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”
Tag Archives: Sigbjorn Sonnensyn
Boston College – Knowing and Speaking
Yesterday, Sigbjørn and Giles were hosted by the Theology and Philosophy Departments at Boston College, for a seminar on Ordered Universe, its methods, principal findings and ethos. We outlined the historical issues in encountering Grosseteste, the difficulties in tracing his steps, which affect in turn the context that can be given, or is assumed, forContinue reading “Boston College – Knowing and Speaking”
Grosseteste at the NACBS – North American Conference on British Studies
Towards the end of next week the North American Conference on British Studies takes place, meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Founded in 1950, the NACBS is a society focused on all aspects of the study of British culture. This includes the Middle Ages, and it is a great privilege to have the opportunity toContinue reading “Grosseteste at the NACBS – North American Conference on British Studies”
Knowing through Speaking – Boston College
Next week, Sigbjørn Sønnesyn and Giles Gasper will be talking about the Ordered Universe at Boston College, USA, Thursday 25th October, starting at 7.00 pm. They will be speaking on ‘Knowing through Speaking: Collaborative Learning through Interdisciplinary Research on Medieval Science.’ Bringing together a unique configuration of natural scientists, social scientists and arts and humanitiesContinue reading “Knowing through Speaking – Boston College”
Dublin Symposium – Light, Motion, Bodies, and Comets
Last week Ordered Universe members gathered in Dublin, hosted by Laura Cleaver and Karl Kinsella at Trinity College and Marsh’s Library. With our usual range of disciplines represented (philosophy, history, psychology, engineering, physics, creative arts, history of art), and with colleagues from Europe and the USA, we set to work on the four treatises forContinue reading “Dublin Symposium – Light, Motion, Bodies, and Comets”
Northern Light Spectacular
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”
OxNet & Ordered Universe: Seminars and Easter School in the North-East Hub
One of the wider activities with which the Ordered Universe is engaged is the OxNet access initiative, which seeks to place university learning directly into schools. In the case of the collaboration with Ordered Universe this involves team members bringing the world of medieval science and of the array of disciplines that make up theContinue reading “OxNet & Ordered Universe: Seminars and Easter School in the North-East Hub”
Montreal – McGill – and the Guidance of the Stars
Ordered Universe is off on its travels. Fresh from our project conference, Easter School and participation in other conferences and colloquia, the next symposium takes place in Canada, at McGill University, Montreal. We are delighted to be hosted by Professor Faith Wallis, a core team member, and are very much looking forward to four daysContinue reading “Montreal – McGill – and the Guidance of the Stars”
OxNet North East Launch Party at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland
The Ordered Universe Project and OxNet have teamed up for the 2017–2018 academic year to offer an academic course for sixth form students in the north-east of England. The launch will be hosted by The National Glass Centre in Sunderland on Wednesday 22nd November, and local schools, students, and teachers have been invited to joinContinue reading “OxNet North East Launch Party at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland”
New Ordered Universe Publication
The Ordered Universe project is pleased to announce its latest publication, for the Applied Optics journal, Vol. 56 (2017), G197-G204, and fully open access. The experiments and writing of the paper were led and marshalled by expertly Joshua Harvey (Mellon Foundation funded graduate student at Oxford University, Dept of Engineering Science and Pembroke college), with assistanceContinue reading “New Ordered Universe Publication”