Elastic Nature is an art research club bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners and thinkers around the broad subject of ‘the future nature’ via artificial life, sympathetic synthetics, sensory realities, materiality and speculative bodies.
Through interactive workshops, seminars, breakfast salons and screenings we’ll stimulate conversation, ideas and the imagination around the changing shape of nature.
For the third session of Elastic Nature, held on All Hallows Eve, we will be exploring the legacy of Frankenstein - a 200-years-young piece of literature that grows all the more relevant as science and technology pro/digresses.
We are honoured to invite artist, writer and educator Adrian Holme to deliver a richly insightful lecture on one of the most enduring and influential novels of the Romantic era. Frankenstein, product of a challenge by the poet Lord Byron to the Shelleys, himself and Dr Polidori to write a ghost story (Shelley 2003), was published in 1818. It has been interpreted in many forms on stage and in film and has been the subject of much critical analysis.
Join us on 31st October where Frankenstein will be discussed through the multiple lenses of Romanticism, art and science, literary and philosophical influences and critical interpretations, with an attempt to shed light on why the work has such an enduring legacy.
All are welcome. Tickets are FREE but limited, sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/BRAINPLAY/ or email beckyl.lyon@googlemail.com