Exhibition: Mycohive: Telling the Bees, Shrouding the Soil
In Mycohive: Telling the Bees, Shrouding the Soil Amanda Baum & Rose Leahy explore how human rituals can trigger and help remediate symbiotic relationships…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
ROB St JOHN, experimenting with stillness and emergence
Human impact has caused mass extinctions of animal and plant species and altered the environment in such a way that, according to a paper published…
In sci-art, art should not merely be a servant of science, by David Harris
In a recent editorial in Leonardo journal, Assoc. Ed. Jack Ox stated about art-science that “well-designed presentations must be articulated in a clear and cogent…
Thinking Across Hemispheres, by Amy Holt Cline
Being human is both complicated and wonderful for all the hidden and obvious reasons one can imagine. Being a creator and thinking creatively could be…
The need for more pi-shaped science artists, by David Harris
How much science and how much art do you need to know to be an effective science artist? There are certainly different schools of thought…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
ROBERT HENGEVELD, visions of the future of nature
Robert Hengeveld is a multi-media artist living and working in Toronto (Canada). Hengeveld is that kind of visual artist that not only tells…
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…
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…
CECILIA BULLO, blending human physiology, medicine and philosophy
Cecilia Bullo is an Irish/Italian artist based in Dublin. Her work, largely sculpture and installations, is a journey through the inner fragile self, with…
JADEN J. A. HASTINGS, exploring new spaces from where to reflect on humanness, nature and the cosmos
Jaden J. A. Hastings —a London based scientist and artist— uses the interplay between art and science to explore new spaces from where to reflect on…
ARTHUR I. MILLER, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science
Science is not only about experiments but also about understanding the natural and technological world around us by asking simple questions such as why, where…
Fort Process, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Series
LOUISE MACKENZIE, evolution and the genetic code blended with post-humanism
Louise Mackenzie, a contemporary artist based in the UK, addresses her work as a search for the human essence in the material and the…
ELAINE WHITTAKER, the delicacies of biological embroidery
Elaine Whittaker, a bioartist based in Toronto, Canada, uses a wide range of media such as sculpture, installation or digital-images to create artworks that…
When Science Meets Art, by Amy Holt Cline
As we all know, inspiration for a new idea, a painting or a design can come from anywhere. Ideas can strike in an instant or…
MYLYN NGUYEN, collecting and recycling to build a fascinating world
Imagination and an open mind are two of the most powerful weapons of the creativity process and the artistic work of Australian visual artist…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
CLAIRE MORGAN, art, living materials, taxidermy and literature
Visual artist Claire Morgan utilises taxidermy to create sculptural installations. Her surreal and fascinating universe is inhabited by botanical and zoological specimens suspended from…
REBECCALOUISE LAW, using hundreds of suspended flowers
Every week Columbia Road in East London has transformed into a parade of flowers thanks to the Sunday flower market. Rebecca Louise Law —London-based…
Biomedia, Interviews, Scout & Trends
RAFAEL GÓMEZBARROS, understanding the society in which we live
My first exposure to Rafael Gómezbarros’s work (Colombia, 1972) was at the Saatchi Gallery’s show ‘Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America’. Rafael was showcasing…