Event overview
With Rosy Martin, Rain Ashford and Spencer Joseph Moderated by: Rebecca Miller
The new frontier in health and wellbeing is ripe for exploration through art practice. Thursday club November 8; a panel of artists, health workers, and technology workers explore new kinds of health and well-being interventions. The future of science, technology, and wellbeing is a popular question currently. If the question is interrogated by adding art and creativity into the equation the boundaries could expand even further. The panelists will share samples of their work, then together they will bring their unique skills and knowledge to a roundtable discussion to formulate questions and probe for answers to questions concerning technology, art and well-being.
Can digital devices facilitate change in health enhancing programs?
Digital technology and wellness? A healing or hindering combination?
This event is curated in the spirit of relational aesthetics, allowing the work to respond to each other and create meaning through the juxtaposition of the presentations.
The aim is to foster and nurture ideas surrounding this emerging field and to explore projects by leading innovators and how their work in measuring and communicating health data will drive new kinds of health and well-being interventions.
Rain Ashford - creates wearable technology & electronic art. Her most recent work involves investigating physiological sensing technologies and how they can be applied to wearable artworks to measure and interpret moods, health and lifestyle data. She also creates fun, interactive and aesthetically pleasing works that include gaming and musical elements. Rain is currently a PhD researcher on the ACT program at Goldsmiths, peering into the worlds of cyborgs and wearable technology. Rain’s background is in developing online activities for the BBC as a Senior Producer at BBC Learning and also as Technologist at BBC R&D. She currently works as a freelance consultant and leads workshops in electronics and coding via wearable tech.
Spencer Joseph- DCHAc, D.Hyp, BA (Hons) Phil. Spencer is an Integrative Therapist working in Central London. Since 1990 Spencer has studied many different systems of health and well being including Meditation, Chinese and Tibetan medicine, Western physical therapy, Nutrition, Hypnotherapy and Integrative Counseling. He holds recognized, professional therapy qualifications as well as a BA (Hons) degree in philosophy from King's College (University of London). Spencer has gained extensive experience working at several well known clinics in Central London and this has led to the development of his own approach to integrated medicine, creating a synthesis of Eastern and Western knowledge. He is also a group facilitator, meditation teacher and consultant in the field of resilience and stress management.
Rosy Martin- is an artist-photographer, psychological therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer. She works both as an artist-photographer using self-portraiture, still life photography, digital imaging and video, and as a psychological-therapist exploring the relationships between photography, memory, identities and unconscious processes. From 1983, with Jo Spence she pioneered re-enactment phototherapy. She has published widely and exhibited internationally since 1985. She has run intensive experiential workshops and lectured in Universities and galleries throughout Britain, Canada, Eire, Finland and USA. Selected essays include: ‘Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in the Digital Age’(2012). ‘Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy (1997/2012). ‘Stilled’(2005). ‘Gender Issues in Art Therapy’, (2003). ‘What can a Woman Do with a camera?’ (1995), ‘Family Snaps’ (1991), ‘Stolen Glances’ (1991).
Rebecca Miller- MA Digital Media, Technology, and Cultural form 2010, Goldsmiths. BFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute 1998. She has worked as a digital arts and media instructor in Silicon Valley at CSMA 2006-2010 and has exhibited her paintings, installations, and animations nationally in the US and internationally in museums and galleries. She has contributed to the San Francisco art community by directing an independent gallery in the Mission Bay area for over a decade. Rebecca is currently a PhD researcher on the ACT program at Goldsmiths expanding the intersections of wellness, creativity and digital animation.
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Dates & times
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8 Nov 2012 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
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