DRAWING CONVERSATIONS 3: Drawing Talking to the Sciences
The third Drawing Conversations internal symposium was held in The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University on 17th January 2020. The convenors were Gerry Davies, Sarah Casey and Helen Gorrill, and the event was accompanied by the exhibition Drawn To Investigate curated by Sarah Casey and Gerald Davies.
Call for papers: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lica/news/drawing conversations-3-drawing-talking-to-the-sciences
Conference: Drawing Conversations 3 – Drawing Talking to the Sciences
Friday 17 January 2020, 9:30am to 5:00pm
The Ruskin, Lancaster University
A one day conference bringing together practice and perspectives on drawing used as an investigative tool in a range of research areas outside the arts.
Drawing Conversations 3: Drawing Talking to Sciences assesses the potential for drawing to make meaningful contributions to knowledge outside the arts by bringing together examples of drawing used investigate.
The event is hosted by The Ruskin in collaboration with Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA). The conference theme builds on John Ruskin’s advocacy of drawing as a way of seeing and understating the world. For Ruskin, it was drawing that facilitated close and careful examination of subjects that sensitised the drawer to notice.
In more recent years, there has been increasing investment in developing relationships between art and the sciences through collaborative projects. Residencies, publications and exhibitions are bringing artists and scientists together to look for cross-disciplinary solutions to complex shared problems. Alongside prominent work in digital and media arts, there are a growing number of artists and scientists forging such relationships around graphic practices. Drawing is historically associated with knowledge generation and critical investigation. Today drawing continues to work across the porous boundary between observation and expression, empiricism and invention in a range of investigative practices. This event provides an opportunity to share and reflect on examples, alongside a related conference exhibition, Drawn to Investigate.
Conference Programme
9.30-10 –Coffee and registration, time to view the exhibition
10.00 – Welcome and Introduction: Sarah Casey
Drawing Conversations, Jill Journeaux, Director and co-founder Drawing Conversations
The Ruskin, Sandra Kemp, Director the Ruskin
10.20 Keynote: Emma Stibbon: Drawing: Soundings and Resonance followed by Q&A with Gerry Davies
Conversation 1: Drawing the body
11-11.15 Joanne MacDonald: Drawing in Anatomy
11.20-. 11. 35 Julia Midgley: Drawing a Record – lines of engagement
11.40- 11.50 Questions
11.50 -12.00 Short comfort break
Conversation 2: Engaging public and patients
12.00 – 12.15 Daksha Patel: A case study using drawing in the context of Parkinson’s disease
12.20-12.35 Louise Ann Wilson: Drawing-it-Out: Collaborative drawing as a tool in art-based ethnographic and social-science practice and research
12.40 -12.50 Questions
12.50 – 13.45 Lunch & time to view exhibitions
Conversation 3: Measuring the world
13.45-14.00. Richard Talbot: Just What is It?
14.05 -14.20 Katarina Andjelkovic: Genealogies of interactivity from panorama drawings to panoramic photography
14.25 – 14.35: Peter Matthews: A creative collaboration with marine science
14.40 – 14.50 Jennie Speirs Grant: Drawing and the Art of Biosemiotics
14.55 – 15.10 Questions
15.10 – 15.30 Coffee break
Conversation 4: The Mediated Image
15.30- 15.40 Johanna Love: Drawing Dust
15.45- 15.55: Hondartza Fraga: Drawing the Cassini Raw Images of Saturn
16.00 -16.10 Lesley Hicks: Seer and Seen: Drawing from Webcams
16.15: Questions
16.30 Discussion: Emerging questions and issues
16.50 -17.00 Closing remarks and observations
Drawn To Investigate: curated by Sara Casey and Gerry Davies, The Ruskin – Museum of the Near Future, Lancaster University, 10th – 17th January 2020. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue edited by the curators.
Exhibiting artists:
Lesley Hicks
Stefan Gant
Jennie Speirs Grant
Emma Hunter
Joanna Love
Gemma Anderson
Doris Rohr
Emma Stibbon
Hondartza Fraga
Richard Talbot
Julia Midgley
Michael Geddis
Peter Matthews
Dara Regal
Daksha Patel
Annalise Rees, Jan Hogan & Vanessa Lucieer
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