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March 25, 2017 Art / Arts Catalyst events / Essay | Text

Conflict Minerals: extractive capitalism

Extractive capitalism has spread over our world with a rapacious force.  From the mineral-rich Congo to mountaintop removal coal mining

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July 19, 2014 Arts Catalyst events / Essay | Text

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

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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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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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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 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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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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January 2, 2012 Essay | Text

2012: autonomous infrastructures, uneasy energies, and the machine wilderness …

Yahoo. 2012! What’s coming up this year in the art/science world? Here’s a highly subjective list of things I’m looking

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December 17, 2011 Reviews

Lunar dreamers: occupy the moon!

In Tony White’s new short story, Occupy the Moon, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst to mark the opening of our

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October 29, 2011 Artists

Interference patterns – Semiconductor

Semiconductor – artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt – have put their new film ’20HZ’ online. 2oHZ, Semiconductor, 2011 I

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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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