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Tate Liverpool: Tate Café |
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Tickets £4 (£3
concessions) or £13 (£10) for the series – booking recommended. Call 0151
702 7400 |
Science and art are seen as conflicting disciplines – logic,
evidence and order versus emotion, creativity and imagination. These
fascinating debates examine and challenge some of these assumptions.
Cafe
Sci-Art Series 2
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Tuesday 7th
February
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| Title: |
A
life less ordinary: the individual and the social life of the baboon |
| Speaker |
Louise Barrett
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Description: |
Dr. Louise Barrett works as part of the Psychology
Department at The University of Central Lancashire. Tate Liverpool's
exhibition 'Making History' shows two films charting life cycles (Michael
Apted's '7UP') and family life (Watson and Roddam's 'The Family').
Barrett's work primarily deals with the lives of
primates and this event will discuss both how the complex act of living can
be documented and understood as well as examining the role of the
documenter/researcher within this process. |
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Tuesday 7th March
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| Title: |
Art
and Science |
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Siân
Ede
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Description: |
Siân Ede is Arts Director at the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation and has pioneered many collaborations involving artists and
scientists. She is editor of Strange and Charmed science and the
contemporary visual arts. Her new book Art and Science has been highly
critically acclaimed. |
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Tuesday 4th April
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| Title: |
Turner's prize: colour, contour and motion in art and science |
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Nicholas Wade
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Description: |
Professor Nicholas Wade is a doyen of visual
psychology. Over a long career his work has used scientific techniques to
understand perception in art. In this talk he turns his attention to Turner
and his use of space and motion. |
| Date: |
Tuesday 9th May
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| Title: |
Experimental Optics |
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Terry Pope
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Description: |
Terry Pope is an
artist and scientist whose experimental work on pseudoscopic vision in art
has led to some fascinating developments and the creation of some strange
new devices. This is an interactive event - be prepared to have your
assumptions challenged! |
Cafe Sci-Art Series 1
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Tuesday 10 January |
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| Title: |
'Art and Emotion'
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Speaker:
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Dr Penny Lewis |
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| Description: |
Exploring the effects of emotion and mood on perception. |
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Date:
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Tuesday 6 December |
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| Title: |
'Reconstructing the
Body'
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Speaker:
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Professor Duncan
McGrouther |
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| Description: |
Duncan McGrouther, a
specialist in reconstructive surgery, discusses with Dr. Paul Ziolo, an
historian of science, the implications of re-forming and re-imagining the
body. |
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Date:
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Tuesday 1 November |
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| Title: |
'Is there a
Creativity Gene?'
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Speaker:
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Dr Susan Blackmore,
independent scientist |
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| Description: |
Susan Blackmore, author of
Consciousness: An Introduction, examines the scientific thinking
behind the notion of creativity. |
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