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The Cultural Negotiation of Science is a research group based at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK that brings together artists, academics and research students whose practices engage with expert cultures across a broad spectrum of science and technology.
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CNoS News
CNoS Professor Fiona Crisp and PhD student Crystal Bennes are both presenting papers this Wednesday at the Science & Photography Symposium as part of the 2019 St Andrews Photography Festival. Fiona will speak about Material Sight and her work on re-presenting the spaces of fundamental science. Crystal will talk through the history of an unusual 19th-century photographic process—carbon transfer printing—and present some of her current work which uses and adapts carbon print processes. The full programme of speakers can be found here.
Also on Wednesday, Jackie Donachie is giving an artist talk in relation to a series of artworks she created to commemorate the work of women in health and medicine who have associations with East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The talk is free for all to attend.
Earlier in October, as part of Dundee Science Festival, Daksha Patel hosted a one-day interactive and performative event at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Misprints, in which visitors were greeted by scientists and asked to choose a print from a selection produced by the artist as the starting point for a conversation, marked the outcome of Patel's residency at University of Dundee, hosted by Parkinson's disease research scientist and clinician Professor Miratul Muqit. The project was supported by the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Fund awarded to the University of Dundee.
Lead image: Fiona Crisp, Dr Jeurgen Schmoll, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation 2013, from the series Material Sight
Below image: Daksha Patel, Misprints. Photo credit: Erika Stevenson
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CNoS News, Exhibitions & Events
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Thank you to everyone who applied to the CNoS Ways of Working workshop in collaboration with the Biochemical Society and Newcastle University's Institute for Creative Arts Practice on 29 October.
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Image above: Laura Harrington, A Yarn, 2019. Photo credit: PH Enrico Amici
In February, 2019 Laura Harrington began a project with Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistolleto in Biella in the foothills of the Italian Alps. Together with three other artists, the project sought to use artistic research as a tool to question the different processes which constitute textile production chains.
Laura's new work A Yarn—a 6-metre long patchwork and 'living landscape' of 43 different fabrics and their behaviours (derived from nine source materials)—is now on show as part of the exhibition CirculArt at Cittadellarte Arte al Centro 2019 which opened on 13 October and runs until July 2020.
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Submit an event, exhibition or opportunity
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Please submit relevant upcoming art/science events, exhibitions or opportunities for publication in the next CNoS newsletter.
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Art/Science Exhibitions & Events
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A very interesting-looking exhibition just opened at Art Laboratory Berlin. Invisible Forces presents the work of Erich Berger and Mari Keto alongside a workshop and forensic exhibition by Martin Howse—all to do with radiation, contemporary culture, deep (geological) time and psycho-geophysics. Until 8 December.
More information here.
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** At FACT in Liverpool, catch the last few days of Oceans 4.0, an exhibition presenting three projects that monitor, reflect and imagine the future of our threatened oceans. Closes 27 October.
** Next Wednesday, 30 October, join HEAD Genève and Arts at CERN for a one-day symposium, Science meets fiction, looking at the relationship between art & science & fiction. Full details of the programme here.
** Tales from the Crust, an exhibition by London-based Chilean artist Ignacio Acosta investigating the politics of extraction across the planet, continues at Arts Catalyst in London until 14 December.
** Plastic—Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without it, a new exhibition on the increasingly-beleaguered material opens at Science Gallery Dublin on October 24th and continues until February next year.
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Art/Science Opportunities
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Closing soon: While this is perhaps more AI than art/science, Edinburgh University’s Experiential AI research centre at Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) is calling for applications to an artist-in-residence programme exploring artificial intelligence.
Deadline is 29 October.
More information here. Apply here.
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=> Closing soon: The Learned Pig's open call for art, photography, poetry and other forms of writing that relate to the themes of its four new sections: rot (e.g. microbes and viruses), root mapping (cartography as resistance), rhythm (as collective or individual experience) and fields (agriculture and food supply). Deadline for submissions 31 October. More here.
=> Closing soon: Backlight Photo Festival in Tampere has an open call for its 2020 festival whose theme is Related Realities -- photography meets science and new technologies. The festival creators hope to boost discussion between art photography and science. Deadline for submission is 31 October. More here.
=> For artists based in Yorkshire, Arts Catalyst is looking for a visual artist to take over their Instagram account with a research focused project that incorporates an exploration of the Museums Sheffield collection and archive. There is an artist fee for the Instagram residency. Deadline 1 November. More here.
=> The Climate Whirl programme at the University of Helsinki is offering artists an opportunity to work at a scientific research station related to forests and the atmosphere in dialogue with researchers. The residency will take place in 2020. Deadline 18 November. More here.
=> European Media Artists in Residence Exchange has announced an open call for two-month residencies in 2020 and 2021 for European artists working in the fields of digital media, sound of video art, media-based performance, robotics or bio-art. Applications are being accepted for proposals to one of eleven institutions across Europe. Deadline for submissions is 2 December 2019. More information here.
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*** Please note that although these opportunities have been identified as relevant to our cross-disciplinary research and practice, they are not necessarily endorsed by CNoS or Northumbria University. ***
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