Intuition + Logic: How Visuals Unlock Research’s Full Potential

Microsoft Research Lab

2.26.2025

Scientific research can be challenging to convey in early stages, but a visual methodology holds the promise of connecting the dots.

This event showcased how scientific research can utilize aesthetics and the arts to give abstract concepts form in order to see, analyze, beautify, organize, and connect the dots for other researchers in relevant fields. Leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Astrophysics discussed how this technique can be used across disparate fields to illustrate key concepts within their sometimes esoteric work.

Special Guest Speakers
Rajan Chari, AI researcher
Francesco Valenti, quantum physicist
John M Barbara, planetary astrophysicist
Matthew Schreiber, holography artist
Federico Buonerba, mathematician

Featuring the insights and work of Dalila Pasotti, Hosted by Mike Pell, Envisioneer and Director of the Microsoft Garage NYC

Intuition + Logic Painting Series

A series of painting works inspired by leading thinkers in scientific fields.

 Visit to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Space system development and integration facility, working on Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at NASA Goddard

NASA GIFF

September 2023- NASA GIFF celebrated 60 years, also launching the newly renovated conference rooms. Two works from the Cassini-Huygens Series made in collaboration with the astrophysicists working at the mission, are now permanently exhibited in the Cassini conference room.

“On Waves”

Kleindienst Gallery, Liepzig, Germany

1.1.2022

“On Waves”, is a group show on the theme of motion, water, signals, and movement, curated by Silvershed, an artist-run project in downtown Manhattan that explores contemporary art values, ethics and aesthetics of the 21st century. Silvershed works through lateral discussion among a core team of organizers and advisors to collaborate on exhibitions, publications and events in New York, Los Angeles and Berlin. Most recently a set of projects is underway in the Catskills region of upstate New York with Lexarc.org

Artists: Liz Alderman, Kevin Dudley, Anna Ehrsam, Eric Feuer, Katherine Jackson, Patrick Meagher, Iliana Ortega, Dalila Pasotti, Pestypig

The Island:

Online Exhibition: "The Cosmos is my main reason and motivation in this life. "

Central Academy of Fine Arts of Beijing

11.28.2020

In November 2020, CAFA ART INFO started the third phase of "Reflecting The Sharing Moment". At the time, the domestic pandemic was still in a state of partial rebound and under strict control, the worldwide eye-catching U.S. presidential election had basically been settled and many European countries had ushered in a second round of lockdowns.

15 artists/groups were invited to create an ongoing discussion on the impact of the pandemic/post-pandemic era on individuals, lives, relationships, and society in different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Darkest Before Dawn

Ethan Cohen Kube, Beacon, NY

11.01.20 - 01.31.21

“Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty is an exhibition of international artists that work in diverse media including painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound art and performance that explores a myriad of topical subject matter in a world of uncertainty. And similar to the exhibition’s title culled from the eponymous aphorism of a 17th century theologian, the exhibited artworks equally offer hope and, akin to an enlightening dawn, to break through one of the darkest moments we currently find ourselves in our collective, human history.”