Tesla Talk: Barbara RauchFacing Affect and Emotion
6-7pm Garwood Lecture Theatre UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT (How to get to UCL Garwood Lecture Theatre) Facing Affect and Emotion is a presentation that addresses the history of Data Visualization within the humanities research. Our research suggests that artists are and have always been concerned with visualization techniques that are now entering other disciplines. We discuss models of research creation and the aspects of “labour”, “craft”, “research” and “practice-led” projects and suggest, that these terminologies and methods are a sign of contemporary practice and its ambivalent nature. Studio and research creation will be challenged with study that comes out of scientific and interdisciplinary research. The presentation will focus on the analysis of the language used for interdisciplinary research and highlights on the tools that researchers engage with. The presentation demonstrates a study that uses 3D technologies, haptics, sculpting and data analysis. A true collaboration between the arts and sciences.
Tesla Talk: Amanda Wilson
Cubes, Rocks and Clouds: Multistable Perception of Art-Science Imagery
Wednesday 9th May 2012 Garwood Lecture Theatre UCL (University College London) 18:00 - 19:00
In order to create works that transcend cultural boundaries, artist-scientists need to be verbally and visually literate in two or more disciplines. What bearing does this have on the way they perceive an image, compared to individuals whose research or practice is confined to a single discipline? In this talk, Amanda Wilson explains why she thinks that artist-scientists may exhibit 'cultural multistability', whereby their impressions of an image jump between interpretations routed in different disciplines. Drawing from Gestalt theory, frame analysis and the perception of visual illusions, she describes and interprets the results of her recent survey.
Tesla Talk: Alexa WrightA View From Inside and other work
Friday 9th December 2011 6-7pm University College London Garwood Lecture Theatre Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Abstract In the context of some older photographic works such as 'I' (1999) and After Image' (1997), Alexa will talk about 'A View From Inside', a new series of digitally manipulated portraits made in collaboration with people diagnosed with conditions such as Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder. These photographs re-appropriate the pictorial convention of characterizing a person visually through his or her physique, stance and expression as well as by the arrangement of particular symbolic and narrative elements within the image. In each case the external appearance and the internal experiences of the person portrayed are depicted within a single, formally structured portrait. The aim is not to exoticise the ‘unreal’ or bizarre perceptual experiences of the subjects, but to find a visual language that will provoke discussion and add to our understanding of the experience of mental illness and of psychosis in particular. The presentation will explore the construction of reality as an embodied experience and will question the notion of 'madness'.
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