The Future Brain in the Future City

 

Today’s screen technologies create environments that could alter how we process information, take risks, empathise and view our identity. Technology can make us safer, smarter and sustainable, but the long-term impact on the human brain is unknown.

Where: The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP

When: Friday 19 August, 2016

Time: 10:30 to 12:00

 

Join our panel including Professor Kevin Warwick, expert in Artificial Intelligence, cyborgs and robotics at Coventry University, Gary Walker, Future City Glasgow, Neil Davidson, landscape architect and co-investigator on Urban Mind project, Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director, OPENspace research centre, University of Edinburgh and Alessandro Vinciarelli, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing Science and Associate Academic of the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow to discuss how humans will adapt to a tech-laden world in 2050.

More information – here.

‘So Below’ is an online graphic essay by cartoonist and journalist Sam Wallman.

www.SoBelow.org

Exploring the idea of land ownership, Wallman melds the political with the poetic, connecting both historical and contemporary manifestations of territorialism and dominion.

The commission will be launched online on July 8th, 2016.

This is a Nomad Projects commission – supported by The Arts Council England

 

The Phytology team will be leading a medicinal weed tour of Haggerston Park on June 11th.

Time: 1pm – 1:45pm

Location: Audery St, Hackney, London,E2 8QY

 

Fore more information please email – thehaggerstonorchard@gmail.com

(This is a free event)

‘Wood Spirits’

Inspired by the myth of Demeter & Persephone, artist Steph von Reiswitz has produced a series of drawings and large-scale paintings during her spring residency at the Phytology site.

Exhibition dates: June 4th – July 6th, 2016

Location: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton St, E2 7LF

 

Phytology is open each Saturday – 11am till 6pm.

May 7th till September 3rd, 2016.

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, E2 9RR

For more information please contact – info@nomadprojects.org

Admission free

‘Ourhouse, Ep.-1: Time’ is now showing at The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Exhibition dates: February 27th – April 9th, 2016.

Ourhouse is a five part film project written and directed by British artist Nathaniel Mellors.

Ourhouse hybridises aspects of TV drama, absurdist theatre and science fiction, drawing inspiration from popular icons of cinema and theater, while making pointed observations about language, cultural appropriation and power structures.

VOICED is a new Nomad Projects commission by artists Duncan Robertson and Lucía Montero.

This project takes the form of a traditional research residency, providing a space for six contemporary writers to explores the cultural heritage of the Phytology site.

Commissioned writers include: Lucy Cash, David Nash, Sarah Westcott, Stick In The Wheel, James Nixon. 

The VOICED residency will culminate as a site based sound installation of song and spoken text. The project will be exhibited at the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve from May 7th – September 3rd, 2016.

This is a Nomad Projects commission – supported by The Arts Council England.

 

Nomad Projects are proud to announce the UK launch of ‘Ourhouse, Ep.-1: Time’ at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston. 

February 6th – June 4th, 2016.

Ourhouse is a five part film project written and directed by British artist Nathaniel Mellors.

The film’s narrative presents a wealthy European family who are unexpectedly confronted by a mysterious manifestation, ‘The Object’, which suddenly appears in the living room of their country home – having a profound effect on the conduct of each individual family member.

Ourhouse hybridises aspects of TV drama, absurdist theatre and science fiction, drawing inspiration from popular icons of cinema and theater, while making pointed observations about language, cultural appropriation and power structures.

‘Ourhouse, Ep.-1: Time’ is presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 2015, through the Annual Award funded by the Sfumato Foundation with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Arts Council England and the National Gallery of Victoria – Australia.

Produced by Nomad Projects.

13 – 16 October 2015

Urban Mind will be featured at the This Public Life festival in Melbourne, Australia.

The festival brings together thinkers and practitioners from the arts and sciences, exploring five broad categories of stability, healthcare, culture & environment, education and infrastructure.

July 2015

Nomad Projects have commenced production on ‘Ourhouse, Ep.-1: Time’ – the latest film in the episodic Ourhouse series written and directed by Nathaniel Mellors.

 

This is a co-production with the Preston’s Harris Museum & Art Gallery.

 

 

The Phytology apothecary garden is open each Saturday;

May 2nd until September 26th, 2015

11am – 6pm

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Middleton Street, E2 9RR

For more information please contact – info@phytology.org.uk

Admission free

Saturday 6 June, 2015

Siobhan Davies Dance host an afternoon of film screenings that chart the changing landscape of Elephant & Castle.

Featuring ‘Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle’ (2012) by Marcus Coates – part documentary, part performance, part art, part archive – the film explores major transitions in the south London neighbourhood; and ‘Home Sweet Home’ (2012) by Enrica Colusso. Centred around the now derelict Heygate Estate, ‘Home Sweet Home’ tells a complex but intimate story of urban and social transformation, and asks: what kind of society are we building?

 

 

Screenings will be at the following times:

2.15pm–3.45pm: Home Sweet Home

2.30pm–3.30pm: Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle

4pm–5.30pm: Home Sweet Home

4.15pm–5.15pm: Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle

Its finally happened – Nomad Projects are on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/NOMAD_Ltd

Saturday 6 June 2015

Over the past four months artist Tal Brosh has produced an illustrated history of the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve in four incarnations: a medieval meadow and market garden, a Victorian church, a war-time bomb site and now an apothecary garden called Phytology.

Private View at Phytology, 5:30pm — 8pm

 

 

‘Urban Mind’ is Nomad Projects’ most recent commission launched in May 2015.

Urban Mind is an app that measures your experience of city living in the moment. After downloading and installing the app on your smartphone, Urban Mind requires you to provide some basic information about your lifestyle and mental wellbeing. Once you have provided this, you will be asked to answer a series of questions about your current urban environment, lifestyle and mental wellbeing, seven times per day over a period of one week.

Check it out & contribute to our research urbanmind.info

8pm – 28th January, 2015

Van Alen Institute

30 West 22nd St.

 

Dr Andrea Mechellie (King’s College London), Michael Smythe (Nomad Projects), Johanna Gibbons & Neil Davidson (J & L Gibbons) will launch the Urban Mind project at the Van Alen Institute in New York City.