Liverpool LASER

‘Faces and Identity’ focused on changing perceptions and identities of the human face and took place on Wednesday 14 March 2018 at Liverpool School of Art and Design.

‘The Perception Machine’ asked what is the role of art in science, and science in art? and took place on Wednesday 4 July at Tate Liverpool.

‘Broken Symmetries’ brought together artists who aim to understand and question the physical world by navigating the shifting realities of modern science, and supported the opening of a new international exhibition that brings a close to the three year partnership with Arts at Cern and FACT. The event took place on Thursday 22 November 2018 at FACT Liverpool.

‘Leonardo's Laboratory’ supported the Walker Art Gallery’s "Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing" exhibition which was one of a series of 12 simultaneous exhibitions, each exhibiting 12 of da Vinci’s drawings, in celebration of his achievements on the 500 year anniversary of his death.  The event took place on Thursday 11 April 2019 at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool.

On Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 August 2019, the MA Art in Science programme at Liverpool School of Art and Design hosted an Art & Science Exchange workshop with members of the Biochemical Society. The exchange was held at the John Lennon Art and Design Building, in the Public Exhibition Space and X-Gallery amongst the MA Art in Science student's end of programme postgraduate exhibition, which showcases the outcomes of their three month research projects. These projects served as a basis for investigation of specific art-science interactions, and were supported by open discussions, hands on activities including haptic-optic drawing, clay modelling and 3D haptic digital sculpting of bacteria and viruses, which culminated in a Liverpool LASER talk.

‘Oceans 4.0’ supported the opening of the ‘Oceans 4.0’ exhibition at FACT Liverpool, which presented three artists’ projects that monitor, reflect or imagine the future of our threatened oceans. The exhibition was developed as part of the European Media Art Platform, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. The event took place on Saturday 12 October 2019 at FACT Liverpool.

Liverpool LASER collaborated with the Immersive Liverpool group for discussions surrounding “Digital Humans” from 'resurrection tech' to 'artificial encounters' with virtual entities. The event took place on Tuesday 3 March 2020 at Avenue HQ, Liverpool and was supported by Barclays Eagle Labs.

‘The Collective Phenomena of Fanchon Fröhlich’ took place on Thursday 18 November 2021 at the John Lennon Art & Design Building. For two decades Fanchon was ‘Collective Phenomena’’s creative driving force, being informed by her deep understanding of the unconscious mind and its potential to change the world. Speakers talked about this formidable artist and intellectual to inspire a new generation. In addition to talks, three 3D digital portraits of Fanchon Fröhlich created by Face Lab LJMU were exhibited in the X-Gallery.