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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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
Republic of the Moon opens in Liverpool 16 December
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, We Colonised the Moon, Andy Gracie, Leonid Tishkov, Liliane Lijn, Sharon Houkema FACT, Wood Street, Liverpool 16 December
Meanwhile, in Rwanda …
This is what I’m up to at the moment over on my other blog, teaching street dance to street kids
Street dance for street kids – Catalyst Rwanda
I’m gearing up for our first Catalyst Rwanda project, starting on the 10th November. A team of hip hop educators will
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:
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
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
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
Handy tips for the new nuclear age (3)
Make your own plutonium Our Nuclear Forum at the RSA, part of our final weekend for the Nuclear: art &
Satellite stories and human futures
Joanna Griffin’s Satellite Stories with the scientists of Mullard Space Science Laboratory was a very special event. Perched on a hill overlooking rolling downs,
Less Remote 3: Cultural aspects of space exploration
Yesterday evening, we had some excellent examples presented of ‘cultural utilisation’ of space, notably Marko Peljhan reported on the development
Nicola Triscott 