Category: art science
Great quote from Nicola Triscott/Arts Catalyst writng on the arts/science interface
'Many people ask me what scientists “get” from work with artists. I feel James Wells, the theoretical physicist who was the ‘inspirational partner’ for Collide@CERN’s first artist in residence Julius von Bismarck expressed it so beautifully when he talked about valuing having someone around who saw the world in a different way, whose influence, he felt, could [...]
Synthetic Blood Trials in the UK
NHS to give volunteers 'synthetic blood' made in laboratory within two years. Click on image to go to a link to an Independent Article
Yet another fantastic new biomedical use for silk announced by Tufts University
'Multi-Functional Printable Silk Inks Tap Common Print Technology to Address Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine, Bio-Sensing Needs - In the photo - ' When printed on surgical gloves in functional silk inks doped with bacteria-sensing agents, the word "contaminated" changed from blue to red after exposure to E. coli.'
Reworking Blood on Silk; Price taker, price maker
Having a difficult but interesting time reworking my work from Cementa_15 where it was located in a site where the intention was very obviously to consider buying and selling anything. The new site is a white cube gallery space where the importance of the economic transactions tend to be hidden with not everything on show as in the first site or [...]
Fresh whole blood for pediatric heart surgery ‘may reduce risk of transfusion-related illnesses’
Interesting article in Medical News Today on the benefits in paediatric procedures of using fresh whole blood from a single donor
Video of Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker
https://youtu.be/CLDTyNKMRDk Click for the link to a you tube video of the work Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015 found objects, sound video and print 420 x 220 x 80cm Don't forget to turn the sound up Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15. April [...]
Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker
Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015 found objects, sound video and print 420 x 220 x 80cm Installed at the Drabee Road Nursery, Kandos, NSW. Australia as part of Cementa_15. April 2015 The manner in which the market works for a person producing and selling their own blood, blood products or [...]
Cementa 15 9th to 12th April in Kandos, NSW, Australia
Cementa is a biennial contemporary arts festival taking place in the post-industrial town of Kandos NSW Click here to see what's on Fiona Davies Blood on Silk: Price taker, price maker, 2015, found objects sound, video, and print, 420 x 220 x 80cm The manner in which the market works for a person producing and selling [...]
Radio Interview on Blood on Silk, Death, Cementa 15 and some of the rest of life’s great questions.
Interviewed by the great Leah Haynes on radio EastideFm earlyish in the morning of the 23rd March . My interview overlapped with the very fine visual artist Nicole Barakat. Over the years we have worked together and are both in Cementa15 at Kandos, April 9th to 12th. So a great chance to catch up with what she's up to [...]
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