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NanoScopic Culture Dave Beech, Ansuman Biswas, Invertebrate, Janice Kerbel, Lucy Pedlar, Shellburne Thurber, Emily Wardill With a specially commissioned short story by Gabriel Coxhead Book Launch and Panel Discussion 29 January 2004 7- 9pm Panel discussion with reception afterwards The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS NanoScopic Culture is an exhibition in a book format. It includes specially commissioned work by seven artists who have all spent time over the last two years at The National Institute for Medical Research in North London (NIMR). The term NanoScopic comes from the apparently opposing ideas of Nano, a suggestion of something which is believed to exist, but is outside of our empirical frame of reference and Scopic suggesting something which is visible. NanoScopic Culture proposes that the idea of trying to articulate abstract ideas or make the invisible visible can be applied to certain contemporary art practice as it much as to contemporary scientific research. NanoScopic Culture is a curated art book, not a catalogue of past art and science projects or an illustrated compendium to the latest scientific achievements. The book offers a different perspective from which to view the interface between art and science. It moves away from focussing on illustrating contentious topics within the biosciences and creates a space for contemporary art to exist outside of an autonomous art context. Projects like Lucy Pedlar's Are You Here? or Shellburne Thurber's photographic series remain firmly rooted in the NIMR, the building and the people who work there, while others such as Janice Kerbel's Coniferous Deciduous from her Studies for Small Islands series or Emily Wardill's Example 10 hint at a more ambiguous relationship with the Institute. Resultingly, many of the works can be seen to be investigations into the culture of scientific practice and cultural representations of science. A panel discussion entitled The Culture of Science will take place on the night of 29 January 2004 with speakers Dave Beech (chair), Nick Crowe, Winston Fletcher and Paul Khera. NanoScopic Culture will be available at the Book Launch at a special price of £10. Tickets for the Royal Institution event are £8/£5 and are available on 020 7670 2985 or by visiting http://www.rigb.org For press information and images please contact Simon Gould on [log in to unmask] or 020 8816 2476. ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.org.uk **********************************************************************