Tällberg Forum 2012 Friday June 15, Evening Plenary

Tällberg is a tiny Swedish village situated on Lake Silja, produced in its own big bang by a meteor some 365 million years ago. The now-idyllic area still reverberates, intellectually that is, as the site of the Tällberg Forum, the brainchild of the dynamic Bo Ekman, always full of ideas, wisdom and fabulous conversation on … Read more

[…] [Susan] Aldworth featured in an exhibition, Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement, at the GV Art Gallery in London last year (its current group exhibition, Polymath, explores similar themes). Long at the forefront of the science/art or “sciart” movement, this is the only independent commercial gallery … Read more

Give them an inch World in the Balance: The historic quest for an absolute system of measurement by Robert P. Crease PRECISION and fastidiousness – at first blush the quest for a precise system of measurement might seem a plodding pursuit. But as philosopher Robert P. Crease makes clear in World in the Balance, it … Read more

Escape artists: Breaking out of the lab By Tiffany O’Callaghan, CultureLab editor New Scientist – CultureLab – 12 July, 2011 Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement […] Curated by historian of science and author Arthur Miller, the show is meant to explore the meaning, and boundaries, of … Read more

Artifice that shapes our ends By Matthew Reisz Times Higher Education – The Pick – 7 July, 2011 Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement Davide Angheleddu’s corroded bronze sculptures transform the illustrations of plankton taken from a 1904 book by the German philosopher and naturalist Ernst Haeckel, … Read more

Art & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art Movement Exhibition at GV Art Gallery, London 8 July – 24 September 2011 Click here to download exhibition e-Catalogue in PDF format Merging Art & Science Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever-increasing rate. But today artists are … Read more

A scientist, not a cartoon Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science by Lawrence Krauss Since his death in 1988, Richard Feynman has become something of an industry. In addition to several biographies, there are published collections of Feynman’s essays and lectures, including just about every scrap of paper he ever scribbled on. Much of … Read more