Primate Cinema: Apes as Family
At The Arts Catalyst, the team is looking forward to the opening of our latest commission, Rachel Mayeri’s Primate Cinema:
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.
Zimbabwe in Venice
In a deliciously candid symposium at Iniva yesterday, Raphael Chikukwa, curator of the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this
Realities and dreams: Africa in space
Today is the last day of the 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Cape Town, South Africa. The IAC is
Reunions and resistance – Critical Art Ensemble
Great to meet up with Steve Kurtz at AND festival, Liverpool, last week, recovered from his four-year ordeal of FBI
Power in outer space
Yesterday, I was one of the speakers at the Power in Outer Space symposium at the University of Brighton. The
Autonomous technology and art in the North
The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is working towards the construction of free, open, information sharing infrastructures for people living in
Arctic architecture competition: winners announced
The winners of the Arctic Perspective Initiative open architecture competition are announced. Three architects – Richard Carbonnier (Canada), Giuseppe Mecca (Italy), and Catherine Rannou (France) – have
Soundings and transitions: Mexico
I returned last week from the Transitio_mx, a festival of electronic and media art in Mexico City, in which I gave
Less Remote: the discussion continues ..
I was rather busy chairing sessions on the last afternoon of Less Remote to give a further report and then
Open sourcing the Arctic
I returned last week from a week in Iceland, where I was judging the architecture competition for an Arctic mobile media-centric work
Interspecies – artists collaborating with animals
How do humans and animals relate to each other? In The Arts Catalyst’s forthcoming Interspecies exhibition and event, seven international artists
Biorama 2: troglodites to thrombolites
Having thoroughly decompressed from our Eye of the Storm conference at Tate in my own way, I proceeded to Huddersfield, and thence
Science diplomacy 2: From the High Arctic to central Africa
Day 2 at the Royal Society’s meeting on science democracy. Finally, the issue of interdisciplinarity was raised by Stephen Hillier from
Science diplomacy 1: International cooperation to neo-functionalism
This week I’ve been at the Royal Society’s international meeting on science diplomacy. What is science diplomacy? Most people here seem
From biohacking to biotech porn
Last week, I was at the Waag Society in Amsterdam for its EcoArt lecture event, with Andy Gracie, Brandon Ballengee and Boo Chapple. The lectures were
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