On ‘The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World’
Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer and former editor of frieze magazine. Her books include ‘The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World’ (2023), ‘The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of women’s self-portraits’ (2021), the children’s book, which she also illustrated, ‘There’s Not One’ (2017), and the novel ‘Bedlam’ (2007) She was the guest curator of the 2023 exhibition Thin Skin at Monash University Art Museum in Melbourne and is the host of the National Gallery of Australia’s new podcast, Artist’s Artists.
The Jellyfish Who Lost Hope
Nicholas P. Money (Nik Money) is a gentleman of letters, mycologist, and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of popular science books that celebrate the diversity of the microbial world. His latest book, ‘Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines’, reveals our dependence on the fungi from the billions of yeasts in the gut microbiome, or mycobiome, to the mushroom colonies that support plants and spin the carbon cycle.
The Wash
Jane Scobie is sculptor working on environmental issues, her research areas include biodiversity, extraction and ocean literacy. Her MA work explores the Strandline, a ‘living system’ as material, model and metaphor to understand our relationship with the ocean in the context of climate breakdown. Jane uses materials and processes with a low environmental impact and has a circular creative approach to design – remaking and re-using work.
Hiroshima is fading
Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. His book, ‘Identity: A Very Short Introduction’, was published in February 2019.
Harry Whitaker is a renowned psychologist and neurolinguist, researching in Cognitive Science, Differential Psychology and Neuropsychology.
In this feature they discuss their experience of Hiroshima.
Contemplating Oblivion
Keith Wiley was one of the original members of MURG, the Mind Uploading Research Group, an online community dating to the mid-90s that discussed issues of consciousness with an aim toward mind uploading. He has written a previous book, ‘A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading’, about the philosophical interpretation of mind uploading, various invited book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and magazine articles, in addition to several essays on a broad array of topics.
CSM MA Arts and Science 2024 Show
The MA Art and Science at University of Arts, London is a pioneering course that explores the creative relationships at the intersection of art and science in their broadest forms, examined through an evolving interdisciplinary practice. The MA Art and Science Post-Graduate final show took place on 25th-30th June 2024. Subjects explored include, among other things, biodiversity, ecology and environments; feminism, body transformation and cyberpunk art; cosmologies; biosonification; explorations of identity and extensions of self; interspecies communication; fashion and installation art.
What is quantum entanglement? A physicist explains the science of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’
Andreas Muller is Associate Professor of Physics, University of South Florida.
“My lab’s research focuses on quantum optical phenomena in micro and nanostructures that are potentially useful for new optoelectronic devices. Future generations of optical components are expected to rely on quantum, rather than on classical physics, which could lead to significant improvements in communication speed and security, to improved sensors, as well as to quantum computation. Our main focus is on cavity quantum electrodynamics, that is, the use of optical cavities to tailor the electromagnetic environment of single quantum emitters and enhance light matter interactions at resonant frequencies. Major challenges include the fabrication of micromirrors with high reflectivity and small mode volume, and the coupling of single quantum emitters such as single atoms or single semiconductor quantum dots to a tunable microcavity. We also study quantum optical interactions in gases.”
Babies and animals can’t tell us if they have consciousness – but philosophers and scientists are starting to find answers
Henry Taylor is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham.
“I’m interested in philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and robotics. I have worked on perception, consciousness, attention, peripheral vision, the development of scientific concepts, scientific taxonomy, and robotics. Most of my research involves drawing together work from natural science and philosophy.”
Your world is different from a pigeon’s – but a new theory explains how we can still live in the same reality
Catherine Legg is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University.
“My areas of research include philosophies of language, mind and mathematics. I have long standing interests in the American pragmatists, particularly Charles Peirce, and currently co-edit the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry ‘Pragmatism’. I maintain a side-interest in artificial intelligence, having previously worked as an ontological engineer. I’m also very interested in philosophy of education, and am involved with the Philosophy for Children movement.”
Quantum leap: how we discovered a new way to create a hologram
Hugo Defienne is a Lecturer and Marie Curie Fellow, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow.
“I am a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, working with the Xtreme Light research group. I am an experienced researcher in the fields of quantum optics, optical imaging and coplex optical media. My research aims to harness quantum properties of light to develop new applications in imaging, communication and information processing.
I started my career by a PhD in the Kastler-Brossel laboratory in France (2012-2015) during which I pioneered the use of quantum optical states in scattering and complex media. I then extended my research scope to quantum imaging as a postdoc at Princeton University in the USA (2016-2018). There, I initiated a new research direction by merging quantum imaging with structured illumination approaches. In 2019, I was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (MSCA) and took up a post-doctoral researcher post at the University of Glasgow (UK) to develop quantum communication approaches with single-photon sensitive cameras. In the same year, I secured a position as a lecturer in physics there.”