Ackroyd and Harvey: State of Nature
Convened by Dr Caterina Albano for the Monday Lecture Programme Central Saint College of Arts and Design, in association with the Art, Science and Technology Research Group
Monday 27th February, 6:30 pm, KX E002
Artists Ackroyd & Harvey will discuss recent and forthcoming projects, with reference to their commission for a major public artwork for London 2012 and their more intimate gallery-based works. The presentation will include an in depth look at the overlaps between aesthetics, ecology, science and politics in their practice.
Topophobia
Caterina Albano, Key note paper: Fear and Place
Symposium Central St Martins. London. Friday 10 February 2012
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Memory/Sound/Image
Half-Day Symposium
19 November 2011, 3–6pm
Artist Shona Illingworth will be joined by cognitive neuro-psychologist Professor Martin A. Conway, a leading expert on human memory, writer and curator Caterina Albano, and writer, curator and artist Alfredo Cramerotti for an afternoon of screenings and discussions at Modern Art Oxford that explore notions of memory in relation to scientific insight and the politics of location and conflict. This half-day symposium, Memory / Sound / Image, has been organised by the Gallery to complement the current exhibition Kerry Tribe: Dead Star Light, which explores themes of memory, ambiguity and doubt.
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Cafe Curio: For One Night Only
Camden Arts Centre
15 June 2011, 7–8.30 pm
‘Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers’ William Faulkner
This edition will focus on the work of Robert Whitman alongside Kerry Tribe, looking at the use of technology and innovation within art to reach wider audiences through creative use of formats and disciplines.
Speakers include Caterina Albano, research fellow and curator for Artakt at Central Saint Martins’ College of Art and Design and Nicola Triscott, founder and Director of the Arts Catalyst. Both will express their position in relation to the intersection of art and science, and the importance of such collaborations.
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Curating Science
Caterina Albano: Art-object/Science-object: a narrative of curating
Wellcome/Kingston Curating Science Conference, Wellcome Collection, 6 May 2011
Curating Science brings together curators and communicators from museums, galleries and new sites of engagement to explore the role of science in cultural practice. For further information please click here.
A÷(S+T) = ART, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Media Art – The Media and the Message by Peter Cornwell, convened by Caterina Albano
5pm – 6.30pm, Wednesday 11 May 2010 Conference Room, Innovation Centre, Southampton Row, WC1B 4AP
The increasing rate of change of technology development, and in particular visual media, tends to breach boundaries between historic art disciplines – leaving in their place evolving metamedia whose objects, moving imagery and installations contingent on time and place disrupt not only previous notions of artistic practice, but also blur the distinction between cultural and commercial production. The evolution of human-computer interfaces is central to this process.
Brainwaves
The Unconscious: Psychoanalysts in conversation
18 March 2011, 5–6.30pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious in Everyday Life curated by Dr Caterina Albano leading psychoanalysts David Bell, Leon Kleimberg and Michael Parsons discuss the role of the unconscious in relation to culture, the uncanny and the creative processes.
While the uncanny has been reclaimed by artists and critics as a key referent to contemporary experience, creativity in its conscious and non-conscious processes is equally at the forefront of a debate encompassing the arts and psychological sciences. In this conversation the speakers will reflect upon the unconscious aspects of these topics adding original psychoanalytical perspectives.
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Curating Art with Science in Mind
Lecture by Prof Marina Wallace at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), London.
11 February 2011
Artakt has for 10 years conceived and curated exhibitions at the cross over between art and science. Art and science have become increasingly separate disciplines since the middle of the 19th century, and have recently started to see each other as relevant to the other in a number of ways.
A series of groundbreaking and spectacular exhibitions have been put together by Prof Marina Wallace and her team in Artakt that reflect the current climate, and bring together artists and scientists, historical and contemporary material, institutions in the field of art and those specialised in the sciences, communicating to the public at large, concepts that matter to all.
Exploring the invisible at the Royal Institution
Anne Brodie, Simon Park and Caterina Albano
The project began in 2008 in a purpose made ‘bioluminescent photographic booth’ in a cupboard behind the Lecture theatre at the Royal Institution, with photographic portraits of the staff of the Ri and eminent professors including Lord Krebs, Richard Ashcroft, Marcus Du Sautoy, Chris Mason and Christopher Rapley. It formed part of the exhibition Crossing Over: Exchanges in Art, Science and Biotechnologies curated by Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. This new exhibition sees the work return to the Ri, this time out of the cupboard.
Relics of the Mind
Katharine Dowson, Sculptor, in conversation with Volker Sommer, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
Wednesday 20th October 2010, 7pm
GV Art, 49 Chiltern Street, London W1U 6LY
Does memory create identity? Volker Sommer, the renowned academic and author hosted an artist’s talk with Katharine Dowson at GV Art. The Sculptor discussed her work in the exhibition Relics of the Mind, its influences and intentions.
Brainwaves
Mirror Neurones
11 May 2010
Conference Room, Innovation Centre, Central Saint Martins
Prof Vittorio Gallese, neuroscientist talks about mirror neurones. Introduced by Prof Marina Wallace
(Artakt, CSM)
Drawing Out
7–9 April 2010
Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Drawing Out is a creative collaboration between RMIT University and the University of the Arts London. Drawing Out is a trans-disciplinary conference. It explores drawing across the boundaries of disciplines. It addresses drawing as a way of thinking and communicating in the twenty-first century.
Marina Wallace, keynote speaker
Galileo Galileo
What does Science get from Art?
3 December 2009
UCL
2009 is the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), and this project has created an opportunity for three artists, Doug Burton, Isambard Poulson and Iwona Abrams to produce and exhibit work inspired by astronomy. The evening explored the connection between the disciplines and presented works by artists. Read more …
Chaired by Prof. Marina Wallace and co-ordinated by Andy Charalambous, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL.
Move Me On event
9 June 2009
Dana Centre, Science Museum
This event asked how we can look at dance in a scientific way and what dancers have to say about this.
Marina Wallace and Nicky Ellis, choreographer, The Place Contemporary Dance School. Chaired by Dr Peter Lovatt, Principal Lecturer and Reader, University of Hertfordshire. For more information click here.
Creative Community
29 March 2009
DANA Centre
How does the brain interpret art? An assortment of artists and scientists explore how the brain understands music, language, touch and the visual.
Marina Wallace, Artakt, CSM, Prof Semir Zeki, UCL; Professor Lois Weaver, Queen Mary University of London; Richard Thomas, Artist; Vasco Hexel, Royal College of Music; Chaired by Dr Richard Wingate, King’s College London.
Creative Brains
12 March 2009
DANA Centre
What does creativity look like? Neuroscientists, improvisational musicians and visual artists discuss this elusive process using imaging techniques to help visualise the creative brain. Demonstrations from artists and musicians provided an insight into the creative process in action.
Annie Cattrell, artist; Mehmet Husseyin, singer; Morten Kringelbach, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University; Joseph Leach, Research assistant, Psychology Department, Goldsmiths University of London; Marina Wallace, Director of Artakt, Central St Martin’s School of Art; Tony Steffert, Departent of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London; Emily Morris, Drum Blondes. Chaired by Harry Witchel, Senior lecturer in Physiology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School.