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ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing

This November, ArtScience on Screen spotlights three artists – Ruth Asawa, Anna Campbell Bliss and Hilma af Klint – who defied categories of gender and genre in their artistic practice.

Exploring the fields of art, science, mathematics and technology, these women continued to produce a prolific body of work in an industry dominated by the idea of a male “genius”.

Taking reference from John Berger’s seminal work Ways of Seeing, the artists featured in ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing encourage us to consider new perspectives in the creative possibilities across art and science, and re-examine an art-historical canon that often fails to articulate spaces for alternative voices.

Their stories serve as a reminder to the grit and indomitable creative spirit of the women whose influence have been erased, forgotten or gone unrecognized, demanding a rewrite of the histories we have come to know.

ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing is part of Special Event: Women of Art and Science at ArtScience Museum.

Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint (2019)

94 min | Dir. Halina Dyrschka

Hilma af Klint – a name which only came to light in the art world nearly 70 years after her death. The story of a visionary artist whose abstract paintings combined aspects of scientific illustration, geometry, and color theory, her work has ignited a debate of who pioneered abstract 20th century art – Klint or Kadinsky?

Showtimes:

21 – 27 Nov
10.30am, 12.45pm, 3pm, 5.15pm
7 – 27 Nov

ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing

This new series spotlights three artists – Ruth Asawa, Anna Campbell Bliss and Hilma af Klint – who defied categories of gender and genre in their artistic practice. Exploring the fields of art, science, mathematics and technology, their ground-breaking work encourage us to consider new perspectives in the creative possibilities across art and science, and reexamine a canon that often fails to articulate spaces for alternative voices.
ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss (2012)

26 min | Dir. Cid Collins Walker

A student at the Bauhaus school and one of the first artists who experimented with computer technology in her work, this documentary traces Anna Campbell Bliss' evolution from ground-breaking architect to the cutting-edge artist who radically applied principles of science and mathematics to the canvas.

Showtimes:

7 – 13 Nov
On the hour from 10am – 6pm
Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth (1977)

25 min | Dir. Robert Snyder

An intimate look at California artist Ruth Asawa, who studied at the famed Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Asawa was known for her intricate and geometric wire sculptures inspired by basket weaving techniques from her time in Mexico, and whose abstract yet organic renderings recalled the language of nature.

Daily showtimes:

14 – 20 Nov
On the hour from 10am – 6pm
Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint (2019)

94 min | Dir. Halina Dyrschka

Hilma af Klint – a name which only came to light in the art world nearly 70 years after her death. The story of a visionary artist whose abstract paintings combined aspects of scientific illustration, geometry, and color theory, her work has ignited a debate of who pioneered abstract 20th century art – Klint or Kadinsky?

Showtimes:

21 – 27 Nov
10.30am, 12.45pm, 3pm, 5.15pm
7 – 27 Nov

ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing

This new series spotlights three artists – Ruth Asawa, Anna Campbell Bliss and Hilma af Klint – who defied categories of gender and genre in their artistic practice. Exploring the fields of art, science, mathematics and technology, their ground-breaking work encourage us to consider new perspectives in the creative possibilities across art and science, and reexamine a canon that often fails to articulate spaces for alternative voices.