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Microbiology and Art Exhibition

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Microbiology and Art

Title: Microbiology and Art Exhibition
Location: MadLab
Description: MadLab will be hosting its first science themed exhibition, on the subject of Microbiology and Art.
Start Date: 2011-10-22
Start Time: 11:00
End Date: 2011-11-10
End Time: 17:00

For the past 6 years, undergraduate science students at Manchester Metropolitan Universityhave been exploring the relationships between microbiology and art, from the deterioration of artwork and cultural heritage, to the beauty of microscopic images, through the impact of infectious disease in history to the use of art to communicate messages about science to a range of audiences, and overtly ‘sci-art’ projects. Over 100 students worked on the project, producing a range of outputs that demonstrated skills in creativity, imagination and communication that lay well outside the realms of the typical undergraduate science curriculum. In the Loop was formed in 2008 by Professor Joanna Verran.

Exhibition preview at the MadLab, on 21st October, 6-9pm. In celebration of the beginning of the Manchester Science Festival 2011

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Korea, Time, Generation and the Everyday

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Korea – Time, Generation and the Everyday: Contextualising the exhibition in relation to art in North Korea.

‘The formality of everyday practices is indicated in these tales, which frequently reverse the relationships of power and, like the stories of miracles, ensure the victory of the unfortunate in a fabulous, utopian space.  This space protects the weapons of the weak against the reality of the established order.  It also hides them from the social categories which “make history” because they dominate it.’[1]

‘We have read the propaganda, combining revolutionary fervour, the vocabulary of 30s potboilers and accounts of Kim’s visits to potato-starch factories…But who knew that… the mass performances are not only a tribute to the leadership and motherland, but the way that many young people find partners?’[2] (more…)

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38° of Separation, Korea : Time and Generation

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

38° of Separation, Korea : Time and Generation

Title: 38° of Separation, Korea : Time and Generation
Location: MadLab (Downstairs)
Description: Madlab responds to Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 by addressing the cultures of the two Koreas, North and South.
Start Date: 2011-10-01
Start Time: 11:00
End Date: 2011-10-20
End Time: 17:00

MadLab‘s exhibition 38° of Separation: Korea, Time and Generation, presents cultural reflections and experiences of DPRK through the eyes of North Korean, South Korean and Western artists and illustrators presenting the practical and cultural aftermath of a divided nation, whose populations, separated since WWII, have spent their everyday lives in very different ways. (more…)

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38° of Separation, Korea : Time and Generation

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Madlab responds to Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 by addressing the cultures of the two Koreas, North and South. Since Korea was formally divided in 1948 down the 38th parallel line, the Northern and Southern parts of the peninsula have followed very dissimilar temporal and spatial paths. The division of the nation has created subsequent generations of Koreans who are, in many ways, poles apart, both physically and ideologically. (more…)

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Microbiology and art competition – call for entries

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Art provides an opportunity for visualisation and communication of science…

During the Manchester Science Festival 2011, MadLab will be hosting its first science themed exhibition, on the subject of Microbiology and Art (Oct 20 – Nov 11). Items on display will include a range of different representations of links between microbiology and art – photography, jewellery, embroidery, music, painting and so on – produced by science students from MMU. In addition, the Manchester Microbe Map, produced by the intrepid members of DIYBIOMCR will be on display alongside the MMU AIDS banner, and an open call for work. (more…)

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