Picturing Science and the GWW reading groups get together on Wednesday, March 29th at 12:00 in CB009 College Bounds. We shall be discussing Janet Vertesi “Seeing like a Rover: Visualisation, embodiment, and interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission”, Social Studies of Science, 42(3), 2012, pp. 393-414. Continue reading
On Wednesday 8th March, students in Dr. Amy Bryzgel’s Postmodern Art class took a field trip to visit several of Aberdeen’s visual arts spaces, including Seventeen on Belmont Street. The current exhibition in the upstairs gallery is Black Swan White Elephant, by North East-based artist Caroline Inckle. Inckle’s exhibition takes the form of a giant … Continue reading
Maja Bekan’s exhibition 23 Assemblies at the Zamek Ujazdowski – Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Warsaw curated by Anna Ptak invites its visitors to take part in the process of the gallery guards becoming performance artists. Bekan was an artist in residence at the CCA and the exhibition is the result of her … Continue reading
Please join us for a screening and discussion of Beyond Horizons (2017) with its directors on Monday, 20 March 2017, 18:00-20:00 in MacRobert 051. Beyond Horizons is programme of short films by artists questioning the governance of natural resources in Northern Norway and the High North. Approaching a range of issues from different and unfamiliar … Continue reading
Next Wednesday, March 15th, Bárbara Barreiro will give a talk at the University of Aberdeen as part of the Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar series. The talk will take place at 12:00 in Meeting Room 3 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Text by Bárbara Barreiro, visiting PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, … Continue reading
In collaboration with the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, the Department of Film and Visual Culture is pleased to announce the seminar below: Tim Boon (Head of Research & Public History, Science Museum Group London) 4 to 6 pm, Thursday 23 March, Taylor A36 Abstract: In this presentation, I will … Continue reading
As part of his talk on “Synaesthetic Perception and Visualisation of Sound in Space” within the SGSAH event In and Out of Space, multi-media artist Johannes Deutsch will screen a selection of his work and engage in a Q&A session lead by Dr Silvia Casini. Fri 17th March, 16:15 – 18:00, Seminar Room 224 (Sir … Continue reading
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