Dark matters: Our Imperceptible Universe
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237307722
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Peter Scott Gallery
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- November
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research was the primary output of Dark Matters: Thresholds of imperceptibility across Art, Cosmology and Anthropology of Science, a novel interdisciplinary collaboration between Casey, cosmologist Kostas Dimopoulos and anthropologist Rebecca Ellis. It included 56 drawings, a film, and texts, documented in an exhibition catalogue, website and additional film. Funded by an AHRC Science in Culture innovation award, it was the only visual art research successfully funded by the scheme in this cycle (2014). Additional funding came from the Institute of Physics and the Being Human Festival 2016, sponsored by the AHRC, British Academy and School of Advanced Study (UoL). The work tested a novel three-way methodology to sidestep problems in typical art-science collaboration. Launched at the Peter Scott Gallery Lancaster (Dec. 2014- Jan 2015) and exhibited at Imperial College London (Nov 2016 – Jan 2017) as part of the international conference Dark Matters: Thresholds of Imperceptibility. The London exhibition, sponsored by Being Human, was viewed by over 900 people and led to a further symposium, ‘The Materiality of Nothing’ convened by Casey (July 2017) with international speakers from the USA, Europe and Australia. The research was presented as a case study at the AHRC Science in Culture workshop (Birmingham University Oct 2016). Work from the exhibition has since been selected for peer-reviewed exhibitions in the UK, Taiwan and the US and presented at international multidisciplinary conferences; Association of American Geographers (Chicago), Royal Geographic Society (Exeter), Beyond Perception (Aberdeen). Other public engagements events include: ‘Dark Matters’ Whitby Museum August 2017 (sponsored by Institute of Physics); Dark Matters Day, public talks and exhibition, Storey Lancaster (31 October 2018). The commissioned film was shortlisted for the AHRC research film of the year, 2017. Casey's film, Drawn to the Surface, was published in a special edition of Theory Culture and Society in 2018.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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