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Reporting on the H5N1 Virus

Thompson, Brian Reporting on the H5N1 Virus. [Artefact]

Item Type: Artefact

Abstract

This was sculpture exhibited as part of a Design 4Science exhibition and series of seminars at St John’s College Oxford. The sculpture five related constructions , were the result of a period of research aimed at using sculpture as a means of revealing more difficult aspects of science to a wider public. This research explores in a sculptural way something of the way evolutionary processes enable viruses to change and how in new forms they become “events” - pandemics - linked to place and time.

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Additional Information: This was sculpture exhibited as part of a UoS Design4Science exhibition “Virus Bad News Wrapped in Protein” together with a series of seminars at St John’s College Oxford. The sculpture consisting of five related constructions, were the result of a period of research aimed at using sculpture as a means of revealing more difficult aspects of science to a wider public. This research explores in a sculptural way something of the way evolutionary processes enable viruses to change and how in new forms they become “events” - pandemics - linked to place and time.
Depositing User: Brian Thompson

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Item ID: 2975
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/2975

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Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2012 09:57
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2019 09:06

Contributors

Author: Brian Thompson

University Divisions

Institute of Arts and Creative Industries > Art and Design Workstream
Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Art and Design

Subjects

Fine Art > Sculpture

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