Dreamed Native Ancestry (DNA) : Re-thinking race and migration
In 1977, NASA launched two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, into space to study the outer solar system. Passing beyond our sun’s planetary
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
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
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
Fracking futures – HeHe’s experimental drilling cuts out the middle man
As David Koch – the wealthy industrialist whose company is responsible for the dumping of a three-storey high city block
Do Not Lick: MadLab’s DIY biology residency at Arts Catalyst
DIY Biology is a growing global network of individuals that aims to promote citizen science and access to biotechnology. Participants
Beatriz da Costa 1974-2012
The artist Beatriz da Costa lost her long, fierce battle with cancer on the evening of 27 December 2012, at
