PPE:What Can The Matter Be?

文化与物质的关系最明显地体现在以物质命名文明时代，如石器时代、青铜时代和铁器时代。作为维多利亚时代的决定性材料，钢铁使工程师们能够充分实现他们创造悬索桥、铁路、蒸汽机和客轮的梦想。在这样做的过程中，工程师们将钢铁作为一种材料宣言来改造景观，并播下现代主义的种子。我们将制作一个关于泰特现代美术馆的MP3科学之旅，以展示科学与艺术之间的相互作用被浓缩在博物馆中。我们将探索古代颜料的演变，直到迎来表现主义时期的较新的有机颜料。我们将考虑科学的亮度，色调和饱和度，色轮和纯色和互补色的起源。我们将重点关注一些绘画作品，包括伊夫·克莱恩的“IKB 79”，其中包括他的“国际克莱因蓝”和安尼什·卡普尔的粉末颜料雕塑。我们将介绍泰特现代美术馆雕塑中使用的各种材料，以及每种材料的物理特性如何影响美学、感官特性和塑造可能性。我们将在Naum Gabo的“Head No. 2”和Salvador Dali的“Lobster Telephone”中考虑雕塑的物质性。我们将探讨诸如快速原型的引入是否会对21世纪的雕塑产生20世纪摄影对绘画的影响等问题。装置的工程将被考虑，比如科妮莉亚·帕克的“冷暗物质”；在泰特现代美术馆（Tate Modern）爆炸了谢德（Shed）和其他复杂的装置。我们将探讨艺术家和他们雇佣的工程师之间的关系，以及这种关系如何影响最终作品的结果。例如，目前雷切尔·怀特里德的“堤防”（其创新的聚乙烯使用）将被考虑，但2006年涡轮大厅的安装将是重点。当代艺术是一门比科学更难与公众交流的学科，然而泰特现代美术馆是世界上参观人数最多的艺术博物馆之一，每年吸引超过400万游客。他们中的许多人很少去参加科学活动、博物馆或讲座。我们希望这些人将我们的MP3之旅下载到他们的ipod上，并发现化学、材料和工程方面的知识可以增强他们的艺术体验，并使他们能够解读我们文化的复杂性和微妙之处。我们希望这将成为一个催化剂，让他们接受我们的邀请，参观伦敦国王学院的材料图书馆，并与研究材料感官和物理性质的科学家互动。

The relationship between culture and materials is most obviously demonstrated in the naming of ages of civilizations after materials, such as the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The defining material of the Victorian era, steel, allowed engineers to give full rein to their dreams of creating suspension bridges, railways, steam engines, and passenger liners. In doing so, engineers used steel as a material manifesto to transform the landscape and to sow the seeds of modernism. We will produce an MP3 science tour of the Tate Modern to show that this interplay between science and art is encapsulated in the museum. We will explore the evolution of the ancient pigments through to the newer organic pigments that ushered in the Expressionist period. We will consider the science of brightness, hue and saturation, colour wheels and the origin of pure and complimentary colours. We will focus on a number of paintings including Yves Kline's 'IKB 79' which features his International Klein Blue and Anish Kapor's powdered pigment sculptures.We will introduce the wide range of materials used in sculpture at the Tate Modern and how the physics of each material affects both the aesthetics, sensual properties and shaping possibilities. We will consider the materiality of sculptures in Naum Gabo's 'Head No. 2' and Salvador Dali's 'Lobster Telephone'. We will explore questions such as whether the introduction of rapid prototyping will do to sculpture in the 21st century what photography did to painting in the 20th century.The engineering of installations will be considered, such as that for Cornelia Parker's 'Cold Dark Matter; exploded Shed' and other complex installations in the Tate Modern. We will explore the relationship between artists and the engineers they hire to construct their work and how this relationship might affect the outcome of the final work. Examples such the current Rachel Whiteread 'Embankment' (with its innovative use of polyethylene) will be considered, but the 2006 Turbine Hall installation will be the focus. Contemporary art is if anything a more difficult subject than science to communicate with the public, and yet Tate Modern is one most visited art museums in the world, it attracts more than 4 million visitors per year. Many of whom are rarely found going to a science event, museum or lecture. We want these people to download our MP3 tour onto their iPods and to discover that a knowledge of chemistry, materials and engineering enhances their experience of art and allows them to decode the complexities and subtleties of our culture. We hope that this will be a catalyst for them to accept our invitation to visit the Materials Library at King's College London and to interact with the scientists who study both the sensual and physical properties of materials.