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Impact & Legacy
- a one day conference addressing collaborations in arts, science and
technology
Saturday 6th March 2004

Organised by The Centre for Arts Research, Technology and Education
(CARTE), University of Westminster, in conjunction with 'Wonderful'

Theme:
After several decades of high-profile collaborations between artists,
technologists and scientists how are their impact and influence
measured? Have they really lived up to expectations and demonstrated
new and unique areas of practice? And how approaches to science,
technology and information changed?

'Impact & Legacy' addresses issues of collaboration in art from the
breakthrough experiments that took place with arts and technology in
the 60s to the arts and science collaborations of recent years.

The speakers include pioneers from the field who will assess their
early work in the field, evaluating its impact at the time it was
first made, and its legacy. Plus a new generation artists will
consider their work and ask if it responds to the legacy of previous
practitioners.


Speakers:
Steina & Woody Vasulka. (Keynote presentation)
Pioneering artists & co-founders of The Kitchen, New York
experimenting with the electronic nature of video and sound. In 1974
Woody turned his attention to the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, and the
Digital Image Articulator while Steina experimented with the camera
as an autonomous imaging instrument.
Chaired by Malcolm Le Grice.

Robert Whitman
A leading exponent of performance art in the 60s and 70s, in 1966 he
co-founded Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.) with scientists
Fred Waldhauer and Billy Kluver and artist Robert Rauschenberg,
E.A.T. was a loose-knit association that organised collaborations
between artists and scientists. His work has been described as
"correspondence between nature and technology, connecting ritual and
the rational, seeing computers that look like stars"

Peter Fend
Fend addresses large-scale problems, and works to spark discussion
and action among policy-makers, corporations and individuals.
Founder, in 1980, of the Ocean Earth Construction and Development
Corporation, Fend works with other artists, architects and scientists
to research, develop
and promote alternative energy sources, using satellite imaging to
monitor and analyze global ecological and geopolitical hot-spots

Annik Bureaud
Director of the Leonardo Observatory for the Arts & the
Techno-Sciences. New media art critic and Co-organiser of events such
as Artmedia VIII: >From Aesthetics of Communication to Net art and
Visibility - Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity. Bureaud
lives and works in Paris,
France.

Francis Wells
Leading Cardiothoracic surgeon, Wells is also known for proposing
Leonardo da Vinci as a paradigm for modern clinical research. He
believes that "taking the time to reflect upon this great mans' work
may
allow us to think again about our own approach to science and research".

Jordan Baseman
This UK artist will discuss his experiences of making Under The
Blood: a project which arose out of a residency at Papworth
Hospital's Heart and Lung Transplant Unit. Described as a scary and
intense film, this piece investigates belief, faith, trust, religion,
god, power, responsibility, authority, love, life, death and open
heart surgery. Intimate footage of the surgery is overlaid with a
soundtrack based on
an adapted sermon from the evangelical minister Billy Graham.

Details:
Saturday 6th March 2004
9am to 5pm

Venue: University of Westminster
Old Cinema, 309 Regent St.

Bookings 020 7911 5000 Ext 2675