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A Brief History of The Arts Catalyst

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Introduction

This small publication marks the 20th anniversary year of The Arts Catalyst. It celebrates some of the 120 artists’ projects that we have commissioned over those two decades.

Based in London, The Arts Catalyst is one of the UK’s most distinctive arts organisations, distinguished by ambitious artists’ projects that engage with the ideas and impact of science. We are acknowledged internationally as a pioneer in this field and a leader in experimental art, known for our curatorial flair, scale of ambition, and critical acuity. For most of our 20 years, the programme has been curated and produced by the (founding) director with curator Rob La Frenais, producer Gillean Dickie, and The Arts Catalyst staff team and associates.

Our primary focus is new artists’ commissions, presented as exhibitions, events and participatory projects, that are accessible, stimulating and artistically relevant. We aim to produce provocative, playful, risk-taking projects that spark dynamic conversations about our changing world. This is underpinned by research and dialogue between artists and world-class scientists and researchers.

The Arts Catalyst has a deep commitment to artists and artistic process. We work with artists at pivotal stages in their careers, providing opportunities for them to develop bold projects in unusual contexts. Past projects have involved flying teams of artists and scientists in zero gravity in Russia, recreating historical bio-warfare experiments off the coast of Scotland, setting up live scientific experiments as art installations, siting futuristic art-science labs in remote landscapes, and enabling artists’ access to restricted scientific establishments.

Upcoming projects develop enduring themes around deep time, autonomous research, bioethics, and the global commons (oceans, poles, atmosphere and outer space), working with both established and emerging artists to create inspiring and thought-provoking new art experiences.

Nicola Triscott, Director

Our new commissions, exhibitions and events in 2013 attracted over 57,000 UK visitors.

In 2013 our previous commissions were internationally presented to a reach of around 30,000 people.

We have facilitated projects and presented our commissions in 27 countries and all continents, including at major art events such as Venice Biennale and dOcUmeNTa.

Our projects receive widespread national and international media coverage, reaching millions of people. In the last year we had features in The Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, Time Out, Wall Street Journal, Wired, New Scientist, art monthly, Blueprint, Dazed & confused to name a few as well as extensive radio and TV coverage.

Our website receives over 50,000 unique hits per year.

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Key Projects/contentsKey facts

Artists Airshows2004, 2007, 2012

20 Artists commissions

Poetic Cosmos of the Breath

Tomas Saraceno2007

(P. 22-23)

Data Landscapes2011

AIR & CLIMATE

MakrolabMarko Peljhan

2002

(P. 31)

POLAR STUDIES

BipolarAnne Brodie

Weather Permitting2005

Ice Lab:

2013–2015

Ice DiamondTorsten Laushman

2013Ice Blink

Simon Faithful2006

SPACE

Astro Black MorphologiesFlow Motion

2005

Satellite StoriesJoanna Griffin

2008

Kosmica2011–Ongoing

Republic of the Moon

2011–2014

SeaclipseAnne Bean & Collaborators

2000

TECHNOLOGY, SECRECY,

INFRASTRUCTURE

M-Blem: the train project

HeHe2012

SEFT-1Los Ferronautas

2013–2014

The NeighbourAshok Sukumaran

2009

MIND & BODY

BIOSCIENCE Truth SerumNeal White

2008

Labyrinth of Living Exhibits Aaron Williamson Brian Catling Katherine Araniello Sinéad O‛Donnell 2011

Body Visual1996

Lab EasyMadLab2013

SymbioticA Bioart Lab2004

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Transformism

2013

Clean Rooms Gina Czarnecki Neal White Critical Art Ensemble Brandon Ballengée 2002

Marching PlagueCritical Art Ensemble

2006

(P. 20-21)

INTERSPECIES

ECOLOGY

Primate Cinema

Rachel Mayeri2011

Bower BirdsSally Hampson

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ConsilienceJan Fabre

2000

ENERGY

Fracking FuturesHeHe2013

(P. 26-27)

Atomic1998–1999

(P. 8-9)

NuclearChris Oakley

Kypros Kyprianou &Simon Hollington

2008

PHYSICSAND

PHILOSOPHY

The Arts Catalyst1994–2014

(P. 14-17)

(P. 31)

(P. 6-7)

M.I.R. Microgravity

InterdisciplinaryResearch

2000–2004

(P. 10-13)

(P. 24-25)

Prof. AASingleton-Guinness,

Jack Klaff 1994

Parallel UniverseAnsuman Biswas,

Paul Wong1997

Window of OpportunityKen Campbell

1996

Talking of the Sex of AngelsNikky Smedley Company 1996

Arctic Perspective Initiative

Marko PeljhanMatthew Biederman

2010–OngoingInterspecies

Melanie JacksonRevital Cohen

Overt Research Projectcritical excursions

Office of Experiments2009–2012

Dark PlacesNeal White &

Office of Experiments Victoria Halford & Steve Beard

Beatriz Da CostaSteve Rowell

2010

(P. 18–19)

Endo EctoPhillip Warnell

2006

Konfirm Jon Adams 2013

Space SoonAleksandra Mir

N55 & Neal WhiteJerry Dammers Special

AKA OrchestraLondon FieldworksMichelle Griffiths

… and guests …2006

Nuclear Culture2013–2014

2010–2011

2007–2010

(P. 31)

(P. 29)

(P.28)

(P. 31)

Synthesis Lab2011

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‘Body Visual’ was one of The Arts Catalyst’s first major projects, which commissioned Helen Chadwick, Letizia Galli and Donald Rodney to collaborate with medical scientists to develop new work, resulting in a touring exhibition.

Helen Chadwick undertook a residency at the Assisted Conception Unit, Kings College Hospital, producing her series of works ‘Unnatural Selection’, which notably she considered her most serious body of work. Closely working with scientists and doctors, Chadwick gained a special insight into the science of human fertility and processes behind assisted conception. Her microphotographs of human embryos—which were specifically donated to her art by couples undergoing IVF—are placed in jewel-like arrangements interspersed with other images from the natural world, such as dandelion clocks, evoking the fragile poten-tial of these human stilled lives.

Letitia Galli’s works were informed by the latest findings (at the time) in the field of neurology, and in particular reflected the ef-fects of the neurotransmitter dopamine on obsessive states such as drug addiction and falling in love.

Donald Rodney’s photographic triptych ‘Flesh of my Flesh’ was a deeply personal statement on medical science, reflecting his feelings about what he considered to be discriminatory attitudes of certain medical personnel during his long-term treatment for sickle-cell anaemia.

Project: Body Visual

artists: Helen chadwick, Donald Rodney, Letizia Galli

Year: 1996 Locations: Barbican Gallery then toured

nationally and internationally

Portrait of Helen Chadwick at the Assisted Conception Unit, Kings College Hospital. Image: Edward Woodman

Helen Chadwick Nebula, 1996 Microphotographs.Image: Jonathan Hill/Folly Pictures

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Above:Carey YoungVenus Probe, 1998 C-Print

Centre:Mark Aerial Waller Glow Boys, 1998 Production StillCourtesy of Rodeo

Below:James Acord Nuclear Reliquary, 1998 Mixed Media

Project: atomic

artists: James acord, mark aerial Waller, carey Young

Year: 1998–1999

Locations: Imperial college Gallery, London, and then toured nationally and internationally including to Kluze Fortress, Slovenia

‘Atomic’ was a series of three artists’ commissions, resulting in a touring exhibition that explored the cultural and economic legacy of harnessing the power of the atom. It placed controversial American nuclear sculptor James Acord — the only private individual in the world to hold a licence to handle radioactive materials — who had moved to live on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the USA, into the heart of British science, Imperial College London, where he created a series of reliquaries to the nuclear age. The Arts Catalyst also gave Carey Young her first commission for which she travelled to Russia to photograph the still radioactive legacy of the former USSR space and nuclear programmes, and negotiated access for Mark Aerial Waller to Oldbury Nuclear Power Station to film his short thriller ‘Glow Boys’, featuring the legendary Mark E. Smith from The Fall, which parodied contemporary perceptions and fear of nuclear technology.

James Acord at his studio based at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, USAImage: Arthur S. Aubrey

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Above:Kitsou DuboisTrajectoire Fluide, 2000Production still

Centre:Ansuman Biswas & JemFiner Zero Genie, 2001Production still

Below:The Otolith GroupOtolith I, 2003Production stillCourtesy The Otolith Group and LUX, London

Project: microgravity Interdisciplinary Research (m.I.R.)

artists & Scientists: anna alchuk, ansuman Biswas & Jem Finer, alexei Blinov, Dr anthony Bull, ewen chardronnet, Kitsou Dubois & co., Vadim Fishkin, Dr Kevin Fong, Dr Rebecca Forth, Flow motion, Stefan Gec, Imperial college Biody-namics Group, andrew Kotting, Yuri Leiderman, Trevor mathison, evgeni Nesterov, The Otolith Group & Richard couzins, marko Peljhan, mikhail Ryklin, marcel.li antunez Roca, mike Stubbs, andrey & Julia Velikanov, Neal White, morag Wightman, Louise K Wilson, Dragan Zivadinov

Years: 2000–2004

Locations: Gagarin cosmonaut Training centre, Star city, Russia. european Space agency, Bordeaux, France.

One of the most fascinating aspects of manned space flight is the state of zero gravity: astronauts and objects floating in air.

The Arts Catalyst’s pioneering zero gravity programme enabled over 50 artists, musicians, scientists and philosophers to access weightless conditions on parabolic flights, as well as other spacefacilities such as the giant centrifuge, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, heart of the Russian space pro-gramme, and at the European Space Agency. Prior to these flights (2000–2004), the aesthetic possibilities of zero gravity had barely been explored, due to its exclusiveness. Outcomes of these “flying laboratories” included 16 artist commissions that continue to be presented in galleries, museums and festivals around the world, and two scientific papers. These include Turner Prize nominees the Otolith Group’s first ever commission, the film Otolith 1; a collaboration between dancer Kitsou Dubois and the Biodynamics research group at Imperial College London; and Jem Finer & Ansuman Biswas’ Zero Genie, in which the artists playfully attempt to ride flying carpets and smoke a hookah.

Some of the flights were organised in cooperation with Projekt Atol, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, Leonardo-OLATS & Moscow’s TV Gallery.

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Group photo of the participants on the MIR Flight 001, 2001

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Above:Anne BeanSky Writing, 2004Image: James Leadbitter

Below:Loch Ruthven as ‘Wall drawing wind — lake version’, performed by Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum. 2010Image: Kristian Buus

The Arts Catalyst’s ground breaking artist airshows encouraged artists to work with ideas of flight, aeronautical culture, and the air as a medium, and gave audiences unique, unusual and rewarding participatory art experiences.

The first airshow took place at the former Royal Aircraft Establishment workshops in Farnborough, a deserted research facility in which covert projects had been developed during WWII and the Cold War. During the day, hundreds of people watched the launching of artists’ flying objects, rockets and UAVs, and experienced installations and experiments through the abandoned wind tunnels, test tanks and flight simulators.

The 2nd International Artists Airshow reflected the explosive nature of Gunpowder Park, formerly a munitions testing ground. Using engineering and technical expertise, artists attempted to realise the dream of flight with experiments including a spectacular one-person flying platform, a trained eagle documenting the movements of the audience below, and a large-scale pyrotechnic work that attempted to block out the sun.

The Great Glen Artists Airshow was a two-day event at Loch Ruthven, in the Scottish Highlands. Artists investigated wind currents and the flight paths of birds, gave poetry readings and GPS balloon performances, facilitated participatory flying of ‘suprematist kites’, and rendered a vast smoke drawing, tracing the contours of the fell landscape.

Project: artists airshows

artists: anne Bean, Ben Blakeborough, miles chalcraft, Rachel chapman, adam Dant, Simon Faithfull, alec Finlay, Flow motion, Stefan Gec, Usman Haque, HeHe, Luke Jerram, Zina Kaye, Sonia Khurana, Tim Knowles, London Fieldworks, Ruth maclennan, Susanne Norregard Nielsen, Janette Paris, esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum, marko Peljhan, Tomas Saraceno, camila Sposati, Louise K Wilson

Years: artists airshow (2004), 2nd International artists airshow (2007), The Great Glen artists airshow (2010)

Locations: Former Royal aeronautical engineering Workshops, Farnborough, Hants; Gunpowder Park, essex; HIca, Loch Ruthven, Inverness-shire

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Simon FaithfullEscape Vehicle no.6, 2004Image: James Leadbitter & stills from live video relay.

Next page, above:

Camila SposatiYellow VanishingPoint, 2010Image: Kristian Buus

Next page, below:Ben BlakebroughWinged Self, 2007Image: Chis Welch

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Project: Space Soon: art and Human Spaceflight

artists: Laurie anderson, alan Bean Jerry Dammers’ Spatial a.K.a. Orchestra, Kodwo eshun, alexei Federchenko, Michelle Griffiths, London

Fieldworks, aleksandra mir, N55 & Neal White, Semiconductor, Jane & Louise Wilson

Year: 2006 Location: Roundhouse, London, UK

For an intense week, The Arts Catalyst took over London’s Round-house for ‘Space Soon’, an exhibition of spectacular large-scale durational installations, accompanied by live events, reflecting on humanity’s relentless quest to leave the Earth.

The huge interior of the Roundhouse venue (a former engine shed) was transformed into a rocket factory for a gigantic rocket going nowhere, ‘Gravity’ by Aleksandra Mir, a monumental, ephemeral 22-metre high sculpture constructed from junk. In the Roundhouse car park, Danish architects N55 and artist Neal White installed their inhabited ‘Space Station on Earth’ and set out to investigate planet Earth, while in the vaults London Fieldworks’ ‘SpaceBaby’ was a live experiment and installation exploring the effects of long-term sleep pattern disruption (a hazard of space travel) with scientists from University of Leicester’s Department of Genetics.

Events included talks by Apollo astronaut turned artist Alan Bean (the fourth man on the Moon), and artist Laurie Anderson on her experience as NASA’s artist-in-residence; Michelle Griffiths’ performance-installation ‘Lunar Capsule’; film screenings; the premiere of Jerry Dammers’ remarkable Spatial AKA Orchestra; a symposium on the future of the Moon, and a concert curated by radio station Resonance FM. A series of creative projects for young people took place in the lead up to the event.

Left:Aleksandra Mir Gravity, 2007Image: Marcus J Leith

This page, below:N55/ Neal WhiteSpace on Earth Station, 2006Image: Marcus Leith

This page, right:London FieldworksSpace Baby, 2006Image: Kristian Buus

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Royal British NavyOperation Cauldron, 1952

Critical Art EnsembleMarching Plague, 2006

Project: marching Plague

artists: critical art ensemble

Year: 2006

Locations: Filmed on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Subsequent screenings nationally and internationally, including Ica, aV Festival and Whitney Biennial

US arts collective Critical Art Ensemble are known internationally for their tactical media actions and critical texts, often focused on controversial scientific or technological developments.

‘Marching Plague’ was a performance and film, commissioned and produced by The Arts Catalyst, centring on a re-enactment of a secret germ warfare experiment carried out by British government scientists sixty years ago off the coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. The original 1952 series of experiments, codenamed Operation Cauldron, was part of Britain’s nascent biological warfare programme, and exposed nearly 3,500 guinea pigs and 83 mon-keys to deadly germs such as bubonic plague. Operation Cauldron concluded that the germs were just as unreliable and unmanageable over water as they were found to be on the land.

Critical Art Ensemble’s film juxtaposes archival footage of the original sea trials alongside the artists’ DIY re-creation of one of the experiments, using harmless biological simulants to investigate whether microbes can be sprayed effectively over the sea at living targets—guinea pigs (in this case, looked after by members of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)—a mile away. Through the film, Critical Art Ensemble aim to address and dispel some of the public fear of “bioterrorism”, which they claim has been provoked and exploited by governments to initiate biological warfare programmes, diverting funds from valuable research in global public health and emergent infectious disease.

Thirty guinea pigs and an animal protection supervisor wait to be sprayed with harmless bac-teria―Bacillus subtilis and Serratia marcescens ―as part of Criticial Art Ensemble’s DIY re-enactment of Operation Cauldron.

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Tomas Saraceno’s ‘Poetic Cosmos of the Breath’ was the public launch of the artist’s large inflatable experimental solar dome, which was inspired by the dome created by Dominic Michaelis in 1975 for the film Hu-Man.

Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, Saraceno’s dome was launched at dawn on 22 September 2007 at Gunpowder Park, Essex, and at that point was the artist’s first major outdoor project in the UK. At sunrise, members of the public gathered to watch the launch. The dome—made of translucent sheeting and iridescent foil—was laid out on the ground, held down by sandbags. Applying the principles of solar heated air balloons and utilising the change of temperature at dawn to create a greenhouse effect, the audience witnessed—and assisted—the artist and his team to waft air under the sheeting. Slowly, the giant dome filled with air, lifted off the ground and expanded as the sun rose, the colours of the foil spectacularly shimmering in the dawn light.

In 2013, ‘Poetic Cosmos of the Breath’ was re-presented by the artist at a temporary sculpture park in Hong Kong.

Project: Poetic cosmos of the Breath artist: Tomas Saraceno

Year: 2007

Location: Gunpowder Park, essex, UK

Tomas SaracenoPoetic Cosmos of the Breath, 2007

Images: This page: Adriana MarquesLeft Page: David Cottridge

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Above:Agnes Meyer-BrandisMoon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility, 2011Production stills

Centre / Below:Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility at the Bargehouse, London, 2014Image: Delfanne

Agnes Meyer-Brandis’s poetic-scientific investigations weave fact, imagination, storytelling and myth; past, present and future. In ‘Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility’, a major commission by The Arts Catalyst, the artist develops an ongoing narrative based on the book The Man in the Moone, written by the English bishop Francis Godwin in 1603, in which the protagonist flies to the Moon in a chariot towed by ‘moon geese’.

Meyer-Brandis re-imagines this story for the 21st century by hand-rearing eleven moon geese from birth as future astronauts on a farm in Pollinaria, Italy. She gives the goslings astronauts’ names, imprints them on herself as goose-mother, trains them to swim and fly, teaches them about orbitalmechanics and the dangers of space debris, and takes them on expeditions. The commission manifests as a film, series of photographs, models, vitrines of the geese egg shells,and a control room in which visitors can interact with the moon geese via a live feed from their remote moon analogue habitat in Pollinaria.

Project: moon Goose analogue: Lunar migration Bird Facility

artist: agnes meyer-Brandis

Year: 2011–2014

Location: First presented in the thematic exhibition ‘Republic of the moon’ at FacT, Liverpool. Subsequent presentations include exhibitions in the UK, (London and Newcastle), Belgium, Germany, austria, Spain, and USa.

Agnes Meyer-BrandisMoon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility, 2011Production stills

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Project: Fracking Futures artists: HeHe

Year: 2013

Location: FacT, Liverpool, UK

‘Fracking Futures’ by Paris-based artist duo HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) was a largescale, technically ambitious dynamic installation, co-commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and FACT, Liverpool.

HeHe transformed FACT’s main gallery into a micro-scale fracking landscape, recreating with precise detail the sounds, tremors and risks of a hydraulic fracturing operation—complete with noisy drilling, pounding subwoofers simulating tectonic tremors, sporadic fireballs bursting from the earth, and oily emissions discharging into a murky lake of waste water.

Mischievous yet provocative, ‘Fracking Futures’ drew attention to the polarised debates surrounding this controversial gas extraction technique, that on the one hand regard fracking as a valuable wayto obtain new energy sources and achieve economic growth, and on the other are alarmed by its potential environmental dangers and disruptions.

Refraining from making a particular stand, HeHe’s installation opened a discursive space for this pertinent local issue (Northwest England has vast reserves of underground shale gas), as well asplayfully highlighting pressures on public arts organisations to generate new sources of income.

This page and opposite:HeHe Fracking Futures, 2013Image: FACT

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Above:Participatory workshop Satellite Stories led by artist Joanna Griffin at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey, 2008.

Centre:Cellular Gastronomy– An Alternative Sunday Lunch, a Lab Easy workshop where participants learnt skills in the art of fermentation, 2013.

Below:East of Eden by artist Lucy Stockton-Smith Sandwich-Technology School, 2004–6.

Our experience and learning programme offers people, from manybackgrounds, the opportunity to explore ideas, develop skills andcreate new work, thematically crossing art and science.

We run labs, workshops and field trips for both artists and thegeneral public, opening up rarefied fields of knowledge. Forexample, ‘Lab Easy’ with Mad Lab offered hands-on workshops inDIY biology: from culturing bioluminescent bacteria to Tiki-styleDNA extraction. We even took the lab to Deptford Market!

We offer a dynamic range of workshops and participatory projectsfor families and young people, from one-off workshops to extendedprojects such as ‘East of Eden’, in which - over an 18-monthperiod—artist Lucy Stockton-Smith with Sandwich TechnologySchool designed, built and utilised two geodesic domes in the schoolgrounds to explore the benefits of organic gardening versushi-tec agriculture.

We enjoy bringing together experts and the public, in relaxed socialenvironments, to explore new ideas and alternative perspectives inscience and culture. Our hugely popular Kosmica series—a regularLondon-based salon event exploring the art, science and culture ofouter space—has gone global, with Kosmicas in Paris, Hasselt andMexico City.

experience & Learning

Nahum Mantra and Anais Tondeur’s performative ritual A Case for Levania as part of Kosmica Mexico City, 2013.

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Research

Underpinning The Arts Catalyst’s commissions and exhibitionsprogramme is our extensive research strand. The Arts Catalyst team researches, lectures and publishes internationally on subjects including art and ecology, and cultural aspects of space exploration, nuclear energy and polar research.

From our ground breaking artistic and scientific experiments in zero gravity, we were invited by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a cultural policy for the International Space Station.

Through our long-standing interest in the polar regions, includingprojects such as Bipolar and the Arctic Perspective Initiative, wewere commissioned by the British Council in 2013 to curate theinternational touring exhibition ‘Ice Lab: New Architecture andScience in Antarctica’. Our SymbioticA BioArt workshops andSynthesis (synthetic biology) laboratory were pioneeringinitiatives in the rapidly growing interest among artists incontemporary bioscience.

We facilitate long-term residencies for artists at world-class science institutions, as well as multidisciplinary research projects, such as Makrolab, conceptualised by artist Marko Peljhan, a nomadic sustainable art/science laboratory that can host teams of researchers working and living alongside each other in remote environments.

We organise talks, critical discussions, and major thematic conferences, held in partnership with organisations including the Tate and the Royal Institution.

This Page:Scientist and penguin inAntarctica perusing Ice Labexhibition publication, 2014.

Right page, top to bottom:Arctic Perspective Initiative(API) makeshift media lab inArctic Canada, 2009.Image credit: MatthewBiederman

Makrolab in Perthshire,Scotland, 2002Image credit: Tim Knowles

Production still of MelanieJackson’s The Urpflanze(Part 2), 2012 commissionedby The Arts Catalyst as adirect result from the artistparticipating in the Synthesislaboratory.

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Ambika P3, LondonArts Council England Artist Links Brazil Arts & Humanities Research Board AT&T Brazilian Ministry of Culture British CouncilBritish Telecom Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationCity of Dortmund City of LjubljanaCOPUSCreative PartnershipsDaiwa Foundation Economic and Social Research CouncilEmbassy of Mexico, LondonEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEuropean Commission Culture ProgrammeEuropean Commission Seventh Framework Programme Goethe InstituteHenry Moore Foundation Heritage Lottery FundHigher Education Active Community Fund Highland Council Highland Culture FundHighlands and Islands Enterprise Leverhulme TrustLondon Film & VideoDevelopment AgencyMinistry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia Mobitel Mondriaan Foundation National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico NESTANevis PartnershipsOpen UniversityPaul Hamlyn FoundationPfizerScience & Technology Facilities CouncilScottish Arts Council Sir Rattan Tata Trust Wellcome Trust

The arts catalyst warmly thanks the following organisations, who have supported and worked with us over the past twenty years:

2014 team:

Staff team: Nicola Triscott, Rob La Frenais, Gillean Dickie, Jo Fells, Claudia Lastra, Sandra RossDoctoral researchers: Lisa Haskel, Jareh Dasassociates: Nahum Mantra, Ele Carpenter, Z Amber Richter, Annabel Huxley, Katrin DavisonBoard: Elizabeth Lynch, Ansuman Biswas, Lucie Green, Dave Jago, David Thorp, Chris Welch

Ars ElectronicaA Foundation, London AND Festival Artquest Atholl Estate Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, AV Festival, Newcastle-upon-Tyne BALTIC, Gateshead Barbican, LondonBournemouth University, Media SchoolBritish Antarctic SurveyBritish Embassy, MoscowBritish LibraryCanada House, London Cell Project Space, LondonCentral Laser Facilty, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of KentCentre for Mountain Studies, Perth CollegeCheltenham Science FestivalCNES (French Space Agency)Cornerhouse, Manchester CREAM, University of Westminster DadaFest Delta UtecEdinburgh Art FestivalEdinburgh ZooEllipse, FranceEuropean Space Agency European Space Research & Technology Centre, Netherlands FACT, Liverpool Farnborough Air Sciences TrustFilm & Video UmbrellaFlat Time House, LondonGagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Star City, Russia Gallery Oldham, ManchesterGoldsmiths College, LondonHICA, Scotland HMKV, Dortmund, GermanyHorniman Museum, London Hull Time Based ArtsHunterian Museum, London ICA, London IMERA, Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, LondonIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India International Astronautical Federation John Hansard Gallery, Southampton John Moore University, LiverpoolKings College, London Kings College Hospital, London Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico La Maison de la Photographie, Paris Landscape + Arts Network Services, Gunpowder Park La Societe de Curiosities, Paris Leonardo/OLATS, France/US

Lighthouse, Brighton Lighthouse, Glasgow Lilian Baylis Theatre, London London ZooLorna, IcelandLux, LondonMadLab, Manchester Matts Gallery, LondonMullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, IndiaNatural History Museum, London Old Operating Theatre, London The Open UniversityP3, London The Place, London Projekt Atol, Slovenia Queen Mary University of London Resonance FM Roehampton University, London Roundhouse, London Royal Aeronautical Engineering Workshops, FarnboroughRoyal Holloway, University of LondonThe Royal Institution LondonRoyal Society of the Arts, LondonSan Francisco Arts Commission Gallery SCAN Science Museum, London Science Museum, LondonScott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, Kent ShapeSlade School of Art, UCL Soho Theatre, London South London Gallery SPACE, London SpaceArtOne, FranceSrishti School of Art, Design & Media, Bangalore St Barts Hospital, London Stills, Ediburgh Storey Art Gallery, Lancastersuper/collider SymbioticaA, University of Western Australia S-Air, Sapporo, Japan Tate Britain, London Tramway, Glasgow transmediale, Berlin University College London, Department of GeographyUniversity College London, Department of Molecular BiologyUniversity College London, Department of Science & Technology StudiesUniversity of Leicester, Department of GeneticsUniversity of Newcastle, IntersectionsV2, RotterdamWaag Society, Amsterdam Yard Gallery, Nottingham Yorkshire Sculpture Park Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Partnership is key to work of The arts catalyst. We collaborate with world class galleries and museums, universities, arts organisations, science agencies, research centres and festivals.

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Support Us

The Arts Catalyst is an educational not-for-profit charity. In the past 20 years, we have delivered over 120 artists’ projects that experimentally and critically engage with science and technology. We are leaders in our field with an enviable track record for producing ambitious and ground-breaking projects. Through our work we open up to artists and the general public areas of knowledge and investigation that are generally perceived as scientific or technological.

We are acknowledged by Arts Council England as an important leading cultural organisation and in recognition receive an annual grant to support our work as part of their National Portfolio of directly funded arts organisations. In 2013 this grant was £267,000, and our annual budget is £400–500,000. To deliver our work, we therefore need to raise up to 50% of our funds each year from trading, individual donors, grant-making bodies and companies.

If you would like to be part of our future by supporting The Arts Catalyst financially, then we would like to hear from you. Together we can make sure that we continue to deliver provocative, playful, risk-taking art projects that spark dynamic conversations about our changing world for the benefit of society. For a discussion about how you would like to support The Arts Catalyst’s work, please contact Nicola Triscott: nicola.triscott@artscatalyst.org +44 (0)20 7633 0435

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Jack KlaffTim KnowlesAndrew KottingTorsten LauschmannYuri LeidermanLondon FieldworksLos Ferronautas (Iván Puig Domene & Andres Padilla Domene)Ruth MaclennanNathalie MagnanTrevor MathisonRachel MayeriAlistair McClymontAgnes Meyer-BrandisAleksandra MirKira O’ReillySinéad O’DonnellChris OakleyOffice of ExperimentsThe Otolith GroupLucy PanesarKatie PatersonMarko PeljhanBenedict PhillipsEsther Polak & Ivar van BekkumNicolas PrimatSimon RobertshawSteve RowellTomas SaracenoSemiconductorNikky SmedleySnæbjörnsdóttir | WilsonCamila SposatiLucy Stockton-SmithMike StubbsAshok SukumaranJon Thomson & Alison CraigheadKate TierneyAndrey & Julia VelikanovMark Aerial WallerWE COLONISED THE MOON (Hagen Betzwieser & Sue Corke)Weather PermittingNeal WhiteMorag WightmanAaron WilliamsonJane & Louise WilsonPaul WongYoHaCarey YoungAdam Zaretsky

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