Siting the Artist’s Voice

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...

Pinning Down the Artists ?

There is a wide variety of work being done by artists working both in conventional genres such as Music, Dance and Theatre as well as newly emergent hybrid and innovative forms such as real-time animation and physically distributed and telematic performance. I want to build up a picture both of what technical resources artists are employing – and to what effect technology is being used; what th...

Women Artists in the Collection

Artists' impressions

The recent fuss over one man's ambition to 'make Man in his own image' lends poignancy to Multiplicity, the current exhibition at the Wellcome Trust in London. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the arrival of Dolly the cloned sheep, the exhibition presents the reactions of 24 artists to cloning and genetic engineering. Some of the pictures, like Dave Roberts' mixed media 'Blueprin...

Society, Artists, and the Plague

"Plague added the finishing touches to the great misery of Bristol; its inhabitants resembled prisoners more than citizens, being so low with taxation, so poor in habit, and so dejected in countenance." (Skeete 1645, quoted Latimer) En^6,? hundred years ago the final and most dramatic epidemic of the plague struck ann andJ an^ t^le terrible visitation at Marseilles in 1720, epidemic plague disB...