ART & SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

To accompany Degree Show One, MA Art & Science hosted a Symposium, MULTI-INFRA-SUB-META- on 29 May.

Symposium programme includes:

Part 1: Art and Environment

David Cross is an Artist, Reader and Pathway Leader for MA Visual Arts (Graphic Design) at Camberwell. His research, practice and teaching have long been informed by a critical engagement with the relationship between visual culture and the contested ideal of ‘sustainable’ development, more recently focused on fossil energy dependency and climate breakdown. He is now shifting towards promoting the transition to a post-carbon society. As an artist, Cross began collaborating with Matthew Cornford while studying at St Martin’s School of Art in 1987, and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1991. Since then, the work of Cornford & Cross has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and projects include an Arts Council residency at the London School of Economics, and a British Council residency at Vitamin in Guangzhou, China. www.arts.ac.uk/david-cross

Holly Owen and Kristina Pulejkova are multi-media artists working in the UK.  They will be talking about their project Switching Heads: sound mapping the arctic. This series brings together their skills as artists with their concerns about how climate change is affecting communities and environments around the globe.  Both artists graduated from the MA Art and Science in 2014. www.switching-heads.com

A panel discussion on relationships and responsibilities between the arts and the environment.

Part 2: Art and Science

A series of presentations by graduating students from the MA Art and Science, sharing their interdisciplinary practice and research. Topics include embodiment, hygiene, quantum physics, belief, postmodernism, and the humble pebble.