If you’ve loved the way that Maria Whiteman’s photography traces the lines between art and science, take a look at this lecture this afternoon Monday at the Royal Alberta Museum:

Artist Jea­nine Break­er has been award­ed a se­ries of UK re­search grants from the Lev­er­hulme Trust, British Coun­cil, and Arts and Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Coun­cil, and is cur­rent­ly artist-in-res­i­dence at the British Ge­o­log­i­cal Sur­vey (BGS) fund­ed by a Lev­er­hulme Trust Re­search Fel­low­ship and the Na­tion­al En­vi­ron­ment Re­search Coun­cil….

…Break­er al­so cre­at­ed six short films to ac­com­pa­ny her large-scale art­works. One film us­es slow mo­tion of the footage from the field­work in Hol­land to re­veal the time­less el­e­gance of Earth Sci­ence field­work. The mys­te­ri­ous­ly dis­tort­ed sounds and shad­ows of the ge­ol­o­gist against the soil pro­file is a dis­til­la­tion of time and evo­lu­tion that speaks to the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of Earth at our hands. An­oth­er is a fast-paced film us­ing footage from a 3D CCTV ‘spin­ning cam­era’ low­ered down a 90-me­ter bore­hole dur­ing field­work on a pri­vate es­tate in the UK’s spec­tac­u­lar Peak Dis­trict. This last film hints at work to come us­ing a range of cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy gen­er­ous­ly made avail­able to her through her on-go­ing part­ner­ship with the BGS.

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UPDATE: This talk has been postponed to Monday the 19th—so if you thought you missed out, you’ve still got a chance to catch it