Lunchtime Talk
Fri 4 Sep 2020 13:00-14:00 at YouTube Live
Data Nature
During September we are handing over Friday's lunchtime talks to Watershed Research team, this Friday we welcome Kathy Hinde, Matt Baker & Peter Quinn Davis for a panel discussion around data, nature & human health.
Credit: Pete Quinn Davis
Speakers
Matt Baker
Matt is a senior lecturer in Human Biology and Nutrition at Bath Spa. He is interested in exploring the links between Nature and Human health. For my fellowship, I will be looking at our non-visual interaction with light. Human interaction with natural light is not just confined to sight; we also sense and react to light and warmth through our skin. This influences our mood, physiology, sleep, capacity to learn, and even the sensitivity of our conscious vision. I want to explore new technologies that will enable us to measure this shared experience and begin to explore the relationship between this and our mental and social health.Pete Quinn Davis
Pete Quinn Davis is an artist and designer who works with creative technologies, he is programme leader for MA Design at UOP Plymouth. Peters interests focus on the transdisciplinary, where fluidity of practice moves between the genres of architecture, art, and design. His focus for the data fellowship is the use of scanning technology, using lidar to produce data, how this is gathered, understood and used, particularly physical data, data that can be seen. Once processed and spun in multiple ways, it can reveal patterns that can provide insights and enable change, the direction of the fellowship is how this physical data can be used across the creative arts, the environmental area and health sectors.Kathy Hinde
Kathy Hinde is an audio-visual artist and composer. She creates installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Drawing inspiration from behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, she creates work that is generative; that evolves; that can be different each time it is experienced.This Lunchtime Talk will be broadcast live on Watershed's YouTube channel
Watershed’s Research team are taking over the Lunchtime Talks in September to share some of the work coming out of two of our current programmes, Bristol+Bath Creative R+D and the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN). Come and join us to find out more about data, responsibility and digital placemaking.
There are many ways to use and measure data, most of which connect human experience to systems that are intended to deliver change.
In nature and in human health, there are other connections between what we observe in nature and what we sense through other means that can change us.
In this panel, we will be exploring the behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, revealing different “data sets” that encourage the emergence of knowledge and understanding, by allowing openings for less conventional agents to form data. To embrace, rather than smooth out, the potential “noise” within such datasets, and explore processes that are wildly different to big data crunching algorithms.
The South West Creative Technology is currently running a year of thinking about data, and our data fellows Pete, Kathy and Matt, will talk about how each of their projects explores the relationships between data and nature.
Join us on Fri 4th September, 13:00-14:00 for the talk and to take part in the discussion afterwards.
