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Living Data – Iteration

This iteration of Living Data combines the animation presented at the 2012 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, with music by VOA (Benn DeMole & Catriona Davies). The original music was composed for Oceanic Sydney and performed with dancers Caterina Mocciola & Ashley Macqueen. The title reflects the thought that we can affect change in our environment…

Oceanic Living Data: installation/ performance

Art & About Sydney presents the Oceanic Living Data installation/ performance that resulted from collaborations between animator Lisa Roberts (Visiting Fellow, Design and Environmental Science, UTS), performance artists Caterina Mocciola and Ashley Macqueen, Lawrence Wallen (Head of Design, UTS) and Martina Doblin (Senior Research Fellow, Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Environmental Science, UTS). Performance: Customs…

Please accept our invitation to the next Living Data presentation: For those of you who can’t come we invite you to help us assess the impact of our efforts by looking at this series of images and answering four questions. Please write your answers in the Reply box on the Blog to have your words…

Combining stories, hypotheses, data and iconography Sunday 19 August, 1 – 4pm at The Muse Come to the Form and see live performances. Meet and hear contributing artists and scientists. Scientists include William Gladstone and Martina Doblin (UTS), So Kawaguchi (AAD) and Haydn Washington (University of New South Wales). READ MORE! AND ALSO – VISIT THE Art from Science ANIMATING CHANGE Exhibition Thursday…

LIVING DATA – ART FROM SCIENCE

Exciting news – positive links!    ART FROM SCIENCE Exhibition: Our positive and varied links and connections in the arts/science field come together in this exciting exhibition.   Lynchpin project mentor, Lisa Roberts of Living Data,  and Lynchpin Patron, Nigel Helyer, the wonderful Dr Sonique, along with artist Christine McMillan and others, feature in this important exhibition during the…

New! Living Data contributes to the 2012 Antarctic Treaty meeting in Hobart, 11-17 June:  view the installation here and read more about Living Data at Visual Arts.

2017 Lynchpin Residency

Lynchpin’s conversation piece for 2017 – Jenny Pollak visits Hobart for a Lynchpin Residency for four to six weeks, from the end of February. As Lynchpin Coordinator, Jenny Pollak’s work is of particular closeness to me;  her marvellous installation work The Immortals shown at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, 4th September – 25th October 2015, was brought to my notice by…

2016/17/18

 Lynchpin is pleased to support this exciting and important conference. IMAGINING A DIFFERENT FUTURE Overcoming Barriers to Climate Justice A multidisciplinary conference examining the barriers to responding to climate change, implementing climate justice, and proposing ways forward. Hobart, Tasmania

8-10 February 2018   Click here to visit the website:  Organising Committee Peter Lawrence (Faculty of Law,…

The Antarctic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

In the Southern Hemisphere, programs like Lynchpin and Living Data work to encourage arts/ocean science collaborations that both stand with the important science of climate change but also open up the stories of Southern Ocean and Antarctica marine science to the community in new ways; in Europe at this year’s Venice Biennale, curators are working to bring art to…

Writing in The Conversation David Karoly, Professor of Atmospheric Science at University of Melbourne writes: . . . Contemporary art, with its intimate connection to the time in which it arises, has the intellectual and creative capacity to be a powerful trans-disciplinary change agent, bringing together otherwise disparate fields of science, policy and politics. Art and…