How Do You Imagine the Universe? Artists Megan and Murray McMillan in conversation with Astrophysicist Gonzalo

Join Emerson Contemporary for a conversation between artists Megan and Murray McMillan and astrophysicist Gonzalo Herrera Moreno, a Neutrino Theory Network Fellow at MIT and Harvard. Co-hosted by creativity@emerson. Doors open at 6pm, talk starts at 6:30pm.

At the heart of their conversation is a shared question: How do creativity and imagination help us understand what we cannot directly see or experience? The McMillans’ This Collapsed and Expanding Breath (2025–26) draws on stellar collapse, supernovae, gravity, and pulsars, transforming complex scientific concepts into an imaginative, multisensory experience. Herrera Moreno’s research similarly asks us to imagine phenomena at scales and distances far beyond everyday human experience.

Bringing artistic and scientific practices into dialogue, the conversation will explore how artists and scientists use curiosity, intuition, models, experimentation, and imagination to investigate the unknown and how creative thinking can open new ways of seeing and understanding our universe.

Free and open to the public. Location: Media Art Gallery, 25 Avery Street, Boston, Ma