Visual Arts Artist Andrew Carnie is exhibiting two works as part of this year’s visual arts programme from Summerhall, Edinburgh International Science Festival and ASCUS. Slice is a slide-dissolve work that explores the body as a theatre of action, and Magic Forest, a … Andrew Carnie : Magic Forest and Slice
Visual Arts Co-curated by the Science Festival, Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, How the Light Gets In brings together a selection of works by international artists intrigued by light in all its forms and facets with those aiming to shine a … How the Light Gets In : Part Two
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Synthetica, Summerhall Saturday 31 — Sunday 13 May A selection of works forms a brief retrospective on the incredible career of Marta de Menezes. The concept of identity and a dichotomy between the natural and the artificial are recurrent themes … Marta de Menezes : Meadows Gallery
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Well-known bioartists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) present their landmark work Pig Wings (2000). Advances in tissue engineering, xenotransplantation and genomics promise to render the living body as a malleable mass. Questioning the effect … Oron Catts : Pigs Wings + Work in Progress
Visual Arts ASCUS Art & Science’s Parallel Perspectives comprises three group shows, created from direct collaboration between artists and scientists. The exhibition explores a diverse range of scientific themes relating to neuroscience and disease, from Huntington’s disease to malaria and dementia. Parallel … Parallel Perspectives
Visual Arts Artist Silas Parry presents his new exhibition Possibility of Another Place, at this year’s Science Festival, in Summerhall. His work consists of everyday materials and mechanised parts in order to create objects with some form of life and independence to … Silas Parry : Possibility of Another Place
Visual Arts As part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Summerhall presents Sylva Caledonia, an exhibition featuring the works of Tim Collins & Reiko Goto, with Sara Ocklind, Gerry Loose and Morven Gregor, and Chris Fremantle. Each was asked to consider their … Sylva Caledonia
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Ting-Tong Chang: Sciennes Galleries, Summerhall Using robotic devices to simulate living animals, P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness brings lifelike characteristics to lifeless animal bodies. The sophisticated mechanism of each automaton contain within them a notion that life can be … Ting-Tong Chang : P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness
Visual Arts William Latham brings Mutator 1+2 to Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. His work blends organic imagery and computer animation, using software modelled upon the processes of evolution to generate three-dimensional creations that resemble fantastical ‘other-worldly’ forms … William Latham : Mutator 1+2
