Hello Peter,
I am an artist who works primarily with drawing. I studied an MA in
Drawing as Process at Kingston University 2 years ago. Much of my
theoretical work is based on drawing as a form of communication...how people
respond to the drawn mark and how we have used it and developed it into
sybols and signage. Ways of seeing and responding to subject matter from
an artistic point of view and from an non artistic point of view is also
part of my research....I am very interested in your outline ...........the
combination of science and art I believe could hold some interesting
answers.....If you are interested in collaborating on ideas etc...please let
me know.
I look forward to hearing from you
Sylvia
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>Subject: using drawing to support research
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:19:23 +0000
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>Hello all,
>
>I've been emailed by the Arts Council and AHRB to tell me of grants to
>support collaboration between artists and scientists. In the past I have
>reviewed proposals for this initiative, and sat on the panel for a
>corresponding initiative from Engineering and Physical Science Research
>Council (EPSRC) - their "culture and creativity" call.
>
>The EPSRC panel was notable in that only ONE propoal related to the visual
>arts - the remainging 40 or so came from other place - mostly music or
>sound related. The panel was keen that a greater balance is reached in
>future.
>
>I am a scientist / engineer /mathematician with an interest in getting
>computer to draw for themselves. It would be an absurd ambition to try to
>replace humans with machines - and that is not my intention. But just as
>knowning a little more about how humans see somethimes (but not always)
>helps us understand how to do make machines see a little better, so
>undertstanding how artists work can inform my work. In fact, understanding
>drawings may help us understand a little more about how we see as humans -
>but that is not my aim either.
>
>My web pages at www.bath.ac.uk/~maspmh gives an idea - but these are PAST
>projects, not current ones!
>
>All this is awfuly vauge, but I do have specific research projects that
>would benefit from artistic input for sure. One of these involves using
>drawings to get machines to learn what humans think of is important: our
>early work in this is very promising indeed, and work like this is a very
>hot topic right now with similar work going on all over the world. Other
>work is based on the book "Art and Representation" by John Willats.
>
>I see the AHRB-et-al call as an opportunity to collaborate. If anyone is
>interested - maybe I can help you with your projects rather than you help
>me - then contact me on my email
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>best
>Peter Hall
>Department of Computer Science
>University of Bath
>Bath
Sylvia Reitzema
MA, BA Hons, Cert Ed FE, IT Dip RSA
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