December 2009
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Science, Art and Technology Collaborations
Last week Raewyn and Richard returned from SuperHuman:Revolution of the Species Symposium 23-24 November 2009 http://superhuman.anat.org.au/
and ReLive Third International conference on the Histories of Media Art Science and Technology 26-29 November 2009 http://www.mediaarthistory.org
The focus of both SuperHuman symposium and ReLive conference were around art+science+technology, and...
November 2009
13 posts
The language of plants
insect track. Raewyn Turner, 2009
(see Ernie Kroeger’s ‘Wild Writing’ http://www.gallery44.org/exhibitions/wildwriting.htm)
What happens when we mow the lawns? The grass sends out ‘I’m wounded’ signals such as methyl jasmonates and hexanol derivatives, those classic grassy smells.
Plants when under attack by pest insects and diseases give off signalling compounds such as...
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Mindkits blog Wed Nov 4th 2009
I have a hundred points of view, of reception and emission: the world and I combine.
We’ve had some great dialogues with visitors around the inclusion of ethics within all disciplines, multidisciplinary discourse, the difficulty that people find in describing taste sensations never before encountered, synesthetic sculptural number forms and the ability to sing drawings, geo-reality, and a...
Where? Who? When? What? Crossing Wires
WHERE
Tuatara House
295 K’Rd, (opposite ArtSpace)
Newton, Auckland
WHO
Raewyn Turner and Dr Richard Newcomb
Scientist, Dr Richard Newcomb has research interests in olfaction in both humans and insects, and in ways of comparing these different biological systems to address how they have evolved. Raewyn Turner is a practicing artist exploring sensory perception through alternative...
The ocean of chemical signals
The environment is an ocean of olfactory communications between all living beings…what do the receptors look like?
We’re sharing knowledge about receptors : Richard’s bio world and Raewyn’s imagined shapes and mechanisms. We’re both asking questions about the invisible.
We’re shaped by the things that we like. We’re talking about the word...
Olfactory receptors and human emotion
This circuit was made with the notion of communication between plants and light.( with thanks to Diana Burgoyne and Brian Harris). The plant will grow up and over the circuit and make it sing. Are there plant/insect/animal receptors that catch the emanations of human emotion? What of human to human signaling?
We’re finding differences and sameness in science and art: creativity and...
Tuesday 3rd Nov
Epson have lent us a much brighter projector, and we’ve added the sounds of insects—when we walk around in the space we play the images and insect voices.
The environment is an ocean of olfactory signals…..of ribbons and plumes of chemical signals arising from all matter. As Terrance McKenna says, communication is the rider and matter is the horse.
I begin drawing Magellan’s...
WatchA quick 360 of the Crossing Wires installation. Leah Tooman reading ‘Passion for Perfume’by Janette MacKay,Life and Style, NZ Herald Friday Nov 6, 2009.
Monday 2nd November
We decided to make Crossing Wires a working interactive space for the initial phase of our collaboration. We’ll use using dialogue, technology and smell sampling. We received notice that our application for funding from CNZ and Morst was successful for the 1st phase of our project in October.
Its official open day after building and preparing the space from 1st Nov.
Today is adjustment...
October 2009
2 posts
Crossing Wires is a laboratory installation running for 3 weeks : November 2nd to 22nd.
The laboratory will take place in a shop front window in a busy part of town, providing a window into the seldom seen world of the science laboratory, blended with performance exhibition art.
Scientist, Dr Richard Newcomb has research interests in olfaction in both humans and insects, and in ways of...