2) manuality I should probably not separate what I consider “manual” from “craft”. however, there was something very ingenuous, concrete and…well evoking the “working with hands” in the projects presented by theEDGE laboratory I was very impressed by the material being produced at the EDGE adaptive lab at Ryerson university. […]
Exhausted and hyperstimulated, I attended the last day of the symposium hoping to not have to speculate too much and to se something very physical and material. I got what I wanted. it looks like whoever drafted the program of the festival had the same needs. the day was then […]
When I was ordering my notes for the blog I realized that two events, respectively the Speed Dating for artists and scientists and the gallery exhbition had the same prefix: Syn, used to express something acting together, united, in SYN-chrony. In the first case, syn-apsis normally refers to the fusion […]
As part of the multidisciplinary commitment of Subtle Technologies, the already mentioned screenings, a performance held on the rooftop patio of the Beaver Hall artists’ cooperative at the foot of McCaul Street, an exhibition at the Hotshot gallery, as well as a speed dating fro artists and scientists animated the […]
in the field of virology and immunology there has been often a drive to represent and simulate the way in which viruses may infect their hosts. however, this has been done only visually, using animations or 3d simulations. the same has happened in the field of computer science and info-security, […]
An artist and researcher form Latrobe University, Australia, Mary Rosengren illustrated a key issue in visualization as an act of mediation. in particular she focused on the relation between those images produced in the artists’ studio and those in the laboratory. Barbara Maria Stafford once said that visualization is “a […]
entertaining and increadibly informative at the same, the mini-lectures by Ben Schumacher andStephen Morris, respectively a physicist specialized in quantum physics and a physicist specialized in patterns formations in fluid represented what I would have loved to see in a science professor but didn’t and ended up in literature. through […]
unlike the previous day, which featured a variety of fairly diverse projects and collaborations, many of the saturday and sunday’s presentations and demonstrations seemed to focus on educational concerns whose outcomes eventually contributed to both fields involved (mainly science and the arts) in unexpected ways. For instance, the goal of […]
reappropriating the lost sounds of the territory after having lost it to the technology of the Ipod as in the work of Cara-Ann Simpson; substituting a sense for the other, either because one is lost or non-existent as in the collaborative work of Deborah Fels and David Bobier; associating mathematics […]
As I mentioned before, despite the diversity of topics proposed by the projects featured in this year’ festival edition, the similarities are stunning. it is as if the works by the most disparate artists/scientists/geeks were engaged in a sustained and coherent dialogue. In general, in all the presentations, beside a […]
Bringing a perspective radically different from the one brought to life the day before with the screening, but still framing her work in a way that sheds a new -innovative-light over scientific experimentation, the use of the lab and its instruments, Jennifer Willet presented her Windsor-based lab “Incubator” and the […]
Although it launched without a defined theme linking all the presentations and performances, Subtle Technologies maintained a structure that has proven quite successful in its previous instances: it comprised of a screening, a performance, an exhibition and a symposium rich of the most diverse projects and collaborations. To kick off […]
welcome to Subtle Technologies 2011 a lot of news this years, both in terms of themes developed and programming. unlike the last few years, it won’t feature a specific key theme. in fact, this year the programming committee has decided to leave the topic “free”. maybe this is a sign […]
