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.
Tag: bioart
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
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
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
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
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
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
A tale of singing worms
I’m just back from Leiden in the Netherlands, where the Waag Society had invited me to give a presentation at
Reunions and resistance – Critical Art Ensemble
Great to meet up with Steve Kurtz at AND festival, Liverpool, last week, recovered from his four-year ordeal of FBI
Biorama 2: troglodites to thrombolites
Having thoroughly decompressed from our Eye of the Storm conference at Tate in my own way, I proceeded to Huddersfield, and thence
From biohacking to biotech porn
Last week, I was at the Waag Society in Amsterdam for its EcoArt lecture event, with Andy Gracie, Brandon Ballengee and Boo Chapple. The lectures were
The role of the arts in biopolicy-making
I went to a good symposium in London last week, organised by theBiocentre. Ambitiously titled “Arts & technology: The role of
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
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
Nicola Triscott 