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Art/Science Symposium 2022
A free one-day symposium hosted by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, in partnership with ArtScience Museum of Singapore and the Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS, exploring global perspectives on communicating science, data, and complexity through creativity.
The symposium is aimed at practitioners involved in communicating science and data through art and brings together a broad community of people from different disciplines, sectors, and perspectives to share their experiences, learning, and ideas.
Participants will include artists, designers, scientists, communicators, and public engagement professionals from around the world.
Register your interest here.
| Time | Programme | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10.45am | Doors Open | |
| 11:00am | Welcome from Moderator | Zhang Bao Xin |
| Opening Keynote | Honor Harger, Vice President, Attractions and ArtScience Museum, Singapore | |
| Diverse Mediums for Science Communication Science Centre Singapore uses diverse communication means to make science friendly and palatable. From science dramas and musicals, art-science visualization, transmedia storytelling, hands-on mind-on activities, to physical and digital immersive experiences, we present science with sensorial and emotional considerations for our visitors and stakeholders. Some examples will be shared. | Tit Meng Lim PhD, Chief Executive, Science Centre Singapore, Associate Professor, NUS | |
| SAFE | Ed Lewis, Superflux | |
| Interactive Session: Making Sense of Data Quantitative information about risks, while potentially useful, often fails to resonate with target audiences. How to creatively engage people with patterns embedded in data? Join us to experience new ways to make data make sense through the senses, with Data Sculptures from IPUR, the Red Cross, the World Bank and beyond. | Pablo Suarez, Artist-in-Residence, IPUR | |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Networking Lunch | |
| Communicating the Climate Crisis Using a Boardgame Daybreak is a cooperative board game about stopping climate change. Designers Matt Leacock (author of Pandemic) and Matteo Menapace will share the lessons they learned from over two years of designing a playable model of the climate crisis and its systemic solutions. | Matt Leacock, Game Designer (California) Matteo Menapace, Game Designer (London) | |
| Towards Oceanic Consciousness: Art in the time of Climate Change As we move into the Anthropocene and the evidence of an impending ecological crisis grows in strength, Climate change remains an abstract concept to the masses. How do we imagine the intangible? In this presentation, Ong Kian Peng will present a body of works that span across art, technology, and ecology and how the notion of Oceanic Consciousness is central to his work. | Ong Kian Peng, Experimental Artist and Designer | |
| How can performances in aerials and acrobatics help us better communicate risk? How can the disciplines of partner acrobatics and aerial acrobatics (aerial silks, hoop, trapeze) be used to better communicate risks of shocks and stresses aggravated by climate change or global catastrophic events. How might such visual performances of risk and risk mitigation help inspire action to protect people and planet? | Tilly Alcayna, Senior Technical Advisor for Health and Climate, the Red Cross Climate Centre | |
| MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing | Adrian George, Director, Exhibitions ArtScience Museum & Tilly Boleyn, Head of Curatorial, Science Gallery Melbourne | |
| Wonder & Abstraction | Professor Jose Ignacio Latorre, Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS | |
| 4:00pm | Based on a True Story Why winning a film audience in the attention economy is an emotional business. A live conversation with award-winning director and filmmaker Dan McDougall. | |
| Film Screening – Ocean Stories: Two Kinds of Water (22 mins) ‘Two Kinds of Water’, explores the lives of a family living in the Guet Ndar fishing community on Senegal’s north coast – a country whose name literally means ‘our boat’. The 5,500km coastline of West Africa, is home to some of the most diverse and dangerous fishing grounds in the world. It provides a livelihood to eight million people as skills are handed down from generation to generation, yet climate change, over-fishing and contested waters are producing new and deadly threats every day. “Two Kinds of Water” charts the unbreakable bond between a fisherman and his wife as they face unbearable challenges, fighting to keep their young family afloat in one of Africa’s most vulnerable fishing communities. A combination of deeply poetic voices and lyrical journeys vividly render the lives of ocean communities on the frontline of the climate crisis and the fishermen whose lives lay on the line each time they leave the shore. Salt Lines (16 mins) Set in Correa, Down East Maine, USA, Salt Lines tells the extraordinary and uplifting story of a single mother, hauling lobster traps for a living in an unforgiving man’s world. Raising her own son, created with an anonymous sperm donor, to be the fifth generation “Lobsterman” in her family, whilst consigning gender stereotypes to the past. Searchlight (30 mins) "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." Searchlight is an intimate triptych narrative that gets under the skin of what it is like to risk your life as an RNLI volunteer. Providing an on-call search and rescue service for the UK and Ireland, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and the omnipresent pagers on the waistbands of this cinematic film, Leonie, Lawrie and Jasmin, represent the very embodiment of losing yourself in the service of others. Over 320,000 people worldwide drown every year but this figure is most likely a major underestimate. As long as people and vessels are on the water search and rescue operations are needed. Yet operating conditions are increasingly challenging and SAR teams face unprecedented new risks, potential budget cuts and the influence of the climate crisis on weather patterns. What Searchlight tells us is perhaps our enduring search for balance and happiness in life should focus less on the self and more on how we can contribute to community. | ||
| 5:15pm | Drinks Reception & Guided Tours Guided tours of Art Science Museum exhibits are also available during this time: MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing guided tour (max 22 pax) Patricia Piccinini: We Are Connected guided tour (max 22 pax) | |
| 7:00pm | Event Ends |