Opening: How Do We Look? Photographs by Engineering Students

Monday, December 3, 2012, 6:30 - 8pm

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What happens when talented engineers are challenged to draw from their scientific mindsets and express themselves artistically?  How do we look? Photographs by Engineering Students illustrates the confluence of science and art and provides a unique perspective that ties the technical and aesthetic into one image.  This exhibit by students of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering features 40 photographs that explore the distortion of time, space and color, illustrating both their creativity and technical training and, ultimately, how they view themselves and the world.

Located in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, 7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor, between Third and Fourth Avenues

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.