Arts Catalyst

We are crowdfunding

Help us set up a new Centre for Art, Science and Technology in London

We want to launch a testing ground, to develop and present innovative projects that explore the intersections between art, science, technology and their social contexts.

Please support our campaign on the Art Fund’s crowd-funding platform Art Happens, we are aiming to raise £15,000 for the centre. A full list of rewards from limited edition artist prints and unique experiences are available on the campaign site.

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Meet rocket scientist Dr Lucie Green

Hold a meteorite

Limited edition photographic print by Tomas Saraceno

Meet Dr Marek Kukula

Limited edition poster by We Colonised the Moon

Visit the Mullard Space Science Laboratory

Hold a meteorite

Limited edition prints by Melanie Jackson

Events

Talking Dirty: Tongue First! Experiments at the Mouth of the Thames

Fran Gallardo | Andy Freeman | YoHa

Sun 2 August 2015

Calling people of Essex join us for a Southend tongue first experimentation and citizen science... more

News

Crowd-funding campaign launches this Thursday

On Thursday 25 June, The Arts Catalyst will launch a campaign on the Art Fund’s crowd-funding platform ‘Art Happens’, aiming to raise £15,000 for a new Centre of Art, Science and Technology, in the heart of Kings Cross.

We need your support!

Rewards, created by international artists who have worked with The Arts Catalyst, will be offered to those contributing different amounts towards this exciting initiative.

Living Assemblies - Design Your Silken Self

Over the weekend of 6 June, The Arts Catalyst invited artists, designers, scientists, writers, technologists, academics, and activists to join a hands-on workshop led by designer and researcher Veronica Ranner at Furtherfield.

Living Assemblies was an opportunity for participants to investigate the coupling of the biological material silk with digital technologies, to think about future applications.

Arts Catalyst announces new Curator

We are delighted to announce that Alec Steadman has joined the Arts Catalyst as Curator. Alec was previously Artistic Director at Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), Cairo, and before that Curator in Residence at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, where he co-curated The 338 Hour Cineclub.

Previously he participated in De Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam, co-curating Three Artists Walk into a Bar…, De Appel Arts Center and various locations, and Why Stay If You Can Go?, Stedelijk @ De Appel Arts Center.

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