Sarah describes her research as ‘…focusing on DIY art, music and publishing, interdisciplinary and performance-related practice, contemporary art, curatorial practice, empirical research, creative cities, interstitial zones and peripheries, subcultures and art writing.’ Sarah sees Pattern and Chaos as ‘…an opportunity to share ideas and collaborate with other researchers across a variety of disciplines.’ Sarah’s next big idea …
A journey through the design and making process of a shoe. Julian Berwick, Footwear Designer. This table top demonstration will outline the various steps of shoe design and making. There will be a focus on how shoe designers and makers create a 2d form and solve the puzzle of translating …
Melissa Pierce Murray, ‘Stasis’ (2017) steel, glass, 5 x 7 x 5 cm We live in a time when human impact on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems is so marked that some scientists propose that we consider this a distinct subdivision of the geologic timescale of the Earth, informally called …
Dr Zoë Mendelson is an Artist and Pathway Leader, BA Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts. Her relationship to the subject of this symposium is via psychological classificatory systems (norms, control groups and terms embedded in diagnostics) and a specific research interest in the spatial as applied to museums, …
Veronika is Reader in Material Technology and Design at LCF where she is developing novel biomimetic approaches to design and innovation within the textile industry that intersect biology, material engineering and textile design. Veronika is an LCF graduate who was awarded a PhD scholarship to study engineering design at Bath …
Danica Maier is an Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, where she runs the Summer Lodge, an annual 2-week artists’ residency. She completed an MFA in painting before receiving an MA in Textiles. Her work uses site-specific installations, drawing, and objects to explore expectations, while using subtle slippages …
Jonathan chooses to call himself an artist potter and is a leading exponent of studio based ceramic 3D printing. He has developed a working process whereby the shapes of his pots are written in computer code. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, London he has exhibited widely and …
We are delighted that Professor Rob Kesseler, visual artist and Chair in Arts, Design & Science at the University of the Arts London will be joining us as a keynote speaker for the forthcoming Beyond pattern and Chaos Symposium, details here: https://www.nuapatternandchaos.com/pattern-chaos-symposium-2018/ Rob says; ‘The ability to observe, identify and …
Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer of the Guardian and the author of Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1110297/red-thread/) , explores the significance of the labyrinth and its myth through literature and art through her keynote talk, The Biformed Labyrinth. Like the Minotaur that inhabits it, the labyrinth has two natures. On …
Ana Rute describes her practice and research ‘…as a vehicle to improve the relationship between people and the built environment’ Ana Rute sees Pattern and Chaos as ‘…a way of understanding the spatial complexity and the relationship between local and global dimensions in architecture’ Ana Rute’s next big idea is ‘…to develop …
