All events

This is a listing of all events connected with the experimentality programme. You can also view the events grouped as workshop or arts events.

Experimentality Photography Exhibition

13 January, 2010 - 6 February, 2010, Peter Scott Galllery

Piotr Woycicki, Flash Flood, 2009Piotr Woycicki, Flash Flood, 2009This was the exhibition of the winning photographs from the Experimentality Photography Competition, in which local artists were invited to respond to the title ‘The Experiment’.

Submitted by Experimentality on 10 November, 2009 - 10:11
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Workshop 3: Experimental Subjects

14 January, 2010 - 15 January, 2010, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University

Participants in this workshop explored the different kinds of subjectivity and relations of power produced by different forms of experimentality. Themes included:

  • ‘experimental subjects’, such as subjects of clinical trials or of behaviourist-inspired public policy interventions;
  • the self as the site of self-experimentation in popular culture, alternative spirituality, performance art, and human resource discourses
  • the experimenter as a form of subjectivity in science, technology, and finance capital.

Submitted by Experimentality on 8 October, 2009 - 11:36
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What happens if ... ? at Storey Gallery

30 January, 2010 - 3 April, 2010, Storey Gallery, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster

What happens if ...?

An exhibition of experimental objects and actions by artists and designers from the UK, Switzerland, Hungary, Israel and the USA: Simon Blackmore, Attila Csörgo, Jerome Harrington, Michael Kontopoulos, Material Beliefs, Ariel Schlesinger, Roman Signer, Thomas Thwaites, Bill Woodrow and Stuart Walker.

Submitted by Experimentality on 26 January, 2010 - 11:14
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Talks on Art - Bill Woodrow in conversation with Lewis Biggs

9 February, 2010, Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster

Bill Woodrow is a British sculptor who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1986, and exhibited on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2000.

Submitted by Experimentality on 9 February, 2010 - 09:26
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Conversations about Innovation

16 February, 2010 - 18 February, 2010, Lancaster University

with:

Daria Loi, Research scientist, Intel USA

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Tinker.it!, London, UK

Lucy Kimbell, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK

Submitted by Experimentality on 4 February, 2010 - 09:48

Workshop 4: Experimental Objects

18 February, 2010 - 19 February, 2010, Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster

This workshop was organised in collaboration with the Storey Gallery, Lancaster, and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester). The workshop brought together historians of science, anthropologists of technology and devices, and designers to explore entities whose mode of existence is in various ways caught up with the experimental, in conjunction with a specially commissioned exhibition of art works on the same theme.

Submitted by Experimentality on 10 October, 2009 - 10:33
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Talks on Art - Charlie Gere

23 February, 2010, Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster

In this talk, Charlie Gere considered the role of the hand in experimentation, arguing that it is the hand that is the most experimental organ, engaged as it is with touch, grasp and feel, beyond what can be seen.

Submitted by Experimentality on 22 February, 2010 - 08:06
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Talks on Art - Thomas Thwaites and the Toaster Project

9 March, 2010, Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster

Designer Thomas Thwaites is attempting to make an electric toaster from scratch; digging up the raw materials at various disused mines around Britain, processing and refining them in his back garden in south London, and forming them into components for his toaster

Submitted by Experimentality on 9 March, 2010 - 11:09
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The Cloud Project

17 March, 2010 - 19 March, 2010, Edward Roberts Court, Lancaster University

Imagine if we could engineer the climate so that it snowed ice cream.

Submitted by Experimentality on 17 March, 2010 - 11:31

Workshop 5: Experimentality in Nature: Evolution, Novelty, Reflexivity

25 March, 2010 - 26 March, 2010, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University

This workshop brought together theoretical biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians of art and of science to explore how ideas of experimentality can be used to understand the emergence of radical novelty in the natural world and in human culture. Participants explored contemporary theories of evolution which go beyond a conventional neo-Darwinian emphasis on mutation and natural selection, such as evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), symbiogenesis, and animal traditions, debated attempts to bridge understandings of biological and of cultural evolution, and explored the aporias surrounding human origins.  Building upon discussions about such explorations’ wider relevance, the workshop also explored something of the bearing, which recent approaches to transitions under far from equilibrium conditions across physical, organic and cultural realms may have upon “needs of a world in which simplicity is a memory of a bygone age" (Funtowicz and Ravetz 1997).

Submitted by Experimentality on 10 October, 2009 - 10:41
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