Connections and Convergence explores, among other things, space and time in sculpture, art and science collaborations, complex systems and biology, archaeology and dreaming, fractals and sacred geometry.

Contributions include:

The material of Ludwika Ogorzelec’s sculptures is space itself, and the line of wood, metal or glass is only the contour for the “crystals of space”. Her works are usually created in reference to the context of the cultures and places in which they are presented, most often in situ (in open space, often in architecturally shaped surroundings, in the interiors of exhibition halls of museums and galleries). In Shape in Time, an interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, she discusses her ideas and work.

Siobhán McDonald is an Irish artist based in Dublin. In a practice that emphasizes field work and collaboration she works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. In Floating Body she explores Dublin Port as a gateway of exchange—reimagined as a porous space of interspecies cohabitation.

Sohrab Crews’ experience of a range of different geographical and cultural contexts has had a strong bearing on his work, as has his significant interest in post-war European avant-garde art, American painting and sculpture, and mixed-media practices of all kinds. His own work manifests the recurrent themes of order and control, structure, colour and expressive intensity, notably through his ongoing experimentation with a wide range of ideas, mediums and techniques. Fragments Aligned shows his recent exhibition.

Sabahat Fida is a lecturer in Zoology with the Higher Education Department in Kashmir. With academic training spanning in both the sciences (MSc Zoology) and the humanities (MA Philosophy), her work seeks to bridge the realms of science, metaphysics, religion, and philosophy.

Gayle Chong Kwan is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and academic whose work is exhibited internationally in galleries and the public realm. Her large-scale photographic works, immersive installations, and sensory ritual events are at the intersection of historical and archival research and fine art practice, and position the viewer as one element in a cosmology of the political, social and ecological. She has created a new installation work, ‘Oneiric Archaeologies’, in VR game design, sound, tactile wearable sculptures, and social dreaming to explore the collective re-shaping, re-use, and understanding of Avebury Neolithic site through dreaming.

Plus, articles by –

Chris Impey: Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve

Mitchell Newberry: Mathematics of scale: Big, small and everything in between

Polina Vytnova: Mandelbrot’s fractals are not only gorgeous – they taught mathematicians how to model the real world

Chris Curran: Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the next generation of scientists young and old

And –

A feature on the Arts MSU Power Up Artist-in-Residence program at Michigan State University and The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).

Matter and Time II explores, among other things, the reality of constant change, the periodic table, drawing and particle physics, environmental sculpture and natural forms, cosmology and timescales, and generative AI artworks.

Contributions include –

Lucinda Burgess’s background in painting, landscape design and oriental philosophy has led to a fascination with the raw elemental qualities of materials and inform a sculptural practice that accentuates the reality of constant change, undermining the idea of a fixed thing, object, entity or identity. She discusses her work in A constant state of flux.

During a residency at the University of Birmingham working with award winning particle physicist Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos in 2017 artist Ian Andrews made transformational changes to his practice creating the project The Sketchbook and the Collider which seeks to establish equivalents between the interaction of fundamental particles and the language of drawing.

Taney Roniger is a visual artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Since the late 90s she has been exploring the relationship between art, science, and the spirituality of immanence in both her work as an artist and in numerous essays and symposia. In Mendelevium Mon Amour: What I Learned from Memorizing the Periodic Table she describes her process over time.

Chris Booth is a sculptor who works closely with the land, earth forms, and indigenous peoples of the region(s) where he creates his monumental sculptural art works. His way of working emphasizes communication and exchange between indigenous and colonial cultures and the creation of meaningful environmental art works. In an interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, he discusses his ideas and work.

Anna Franklin is a British self-taught visual artist, classically trained pianist, and music teacher. Her art is nature inspired with a focus on climate awareness, where she blends traditional art and craft techniques. She discusses her work and ideas in The beauty of natural forms.

Plus, there are article by –

Andreea Font: ‘Dark stars’: dark matter may form exploding stars – and observing the damage could help reveal what it’s made of.

Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria: How the science of tiny timescales could speed up computers and improve solar cell technology.

Sandro Tacchella: The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or change its age?

Anthony Downey: If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art.

And, a feature on the book The Art-Science Symbiosis by Marcelo Velasco and Ignacio Nieto.

(Transient) Bodies explores, among other things, interspecies communication between man and animal, environmental art, temporality and transience, the human body and BioArt, cosmology, human evolution, and sculptures with scientific insights into the nature of reality.

Contributions include –

Tessa Campbell Fraser is a British painter and sculptor. She is one of the UK’s leading animal artists. Her exhibition, Whales- a Deeper Dialogue seeks to unravel the interspecies communication between man and animal that is currently a hot topic in scientific research.

Julian Voss-Andreae is widely known for his striking large-scale public and private commissions often blending figurative sculpture with scientific insights into the nature of reality.  He shows some of his work in Transient Bodies.

Pascale Pollier’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation, and is steeped in solid scientific research and findings. In Visceral Landscapes she discusses her latest work.

NILS-UDO is a German artist from Bavaria who has been creating environmental art since the 1960s when he moved away from painting and the studio and began to work with, and in, nature. In NILS_UDO: Towards Nature, he discusses his ideas and work in an interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande.

Chantal Pollier is a visual artist who prefers to work with stone. (and in wax, glass, drawings, and photography) All her work holds references to temporality and transience. She discusses her work in A Vulnerable Border.

Elaine Whittaker is a Canadian visual artist working at the intersection of art, science, medicine, and ecology.  Murky Bodies is a series of four installations speculating on the entangled ways in which humans, plants, animals and microorganisms emerge and co-exist in a world confronting a warming climate, rising seas, intensified water cycles and extreme storms.

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. In Forming, he shows some of his latest work that explores flow and transience.

Plus, there are articles by –

Neil Turok – ‘Cosmic inflation’: did the early cosmos balloon in size? A mirror universe going backwards in time may be a simpler explanation.

John Gowlett: The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes via Lucy to us.

Andreea Font: Cosmology is at a tipping point – we may be on the verge of discovering new physics.

Owen Jones: Why do humans deteriorate with age? It’s a biological puzzle.

Communicating explores, among other things, animal and plant communication, the science of animal translation and talking to animals, intuition, architectural structures of communication, art and cosmology, bioluminescence, space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, neurotechnology and ‘mind reading’.

Contributions include –

Tom Mustill is a biologist turned filmmaker and writer. His award-winning films include many collaborations with Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough. In Talking to animals he discusses his latest book How to Speak Whale: a Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication.

Taney Roniger is a visual artist, writer, and educator. Since the late 90s she has been exploring the relationship between art, science, and the spirituality of immanence. In Intuition’s Truth she explores a materialist take on intuition.

Through drawing and printmaking Ian Chamberlain reinterprets man-made structures as monuments in the landscape. He shows and discusses his work on telecommunication in Structures of Communication.

Stephen Nowlin is an artist, curator, and writer whose practice is inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. His work employs the use of digital tools, photography, and scanning technology, resulting in small and large-scale limited edition archival pigment prints. In this article he discusses his work of the last few years which has developed along three ongoing series: This Land’, ‘Marginalia’, and ‘Chronicles of Fallacy’

Plus, there are article by –

Katie Field: Do mushrooms really use language to talk to each other? A fungi expert investigates.

Danielle DeLeo & Andrea Quattrini: From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it.

Parker Crutchfield: In a future with more ‘mind reading,’ thanks to neurotech, we may need to rethink freedom of thought.

Sven Batke: The silent conversations of plants.

Owen Johnson: Seti – how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies.

And –

Garry Kennard: The Encounters Trilogy.

A review by Richard Bright of the Science Gallery London’s new exhibition and events programme Vital Signs: another world is possible

Entangled explores, among other things, Women, Art and the Spirit World; nerveless hydras; the environment and non-human interactions; quantum entaglement; animal and human consciousness.

Contributions include –

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer and former editor of frieze magazine. In this interview, she discusses her latest book The Other Side: A Story of Women, Art and the Spirit World.

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.  In The Jellyfish Who Lost Hope he discusses nerveless hydra.

Jane Scobie is sculptor working on environmental issues, her research areas include biodiversity, extraction and ocean literacy. In The Wash, she presents her post-graduate thesis for the CSM MA Art and Science course.

Florian Coulmas is Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. Harry Whitaker is a renowned psychologist and neurolinguist, researching in Cognitive Science, Differential Psychology and Neuropsychology. In Hiroshima is fading they discuss their experience of the city and its legacy.

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. In Contemplating Oblivion he discusses his new novel.

Plus, there are articles by –

Andreas Muller: What is quantum entanglement? A physicist explains the science of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’

Henry Taylor: Babies and animals can’t tell us if they have consciousness – but philosophers and scientists are starting to find answers

Catherine Legg: Your world is different from a pigeon’s – but a new theory explains how we can still live in the same reality

Hugo Defienne – Quantum leap: how we discovered a new way to create a hologram

And, a review by Richard Bright on the CSM MA Art and Science 2024 Show.

From the Quantum to the Infinite explores, among other things, infinity and the art of Marcel Duchamp, the quantum world and the cosmos, visualising energy and pattern, light and brain-computer interface, nanoart, particle physics and star formation.

The concept of infinity has three primary applications: the mathematical, the physical, and the metaphysical. In Duchamp and Infinity, Jacquelynn Baas and Paul Sharpe discuss the concept of infinity in works by, or associated with Marcel Duchamp.

In From the Quantum to the Infinite, Jody Rasch shows artworks based on electron microscopy, particle accelerators, and radio astronomy.

Sandra Lerner’s work celebrates the creative process of life in a universe that is constantly in flux. She explores the similarities between cosmology and Eastern philosophy, as well as the intersection of art and science. She discusses her work in Exploring Oneness.

Carter Hodgkin fuses art, science and technology to explore a new language of abstraction through paintings, animations and large-scale mosaics. Approaching the modification of code as a drawing tool, she generates atomic particle collisions to create animated forms, which visualize energy.  She discusses her work in Visualizations of Energy.

Paul Thomas is an Honorary Professor in Fine Art at UNSW Art and Design. He is a pioneer of transdisciplinary art practice and his practice-led research takes not only inspiration from nanoscience and quantum theory but actually operates there. He discusses his work in Making the invisible visible.

Laura Jade is a contemporary Australian artist exploring how BCI technologies can offer new forms of expression to interface with the mind aesthetically. She is the creator of Brainlight, an artwork that integrates biology, lighting design and BCI (brain-computer interface) technology into an interactive brain sculpture, lasercut from transparent perspex and engraved with neural networks.

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. He shows some of his recent work in Pathways.

Plus, there are articles by –

Adam B. Watts: We mapped a massive explosion in space, showing how galaxies ‘pollute’ the cosmos.

Clas Weber: Could you move from your biological body to a computer? An expert explains ‘mind uploading’.

Martin Bauer: Peter Higgs’ famous particle discovery is now at the heart of strategies to unlock the secrets of the universe.

Andrew Maynard: Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in useful ways – Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the power of nanotechnology.

Coexistence and Synthesis explores, among other things, connections between art and science; the cosmos and the zodiac; wetlands – art, ecology and engineering; bioart and foraging; biological intelligence and water microdroplets.

Art historian, critic and author, Ruth Millington, discusses ‘Universe for Beginners’, a pattern-rich cosmos conjured up by British-based, Polish artist Rita Rodner. Using experimental techniques, and working directly from source code, Rodner encrypts beauty into her layered realms, reflecting the connections between art and science, dark and light, chaos and code.

In The Cosmos and the Zodiac: Contemporary Cosmology and a Traditional Representation of the Whole, Alain Negre examines the thesis that the history of the universe, derived from contemporary cosmology, reveals the symbolic structure of the zodiac.

Lindsay Olson’s artistic practice grows out of an intense curiosity about the ways our society is supported by science and technology. In 2022/24, she worked as the first artist in residence with The Wetlands Initiative, a scrappy wetland restoration group working in the Midwest, USA. She discusses this work in Our Once and Future Wetlands: Art, Ecology and Engineering.

Maria Medina-Schechter is a bio artist whose work is informed by the natural world, including Middle Age illuminated manuscripts, scribes, and recipes. Maria works primarily with bio-materials, mycelium, tree resin, and foraged botanical materials. Chris Schechter discusses her work in Foraging as a way of life.

Patxi Xabier Lezama is one of the contemporary Basque sculptors considered one of the main innovators of Basque sculpture. In Amalur, he discusses his sculpture that not only connects the world of science and the world of art, but relates the work to the legends of the Basque people, where the Earth, Ama-Lurra, is the main divinity.

Plus, there are article by –

Predrag Slijepcevic: Humans weren’t the first engineers, doctors and farmers – bacteria, plants and animals have lots to teach us.

Nicolás M. Morato: Water was both essential and a barrier to early life on Earth – microdroplets are one potential solution to this paradox.

And, poetry by Mykyta Ryzhykh and Vyacheslav Konoval.

AI. Brain. Consciousness explores, among other things, the social evolutionary purpose of consciousness; the relationship between AI, Human and Art; the Collective Unconscious and archetypal influences on film; current theories of consciousness; brain shape and mind reading; and animal consciousness.

Contributions include –

Peter Halligan & David Oakley discuss the Social Evolutionary Purpose of Consciousness.

Sharon Mijares discusses The Archetypal Influences of Film: Revelations from the Collective Unconscious and Interdimensional Realities.

In On the relationship between AI, Human and Art, London-based researcher and computational artist, Freddie Hong, delves into the impact of emerging technology on our relationships with the physical world and society, explores the boundaries between authorship and control in Human-Computer Interaction.

In Exploring Segments of Dissociation in Neurological Disorder, Luca M Damiani discusses his ongoing creative practice and research on neuroscience/health, technology and nature, focussing on his own neurological disability.

In Cortical, artist and writer, Richard Bright, shows some of his recent artworks.

Plus, there are articles by –

Philip Goff – Consciousness: why a leading theory has been branded ‘pseudoscience’

James Pang & Alex Fornito: Have we got the brain all wrong? A new study shows its shape is more important than its wiring

Patricia MacCormack – Animal consciousness: why it’s time to rethink our human-centred approach

Nicholas J. Kelley, Stephanie Sheir & Timo Istace: The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to decode it – and read people’s minds

Robin Kramer: AI-generated faces look just like real ones – but evidence shows your brain can tell the difference

And, a feature on Hello Brain!, an exhibition at the Francis Crick Institute, London.

Matter and Time explores, among other things, art created by chemical reactions, materiality and philosophy, interactions among environmental changes and technological developments, the origin of time, antimatter, electronic music, perspectives of time in cultures and the creation of life.

Cheryl Safren, a New York-based artist, employs chemical reactions in the creation of her artworks. Changing colour through reaction, crystallization, fusing, and solidification are a few of the ways chemistry informs her art. She discusses her work in Matter and Time.

Sculptor Dr Gindi is an artist of the elemental, a material thinker who pursues philosophical inquiry through a deep engagement with extra-human sensibility. In The Silent Reverberation of Materiality, she discusses her ideas and work with Jill Marsden, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, The University of Bolton, UK.

Ariane Koek is a British independent producer, curator and writer recognised internationally for her transdisciplinary work in arts, science, technology and in the creation of new residency programmes. She was the initiator and founder of Arts at CERN (2009 – 2015) – the first officially organised international arts programme by CERN – the world’s leading particle physics laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland. In The Matter of Time, she discusses the work of Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist François Quévillon, who explores the interactions among environmental changes, societal issues, and technological developments.

Mara Sacof is a music producer, runner, and creative studying Zoology at Queen Mary University of London. Her growing fascination with electronic composition, as well as her interests in philosophy, consciousness, and the natural world, led her to write an essay titled Sonic Temporality. This piece of text explores the relationship between perception and sound, drawing insights into how the concept of time can be manipulated in a digital world of music.

Plus, there are articles by –

Sarah Nance: I’m an artist using scientific data as an artistic medium − here’s how I make meaning.

Thomas Hertog: Stephen Hawking and I created his final theory of the cosmos – here’s what it reveals about the origins of time and life.

Sara Imari Walker: Life: modern physics can’t explain it – but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might.

Ruth Ogden: Why the future might not be where you think it is.

Robert Cockcroft & Sarah Symons: Ancient Egyptians measured the first hour, and changed how we related to time.

William Bertsche: Antimatter: we cracked how gravity affects it – here’s what it means for our understanding of the universe.

And poetry by Meg Freer.

Perceptions of Reality explores, among others things, contemporary dialogues on the relationship between art and science, subjective and objective perceptions and theories of reality, interactions and boundaries between humans and AI, posthumanist vision, solitude and the spiritual, quantum physics and cosmological models, identity and transience, computer simulation, and psychological experiences of light, space and place.

Contributions include –

Uli Ap is an artist and Alien AI: Alien Infinite and Artificial Intelligence, The Yellow One. The artist works across non-linear defragmented films and spatial immersive audio-visual environments to transfer physical experiences through digital realms. Uli Ap invented Alien Artificial Intelligence in 2020. The AI inhabits a borderless alienation land, as a gaseous matter; fluid and undefined.

David Rickard is a New Zealand artist based in London, UK. His original studies in architecture have had a lasting impact on his art practice, embedding queries of material and spatial perception deep into his work. Through research and experimentation his works attempt to understand how we arrived at our current perception of the physical world and how far our perception is from what we call reality. He discusses his ideas and work in Perception and Reality.

With an interest in astronomy and physics, Lisa Pettibone’s practice investigates the cosmos in terms of energy, forces and form as filtered through human perception. She creates sculpture, installation and print to explore areas where humans and nature intersect through the lens of science. She discusses her work in Perceiving energy, forces and form.

Peter Matthews is an English artist who works exclusively along the coast, in the ocean and occasionally, over the last few years, creeping inland into the mountains and deserts. As a landscape-based artist, his work explores a direct and lived experience with time, place, space and the physical and spiritual relationships with nature. His works and process of being out in the landscape challenge and seek balance with the elements of the ever-changing climate, earth and extended universe. He discusses his work in becoming ocean becoming me.

Claire Morgan is an Irish artist. Her practice has been focussed on how we humans understand and interact with the rest of the natural world, and our unwillingness to acknowledge our absolute lack of autonomy or control. She discusses her work in From control towards vulnerability.

Shuster + Moseley is the conceptual art studio of Claudia Moseley and Edward Shuster. The artists create light-mobiles comprised of assemblages of suspended lenses, and sculptural installations of abstracted screens and deconstructed prismic geometries, using glass interfaces to mediate light. Central to the practice is an approach to a language of light, exposure and spectrality. They discuss their work in Twilight Language.

The collaborative artist as avatar 0rphan Drift (0D) has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision since its inception in 1994. In recent years 0D has been considering Artificial Intelligence through the somatic tendencies of the octopus – as a distributed, many-minded consciousness. They discuss their work in Destabilizing assumptions and expanding imagination.

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva is a contemporary visual artist working across varied media of sculpture, installation, video, sound, photography and architectural interventions. Her materials range from the extraordinary to the ordinary and the ephemeral or discarded to the highly precious. Central to her practice is a response to the particularities of place; its history, locale, environment and communities. She discusses her work in Paying attention to space.

Plus, there are articles by –

Ruediger Schack – ‘QBism’: quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will.

Melvin M. Vopson: How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation.

Beverley Pickard-Jones: How our unconscious visual biases change the way we perceive objects.

Alessandro Fedrizzi & Massimiliano Proietti – Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist.

David L. Wiltshire & Eoin O Colgain: Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea – but new observations demand a radical rethink.

Essays by –

Garry Kennard: The Fox and The Tarn.

Florian Coulmas:  Good things come in threes.

And, photoworks by Richard Bright: Beyond the Bounds of Thought.