The “In The Clouds” ArtScience Workshop organised by Dolly Jørgensen (UiS) and Inger M.L. Gudmundson (Stavanger Art Museum) is taking place 24-26 January 2019 in Stavanger. This exciting workshop bringing together contemporary artists and university researchers to discuss the place of clouds in culture is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Thursday, 24 January
09:00-09:45 ••• Opening: Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger) & Inger Margrethe Lund Gudmundson (Stavanger Art Museum)
09:45-10.00 ••• Coffee break
10:00-11:30 ••• Session 1
Henrietta Simson (University of Arts London), Neither Here nor There: The Equivocal Status of the Cloud & its Significance in Contemporary Thinking
Marte Aas (independent artist, Norway), I Am the Weather
Yngve Nilsen (Western Norway Univ of Applied Sciences), Norwegian meteorology discovers the clouds, 1834-1920
Berdnaut Smilde (independent artist, Netherlands), False Firmament
11:30-12:30 ••• Lunch
12:30-13:30 ••• Cloud studies: Landscape painting response session
13:30-14:30 ••• Session 2
Marie-Theres Fojuth (Museum Stavanger), Snow, Steam and Speed – The Railway Photographies of Anders Beer Wilse 1908/1909
Matt Parker (University of Arts London), Sonospheric Investigations
Jim Fleming (Colby College), In the Clouds with Joanne Simpson (via Skype)
14:30-16:00 ••• Coffee + Showing of films in auditorium
18:00 ••• Workshop dinner #1
Friday, 25 January
08:00 Depart for Hå gamle prestegård from Scandic Forum Hotel
09:00-10:30 ••• Session 3
Alix Hui (Mississippi State University), My Pet Cloud: DIY and classroom cloud chambers at the dawn of the Atomic Age
Catherine Kramer (CoClimate art collective), Smog Tasting and Cloud Project
Hannah Zindel (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Balloons and Clouds
Eric Dean Rasmussen (University of Stavanger), Clouds of Unknowing in Don DeLillo’s Underworld
10:30-11:00 ••• Coffee break
11:00-12:00 ••• Session 4
Jody Berland (York University), Birds In, As, and Under Clouds (via Skype)
Veronika Kratz (Carelton University), “Today we are going to look at clouds as perhaps we have never looked at them before”: Understanding Rachel Carson’s View of the Sky
Joni Palmer (University of New Mexico), Cloud Literacy
12:00-13:00 ••• Lunch
13:00-14:00 ••• Cloud watching walk
14:00-15:00 ••• Session 5
Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), Skyworms
Marie-luce Nadal (PSL Research University), The Factory of the Vaporous
Anna Roos (independent artist, Norway), Mist
15:00-15:30 ••• Coffee
15:30 ••• Depart for hotel
18:00 ••• Tour of Norwegian Petroleum Museum and Workshop dinner #2
Saturday, 26 January
09:00-10:30 ••• Session 6
Rachel Douglas-Jones (IT University of Copenhagen), On the Heaviness of Clouds: IoT Computing through Fog, Mist and Dew
Asta Vonderau (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Storing Data, Infrastructuring the Cloud
Chunming Rong (University of Stavanger), Data sharing in the cloud under GDPR
Robert Willim (Lund University), The Mundania Files (Imagine Clouds)
10:30-11:00 ••• Coffee
11:00-12:00 ••• Poetry making session
12:00-13:00 ••• Lunch
13:00-14:30 ••• Session 7
Aleksandra Brylska (University of Warsaw), When the sky becomes alive. On the status of an atomic mushroom in the age of Anthropocene
Colin Ross (Oxford University), Nuclear Nephology: Bruce Connor and the Cloud in the Atomic Era
Forrest Clingerman (Ohio Northern University), When Do Atmospheric Changes Create Anthropocenic Clouds?
Sasha Engelmann (Royal Holloway University of London), Aerocene
14:30-15:00 ••• Coffee break, including Aerocene demostration
15:00-15:30 ••• Closing
