Inner Space. Outer Space. (II) explores the sense of place and space, both as an exterior phenomena (physical space) and as a source of internal personal transformation (mental space). Subjects covered include art and spaceflight ; connections and patterns between the microcosm and the universe; cosmology and the cosmic web; complexity and microbiology; consciousness and quantum physics.

Drawing on her experience with ceramics, fabric, and sculpture, Amie Esslinger’s paintings and distinctive mixed-media installations attempt to bridge the gap between art and science. She discusses her work in Contemplating Complexity.

Seiko Tachibana’s distinctive work balances Asian tradition with minimalist modernity, with works having a poetic beauty that explores the essential patterns of life. She creates images that suggest both a world in microcosm as well as the immensity of the universe. She discusses her work in Connecting the Microcosm and the Universe.

Richelle Gribble is an expeditionary artist exploring planetary connectivity, both on and off Earth. Her work explores connectivity in a world where human impact, technology, and the environment collide. In Analog Astronaut she discusses her art project for analog space missions on the Moon and Mars via Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), Sensoria Program, and Lunares Research Station.

Living Light is an artwork designed by the Beyond Earth artist collective for spaceflight. It combines biology, artificial intelligence, and aerospace technology. Beyond Earth modeled the design to nest within Spaceship Neptune, referencing the Roman God of the sea. Its form was inspired by the vast biodiversity of aquatic life on Earth. The artwork traveled to space on June 18 2021 aboard Neptune One, Space Perspective’s inaugural test flight.

Plus, there are articles by –

Warwick Bowen: A quantum hack for microscopes can reveal the undiscovered details of life

Stefan Forstner: Could Schrödinger’s cat exist in real life? Our research may provide the answer

Peter Halligan & David A Oakley: Is it time to give up on consciousness as ‘the ghost in the machine’?

Ray Norris: A thread of the cosmic web: astronomers spot a 50 million light-year galactic filament

Monica Grady:  Can the laws of physics disprove God?

And, new poetry by Lynne Goldsmith in Dark Matter and other poems.

Nothingness explores ideas of ‘nothing’, ‘absence’ and ‘the void’ within art, science, cinema, philosophy and religion.

Karen Fitzgerald’s artwork is focused on the energy that suffuses our world, as well as the Universe: her work explores energy in its myriad manifestations. In Rendering the invisible visible she discusses her ideas and work.

Justin Remes is an associate professor of film studies at Iowa State University. He is the author of Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing (Columbia UP, 2020) and Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (Columbia UP, 2015). He discusses his ideas and research in and exclusive interview Absence in Cinema.

Nila Onda is a New York City-based cross-disciplinary artist, producing a multi-faceted body of work ranging from photography and experimental film to painting and printmaking. She is inspired by nature, ideas in quantum physics, eastern philosophy, Zen aesthetics and the complex symbolic language of geometric patterns in Islamic art. She discusses her work in An Encounter with Mystery.

Adam Crowley makes paintings in the landscape and still life genre. His work explores concepts of beauty, fear, sadness, hope, frustration, deep-time, and tradition. Originally beginning his photo based work with the idea of removal of the self and monastic transcription of imagery, he has recently come to realize the necessity of beauty and the importance of dialogue between artist and environment.

Niki Hare is a diverse visual artist whose work revolves around ideas of existence and vision. The work dissects and explores the world she has suddenly found herself in. There is a focus on detailing and observation. She discusses her work in Nothing is Beautiful.

With his art practice, Emanuel Gollob bridges aesthetic research, human-A.I. interaction, neuroscience and robotics. The spectator’s emotions when perceiving his works are most important to him. With his works he explores different techniques of creating a moment of doing nothing, confronting people with machines whose aim it is to make them become inactive. He discusses his work in Searching a moment of Doing Nothing.

In Yves Klein: Leaping into the Void, Adrian Holme discusses the famous photograph by Harry Shunk, Man in Space! The painter of Space Throws Himself into the Void! (1960), showing Klein apparently launching himself from a balcony into the empty street.

Plus, there are article by –

Lloyd Strickland: Answering the biggest question of all: why is there something rather than nothing?

Ittay Weiss: Nothing matters: how the invention of zero helped create modern mathematics.

Frederic Kiernan: Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by.

What is nothing? Martin Rees Q&A

The Art of Science explores ideas of collaboration and convergence between artists and scientists, together with science inspired artworks.

In A window onto science: representing scientific concepts in art and the potential of the diorama, artist Julie Light discusses her project with scientists at the University of Leeds and the development of her artwork ‘Diorama 1’, which provides a case study of the practices and decisions that enable an artist and team of scientists to work through complex issues about representing science.

Gunther Lill is a mixed media artist. His series Art4Heart aims to inform and make people aware of the outstanding importance of modern technology for human health.

Lisa Temple-Cox’s work explores interstices: between science and religion, the normal and the pathological, the familiar and the uncanny. Her current research interests explore the aesthetics and symbolism of the medical museum with a focus upon the anatomical. It examines our own subjective experiences and perceptions of the body in life and death using a range of media, including drawing, assemblage, and installation. She discusses her work in Mapping the Remains: a personal journey in drawing anatomy.

Eric Franklin constructs stunning anatomical light structures that are fully hollow. Utilizing clear glass tubing as a container for light and space, they are vacuum sealed and filled with noble gases such as neon, krypton, argon, and xenon to create stunning renderings of the human form. He discusses his work in Revealing Luminous Human Forms.

Claudia Schnugg is a curator and producer of art and science collaboration and a researcher in the intersections of art and aesthetics with science, technology, and business. She produces artscience collaborations, artist-in-residence programs, media art projects as well as various projects intertwining art, science, technology, and innovation in business, industry, scientific organizations and cultural organizations. She discusses her ideas and work in Creating ArtScience Collaborations.

Patrick McDonnell is a founding member of European Medical Illustration Association. For over 20 years he was a member of the Association of Medical Illustrators, during which time he won various awards in the AMI salons. Award of Excellence for Medical Book. 1st, 2nd and honourable mention for medical computer graphics. He has illustrated over 20 Medical textbooks and surgical atlases on various subjects for different doctors, surgeons and scientists. He discusses his work in Being a Medical Illustrator.

Ahna Skop is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and an affiliate faculty member in Life Sciences Communication and the UW-Madison Arts Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She mentors both scientists and art students in her lab, and also serves on the board of the Wisconsin Science Museum, where many of her artscience collaborations are on display. She discusses her ideas and work in Genetics, art and communication.

Jessica Lloyd-Jones is a visual artist whose work explores concepts of energy and natural phenomena through the experimental use of materials and light. In her work, Sun Catcher, she has created a vivid light installation in the main atrium of Rowan View Hospital, a Mental Health facility in Maghull, Merseyside, sensitively employing the use of light and colour to create a relaxing environment for staff, visitors and service user.

Plus, there are articles by –

Kate Patterson: Art and science combine to reveal the inner workings of our DNA

Margaret Wertheim: The art and beauty of general relativity

Nancy Locke: How photography evolved from science to art

And, book reviews by –

Taney Roniger: You Are Where You Are: Sarah Robinson’s ‘Architecture is a Verb’.

Richard Bright: The Art of Science.

Navigating New Territories explores such subjects as Affinities between Art and Science, environmental arts and health, the future of AI in art and space exploration, solarpunk future cities, bird migration, and the potential of a brand new physics.

Philip F. Palmedo studied art history and physics as an undergraduate at Williams College, and received his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. He has written extensively in many areas, including several books on modern sculpture. His most recent book is Deep Affinities: Art and Science, on which Revealing Affinities between Art and Science is based.

Pamela Whitaker is an art therapist living in Ireland who practices under the name of Groundswell, a social enterprise working in the areas of art therapy, art and participation, environmental arts, and arts and health. In her interview On Groundswell she discusses the organisation and its aims, and in her article, Habitats of Composition: The Nature of the Commons, she explores land art that constructs habitats of refuge or survival shelters.

Marian Mazzone’s and Glenn W. Smith’s experience with AICAN and other art and artificial intelligence projects at Rutgers University has inspired the thought that the art world finds itself in a period of discovery and experimentation similar to that leading up to the original Renaissance. They discuss their ideas in Flailing About – and Having Compassion on Ourselves – as We Stand on the Verge of a New Renaissance.

Dustin Jacobus is a Belgian illustrator, interested in biomimicry, sustainable design and futurism. In the art-research project Universitas, he combines these themes and creates a futuristic world in which a fictional researcher H. Bottlefield, explores eight solarpunk cities.

Joshua Burraway is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection between social and political theory, cultural phenomenology, addiction medicine, and psychiatry. He is interested in how historical and structural forces shape different modes of subjectivity, in particular with regards to altered states of consciousness induced by psychoactive chemicals among homeless substance-users. The Black Stuff and The Sill are recent short stories he has written.

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. In Poems she publishes her recent poetry.

Plus, there are articles by –

Deep Bandivadekar & Audrey Berquand: Five ways artificial intelligence can help space exploration.

Miguel Farias: Are the brains of atheists different to those of religious people? Scientists are trying to find out.

Harry Cliff, Konstantinos Alexandros Petridis & Paula Alvarez Cartelle: Evidence of brand new physics at Cern? Why we’re cautiously optimistic about our new findings.

Liam Guilfoyle: How children can learn to balance science and religion.

Emma Hart: We’re teaching robots to evolve autonomously – so they can adapt to life alone on distant planets.

Richard Holland & Dmitry Kishkinev: Birds use massive magnetic maps to migrate – and some could cover the whole world.

Mark Lee: Why AI can’t ever reach its full potential without a physical body.

The Beautiful Brain explores representations of the brain in relation to contemporary neuroscience and the influence of neuroscientific methods on the visual arts, together with questions about the nature of consciousness and altered states.

Katharine Dowson’s inspiration comes from nature, medicine and the scientific world as she often collaborates with scientists as part of her artistic practice. These include researchers investigating genetics, dyslexia and Parkinson’s disease, producing intricate casts of her own heart and brain from MRI scans. Her sculptures are made in various media but especially transparent materials and glass, which she uses as a metaphor for a membrane, a fragile yet robust skin that allows light to pass through and reveal the hidden interior within. She discusses some of her work in The Beautiful Brain.

In Better People Through Chemistry? Philosopher Ron Wilburn questions why many psychedelic proponents feel a need to ground their claims for the evaluative significance of chemically induced mystical experience in prior metaphysical claims about higher realities endowed with special moral authority.

Danial Arabali is an Iranian-German artist and Engineer. In one series of his ‘NeuroArt’ paintings, he takes a look at the neuronal networks from a more artistic point of view rather than realistic representations of existing structures, while in another series he attempts to apply the modern color theory concepts of expressionist German artists to visualize the beauty of neuronal connections in a more abstract manner.

Lidija Kononenko is a student from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, whose practice investigates methodologies of scientific research into the human condition. Her artwork ‘31-3594’ won the Art of Neuroscience 2020 in which she explores the nervous system in an interactive way. The Pacemaker is an animation film exploring endurance training and emotional complexities in romantic relationships.

Hanif Janmohamed is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. His practice is focused on the Geographies of the Mind. Brain Terrains is an ongoing body of work. A wandering, quixotic expedition through the common visual lexicons of our human and planetary bodies – a reframe of our inhabitation across scale through mash-ups of medical and satellite imaging.

Michelle Hunter’s Brain Series deconstructs familiar themes related to how our brains function and is meant to help the general public gain a greater appreciation for this organ we don’t usually “think” about. Using a painterly technique, the artist transforms everyday objects with a subtle unexpected surreal approach.

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 30 years. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was the recipient of the ‘Visions of Science’ Award, The Edge, Andrew Brownsward Gallery, University of Bath (Second Prize Winner). In Brainscapes he shows some works from his neuroscience inspired Limited Edition Prints.

Plus there are articles by Henry Taylor: Blindsight: a strange neurological condition that could help explain consciousness ; Harriet Dempsey-Jones: These artists paint with their feet – scans show how unique their brains are ; Sam Ereira: How the brain builds a sense of self from the people around us – new research ; Philip Goff: Consciousness: how can I experience things that aren’t ‘real’? ; and Wei Luan, Merja Joensuu & Ravi Kiran Kasula: Neuroscience in pictures: the best images of the year.

Become Ocean explores our relationship with oceanic processes and life through artistic and scientific engagement and understanding. Subjects covered include marine biology, behaviour and habitats, climate change and underwater ecologies, human pollution, environmental awareness and collective solutions to saving the oceans.

Kate Stafford is a Principal Oceanographer at the Applied Physics Lab and affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has worked in marine habitats all over the world, from the tropics to the poles, and is fortunate enough to have seen (and recorded) blue whales in every ocean in which they occur. Her current research focuses on the changing acoustic environment of the Arctic and how changes from declining sea ice to increasing industrial human use may be influencing subarctic and Arctic marine mammals. She discusses her work in The changing acoustic environment of the Arctic.

A leading figure in art and ecology, John K. Grande is author of a range of books that include Balance: Art and Nature and Art Space Ecology. In Jason deCaires Taylor’s Underwater BioCulture Sculpture at the Museo Atlantico, he discusses the work of sculptor and environmentalist’s major project Museo Atlantico, a collection over 300 submerged sculptures and architectural forms in Lanzarote, Spain, the first of its kind in European waters. His pioneering public art projects are not only examples of successful marine conservation, but works of art that seek to encourage environmental awareness, instigate social change and lead us to appreciate the breathtaking natural beauty of the underwater world.

Joyce Yamada is a Brooklyn-based artist working in both painting and multi-media installation. An intuitive painter using complex imagery, she is profoundly interested in science, ecology, and the environment. She probes the relationship between humans and nature, the deep history of life on earth, and our possible futures. She discusses her work in In the Arms of Fierce Mother Ocean.

Alejandro Durán collects the international trash washing up on the Caribbean coast of Mexico and transforms it into aesthetic yet disquieting art works that wake us to the threat of plastic pollution. Through photography and installation, his long-term project “Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape” examines the fraught intersections of man and nature, revealing the pervasive impact of consumer culture on the natural world.

Courtney Mattison creates intricately detailed and large-scale ceramic sculptural works inspired by the fragile beauty of coral reefs and the human-caused threats they face. She raises awareness for the protection of our blue planet, urging policy makers and the public to conserve our changing seas. She discusses her work in The Fragile Beauty of Coral.

Plus, there are articles by Kira Erwin: A theatre project explores collective solutions to saving the ocean ; Ian Kane & Michael Clare: Seafloor currents sweep microplastics into deep-sea hotspots of ocean life ; Suzanne O’Connell: Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier ; Jonathan Bamber: Arctic Ocean: why winter sea ice has stalled, and what it means for the rest of the world ; and Rachael Morgan: A tropical fish evolved to endure rising temperatures – but it may not be fast enough to survive climate change.

Thought Forms explores such subjects as Art, Science and Occultism in early 20th Century Art, Contemporary Esotericism and Spirituality in Art, Existential Analysis, concepts of the fourth dimension, panpsychism, AI-based language, and the nature of nothing.

Linda Dalrymple Henderson is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of Texas. Her research and teaching focus on modern art and modernism, more generally, in relation to their broader cultural context, including ideas such as ‘the fourth dimension,’ the history of science and technology, and mystical and occult philosophies. She discusses these ideas in her article Abstraction, the Ether, and the Fourth Dimension: Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich in Context.

Steve Sangapore is an American contemporary oil painter. Using vastly different stylistic approaches with various series’, his work can be described as an amalgamation of realism, surrealism and abstraction with thematic focuses on the human condition. He discusses his latest work in WHAT GOD IS. (WITHOUT THE WOO WOO) and NEW EDEN.

Kate Southworth makes paintings, drawings, prints and rituals as a way of understanding the transformative energies and unseen patterns of the psyche. Her work experiments with a ‘scattered form’ in which several visible and invisible fragments co-exist. Recent work maps her journeys into the unconscious mind revealing geometric and net-like forms. She has a particular interested in how processes of transformation emerge in the symbolic sphere: the hexagrams of the i-ching, alchemy, yoga traditions, calendric practices, and myths. She discusses her work in Ritual forms and transformations.

Artist and author, Tony Robbin, works with painting, sculpture and computer visualizations. He is a pioneer in the computer visualization of four-dimensional geometry. With his paintings and innovative computer visualizations of hyperspace, he continues to investigate different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics. His article Topology and the Visualization of Space discusses multiple spatial dimensions in his work.

Derek Bean is a practising Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapist and registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. Flesh and the Angels is a meditation on creativity in life, art and psychotherapy, its expression as a phenomenology of bursting, and the challenge of keeping going, with John Coltrane, Rainer Maria Rilke and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as companions.

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 A Silent Mattering: On Art, Crisis, and the Urgency of the Real she asks what good is art in a time of crisis?

CIRCLINGS shows examples of a new book of drawings by Garry Kennard, which were prompted by the final lines of the last canto of Dante’s Divine Comedy. These words describe the vision that Dante experiences at end of his journey through hell, purgatory and paradise. They tell of his witnessing the creative power at the heart of creation. In this he sees a great circling of reflected spheres and rainbows and, somehow, the human image within it all. The article includes the preface by Paul Broks, clinical neuropsychologist-turned-writer.

Anna Sofie Jespersen is a Danish artist based in London who produces emotive figurative works. Anna’s powerful drawings are laden with feeling. Her large scale works have a particularly strong impact. She discusses her ideas and work in Projecting desires and fears.

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 30 years. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and was the recipient of the ‘Visions of Science’ Award, The Edge, Andrew Brownsward Gallery, University of Bath (Second Prize Winner). In Vessels he shows some recent work from the series.

Plus, there are articles by Philip Goff: Science as we know it can’t explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming ;  Guillaume Thierry: GPT-3: new AI can write like a human but don’t mistake that for thinking – neuroscientist ; and What is nothing? Martin Rees Q&A.

Future Earth explores such subjects as climate change, AI and biotechnologies, biodiversity, futurology, human-virus interaction, behavioural change and visionary thinking ‘post-pandemic’.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places. She discusses her work in A visceral encounter with the near future.

Pei-Ying Lin is an artist / designer from Taiwan and currently based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Her main focus is on the combination of science and human society through artistic methods and is particularly interested in building a common discussion ground for different cultural perspectives regarding elements that construct our individual perception of the world. She discusses her work in Human-Virus relationships.

Between mid-May and the end of June 2020 linguist and author, Florian Coulmas, questioned people around the world about their personal experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Loneliness, Helping Hands, TRUTH is the response he received.

Charlotte Jarvis is an artist and lecturer working at the intersection of art and science. Her practice often utilises living cells and DNA: “I have recorded music onto DNA, seen my heart beat outside of my body and am currently making the world’s first female sperm. My work explores the body as a liminal space – a site for transformation, hybridisation and magic”. In Posse is a work In progress: “A mission to make ‘female’ sperm from my own stem cells”.

Jasmine Pradissitto is an international artist, innovator, and speaker with a background in physics based in London. Inspired by nature, the human condition, the mythopoetic and a more sustainable future, her forms create a commentary on an unsustainable, increasingly Anthropocene world slowly being reshaped by the things we consume and then disregard. She creates work that builds awareness about diminishing air quality and biodiversity extinction. In Future Blueprint she discusses her latest work.

There are articles by –

Max Saunders: Futurology: how a group of visionaries looked beyond the possible a century ago and predicted today’s world

Benjamin Bowman: Fridays for Future: how the young climate movement has grown since Greta Thunberg’s lone protest

Marcello Trovati: How an AI trained to read scientific papers could predict future discoveries

Andre Spicer: Sci-fi author William Gibson: how ‘future fatigue’ is putting people off the 22nd century

Jake M. Robinson: Biodiversity loss could be making us sick – here’s why

Robin Dunbar, Chris Zebrowski & Per Olsson: Is humanity doomed because we can’t plan for the long term? Three experts discuss.

Plus, a feature on the exhibition and symposium ‘The Camille Diaries: New Artistic Positions on M/Otherhood, Life and Care’ (at ArtLaboratoryBerlin) which presents new artistic works by eleven international artists:- Sonia Levy, Mary Maggic, Naja Ryde Ankarfeldt, Baum & Leahy, Špela Petric, Margherita Pevere, Ai Hasegawa, Nicole Clouston, Cecilia Jonsson and Tarah Rhoda.

A Sense of Place explores the relationship between people and spatial settings, both personal and environmental, in the Arts and Sciences.

Andrea Williamson is an artist and educator born in Calgary (Treaty 7) and living and working in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. In The queer use of colour, she describes instances of materials affecting the narrative or meaning-making potential within human art practice, specifically in recounted moments from an artist residency taking place within collective gardens where plants were made into paints.

Heather McMordie is an artist and printmaker making prints, puzzles and installations informed by soil science. Peter Stempel is a social scientist, educator, and architect focusing on art and design as science communication. In Returning the artist to the field: Utilizing printmaking’s multiplicity, mediation and materiality for enhanced science communication, they describe the use of printmaking and print installations as analogues that engage audiences in complex soil systems.

Catherine Eaton Skinner’s works incorporate painting and encaustic, sculpture, printmaking, and photography. The figure, both human and animal, is an important element in her work and acts as a source of inspiration and exploration of identity, spirit, and the paradoxes of human existence. She discusses her life and work in Ancient Ritual in Contemporary Mark-Making.

In The Grand Challenge for Science, physicist Wolfgang Baer argues that the foundations of science has eliminated the subjective experience and this is its greatest failure. Rectifying this situation is its greatest challenge.

In Handspan, handspun: navigational lines in the work of artists Inge Thomson and Deirdre Nelson, writer and dramaturg Ruth Little considers projects by two multimedia artists working in Scotland to propose that culture and local ecology are inseparable and mutually-determining aspects of our understanding of and care for place.

SKY is an exhibition, curated by Stephen Nowlin, that invites visitors to ponder both the provincial and universal elements of space above and around the Earth’s surface. This group exhibition demonstrates how the unfolding realities exposed by new science are affecting change in the understanding of ourselves, our planet and beyond.

Lynne Goldsmith’s first book, ‘Secondary Cicatrices’, won the 2018 Halcyon Poetry Prize and was a 2019 Finalist in the American Book Fest Awards and a 2020 Human Relations Indie Book Award Gold Winner. In Poems she presents some of her recent work that deal with our relationship with the environment.

Plus, there articles by Tony Matthews: Coronavirus has changed our sense of place, so together we must re-imagine our cities ; Fiona Stafford: It’s not easy to make landscape a place: you have to feel it ; Thuy-vy Nguyen: Time alone (chosen or not) can be a chance to hit the reset button ; and Heather Alberro: Humanity and nature are not separate – we must see them as one to fix the climate crisis.

Exploring the Senses covers such subjects as the science and physiological basis of the senses, the use of the ‘senses’ in art, science and technology and the impairment and loss of the senses.

Rachel Gadsden is a British artist who is exhibited internationally and who works across the mainstream and disability art sectors, presenting cross-cultural visual dialogues that consider the most profound notions of what it is to be human. In Considering the Human Condition she discusses her ideas and work.

Since the early 1990s, Paul Vanouse’s artwork has addressed complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium. His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization. These “Operational Fictions” are hybrid entities–simultaneously real things and fanciful representations–intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape. He discusses his ideas and work in Mistaken Identity.

Keith Salmon is a British fine artist. His work is principally semi-abstract Scottish landscapes which are created based upon his experience as a hill walker. Even though he is registered blind Salmon has climbed more than one hundred of Scotland’s Munros, many of which have been captured in his artworks. In Adapting to the landscape – painting with sound he discusses his ideas and work and his recent artworks that move into the addition of sound to his paintings.

Luca M Damiani is a Media Artist and a Lecturer on BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Luca practices internationally in the fields of art, digital media, and visual culture. He works and experiments with creative techniques such as digital technology, animation, photography, coding, and mixed media. He discusses his recent work in Processing Hyperacusis and PPPD : Inner-view of Neurological Disorder and Processing Hyperacusis and PPPD : Outer-view of Neurological Disorder.

Daniel Hill is an abstract painter and sound artist whose work has been included in numerous exhibitions exploring the relationship between painting, sound, and science. In Restoring Things with the Power of Sound he discusses his experience of the music of Jon Hassell.

Plus, there are articles by Harriet Dempsey-Jones: What is the best sense? Scientists are still battling it out ; Sean R Mills & Mark Fletcher: Vibration on the skin helps hearing-impaired people locate sounds ; Ajay Pandey & Jonathan Roberts: It’s not easy to give a robot a sense of touch ; Jane Parker: Six curious facts about smell ; Chris Woolgar: The medieval senses were transmitters as much as receivers ; Chunjie Zhang: What’s lost when we’re too afraid to touch the world around us? ; and Clare Jonas & Josie Malinowski: ‘Seeing’ music or ‘tasting’ numbers? Here’s what we can learn from people with synaesthesia.