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The life and behaviour of the infectious agent are often at the centre of scientific research on infectious disease. Currently, the structure and cycle of SARS-CoV2, the covid-19 virus, is being studied by a host of scientists attempting to locate possible sites of interference and manipulation. To study this, we must capture the agent.

The epidemic chaos, of the body, of other bodies, and of national borders, reminds us – among other things – that we are mortal, perishable. We are material bodies that are subject to the whims of nature and rely on very real structures to carry out our lives.

One of the driving questions for the Microbes on the Mind project (click here) is how we can represent a more-than-human body; how we can depict, write, feel, perhaps even hear and smell ourselves as partly microbial. We study how others have approached this communicative puzzle, and experiment with different methods ourselves. Since the project […]

The overall theme is to explore the role of microbes as an inherent part of our culture and everyday life. Through four themes: food, parenthood, wellbeing & health as well as microbes in art & fiction, we explore how we live with microbes, how we imagine them and how they affect us

Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019.

In this paper, I engage with Donna Haraway’s PhD-thesis turned book, “Crystals Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors that shape embryos (2004)”, first submitted in 1976. I presented the paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel.

Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the Associazone Culturale Matilde Pianciani, Spoleto, Italy.

“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms as endowed with human traits – the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painlevé single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the “scientific-poetic cinema”.”

We are very excited to announce the launch a new pop-up display in collaboration with artist Isabella Martin called Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms. This new display is an opportunity to share the process of developing a collaborative artwork exploring the science of circadian rhythms. The pop-up, created by Isabella Martin and Museion researcher Kristin Hussey, presents the workings of creating a piece of video art responding to the work of chronobiologists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR).

Recent biomedical science is examining our bodies as more fundamentally entangled in and shaped by their environments than previously considered. This raises new and profound questions about everything from medical treatments, social organization and everyday life.  Our engagement and exhibition project, The world is in you (Read more about the project via this link) is […]