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Peter has lectured and/or presented his sprite works at the 3rd UK Space Art Forum, The Space :Science, Technology and the Arts -7th Space & the Arts Workshop held at ESTEC - ESA's European Space Research & Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, the NATO Advanced Study Institute Sprites, Elves and Intense Lightning Discharges-summer conference held in Corte, Corsica, France and events in Frankfurt, Budapest, Milan , Czech Republic, United States, Israel as well as in a number of cities across the United Kingdom. We are excited he will be sharing his fascinating art and research with our audiences in Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Wollongong and Hobart.
For a taste of Peter's work, read his paper
Art, Science, Space and an Atmospheric Phenomenon Named red Sprite.
[PDF, 276Kb] You can see Peter at the following sessions: Peter's presentation will accompany two films:
Puzzled observers have reported sightings of brief, red flashes high in the sky since at least 1886, but without producing evidence. Not until July 1989, when the late aural physics expert Prof. John Winckler and his students were testing a low-light camera was the phenomena captured. But what to call these creatures? Rocket lightning? Cloud-to-space lightning? Upward lightning? The deliberately fanciful name “sprite” was chosen. Director, Producer, Writer: Walter A. Lyons Peter’s interpretation of Red sprites as art, are presented in the form of a video titled "Lightning’s Angels". This video was presented at many major International art & science symposiums, conferences, festivals and events in Europe with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian High Commission in London, the Canadian Embassy in Budapest and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada. Lightning’s Angels is a six minute video that combines digitally enhanced oil paintings of a Red sprite, in various states of transformation, accompanied by the song MISERERE from the CD STATE OF GRACE by Paul Schwartz featuring the Joyful Company of Singers. The images displayed in his video are of a Red sprite as seen from up above or from a high altitude aircraft and/or Space Shuttle. Peter’s participation at Scinema’04 is undertaken with the support of Foreign Affairs Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canadian High Commission in Canberra. Director, Producer, Writer: Peter McLeish |
SCINEMA
2004 welcomes Canadian multi-media artist Peter McLeish to our shores as
our special guest.
As
an artist with interest in visually expressing science, Peter had
just completed a two year presentation of his previous University of
Guelph, Masters of Fine Arts Degree thesis installation titled The
Glory Project (a Glory is a circular rainbow formed on top of
clouds) at the Planetarium de Montreal when he heard about Red
Sprites. His research and subsequent art led him to work in
collaboration with American scientist Dr. Walter A. Lyons: FMA
Research - Sky-Fire Productions in Colorado. This collaboration
eventually led to Dr. Lyons receiving a National Science Foundation
grant for the creation of his DVD The Hundred Year Hunt for Red
Sprites. Peter’s continued research subsequently led him to an
additional collaboration with Dr. Colin Price from the Department of
Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University who was
working on sprite research from a ground station with the ill-fated
crew of the Columbia in 2003.
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