Week-long residency with artist Conrad Shawcross and mathematician Matthew Watkins. The residents, together with the Urbanomic team, spent the week in research and discussion beginning with the question: How can artists and artworks stage a 'dramatisation' of abstract concepts that allows them to be grasped by non-experts?

The residency ended with a public symposium where the residents discussed their work and the week's outcomes, and presented the assemblage that the team had constructed during the process.

The residency was inspired by two contributions to Collapse: Prime Evolution, interview with Dr. Matthew Watkins in Collapse I: Numerical Materialism, and Conrad Shawcross and Robin Mackay, Shadows of Copernicanism, in Collapse V: The Copernican Imperative.

Supported by Arts Council England

Documentation

photographs (photographer: Catherine Frowd)
Exhibition Notes
Dr. Watkins's notes on the video assemblage
Video documentation of Symposium on YouTube

Related Urbanomic Publications

Collapse I: Numerical Materialism Collapse V: The Copernican Imperative

Urbanomic 2009-10

Related Links

Watkins's book Secrets of Creation
Interview with artcornwall.org: Conrad Shawcross and Matthew Watkins on sailing, science and spirals