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Ingrid Koenig is a Canadian visual artist, educator, and interdisciplinary researcher whose work connect intuitive responses to scientific notions and geographic spaces. Her practice traverses fields of physics, social history, and feminist theory. Koenig is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and has been the recipient of grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Goethe Institute, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. She has exhibited work in public galleries across Canada, Europe, New Zealand.

Research

Koenig’s drawings explore the relational phenomena of physics and involve intuitive responses to specific sites through fieldwork in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, Germany, Iceland, Arctic Circle art + science expeditions, and through collaborations with physicists. She uses drawing as a method for mapping bio-geo-political interactions of material and energy systems – climate change, geophysical forces, tectonic plates, magnetism, planetary motion, evidence of deep time, navigation - and to consider the language of material forces as conversations between phenomena.

Learning Out of Windows

As the first Artist in Residence (2011-2021) at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, she co-organized collaborative programming between artists and physicists, which turned into a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant co-led with Randy Lee Cutler between 2016-2025. Titled "Leaning Out of Windows: Art and Physics Collaborations through Aesthetic Transformations" delivered various research cluster groups that contributed to a series of exhibitions, as well as a final publication. The project worked with scientists, artists, humanities and social science scholars seeking to understand the differences between the language they use and how knowledge is developed and visualized, and explore how knowledge is translated across disciplinary communities.

The years long project resulted in a catalogue edited by Koenig, that features essays about the project, biographies and images of the artists' artworks, and a series of drawn diagrams that intermittently run throughout the book by Ingrid. Art Historian John O'Brian details "They are mesmerizing, a sequence of coloured charts that map the whole enterprise. Initially used as a tool to chart the activities of the collaboration, they seem to have morphed into conceptual artworks over the course of the project. I have spent hours pouring over them, marvelling at their attention to detail and visual sophistication." A nod to the possibilities and pitfalls of interdisciplinary research, the project and catalogue title derrives from the German aus dem Fenster lehnen, the

The title of the book is taken from the German, , a phrase that refers to the possibilities and pitfalls of undertaking interdisciplinary research. In the collaboration, Cutler and Koenig did not ask scientists to make art, nor did they ask artists to become scientists. Instead, they asked what might be gained (or lost) from engaging in such an unlikely collaboration

explores the intersection of scientific principles and creative expression. Known for his distinctive mixed-media drawings that visualize complex scientific phenomena through artistic interpretation, Chen has established himself as a pioneering voice in the art-science movement. His practice combines traditional drawing techniques with digital media to create works that make abstract scientific concepts accessible to broader audiences. Since 2009, Chen has served as a professor of Visual Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he developed the innovative "Science Studio" curriculum that encourages students to use artistic methods as tools for scientific inquiry and understanding.

Research Interests

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Koenig's writing includes....

• “Wandering the Magnetosphere” (excerpts), SubStance – Breaking Earth, Alexis Rider + Paul A. Harris (eds), John Hopkins University Press, Issue 162, Vol. 52, #3, 2023

• Leaning Out of Windows - an Art and Physics Collaboration, (co-edited with Randy Lee Cutler), Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver 2023. ISBN 978-1773272177
• “Leaning Out of Windows: Collaborative Research Between Artists and Physicists”, co-written with Randy Lee Cutler, Journal of Canadian Art History, Vol. 43:1/2, 2022
• “Searching For the Language of the Universe”, (co-written with Randy Lee Cutler), canadianart, Winter, 2020
• “Art Curriculum in Partnership With Canadian Physics Lab”, Leonardo, MIT Press, Vol. 48, #5, 2015