Smith College presents an audio installation in the Palm House in the Lyman Conservatory, presented in collaboration with the Smith College Museum of Art. This electronically timed carillon plays music composed by internationally renowned artist Susan Hiller. Originally commissioned for the exhibition Genius Locii in Stadtpark Lahr, Schwarzwald, Germany in 2003, the piece is based on Mendel’s theory of inherited traits in plants. Hiller’s musical version of Mendel’s code reiterates and celebrates the variety and richness of genetics and inheritance patterns that characterize all living things. You may listen at www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html.
