KEYNOTES

boredomresearch is a collaboration between British artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith, internationally renowned for exploring an understanding of the natural world through the medium of computational technologies. Becoming intimately aware of the vulnerability of complex systems, including those which support human life on earth, they present a daring new vision for technological innovation, centered on reuniting the presently splintered domains of art, science and society. Their work considers our strategies for coping in a world increasingly destabilised by human activity. Collaborating with world leading scientists the artists are challenging a broader concern over a tendency towards increasingly complex solutions to answer the dilemma of environmental crisis. DAY 1 – BOOK HERE

Anna Dumitriu is an award winning, internationally renowned, British artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship to infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. She has an extensive international exhibition profile including ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, The V & A Museum,  Philadelphia Science Center, MOCA Taipei, HeK Basel, LABoral, Art Laboratory Berlin, the 6th Guangzhou Triennial, and The History of Science Museum Oxford. DAY 2 – BOOK HERE

Part of the University of Brighton, Brighton CCA is a centre for contemporary arts, free and open to all, hosting world class exhibitions, projects, commissions and research by international emerging and established artists. Responsive to our context within an art school, our focus is on supporting the development of artists’ practice and practice based research; nurturing cross disciplinary dialogue and placing the resources of the University at the disposal of artists and audiences. DAY 1 – BOOK HERE

SPEAKERS

Steven Begg (School of Computing, Engineering & Maths)

Apurv Chauhan (School of Applied Social Sciences)

Louise Colbourne (School of Art)
Susan Diab (School of Art)
Robin Englebright (School of Computing, Engineering & Maths)
Karina Rodriguez Echavarria (School of Computing, Engineering & Maths)
Julie Everton (School of Humanities)
Mary Geary
Charlotte Gould (School of Art)
Vikki Haffenden (School of Art)
H Howitt (Applied Social Sciences)

Helen Johnson (School of Applied Social Sciences)
Toby Lovat (Humanities)
Deborah Madden (Humanities)
Alice Owen (Environment and Technology)
Harriet Parry (Humanities)
Paul Sermon (School of Art)

Ben Sweeting (School of Architecture and Design)
Simonne Weeks (School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Science)
Jordan Whitewood-Neal (Architecture and Design)
Rebecca Winter (BSMS)
Marcus Winter (School of Computing, Engineering & Maths)