Following the Interim Presentation which took place in the CRD during February, the group have continued their collaborative research with a view to producing a large-scale exhibition in the spring of next year. This will complete the two-year ‘Nature of Creativity’ project, funded by AHRC, DTI and the Faculty.
15 Aug 2013
During August, Holger Zchenderlein and Prof Charlie Hooker visited the new Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter with a view to using this venue to house the Spring Group exhibition. They met with a number of leading meteorologists and gave a short presentation about the group`s work. The Centre is a vast space with a large atrium containing a selection of artworks and water features and the Met Office are very keen to include work from the Spring Group alongside this. The group will run a seminar there next month featuring its work in detail to begin the collaborative process of producing the exhibition with the help of Met Office staff.
During September, Prof Charlie Hooker worked at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen to install his cosmic ray-controlled sound sculpture ‘Timeline’ in the newly-built Student Centre. Photographs of the official opening are featured on the BCCR website and a video clip and photographs will shortly be available on Hooker's CRD webpage. The piece will be shown for an extended period, then Timeline will be shown in other galleries in Norway during the latter part of next year.
The BCCR wish to commission Hooker to produce a large outdoor sculpture. This is entitled ‘Cyclone’ and links the three-dimensional linear structure of weather maps to textures produced by mathematical chaotic equations fed into a computer-controlled 3D printer. Hooker has collaborated with Steve Bunn, Lecturer in Fine Art Sculpture, School of Arts and Communication and the rapid prototyping department at the Royal College of Art to produce initial computer visualisations of the work. He has recently teamed up with Dr Tim Katz, School of Engineering, to create a prototype table-top model which will then be electronically scaled up for the fabrication of the final work. Katz and Hooker are intending to run this prototype stage as a final year student project, linked to BCCR who will be funding the research.
Dr Shirley Chubb continued her Spring Group research with the Significant Walks research diverging into two areas of enquiry with research partners Professors Ann Moore and Raymond Lee respectively.
Research with Professor Ann Moore, School of Health Professions, is exploring how video documentation linked with simultaneous movement data, can be combined to create a visual expression of pain awareness. This has included the formulation of participant information which will introduce the cross disciplinary nature of the research to potential contributors currently undergoing treatment with physiotherapy and osteopathy practices. The research is designed to enable the subjective response of participants to be used with confidence, making the visual outcomes, which combine particular personal experience with hard data, acutely relevant to each participant. Shirley Chubb is also embarking on laboratory-based tests at the University of Brighton’s Clinical Research Centre for Health Professions. These sessions will combine on site documentary footage of walking with the simultaneous collection of internal data and will provide a basis for the development of visual outcomes gathered from participants.
Research with Professor Raymond Lee centres on capturing data generated in relation to acceleration and velocity when walking. At the core of the research is an awareness that the body is in a state of constant motion in relation to the earth and techniques are being developed that will calibrate documentary footage of walking with simultaneous acceleration data in order to capture changes in motion in relation to time.
