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If you followed us on social media last year, you

If you followed us on social media last year, you might have seen snippets of our #UnearthingMicrolife course posted during October and November. These 7 weeks of outdoor and indoor hybrid learning were jam-packed with so many different activities, trying to sum it up into a few words and images is impossible, but we tried our best in our blog post which you can read at the link in our bio. Be sure to get outdoors and check out our #UnearthingMicrolife pop-up exhibition in Holyrood Park, launching this afternoon, 17th January 2022 until 24 January 2022. Show us your pictures of you braving the winter and exploring the outdoors using the #UnearthingMicroLife hashtag and let us know which your favourite poster is!

#JohnMuirAward
@Edinburgh Montessori Arts School
@histenvscot

Goodbye 2021!👋 Can you believe that the year is

Goodbye 2021!👋
Can you believe that the year is nearly behind us? Us neither!

We have been reminiscing on 2021 and the challenges given to us that have brought out our resilience and determination to adapt to working at extremely reduced capacity, the ongoing lockdowns, and the uncertainty we faced throughout the year. None of our achievements this year would have been possible without the ongoing support from our ASCUS Community so a very big THANK YOU to you all!

You can read about all the projects we have been able to accomplish this year despite all these challenges at the link in our bio- Enjoy!

We look forward to 2022 and we already have some exciting new projects on the horizon which we can't wait to share with you in the new year. Until then, we wish you a very joyous festive season and a much needed break!
Images:
1. Driving the Human Festival exhibition. Image by @soniamehrachawla
2. Plant prints from our Unearthing Micro Life Programme
3. In the lab for hands-on work!
4. Beautiful microbes thriving.

#ASCUSLab #bringon2022 #artandscience #science #creative

We were finally able to host an in-person workshop

We were finally able to host an in-person workshop in October, aimed at couples interested in what goes on behind the scenes in fertility research labs on a daily basis. Participants had an afternoon in ASCUSLab full of new experiences including jewellery making to learn about the molecular structure of DNA, DNA extraction from strawberries to see what DNA looks like outside of a cell, looking at mouse and frog oocytes (egg cells), as well as yeast cells down the microscope, learning how to use scientific equipment, as well as great discussions about DNA, science, the challenges fertility researchers face in their work, and some of the challenges participants have experienced in their journey through fertility treatment. The workshop was led by fertility researchers, Gerard Pieper and Bettina Mihalas from @edinburghuniversity in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology and artist, @emilyfongstudio who captured the afternoon so beautifully through her illustrations. Read the full details on our blog (link in bio).

Images:
1. Participants in the lab extracting DNA from strawberries (Illustration by @emilyfongstudio )
2. Looking down the microscope at oocytes and yeast cells (Illustration by @emilyfongstudio )
3. A double-helix DNA earring made during the jewelry session

#ascuslab #fertilitytreatment #fertilityresearch #science #dna #jewellry #workshop

This past week was our final of #UnearthingMicroli

This past week was our final of #UnearthingMicrolife, but we still have more to share of our last two whirlwind sessions!

In our second last week we went to Hollyrood Park to cut down some gorse as our conservation effort for the John Muir Trust Discovery Award. Gorse can prove to be a problem for wild fires, so students lopped and sawed away to create fire breaks in order to qualm a fire if one were to take place.

Our final week was spent filming and documenting imagery from all the weeks of the programme. Students took a hands-on approach to creating their own videos, in order to share their experience of the program with Edinburgh Montessori Arts School's younger students.

Stay tuned for documentation of our culminating event in Holyrood Park, with a pop-up installation for students to share their discoveries and work with family, friends, and the public.

#UnearthingMicrolife is in collaboration with Historic Environment Scotland, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Montessori Arts School, artist Tina Scopa, and ASCUS Art & Science.

Yesterday marked day 5 of #UnearthingMicrolife, wh

Yesterday marked day 5 of #UnearthingMicrolife, which was packed with activities for Edinburgh Montessori Arts School students in our #ASCUSLab

Students spent the morning honing in and practicing their skills in plate-making (which they’ve been developing through out the lab sessions so far), through analysing the colonies growing on plates from previous weeks, and identifying colony morphology. We made Winogradksy Columns, a simple DIY tool used to create and culture a large diversity of microorganisms. We can’t wait to see what grows in the final weeks!

With two more weeks to go, students are considering ways to present the work and ideas explored through out the programme, for others to understand and enjoy. Stay tuned for documentation of our culminating event after day 7, where students will share their discoveries and work with family and friends.

Students are pursuing the Discovery Level @johnmuirtrust Award through this programme, and are determined on discovering, exploring, conserving and sharing along the way.

#UnearthingMicrolife is in collaboration with @histenvscot , @edinburghuniversity, Edinburgh Montessori Arts School, artist Tina Scopa, and @ascusartandscience

#ascuslab #outdooreducation #johnmuirdiscoveryaward #artandecology #artandenvironment #artandscience #arteducation #artandtechnology #nature #scotlandart #outdoorart

We’re excited to share our project ‘The Rooted

We’re excited to share our project ‘The Rooted Sea’ with more audiences @radialsystem_berlin this weekend as part of #drivingthehuman Festival. Participate in this project by responding to one of our questions via our Instagram story!

Read more about this project on our website (link in bio)!

@soniamehrachawla
@ray_interactive
@drivingthehuman

#therootedsea #ascuslab #drivingthehuman #artandecology #artandenvironment #artandscience #artandtechnology #nonhumans #nature #artintheanthropocene

The install is coming to a close as we get ready t

The install is coming to a close as we get ready to launch ‘The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures’ as part of #drivingthehuman @radialsystem across this weekend. If you are in Berlin, come see us, and look out for activity online over the coming days #TheRootedSea

Read more about this project on our website (link in bio)!

@soniamehrachawla
@ray_interactive
@drivingthehuman

#ascuslab #drivingthehuman #artandecology #artandenvironment #artandscience #artandtechnology #nonhumans #nature #artintheanthropocene

2020 and 2021 have presented significant challenge

2020 and 2021 have presented significant challenges for ASCUS. Thank you for your ongoing support as we continue to envision new ways of working with and supporting interdisciplinary communities and ideas.

Your support is vital and we would not be here without it!

Despite our best efforts to maintain ASCUS as the thriving hub of art and science hybrid research in the UK that we want it to be, our core business has been fundamentally destabilised by COVID and we need your help to continue to support the work that we do on a day-to-day basis.

As we look to the future, we want to share with you our new approach to funding. By becoming a supporting member of ASCUS you can help to ensure that we can continue to do what we do best – bringing art and science together and sharing it with the wider public. We have some incredible projects ahead and your financial support is vital to ensure that we can continue to support the amazing artists and scientists working with us.

Please consider supporting us by making a monthly donation via the Paypal link on our website (one-off donations are also appreciated). Links available in our bio!

Our #UnearthingMicrolife 7-week Programme is going

Our #UnearthingMicrolife 7-week Programme is going swimmingly so far!

We just finished Day 4, and have enjoyed some unforgettable moments exploring the natural world, and it's artistic and scientific applications with students.

Day 3 had us indoors for a full morning in the #ASCUSLab, analysing samples collected at Hunter's Bog in Holyrood Park. We learned how to make agar plates, analyse samples, and use the microscopes and equipment available in the lab, to find new ways of seeing. A particular favourite among students were the bullrush samples!

Day 4, we explored the Wells O'Wearie in Holyrood Park. We learned about symbiotic ecosystems while playing a game of predator and prey. We had an impromptu lesson on stinging nettles - and even gave them a taste!

But most of our day was spent exploring the water of the pond, discovering what lurks beneath the surface in terms of critters, and deciphering the water quality with opalometers and ph sticks. We also explored the artistic side of this thriving environment, creating plant prints and soil paintings while considerately choosing materials from our surroundings.

We wish this programme could go on forever, but we have 3 sessions left, with week 7 culminating in a sharing event where students will present their discoveries - stay tuned!

Students are pursuing the Discovery Level @johnmuirtrust Award through this programme, and are determined to discover, explore, conserve and share along the way.

#UnearthingMicrolife is in collaboration with @histenvscot, @edinburghuniversity, Edinburgh Montessori Art School, artist Tina Scopa, and ASCUS Art & Science.

Special thanks to @hwengage for the smartphone microscopes!

#ascuslab #outdooreducation #johnmuirdiscoveryaward #artandecology #artandenvironment #artandscience #arteducation #artandtechnology #nature #scotlandart #outdoorart

Excited to be in Berlin for day 1 of the install o

Excited to be in Berlin for day 1 of the install of ‘The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures’ as part of Driving the Human festival which kicks off this weekend at @radialsystem_berlin

Read more about this project on our website (link in bio)!

@soniamehrachawla
@ray_interactive
@drivingthehuman

#ascuslab #drivingthehuman #artandecology #artandenvironment #artandscience #artandtechnology #nonhumans #nature #artintheanthropocene

Less than 2 weeks to go until we’re in Berlin to

Less than 2 weeks to go until we’re in Berlin to present our work for @drivingthehuman!

#Repost @soniamehrachawla
・・・
Creative visualizations of my project for Driving the Human bring more-than-human worlds into focus.
It's a super exciting time as we gear up to bring an exciting India/UK collaboration to Driving the Human, opening on 15th October @radialsystem_berlin.

See you in Berlin for the launch of our project!

image: Wetlands/Blackness Castle, SSSI site (site of special scientific interest, Scotland)

@ascusartandscience @ray_interactive

We thank the partners: @drivingthehuman @zkmkarlsruhe @forecast_platform @hfg_karlsruhe @aca_post

#artandecology #artandscience #artandtechnology #drivingthehuman #zkmkarlsruhe #artintheanthropocene #sustainablefutures #sustainability #radialsystem #soniamehrachawla Berlin for @drivingthehuman! 👀

#Repost @soniamehrachawla
・・・
Creative visualizations of my project for Driving the Human bring more-than-human worlds into focus.
It's a super exciting time as we gear up to bring an exciting India/UK collaboration to Driving the Human, opening on 15th October @radialsystem_berlin.

See you in Berlin for the launch of our project!

image: Wetlands/Blackness Castle, SSSI site (site of special scientific interest, Scotland)

@ascusartandscience @ray_interactive

We thank the partners: @drivingthehuman @zkmkarlsruhe @forecast_platform @hfg_karlsruhe @aca_post

#artandecology #artandscience #artandtechnology #drivingthehuman #zkmkarlsruhe #artintheanthropocene #sustainablefutures #sustainability #radialsystem #soniamehrachawla

We are thrilled to announce our participation in D

We are thrilled to announce our participation in Driving the Human, with artist Sonia Mehra Chawla’s work ‘The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures’, a collaboration between Sonia, Ray Interactive, and ASCUS Art & Science.

Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach.

We will be taking the project to Berlin in October, and will be posting our research and development as this project comes into fruition. We can’t wait to bring you along with us on this journey!

Read more about this project on our website (link in bio)!

@soniamehrachawla
@drivingthehuman
@ray_interactive

#ascuslab #drivingthehuman #artandecology #artandenvironment #artandscience #artandtechnology #nonhumans #nature #artintheanthropocene

Our ambitious @Edscifest programme of digital even

Our ambitious @Edscifest programme of digital events has come to an end, but we still have Exhibitions (both digital and physical) to be engaged with. Access full length films and high quality images online, on our website, until this Sunday, July 11th. Take a look before it's too late!

Syncrasy 📍Summerhall, Edinburgh
Entanglements of Time and Tide 📍Online (on our website)
Catalysing Creativity📍Online (on our website)

Visit the link in our bio to access these Exhibitions online!

Also, stay tuned for our #EdSciFest digital events to be posted to our newly launching YouTube channel. Follow the link in our bio to subscribe - so that you'll receive notifications as we upload these talks (with subtitles)!

[Image Credit: Still from Sonia Mehra Chawla’s Entaglements of Time and Tide: Vital to Life film]

Tomorrow marks the launch of our ASCUS Art & Scien

Tomorrow marks the launch of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest programme of events and exhibitions! 🎉🎉🎉

We have an exciting line up of online events - with 3 artist talks tomorrow, and more through out next week.

Book a free ticket for our online talks and explore the full programme with the link in our bio 📲
We hope to see you there! 😊

As part of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest pr

As part of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest programme!

Entanglements of Time and Tide: Vital to Life
📍Online Exhibition
Presented by ASCUS Art and Science

Entanglements of Time and Tide, is an artistic engagement, by India based artist Sonia Mehra Chawla, with the North Sea and its tidal zones.

In her film, ‘Vital to Life ’, part of a larger series of works, ‘Drifters and Wanderers, Sonia Mehra Chawla works with archival historical slides and samples from the North Sea. Filmed almost entirely through microscopes, these works make the invisible world of microorganisms visible, revealing hidden worlds lying beyond the scope of the human eye, while imagining an oceanic worldview of entangled histories and symbiotic relationships.

This project with Sonia is part of a broader programme of work which aims to highlight lab based science and artistic approaches as a lens through which to explore and investigate, the interconnectedness of all living things both human and non human.

The full online exhibition will be available to view for the duration of the 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival which runs 26th June – 11th July.

@soniamehrachawla

#EntanglementsofTimeandTide #VitaltoLife #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

-JULY 2 AT 6PM BST- Vital to Life: In Conversatio

-JULY 2 AT 6PM BST-

Vital to Life: In Conversation Event
ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest

📆Join us for the live screening of an excerpt from the artist film ‘Vital to Life’, followed by a conversation with Sonia Mehra Chawla, Professor Colin Moffat, former Chief Scientific Advisor Marine, Scottish Government, and Miriam Walsh, ASCUS managing director and curator, and a live Q&A.

We will delve into the process of the making of this film, and unpick the different questions underpinning Sonia’s work. Hear from the artist herself as she asks ‘Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the Earth together?'

@soniamehrachawla

#VitaltoLife #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

As part of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest pr

As part of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest programme!

Entanglements of Time and Tide: The Non Human Touch
📍Online Exhibition
Presented by ASCUS Art and Science

Entanglements of Time and Tide, is an artistic engagement, by India based artist Sonia Mehra Chawla, with the North Sea and its tidal zones

The film ‘The Non-Human Touch’ presented as part of this online exhibition is the result of an intensive International Art & Science residency (in 2019) in ASCUS Lab and on site @edinburghprintmakers and a long-term collaboration with ASCUS Art & Science. Through this film Sonia advocates for live-able collaborations, and rethinking bacteria as partners in health, endurance and survival of all living beings.

This project with Sonia is part of a broader programme of work which aims to highlight lab based science and artistic approaches as a lens through which to explore and investigate, the interconnectedness of all living things both human and non human.

The full online exhibition will be available to view for the duration of the 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival which runs 26th June – 11th July.

#EntanglementsofTimeandTide #TheNonHumanTouch #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

-JUNE 30 AT 6PM BST- The Non-Human Touch: In Conv

-JUNE 30 AT 6PM BST-

The Non-Human Touch: In Conversation Event
ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest

📆Join us for a live screening of the film teaser, followed by a conversation between the artist and Miriam Walsh, ASCUS managing director and curator, and a live Q&A. Join us as we delve into the process of the making of these films, and unpick the different questions underpinning Sonia’s work. Hear from the artist herself as she asks ‘What constitutes life? Who gets to determine what lives are created and grown, which are saved, exploited or destroyed and what are the possibilities and limitations of working with other-than-human lives?

@soniamehrachawla

#TheNonHumanTouch #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

As part of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest pr

As part of our ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest programme!

Catalysing Creativity: Sciennes Place
📍Online Exhibition
Presented by ASCUS Art and Science in partnership with @scot_chem

Honza Turnovsky and Dr Amanda Jarvis began their collaboration visualising the proteins Amanda works on, through drawing, which they subsequently formed from clay. Using these visual models Amanda described her research, which brings inactive proteins to life by introducing reactive metal complexes into its structure.

Presented are cyanotypes, printmaking and ceramic objects that use visual storytelling techniques as a device to create new points of access to Amanda’s research and questioning, what are the implications of unnatural activation of dormant powers in science and culture?

The full online exhibition will be available to view for the duration of the 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival which runs 26th June – 11th July.

Visit the programme link in our bio for more exhibition and events info!

#CatalysingCreativity #SciennesPlace #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

-JUNE 28 AT 1PM BST- Catalysing Creativity: Discu

-JUNE 28 AT 1PM BST-

Catalysing Creativity: Discussion Event
ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest

📆Join us for a lively discussion, the Catalysing Creativity event aims to shed a light on the process of art-science collaboration.

What are the conversations that underpin cross disciplinary collaboration and what insight does this work bring to our understanding of the complex world in which we live?

Come along to this event to hear from the artists and scientists directly involved in the creation of these new bodies of work. Created in a time before our lives were thrust into a global pandemic, what insights can the process reveal about how our lives and the way we live have fundamentally changed?

#CatalysingCreativity #SelfAssemblage #SciennesPlace #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

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