I found a recent paper by Jude Fransman, about different perceptions of Public Engagement, enlightening and inspiring, and it led me to write a blog piece about it (link). I also interviewed Jude, and publish the transcript below, as it goes into much more detail than the blog, and also gives her perspective.
Read MoreFirst things first, in case you read no further: go and see Alice Anderson’s exhibition, Memory Movement Memory Objects, at Wellcome Collection. I found parts of it extraordinary, that I have returned to repeatedly. The curation, integrating strong design and careful lighting with the artist’s works, has produced effects that are aesthetically powerful and thought-provoking.
But I’ve struggled to write this piece, to express what it meant for me in the context of what it appeared to mean for the artist, and why it was in this venue.
Read MoreAs a biologist, I’m used to the idea that elements combine to form simple and complex molecules in an orderly way, and with a ‘purpose’. How different it must appear to the geologist, who studies the rocks that make up our planet. While the basic tools that form these objects – matter and energy – are the same, the scale is massive, the forces and timescale barely imaginable, and here there is no guiding template, no enzymes to channel the way molecules combine, just a relentless chain of events.
Read MoreAn event about how drones can be used creatively.
Read MoreA beautiful book of extraordinary images that we’ve almost become desensitised to.
Read MoreImperial Fringe event ‘Lit Up’ celebrated the International Year of Light through a range of events last Thursday. I dropped by and interviewed some of the stallholders about their wares.
Read MoreIs Umami our sixth primary taste? A story of a scientific pioneer, a natural molecule some see as ‘evil’, and ice cream.
Read MoreParchment is made from the stretched skin of goats or sheep. Here DNA technology is used to analyse historical specimens.
Read MoreAnother day, another gloomy prediction of ecological disaster? Mary Hagerdorn’s personal mission to save the coral reefs.
Read MoreI have friends whose idea of heaven – and mine of hell – is Power Ballad Night at the Electric Ballroom. They go, I don’t, and we are all happy. So I was puzzled by the five-part BBC radio programme Self orbits CERN, in which author Will Self walks the 50km route of the Large Hadron Collider that lies beneath the French-Swiss border, and essentially he spends 75 minutes telling us how much he hates the trip.
Read MoreWhat is consciousness? Who or what is the ‘me’ that I call my ‘self’? And does that ‘self’ control what I do, or is that an illusion? These are issues Dr Susan Blackmore spends much of her time thinking about, and which she presented at the latest GV Art & Mind Symposium.
Read MoreAn affecting performance about identity, mortality and love connecting on different levels.
Read MoreI can count the numbers of video installations that have really engaged me on the fingers of Mickey Mouse’s right hand. So it was with little enthusiasm that I learned that two of this year’s four Turner Prize artists work mainly with film.
Read MoreFor people squeamish at the idea of giving or receiving the kiss of life, falling into the water in 18th century London was distinctly more concerning for both parties, as the remedy of choice was a smoke enema, and devices were installed at strategic points along the Thames.
Read MoreA Martin Creed show full of rhythms and geometries fills and complements an old industrial space.
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