The stereotype of science and artists being the opposite end of the mind has lasted a very long time. The idea that science only works in the tangible and the creative only works in the figurative leads many to think that they don’t, or cannot, collaborate.
In reality, creatives must base their ideas on the real world, and scientists must imagine what is possible to start projects.
Creative Nexus Collaboration is an exhibition space where designers and scientists come together to work on projects. There will be a show-and-tell by designers and scientists who explain their projects – how and why they collaborated to create installation artworks.
The kind of installations we can expect include projects where designers and artists create tangible and examples of scientific processes which are sometimes easiest conveyed through the physical, the tangible and creative.
One exhibition at the Creative Nexus Collaboration exhibition will be “‘Decipher Code 2020′”, by Lucy Wang and Natalie Woolger. It is an interactive space to explain the intricate procedures of gene function analysis. It will be a hands-on educational space for the public to walk, run, spin and explore gene function analytics by becoming a gene for a day.
Lucy Wang, the designer of this project, working with scientists Dr. Bronwyn Robertson and Dr. Helen Speirs of Ramaciotti Centre UNSW, described the collaboration of working with science as a basis for art. “Bio-analysis is like cooking, with protocols written up just like recipes, but a single step wrong the entire ‘taste of the dish’ is ruined. This is quite similar to the making procedures of say resin, or plastics in object design.”
There are many more installations which will take place in the Creative Nexus Collaboration Exhibition Space – so this is truly an unmissable space!
Decipher Code 2020 has limited places. Please register for sessions early to be assured a place.
The session exploring “Sequencing” will be held in groups of four; every half hour, on the hour and half past the hour.
The session exploring “Micro-Array” will be held in groups of fifteen; at quarter past the hour and quarter to.
Decipher Code 2020 will be in C Block, in rooms CB01, CB09, CB11.
Other exhibitions as part of Creative Nexus Collaboration space will be in Block F, in room F216, from 10 – 4.30pm.
Update:
Lucy Wang has produced some incredible videos from the Decipher Code Exhibition. See the animations and footage from the exhibition below.
A ‘4D experiential design’ translation of Gene Function Analysis – Sequencing and MicroArray (conducted within the UNSW Ramaciotti Centre). ‘Decipher Code 2020′ was exhibited at the ‘Live Futures 2020 Festival 2009′ held at COFA UNSW.
Project Designer: Lucy Wang; 3D Animator: Wei Ning; Video: Lucy Wang; Soundtrack: ‘Genesis’ by DNA.
A 1959 installation by Marcel Duchamp (unfairly lumped in with the surrealists) ,EROS featured a palpitating ceiling, and erotic audio sounds. For some reason I draw parallels between Decipher Code, EROS and Max Ernst’s painting of celestial union ‘Men Shall Know Nothing of This’, when it was hung in the Tate London in 2001, it featured an audio of a heartbeat in the darkness surrounding the painting. Ernst’s background before art was philosophy and psychology. The tradition of surrealism: a perfect example of cross-interdisciplinary thought, and the spirit of change.
[...] Decipher Code 2020, was my latest collaborative experimental project, crafted genuinely from a blank piece of paper (both physically and mentally). It translates the scientific processes of Sequencing and MicroArray analysis into an experiential form, combining ‘animation with action’, where the public becomes a DNA base to either find their own identity through a chaotic maze race, or find their ultimate DNA base partner in a spinning pool of flashing lights. I was enlightened by the wisdom of my two favourite Biomedical scientists: Dr. Helen Speirs and Dr. Bronwyn Robertson of The UNSW Ramaciotti Centre for Gene-function analysis. [...]
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Blow your mind in the space that is where collisions occur.
The Creative Nexus where artists and designers interpret science – and what a help that is in our increasingly complex world. Help us understand please!!!!
Janine