Events
Talk with Polly Dalton & Madi Boyd
9 June 2024
Polly Dalton is a cognitive scientist and Professor in Psychology at Royal Holloway, whose research focuses on human attention, awareness and experience in multisensory contexts.
Madi Boyd is an artist whose work uses light, space, and time as sculptural matter. She has exhibited at, among others, The Science Museum, London, The Science Gallery, Dublin, Art Laboratory Berlin, Puke Ariki Museum, New Zealand, Guangzou Province, China, Kunstkraft- werk, Leipzig, Science Discovery Centre, Kuala Lumpa, The Discovery Place, USA and Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Venice.
Having worked together on projects including Digital Forest and The Complexity of Touch; Boyd and Dalton’s expertise complement each other in an exploration of the psychological impact of immersive experiences. Digital Forest was a multi-sensory indoor forest at Royal Holloway, combining art and science to investigate the effects on attention of calming surroundings. The Complexity of Touch was a tactile immersive installation, shown at Bermondsey Project Space, and Orleans House Gallery, combining Dalton’s psychological research with Boyd’s expertise in artistic installation.