Experience & Learning

From esoteric arguments over the structure of the universe to highly charged public controversies around the use of stem cells, The Eye of the Storm brings together an extraordinary international group of artists whose work playfully and provocatively intervenes in science, scientists at the heart of these controversies, and other experts to spark two days of dynamic conversations about our changing world.

Speakers include artist Eduardo Kac, whose artworks creating transgenic animals have generated controversy since he first persuaded French geneticists to produce a rabbit that glows in the dark, Sheila Jasanoff, one of the major voices in science and technology studies, artist Rod Dickinson, Oron Catts, pioneer in the use of bioscience as a medium for artistic expression, Helen and Newton Mayer Harrison, pioneers of environmental art, astronomer Roger Malina who will discuss the current crisis in astronomy with dark energy, and science sociologist Harry Collins.

Selection Committee

Chair: Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts Catalyst
Michael Bravo, Senior Lecturer, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Bernadette Buckley, Programme Convenor, MA Art & Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London
Sian Ede, Director of Arts, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Madeleine Keep, Education Department, Tate Britain
Rob La Frenais, Curator, The Arts Catalyst
Roger Malina, Chairman Emeritus, Leonardo, Director of Research, CNRS

Links

Audience blogger

Audio files of the entire conference are available from Tate IQ Symposia on iTunes U podcast directory.

Organisers & Support

Organised by The Arts Catalyst and Tate Britain, in association with Leonardo/OLATS. Suppported by Arts Council England and SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia.