MRI scanner inspires a multimedia performance

"Composers Mira Calix and Anna Meredith have come up with pieces of music which are inspired by the sounds of a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner.

Their compositions are performed by members of the Aurora Orchestra and blend acoustic and electronic sounds.

To accompany the music, art and design studio Loop.ph transformed Wilton's Music Hall in London with a multimedia installation called Neural Nest.

MRI scans use magnetic fields and radio waves to produce a image of the inside of the body."


Guy Morgan

The International Year of Chemistry

No, I didn't know it was the International Year of Chemistry either, but the Science Gallery in Dublin does. They've just opened a new Art/Science  exhibition called Elements which runs until late September:
"The exhibition, launching in the International Year of Chemistry, is curated by David Grayson, Daniel O’Donovan, Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Michael John Gorman, and is a partnership between Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin and the BergamoScienza festival, with the assistance of researcher Brigid Lanigan and advisor Silvia Giordani."
Check out the exhibits and see what the Irish Times has to say.


Guy Morgan

Merging Art and Science in a new exhibition

Radio 4's Material World (presented by Quentin Cooper) carried a piece on Thursday July 7th on:
"Merging Art and Science
Science is changing our world, and now it’s influencing art too.   A new exhibition at GV Art in London brings together the work of 13 contemporary artists who have been inspired by science. Quentin is joined in the studio by co-curator of the exhibition, Professor Arthur Miller, and by artist Stelarc, who uses his own body as the basis for his art. He has undergone suspensions and grown an ear on his arm! For this exhibition he has contributed an image of the skin around his head, electronically stretched to fill a flat canvas. "
Listen to the item
It's about 22 minutes from the start..

Guy Morgan