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Profiles

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Coming soon profiles for academics, artists and people with technical know how who want to produce and help produce exciting data and science driven content for festivals

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Would you like to be included?

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You can be! We welcome anyone with skills relating to any aspect of producing date driven exhibits, that could mean you if you have skills around funding applications, technical skills, production or creative skills that you would like to share. Get in touch via our Contact Page, we'd love to hear from you!

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Can't wait?

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Here are the profiles of a couple of people who might be able to help:

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Johnathan Elders

 

Data driven artist, show off and creator of Cognition Art

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www.thelasergarden.com

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Working as a creative in Edinburgh, a city renowned for its art and festivals, there is not only opportunity, but also sometimes over whelming competition.

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I have been fortunate to find a home for myself, as an artist working within the scientific community.

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It has afforded me so many opportunities. I have worked with academics and researchers, who have inspired me, worked with me to develop content and if I'm honest, sometimes blown my mind by revealing bizarre and wonderful science facts!

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Producing creative content for science festivals and events has given me access to amazing venues, incredible publicity and access to audiences who might not have been reached through exhibiting within traditional art spaces, such as galleries

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I'm happy to share my own experiences, as well as any of the insights I have gained while developing Cognition Art

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I can be reached via my website or the Contact us page 

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John McAleese 

 

Scientist, science writer, a logical muse to you like Apollo

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As a scientist John has been published on a diverse range of topics, including crystal growth, material science, corrosion, water research, robotics, artificial intelligence and microstamping. The muse continues to approve as articles on such diverse topics as seashells + bones, thixotropy, saccades, dosage forms + routes of administration, saddle points, concrete slump, the black + chestnut soils in Kazakhstan + where the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea continue to emerge.

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Previous articles can be found here:ï‚·

 

https://www.azonano.com/authors/john-mcaleeseï‚· 

 

https://issuu.com/edinburghresearchandinnovation/docs/infinite-magazine-2016Promo copy arts/science

 

Collaboration example:ï‚·

 

NORMAN website -https://norman.monomatic.net

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With his pedigree, experience + interests, John is ideally placed to help artists communicate with the scientific community, a broker with the ability to bridge between artists + scientists + their differing languages

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A proposal winner + evaluator, he is happy to support creatives looking to do something new

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What people have said:

 

 “I turn to him without hesitation whenever I need content, an exceptional talent” - Todd Lizotte, CEO & President, BOLD Laser Automation Inc. & TACLABS Inc.

 

“Perfectly measured, calm influence, hugely generous, skilled, very professional” -GRADSchool Participant

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John can be contacted via our Contact us page

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Joan Smith

 

Joan Smith is an artist based in Edinburgh. Her work is inspired by archives and collections, medicine, anatomy, anthropology, archaeology and the natural world, amongst other things! She particularly enjoys working collaboratively with other artists and scientists: collaboration brings with it sometimes unexpected conversations, projects and opportunities. Joan is a member of the
art/science group, Fusion, the anthropology group, Bones Collective, the Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland.

 

Recent projects include Skull Colour Chart (SSA 2021) an evolving artwork where the focus is on rethinking the University of Edinburgh skull collection through analysis of skull colours; Field Notes
(Surgeons Hall Museum, Edinburgh, 2018 -19), a joint exhibition with fellow artist Susie Wilson that explored the work of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in the first World War and she was part of
TRACES (2015 – 2018), a Europe-wide Horizon 2020 funded multi-disciplinary research project that addressed contentious collections across Europe. In the last year Joan has co-authored, with scientist Janet Philp, two book chapters on the use of textiles in understanding the anatomy of the human body, one in Teaching, Research, Innovation and Public Engagement (Springer 2022) and another in Biomedical Visualisation (Springer 2023). Joan’s installation about how plastic pollution affects the sea and the creatures that live in it, Sea Amulets, featured in the 2023 Hidden Door Festival.


Joan is currently working with Janet Philp on I’ve Got Your Back, a public engagement project focusing on understanding back health through working with needle felt. The resulting installation will be shown in the Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh, from October 2023.

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Joan can be contacted via our Contact us page


Instagram @joansmithartist


www.fusionartsci.co.uk/

Tom Pratt

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Tom Pratt is a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh where he teaches principles of developmental biology on a number of courses. His main research interest is investigating how changes to genetic sequences affect the development of the brain.

 

He has been involved in the FUSION group which aims to connect people from different disciplines to create and exhibit their works for a number of years and has enjoyed collaborating with artists and scientists, being inspired, and making objects in the process 

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Thom can be contacted via our Contact us page

 

https://www.fusionartsci.co.uk/

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David Price

 

David Price is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology at Edinburgh University. Which means he studies how brains develop and how they might become diverse or disordered. That's what most of his work is on, but he's also interested in the history of neuroscience - in particular, the era of the phrenologists and their crazy ideas - and runs an Our Minds program for projects in any discipline on how we think. He has been a member of the Art-Science Fusion group for many years and has exhibited work with the group. He has organised and spoken at many public events. He chairs the Africa Working Group at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which aims to enhance collaborations between Scotland and the African continent. 

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David can be contacted via our Contact us page

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www.fusionartsci.co.uk/

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