{"id":2082,"date":"2019-09-23T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:41:07","slug":"cnos-biochem-soc-and-nicap-workshop-exploring-collaboration-across-the-arts-and-sciences-29th-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/2019\/09\/23\/cnos-biochem-soc-and-nicap-workshop-exploring-collaboration-across-the-arts-and-sciences-29th-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"CNoS, Biochem Soc and NICAP workshop exploring collaboration across the arts and sciences 29th October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Cultural Negotiation of Science (CNoS), Northumbria University are hosting a one-day workshop and evening event in collaboration with the Biochemical Society and Newcastle University\u2019s Institute for Creative Arts Practice (NICAP) that will take a practical approach to exploring ways of working across the arts and sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWays of Working\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>This workshop presents an opportunity to address questions that are common to both artists and scientists – broader, ethical questions around ways of seeing, methods of working, and developing truly interdisciplinary practice. Whilst acknowledging that both practices are creative, the workshop will focus on \u2018ways to practice\u2019 that allow for time, space, error and specifically, what we can learn from questioning existing methods of working.\u00a0Often, workshops that bring together researchers in the arts and sciences focus on illustrating or interpreting science. CNoS aims to challenge this approach through finding ways in which, from a basis of common ground, the arts and sciences can learn from each other. With an ethos of open-ended experimentation, engaging in critical dialogue around common themes, we will host a workshop approach that is research-led and exploration driven rather than outcome driven. Through activities that focus on thinking and making strategies and film documentation of participant activities and discussions, workshop participants will develop communication techniques and form process-led methodologies that will help them to arrive at critical questions that can form the basis of longer-term projects.<\/p>\n

The workshops will build on the strengths of the CNoS\u2019 existing inter-disciplinary workshop capabilities drawing on the experience of CNoS researchers, such as Dr. Louise Mackenzie<\/strong> and Dr. Daksha Patel<\/strong> (availability tbc) as demonstrated in the interdisciplinary artist-led genetic modification workshops: Transformation \u2013 Thinking through Making with Life<\/a><\/em>, participatory sound and bio-media workshops: Tentacular Resonances<\/a><\/em>, the perception of medical data capture: Biorhythmic Drawing<\/a><\/em>, visual literacy workshops: The Art of Observation<\/a><\/em> and the recent Bio-Aesth-Ethics<\/em> mini-masterclass led by Mackenzie as part of ASCUS and Edinburgh University\u2019s Bio Design Lab<\/a><\/em>.<\/em> This one-day event will draw on the broader network of CNoS practitioners and other members of Northumbria and Newcastle arts faculty in working with scientists towards innovative approaches to interdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n

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