LASER @ LONDON: TUESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY
Join us on Tuesday, 17 February, 6:30–9 p.m. for the seventhLASER: London. The
evening will feature presentations by interdisciplinary curator and writer
Bronac Ferran, scholar and artist Timothy J. Senior and kinetic light sculptor
Paul Friedlander. Researcher and curator Laura Plana Gracia will be the guest
chair. The event is free but booking is required. Find out more
London LASER 07Tuesday 17 February 20156.30 - 9.00pm (registration/drinks from
6pm)University of Westminster, Fyvie Hall,309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW The
seventh London LASER evening of talks at the intersection of art and science
hosts interdisciplinary curator and writer Bronac Ferran, scholar and artist
Timothy J Senior, and kinetic light sculptor Paul Friedlander, guest chaired by
Laura Plana Gracia. The event is free but booking is required. Bronac Ferran is
a curator, researcher and writer who works at the interfaces between arts,
science, technologies and other disciplines. She set up and led the
Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Arts Council England until 2007 and
established numerous national and international partnerships and initiatives
including the Arts Council England/AHRC Art and Science Research Fellowships
Programme and the ACE/RSA Arts and Ecology initiative. She has been on juries
for Transmediale (2009) and Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts (2009 & 2010) and a
Senior Tutor Research at the Royal College of Art. In 2012 she curated 'Poetry
Language Code' and in 2015 is co-curating 'Graphic Constellations: Visual
Poetry & the Properties of Space' at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge. 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 and Humanities Research Council. His work asks how contemporary forms
of practice in the arts, sciences and humanities might be opened up to new
collaborative influences. Following his D.Phil. in Systems Neuroscience (Oxford
2008), he has explored these issues through an artist residency at Duke
University (US) and visiting lectureships at Jacobs University Bremen (Germany)
spanning the arts, neuroscience, digital humanities, and the social and
political sciences. In 2012 he was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Hanse
Institute for Advanced Study, concluding with an internationally-oriented
conference and exhibition on performative methods in scientific practice. Tim
will be taking up this theme in his talk, exploring how performance-based
methods may revolutionize the study of complex systems and our understanding of
disciplinary research.
art-sci.info Paul Friedlander is an independent kinetic light sculptor and
scientific artist based in London. He will give a telescopic talk on his career
spanning more than 40 years from his early influence by Cybernetic art, his
involvement with stage lighting for avant-garde music and subsequent
development of his unique artistic media. The talk will be followed by a
performance with hand held kinetic sculptures and chromastrobic light, a form
of light he invented. Paul studied physics and mathematics at Sussex University
and fine art at Exeter Art College. His youthful ambitions to become a
cosmologist have continued to influence his art, exploring mathematical and
scientific ideas in light. Some of his earliest work was based on catastrophe
theory and chaos. He has a continuing interest in waves, creating many kinetic
works using their mathematics in custom software he writes as part of his
hybrid art. paulfriedlander.com
Guest chaired by researcher and curator, Laura Plana Gracia.
elektronische-art-and-music.com @elektronischeAM
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