This session will be repeated at 5.10pm
Akeelah Bertram: Sacred Architecture
Join Cavendish Art Science Fellow Akeelah Bertram as she shares her latest research from her fellowship.
This experience will share her concepts and work in progress on ‘Sacred Architecture’ the exploration of how emotional and spiritual resonance shape space, through an immersive soundscape.
This evolving research thinks about new possibilities for human-technology collaboration that embodies ancient sensing wisdom while building bridges to contemporary innovation.
Akeelah Bertram
Akeelah Bertram’s work spans immersive installations, digital and interactive art, performance, creative technology and sculpture, with a focus on exploring collective narratives. She frequently incorporates new technologies, playing with modes of communication to create experiences that foster connections between people in different locations and contexts.
Her practice is characterised by a hands-on approach to learning and experimentation, often involving collaboration with practitioners from diverse disciplines and actively engaging audiences in the research and development process. She has a particular interest in cross-cultural collaboration, increasing access to arts and culture and platforming the narratives of underrepresented groups.
Recent works include Return for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Light Organ for Bradford Cathedral. She has exhibited internationally, including in Portugal, India, Germany, and Mexico, and has participated in numerous residencies and festivals, including Xarkis Festival in Cyprus and Frequency Festival in the UK.
She holds an MA in Moving Image and Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, and was Gatenby Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Leeds.
The Cavendish Arts Science (CAS) Fellowship
The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan.
The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.
Previous Fellows include: Artist, dancer and researcher Robert Ssempijja who brought decolonial questions and an interest in our capacity to re-imagine how we live with uncertainty; Artist and composer Ain Bailey who brought an interest in multi-channel sound, architectural acoustics and the constellation of sounds that form individual and community identities and; Experimental filmmaker Logan Dandridge who brought specific interests in memory, non-linear time and Black experience to his encounters with physicists as the inaugural CAS Fellow.
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