The Impressions Gallery, Bradford has the opening of The Prospect of Immortality on Saturday 11 June from
2:00pm to 4:00pm. In his first major solo show "Murray Ballard offers an unprecedented insight into cryonics: the process of freezing a person after death in the hope that scientific advances may one day bring them back to life." Magnum photographer Mark Power will open this exhibition at 2:00pm.
Guy Morgan
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Darwin, dance and Bird Psychology
Have just been listening to Midweek on BBC Radio 4, where one of the guests is Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition at Cambridge University and "an expert in bird behaviour. She is also passionate about dance and now combines these two strands as the Rambert Dance Company's first 'Scientist in Residence'. She is working with the Rambert on a new production, "Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told" and will be at this year's Hay Festival."
Her previous work with the company was Comedy of Change which celebrated Charles Darwin's 200th aniversary.
Guy Morgan
Her previous work with the company was Comedy of Change which celebrated Charles Darwin's 200th aniversary.
Guy Morgan
Saturday, 14 May 2011
The Future's just gone - until next year
Unfortunately I wasn't aware of the Future Everything Festival in Manchester this week, but it sounds very interesting, particularly with its angle on the Arts Listen to a piece on it within the most recent podcast on BBC World Service technology programme Click to see what we've just missed.
Guy Morgan
Guy Morgan
Friday, 13 May 2011
Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey - Saturday, May 21st 22:00 on BBC Radio 3
Listen out for Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3 Saturday May 21st at 10pm:
Epilepsy affects 1 in 200 people but there are many public misconceptions and prejudices about the condition. In recent years neuroscience has begun to find out more about the brain's activities, and now it is possible to hear the sound of a brain having a fit. The sound of epilepsy is not a jagged rasping, not spikes of sound - but more like the sound of whale song, a plaintive cry for help, a call in the wild. How does an artist go about creating a work of art to reflect this?
Artist Susan Aldworth has been commissioned to make a series of artworks reflecting epilepsy for both St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster and the National Portrait Gallery; and in the pursuit of one portrait in particular she has placed centre-stage her close friend Max Eilenberg"
See some of her work
Guy Morgan
"Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey
Next on:
May 21st Saturday, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3Epilepsy affects 1 in 200 people but there are many public misconceptions and prejudices about the condition. In recent years neuroscience has begun to find out more about the brain's activities, and now it is possible to hear the sound of a brain having a fit. The sound of epilepsy is not a jagged rasping, not spikes of sound - but more like the sound of whale song, a plaintive cry for help, a call in the wild. How does an artist go about creating a work of art to reflect this?
Artist Susan Aldworth has been commissioned to make a series of artworks reflecting epilepsy for both St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster and the National Portrait Gallery; and in the pursuit of one portrait in particular she has placed centre-stage her close friend Max Eilenberg"
See some of her work
Guy Morgan
Monday, 28 March 2011
Continuing Dialogues
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.
If you'd like to contribute to this NASN blog, please get int touch with Paul Digby or Hondartza Fraga at contact@northernartsandscience.com for the details.
Guy Morgan
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.
If you'd like to contribute to this NASN blog, please get int touch with Paul Digby or Hondartza Fraga at contact@northernartsandscience.com for the details.
Guy Morgan
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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