Arts Catalyst
Eye of the Storm
An interdisciplinary conference on scientific controversy
19 - 20 June 2009
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
The Arts Catalyst and Tate Britain are organising this 2-day conference to bring together an international line-up of scientists, artists, social scientists and policy-makers to explore scientific controversy from an interdisciplinary perspective. From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells and the distribution of genetically modified organisms, Eye of the Storm will touch on brilliance and ego, obsessions and cover-ups, dissent and whistleblowing, big science, high finance, deviant science, the reliability of knowledge and the legislation of uncertainty.
Eye of the Storm develops Tate Britain’s mission to present new research and debates within visual culture into the area of contemporary interrelationships between art, science and society.
Confirmed speakers are Sheila Jasanoff (Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University), Eduardo Kac (artist), Roger Malina (astrophysicist, Director, Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence), Rod Dickinson (artist) and Oron Catts (artist, Director, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia).
An Arts Catalyst / Tate Britain conference in association with Leonardo/OLATS.
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/global/eyeofthestorm.html
Image (top): Eduardo Kac, Free Alba! (New York Times), 2001.
Color photograph mounted on aluminum with Plexiglas, 36 x 46.5 inches ( 91.5 X 118 cm).
Edition of 5. Collection Alfredo Hertzog da Silva
