Artists Work in the (Science) Museum
‘Science Lesson,’ Artists work in the museum: histories, interventions and subjectivity, Victoria and Albert Museum (October 2012) “Artists, curators, historians and museum professionals explore the history of artists as museum professionals, museum and archive as the content of
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Looking and Healing: Artists and their Doctors
Looking and Healing: Artists and their Doctors, Lecture Seminar, Centre for Humanities and Health, King’s College London (May 2012) Artists and doctors share highly developed observational skills and a fundamental love for humankind. This lecture explores some
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Navigating Interdisciplinarity
Navigating Interdisciplinarity, Wellcome Trust 75 Event, University of Dundee Life Sciences and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (2011) The extraordinary potential of interdisciplinary practice often meets bureaucratic obstacles. Enumerating them — and working strategically to eliminate
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Science Voices, Museum Lives
Co-organiser, Science Voices: Scientists Speak About Science and Themselves, Royal Society, London (May 2011) This conference explored the creation and use of historic recordings, bringing science and scientists to skilled historians and the general public through their
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Any Minute Now
A ‘lecture list’ of colloquia and conferences at which I am speaking or participating, presenting research in a range of fields of knowledge in which I have expertise. Upcoming publications of past conference proceedings and articles related to
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Thinking Through Objects
Thinking Through Objects, presentation at The Exhibition as a Product and Generator of Knowledge, Deutsches Museum, Munich (2008) This conference explored the contribution exhibitions make to research culture and research methodology, particularly in relation to history of
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Barbara Howard: Canadian Art
Drawing Attention: Barbara Howard’s Ecologies, in Canadian Art Magazine (Summer 2006) As is the case for many others, I have been deeply informed and influenced by the work of artists who came before me. There have also
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Image, Data and the Mathematical Sublime
Painting by Numbers: Image, Data and the Mathematical Sublime in Late Twentieth Century Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (May 2006) Very large data sets are ‘collections’ too: in an increasingly digital world,
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Allan Fleming Project
Allan Fleming Project: Publications, Research, Archive Management (2007-2011) History of Graphic Design is a budding field that touches everything from advertising to artists’ books, from word and image studies to printing technologies. I first learned about these
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