A Public Art Programme for Cambridge UK
OCTOBER 2011 - JULY 2012

Art / Technology / Performance / Science / Music

Presented by Anglia Ruskin University & Futurecity

Evening guided symphonies through Cambridge streets - June 18 - 23

Evening guided symphonies through Cambridge streets – June 18 – 23

  April – June 2012 will see new micro stories and musical symphonies played right across the streets of Cambridge. Artists ’circumstance‘ have created ‘ Of Sleeping Birds‘, a mass participatory set of evening walks through Cambridge, exploring the city through sound. From late May 2012 you will be able to...
3 art & technology collaborations launched

3 art & technology collaborations launched

V I S U A L I S E  is engaging leading Cambridge technology companies to collaborate with contemporary artists on the creative use of technology in public life. Phillips, ARM, and Optricks Media will all be involved in collaborations with artists Proboscis, Eduardo Kac, and Bettina Furnee respectively on...
Summer Exhibition - 'Poetry, Language, Code'

Summer Exhibition – ‘Poetry, Language, Code’

VISUALISE”s summer 2012 exhibition will bring together two strands of the Visualise programme with new works and existing works at the intersections between visual text and written word, code and language, digital poetry and hybrid forms.  We are delighted to welcome rrenowned artists and poets including Eduardo Kac working in...
VISUALISE TALKS SERIES

VISUALISE TALKS SERIES

Between September 2011 – March 2012 V I S U A L I S E organised a series of talks and discussions at Anglia Ruskin University open to the general public which covered a wide range of contemporary practice – under the general heading: Negotiating New Spaces for Art.  ...
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Thurs 22 March, 7.30pm - THE LIMITS OF SEEING - (Art, Space & Perception)

Thurs 22 March, 7.30pm – THE LIMITS OF SEEING – (Art, Space & Perception)

THE LIMITS OF SEEING an art and science panel was held as part of Cambridge Science Festival in a round room  – LAB028  – within the Anglia Ruskin Business School. Continuing Visualise’s exploration of the boundaries of inner and outer space the second ART AND SCIENCE CIRCLE was duly a starry, thought-provoking, fun, interactive, public...
FLUXING THE MANIFESTO!

FLUXING THE MANIFESTO!

During the Future Fluxus event  Michelle Lewis-King (a doctoral researcher at Anglia Ruskin University) invited audience members  to remix -  visually and in due homage -  George Manciunas ‘original’ Fluxus manifesto. Here’s some of the works she received back as well as her instructions: For more about Michelle’s research see: http://codephd.wordpress.com/
See Ruskin Gallery in construction

See Ruskin Gallery in construction

Photo: Ned Lidster
'CAUTION MATTER'  Liliane Lijn & Jamie Allen 17th - 26th Jan 2012

‘CAUTION MATTER’ Liliane Lijn & Jamie Allen 17th – 26th Jan 2012

  CAUTION MATTER by Liliane Lijn and Jamie Allen opened on 17th January in Cambridge filling the ten high definition digital screens of the Ruskin Gallery with luminous colour.  Caution Matter is  a new  exhibition  about art, industry, and mythology which has been developed in the last few months by  Lijn, a poet and visual...
VISUALISE IN CITY WINDOWS Jan 3rd - 31st

VISUALISE IN CITY WINDOWS Jan 3rd – 31st

VISUALISE   SEE ++ In windows of a shop in Sussex Street in Cambridge throughout January Visualise Exhibitions programme will install  films from artists working in art, computer art, science and technology areas  including Ernest Edmonds, Liliane Lijn, London Fieldworks and Susan Aldworth as well as moving image work by Anglia Ruskin film and fine...
CONTEMPORARY SPACE - 100 REGENT STREET

CONTEMPORARY SPACE – 100 REGENT STREET

From 9th-19th January in collaboration with Changing Spaces we will show DIAGONAL CIRCULARITY  at 100 Regent Street featuring the highly complementary work of  Susie Olczak who is Cambridge-based and and Markus Soukup who lives in Liverpool. EXHIBITION OPENING – 5.00 PM 10TH JANUARY 2012 Olczak produces exciting light-based pieces which (recalling Dan Flavin) transform perceptions...
'BETWEEN'  - Susan Aldworth and Karen Ingham

‘BETWEEN’ – Susan Aldworth and Karen Ingham

30th January – 3rd February (Private View -  31st January, 5-7.00 pm) ‘Between: Mind, Matter and Materials‘  Media Coverage/Press Links http://www.cambridgeshire.net/events/between–susan-aldworth-and-karen-ingham/67931.aspx http://www.eventility.co.uk/cgc/events/allmembers/between-susan-aldworth-and-karen-ingham/ruskin-gallery/cambridge/cb11pt/41028 http://www.wereallneighbours.co.uk/cambridge_events/?cal_date=2012-1-31&month=1&year=2012 http://cityviewed.co.uk/articles/entertainment/exhibitions/ ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Between is an exhibition that explores embodiment: who we are and how we are in invested in the structure of body and brain. New medical imaging technologies have...
VISUALISE ARTIST ON THE RADIO

VISUALISE ARTIST ON THE RADIO

IN ADVANCE OF HER EXHIBITION (WITH KAREN INGHAM) AT THE RUSKIN GALLERY ARTIST SUSAN ALDWORTH IS PART OF A RADIO FOUR PROGRAMME MADE IN HONOUR OF MASTER PRINTER STANLEY JONES AT THE CURWEN STUDIO – TUES 17 JAN at 11.30 am http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019fwvx  THE PROGRAMME  DOCUMENTS SUSAN’S TIME AS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT CURWEN. DETAILS AS...
FUTURE FLUXUS - 17th January

FUTURE FLUXUS – 17th January

ART’S future BIRTHDAY  was held at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge  17.01.12 (following Opening of CAUTION MATTER exhibition in Ruskin Gallery – from 6.00 pm).   Guest curator Bronac Ferran has written about the event at   http://www.boundaryobject.org/id5.html You can see some other images by Shameela Beeloo showing aspects of the event at:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/8652915@N02/6744766471/in/set-72157628987438947/lightbox/ fluxus poster PROGRAMME...

Finding the Visualise venues

The next event in Visualise – The Limits of Seeing: Art, Space and Perception – on Thursday 22nd March will be held in Lab 028 (a round lecture theatre with a sprung floor) that can be located between the East Road (front) entrance to the Anglia Ruskin campus and the University Library. It is on...
'RAIN-PROPHETS'  London Fieldworks

‘RAIN-PROPHETS’ London Fieldworks

NEW EXHIBITION:  RAIN-PROPHETS. London Fieldworks 9th January-13th January (Private View 10th January at 6.00 pm) A new multi-channel video installation,  a poetic meditation on ecology and belief, on premonition and divination in the opening days of 2012.  This work  has emerged  from London Fieldwork’s  British Council funded ArtistLinks residency in Brazil in 2009.  The Rain-Prophets...
The Limits of Seeing - Art, Space and Perception

The Limits of Seeing – Art, Space and Perception

THURSDAY MARCH 22ND 7.30 – 9.00 pm – 2nd Event of Cambridge Art and Science Circle During Cambridge Science Festival, VISUALISE organised a public event  asking what are  ‘The Limits of Seeing  – Art, Space and Perception’ .  Why we know there are exo-planets, why we all have blind spots and how we can detect...