Cultural Programme - Language of the Cell: The Interplay of Art, Music & Science

20 September 2023

Programme Overview: Language of the Cell: The Interplay of Art, Music & Science  

‘Language of the Cell: The interplay of art, music & science’ is a cultural programme that establishes a collective vocabulary across three seemingly distinct disciplines – where art and music explore the most impenetrable of modern sciences.

This will be an evening of multi-modal exhibition, stimulating talks and panel discussions with diverse perspectives from leading figures in their fields, including the Director of the Centre of the Cell, Professor Frances Balkwill OBE, molecular biologist Jon Baxter, artist James Dean Diamond and curator Samia Ashraf – whose research project was nominated for the Prix Pictet’s 10th cycle, ‘Human’ – Milton Mermikides, Gresham Professor of Music, and Tim Flach, photographer and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing.

Ideas relating to ‘revealing the invisible’ are considered, and the event comprises a dynamic biomolecular world, ‘Still Points & Sea Beams’, an 8-minute motion piece by James commissioned for the Neuron Pod at the Centre of the Cell, and three new sonification works by Milton who translates Jon’s DNA research, James’s lens-based practice and photographer Tim’s animal portraiture into sound, revealing the hidden music of the biological world.   

Cultural Programme
Language of the Cell: The Interplay of Art, Music & Science

Motion Piece 'Still Points & Sea Beams' a biomolecular world by artist James Dean Diamond 

Fields of Fiction talk by Dr Jon Baxter, James Dean Diamond and curator Samia Ashraf 

Listening to the Cell: The music of science - Three new musical works by Milton Mermikides, Gresham Professor of Music   

Who's Upside Down: Us or the bats? Talk by Tim Flach photographer & Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia & Human Flourishing

Panel discussion chaired by the Director of the Centre of the Cell, Professor Frances Balkwill OBE  

Doors open:
Wednesday 20 September at 6pm
Cultural Programme finishes at 8pm
 
Address:
Centre of the Cell, Neuron Pod
Blizard Institute,
Queen Mary, University of London,
4 Newark Street, Whitechapel,
London, E1 2AT

Nearest Tube: Whitechapel 

How to find us: https://www.centreofthecell.org/about-us/find-us/

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