An Amateur Convention in consideration of Wales in Venice 2013
Featuring Bedwyr Williams alongside other contributors, the Convention promises a great day of artistic interchange in a unique venue. It is composed of talks, performances and film screenings that explore the relationship between stargazing and the home, the cosmos, the role of the amateur...Alongside Bedwyr Williams contributors include; Dr. Haley Gomez, Cardiff University, exploring her research into the role that Cosmic Dust plays in both hiding and revealing many of the cosmos' secrets; Amateur Astronomer, Moelwyn Thomas will consider how astrophotography in the home has changed over the past 40 years; Artist Thomas Goddard delves into the archive of the Beast of Bala: and Daryl Green, St Andrews University, discusses Nasmyth and Carpenter's extraordinary book, The Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, that brought together two wonders of the 19th Century industrial imagination, astronomy and photography.