Isaiah Bertagnolli (Ph.D. 2025) to give a guest lecture entitled "Synapse: Martyl's Intersection of Art and Science" on February 20, 2026 on artist Martyl Langsdorf, designer of the Doomsday Clock, at her historical home and museum, the Schweikher House. Beginning in the mid-1960s, Martyl--whose husband was a Manhattan Project physicist--began exploring the overlaps between computer circuitry and the human nervous system through her artwork. In contrast to these technological interrogations, Martyl's landscape paintings captured the human being's intrinsic connections to the universe at the atomic scale. When displayed together, Martyl's works sought to challenge an increasingly technological culture in order to thwart the nuclear threat.
See the event on the Schweikher House website: https://www.schweikherhouse.org/events