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SUMMARY:Locus Ludi: Anyone can play!
DESCRIPTION:The Ure Museum and Classics Department are delighted to announce the launch of its latest major exhibition — Locus Ludi: Anyone can play!—on display at the Ure Museum from 6 September until 30 November\, 2023. This exhibition\, inspired by the European Research Council funded project Locus Ludi: The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity\, led by Professor Véronique Dasen\, is an opportunity to explore the rich collections relating to games and play in antiquity that are available not only at the Ure Museum but at other UK museums. We are most grateful to Colchester and Ipswich Museums\, Reading Museum\, The British Museum and the University of Reading’s Special Collections for the loan of important artefacts from their collections. \nRelated activities include: \n\n16 September\, 10am–4pm: Unwrap ancient games for Heritage Open Days (fun for the whole family; all welcome but please follow the first link to book)\n30 September\, 12–2pm: Summer Olympots to celebrate National Sporting Heritage Day (bring the children but again\, please book via the first link)\n6 October\, 5pm: More than just fun and games: Why study board games in Roman society? A lecture from Dr Tim Penn (Oxford). Edith Morley G44\n16 October\, 5pm: Play or cheat? Games in Greek and Roman antiquity. The James E. Gordon Lecture\, from Prof. Véronique Dasen (Fribourg). Edith Morley G44\n\nFind the full programme of activities on the Classics at Reading blog.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/locus-ludi-anyone-can-play-exhibition/
LOCATION:Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology\, Department Of Classics\, Whiteknights\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG6 6AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Up in Arms: posters for protest\, solidarity\, engagement and action
DESCRIPTION:Up in Arms: posters for protest\, solidarity\, engagement and action puts posters of protest front and centre. \nThe exhibition has been curated to align with our annual conference\, ‘Publishing Anti-fascism’ convened and organised by Ellen Pilsworth. \nThe exhibition includes material from the collection of twentieth-century posters from the Lettering\, Printing and Graphic Design Collections in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. It displays posters from a range of sources\, some designed by well-known designers including Robin Fior and David King. The exhibition was curated and designed by Clara Fidler-Brown as part of her experience as a Collections Assistant\, with support from Ellen Pilsworth\, Emma Minns\, Sue Walker and Geoff Wyeth. \n\nThe Up in Arms exhibition space in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/up-in-arms-posters-for-protest/
LOCATION:Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, TOB 2\, Earley Gate\, Whiteknights Campus\, University of Reading\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG6 7BE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:In the Company of Monsters: New Visions\, Ancient Myths
DESCRIPTION:Free exhibition \n23 September 2023 – 24 February 2024 \nReading Museum \nIn the Company of Monsters: New Visions\, Ancient Myths will be an exhibition of the works of the contemporary artists Eleanor Crook and Paul Reid\, alongside objects\, texts\, and artworks from the University of Reading and Reading Museum. Brought together for the first time\, these detailed and striking works share an interest in retelling ancient myths of body difference\, diversity\, and hybridity. Inspired by the enduring dreams\, or nightmares\, of bodily ‘otherness’\, the weird and wonderful creatures portrayed in this unique exhibition will ask vital questions about humanity’s place in nature\, the biological and artistic meanings of diversity and difference\, and the vital role that history plays in our understandings of the dynamic workings of natural history. \nEleanor Crook is a British sculptor with a special interest in mortality\, anatomy and pathology\, who exhibits internationally in fine art and medical and science museum contexts. She studied Classics and Philosophy at Oxford before training in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools in the early 90s\, where she specialised in wax modeling\, lost wax bronze casting and other lifelike media. She pieced together a knowledge of Anatomy from London’s medical museums and the dissection room as a medical artist\, finding figurative art to be not in favour at the time; even so\, her Classical background meant that communing with statues\, and therefore the body\, were second nature. Crook considers her work ‘more effigy than statue’\, as they are imbued with a convincing sense of life. She has developed close\, long-term collaborations with medical museums and historic anatomical wax collections such as the Gordon Museum of Pathology\, Guy’s Hospital\, Ghent University Museum\, and the Vrolik Museum Amsterdam\, where she continues wax modeling traditions and combines research through human dissection and studying the history of anatomical model-making. Most recently\, she has worked with museum project partners on creating a genre of anatomical Expressionism\, uncanny yet rooted in medical investigation\, mythology\, and the mysteries of the mind. To learn more about Eleanor Crook\, her work\, and find selected art for sale\, visit https://www.eleanorcrook.net  \n \nPaul Reid was born in Scone\, Perth\, in 1975.  Between 1994 and 1998\, he studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art\, Dundee\, where he obtained First Class honours in drawing and painting.  Since then his work has been part of a number of major exhibitions\, in Scotland and northern England in particular\, but also in Europe.  He has accompanied the then Prince of Wales on visits to Italy\, Turkey\, Jordan and Canada\, drawing and painting the landscapes and people encountered.  He is firmly established as an artist who combines technical mastery with striking new visions of ancient myths. On the face of it\, Reid’s work is traditional in medium (oil; charcoal)\, though he has more recently moved into the use of digital technology.  Within the traditional aesthetic\, however\, lies a world of the unexpected: uncanny hybrids of human and animal; juxtapositions of ancient myths with modern landscapes\, faces\, buildings.  Central to every work is storytelling: characters from Greek mythology are caught at tense moments in their narrative\, at some point of shocked discovery or on the very edge of violence; or else they pause in strange stillness\, allowed a moment’s repose even as the next (perhaps final) act of the mythical drama impends.  The seated Minotaur is a perfect example: he sits easily\, casually\, but the ancient story dictates what is shortly to befall him.  To work with ancient myths is to work with stories that have been told and retold for millennia.  This is not to say that they cannot be reshaped; they always have been.  Reid’s reshapings are subtle\, but they leave the viewer in no doubt that ancient men\, women\, monsters and gods have a place in the modern world as they did in the distant world that first created them.To learn more about Paul Reid and his work\, and find selected art for sale\, visit: https://www.paulreidart.co.uk/
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/in-the-company-of-monsters-new-visions-ancient-myths/
LOCATION:Reading Museum\, Blagrave Street\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG1 1HQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Creative Collections Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Creative practice within museums and collections interrogates and animates collections with different stakeholders. For academic researchers it can also bring together different disciplines to collaboratively explore complex problems. Some familiar examples are visual art installations\, live and digital performances\, and creative writing residencies. However\, this list is only skimming the surface and it’s important to note that the process behind these creative interventions is as important as the final outputs. There is excellent work going on across the University of Reading but it can be hard to find time to share and connect with colleagues. \nThis workshop will be a chance to share current projects involving UoR collections\, and best practice regarding wider creative practice with museums\, archives\, and collections. \nThis will be of interest to colleagues engaged in creative practice\, creative research\, curation and facilitation of creative projects based in collections. It will also be of interest to colleagues from the sciences and social sciences who are seeking to build cross-disciplinary research collaborations to explore complex ideas in creative ways. \nThe aim of this event is to: \n\nidentify potential participants who wish to be part of a community of colleagues sharing practice and developing ideas and connections\nbegin to highlight some thematic connections and areas of interest or emerging practice\ndiscuss future networking and sharing opportunities.\n\nThe workshop will consist of: \n\nquick fire presentations from participants on current projects and interests\na networking session using items from the University collections as a way to spark conversations\na facilitated discussion of ways to collaborate moving forward\, including the option of an Away Day\n\nBook your place by completing this form: https://forms.office.com/e/C0fLLpshV3 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/creative-collections-networking-event/
LOCATION:Palmer Building\, Room 105\, Whiteknights Campus\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:AI and the Arts – can we automate creativity?
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition ‘AI: More than Human’ at the Barbican Centre in London – co-curated by Suzanne Livingston – was the first over-arching look at the past\, present and future of AI in a museum environment. It includes contributions from DeepMind\, IBM\, Google\, TeamLab\, Massive Attack\, Es Devlin\, Neri Oxman\, Joy Buolamwini\, Amnesty International\, Jigsaw and Affectiva. Since its London run in 2019\, it has toured regionally in the UK and globally\, with periods of time in the Netherlands and China. As of October 2023\, it is showing in Spain at CCCB Barcelona. \nIn this talk\, Suzanne will expand on the themes of the exhibition\, as well as her ongoing research and consultancy on the relationships between advanced technologies and people\, society and commerce. She will reflect on how the current explosion in AI tools\, and corresponding public interest and concerns\, sits within this – and shares her thoughts on where this will eventually settle within the arts. \nThis is a hybrid event taking place in-person at Bulmershe Theatre\, Minghella Studios and online on Teams. In-person attendance is encouraged as the talk will be followed by a wine reception and discussion over drinks. \nPlease RSVP to shweta.ghosh@reading.ac.uk by Tuesday 24th October\, indicating if you would like to attend in-person or online. A joining link for online attendees will be circulated nearer the time. \nAbout the speaker\nDr Suzanne Livingston is a strategy consultant\, curator and coach working with advanced technologies across sectors – but often with creative arts and culture organisations. Until 2019 she was Head of Strategy and then Global Principal at Wolff Olins and has a PhD in Philosophy\, focussing on cybernetic systems. This led her to co-curate the blockbuster exhibition ‘AI: More than Human’ which opened at the Barbican in 2019 and is currently in the midst of an ongoing world tour. \nHer research area is advanced technologies and their effects on people\, society and commerce – and the need for genuinely new models and concepts to see ourselves and the world we exist in. She continues to write about technologies and changing ideas of human\, self\, agency and control\, and often draws on non-western ideas to do so.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/ai-and-the-arts-can-we-automate-creativity/
LOCATION:Bulmershe Theatre\, Minghella Studios\, Bulmershe Theatre\, Minghella Studios\, University of Reading\, Shinfield Road\, Reading\, RG6 6BT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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