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
Nuclear culture in Japan. Part 1: Actinium programme, Sapporo, Hokkaido
I’ve been in Japan for Arts Catalyst’s Actinium exhibition and forum, part of an ongoing partnership between The Arts Catalyst
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
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
Announcing 3 funded PhD studentships, Northumbria University/BALTIC
I don’t often paste announcements here, but is such an exciting opportunity it needs to be circulated as widely as
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
