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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 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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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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March 23, 2012 Reports

Spaced out … the relationship between art and space agencies

I was in Paris earlier this month at the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)’s spring meeting, chairing a meeting of the

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March 7, 2012 Reviews

AV Festival: unfolding installations, incremental car crashes and unhurried soundscapes

I had 24 hours of frantic slowness at the terrific AV festival last weekend. This year, the theme of this excellent festival of

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February 26, 2012 Reports

Extreme citizen science: rainforests, urban jungles and the arctic perspective …

Last week I attended the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit with Lisa Haskel, Arts Catalyst’s resident research engineer, to catch up

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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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February 18, 2012 Reports

Wasted debates: using human remains in art

Recently, I took part in a round table discussion on the use of human remains in art. The discussion participants

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February 4, 2012 Reports

Let’s experiment with ourselves

Self-Experimentation and the Ethics Committee of 1 A report on the event ‘Trust Me, I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics

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January 28, 2012 Reports

Terra Infirma: finding the ‘geo’ in geopolitics

‘Terra Infirma – experimenting with geo-political practices
’ was an academic workshop which was held in The Arts Catalyst’s Clerkenwell space.

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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 21, 2012 Reviews

Fringe technology and grey science (thoughts on the Samsung Art+ Prize)

The UK might be thought rather tardy in recognising the digital arts, given that the Samsung Art+ prize claims to

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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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