UH Arts + Culture and Art:Sci Research Lab are delighted to invite you to a symposium exploring the themes behind our current exhibition Mind + Matter: Towards Co-Creation.
One of the underpinning questions for both the exhibition and the symposium is: how can cross-disciplinary practices provide a platform for new approaches and ideas to develop? In this event, we are joined by leading artists and scientists working in the field, as well as guest speakers, to fully explore the challenges and opportunities of cross-disciplinary projects and discover what happens in the collaborative space between art and science.
Symposium Schedule:
- 15:45 – Refreshments
- 16:00-16:45 – Invisible Practices: Rob Godman and Sam Jury (Art:Sci Research Lab)
- 16:45-16:55 – Curatorial Reflections: Elizabeth Murton (UH Arts + Culture)
- 17:00-17:15 – Co-Creating with an Intelligent Amoeba: Artist Heather Barnett + the slime mould Physarum polycephalum
- 17:15-17:30 – Doctor, Doctor, Let’s Talk About Tourettes: Artist Sam Jury + Psychology PhD Danni Phoenix-Kane
- 17:30-17:45 – Walk to the Bottom of the Sea: Artist Emma Critchley
- 18:00-18:15 – Nothing Is Possible: Artists Ruth Jarman + Joe Gerhardt (Semiconductor) with Astrophysicist Dr. Jim Geach
- 18:15-19:00 – Q&A hosted by Rob Godman
- 19:00-20:00 – Drinks + networking
For guests wanting to see the Mind + Matter: Towards Co-Creation exhibition at the Art + Design Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, there will be a tour at 14:30 and FREE bus transportation to St Albans Museum + Gallery leaving at 15.00. This is followed by an optional curator’s tour of the Wild About Hertfordshire exhibition at St Albans Museum + Gallery at 15:15. The bus will return to the University of Hertfordshire at 20:15. If you are interested in this option, please email Tricia Bryan at: p.bryan@herts.ac.uk
Booking is essential to secure your place at this event, and we look forward to welcoming you!
For information on parking + accessibility, please click here.
Image: Emma Critchley, Walk to the Bottom of the Sea (2024). Photography by Rob Harris.
More information:
- Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with living systems, imaging technologies and playful pedagogies to mediate interspecies encounters between human and nonhuman subjects. Operating across species and scales, her work centres on nonhuman intelligence, collective behaviour and experimental systems for co-enquiry, including an ongoing ‘collaboration’ with an intelligent slime mould, Physarum polycephalum. Heather is Pathway Leader on the MA Art and Science and Co-Director of the Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London).
- Emma Critchley is an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space. In 2019, Emma was the winner of the EARTH WATER SKY residency programme with Science Gallery Venice, where she has been working with the Ice Memory Project. https://emmacritchley.com
- Jim Geach is a Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Department of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. He specialises in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, and topics in observational cosmology.
- Rob Godman is a musician, composer and sound designer. He has worked collaboratively on public artworks, AV installations and live performances for over twenty years. He is currently musician in residence at Stapleford Granary, Cambridge and co-Lead of the Art:Sci Research Lab in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire.
- Sam Jury is an artist working in photography, film and installation. She has a long history of collaboration, both within the arts and sciences. She is a practice-led researcher and Leader of the Art:Sci Research Lab in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. www.samjury.com
- Danni Phoenix- Kane is a passionate Tourette PhD Researcher, who has devoted her PhD studies to exploring the challenges and empowerment of tic and disorder recognition in adulthood. Diagnosed with TS in her early 30s, Danni endeavours to provide a unique viewpoint and amplify the voices of lived experience through her research and creative activities.
- Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt (aka Semiconductor) are a UK-based artist duo who explore the human experience at the intersection between science and technology. Their innovative works confront us with the seemingly unknowable ephemerality of the natural world, contextualising scientific data into captivating sculpture, moving image and drawings that encourage us to expand our perceptions of reality and question our role as observers. https://semiconductorfilms.com
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Mind + Matter: Towards Co-Creation
A group exhibition by Art:Sci Research Lab exploring co-creation within the fields of art and science