New Compounds
Art and Science in Collaboration
"There 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
A dynamic evening featuring presentations from innovative Science/Art collaborations, across a spectrum of sectors and objectives.
Networking and drinks follow.
Confirmed Speakers:
Fugue Art presented by: 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, expresses and communicates these changes through independent channels of vision, using cell-like images, and sound. In the most recent version, a large-scale interactive installation, participants engage the system in a spontaneous non-verbal dialogue, influencing both the unfolding of the immune system drama and the nature of their own experience
www.fugueart.com
www.gordananovakovic.net/cv.html
Conversation Piece presented by 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. Technology used is concealed and statements made by the machine (‘Heather’) can be heard only at a specific location in space, so that the effect for other audience members is of hearing one side of a telephone conversation.
Sixty Days of Goodbye Poems of Ophelia, presented by Helena Capkova and Simon Park
Artist JoWonder and composer Milton Mermikides have collaborated with microbiologist Simon Park to create an animated painting out of bacteria, a version of Millais` 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: presented by Hugo Spiers and Antoni Malinowski
A groundbreaking exhibition exploring the boundaries of art,
architecture and neuroscience by exploring how mysterious patterns of brain cell activity allow us to perceive and remember space. The film installation, Neurotopographics, is the result of a Wellcome Trust funded partnership between neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers, artist Antoni Malinowski, and architect Bettina Visman.
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VENUE DIRECTIONS
New Compounds
The Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
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183 Euston Road, London
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NW1 2BE