Luke Fidler, an art historian, will talk about how artists like Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton drew on a range of medieval texts and images and changed our understanding of the filmic medium’s aesthetic possibilities in the process.
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Preview 6: Taste Beyond Borders (2) at the Napa Lighted Art Festival 18 Jan 2019
Come and experience a taste of the past! Giles Gasper, and Andy Hook will bust myths about medieval European food!
Preview 5: Beyond Color at the Napa Lighted Art Festival 18 Jan 2019
What is color? How do we perceive it? Join multi-media sculptor Alexandra Carr, and experimental psychologist Joshua Harvey in an exploration of color from very different perspectives.
Preview 4: Horizon and Beyond the Horizon at the Napa Lighted Art Festival 17, 18, 19 Jan 2019
Find out about the science and history behind the projection piece, Horizon.
Preview 3: Beyond the Visible at the Napa Lighted Art Festival 17 Jan 2019
What happens when the wonderful complexities of light in all its forms, as understood by modern science meet the intricacies of modern art?
Preview 2: Taste Beyond Borders at the Napa Lighted Art Festival 17 Jan 2019
Come and experience a taste of the past! Giles Gasper, and Andy Hook will bust myths about medieval European food!
Preview 1: Beyond Belief at the Napa Lighted Art Festival 17 Jan 2019
Explore the powerful role of artistic expression in religious belief with two experts from the UK. Cate Watkinson, glassmaker, academic and stained glass restorer is joined by Giles Gasper, a historian of the Middle Ages.
Back To (Easter) School
For the 2017–18 academic year, the Ordered Universe Project has continued its partnership with OxNet, an outreach scheme superintended by Pembroke College, Oxford. So far this year, students from local schools have attended evening seminars taught by leading academics from Durham and Sunderland Universities, and now those students have been invited to spend two daysContinue reading “Back To (Easter) School”
Learning under the night sky
As this piece goes up on the Ordered Universe Project blog, our 2017–2018 cohort of OxNet pupils will be participating in their first OxNet North East seminar.
Alexandra Carr on the Radio and Conference Updates
Longtime Ordered Universe collaborator Alexandra Carr was recently on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme to discuss the work she undertook during her Leverhulme Trust supported Sculpting with Light residency at Durham University.