events - 2008
Early Man Settlement
Date - 8th March 2008
New Materials, New Technologies: Innovation, Future and Society. Innovation, Future and Society
Date - 12th March 2008
What Can The Matter Be?
Date - 23rd Feb 2008
New Materials, New Technologies: Innovation, Future and Society. The Social History of the Prototype
Date - 11th Feb 2008
events - 2007
Materials Library presents Flesh
Date - 9th Nov 2007
Materials Library presents...the Long Weekend
Date - 26th/27th May 2007
Materials Library presents... the Sound of Materials
Date - 14th April 2007
events - 2006 Materials Library presents... Idea Object
Date - 27th November 2006
Materials Library presents... States of Flux
Date - 20th November 2006
Materials Library presents... Poetry and Dream
Date - 13th November 2006
Materials Library presents... Materials Gesture
Date - 6th November 2006
Future Palate
Date - 21st Oct 2006
Essence of Fluorescence
Date - 21st Jan 2006
materials encounters
Date - 30th Nov 2005
impermanent materials
Date - 29th Nov 2005
engineering art
Date - 15th April 2005
Place- Cheltenham Science Festival
Description - Try your hand at making fire and watch us try to melt aluminium in a bon-fire. More info.
Place- Engineering Division, King's College London
Description - The Second of an ESRC funded series of seminars will examine the social history of the prototype in order to draw out the differences represented by present innovations in materials, technology and manufacture and explore the earlier 18th and 19th century origins and contexts of development underlying current innovations. More info.
Place- Tate Modern
Description - Join us to reveal some of the secrets behind the Tate Modern collection. Featuring the melancholic Lead bell, the essence of florescence, musical combs, and other strange materials from the Materials Library. After the talk there will be the opportunity to get hands-on with the materials and play with the demonstrations. . More info.
Place- Department of Anthropology, UCL
Description - The First of an ESRC funded series of seminars will examine the social history of the prototype in order to draw out the differences represented by present innovations in materials, technology and manufacture and explore the earlier 18th and 19th century origins and contexts of development underlying current innovations. More info.
Place- Wellcome Collection
Description - An evening to provide an insight into the materiality of 'flesh', and its connection to the human body, culture and medicine. Our approach was be largely experiential, with our guests being given the opportunity to touch, feel, smell, cut, drill and even taste flesh. Experts in flesh, such as surgeons, body builders, butchers, artists and scientists gave talks and were available in galleriesÊ for a more informal interaction. Materials Library made a series of hands-on flesh exhibits for the evening, each one of which was juxtaposed with one of the objects exhibited in Medicine Man gallery and Medicine Now gallery. A Life Drawing class was also part of the evening, to allow our guests to reacquaint themselves with the human body. More info.
Place- Tate Modern
Description - Join us to reveal some of the secrets behind the Tate Modern collection. Featuring the melancholic Lead bell, the essence of florescence, musical combs, and other strange materials from the Materials Library. After the talk there will be the opportunity to get hands-on with the materials and play with the demonstrations. This event coincides with the launch of What Can the Matter Be? a new downloadable audio tour of Tate Modern. More info.
Place- Tate Modern
Description - An evening of discussion and demonstration with Trevor Cox and other practitioners from the world of music, material science, art, engineering and acoustics, exploring the materiality of sound. This event coincides with the launch of What Can the Matter Be? a new downloadable audio tour of Tate Modern. More info.
Place- Idea Object Gallery, Tate Modern
Description - This is the final part of the Materials Library's explorations into the art and science of the new hangs at Tate Modern. This evening's event takes place within the Idea Object gallery, exploring the materiality of the theme and the artworks hung within it. This is the last chance to experience the Materials Conjectures, especially created by the Materials Library for this event and take advantage of this unique opportunity to "please do not, do not touch". Featuring: The helium balloon equilibrium tasks, The Essence of Fluorescence, Cubes of Beuysian materials and due to popular demand -the return of the lead bugle! More info.
Place- States of Flux Gallery, Tate Modern
Description - Join the Materials Library for an investigation into the science behind State of Flux. This event is the third in the series of four performative encounters staged by the Materials Library, in which you will be given the opportunity to explore the works of art within the State of Flux space, through the lens of the interdisciplinary Materials Library. This is your chance to use materials as a tactile language with which to explore the scientific, cultural and sensual aspects art. Featuring: The science of crystals, a lead bugle, tuning forks, 880 penny sweeties and the Materials Library Group bring coal back to the Power Station. More info.
Place- Poetry and Dream Gallery, Tate Modern
Description - The second of the Materials Library's live encounters with The Scientific, this time within the context of the Poetry Dreams gallery. Responding to the gallery's title as a provocation for investigation, you are invited to explore an array of materials and demonstration equipment with a spirit of intrigue, curiosity and discovery. Featuring: The smallest chess set in the world, surrealist exercises in materials taxonomy, a football of silly putty and The Table of Improbable Objects. More info.
Place- Materials Gesture Gallery, Tate Modern
Description - Join the Materials Library for an investigation into the science behind State of Flux. This event is the third in the series of four performative encounters staged by the Materials Library, in which you will be given the opportunity to explore the works of art within the State of Flux space, through the lens of the interdisciplinary Materials Library. This is your chance to use materials as a tactile language with which to explore the scientific, cultural and sensual aspects art. Featuring: The science of crystals, a lead bugle, tuning forks, 880 penny sweeties and the Materials Library Group bring coal back to the Power Station. More info.
Place- Sherborne House
Description - An exhibit of new materials was designed and installed by Martin Conreen for Future Palate, the third in the Colour and Chemistry series of exhibitions. The first, Colour and Perception, looked at how artists use colour to reveal how we see, and how we construct what we see. It included the work of Bridget Riley, the British 1960s Optical artist, and Spencer Finch, a rising New York-based artist who recreates the exact light of famous places. The second, Artists & Alchemists, explored the physical making of colour and how artists embraced colour in a range of media, from reproducing chemical experiments (one artist recreated the BZ reaction) to creating beautifull glass work. The third, Future Palette move saway from the traditional model of a group show, to produce an exhibition that makes a parity between the creative work of scientists and artists.
More info here - www.sherbornehouse.org.uk
Place- Hayward Gallery
Description - A Materials 'Cabinet of Curiosity' has bee designed and installed by Mark Miodownik and Zoe Laughlin for the Dan Flavin: A Retrospective exhibition. The cabinet explores the nature of fluorescent materials. This is a chance to experience hands-on demonstrations of fluorescent and phosphorescent materials.
More info here - www.hayward.org
Place- King's College London.
Description - Materials Library Open Day.
Summary - Download here.
Place- Tate Modern, London.
Description - A interactive demontration of impermanent materials after talks by Cornelia Parker (artist), Chris Lefteri (designer), Mark Miodownik (materials scientist), Johanna Greenhill (sculptor), Dominic Willsdon (curator).
Summary - download catalogue here.
Place- Tate Modern
Description -A interactive demontration of new materials after talks by Brian Derby (materials scientist), Mike Smith (engineer), Niall McLaughlin (architect), Sharon Baurley (smart textiles), Mark Miodownik (chair).
Summary - download catalogue here.
