLD OUT!

This Valentine's Day, Science Gallery will bring Art and Science together in a unique and timely event about sexual selection. In our first ART/SCIENCE Salon, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg and TCD evolutionary geneticist Aoife McLysaght will be talking genetics and beauty.

On a day when everything's coming up roses, we'll be kicking off with a buffet of beautiful tastes to get you in the mood before embarking on our investigation of sexual selection.

Hosted by Science Gallery Leonardo Dylan Haskins, get ready for an evening of beauty, science, and sensory delight. Afterwards, Rothenberg will sign copies of his just-released book Survival of the Beautiful.

Here is a clip of Rothenberg talking about why evolution selects for beauty and art, and the inspiration for his new book:

Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, also published in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. In 2006 it was turned into a feature-length TV documentary by the BBC - see a clip below:

Rothenberg has also written Sudden Music, Blue Cliff Record,  Hands End, and Always the Mountains.  His articles have appeared in Parabola, Orion, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, Kyoto Journal, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and Sierra, and his writings have appeared in at least eleven languages.  His last book Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales, is being turned into a TV documentary for Canal 3 in France, and an American feature documentary is under development.

He is currently collaborating with researchers from CUNY, NYU, and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology on the quantification of the musicality of nightingale songs, a project that stems from his earlier book on bird song and music.  His latest major label music CD, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House, a duet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, came out on ECM in May 2010.  In 2011 Rothenberg also released CDs with pianist Lewis Porter and electronic musician Scanner.

Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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