George Washington Wilson Centre VIEW events at the May Festival, 24-26 May

The School’s George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture is proud to present its VIEW programme of events at this year’s University May Festival on 24-26 May. Please see below for a full list of events being organised by GWW Centre members, in chronological order, including a round-table to accompany two exhibitions at the Suttie … Continue reading →

Harvesting Collections for Social and Scientific Benefit: Hidden Stories at the Herbarium of RBGE

The advent of the era of Big Data has highlighted a truism in scientific discovery: an inference is only as good as the data that underlie it. While it is tempting to believe that large, open-access data repositories are a recent invention, in fact scientific collections such as herbaria have been filling this purpose for … Continue reading →

Scripts, Performances, Monuments and Encounters: The Public Culture of 20th Century Science through its Media

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 →

[M]apping the City

A new project starts this month, designing an app based on Aberdeen’s sights and sounds. Continue reading →

Bubble Mob in Aberdeen!

Bubble Flash Mob at Aberdeen Union Square, 25 September 2015, 3PM, Part of Exploration 2015! Continue reading →

Contrails

Ed Welch writes about jet travel, contrails and contemporary visualisations of air space. Continue reading →

Maps, Thresholds and Beaten Tracks

Pursuing their exploration of the visual representation of cities, photographer John Perivolaris and GWW director Ed Welch have published a photo-essay on photography, maps, and urban walking in the on-line review Berfrois. Continue reading →