Conference: Have You Ever Seen a Molecule? Art, Science and Visual Communication
Conference: Have You Ever Seen a Molecule? Art, Science and Visual Communication
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT 1 FEBRUARY 2010
Thursday, 25 March to Friday, 26 March 2010
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
This interdisciplinary conference concentrates on the correlation between science and art/design, and the impact of the arts and artistic practices on scientific culture. The scientific focus of the conference is molecular biology, in particular structural biology. As any other micro- and nano-scale science, this research is inherently dependent upon visualising objects and data in the production and communication of scientific knowledge. Visualisation is thus an integral part of the understanding and evolution of new scientific concepts and boundaries.
Interdisciplinary collaboration in visualising molecular structures lies at the very core of contemporary research processes and products. Bringing art, design and science together is far more than just an interesting experiment in transdisciplinary cross-communication, it is a necessary step in exploring new ways of optimising imagery at the molecular level and thus breaking new ground.
Confirmed speakers
David S. Goodsell (Associate professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Felice Frankel (Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA)
John Walker (Professor and Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK)
Mathias Gmachl (Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher, Loop.pH, London, UK)
Rachel Wingfield (Senior Lecturer on the MA Design for Textile Futures course and Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, London, UK)
Richard Perham (Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK)
Shirley Wheeler (Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, UK)
We welcome submissions for presentations broadly within visualisation of science. Please submit abstract of no more than 250 words, a brief CV and a few lines on your interest in this conference by email to rsk@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk before 1 February 2010. For registration and submission of abstract please use the relevant form on our conference website http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1155/
Speakers will be notified two weeks after submission deadline. Please be aware that the number of places is limited. Registration and payment must be completed by 11 March 2010.
Dr. Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard
Research Associate
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Wellcome Trust/MRC Building
Hills Road
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 0XY
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1223 252790
Email: rsk@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk