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Once upon a time, artist Anais Tondeur, in collaboration with Professor Jean-Marc Chomaz embarked on a research project to explore the fate of an island called Nuuk. Its disappearance beneath the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean in 2012 interestingly coincided with the meeting of the 34th Geological Congress to debate the use of the term ‘Anthropocene’...

“Big enough to get lost on. Small enough to find myself. That’s how to use this island. I come here to place myself in the world. Iceland is a verb and its action is to center.” American artist Roni Horn, who works extensively in Iceland, uses these words to describe the island and its influence in her art practice. As a geologist, Iceland had been...

Water is the stuff of life on Earth. And perhaps beyond—when venturing to search for life beyond our planet, NASA has sought to ‘follow the water’. Indeed, researchers recently discovered the presence of bacteria in a lake sealed hundreds of meters below the Antarctic ice. It is also one of our most precious resources—and one which, given its importance,...

For folk who are interested in the ways that art and science relate to one another, this has been a wonderful summer to live in or pass through London. So without further ado, here are some of the highlights, all of which you can still catch if you’re quick!   Automatic Art A thoughtful, critical look at the ways in which artists have used computers...

According to Wikipedia, the great encyclopaedia of our time, “The Encyclopedia Galactica is a fictional or hypothetical encyclopaedia of a galaxy spanning civilization, containing all the knowledge accumulated by a society with quadrillions of people and thousands of years of history.” The concept originated with Isaac Asimov in his Foundation series...