Lisa Roberts, Leader of the Living Data Program at UTS, spoke on GREEN VELVET, Eastside Radio, Sydney on 23rd February. In conversation with presenter Ruth Hessey, Lisa described how she became drawn into Marine and Antarctic Science, how she sees a synergy in arts and science collaborations as a way of broadening community understanding and more  –  including how ex Oceano may inform some of…

The Conversation – on arts/science collaborations

Living data: how art helps us all understand climate change  In a recent article for The Conversation, Dr Lisa Roberts, leader of the Living Data program at UTS, writes: Science and the arts are often polarised as incompatible ways of understanding the world. That’s not necessarily true – and what brings them together is creativity and…

Vanishing Point – art/science collaboration

Vanishing Point Showing at the Institute of Marine & Antarctic Science Exhibition Space on the Hobart waterfront from April – June 2015 Vanishing Point is an arts/science collaboration to raise awareness about the issues surrounding plastics pollution in the oceans and it’s ecological, biological and social impact. Initially the brainchild of wildlife artist Katherine Cooper,…

ex Oceano – Australian premiere broadcast!

ABC Classic FM gave  ex Oceano – we are from the Ocean – the Ocean sustains us  its  Australian premiere broadcast in the first edition of Graham Abbott’s new Saturday evening program on 24 January.  Richard Buckham, Manager, ABC Classic FM reports: ” . . . it sounded wonderful on air, and it had a great response from…

ex Oceano – Movement 2, the phytoplankton

Listen in on conversations between  composer Matthew Dewey and scientists Rob Johnson and Nick Roden as they open up the world of phytoplankton in order to inspire Matthew’s composition – in particular Movement 2 of the Symphony ex Oceano. Composer-scientist Conversation 1: Robert Johnson What am I trying to say here? -ancient, endurance, endlessness, fast and slow, life and death,…

Phytoplankton Dance 001

Dr Lisa Roberts, Leader of the Living Data program at UTS, brings together her wonderful phytoplankton animation with moments from ex Oceano and continues to make the microscopic world real to us in many different ways. Visit the Living Data website to hear conversations and collaborations between artists and scientists.   Understand more about the microscopic world from which we…

“The Canadian biologist Boris Worm puts it this way: If all creatures on land were to die tomorrow, life in the ocean would be fine. If all creatures in the ocean were to die tomorrow, life on land would die as well. We air-breathers are fully dependent on marine life for keeping us alive, not…

Become Ocean

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS Become Ocean (World Premiere) BORN: January 23, 1953, in Meridian, Mississippi;  NOW RESIDES: Fairbanks, Alaska WORK COMPOSED: 2012–13   Become Ocean is the latest realization of a remarkable new development in the work of John Luther  Adams. “My music is going inexorably from being about place to becoming place.” The work’s title…

Lynchpin is delighted to promote this paper by Jorge Ramos et al. Jorge was a Lynchpin Scholar in 2012  and was part of the Forests of the Sea project. Jorge E. Ramos1*, Gretta T. Pecl1, Natalie A. Moltschaniwskyj2, Jan M. Strugnell3, Rafael I. Leo´ n1, Jayson M. Semmens1 1 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart,…

Breath of Life

Lynchpin featured artist, Eveline Koljin, continues her exploration of breath in her Breath of Life exhibition in Calgary, Canada. Eveline writes: I am exploring to visually express Breath and state of the art research into early lung-cancer detection. My Breath of Life lamps are hung in the Tiny gallery plinths at three separate locations within the Tiny Gallery project…