Now that my brain is settling down from all the ideas traded at Dialogues last week, I thought I'd pass on stuff that has appeared in the wider world about some of the themes people are engaged with.
I've mentioned the BBC World Service programme The Forum before, and the podcast from March 19 is still available with Professor Brian Greene talking about multiverses and Finnish artist Oron Catts who "is the director of SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, within the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia". (See a previous post about the Visceral exhibition in Dublin a few weeks ago).
Another edition that you can still listen to is February 19th follow the link to see examples of the work by Kenyan, New York based artist Wangechi Mutu. "Her portraits of fantastical women, include anatomical drawings of cancerous tumours that transform the terrible into the beautiful".
And of course the Wellcome collection's new exhibition Dirt has just opened which includes some specially commissioned artworks.
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Guy Morgan
Monday 28 March 2011
Friday 18 March 2011
Truth versus Accuracy
As we run up to the Northern Art and Science Network Symposium in Leeds tomorrow (Saturday March 19th) let me point interested parties to an exhibition in York that runs until March 31st.
Sphere of Accuracies Zone of Truth is at York's Bar Lane Studios and includes cibachromes and prints by Tracey Holland, complex drawing by Greg Bright, intricate (and expensive) glass models of microbes by Luke Jerram and pop-art style prints derived from physics by Frederique Swist.
My reaction to the show was that it was much more rewarding than Visceral (see previous post), worked better as art and if you wanted to get into the science, there was plenty of that.
View the brochure for the show .
On Wednesday, as part of York Science Week Professor Gary Peters who co- curated the show (with Frederique Swist) and is a Professor at York St John, talked about the difficulties of of the art/science debate and the sterlity of much of the argument. He suggests that instead of trying to represent or explain science through art, we should be looking for the common impulse that underlies the desire to explore both. For an idea of where his work is heading, try this
Guy Morgan
Sphere of Accuracies Zone of Truth is at York's Bar Lane Studios and includes cibachromes and prints by Tracey Holland, complex drawing by Greg Bright, intricate (and expensive) glass models of microbes by Luke Jerram and pop-art style prints derived from physics by Frederique Swist.
My reaction to the show was that it was much more rewarding than Visceral (see previous post), worked better as art and if you wanted to get into the science, there was plenty of that.
View the brochure for the show .
On Wednesday, as part of York Science Week Professor Gary Peters who co- curated the show (with Frederique Swist) and is a Professor at York St John, talked about the difficulties of of the art/science debate and the sterlity of much of the argument. He suggests that instead of trying to represent or explain science through art, we should be looking for the common impulse that underlies the desire to explore both. For an idea of where his work is heading, try this
Guy Morgan
Sunday 6 March 2011
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