Emerging Ideas

Molly Macleod: We Are All Carbon

Molly Macleod is a multidisciplinary artist exploring scientific concepts through collaborative projects with researchers and scientists. Through poetic interpretation and distilling meaning via her use of unconventional, signifying materials, her artwork invites intimate and philosophical engagement combined with accessible simplicity and a minimalist aesthetic. Locating her practice within the liminal space between art and science she employs the scientific method to examine and question cultural phenomena.

Todd Sformo: Creator of Evidence – An Incomplete Metamorphosis

“This essay is about a transition from the humanities to the sciences (life science). It shows the hesitancy in giving up one thing for another, but the hesitancy itself turns out to be not just frustrations in trying to learn something new but also the opportunity to situate science in a humanities’ context.” – Todd Sformo

Martha Gray: BioCyan

Martha Gray is a London based artist and curator, who has worked with alternative processes for the past seven years. Gray’s practice explores personal relationships to the ‘natural’ through experimental photographic processes, with ongoing research into the use of cyanotype as a contemporary method.

Anna Linnea Strøe: Aether and Under Aether

Anna Linnea Strøe is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Denmark and currently working in London. Her art practice explores interactive environments (including virtual environments) and ecological perception, and her primary research areas include embodied cognition, altered consciousness, and spatial perception.

Alejandro Peralta Soler: Schizophrenia and human nature

This paper analyzes the mental disease schizophrenia from a generic perspective, which includes its manifestations in art. The hypothesis is that schizophrenia is more than a disease and may be a reflection of distinctive features which are unique to the human species. Examination of works of art produced by schizophrenic patients and recent genetic studies support the idea that schizophrenia may represent an extreme manifestation of human nature.

Richard Paton: Exploring Magnetism as a Metaphor for Humanity’s Disconnect with Nature.

As one of the four fundamental forces in physics it has been harnessed to shape our modern world of electronics and how we interact with each other. For the last four years Fine Artist Richard Paton has explored various enigmatic aspects of magnetism and completed an MA in Art & Science at UAL in 2020. By researching Geomagnetism and Magneto Reception Paton’s artwork looks at how magnetism can be seen as a metaphor revealing a fundamental human disconnection with the earth itself and the animal’s which inhabit the natural world.
In recent pieces he tackles some of the most pressing issues of our times such as habitat degradation and species extinction which draw upon the evolution of the compass, mechanical automata and interactive electronics.

Lynne Goldsmith: Poems

Lynne Goldsmith’s first book, ‘Secondary Cicatrices’, won the 2018 Halcyon Poetry Prize, was a 2019 Finalist in the American Book Fest Awards, a 2020 Human Relations Indie Book Award Gold Winner and won a new Finalist Award in the International Book Awards. Her poetry has been published in Backchannels Journal, Spillway, Thimble Literary Magazine, Environmental Magazine, Red Planet Magazine, among others, with upcoming poems in Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Scotland’s 2020 Geopoetry Conference program. 

David Fore: Poems

David Livingstone Fore is a researcher and designer living in Oakland, California. His most recent work explores relationships between climate changes taking place in the world and those taking place in our bodies.

Logan Chipkin: Poems

Logan Chipkin is a freelance writer and ghostwriter in Philadelphia, USA. His articles focus on science, philosophy, economics, and history. In this selection of his poetry, the first poem tells the story of a single theorist’s late afternoon in his office. The second poem tells the story of the entire universe in a few hundred words, from the Big Bang to the emergence of civilization. The third poem is about human nature as understood through the laws of physics.