The active role for culture in a divided nation
A surprising number of people have said to me lately that they don’t know any Leave supporters at all. So I
Author: Nicola Triscott
Nicola Triscott is a cultural producer, curator, writer and researcher. She is the Director/CEO of FACT Liverpool and formerly the founding Director of Arts Catalyst. Specialisation: interrelationships between art, science, technology and society.
Critical art and outer space: examining space as a global commons
The ‘Critical Issues in Outer Space’ session at the Association of American Geographers’ huge Annual Meeting in San Francisco last
Acronyms, bat caves and sentient architecture: February update from Washington DC
So here I am, back in Washington DC on Super Tuesday (writing this the day before I post), observing a
Arts Catalyst’s new Centre for Art, Science and Technology opens in London
I’ve been back in the UK for the opening of Arts Catalyst’s new Centre for Art, Science and Technology in King’s
Trust and the taste of flesh: the ethics of Martin O’Brien’s zombie performance
The first three articles from the Trust Me, I’m an Artist project (funded by Creative Europe) have just been published
International Summit on Human Gene Editing: missing voices, divergent views … What is the role of the artist?
A hugely significant meeting in Washington DC last week barely made it onto the front pages of the world’s newspapers.
Cooking up interdisciplinarity (with added artist)
Discussions about the future of science and technology have increasingly considered how interdisciplinary working might contribute to science’s discoveries and
Aerocene – flight without borders
In the dunes of White Sands desert, on Sunday 8th November 2015, for the first time in the world,
Exploring the border of art and space: the “territory of the imagination”
I have spent the last few days with a very special group of people in El Paso, Texas, on the
A personal update – seeking the view from Stateside
I’m excited to let you know that, for the next 12 months, I’ll be based in Washington D.C., from where
The performance (and performativity) of science
The text of short talk that I gave at DASER in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago, as part
High Energy Interactions: how to be an artist at CERN
“How can an artist make relevant art if he doesn’t know anything about relevant science?” – Julius von Bismarck, artist
Words and Money: discussions on art, ethics & value
I’ve been at a couple of conferences recently in London that were responding to rising concern about the ways the
2014 at The Arts Catalyst
We began our year in the wake of China landing a probe on the Moon triggering fears of mining operations on
Nuclear culture in Japan. Pt 2: Road trip through Fukushima exclusion zone
After my lecture at the Actinium nuclear forum in Sapporo, a group of us (Arts Catalyst team and artists with
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