Restless nature

Group exhibition of 9 artists who use nature as their source material to decribe the actual or imagined world around them

Lusciousness - flora and the crafted image in a digital environment

The development of digital imaging within science has been as swift as it is impressive, as the images of outer space developed from data sent back from the Hubble Telescope bear witness. However, in a climate where programmes are constantly being developed to facilitate the production of visual spectacle, the ability to retain the trace of the artist's hand within the field of science imaging is a challenging task. Through my collaborations with botanical scientists at Kew over the past eight years I have been keen to move the artistic nature of depicting microscopic plant imagery to a more sophisticated level. Just as the original plant employs colour coded messages to attract an audience of insect collaborators. Through artistic intervention and interpretation I have sought to create mesmeric images and symbolic objects that carry many messages, markers with which we retain contact with the natural world

Research on Architectures for Integrated Speech/Language Systems in Verbmobil

The German joint research project Verbmobil (VM) aims at the development of a speech to speech translation system. This paper reports on research done in our group which belongs to Verbmobil's subproject on system architectures (TP15). Our specific research areas are the construction of parsers for spontaneous speech, investigations in the parallelization of parsing and to contribute to the development of a flexible communication architecture with distributed control.Comment: 6 pages, 2 Postscript figure

The power of x2 : a botanical collaboration

Collaborations between artists and scientists might suggest outcomes resulting in a hybrid fusion of cultures with unrealistic expectations of super progeny. However, in reality the outcomes are more subtle, far more diverse, and more widely dispersed than might be imagined - analogous in fact to pollen or seeds, the subjects of my recent collaborations with scientists

A new phytopia

For art to continue this traditional task of making nature aesthetically accessible to a wider public, at least three things are necessary: first, nature requires mediation to an audience because that audience cannot appreciate it unaided; secondly, the art which mediates nature must not be relentlessly formal and abstract in its intentions; thirdly, nature must be available to the artist as a subject to study

Craftsmanship Alone is Not Enough

An exhibition co-curated with Anthony Quinn celebrating a century of ceramics at the Central School of Art and Central Saint Martins. The exhibition featured work drawn from the CSM Museum and Study Collection dating back to the 1940's alongside photographic documentary images from the earliest days of the course in the 1920's. Works loaned from graduates and former lecturers from 1951 till the present formed the largest part of the exhibition. An illustrated publication of the same title was produced to accompany the show with reflections on the course by its graduates and essays by current members of BA Ceramic Design. A programme of events and lectures was developed running alongside the exhibition. In addition a further collection of work was curated for the windows of the Pangolin Gallery in Kings Place to extend the reach of the exhibition. A collection of original glaze samples belonging to Dora Billington, the founder of the course were loaned to the college and have since been donated to the Museum and Study Collection

Silken Cells

‘Silken Cells’ was a new exhibition of work that wove together the hidden botanical, scientific and cultural threads running through Forty Hall & Estate. This exhibition transforms the Hall with a selection of silk hangings, revealing cellular patterns of sections cut from wild flowers. The parlour table was transformed with a silk cloth printed with microscopic enlargements of its threads embedded with pollen grains collected from flowers in the gardens around the house, the tableware is printed with micro details of wood and leaves collected from the mulberry tree in the grounds. The exhibition has been commissioned by Forty Hall & Estate, Enfield Council and funded by Arts Council England. It is supported by Central Saint Martins, The University of the Arts London, The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, The Gulbenkian Science Institute Portugal and the Botanic Garden Lisbon. The ceramic plates which are part of the Parlour exhibit have been kindly sponsored by Royal Doulton

Le co-developpement, définitions, enjeux et problèmes

Co-development: Definition, Advantages and Issues, The Automobile Industry Case. The term co-development is defined as a mode of cooperation during the product development between suppliers and buyers and its five main characteristics are explained. The importance and the issues observed during the implementation of codevelopment in different fields of activity are discussed in the following, illustrated with examples based on field research.Pour concilier deux courants antagonistes de transformation des entreprises -spécialisation et concentration à l'échelle mondiale, et rénovation des processus de conception mettant l'accent sur l'importance d'une coopération étroite des différents spécialistes- de nouvelles pratiques de relations entre firmes se développent : partenariat de conception, co-développement. Que recouvrent ces notions, quels sont les enjeux et les problèmes posés par ces nouvelles pratiques