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Andy Gracie, Interactivos Garage Science workshop, Medialab-Prado. Photo:: we-make-money-not-art
Laboratory Life open lab
Lighthouse
28 Kensington Street
Brighton BN1 4AJ
20/02/2011 – 28/02/2011
12:00-18:00
Free
Art-science production laboratory, led by Andy Gracie & organised by Lighthouse & The Arts Catalyst
Laboratory Life is a unique, interactive art-science laboratory, open to the public. Conceived and led by artist Andy Gracie, a group of international artists and scientists from the UK, Spain and the US are working with young doctors, scientists and emerging artists, to create a series of projects exploring the cutting edge of medical technology in a living laboratory at Lighthouse. Laboratory Life adopts a radically open structure, allowing the public to visit the laboratory.
The artists and scientists will create five art-science projects which will be showcased in an exhibition at Lighthouse, featuring DNA tattooing, astrobiology, microbiological textiles and more, open to the public 2-6 March 2011.
Leading the projects are artists Andy Gracie, Adam Zaretsky, Kira O'Reilly, Bruce Gilchrist, and Anna Dumitriu. They are working in close collaboration with scientists, John Paul (Health Protection Agency), Helen Smith (Brighton & Sussex Medical School), and Tom Shakespeare (World Health Organisation). Joining them are sixteen exceptional young doctors, scientists and emerging artists, Sarah Roberts, Brian Degger, Melissa Grant, Kate Genevieve, Simona Casonato, David Louwrier, Daksha Patel, Kuiashen Auson, Janine Fenton, Meredith Walsh, Valerie Furnham, Columba Quigley, Genevieve Maxwell, Zack Denfield, Helen Bullard and Simon Hall.
Our science advisors are John Paul, Helen Smith and Tom Shakespeare.
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TALKS
Thursday 3rd March, 7 pm
Lighthouse Monthly Talk
Tickets £3, available from www.lighthouse.org.uk
Meet the artists and hear how they brought their innovative art-science projects to life in Lighthouse’s temporary production laboratory.
Saturday 5th March, 2 pm
Public Forum
Free
Progress or threat? Debating the role of new technologies in medicine.
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Laboratory Life is organised by Lighthouse and The Arts Catalyst, with support from the Wellcome Trust. It was conceived by artist Andy Gracie, based on the Interactivos? model developed by the Media Lab Prado in Madrid.
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