LASER Talks at Cambridge - Arts in Residency
The Cambridge LASER talks (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendez-vous) questions the separation and propagation of art and science as distinct categories of knowing and being.
Co-hosts: Satinder Gill and Chrysi Nanou (University of Cambridge)
EVENT INFO
When: November 9th 2023 18:00-20:00 BST, Find your timezone here
Where: Online register via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88592725736
This Cambridge LASER highlights and reflects on artist in residence programs within scientific institutions and academic departments, including Cambridge, bringing together different processes of translation and collaboration.
SPEAKERS
Natasha Freedman - Creative Producer of Cavendish Art Science Programme. Natasha is a freelance producer and director working across the arts with experience of developing imaginative programmes that use artistic practice to explore the human condition and support human health, social justice and environmental wellbeing. She founded the pioneering performing arts programme at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, reimagined the learning programmes for English National Opera and Complicite theatre company, and co-led the culture climate organisation Cape Farewell. She is also Creative Director at studio2009.
https://www.studio2909.org/team2909, https://www.cavendish-artscience.org.uk/about-us/
Miriam Akkerman, Mary Simoni (Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at RPI) and Charles Nichols have produced commissioned music based on Covid data, which you will be able to hear in a listening room (link coming soon).
Mirian Akkerman - Junior Professor in Empirical Musicology at the TU Dresden.
Miriam performs the Transverse flute/live electronics, creates sound art, in a musicologist, who also does sound engineering. Her recent works include The Aesthetics of Biodiversity, CD 2022, curated by Sergey Kostyrko for the Global Young Academy, and The Tartini, CD released on Creative Source. Miriam edits Array, the journal of the International Computer Music Association ICMA. https://www.miriam-akkermann.de/index.html
Charles Nichols - Associate Professor of Composition and Creative Technologies at Virginia Tech, USA. Charles is a Composer, violinist, and computer music researcher who explores the expressive potential of instrumental ensembles, computer music systems, and combinations of the two, for the concert stage, and collaborations with dance, video, and installation art. His research includes spatial audio, data sonification, motion capture for musical performance, telematic performance, and haptic musical instrument design.
https://sopa.vt.edu/faculty_staff/music-faculty/comp-and-creative-tech-faculty/charles-nichols.html
Stefanie Reichelt - Scientist, researcher, artist and photographer.
From 2005 until 2021, She was head of the light microscopy laboratory at the CRUK Cambridge Institute. Her research included the development of new imaging techniques to enable the visualisation of molecules in cells for cancer diagnostics. Before joining CRUK, she worked for five years at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology with Brad Amos, one of the key-inventors of confocal laser scanning microscopy on the development of new imaging techniques and with Bio-Rad Microsciences on the commercialisation of these microscopes. Her photographic work explores the nature of perception in photography, the visual expression of the unknown and our feelings evoked by the mysterious. She has curated and developed Art and Science workshops and exhibitions in the UK and during residencies in India, Japan, and USA. Stefanie is founder and curator of ArtCell Gallery, which has provided an exciting exhibition space on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus to local artists and the science community.
https://cargocollective.com/StefanieReichelt or https://www.stefaniereichelt-photographyandprints.com/photogallery.php?id=72177720300476201&title=Known+and+Strange+Things
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The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. @lasertalks