g e o d e s i c a r t s - w h a t ?
These are some of the projects that geodesic arts are working on at the moment or have been involved with previously.
Me,
Myself and MRI
Me, Myself and MRI is a 2-year sci-art project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England, working with the York Neuroimaging Centre, Archbishop Holgate's School and the National Science Learning Centre, towards the creation of a touring exhibition of contemporary digital portraiture. The artworks will use video, audio and photographic source material, together with graphics obtained from a range of neuroimaging techniques to explore the perception and presentation of self for a number of specially selected subjects. The image on the right is one that helped to start the development of ideas for the project - it's a top down picture of Damian's brain!
As well as the main artistic outcomes, the project is designed to educate, explore and research the issues surrounding the focus of this work. The school group from Archbishop Holgate's will cover subjects including the history of medical imaging and how MRI, fMRI and MEG are used on a day-to-day basis in modern medicine. The relationship between medical imaging, portraiture as an art-form and the development of the concept of the individual in society will be explored, as will the ethics of scientific research and comtemporary art. The learning resources prepared as part of the project will be made more widely available after the initial stages are complete via the National Science Learning Centre.
The exhibition will launch at the National Science Learning Centre in January 2009 before embarking on a tour to other venues nationally.
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A Sense of Place
A
Sense of Place was an interactive sound and light
installation reflecting the 2000 year old link between two of the most
important sites in the City of York. York Minster, originally the site
of the Roman Legionary headquarters and the symbolic heart of the City,
and Bootham Bar, one of the four main gates of the Roman legionary
fortress and still used as an entrance to the City today.
The piece ran every hour for about 15 mins from January to April 2006 within Bootham Bar itself. All the sounds used were recorded specially to tell this story of York, presented in three distinct sections. The sound of present day York is also interspersed with these recordings, reflecting on the history of the City and our place in the story.
A Sense of Place began 2000 years ago. When the Romans came to York it is thought that they named the City Eboracum after the ancient British title for the area that can be interpreted as The Place Where the Yew Trees Grow - and this is also the name to the first section of the piece.
The second section, Bedern, is inspired by the history of the area around Bedern Hall and based on a traditional melody called York dating from 1615. Bedern, a centre of power and influence in the City in the 1300s, fell from grace to become a slum and a ghetto for Irish immigrants in the 1850s, and the location of The Ragged School - designated for 'the poorer classes'.
Finally, The Railway King recalls the life and death of George Hudson who brought the railways to York. Upon his death in 1871 his body was brought back to the City from London on a railway carriage, and was then carried though the streets to the sound of the tolling Minster bell as people gathered to wish him a final farewell.
A Sense of Place
was a collaboration between Damian
Murphy, Mark Hildred
and John Oxley, and was sponsored by the York Renaissance Project (now Illuminating York),
Arts Council
England, and the Arts
and Humanities Research Council. A Sense of Place [Revisited]
is a reworked version of this site specific installation for DVD and
5.1 audio presentation. It was first presented at CCRMA, USA, in
April 2007.
Image (c) Kippa Matthews
This page will be updated with additional information about these and other projects as it becomes available.