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Dana Centre's Maya |
How do different people and groups view science? What do they know about it? What do they think is important? With colleagues from Imperial College, I set out to ask a range of people what they thought was important about science today......and draw it ! We made audio recordings of what our artists said while drawing and, in a bid to capture the diversity of views in an intriguing and memorable way, stitched the pictures together in the manner of the surrealists’ Exquisite Corpse. A little photoshopping nicely finished this testimony to all our efforts. Long questionnaires and government surveys have their place, but they don't catch those instinctive, spur of the moment, thoughts and reactions that give away how someone’s really feels. This project let us capture those ideas that might otherwise get lost in a more calculated response. O.K. – we gave our subjects some warning, but we saw real spontaniety too. |
Head of Physics Jo |
The movie 'The Exquisite Corpse of Science' featured in two international science film festivals in 2009, premiering at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York in October and the Serbian Science Festival in Belgrade in December. But that's not the end, because I'm now inviting anyone and everyone to donate their own corpse drawing to a new incarnation of the project. To find out more and submit your picture - read my 'Surreal Science' piece at SEED Magazine, or link directly to the project here. And if you'd like support on similar projects, please feel free to get in touch.
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