Eye of the Storm latest (blog)

26/05/2009

Jo from the Arts Catalyst considers the human as storm clouds gather

Hi - I’ve just joined the Arts Catalyst to help bring the team’s work encouraging ‘conversations’ about art, science and society to a broader audience.  And it’s certainly an exciting time to start. The schedule for the Eye of the Storm conference, this time at Tate Britain, just three weeks away (19 & 20 June) is now up here. I’ve been reading up on the last Eye of the Storm, eleven years ago, which was a ground-breaking event sparking lots of interest in the media.

We’ve an international line up of artists and speakers whose work responds to the controversies of today’s scientific world – the Harrisons and their climate change work; Eduardo Kac describing his latest transgenic hybrid, the Edunia which expresses Kac’s DNA taken from his blood in the flower’s red veins, currently on show at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis.  Michael Bravo promises to reveal previously undisclosed work on indigenous populations, while Sylvia Nagl will be introducing radical re-definition of the genetic paradigm and exploring the much larger set of design instructions responding to environmental, developmental, nutritional, social and other signals.   There will also be something for those with a passion for space, with Roger Malina whose keynote will focus on Dark Energy and the Ethics of Curiosity.

A few places are still available and can be booked here.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Jo Fells
Head of Marketing and PR