London LASER 07Tuesday 17 February 2015 6.30 - 9.00pm (registration/drinks from 6pm)
Universityof Westminster, Fyvie Hall, 309 RegentStreet, London W1B 2UW The seventhLondon LASER evening of talks at the intersection of art and science hosts interdisciplinarycurator and writer Bronac Ferran, scholarand artist Timothy J Senior, andkinetic light sculptor Paul Friedlander,guest chaired by Laura Plana Gracia. The event is free but booking is required: londonlaser07.eventbrite.co.uk Bronac Ferran is a curator, researcherand writer who works at the interfaces between arts, science,technologies and other disciplines. She set up and led the InterdisciplinaryArts Department at Arts Council England until 2007 and established numerousnational and international partnerships and initiatives including the ArtsCouncil England/AHRC Art and Science Research Fellowships Programme and theACE/RSA Arts and Ecology initiative. She has been on juries for Transmediale(2009) and Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts (2009 & 2010) and a Senior TutorResearch at the Royal College of Art. In 2012 she curated 'Poetry LanguageCode' and in 2015 is co-curating 'Graphic Constellations: VisualPoetry & the Properties of Space' at the Ruskin Gallery inCambridge. Her presentation draws on two texts, 'Mind Over Media'commissioned by the RCA, FACT and Liverpool University Press in 2013 and'Neuromorphobia' to be published by Archive Books Berlin(ed.Warren Neidich) later this year based on her talk at the'Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism'conference, Goldsmiths, 2014. boundaryobject.org @floatingstones Dr Timothy J. Senior is a scholar and artist,currently serving as a Knowledge Exchange Researcher for the Arts andHumanities Research Council. His work asks how contemporary forms of practicein the arts, sciences and humanities might be opened up to new collaborativeinfluences. Following his D.Phil. in Systems Neuroscience (Oxford 2008), he hasexplored these issues through an artist residency at Duke University (US) andvisiting lectureships at Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) spanning the arts,neuroscience, digital humanities, and the social and political sciences. In2012 he was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Hanse Institute for AdvancedStudy, concluding with an internationally-oriented conference and exhibition onperformative methods in scientific practice. Tim will be taking up this themein his talk, exploring how performance-based methods may revolutionize thestudy of complex systems and our understanding of disciplinary research. art-sci.info Paul Friedlander is an independent kineticlight sculptor and scientific artist based in London. He will give a telescopictalk on his career spanning more than 40 years from his early influence byCybernetic art, his involvement with stage lighting for avant-garde music andsubsequent development of his unique artistic media. The talk will be followedby a performance with hand held kinetic sculptures and chromastrobic light, aform of light he invented. Paul studied physics and mathematics at SussexUniversity and fine art at Exeter Art College. His youthful ambitions to becomea cosmologist have continued to influence his art, exploring mathematical andscientific ideas in light. Some of his earliest work was based on catastrophetheory and chaos. He has a continuing interest in waves, creating many kineticworks using their mathematics in custom software he writes as part of hishybrid art. paulfriedlander.com Guestchaired by researcher and curator, LauraPlana Gracia. elektronische-art-and-music.com @elektronischeAM LASER is aprogram of evening gatherings, which bring together eclectic guest speakersworking at the intersections of art, science and technology. Runningsuccessfully in the US for several years, London LASER is the first of theseries to take place in Europe. Free of charge and open to the public, LondonLASER encourages lively discussion in an informal academic setting. London LASER is hosted by University of the Arts London (Central SaintMartins MA Art and Science and Lens) and University of Westminster (BroadVision art/science research and learning and CREAM), in association withLeonardo/ISAST (the International Society for Art, Science and Technology). LASER is a project of Leonardo®/ISAST. --contact elektronischeAMwww.elektronische-art-and-music.com
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