I am pleased to be an invited speaker at the annual AHRC Student Conference, which will be held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle. Here is the info…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The annual AHRC Student Conference, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, on 26th October 2019 from 10:30 till 16:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A conference for practice-based research in Art, Design and Craft.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This conference for practice-based research in Art, Design and Craft aims to provide a dynamic forum in which to explore new ways of creating knowledge through practice, with a particular focus on the disruption of technology in our made environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference will contain a day of presentations, discussion and debate around contemporary themes that draw on the paradoxes of making today and by doing so begin to offer solutions for the made future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The days issues will Include; Material Embodiment \/\/ Body and Hands\/\/ 3D Printing \/\/ Screen based design \/\/ Computational Materials \/\/ Algorithmically Generated Forms \/\/ Life Narratives Present in Objects \/\/ Current philosophical perspectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to address our theme from multiple perspectives we have invited speakers from a range of disciplines and discourses, including the social sciences, anthropology, craft, design, art, philosophy and psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Tim Ingold: Keynote; Anthropologist and author of \u2018Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture\u2019. https:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/socsci\/people\/profiles\/tim.ingold<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andy Lomas: Artist, Mathematician and Emmy award winning supervisor of computer-generated effects. http:\/\/www.andylomas.com\/about.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antony Hall: Artist, Technologist and founding member of owlproject.com. http:\/\/antonyhall.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Andy Clark: Research associate in oral history and de-industrialisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n