Sep 18
The Centre for the History of the Sciences and the School of Biosciences are getting very excited about their forthcoming exhibition Chain Reaction! at the Sidney Cooper Gallery (22 November – 21 December). Here’s a taster of work by Katy Price that will be on show … P R I M E R Cork boards, …
May 08
The second workshop of the Chain Reaction! project took place on 18 April 2013. We spent the day in the nice new Colyer-Fergusson Music building at the University of Kent, a fittingly creative space in which to have artists discussing their practice. The workshop was thoughtfully planned and run by Caterina Albano of Artakt and …
Oct 25
The film maker Mike Bellinger has posted his promo for Chain Reaction! on YouTube. Click to view and enjoy Steven Shapin and Bruno Latour set to video game-style electronica. Thanks, Mike!
Aug 05
Sarah Craske, one of our Chain Reactionists, put me onto this one: BioARTCAMP. There’s also a video of the project. BioARTCAMP was a project run out in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, bringing together artists and scientists into an unfamiliar and necessarily improvisatory environment. This simple act of transportation has a transformative effect on …
Jul 30
Fellow experimenters in art and science part I Since Chain Reaction! got underway, several people have sent links to other projects around the world. Do You Mind? is a New Zealand collaboration based on neuroscience (thanks, Janet Young!). Its rationale is pretty much the opposite to ours; rather than demystifying science for artists, it’s trying …
Jul 25
What is the history of science? A clichéd answer might invoke a parade of big names: Galileo, Darwin, Einstein. But this is a really rubbish history if we are trying to get people to understand and engage with science in the present day. Will solar power save us from global warming? Do neutrinos move faster …
Jul 18
Beginning a Chain Reaction! Chain Reaction! is an attempt to do some creative science communication in a way that embodies approaches taken by historians of science. On a simple level, it celebrates a piece of laboratory kit the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine, which is 30 years old in 2013. By rapidly multiplying fragments of …
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