Get in Touch with Metals and Minerals

816 Bull St,Columbia SC 29208

05 April, 2023

Description

Join Dr. Besim Dragovic, Assistant Professor, School of the Earth, Ocean & the Environment, USC, for a hands-on experience of the metals and minerals for which there has been increasing demand, prompting an uptick in deep-sea mining. This event is free and open to the public. Register on Eventbrite or by calling 803-777-2876. This event is offered in connection with The Lost City: Between Art and Science, on display from January 14 - May 12 at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum. _ About the exhibition: In September 2018, Anna Davidson was invited by USC Geology professor and oceanographer Susan Lang to be part of an expedition to study the Lost City as an artist-at-sea. The Lost City is a hydrothermal vent field located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between the US and Africa. They spent a month aboard the research vessel Atlantis and used a remotely operated, deep-submergence vehicle to collect samples and record video on multiple cameras. Based on her experience of being at sea and the documentary video footage, Davidson created a body of artwork about hydrothermal vents and the threats deep-sea mining poses to them. This exhibit will juxtapose Davidson’s artwork with scientific specimens and data to ask what visual art and science disciplines share, and how might artists and scientists support each other’s work.