[spectre] Invitation - Prof. Martin KEMP - Lecture at the Centre for Contemporary Art= Laznia

[Oliver Grau]

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Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk, Poland,

cordially invites You to the lecture of 

Prof. Martin KEMP

on Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 6 p.m.

Jaskolcza Street 1 80-767 Gdansk

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"Atthe Cutting Edge: Computer Graphics and Renaissance Art Techniques ofComputer Graphics and Computer Vision can be brought into very fruitfuland innovatory dialogues with certain aspects of Renaissance art,especially in th analysis and construction of space.  Computer visionwill enter into dialogue with paintings by Masaccio, Uccello and Pierodella Francesca. The works of Leonardo will extend the dialogue intoareas of geometry, motion, hydrodynamics and flight. The potential isfor enhanced research and public communication"

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Martin KEMP FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University.

Hehas written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art andscience from the Renaissance to the present day. Books include, TheScience of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi toSeurat (Yale University Press), and The Human Animal in Western Art andScience (Chicago 2007. He has published extensively on Leonardo daVinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellousworks of nature and man (1989 and 2006).

Increasingly, he hasfocused on issues of visualization, modelling and representation. Hewrites a regular column on Science in Culture in Nature (an earlyselection published as Visualisations, OUP, 2000). The Nature essaysare developed in Seen and Unseen (OUP 2006), in which his concept ofstructural intuitions is explored. 

He has curated andco-curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes,including Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London andLeonardo da Vinci. Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria andAlbert Museum in 2006 and Seduced. Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now,Barbican Art Gallery London, 2007. He was also guest curator for Ca1492 at the National Gallery in Washington in 1992. 

He wastrained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University andthe Courtauld Institute, London. He was British Academy WolfsonResearch Professor (1993-98). For more than 25 years he was based inScotland (Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews. He has held visitingposts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles and Montreal.

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For more information please contact:

Kasia Wozniak
Curator
Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia
Jaskolcza Street 1
80-767 Gdansk
Tel. +48728177090