A public lecture coming up at Georgetown University. March 31st, 16.30, with full details below. Neil Lewis, Tom McLeish, Giles Gasper and Ross Ashton will be talking about the project, its recent research and collaborations with projection artist Ross Ashton. It will include a public showing of the sound and light shows created by theContinue reading “Public Lecture at Georgetown University”
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BBC Look East on Spiritus: Light and Dark and the Cambridge e-Luminate Festival
Karen Monid interviewed on BBC Look East, as part of the Cambridge e-Luminate Festival, and Spiritus: Light and Dark created with Ross Ashton, taking inspiration from Robert Grosseteste.
Spiritus – Light and Dark
A shortchanged film montage of most of Spiritus – we’ll have an official copy for the website in due course: this is to give the impression of how beautiful the piece was. Ross and Karen attended the latest Ordered Universe workshop together, in Durham in September last yea. This took the treatises On the Sphere, On theContinue reading “Spiritus – Light and Dark”
Ordered Universe at Cambridge e-luminate – Spiritus: Light and Dark
An absolutely fantastic day in Cambridge on February 10th, with the launch of the e-luminate festival. Ordered Universe team members, Giles Gasper, Tom McLeish, Richard Bower, Hannah Smithson and Sebastian Falk presented the project, and interactive activities on medieval and modern science to the public at Great St Mary’s Church. With over 250 visitors toContinue reading “Ordered Universe at Cambridge e-luminate – Spiritus: Light and Dark”
Spiritus: Ordered Universe at the Bouygues UK Cambridge e-Luminate Festival: ‘Let There be Light!’
Friday 10th: Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge, 15.00-19.30: Ordered Universe will be presenting Let There be Light! Medieval and Modern Science on Light, which starts with a series of short talks from 15.00 – 17.00 on the project, its research and the new projection by Ross Ashton and Karen Monid which forms part of the e-LuminateContinue reading “Spiritus: Ordered Universe at the Bouygues UK Cambridge e-Luminate Festival: ‘Let There be Light!’”
Spiritus – Sneak Preview
An early preview of Spiritus – Light and Dark, for the Bouygues UK Cambridge e-luminate Festival next week. Thanks to Ross Ashton and Karen Monid for sharing the images – a wonderful collision of scientific ideas past and present, Hildegard of Bingen as well as Grosseteste, Dark Matter and the Galaxy Formation. Appetite whetted? Come toContinue reading “Spiritus – Sneak Preview”
e-Luminate Cambridge Festival
Next week, Friday 10th February is the opening of the Bouygues UK e-Luminate Cambridge Festival 2017. The Festival runs until the 15th, and features a wide variety of artworks, projections and related events. It is particularly exciting for the Ordered Universe project: one of the featured projects is part of the continued collaboration between the projectContinue reading “e-Luminate Cambridge Festival”
Public Talk in Durham 24th Jan: Medieval and Modern Explanations of Colour
Hannah Smithson will be delivering a public lecture in Durham next week, as part of the Institute of Advanced Study’s Fellows’ Public Lecture series. Medieval and Modern Explorations of Human Colour Perception will take place on Tuesday 24 January 2017, 17:30 to 18:30 in the Joachim Room, College of St Hild & St Bede, DurhamContinue reading “Public Talk in Durham 24th Jan: Medieval and Modern Explanations of Colour”
Ely Cathedral: Open Seminar 11th February 2017
Ordered Universe members Hannah and Giles will be talking at Ely Cathedral on February 11th this year. The seminar is timed to coincide with the Cambridge e-Luminate Festival, where Ordered Universe’s Project Cosmos will be showing. The open seminar from the Ordered Universe Reseach Project (www.ordered-universe.com) is dedicated to interdisciplinary invetigation of the scientific works of
Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)
Just a short notice to say that our informal reading group will continue during Epiphany Term at Durham University. The first meeting of the term will be tomorrow, 17th January, from 15.00-17.00 in the Department of History, Seminar Room 1 and the programme for the term is embedded above. The Reading Group will continue toContinue reading “Ordered Universe Reading Group (Durham)”