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Title: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Inaugural Science Meets Art Festival to Debut

United States, 22nd Jul 2024 - the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Center for Humanities and Modern Biology host the inaugural “Science Meets Art” Festival. This momentous event, established and ardently supported by Nobel Laureate Wally Gilbert and his wife Celia since 2020, aims to forge a profound synergy between science and art.The festival will feature a curated selection of works by invited artists and scientists, as well as award-winning pieces from the Gilbert Artist-in-Residence program. Grace Auditorium will serve as the venue for an eclectic array of visual arts, conceptual art, musical performances, and literary works.  Esteemed guests, James Dewey Watson, ‘the father of DNA’， including Nobel Laureate and digital photographer Wally Gilbert, renowned American film composer Carter Burwell, contemporary realist painter David Peikon, and Harvard neuroscientist Professor Helen Hou, will be present to engage with attendees and celebrate the harmonious confluence of art and science. Among the numerous exhibited works, the piece by Asian artist Li Xiaoqiang stands out remarkably. He embarked on his creative journey almost serendipitously, driven by a moment of inspiration. Once, Li Xiaoqiang inadvertently lost his way and ended up in Cold Spring Harbor, where he was profoundly captivated by the tranquility of the snowy landscape. Upon returning home, he abstracted the winter scenery to create the series "Impressions of Winter at Cold Spring Harbor." The first piece in this series reflects his awakening experience during his initial winter sojourn on Long Island, New York.Constantly in pursuit of new revelations and modes of artistic expression, Li Xiaoqiang views this transformative moment as the dawn of a new era in his artistic journey. Composed of m...

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