On 24th May 2006 The Institute of Unnecessary Research performed as part of the Critical Incident Festival at the Freeman Centre at Sussex University

Experiments with artists engaging with science:

Anna Dumitriu- Director of the Institute

Brain Biofeedback - Luciana Hail - Head of Biofeedback

Colour and Light experiments - Theresa Sundt - Head of Colour Research

What is Creativity? - Richard Robinson - Head of Statistical Probability

Practical Magic Theory (see above) - Jonathan Gilhooly - Head of Magic

Simulations and Feedback - Micheal O’Connell - Head of Crockery

Then at 7:30PM we had a panel discussion which was very lively despite the (almost) hurricane going on outside, the thorny subject up for discussion was "Unnecessary Research-What's the point?