schedule - AHA Festival

about
AHA
AHA festival
The AHA festival investigates the borders between art and science in a threeday event at the Chalmers University of Technology hosted by the Department
of Architecture. An international festival intended to provide enlightening
experiences, staging surprises, new thoughts and displaced perspectives
that lead to alternative modes of thinking about the space between art and
science. We invite scientists (astronomist, historians, mathematicians, tissueengineering students), artists (dancers, musicians, painters, poets, acrobats)
and not least architects, who reside in these borderlands and wish to share
their vision and work. The key intention is to celebrate both art and science
as key knowledge building devices.
theme of
2015:
program
Proportions are generated
by numbers and have
been an eternal theme of
architecture, as well as,
music and poetry. How do
metrical rules shape?
day 1: Proportions
mon | 11.02.
NUMBERS
Numbers, a delightful net we cast over the world, a net that is non-human
– and beautiful – because the net alone creates patterns and proportions
and is a poiesis, “an action that transforms and continues the world”. Or is it
the other way around, that the world is mathematical and in reality the net
is woven into nature, woven by nature and therefore is found in sunflower
seeds, seashells and mountain formations? How can we tell the dancer from
the dance? Numbers and mathematical beauty seem foreign to us, but they
also form the foundation of our actions and the buildings we live in and the
thoughts we think. They may be enigmas, but in the meeting between art and
science we catch a glimpse of numbers as an underlying element in our lives.
Numbers are everywhere, they identify us, they know when we are born,
and they know when we are going to die. Numbers are a system, like the
alphabet, that grasps the ungraspable; gives form to chaos. St. Bonaventure
wrote in the 13th century, “Since therefore, all things are beautiful and to
some measure pleasing; and [since] there is no beauty and pleasure without
proportion, and proportion is to be found primarily in numbers; all things
must have numerical proportion.” Architecture determined by mathematics
is an age-old idea, forgotten now and then but also, as now, returning. It can
open a door into the beautiful world of numbers and make them tangible. The
second AHA festival creates a platform for the meeting between math and
architecture, art and science, in an attempt to make the world of numbers
our world.
more information:
info@ahafestival.se
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day 2: Poiesis
tue | 11.03.
Poiesis is the Greek word
for making in a wider
sense, an action that
transforms and continues
the world. And this is of
course, the root of poetry!
ART X
SCIENCE
NOVEMBER 2-4 | 2015
CHALMERS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
day 3: Patterns
wed | 11.04.
Patterns are what
both mathematics and
architecture, and maybe
even life and physical
reality, are fundamentally
about. Lets dance with
Fibonacci!
AHAFESTIVAL.SE
Proportions
mon | 11.02.
day1
Poiesis
tue | 11.03.
day 2
morning
morning
09:00 - 09:30
Atelier Right
Seminar: Loop Lab - introduction
with Rachel Wingfield
London, UK
09:30- 10:00
Entrance Lobby
10:00-10:30
Entrance Lobby
09:30-17:00
Atrium space
Cabinet of Numerosities
Astrid Grunnet &Sara Nässén
Ett skepp kommer lastat
Jonathan Geib
Workshop: Loop Lab
with Rachel Wingfield
London, UK
10:30 - 12:00
A-Salen
Seminar: Numeric Frontiers
with Tyson Hosmer
Atrium space
OPENING: Fredrik Nilson
Department Head + AHA team
Gynoïdes Project:
Gynosphere Experimental Circus
Bêta Test IX part2 - Stockholm, SE
afternoon
13:30-16:30
Atelier Right
Workshop: An Affair with Numbers
with Tyson Hosmer
Cecil Balmond studio, London, UK
15:00-17:00
A-Salen
Seminar: Formalism
with Johan Celsing
Stockholm, SE
evening salon
18:00 - 20:00
Atrium space
London, UK
Salon Discussion: Freedom by numbers
Jana Madjarova, Tyson Hosmer, Johan
Celsing, Johan Linton, Rachel Wingfield
moderator - Claes Caldenby
morning
Transit: A Swarm in 5 acts (rehearsal)
09:00 - 10:00
10:00
Re-enactments - 24 hours Performances
Living Archives Research Group
Re-enactments - 24 hours Archival
Performances
Living Archives Research Group - FINALE
10:00 - 10:40
Seminar: Tissue engineered scaffolding
with Amy Congdon
Music performance:
Numbers, Bodies, Complexities
with Jonny Axelsson, Anders Hultqvist
10:40 - 11:10
Seminar: Music of the Spheres
with Nils Bergvall
11:10 - 12:00
Discussion:
Theme: Re-composing space
Jonny Axelsson, Anders Hultqvist, Nils
Bergvall, Morten Søndergaard
Atrium space
Atelier Right
Gothenburg, SE
Malmö, SE
10:30 - 12:00
A-Salen
London, UK
lunchtime performance
12:00-13:00
Atrium space
Transit: A Swarm in 5 acts
Ingeborg Zackariassen & Toby Kassell
(choreographers), Linda Oláh (music), Anna
Maria Orru & Jonathan Geib (producers)
13:30-17:00
Entrance Lobby
Atrium space
Atrium space
Atrium space
Atrium space
(Moderator: Catharina Dyrssen
lunchtime performance
afternoon
Workshop: Grow your own World
with Amy Congdon
12:00-13:00
Atrium space
London, UK
13:30-17:00
Atelier Left + Atrium space
Workshop: Devices of Atmosphere:
take a write on the dance floor
with Morten Søndergaard
Paris, FR
13:00-17:00
Atelier Left
18:00 - 20:00
afternoon
13:00-15:00
Atrium space
Workshop performance continues:
Living Archives Research Group
Screening: Animation poem: PREMIER!
Breidablik - Memorised Light
by Johan Oettinger
Aarhus, DK
Poetry evening: ‘vem som helst & riktiga
poeter’ - Numbers generation words
Morten Søndergaard on Inge Christensson
Helena Eriksson on Unika Zürn
Chalmers staff and Students
Music performance:
Patterns - Violoncello Solo
by Anja Lechner
Munich, DE
AHA! Closing
Theme: Numerical proportions
Performance recap: Living Archives
Salon discussion:
with Elena Carlini, Nils Bergvall,
Anders Hultqvist, Susan Kozel,
Fredrik Nilson
evening salon
Atrium space
Film screening: Cecil Balmond Studio
day 3
09:00 - 12:00
Cecil Balmond studio, London, UK
lunchtime performance
12:00-13:00
Patterns
wed | 11.04.
moderator - Catharina Dyrssen
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