Currently in its 26th year and with over 60 events, the OISF offers `something for everyone` with a wide range of lectures, demonstrations and activities!!
I decided to go along to some of the talks and find inspiration to `kick start` my CP4!!
The first talk was called `A Ghost in the Family` delivered by Dr Maria Martinon-Torres, an anthropologist of the University College London. It detailed the previously thought theory that our closest relations were the Neanderthal but in 2010 a Siberian cave revealed traces of an unknown group of hominid-The Denisovans. The discovery of this `unknown relative` has raised many questions about human evolution and our own genetic history. It was a fascinating talk and did give me something to think about in particular the links between DNA and genetics!
`The Mathematics of the Neolithic` was the second talk I attended with Howie Firth as speaker. He suggested that the Neolithic people were masters of number theory and felt it necessary to express these number patterns on earth on the form of stone circles. The audience was taken on a journey through history, physics, geometry, algebra, mythology and spirituality, he also spoke of his continued fascination with the Fibonacci number series, its evidence in nature and Pythagorean triangles. Combining these hypothesis, Firth proposed that the Neolithic people used their knowledge to track what they considered as the disorder between Earth and sky and to try to restore that order.
It was a very intriguing proposal, I loved the concept of it and felt it related to some of my past works so with my note book full of `scribbles and sketches` I`ll start researching and see where it leads me!?!
Also on display through out the festival were these funky outfits which could be seen in the window of Age Concern on Victoria Street, Kirkwall.
These costumes were part of `Fashion the Future` and were created to show the potential of upcycling. They combined repurposed textiles such as men`s ties and vintage curtains with recycled plastic, 3D-printed into new design accessories.
The outfits were designed by three art graduates from Moray and Inverness with the 3D graphics and printing carried out by the Moray makerspace group, the T-Exchange.
The idea of transformation, the making of something new from the old appeals to me and could be applied to so many concepts for artworks..........mmmmm more `food for thought!`
I wish I had been able to go to more of the Science Festival events but with other commitments this was not possible so I guess I`ll just have to wait til next year!!
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