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It's always difficult to describe workshops especially when the Tutor is pushing the edges of our mediums envelope. Words fail me but I can tell you that along with Tim Macmillan's this is the one for me this year. (ed aka Peter Goldfield) About Susan Derges Susan studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in 1973, Painting and computer graphics at The Slade in1978 and researched into audio-visual media at Tsukuba University, Japan in 1982. Susan lectures at The University of Plymouth in Exeter. We will examine processes such as sunprinting (cyanotypes) and cameraless photography. It's always difficult to describe workshops especially when the Tutor is pushing the edges of our mediums envelope. Words fail me but I can tell you that along with Tim Macmillan's this is the one for me this year. (ed aka Peter Goldfield) About Susan Derges Susan studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in 1973, Painting and computer graphics at The Slade in1978 and researched into audio-visual media at Tsukuba University, Japan in 1982. Susan lectures at The University of Plymouth in Exeter. We will examine processes such as sunprinting (cyanotypes) and cameraless photography.

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. Celebrating Year of the Artist June 2000-May 2001 . .

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. Like Susan Derges, Mark Wallinger will be showing the outcome of this research on site in the summer of 2001. During July, Simon Callery and Andrew Watson will be working alongside a dig team at Alfred's Castle on the Ridgeway to generate work which draws its inspiration from the team's activities.
further information: http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/site/exhibitions/chance/

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