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Ergo Sum – The creation of a second self using stem cell technology
Last weekend i was in Leiden, a short train trip away from Amsterdam, for the opening of an exhibition of the winning projects of the third edition of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award. The...
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#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 44: Michiko Nitta & Michael Burton
A sleeping mask designed to capture CO2 whilst inhabitants sleep to moderate the life support system of the Isoculture The new episode of #A.I.L – artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme...
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#A.I.L – artists in laboratories, episode 55: Anab Jain and Jon Ardern from...
The new episode of #A.I.L – artists in laboratories, the weekly radio programme about art and science i present on Resonance104.4fm, London’s favourite radio art station, is aired tomorrow Wednesday...
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Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology
A visit of the exhibition Mind Maps: Stories from Psychology yesterday made me realize, once again, that i should be grateful to live here and now and not at a time when melancholia was treated with a...
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Tattooists, tattooed
, or Anthropological and Forensic Tattoos. Alexandre Lacassagne, catalogue of tattoos, 1920/1940 Alexandre Lacassagne, catalogue of tattoos, 1920/1940. Photo: The Skyline Lacassagne’s archives offer an...
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Book review – The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
The Sick Rose” Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration, by academic medical historian Dr Richard Barnett. Available on Amazon UK and USA. Publisher Thames and Hudson writes: The Sick Rose is a...
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The Barts Pathology Museum
A few weeks ago, i discovered the existence of the Barts Pathology Museum. And then i visited it so you don’t have to. Gout, 1908 Photo Barts Pathology Museum (via) The museum was opened in 1879 and...
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Vampires, crucifixion and transfusion. BLOOD is not for the faint-hearted
Shaun McCann, A human placenta from ‘Stem Cell Transplantation. Part of BLOOD at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin It flows throughout our bodies and yet some of us faint when they see a drop...
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Matter of Life. Growing new Bio Art & Design
FATBERG. Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann Špela Petrič, Naval Gazing. Photo by Boudewijn Bollmann A bio art exhibition is a rare occurrence. A good bioart exhibition -one that makes you marvel at the art,...
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OpenSurgery, a DIY laparoscopic surgery robot
Frank Kolkman, OpenSurgery, 2015 Frank Kolkman, OpenSurgery, 2015 Robots are transforming surgery. The Da Vinci Surgical System, for example, allows long and complicated procedures to be performed with...
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Can organs be objects of design?
Designer Isaac Monté has been pushing ideas of beauty and deception to their most ‘visceral’ limits using decellularization, a process which consists of removing all of the cells from an organ leaving...
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Drones with Desires. A machine with inbuilt human memories
Drones With Desires, 2015. Image courtesy of Agi Haines Agi Haines seems to be anesthetized to the most visceral and crude guises of the future human body. She designed hybrid organs custom-designed...
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MSA: The Microbiome Security Agency
Emma Dorothy Conley is an artist, designer and also a producer at the Center For Genomic Gastronomy. Concerned by newspaper stories about the microbiome and how we shed bits of it wherever we go, she...
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Famous Deaths. Step inside a mortuary chest and experience of the final...
Famous Deaths, IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam. Photo Nichon Glerum Would you like to know or even experience what John F. Kennedy felt right before he was shot in Dallas, Texas...
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Post-anthropocentric art. An interview with Maja Smrekar
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene (Trailer), co-designed with Andrej Strehovec, produced by Aksioma Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015. Photo by Borut Peterlin I first discovered Maja Smrekar‘s work...
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Plastic trash, rotting rubber & wonky skeleton. Maarten Vanden Eynde’s...
Maarten Vanden Eynde, Homo Stupidus Stupidus A few days ago, the MU art center in Eindhoven organized a Body of Matter / BAD Award weekend of talks, masterclasses, panels and performances. The event...
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A weekend of bio art and bio design at MU in Eindhoven (part 1)
Agi Haines, Drones with Desires. Body of Matter – Body based bio art & design, MU Eindhoven, 2015. Photo by Hanneke Wetzer Kristin Neidlinger, Wearable garments that give you goosebumps when...
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A weekend of bio art and bio design at MU in Eindhoven (part 2)
A couple of weeks ago, MU in Eindhoven invited the public to a 2 day long immersion into all things bio art and bio design. The Body of Matter / BAD Award Special weekend lined up a series talk,...
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e-waste, porn, ecology & warfare. An interview with Dani Ploeger
Firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Photo by Maja Dubowska Dani Ploeger studied music in various conservatories across Europe, performed as a trombonist with symphony orchestras in Stuttgart and...
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cellF, the world’s first neural synthesiser
Front View of cellF (neurons are located in the top black box, in the incubator) Guy Ben-Ary has spent 4 years collaborating with scientists and other artists to develop a musical instrument...
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