Arts & Resilience Lecture with Artist Mark Chen

Event Description

In his lecture on Pilgrimage of Light, Mark Chen shares how he travels to remote wilderness sites to project galactic imagery directly onto the land, temporarily transforming vast natural spaces before capturing them through photography. The result is a body of work that collapses distance between the cosmic and the terrestrial, asking where humanity fits within forces far larger than itself. Chen’s recent and upcoming engagements include artist residencies at Music@Menlo, exhibitions with Texas A&M University, Write Gallery, Hong Kong Art Week, and the International Art and Science Museum. His work was also featured in National Geographic Magazine (March 2025) in the article Where Space and Time Merge. This talk offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how ambitious, site-specific photogr

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