Ordered Universe Co-I for the University of York, Tom McLeish, is lucky enough to chair the Harvard-UK Knox Fellowship Committee, which awards 2-year postgraduate fellowships to Harvard across all subjects. Once a year he gets to visit the new (and not so new) fellows at Harvard in rather more relaxed settings than their London interview.Continue reading “The Ordered Universe goes to Harvard”
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Horizon and Zenith at Light Up Poole
Zenith playing on the interior of St James’s Church in Poole. It takes inspiration from medieval astronomy, Islamicate and European, and the notion of the zenith, a point directly above a particular location – the ‘zenith of the head’ as medieval authors put it,
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”
Getting ready for Light Up Poole
Fresh from its US premiere at the Napa Lighted Art Festival, California, Horizon created by The Projection Studio in collaboration with Ordered Universe, and using imagery from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, receives its European premiere in the coming week at the Light Up Poole Festival. The show, elaborates Grosseteste’s treatises On the Sphere and On the Six Differentiae. TheContinue reading “Getting ready for 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 – Colour, Perception, the Avant Garde and more
A second set of talks, and memories from the Napa Lighted Festival last month. Friday 18th January saw a first talk from multi-media sculptor Alexandra Carr, a frequent collaborator with the Ordered Universe, and Joshua Harvey (Psychology and Engineering Science, University of Oxford). In Beyond Colour Alexandra and Josh spoke on various
Horizon – Full version
For all who were unable to be in Napa for the recent Lighted Art Festival, it is a great pleasure to post the full, official, filmed version from the Projection Studio. Featuring Ordered Universe research, student voices from Durham University and many other contributors, we present it here: HORIZON Napa 2019 from Ross Ashton onContinue reading “Horizon – Full version”
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”