Living Data
Evolving conversations Lab 
3 Sept 2014 - 20 Nov 2014
University of Technology, Sydney, Tower Foyer
In Ultimo Science Festival, Sydney3-12 Sept 2014
Co-curators: Lisa Roberts,Anita Marosszeky
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Watch EXHIBITION OPENING
6.00-7.30pm Wednesday 3rd September
MC: UTS Science PhD candidate Dale Radford
Program leader: Dr Lisa Roberts
Curator/Designer: Anita Marosszeky
Speaker: Associate Professor Mark Diesendorf
Official opening: Dr Bem Le Hunte, UTS Course Director Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
Watch FORUM: CREATIVITY IN ART & SCIENCE
6.00- 7.30pm Tuesday 9th September
Chair: Head of School of the Environment Professor Bill Gladstone University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
PANEL:
Dale Radford, PhD Candidate, UTS School of the Environment
Kirralee Baker, PhD Candidate, UTS School of the Environment
Charlotte Robinson, PhD Candidate, UTS School of the Environment
Leanne Thompson, Visual artist
Dr Andy Leigh, Artist / Senior Lecturer, UTS School of the Environment
Dr Sally Gillespie, Psychotherapist
Dr Jonathan Marshall, Anthropologist, UTS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
To address climate means we have to act now in order to achieve a result decades into the future... To embrace a cultural shift as the necessary part of the solution requires the creative community to help vision the new and for art practice to inhabit reality on a different plane.
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, from the East to the West, over 30 scientists and artists cross the globe in conversations about sustaining life and minimising harmful human impacts.
Although science is a universal global language it requires embodied languages of the arts to bring to life the observations, data and stories that are vital to understanding and stirring action. Through such programs as Cape Farewell, Sur Polar, Lynchpin and Living Data, a global community is evolving, of researchers sharing practices to visualise, understand and act in response to major forces of change.
Highlights of Sydney's Living Data exhibition include video works inspired by expeditions to the poles: "Pregnant Walk" by David Buckland, of a gravid naked woman walking on ice towards an unknown future; "New Species" by Andrea Juan, envisaging future mutant giant algae; "Oceanic Living Data" by Lisa Roberts, combining key data of sea levels rising and underwater video with a motion captured Chinese calligraphic form for "Ocean". Central to the exhibition is a UTS living laboratory of algae for developing sustainable biofuel and Lynchpin's symphony ex Oceano that gives voice to global changes felt and observed. The exhibition also features drawings, photos, sculptures and sound art, as well as related science 'kit' and publications issuing from art-science collaborations.
Curators: Lisa Roberts and Anita Marosszeky assisted by Jason Benedek and Andrew Purnell.
Collaborators: Andrea Juan, Andrea Leigh, Anita Marosszeky, Anne Colville, Anthony Baker, Arjun Verma, Barbara Cuckson, Bill Gladstone, Caterina Mocciola, Catherine Nolan, Charlotte Robinson, Christian Evenhuis, Dale Radford, David Buckland, Douglas Quin, Eveline Kolijn, Jason Benedek, Jemima Eve, Jennifer Clark, Jennifer Keeler-Milne, John Gollan, Josh Wodak, Kirralee Baker, Leanne Thompson, Leo Murray, Lisa Roberts, Martina Doblin, Melissa Smith, Nasim Shah Mohamadi, Natalie Mazurek, Paul Fletcher, Paul Sutton, Rachael Leer, Simona Galimberti, Sue Anderson, Sue Fenech, Students of Richard Musgrove, Tienne Simons, Todd McMillan, Vikki Quill.
Walk through Living Data: Evolving Conversations exhibition. Video: Lisa Roberts. Music: VOA (from the 2012 performance Oceanic Living Data), Matthew Dewey (from the 2014 symphony ex oceano)
Media reports:
2SER - Sydney Educational Broadcasting Ltd: Living Data Labs
ABC Radio: Beyond the Lab: Living Data with David Murray (in progress)
