Fusion achieved at last in Huxley
I met Geraldine Cox in a windy garet on the roof of the physics building. The abandoned weather station is an octagonal room half-open to the elements and filled with drying clothes, bits of mouldering, esoteric looking equipment and empty beer bottles. It was an appropriately idiosyncratic setting for an interview with a unusual person. Geraldine is the Department of Physics’ artist in residence. Over the sound of the howling…
GV Art // Art & Science
GV Art have form when it comes to art/science collaborations. The north London gallery, curated by Robert Devčić, frequently hosts artists who are strongly influenced by advances in medicine and biotechnology. Their latest exhibition Art & Science is the most explicit exploration of these themes yet. Pics and discussion after the jump. Devčić has been particularly audacious in setting the tone of the show. The press release certainly sets an ambitiously wide scope: These days the term ‘art and science’ is on everyone’s lips…
Artifact
An artist and a scientist walk into a bar. They find each other incomprehensible and mysterious and fail to have a meaningful conversation. They leave vowing never to move out of their comfort zone again. Not really funny is it? Before I continue, I must declare an interest in writing this article. I am involved in organising collaboration between Imperial College and the Royal College of Art (probably the UK’s…