Designed by Ross Ashton and Karen Monid, Northern Lights at York Minster was an outstanding success. Playing to the public on the 16th and 17th June, 2018, and to a fundraising event on the 15th organised by the York Minster fund, the projection is a major feature in a campaign to preserve and protect the world-famous medievalContinue reading “Northern Light Spectacular”
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Northern Lights: Spectacular Sound and Light Show at York Minster
Northern Lights: A brand new sound and light show from the Projection Studio takes place at York Minster this weekend 16th and 17th June. The spectacular display put together by Ross Ashton and Karen Monid takes inspiration from the stained glass and architecture of the magnificent building. The events form part of a fundraising weekend to raiseContinue reading “Northern Lights: Spectacular Sound and Light Show at York Minster”
Colour Vision Workshop in Durham
News of a workshop on colour vision taking place at Durham University this week, in the Department of Psychology organised by Rebecca Wedge-Roberts. The workshop will explore the subject with papers and discussion from Psychology, Anthropology,
From Kalamazoo to Toronto
Just as a piece of light relief a short film (in which very little happens) of some of the Ordered Universe team members journey in North America earlier in May. This is the final leg from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Toronto airport and home to the UK. Slow TV speeded up for your delectation…
Tom McLeish: A Day to Celebrate, and an Award
It is almost 10 years (bar 5 months) since Tom McLeish, freshly minted as Durham’s second Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, came to the History department in search of anyone who knew something about Grosseteste. What he got was the Ordered Universe project, of which he has been the driving force and inspiration. Tom left for theContinue reading “Tom McLeish: A Day to Celebrate, and an Award”
Boston MIT: Medieval and Modern Visual Alchemy
Earlier this month members of the Ordered Universe team, Joshua Harvey and Alexandra Carr gave papers at the Media Lab at MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts. Joshua’s paper, ‘Medieval and modern visual alchemy: material and digital ‘transmutation’ of chromatic statistics’, in which he presented his recent work on the potential of manipulating distributions of chromatic statistics withinContinue reading “Boston MIT: Medieval and Modern Visual Alchemy”
The View from Kalamazoo…in pictures
Ordered Universe team members (Giles, Nicola, Mike and Sarah), and colleagues from Durham University (Helen, Abi and Katie), made the journey from Montreal to Kalamazoo and then back to Toronto airport and home. We have a visual record here…from Quebec to Ontario to Michigan, the Kalamazoo Congress (and dance) and the Museum of Ontario ArcheologyContinue reading “The View from Kalamazoo…in pictures”
The View from Kalamazoo
May is the season for the Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. This year, the 53rd congress, saw the Ordered Universe present two panel sessions on Structures of Order in Medieval Science. The first, Experience and Authorities featured Nicola Polloni (Durham but imminently the
Movement(s) of the Middle Ages – McGill/Durham 2018
Last week, following the Ordered Universe symposium at McGill, various members of the team stayed on and enjoyed a second event with our friends in Montreal. Organised between Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and McGill University, we took part in a joint graduate conference on 7th May. Taking place at
Moving objects, and heavenly bodies: Ordered Universe at McGill, Montreal
Last week the Ordered Universe team met at McGill University, Montreal. Some 18 members of the core group, from Durham, York, Oxford, Lincoln, Beirut, Siena, Berlin, Washington DC, Toronto, and the home team from Montreal, gathered together in the