{"id":1313,"date":"2014-10-15T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2014-10-15T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T10:39:43","slug":"formsynth-and-isomorphogenesis-organic-systems-the-natural-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Organic Systems at The Natural History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gemma_anderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1317\" alt=\"gemma_anderson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gemma_anderson.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gemma_anderson.jpg 486w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gemma_anderson-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Isomorphogenesis No.3 by Gemma Anderson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>William Latham and Gemma Anderson are facilitating an &#8216;Organic Systems&#8217; Drawing workshop at The Natural History museum as part of &#8216;The Big Draw&#8217; &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest drawing festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a rare opportunity to get hands on experience of the Natural History Museum&#8217;s collections to gain insight into evolutionary processes through drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place on Sunday 19th October from 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Latham\u00a0 began his career studying Printmaking\u00a0at the Royal College of Art (1983-1985) where he developed the &#8216;FormSynth&#8217; method. He\u00a0then worked as Artist in Residence with IBM between 1987-1993 which led to the ongoing &#8216;Mutator&#8217; project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latham-mutator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/latham-mutator.com<\/a>\u00a0and is currently Professor of Art and Games at Goldsmiths University of\u00a0London.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson also studied\u00a0Printmaking at the RCA (2005-2007) and\u00a0has been working in collaboration with scientists at the Natural History Museum and Imperial College\u200b\u00a0since 2006\u200b. She is currently Associate Lecturer of Drawing at Falmouth University, where she is\u00a0also\u00a0completing her practice based\u00a0PhD (2011-2015)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemma-anderson.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.gemma-anderson.co.uk<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnderson has\u00a0adapted Latham&#8217;s rule based (algorithm)\u00a0evolutionary drawing method \u2018FormSynth\u2019 to create &#8216;Isomorphogenesis&#8217; an extended Organic Systems drawing process, which relates directly to the Natural History Museum&#8217;s collections. In this workshop Latham and Anderson will share\u00a0their experimental drawing\u00a0methods, which perform an analogue to morphogenesis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigdraw.org\/event\/Experimenting_with_observational_drawing,_algorithms_and_natural_form\/4113\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more at the\u00a0Natural History Museum website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Isomorphogenesis No.3 by Gemma Anderson William Latham and Gemma Anderson are facilitating an &#8216;Organic Systems&#8217; Drawing workshop at The Natural History museum as part of &#8216;The Big Draw&#8217; &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest drawing festival. This is a rare opportunity to get hands on experience of the Natural History Museum&#8217;s collections to gain insight into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Organic Systems at The Natural History Museum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,110,115,106,107],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}