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All in Art & Science
Historian of science Flora Lysen interviews filmmaker and researcher Richard Ramchurn about his latest artwork TheMOMENT, exploring the future of technology, the body and the brain.
How will emotion tracking technologies integrate into everyday life, and what does this mean for the human body? Exploring the bio-sensing world and research behind their new artwork machine-in-the-middle, Rod Dickinson and Nathan Semetzidis reveal their thoughts in this exclusive interview.
Beyond Biology: Robots, Telepathy and Artificial Brains was a multidisciplinary panel discussion exploring the rise of sentient machines. In this article we share our key takeaways about the social future of humanity in a technological world.
A video artwork exploring the technological objects of our future, and their growing relationship and integration with the body. In part one of three in this artwork series, take a trip with our futuristic guide Frodlaw Anele as she navigates through time and space to explore the devices of our future.
Anna Dumitriu is a British artist who makes work about our relationship with infectious diseases, synthetic biology and robotics. Now in the surprising situation of COVID-19, the artist is immersed in a world she’s always investigated in her art, but perhaps never considered she would be a part of. I speak to Dimitriu about her research and perspective of the coronavirus, and the work she is making in response.
Perception is a process which takes place in the body as well as the brain. It’s not something that happens to us, it’s something that we do. Olafur Eliasson demonstrates the potential of art to affect an individual physiologically, emotionally and socially, through a few simple experiments of the senses. How can the conditions of viewing be designed to enhance the experience of art, and can it shift the foundations of our politics?
Flicker Fusion Rate, peeling an egg, stop motion without a screen. These are all experiments conducted by artists at the Visual Science of Art conference in Leuven. How can artistic practice be used as a pathway into the science of dementia and psychophysics? Join my journey as I explore my new scientific knowledge in perception gained at this very unique conference.
A review of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s immersive environment, exploring memory through scientific experimentation. What happens to our words and thoughts as we say them out loud? Is speech something that can be recorded, transformed and preserved and how does the digital age impact this?
PUBLIC PROGRAMME ESSAY #2
An essay exploring the issues discussed in the event ‘Attention and Memory in the Digital Age’. Attention is a hot topic in the great digital debate. We know that multitasking allows us to spread our attention across a number of tasks, but does this allow us to be more focussed or does it simply make us distracted?
