Invitation for OAS to Art meets Science event -Feb 10th

[Sue]

Message received from Fay Dowker is copied below, I have sent my address to obtain flyers to pass around at the next meeting.

Dear Susan,
I hope you remember me -- I came to speak at Orpington Astronomical
Society. I'd like to invite you and the other members of the society
to the opening event for an artwork that I've been collaborating on.
The email flyer is below. Please distribute it to your members. If you
can send me a postal address I will send a copy of the proper invitation.

Best wishes,
Fay Dowker

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> ***********  SAVE THE DATE: 6.30 pm 10th February 2004  ******************
>
>       Quantum vision: Art meets Science to light up the night
>
> Date:     10th February 2004
> Time:     6.30 pm
> Location: Skeel Lecture Theatre, Mile End Road, Queen Mary, Univ of London
>
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> You are warmly invited to a round-table discussion chaired by Prof. Lisa
> Jardine to launch the public artwork `What the Eye Can't See the Heart
> Can't Grieve For' by Matthew Tickle in collaboration with theoretical
> physicist Fay Dowker at Queen Mary, University of London. The debate
> will focus on contentious issues surrounding the relationship between
> theoretical physics and contemporary art. Speakers: Miria Swain (Assistant
> Curator Modern Art Oxford), Rob La Frenais, (Curator, The Arts Catalyst),
> Keith Wilson (artist) and John March-Russell (theoretical particle
> physicist). Refreshments will be served afterwards.
>
> The public artwork 'What the Eye Can't See the Heart Can't Grieve For' will
> be visible from Mile End Road during the hours of darkness, daily 6pm until
> dawn, from 8 February- 7 March 2004. A spectacle of flashing lights,
> triggered by 100 Geiger counters will randomly illuminate interior spaces
> around the university campus. Geiger counters are detectors that register
> the presence of particles of radiation -- emmited by naturally
> radioactive materials or from cosmic ray showers in the atmosphere. The
> textbook interpretation of the theory of these particles, quantum
> mechanics, asserts that we cannot talk about the particles unless they
> are detected. On this view this artwork creates a reality from mere
> potentiality rather than revealing a world that has an existence
> independent of our observations but there is no consensus on this view
> which is the subject of intense and continuing scientific debate.
>
> You will be receiving an official invitation and flyer about the event
> in mid-January.
>
> Major funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
> Council. Supported by Matt's Gallery, 42-44 Copperfield Road London.
> R&D funding was provided by the Calouste Gulbenkian foundation.
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[Greg]

...very interesting!

[Sue]

************ Art-science debate at Queen Mary CANCELLED ***********

The organisers of the debate on art-science collaborations, that was to
have been held at Queen Mary on the evening of 10th Feb, regret to
announce that, due to sudden unforeseen circumstances, it has had to be
cancelled. Our sincere apologies to those who were looking forward to the
event.

This does not affect the public artwork itself -- ``What the eye can't
see, the heart can't grieve for'' will be visible at Queen Mary, Mile End,
dusk-dawn Feb 8th - March 7th. and we hope that you will be able to come
to view it.