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Well done, how exciting, can't make it up there to cambs that day but will think of you and hope to se you and the book soon, S On 14 November 2013 21:57, bronac ferran <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear New Media friends and colleagues > > > I am delighted to invite you to the launch of a new book which I have > edited, called 'Visualise: Making Art in Context', which will be launched > at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, on Friday 29th November, between 4.30pm > and 6.00pm (speeches at 4.50 pm). It relates nicely to some of the themes > recently explored on this list relating to art history, time and evolution. > > The book has essays by some of the artists featured in the Visualise > programme of exhibitions and events which took place from Autumn > 2011-Summer 2012 in and around Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge with > reflections on the development of the programme by Professor Chris Owen > Head of Cambridge School of Art and Andy Robinson, Project Manager of > Visualise and Director of Futurecity's Cambridge office. Among the essays > are newly commissioned pieces relating to poetry, composition, music, code > and language by Liliane Lijn, Eduardo Kac, Tom Hall, Alan Sutcliffe and > Ernest Edmonds as well as interviews with Duncan Speakman and William > Latham, a reflection on an art and industry collaboration by Giles Lane of > Proboscis and David Walker of Philips Research and a previously unpublished > holograph by Gustav Metzger. The ISBN number for this new publication is > ISBN: > 978-0-9565608-6-5 and publication date is 28th November, 2013. Contributors > to the book will be available to sign copies which will be free to > attendees to the launch. It has been published by Anglia Ruskin University > and designed by Giulia Garbin. > > About Visualise: Making Art in Context > > From tales of a transgenic green bunny to a singing painting, from > computer-generated lifecharms to a soundwalk at dusk in Cambridge's > fashionable arcades, this publication conveys some of the myriad happenings > which characterised Visualise a programme of public art, curated at Anglia > Ruskin University in 2012. Funded by the University from Percent for Art > sources, Visualise brought new life to hard streets, providing > opportunities for public engagment in challenging visual art and sound > installations, temporary events and exhibitions. It connected in direct and > indirect ways to perceptions of Cambridge as context and site of scientific > discovery and technological inventiveness. The book weaves the history of > Cambridge School of Art and the Ruskin Gallery (the place where Syd > Barrett of Pink Floyd played his first gig and Gustav Metzger, renowned > founder of auto-destructive art, had his first arts education before the > end of the Second World War) with today's digital developments. A series of > newly commissioned essays provide intriguingly personal insight into how > world-leading international and local artists create lasting 'mark and > meaning' (Eduardo Kac) working in contexts of historical time as well as in > physical space. > > > Any questions do get in touch. > > Many thanks > -- > Bronaċ >