Art and science seen in a new light at evening lecture

A former artist in residence is returning to the campus this week to present a talk ‘The Library of Light’ as part of a lecture series celebrating the Âé¶¹APP Year of Light 2015.

Multimedia artist Jo Joelson has worked closely with the University’s Radio and Space Plasma Physics group and with the Department of Genetics and is co-founder of arts group London Fieldworks.

In her talk Jo will be describing three projects which combine art with science and use the medium of light. The projects are Polaria, a virtual daylight environment created using data collected in northeast Greenland; Little Earth a collaboration with the University of Leicester that resulted in a multichannel film work and The Library of Light, a special collection for the interdisciplinary investigation of light.

The lecture, which is on Wednesday 10 June at 6.30pm, is free and open to the public and is one of a series of talks hosted by the Leicester Physics Centre with the aim of promoting science to a wider audience.

The lecture, which is sponsored by the East Midlands Branch of the Institute of Physics, will be held in Lecture Theatre A of the Physics & Astronomy Building at the University Leicester.

For further details or to make a booking please or call 0116 252 3570 during office hours.