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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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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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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Charles Darwin Trust
Looking With Darwin, for the Darwin and Twentieth Century Culture working group convened by the Darwin Trust (Wellcome Trust, 2005) A closed consultation on developing Down House and other outreach activities of the Darwin Trust, this event
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Consultant: Wellcome Trust
Consultant to the Wellcome Trust, London (2003 to 2004) I have been a judge of the Wellcome Trust SciArt Research and Production Grants and also participated in the international development workshop exploring the form and direction of what
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Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Visiting Lecturer, Visual Culture for BA Graphic Arts and Illustration, Anglia Ruskin University (1996 to 1998) With lecture seminars such as ‘Phylactery,’ about the relationship between inscription and the sacred, and ‘Names and Letters,’ concerning letterforms as
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Camberwell College of Art MA in Book Arts
Visiting Tutor, Camberwell College of Arts MA in Book Arts, University of the Arts London (1996 to 2000) This programme attracts a widely varied group interested in the theory, materiality and potential of the book form –
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Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford
Research Residency, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (1996 to 1998) The Laboratory at the Ruskin School has been at the forefront of articulating the research activities of artists and making the case for its value.
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