Hope that some of you might be interested in the following event:
NEW COMPOUNDS
art & science in collaboration
A dynamic evening featuring presentations from 4 innovative SciArt collaborations, across a spectrum of sectors and objectives.
Wellcome Collection Conference Centre
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 6–9pm
£5. – payable in advance via cheque. FREE to Camden and Islington businesses.
"T here is a certain daring awkwardness to bringing scientists together with artists in a territory where fact lives up to its reputation as stranger than fiction. These are brave experiments which combine the poetic ambiguity of art with science's admiration for nature's bluntness."
(Janna Levin, Advanced Fellow in Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, 2002)
Speakers:
Conversation Piece
Alexa Wright & Alf Linney
Conversation Piece is an artwork designed to explore the boundaries between virtual and real world experience. It is an intelligent room that uses speech recognition and synthesis software, a dialogue management system, microphone arrays and directional sound sources to conduct disembodied dialogues with two separate users at a time.
Sixty Days of Goodbye Poems of Ophelia
Helena Capkova & Simon Park
Artist Joanna Woodward, composer Stephen Goss and sound designer Milton Mermikides have collaborated with microbiologist Simon Park to create an animated painting out of bacteria based on Millais's Pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia. The growth and interaction of bacteria will generate the image and also reflect the body's decomposition following death.
Neurotopographics
Hugo Spiers
Neurotopographics explores the boundaries of art, architecture and neuroscience by investigating how mysterious patterns of brain cell activity allow us to perceive and remember space.
Please reserve your tickets through the CreateKX website:
www.createkx.org.uk.
Fugue Art
Gordana Novakovic
Fugue is an ongoing collaborative project, based on the functioning of the human immune system. At the heart of the piece is a complex piece of scientific software, an artificial immune system algorithm, accurately mimicking the changes and cascading responses of the human immune system. The artistic concept, inspired by the musical form of the Fugue, interprets and communicates these changes using cell-like images and sound.
Hope to see you then,
Best wishes,
Gordana
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Gordana Novakovic
artist in residence
Tesla Art and Science Research Interest Group
Convener
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/G.Novakovic.html
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/tesla/Department of Computer Science
University College London
Malet Place, London WC1E 6BT
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