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December 31, 2014 Art / Essay | Text / Reports

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

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September 21, 2014 Essay | Text / Reports

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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July 19, 2014 Essay | Text

Railways, ruins and modernity: artists’ explore Mexico’s abandoned rail network

  Our latest exhibition, Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene’s ‘SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe – Modern Ruins 1:220‘ has

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April 19, 2014 Essay | Text

Science at the edge of the world

Antarctica science has been major news recently, with the apparent discovery of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic

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March 10, 2014 Essay | Text

20 years of The Arts Catalyst

Speaking at the inaugural London LASER event at the University of Westminster about some of Arts Catalyst’s seminal projects over

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December 14, 2013 Essay | Text

Dispatches from the Republic of the Moon

An artist hand-rears a flock of moon geese as future astronauts; a man meets the moon and stays with her

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August 12, 2013 Essay | Text

Peace and outer space: the role of artists and developing countries

I’ve just returned from the enormously successful KOSMICA Mexico 2013 in Mexico City, organised by Nahum Mantra, Laboratorio Arte Alameda and

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January 28, 2013 Essay | Text

Transformism: new works by Melanie Jackson and Revital Cohen

In ‘Transformism’, the Arts Catalyst’s latest exhibition which has just opened at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Melanie Jackson and

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November 17, 2012 Essay | Text

Some responses to War at the speed of light …

A couple of recent interesting blog posts have picked up on my War at the Speed of Light: artists and drone

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November 5, 2012 Essay | Text / Reviews

War at the speed of light: artists and drone warfare

“We call it in, and we’re given all the clearances that are necessary, all the approvals and everything else, and

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October 15, 2012 Essay | Text

Is there any poetic meaning in Baumgartner’s fall to Earth?

Yesterday, nearly 8 million of us watched another human being jump off a narrow ledge 24 miles above the Earth.

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September 23, 2012 Essay | Text

Art in the age of “big data”

  I’m currently at ISEA2012, the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a six-day international conference, this year taking place

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August 4, 2012 Essay | Text / Reviews

Bionic people: enhancement, bioethics and the politics of disability

Two current exhibitions, a workshop we recently organised at DaDaFest, and the ongoing controversy around “bladerunner” Oscar Pistorius’ inclusion in

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July 5, 2012 Essay | Text

Higgs: its cultural significance

“If we combine the Z-Z and the Gamma-Gamma,this is what we get: they line up extremely well, and in the

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May 13, 2012 Artists / Essay | Text

How life transforms: reflections on a conversation with Rob Kesseler and Enrico Coen

Why do I like Rob Kesseler’s work? At first glance, his highly detailed, colour-enhanced micrographs of pollen, seeds, fruit and

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Nicola Triscott is a curator, writer and researcher, specialising in the intersections of art, science, technology and society.

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