Name: Artists and Scientists
Start: 2018-05-29T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2018-05-29T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Castlefield Gallery

Artists and Scientists

Castlefield Gallery

The May CG Associates session takes a look, from both sides of the lab bench, at artist/scientist co-operation. Jon Biddulph and Dave Griffiths will talk about their experience of working with astronomers, forensic archaeologists, microbiologists and nuclear scientists, and microbiologist Jo Verran will provide a scientist’s perspective on working with artists. This session is especially aimed at artists wanting to know how to go about working with scientists. The topic was nominated by CG Associate Sam Meech in response to a Member's Choice callout.
Jon Biddulph is a Manchester-based artist, educator, garden designer and sourdough bread baker. Until 2003, as a founder-member of TEA, he explored the idea of people and place in multiple media. More recently he has created ‘place’ through gardens – in themselves complex mixes of design, botany, geography and sociology. His current fascination with microbiology, and more specifically the Human Microbiome – the complex and essential ecosystem of microbes living on and in the body – explores the integration of person and ‘place’ as a living, walking ecosystem.
His work Microbe Me is an outcome of on-going experiments in Manchester Metropolitan University Microbiology Labs to create and record cultured self-portraits using the microbes from the artist’s face mapped onto agar plates overlaying a photographic portrait of the artist.
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Dave Griffiths explores photographic images as lenses through which we commemorate and navigate history. He combines image fragments and acts of durational seeing, in hybrid assemblages of film, animation, sound, print and data. His compressed narrative maps consider media artefacts as observatories for locating our being in deep time and space.
Currently Dave is using the material and historical potential of analogue microfilm to depict transition, chaos and extinction. As an archival media durable for 500 years, microfilm can be understood as a mythological solution to digital insecurity.  He has worked with forensic archaeologists in response to new evidence of execution sites at Treblinka, and with astronomers observing deep-field gamma-ray bursts. Through participation with art and science communities, Dave Griffiths encourages us to speculate about the future survival and reception of images, and what it means to transmit and translate contemporary information through deep time.
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Jo Verran is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Manchester Metropolitan University and recently retired as Head of the School of Research, Enterprise and Innovation and Head of Science Communication and Public Engagement in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She has researched the interactions of microorganisms with surfaces such as food preparation surfaces, water pipes and dentures and worked with surface engineers and other microbiologists to make and characterise novel surfaces, and then observe their effect on the viability, attachment and removal of microorganisms.
Jo has always encouraged her science students to consider art as a route for communicating science, and to use their creative skills to produce a variety of outputs. She has collaborated with artists on a range of sci-art projects and developed a range of innovative and ingenious activities to encourage discussion around key issues such as disease transmission (using vampires and zombies!), vaccination (using computer games), infectious disease (the Bad Bugs Bookclub, which discusses novels where infectious disease forms part of the plot), food production and antimicrobial resistance.
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