"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
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
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
"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
Friday, 8 July 2011
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
"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
Saturday, 28 May 2011
The Prospect of Immortality
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
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
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
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