‘Flow’ - a transdisciplinary project at Bern University of the Arts (HKB), 2008

The project featured a guest lecture by the artist John Danvers (University of Plymouth), and concluded with a calligraphy performance using ferrofluid and a magnetic pendulum. Topics included: Ecriture automatique, convection cells, the coanda effect, salt fingering, ancient supercontinents, the hydraulic jump, Thomas Parnell’s pitch drop experiment, goo recipes, non-Newtonian liquids, Georgia Tech’s ‘4D Cities’ project, Daoism, Tai Qi / Qi Gong, Zotloeterer’s vortex hydropower plants, Heraclitus, David Bohm, Heinz von Foerster, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Beuys’ honey pump.