New Compunds: Art and Science in collaboration May 27, 2008

Wellcome Collection Conference Centre
183 Euston Road NW1 2BE

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 6–9pm
£5. – payable in advance via cheque.
FREE to Camden and Islington businesses.

“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,

An evening featuring presentations from 4 cutting-edge art/science collaborations, across a spectrum of disciplines and objectives.

speakers

Fugue Art
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.

Conversation Piece
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
JoWonder & 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
Hugo Spears
A groundbreaking film 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.
www.neurotopographics.com

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