A different perspective: the role of the arts in telling important stories At the Lynchpin Blog, May 25, 2013, you can read about Daniel Morden, professional storyteller, who gave the opening address at the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival. His story about storytelling could have relevance to Lynchpin’s aims. People can’t take the naked truth, Morden says, and with a simple tale he…
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For your diary: As part of the Ultimo Science Festival When: 12–21 September, 10am to 5pm Where: The Muse Gallery, Ultimo TAFE, 651-731 Harris St, Ultimo Photosynthesis – Art from Science at the Muse: read more A dramatic art exhibition inspired by climate science. See through icy veils of mesh as art and data…
Forests of the Sea is showing at University of Technology, Sydney! Follow the link to the Living Data program and read what Dr Lisa Roberts, Living Data leader, has to say about bringing a range of climate change expressions to students on campus.
The Making of a Symphony – “a love letter to the Ocean …” What does music express? It is my view that music expresses emotion; that’s what music does well. It doesn’t express academic or intellectual concepts – you can try and illustrate them in figurative ways, but music expresses emotion. The moment that music sprang…
Living Data invites you to our biggest presentation yet and it’s FREE! Oceanic Sydney: Sunday 14th October at Customs House, Sydney: From 8-9 pm. Immerse yourself in scientific data within a curious inversion of terrestrial and marine environments: Watch out for giant krill and Neptune’s necklace. What’s happening in the oceans?
Lynchpin hosts Lewa Pert’s film Forests of the Sea, featuring the work of Dutch artist, Malou Zuidema, for the Hobart City Council’s Urban Box Project. Lewa’s Giant Kelp Honours research at IMAS during 2011 underpins her film of this Community Arts Project as a way of drawing attention to the ecological significance of, and changes to, the…
Visual Arts Around the world groups are emerging who believe the combined efforts of scientists and artists can advance knowledge and convey this knowledge to the community in different ways. Arts-Science initiatives in Australia Living Data Can a collaborative design practice advance knowledge of our place within the global ecosystem? Living Data builds on the Antarctic…
Marine Plastic Pollution Flesh-footed shearwaters – threatened by plastic and radioactive seawater show transcript ABC RN The Science Show: Saturday 28 February 2015 12:20PM IMAGE: INGESTED PLASTIC KILLS HUNDREDS OF FLESH-FOOTED SHEARWATER CHICKS ON LORD HOWE ISLAND (JENNIFER LAVERS) The flesh-footed shearwater is a migratory seabird found widely in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The…
Lynchpin Scholars for 2012 Three significant areas for scholarship support were identified and two arts responses chosen Tasmania as global ocean warming ‘hot spot’; the other CO2 problem – ocean acidification and the vital role of phytoplankton in planetary metabolism. 2012 Project 1: Tasmanian East coast waters as a global ocean warming ‘hot spot’; 2012…
The Lynchpin program is designed to encourage arts/ocean science collaborations and conversations that bring ocean science to the community in new ways. Looking toward 2018 Lynchpin is pleased to support IMAGINING A DIFFERENT FUTURE Overcoming Barriers to Climate Justice A multidisciplinary conference examining the barriers to responding to climate change, implementing climate justice, and proposing ways…