JULIA BUNTAINE, helping decipher the enigma of the brain
The brain is the most complex organ in a vertebrate’s body. Neurons interconnected by synapses, nerve cells and neurotransmitters – amino acids, peptides and…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
SARAH DAHER, sending messages through the air by releasing chemical molecules
Interdisciplinary designer Sarah Daher explores the relationships between humans, nature and technology and imagines future scenarios in which humans in which humans will engage with…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
MARTA DE MENEZES, creating artworks that literally live and die
The work of visual artist and curator Marta De Menezes, who creates artworks that literally live and die, combines both biology and art. Menezes, crossing…
HELEN PYNOR, exploring our bodies from the inside out
Visual artist Helen Pynor holds a Bachelor of Science, a Bachelor of Arts and practice based PhD resulting in truly cross-disciplinary collaborative practice. Pynor…
IMMY SMITH, exploring human and scientific narratives
Dr Immy Smith is a polymath – an artist, scientist, and data analyst who explores human and scientific narratives using both art and…
MARTIN J. KEMP, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art
Art and science, what we conceive as two completely separated disciplines, were intimately intrincate centuries ago, during the Renaissance for instance, exemplified in figures like…
WHITEFEATHER, biomanufacturing and new ways of thinking
The creative universe of interdisciplinary Canadian artist and researcher WhiteFeather encompasses life sciences and engineering to create cutting-edge projects using materials such as human…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
JINHEE PARK, exploring issues around our day-to-day life
Jinhee Park is a designer and artist, student from RCA Design Interactions MA, whose designs explore issues around our day-to-day life. Memory and perception are…
NINA SELLARS, shaping our understanding of the human body
The creative universe of Nina Sellars, artist and researcher based in Australia, lies in the heart of science, humanities and art. Sellars utilizes the…
BOMPAS & PARR, all about food and science
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, are two of a kind. They live in a world of wobbly jelly buildings and towers, where flowers change…
JOANNA ZYLINSKA, writer, lecturer, artist and curator
The Earth has entered a new geo-historical period, significantly human-influenced, called Anthropocene. Humans, acting as agents, have left (and continue leaving) their fingerprints: biospheric,…
KAREN MIRANDA ABEL, bringing water ecologies from nature to the gallery
In times when the techno-metropolitan environments (where most of us live nowadays) seem to have disconnected us from our earthy habitats and their seasonalities,…
Biomedia, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
GILBERTO ESPARZA, robots to stimulate a critical discussion about environment
Gilberto Esparza is a mexican visual artist whose works explore the interaction and impact of human technology with our environment through electronics, robotics and…
WILLIAM MAYERS, design historian, writer and curator
American writer, curator and design historian William Myers is the author of two of must-read books focused on exploring how the traditional boundaries between art…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
COD.ACT, when sound and movement become mechanical poetry
In an age when the virtual world is becoming so prominent in our lives, especially in western cultures, where for example, less and less…
Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
AGI HAINES, bioprinting organs for a better future
Transdisciplinary designer and PhD researcher at Cognovo, Agi Haines, is investigating the potential of the human body as a raw material for our design…
MARIAH WRIGHT, using design to reflect on what is arounds us
In times where our environment feels threatened, designers look, interpret, question and speculate about novel improved futures. For Mariah Wright, her explorations lay at the…
Biomedia, Interviews, Key Artists
PAUL VANOUSE, a magician playing tricks with DNA
There seems to be compelling evidences that we are entering on what is called the “Anthropocene” era, a new geo-historical period in which humans are…
NESTOR PESTANA, exploring possibilities of utopian and dystopian futures
Systematically exploring predictions and possibilities of utopian and dystopian futures, recent graduate of MA Design Interactions at the RCA, Nestor Pestana, creates speculative scenarios…
CAROLE COLLET, exploring biomimicry, living technologies and biofacturing
Carole Collet has been fascinated with synthetic biology since she had the privilege to work with Sir John Sulston in 2007. Researcher, designer, and…