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The work will provide a source of visual metaphors as tools for research and the public understanding of science, and has received one of only eleven national awards from SciArt, a consortium dedicated to assisting partnerships in science and art. The project is being managed by Artpoint Trust and the photographs will be displayed in the new Edward Abraham Building. The Museum of the History of Science will provide artist Susan Derges with inspiration for her residency, Natural Magic. Referring to the Renaissance world of figures such as Giambattista della Porta, whose text on natural magic was the most famous of the genre, the project seeks to find an approach to art and science which avoids the antagonisms and oppositions that characterise so much of their recent history. Mark Wallinger's residency at the University Museum of Natural History will focus on questions of taxonomy and representation, the scope and dispassion of scholarship that values the dinosaur as much as the insect. |
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. Photographic images concerned with different kinds of observations will be interwoven with objects in the collection to evoke a sense of the curiosity and wonderment suggested by the title of her project. Referring to the Renaissance world of figures such as Giambattista della Porta, whose text on natural magic was the most famous of the genre, the project seeks to find an approach to art and science which avoids the antagonisms and oppositions that characterise so much of their recent history. Susan Derges will be showing the outcomes of her research at the Museum of the History of Science from October 2001. The University of Oxford's contributions to Year of the Artist are being organised in association with The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. |
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This last series - The Observer and the Observed (1991; see below) - was created by using a loudspeaker to vibrate a jet of water illuminated by strobe light. A retrospective catalogue of the full range of this work has recently been published as Liquid Form 1985-1999 (London, 1999), with an essay by Martin Kemp, Professor of the History of Art and President of the Friends of the Museum. The title evokes the Renaissance world of figures such as Giambattista della Porta, whose text on natural magic was the most famous of the genre. For della Porta the very terms 'science' and 'art' had quite different meanings from today. 'Natural Magic' hints at an approach to art and science that avoids the divisions which characterize so much of their recent history. |
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This last series - The Observer and the Observed (1991; see below) - was created by using a loudspeaker to vibrate a jet of water illuminated by strobe light. A retrospective catalogue of the full range of this work has recently been published as Liquid Form 1985-1999 (London, 1999), with an essay by Martin Kemp, Professor of the History of Art and President of the Friends of the Museum. The title evokes the Renaissance world of figures such as Giambattista della Porta, whose text on natural magic was the most famous of the genre. For della Porta the very terms 'science' and 'art' had quite different meanings from today. 'Natural Magic' hints at an approach to art and science that avoids the divisions which characterize so much of their recent history. |
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