Anna Lindemann and Albana Kodra’s film “What about the nose?” premieres as part of the closing event for the 2019 Imagine Science Film Festival. The animated short was one of six short films on the topic of EMERGENCE produced through collaborations between scientists and filmmakers in just one week as part of the 2019 Symbiosis Competition. The films are viewable for a week at Labocine here.

Anna Lindemann and Albana Kodra present their in-progress work on their animated short “What about the nose?” along with five other pairs of scientists and filmmakers each developing a film within a week as part of the 2019 Symbiosis Competition.

Anna Lindemann was awarded a Fiscal Year 2019 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Department of Economic and Community Development. The fellowship is a competitive Artistic Excellence grant that provides unrestrictive funding and recognition to support the creation of new works of art.

The short animation “Ant Sisters” will be featured in the “Interspecies Love Song” program of the 11th Imagine Science Film Festival. With story by Anna Lindemann and Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, and animation by Anna Lindemann and Sarah Shattuck, “Ant Sisters” draws from scientific research on the evolution of eusociality to weave a tale about the complex dynamics of human and ant sisterhood. Anna Lindemann will be part of a panel discussion moderated by Associate Professor of Biology Davida Smyth along with filmmaker Jessica Beshir and dolphin cognition and communication scientist Diana Reiss.

Anna Lindemann is honored to be the the winner of the 2018 Outstanding Research & Creative Practice Award given to a University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts' faculty member who "demonstrates an outstanding record of scholarship and/or creative practice and productivity in their field." 

Anna Lindemann will be among the presenters at the "Building up STEAM: Collaborations between the Arts and the Science" evening, sparking discussion and an open forum on current and future developments in STEAM at UConn and beyond. (This event was rescheduled from an original date in February due to weather).

Anna Lindemann and Eric Lindemann will present "Musical Organisms: a generative approach to growing musical scores" at the EvoMusArt section of the 2018 EvoStar conference in Parma, Italy. They will present a short talk at 4:40pm and participate in the poster session at 6:30pm on Wednesday April 4.

Anna Lindemann’s article summarizing her approach to designing and teaching a course called “Animating Science” is featured in the SciArt Magazine special topics issue on international STEAM education approaches in theory and practice.

Anna Lindemann will give a guest lecture on biological music for the “Music Technologies and the Natural World” course designed and taught by Ryan MacEvoy McCullough within the Music Department at Cornell University. 

The animated short Beetle Bluffs is now part of the permanent collection at the State Darwin Museum in Moscow. 

Anna Lindemann worked closely with the maritime historians and directors of exhibits and collections at the USS Constitution Museum in Boston to develop three new works for permanent exhibit at the museum that showcase the history of the USS Constitution, one of the first US Navy vessels, and the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. The works include an animation depicting the construction and launch, in 1797, of the USS Constitution using more than 100 specially commissioned illustrations by UK-based illustrator Stephen Biesty; a motion graphic depicting the thousands of US merchant ships sailing from 1791-94, and their capture by French, British, and Barbary Corsair ships, which precipitated the creation of the US Navy; and a video that welcomes visitors to the USS Constitution Museum and shares the history of the USS Constitution through historic paintings, photographs, video, and animation.

Anna Lindemann will give a guest lecture on generative approaches to artistic creation for the “Advanced Open Studio” taught by Aidan Ackerman and Benjamin Winters at Boston Architectural College in Boston, MA  

Anna Lindemann and Eric Lindemann give a demo presentation of their newest work on music composition modeled on biological processes, specifically gene network dynamics, at the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) held in Vancouver.

An excerpt from Beetle Bluffs is a finalist in the Fifth Annual Evolution Video Competition sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). The Beetle Bluffs excerpt was screened at the Evolution 2015 Conference in Guarujá, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Beetle Bluffs is being shown as part of the 4th Annual Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival held at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. The film is the winner of the festival's Golden Glovie High-Score Award in Fine Art & Conceptual. 

A Boston Globe article about the Glovebox festival