OxNet North East: The History Of History. The most recent OxNet session, led by historian Giles Gasper questioned what ‘History’ actually is, and more specifically how we really know things happened in the past.
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UCL – Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste
Giles Gasper (Durham University) will be giving a talk later today to the Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminer at University College, London, 6.15-7.15 on ‘The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste’. Giles will be talking about the work of the Ordered Universe project, its collaborative research methods, and larger questions concerning the whole corpus of scientificContinue reading “UCL – Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste”
Medieval and Modern Tides – Light Up Poole Festival 2019
Last weekend, on Saturday February 23rd, Ordered Universe members Brian Tanner and Giles Gasper took part in the Light Up Poole Festival, on the UK’s south coast, in Dorset. We gave a talk to the public on the scientific works of Robert Grosseteste, in
Light Up Poole
The Light Up Poole Festival launched, quite literally, in a blaze of collective light on 21st February, and closes tonight, on the 23rd February. Of the 24 installations, 2, from the Projection Studio, were conceived and developed in partnership with Ordered Universe research. In this case it’s the cosmological vision and astronomical writings of RobertContinue reading “Light Up Poole”
Horizon at Light Up Poole
Fresh from the Napa Lighted Art Festival, the projection show Horizon, created by The Projection Studio – Ross Ashton and Karen Monid, in collaboration with the Ordered Universe, and in consultation with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will play at the upcoming Light Up Poole Festival. Running from 21-23 February Light Up Poole features
Napa Lighted Art Festival – Final Activities
Our final day at the Napa Lighted Festival was 19th January, featuring two talks by Dr Henrike Lange (University of California Berkeley) and Joshua Harvey (Oxford), in a session entitled Beyond the Material, in the First Presbyterian Church. Joshua’s work on material perception, and the quality of lustre in particular, sat engagingly alongside Henrike’s exploration ofContinue reading “Napa Lighted Art Festival – Final Activities”
Napa Lighted Art Festival – Glass, Pyrography and more
The Ordered Universe symposium series at the Napa Lighted Art Festival, two weeks ago today, began with two sessions, one from Cate Watkinson (University of Sunderland and Watkinson Glass Associates) and Giles Gasper (Durham University). Speaking on Glass
Berkeley Talk – Sound and Perception
Ordered Universe team members Giles Gasper and Joshua Harvey delivered a talk at University of California, Berkeley, on Wednesday this week (16th Jan). Organised by Dr Henrike Lange of the Departments of Art History and Italian at Berkeley, the talk focused on Robert Grosseteste’s treatise On the Generation of Sounds. An excellent example of the wayContinue reading “Berkeley Talk – Sound and Perception”
Horizon – from the Projection Studio
Guest blog-post about the Napa Lighted Art Festival from Karen Monid: Ross and I are thrilled to be asked to return to the Napa Lighted Festival in the USA. Our first piece there, Line, shown in 2017, was a contemporary study in the combined effect of optical illusion, sound and motion with modern architecture. ThisContinue reading “Horizon – from the Projection Studio”
Ordered Universe at Berkeley
Ordered Universe team members Giles Gasper (History, Durham) and Joshua Harvey (Psychology and Engineering, Oxford) will be giving a talk, open to the public, at University of California, Berkeley, on January 16th. We’re delighted to have been invited by Dr Henrike Lange, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Art History and Italian, and will beContinue reading “Ordered Universe at Berkeley”