"Between" in New Scientist

Review of "Between" in New Scientist's Culture Lab blog

"Between" at Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing

Co-organiser of a new exhibition of works  by Susan Aldworth, Andrew Carnie and Karen Ingham that cross-reference contemporary science, digital imaging techniques, philosophy and the humanities, to explore emerging and enriched images of the Self

19 April until 30 June 2012, (Mon-Sat, 13.00–19.00).

"Brain Jar" at the Wellcome Collection

April 14th 2012: Exploring human brain anatomy with the general public in a live class.

Part of a day of Brain events curated by Gethan and Myles at the Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection "Brains: Mind as Matter"

 Scientific adviser for Brains: The Mind as Matter at the Wellcome Collection 29th march - 17th June. Book co-authored with Marius Kwint and contributions to the exhibition.

Preview of "Between" at Inigo Rooms

Professor Alan Read, Susan Aldworth and Richard Wingate preview Between at the Inigo Rooms in the East Wing of Somerset House. Between is a collaboration between Susan Aldworth, Karen Ingham, Andrew Carnie and Richard Wingate

Big Science FM Radio Discussion

Resonance 104.4fm radio chat with Ed Gerstner on Development of the Brain 16th November 2011 9-10pm

Performing Medicine's Anatomy Season

Two public events at the Whitechapel Gallery: Screening the Body (November 19th) and Unravelling Anatomy (November 20th). Performing Medicine, Anatomy Season is produced by Clod Ensemble.

Images of the Mind

Catlogue essay "Art, Science and Imagination: Visions of the Brain Cell" to accompany joint exhibition at Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden and the Moravská Gallery in Brno July to October 2011. Reviewed in Nature

Kinetica 2011

Friday 4th February at 12. "Slices and Snapshots": Seminar with Andrew Carnie at the 2011 Kinetica Art Fair.

Pic' of the day

New Scientist 24th June with commentary in the CultureLab blog

2010 Talk: Dendritic Forms, GV Art, London

Talk with artist Andrew Carnie and art historian Marius Kwint 12th August at GV Art

The "Dendritic Forms" exhibition runs from 23rd June to 10th September.
Then "Brain Storm" until January 22nd
See review in the Wall Street Journal

2009 Art Meets Science, York University, Toronto

York University 50th Anniversary Event Transformative Entanglements: Plenary Speaker with Martha Fleming and Nell Tanhaaf
September 30

2009 BA Science Festival

Speaker at Your Creative Brain, 2009 British Association Science Festival, Guildford (September 8th)

2009 "For the Best" Symposium

Chairman, City Hall (June 26). "For the Best" (by Mark Storor, produced by Anna Ledgard) is a participatory theatre production with children at the Evelina Hospital School, Guy's and St. Thomas' Trust. Shown at the Unicorn Theatre (June-July) and supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Production Award. Winner of the TMA Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People of 2009.

2009 Creative Community at the Dana Centre

Host/Chairman for this Dana Event

How does the human brain interpret art? Why does it even need to? Creative Community offers you an evening of talk, discussion and workshops on this theme.
26 March 2009
19:00 - 21:00

2009 Invisible World

New exhibition at the National Medical Museum / Norwegian Museum for Science and Technology, Oslo. Opening 30 of January 2009.

Video interview and commmentary for this exhibition of contemporary science visualisation

2008 Science in the Making - Radio 4

Two programmes on the practice of science with philosopher Stephen Webster for BBC Radio 4.
You can listen again at the BBC

2008 Global Warming

Advisor in development of "Global Warming" with playwright Ben Musgrave and Y-Touring for sixth form students

2008 Talking Science - the cycle of learning

One day workshop at the Dana Centre on facilitating public engagement for early career scientists co-organised with Dr. Leigh Wilson (Wingate lab) and the European Dana Alliance for the Brain - Chairman and Speaker

2007 Public lectures

"Visual Culture and Bioscience" sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences - participant in an experimental virtual symposium

"Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body" - one day symposium at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen - speaker

‘Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context’ - workshop participant and steering committee member at the Medical Museion, Copenhagen

2006 Public lectures

Society for Science, Literature and the Arts (SLSA) 4th European Biannual Conference, Amsterdam - plenary speaker with Andrew Carnie

"Natural Design: Theory, History, Practice" Oxford University Continuing Education one day symposium - speaker

2006 Neuroculture: Common Senses

Neuroculture, Westport Arts Centre - Magic Forest in group exhibition reviewed in New York Times

2005 Simply Complex

"Simply Complex (enfach komplex - Bildbaume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft)" at the Zurich Design Museum - drawings, timelapse movies and models exhibited alongside Andrew Carnie's Magic Forest.

Exhibition reviewed by Martin Kemp in Nature

2004 Complex Brain

Complex Brain - a second collaborative project with Andrew Carnie
funded by a Medicine in Society Award from the Wellcome Trust uses two rotating data projectors and a ircular screen. It was exhibited at the BA Science Festival in Exeter and in Slices and Snapshots at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University.

2002 Magic Forest

Magic Forest - collaboration with Andrew Carnie resulted in his development of a slide dissolve installation based on ideas and imagery of neuronal development for "Head On" at the Science Museum.

This work was reviewed by Martin Kemp in Nature and the prompted a debate with Lewis Wolpert in the Observer.

A static version of Magic Forest is on permanent display at the Wellcome Collection

It was also exhibited in 2002 at the Rotterdam Film Festival "Exploding cinema: -stat.ic"

Commentaries on our collaboration and Magic Forest can be found in these books:

Ede, S. (2004). Art and Science. London: I. B. Tauris.

Wildevuur, S. E. (2009). Invisible Vision. Could Science Learn from the Arts? Houten, NL: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.

Wilson, S. (2010). Art and Science Now. London: Thames and Hudson.