Dear ADA,
Although this is intended to be a Dunedin-based event may of you out
there might be interested in participating. And yes many of the things
we are talking about may be old/new news too ... the point of the
symposium is to get people from all over the art/ science continuum
from both academia and industry to meet and talk and share.
Be great to have some ADA faces there!
Illustrating the Unseeable: Reconnecting Art and Science
Participants are invited to a one day Symposium hosted by David Green
and Susan Ballard, from Electronic Arts section of the School of Art,
Dunedin
28 October 2009, School of Art Dunedin.
The “Infotainment” industry perpetually hungers for innovation in
the popular delivery of scientific visualisations. At the same time
developments in computer graphic imaging and computer enhanced media
offer uncharted potential for illustrating the unseeable. Even so, at
present, key expositional elements for feature film and broadcast
media are commonly created by commercial animation studios whose
graphic designers primarily reference a cache of pre-existing
broadcast and feature film work to solve graphic concept puzzles. We
think there is scope for a different kind of engagement between art
and science.
In a parallel universe – far flung artists, stimulated by the fecund
muse of scientific theory explore "lateral" ways to illustrate and
embody ground breaking theoretical concepts. Artists are developing
new ways to interpret science, creating a rich reservoir of ideas; a
vastly extended idiom.
Nearly 500 years ago Renaissance artists and scientists illuminated
worlds of imagination, theory, function and possibility. With the
industrial revolution came the inevitable segregation of art and
science toward functional material efficiency driven largely by the
trade of the day. But in the twenty-first century economics have
irrevocably expanded. Now abstractions and their symbolic expression
are traded with the same currency as more “tangible” cargo. As surely
as industrial fetishism dictates a schism between art and science,
network economics enable a reunion.
We view this as an opportune moment to begin a discussion given
Dunedin’s rich academic and creative environment.
With a focus toward bringing arts practice in touch with the popular
dissemination of innovative ideas, through a variety of media conduits
- from traditional broadcast to cutting edge graphical interfaces in
location based museum installations - Electronic Arts will host a
symposium to encourage cross-media and cross-disciplinary connections.
Electronic Arts within the School of Art is dedicated to critical
research practices in digital and electronic media. Being positioned
within a School of Art allows us a unique perspective on digital media
and technologies. This symposium will provide a forum for discussions
of scientific illustration within our city. A range of invited
participants will present short talks addressing scientific
illustration as it relates to their research and development focus.
Comprised neither of formal papers nor trade pitches, this symposium
is intended to stimulate a Dunedin nexus between world and local
contemporary arts practice and cutting edge science toward media
dissemination.
If you would like to be involved, send us a short paragraph indicating
how your interests fit to the theme before 10 October 2009.
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http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/Schools-departments/art.html
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