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New Constellations_
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New Constellations: Art, Science and Society was a three day conference charting the ways in which art and science gravitate towards one another within contemporary culture.
Although these two great intellectual and creative forces in society are often perceived as opposites, how stable is this opposition? What are their common roots and shared goals? How do their embedded cultural and ontological differences generate creative tension? How do these differences stymie collaboration?
The Conference examined how the worldwide trend towards engagement between scientists and artists is changing the definitions, methodologies and practices they use and how they view the social implications of their work.
The Conference grew out of a Synapse ARC Linkage project undertaken by artist Mari
Velonaki alongside roboticists David Rye, Steve Scheding & Stefan
Williams at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of
Sydney.
New Constellations was presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney with the support of Artspace; the Australian Centre for Field
Robotics, The University of Sydney; the Australian Network for Art & Technology, and the Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology,
Sydney; and Patrick Technology and Systems.
