Issue 68

Creativity is the common denominator of innovation, whether we operate in the cultural, economic, industrial, scientific, technology or research sectors. (more…)

Contemporary art and science share a great deal in common. Not so much in the productions, but certainly in the thought processes they use to get there.  (more…)

As the child of two veterinarians in practice, one of who became a research scientist, you could say I grew up around medicine and science. (more…)

The world of science research is changing. In place of the intense specialisation once so prevalent, there is a new emphasis on the need to ‘connect’ parts and to work across boundaries and disciplines. (more…)

Interview with Synapse Residency recipients Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey. (more…)

Australian artist Kirsty Boyle is infusing the ancient Japanese tradition of mechanised puppetry with artificial intelligence for her girltron project. Her residency at the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) with roboticist Dr Lijin Aryananda is bringing old and new traditions together in extraordinary ways, as she relates to Natasha Mitchell. (more…)

The concept of the Artsactive network came into being in 2005, during a symposium organised by Disonancias in Madrid. (more…)

Artists are creative, warm hearted, free and value beauty, while scientists are cold, objective, love precision and are constrained by rationality. Right? (more…)

The final experiment of my 2007 residency at the Australian Synchrotron developed from several months of discussion with synchrotron accelerator physicists Martin Spencer and Mark Boland about the delicate balance of extremely complex frequencies needed to make a synchrotron beam actually work. (more…)

Between 2004 and 2006, I created an installation, Embracing Animal, which involved exhibiting live transgenic lab rats.[1] (more…)

For the past decade ANAT has provided opportunities for artists and scientists to work together, in order that their different approaches to creativity, exploration and research may lead us to new understandings and interpretations of the world around us. Here, in their own words, are brief excerpts from some of the participating artists about their experiences at the coalface of interdisciplinary practice. (more…)

ANAT member Sumugan shares his experience at sounds unusual 07 after successfully receiving an ANAT Professional Development Travel Grant. (more…)

Footage from the GRL Masterclass…hacking through urban spaces. (more…)

Artists are known for intrepid innovation, exploring new platforms and paving the way for the mainstream. (more…)

First stop is Linz and Ars Electronica 2007. One minute I’m having lunch with a group of festival attendees, the next I’m in a taxi rushing back to my hostel, all the while attempting to explain my new mission as ANAT’s international roving reporter – in my minimal German –  to the somewhat bemused taxi driver. (more…)