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Category: Essay | Text

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 Arts Catalyst events / 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 Arts Catalyst events / 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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April 16, 2012 Essay | Text

Performance, theatre and science

Last week, I went to Curious Directive’s show Your Last Breath. Curious Directive create devised theatre works incorporating scientific ideas,

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February 22, 2012 Essay | Text

Proposal: an arts/science* ethics advisory panel initiative

* arts/science, in this context only, implies art that needs or would value science ethics expertise Following from the artist-initiated

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January 22, 2012 Essay | Text

Why I loved the Wikipedia blackout

Postscript (29.1.2012): Grateful thanks to those kind people who have revised our wikpedia entry so that it is no longer

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January 6, 2012 Essay | Text

Human specimens: a labyrinth of morality, science and law

I was interested to see this debate come up in the media just before Christmas: Royal College of Surgeons rejects

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January 2, 2012 Essay | Text

2012: autonomous infrastructures, uneasy energies, and the machine wilderness …

Yahoo. 2012! What’s coming up this year in the art/science world? Here’s a highly subjective list of things I’m looking

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November 12, 2011 Essay | Text

Meanwhile, in Rwanda …

This is what I’m up to at the moment over on my other blog, teaching street dance to street kids

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

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