Talk by Anna Hill 7.30 pm at the Sussex Arts Club, Brighton.

Anna Hill is an interactive artist working with medical and astronomical science. She is currently project directing Space Synapse Systems, an Artist-led Cultural Space Project providing a unique perspective on global community and environment.

Anna talked about her plans to place an interactive artwork- the Symbiotic Sphere- in orbit with the European Module of the International Space station through which life in space and life on earth may interact. Her goal is to make the overview effect that humans experience in orbit available to us all, facilitating the realisation of the unity and ecological interdependence of all life on Earth and encouraging life sustaining thought and actions. The project was supported by the European Space Agency with a Phase A feasibility study. Anna reported that the project is about to move into the next phase of development having successfully completed this first step in the long process to get the artwork into space.

Anna also gave a brief overview of the Auroral Synapse Artwork, which has been nominated for a BAFTA in Interactive Art. This work uses technology and data flows to capture emotional and spiritual response to celestial phenomena and is currently being devloped as a wireless Remote Interactive Suit. The project is supported by the Irish Arts Council and the European Space Agency.

After the talk we showed a film by meteorologist Paul Williams of a fluid experiment used to visualize the global dynamics of atmospheric waves. Recent research has suggested that these waves probably cause significant errors in weather forecasts.