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December 14, 2013 Arts Catalyst events

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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June 16, 2013 Art / Arts Catalyst events

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

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March 25, 2013 Arts Catalyst events / Reports

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

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February 24, 2013 Artists

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

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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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October 13, 2012 Reviews

Machine wilderness: personal highlights from ISEA2012 Albuquerque

This is a snapshot of personal highlights from ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness. ISEA (the International Symposium on Electronic Arts) is an international

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October 2, 2012 Reports

Nuclear landscapes: exploring New Mexico’s atomic legacy

Looking out towards Trinity Ground Zero (20 miles away), New Mexico My first trip to the States, in 1997, was

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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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June 11, 2012 Reviews

Ruins, conflict, culture and science: dOCUMENTA (13)

Many adjectives have already been wielded to describe this year’s documenta, “earnest”, “grim”, “despondent” and “concept-less” among them. Certainly, there

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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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