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
Less Remote 2: Off the planet
This afternoon, Less Remote has explored radically new ideas about the future of our relationship to space. Artist Tomas Saraceno presented
Less Remote 1: Notions of space
The Less Remote symposium is under way at the International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow, with the first session ‘The Introspective
United Nations committee on the peaceful uses of outer space
I’m just back from Vienna, where I was speaking at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)
Steve Kurtz case dismissed
BUFFALO, US. Artist Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble, has had the mail and wire fraud case
Truth – The Interrogation
The Arts Catalyst team spent a very cold day in a dilapidated, darkened office suite in Liverpool on Saturday, processing
Abnormal
Ju Gosling’s exhibition ‘Abnormal’ is at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) at Mill Hill in North London until the end
Meanwhile, on Mars …
I gave a talk at the Barbican on Saturday night, as part of the programme for the Martian Museum of Terrestrial
Space futures
LESS REMOTE The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium 30 September – 1 October 2008 International Astronautical
Troubadors and truth drugs
Cracking conference accompanying the Sk-interfaces exhibition at FACT, Liverpool, on Friday and Saturday, which managed to subvert my expectations nicely. Frankly, I’d
Who thought up consumerism?
I attended the first in a series of Arts & Ecology Exchanges at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) on
Blue Secretions
Last night I attended the opening of sk-interfaces, curator Jen Hauser’s exhibition at FACT in Liverpool. It worked well in FACT’s
Mad rapture for molluscs *
I have spent a couple of days at the third Species of Origin workshop. Much of the workshop focused in on language
Gravity and Darwin
Last night we launched Aleksandra Mir’s limited edition calendar for 2008, which documents the construction and dismantling of her spectacular
