Liquid Crystals & Screenic Cultures

On Tuesday 9 May 2017, 5.00-7.00 (Room 802. UCL Institute of Education): a roundtable discussion on liquid crystals, which will consider screens and screenic culture, liquidity, video, and the materiality of the visible. Contributors are: designer and academic Dr Emily Candela (PhD from the Science Museum/RCA:http://www.emilycandela.co.uk); Professor Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths, University of London, http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/cubitt/); film maker and animation scholar Dr Barnaby Dicker, Cardiff Met University, https://cardiffmet.academia.edu/BarnabyDicker); artist Benedict Drew ( http://www.benedictdrew.com); and Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London, http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/leslie).