“Arts and Technology – Issues arising from collaboration”
On 19th March, LCACE held a one day conference at the Unicorn Theatre. It’s theme was partnerships between higher education and the arts and cultural industries. Along with Janis Jefferies, Marian Ursu, Nina Wakeford, Mark d’Inverno and Jane Prophet, I was invited to join a group from Goldsmiths to help deliver a morning workshop.
Our theme was “Arts and Technology – Issues arising from collaboration”. I presented Biojewellery as an example of a collaborative project between engineers and designers. I also described the way that practice of this kind creates links to many other people, who can equally be thought of as collaborators. These include other science workers, ethicists, and of course members of the public.
I came away thinking that while from the outside these collaborations are described through mechanisms like knowledge transfer, it is the texture and specifity of a shared practice that is interesting. This made me feel relived that I have an oppurtunity to make and do things, as well as thinking about how they might best be made or done.