{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Why AxS Podcast from ArtCenter: Dark Matter","description":"Ready to go dark and get deep? In the third episode of the&amp;nbsp;Why AxS podcast\u2014where brilliant scientific and artistic minds ponder the important whys\u2014we explore the infinite possibilities of the origins and nature of our universe. Our guests couldn't be more disparate in their paths, yet conjoined in their pursuits.  Lita Albuquerque, an internationally renowned visual artist and ArtCenter faculty member, is inspired by the natural world, on this planet and beyond. Her works are intimate and epic, earthly and ephemeral\u2014a celebration of how we connect to our environment, below and above. Her large-scale installations\u2014like Rock and Pigment, a series of rocks in the Mojave Desert in alignment to the stars overhead\u2014connect human to celestial bodies, allowing us to&amp;nbsp;feel&amp;nbsp;what our minds can\u2019t comprehend\u2014that we\u2019re a tiny speck suspended among billions of galaxies. Dida Markovic, an astrophysicist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also studies the incomprehensible, specifically the dark sector of the universe. Dark energy and dark matter govern 95% of all the gravitational interactions in the universe\u2013yet, present a mystery to science. ","author_name":"Why AxS from ArtCenter","author_url":"https:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/connect\/podcasts\/why-axs-podcast.html","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33014082\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/177845932"}