exhibition TALKS
Invisible Numbers programme of talks explored and celebrated the cross-disciplinary aspect of the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and how they informed the art works on display.
'Behind The Mask' - Face Invader (Rebecca Ward)
'800 Yards: The Art of Rope Spinning' - Denise Ford
'Coding Early Computers' - Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, UCL
'Wall Street Maths' - Dr Simon Hubbert, Birkbeck
The talks took place on Saturday 10 June, 2pm-4pm, at Winns Gallery, London, E17
'Behind The Mask' - Face Invader (Rebecca Ward)
'800 Yards: The Art of Rope Spinning' - Denise Ford
'Coding Early Computers' - Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, UCL
'Wall Street Maths' - Dr Simon Hubbert, Birkbeck
The talks took place on Saturday 10 June, 2pm-4pm, at Winns Gallery, London, E17
About the speakers:
Dr Oliver Duke-Williams
Oliver Duke-Williams (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities) spoke about the ACE, a break-through example of a stored-program computer, outlining some of the milestones leading up to it. He described how it was programmed, how some of the unusual hardware inside worked, and why we can be grateful that programming has become easier. This talk supported the collaborative exhibit by illustrator, Andrew Baker, and historian, Kirstin Sibley for Invisible Numbers, bringing to life the achievements of Walthamstow-born Ted Newman, who helped develop Alan Turing’s ideas for a stored-program computer into a working machine – the Pilot ACE.
Dr Simon Hubbert [Reader in Mathematics. Birkbeck, University of London]
Wall Street is home to world's largest stock exchange where assets, currencies, commodities and bonds have been traded since the late 1700s. In the late-1980s a new appetite emerged for more complicated financial products and traders lapped them up. Sadly, a misunderstanding of their risks led to a spate of headline hitting losses. In order to establish some control, banks began to actively hire PhD mathematicians to work with the traders. Dr Hubbert's shined a spotlight on four of the key pioneers whose mathematical results are now routinely used in finance. We will describe the problems they tackled and provide some insight behind their discoveries.
Face Invader
Face Invader, aka Rebecca Ward, has been creating theatrical disguises for the past six years for clients including Matthew Williamson and the V&A Museum. It was during her 26 year career as DJ TBX that Rebecca decided her DJ persona needed a disguise. Liberated by the revelation of theatrical disguise, she recalled the skills she had learned at fashion college and began to make masks, hats, wigs and headdresses for personal, and private commissions. Hence, Face Invader was born. Her piece, Matronix, for Invisible Numbers, incorporated many aspects of STEAM to create the sensory experience.
Denise Ford
Denise Ford paintings explore colour and composition and nod towards emerging New Realism in painting today. Utilising her own photography with motifs drawn from the natural world, Denise creates a pictorial realism that explores subjects of everyday life. Her studies of Rope Spinners for Invisible Numbers comment upon life and how it was structured socially, economically, politically and culturally at the height of the fishing industry in Suffolk in the mid-19th century.
Dr Oliver Duke-Williams
Oliver Duke-Williams (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities) spoke about the ACE, a break-through example of a stored-program computer, outlining some of the milestones leading up to it. He described how it was programmed, how some of the unusual hardware inside worked, and why we can be grateful that programming has become easier. This talk supported the collaborative exhibit by illustrator, Andrew Baker, and historian, Kirstin Sibley for Invisible Numbers, bringing to life the achievements of Walthamstow-born Ted Newman, who helped develop Alan Turing’s ideas for a stored-program computer into a working machine – the Pilot ACE.
Dr Simon Hubbert [Reader in Mathematics. Birkbeck, University of London]
Wall Street is home to world's largest stock exchange where assets, currencies, commodities and bonds have been traded since the late 1700s. In the late-1980s a new appetite emerged for more complicated financial products and traders lapped them up. Sadly, a misunderstanding of their risks led to a spate of headline hitting losses. In order to establish some control, banks began to actively hire PhD mathematicians to work with the traders. Dr Hubbert's shined a spotlight on four of the key pioneers whose mathematical results are now routinely used in finance. We will describe the problems they tackled and provide some insight behind their discoveries.
Face Invader
Face Invader, aka Rebecca Ward, has been creating theatrical disguises for the past six years for clients including Matthew Williamson and the V&A Museum. It was during her 26 year career as DJ TBX that Rebecca decided her DJ persona needed a disguise. Liberated by the revelation of theatrical disguise, she recalled the skills she had learned at fashion college and began to make masks, hats, wigs and headdresses for personal, and private commissions. Hence, Face Invader was born. Her piece, Matronix, for Invisible Numbers, incorporated many aspects of STEAM to create the sensory experience.
Denise Ford
Denise Ford paintings explore colour and composition and nod towards emerging New Realism in painting today. Utilising her own photography with motifs drawn from the natural world, Denise creates a pictorial realism that explores subjects of everyday life. Her studies of Rope Spinners for Invisible Numbers comment upon life and how it was structured socially, economically, politically and culturally at the height of the fishing industry in Suffolk in the mid-19th century.