SCIENCE NATION ART MEETS SCIENCE
Organised as part of Dublin City of Science, ‘Time out of Mind’ is the IrishMuseumofModernArt’s (Imma) first ever exhibition in a city centre
location.According to Imma, theNational Concert Hall (NCH) building’s history as amedical school inspired this newexhibition of 35 works sourced primarily fromits collection. Running until 2 September 2012,Time out ofMind is an
exploration of the connections between art and science and has been curated as an open composition “thatwill allowmultiple readings and experiences”.The exhibition and programme focus on theways inwhich artists have en- gagedwith ideas about time,memory, space, perception, change and similar concepts. Time out ofMind brings together thework of 27 leading
Irish and international artists, includingLyndaBenglis, DorothyCross,MichaelCraig-Martin,MarcelDuchamp, BarryFlanagan, Isaac Julien,Cristina Iglesias,Callum Innes,WilliamMcKeown,ElizabethMagill,EvaRoth- schild,GraceWeir andDaphneWright. The exhibiton is installed in the 14 galleries on the
ground floor of theNorthWing of theNCHbuilding. Imma said the installation of theworks is designed to offer new encounters and readings. As part of the exhibition programme, Immawill invite
artists to reflect on theirworks in the exhibition in the context of current developments and newdirections, through discussions around the cultural aspects of
‘AJourney’ byKimchi and Chips, part of the Hack the City programme
ElizabethMagill’s ‘Forest Edge 2’, part of theTime out of Mind exhibition [2000, Mixedmedia on canvas, 129 x 158 cm, Collection IrishMuseumofModernArt, Donation IBRC, 2001]
science, the impact of science on art, and their ideas and personal philosophies. Time out ofMind is curated byChristinaKennedy, sen-
ior curator: head of collections, Imma, assisted byBrian Cass, curatorial co-ordinator, collections department, Imma. To coincidewith the exhibition, the first in a series of
public seminars entitledART+will explore the subject of collaboration between art and science onTuesday, 10 July
atEarlsfortTerrace.This includes a keynote address by SiânEde, arts director of theGulbenkianFoundation, fol- lowed by a discussionwith panel speakers including DorothyCross andTomCross;MarieRedmond fromcre- ative technologies atTrinityCollege;Michael JohnGor- man, director of the ScienceGallery; andMickWilson, GradcamfellowatNCAD.
While thought of by some as the act of gaining illegal
access to computer systems, hacking is in fact in the tradi- tion of opening or unlocking things to release their poten-
tial.Think of data collected byDublinCityCouncil on the number and location of recycling centres in the
city.This data is open to the public. It can and has been ‘hacked’ to create a useful smartphone app to help users find their nearest bottlebank in a fewtaps. “We’re unlocking the potential of the city itself; the city
HACK THE CITY The flagship exhibition fromthe ScienceGallery for DublinCity of Science is ‘Hack theCity’,which takes place from22 June–7 September andwill look at applications of science and technology to create the city of the future where valuable data is unlocked and used to solve prob- lems like traffic congestion or air quality, or perhaps cre- ating beautiful but practical public spaces through initiatives like guerilla gardening. The core aspect ofHack theCity, saysDrTeresaDillon,
the exhibition’s curator, is applying a collective or collabo- rative approach to dealingwith these issues. “Hack the City is an opportunity to look at howthe citywill be lived in; ourwell-being, transport, infrastructure, food productions and economics.”
becomes the infrastructure that you’re breaking into. It’s about repurposing andmodifying resources that are already there.” The net result is that of augmenting the city by adding
another useful layer onto it, notesDillon.Hack theCity is looking at open data in relation to smarter cities and is workingwith companies like IBMandGoogle in order to realise this. From22 June, visitors to the ScienceGallerywill get to
experience national and international projects from artists and programmers alike. Therewill be visualisations to look at resources in the
city in a newlight, such as seeing hownoise pollution is monitored, for example. “Wewill also provide community toolkits. Individuals can turn themselves into a sensor and engagewith the systemif theywish.”
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