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Upcoming! Cryptic 2017: Art and Science Exhibition at the Crypt Gallery

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Cryptic 2017: Art and Science Private view: 24 November, 6pm - 9pm Open to the public: 25 – 26 November, 11am - 7pm & 27 November, 11am - 6pm Debate about art, science and technology: 26 November, 2pm The Crypt Gallery, Euston Rd, London NW1 2BA (entrance via Duke’s Road) http://cryptgallery.org/ Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/125331858184259/ Kindly supported by The Print Team – http://theprintteamgg.com/   Cryptic: Art and Science returns for its second year, curated by Neus Torres Tamarit and hosted by the evocative Crypt Gallery on Euston Road. Building on the success of the inaugural exhibition in 2016, Cryptic features an international selection of nineteen artists, including postgraduate students and alumni from Central Saint Martins, Slade, Westminster University and Middlesex University. Cryptic examines the relationship between art, science and technology, and features artworks that use technology and science variously as medium or message. Expl

Phenotypica (Ben Murray and Neus Torres Tamarit) at Oxo Tower.

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From the 20th to the 24th of September 2017, we exhibited at Clinic //2, an exhibition curated by Vitamin Design studio in partnership with the London Design Festival and Oxo Tower. Clinic //2 explored the diminishing digital interface layer and technology’s effect on our reality. Digital emulation continually strives to become indecipherable from real-world existence. Where does your reality stop and simulation begin? Vitamin Design studio invited us to exhibit our installations Confined Mutations and a selection of the artworks belonging to Biomorpha (Evolving Structures). When we arrived to the emblematic Oxo Tower, we decided to turn our piece Confined Mutations into a site-specific installation, as we wanted our abstract digital organisms to interact with the features of the space as much as possible. Site-specific adaptation of Confined Mutations We decided to project the animations on the structure of two old windows, which had a mixture of materials such as gla

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Wheel, collaboration with the Royal Society

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I have had the great opportunity to collaborate with the Royal Society in their project ‘Changing Expectations’ about envisioning research culture in the year 2035. As part of this project, my colleague Julie Light, from the MA Art and Science, wanted to create a ‘Museum of Extraordinary Objects’ belonging to the year 2035. I   was already reflection about interdisciplinary research, and how people from different disciplines can collaborate with each other, as this is a crucial part of my artistic practice; collaborating with geneticists, and computer scientists. This subject came up in one of the pilot workshops organised by the Royal Society. I got inspired by this and ‘Collaboration’, subject proposed by the Royal Society team. I wanted to make an object that would choose a team randomly, and in a way that the person using such object couldn't choose the members of the team. I added professions related to science, humanities craftsmanship, and professions that are