How to Use Art, Technology and Nature to Change the World - Forest Stearns - Ep 163
Art2Life
Nicholas Wilton
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
https://Art2Life.com - Have you ever seen a painting on a satellite or art on a quantum computer?
Forest Stearns, principal artist and founder of Draw Everywhere Studio and the resident artist at Google Quantum AI, shares how he puts art into space, transforming satellites into canvases for beautiful, thought-provoking illustrations.
His unique fusion of art and science doesn’t stop there. Forest's curiosity and drive led him to join Google and decorate quantum computers with inspiring art, making them more relatable to the average person.
We dig into the synergy between art and science and how art can connect different fields and people as a universal language. This episode celebrates the unexpected, the beautiful, and the creative spirit that drives creative innovation. Listen to learn how we can integrate creativity into our everyday lives.
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LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN…
The crossover between art and science (00:00)
How art and science bring valuable ideas to life (06:03)
Forest’s experience with aerospace science and painting on satellites (14:26)
How Forest brings art to quantum computers (18:21)
Art in non-artistic spaces inspires creativity and self-reflection (25:55)
Ornamenting technology with art encourages people to engage with science (33:46)
Nature's chaotic beauty inspires awe and investigation (43:36)
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RESOURCES MENTIONED
Ivy Ross: https://www.yourbrainonart.com/about-us/bio/ivy-ross
Susan Magsamen: https://www.yourbrainonart.com/about-us/bio/susan-magsamen
Your Brain on Art: https://www.yourbrainonart.com/your-brain-on-art-book
Your Brain on Art – Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen: https://www.art2life.com/2023/03/22/your-brain-on-art-ivy-ross-and-susan-magsamen-ep-74/
Forest Stearns: Space Art Dream Remix TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/forest_stearns_space_art_dream_remix_jan_2018
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Connect with Forest Stearns
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/draweverywhere_studios/?hl=en
DRAWEVERYWHERE: https://www.draweverywhere.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/foreststearns/
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| 0:00.0 | I grew up in nature. I've always celebrated nature. But my studio has really grown up with the kind of bubbling commerce that happens in the urban atmosphere. |
| 0:09.3 | I've been very attracted to street art and graffiti my whole career. And I've always had a kind of a foot in the nature aspect, the fine art aspect that let's go draw in nature. Let's go adventure in nature. And then let's go adventure in the city and write on things. |
| 0:22.6 | And where has that led me to really this interesting mycelial map of nature and graph futurism? |
| 0:28.6 | It's like how do we solve problems effectively with artwork and how do we connect with every single human and the interconnectedness of humans? |
| 0:39.5 | So the studio is all about that. |
| 0:44.4 | So welcome back to the Arts Live podcast, everybody. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm really, really excited to have the principal artist and founder of Draw Everywhere Studio and resident artist at Google Quantum AI, Forest |
| 0:58.1 | Derns. We have so much to talk about here. |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome to Art to Light, a podcast for the creatively curious. |
| 1:11.2 | My name is Nicholas Wilton, and each week I'll help you rediscover not just the art of your life, but the art in your life. |
| 1:18.5 | Join me as we explore that perfect blue at twilight, the wild frontiers of art making, and the extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go. |
| 1:31.9 | Thank you. making an extraordinary joy of finding your ways you go. Welcome and thanks so much for being here. |
| 1:34.7 | Thanks for having me, Nicholas. |
| 1:35.9 | What a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:37.1 | So we were just talking before we got into this because I know you've founded this company |
| 1:42.0 | and 20 years ago and what you've been doing, I think that'll |
| 1:46.0 | go a long way into helping the audience understand what you're about and what you're doing now. |
| 1:51.8 | So why don't we just kind of start with what is Draw Everywhere Studio and how is it evolved? |
| 1:57.3 | And let's start there. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:59.3 | Thank you for the question. |
| 2:00.6 | Draw Everywhere Studios is a studio that is holistically built on the love of markmaking, |
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