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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

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

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

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

Through Self Assemblage, Romain Viguier and Dr. Mairi Haddow wanted to reflect on how society reacts to change, using art and aspects observed amongst ordered and disordered molecules in materials and crystals.

Presented is a series of sculptures (created during Romain’s time at @eswsculpture) that embody these molecular processes as a means to reflect on what, we as a society, can learn from nature’s own innate ability to self organise and it’s seemingly endless capability to successfully change and restructure.

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 #SelfAssemblage #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

-JUNE 26 AT 4PM BST- We Began as Part of the Body

-JUNE 26 AT 4PM BST-

We Began as Part of the Body: Beverley Hood Artist Talk
ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest

📆Join us for the streaming of a pre-recorded discussion about how bodies are imagined, visualised and made audible using bio-medical data.

This event will feature artist Beverley Hood in conversation with dermatologist Professor Sara Brown as they explore how the ‘We began as part of the body‘ artwork evolved in the lab and beyond, using microscopy, 3D modelling, speech synthesis, and immersive technologies.

@beverley.hood.studio

#Syncrasy #Webeganaspartofthebody #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

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

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

We Began as Part of the Body, Beverley Hood
📍 Summerhall’s War Memorial Gallery
Presented by Summerhall and ASCUS Art and Science

Immerse yourself in a series of artworks that reflect complex human and ethical questions about our relationship between the body, science and technology.

Inspired by the eczema genetic research laboratory of Prof Sara Brown, artist Beverley Hood’s experimental exhibition tells a story as seen from the point of view of the artificial skin cells, leading you through the cells journey, during their short, precious, three week long ‘in-vitro’ life from operating theatre to lab, and finally to disposal.

Read more about Beverley’s work, and plan your visit through the programme link in our bio!

@beverley.hood.studio

#Syncrasy #Webeganaspartofthebody #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

-JUNE 26 AT 2:30PM BST- E-NUMBERS v2.0: Sneha Sol

-JUNE 26 AT 2:30PM BST-

E-NUMBERS v2.0: Sneha Solanki Artist Talk
ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest

📆 Focusing on the emerging changes taking shape in our food landscape, join artist Sneha Solanki for a talk on her E-NUMBERS v2.0 project, a new classification for food additives created by a novel variety of micro-organisms that have been intentionally altered, created or re-programmed to produce flavours, aromas, colours, preservatives and nutrition as food additives.

Showing at Summerhall Galleries, June 26 - Sept 11, the E-NUMBERS v2.0 exhibition draws together microorganisms, additives made by the microorganisms and reference information with a new classification format in the form of a ‘micro food library’. The library is also an open resource to borrow, deposit and reference from.

Register for this event with the link in our bio!

#Syncrasy #MicroFoodLibrary #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

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

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

E-NUMBERS V2.0, Sneha Solanki
📍 Summerhall’s Meadow Gallery
Presented by @summerhallery and ASCUS Art and Science

Probing the habitats of the ‘un-natural‘, Sneha Solanki presents a new and expanding rendition of the ‘E-Number’ food additive system.

Focusing on the emerging changes taking shape in our food landscape, this ‘version 2.0’ includes only micro-organisms that have been intentionally and genetically altered, created or re-programmed to produce flavours, aromas, colours, preservatives and nutrition as food additives.

Consisting of bacteria, fungi (yeasts & molds), algae and viruses, the project collates references, micro-organisms and the results of their activity as additives, explored in the exhibition as a ‘Micro Food Library’.

Interact with Sneha’s Micro Food Library, and plan your visit through the programme link in our bio!

#Syncrasy #MicroFoodLibrary #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

-JUNE 26 AT 1PM BST- Oscillations: Victoria Evans

-JUNE 26 AT 1PM BST-

Oscillations: Victoria Evans Artist Talk
ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest

📆 Join us as we learn about the process of making music from tidal data and how the interplay of sun, moon, land and sea creates the tides.

In this Conversation/Q&A with artist Victoria Evans, producer Javier Aregger and tidal scientist Colin Shepherd (UK Hydrographic Office), you’ll hear about the artistic and scientific inspirations behind Victoria Evans’ audio-visual gallery installation, Oscillations. Also, find out how you can take part in an audience generated online version #Tidesong.

Register for this talk with the link in our bio!

@victoriaevansartist

#Syncrasy #Oscillations #Tidesong #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

In the lead up to this year's Edinburgh Science Fe

In the lead up to this year's Edinburgh Science Festival, open from June 26 - Sept 11, we are featuring the exhibitions and events as part of the ASCUS Art & Science x @edscifest programme here on Instagram. We hope to spark a conversation and line of inquiry into this years work!

OSCILLATIONS, Victoria Evans
📍 Summerhall's Corner Gallery
Presented by @summerhallery and ASCUS Art and Science

Inspired by science and the complex inter-relatedness of the physical world, the piece reflects artist Victoria Evans' interest in the way distant or invisible phenomena, such as the forces of gravity, can have a tangible effect on our day-to-day lives.

The process of data sonification (the use of non-speech audio to perceptualise information) allows tide tables to be coded in such a way that they can interact with electronic music software. In doing so, the rhythmic, cyclical patterns of the tides can become audible, and their interplay with lunar and solar orbits throughout the course of a year can be experienced as music.

Read more about Victoria's work, and plan your visit through the programme link in our bio!

@victoriaevansartist

#Oscillations #Tidesong #EdSciFest #ArtScienceCollaboration

We are excited to be launching our #ASCUS 2021 Edi

We are excited to be launching our #ASCUS 2021 Edinburgh Science Festival Programme today - consisting of our largest ever digital showcase, with a range of online and material exhibitions and events! ⠀
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Our #EdSciFest programme interrogates topics from the Anthropocene and microbial worlds, emerging changes in our food landscape, to the significance of oceans as ecosystems (to name a few). This year's artists and scientists have embarked on an exploration of the ways that science and art weave us together, with events and exhibitions based at Summerhall, Edinburgh and online. ⠀
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Click the link in our bio to find out more about our exhibitions and events!

We are delighted to share #ArtSciPostcard2021 with

We are delighted to share #ArtSciPostcard2021 with @intersci_ed online for the very first time.

Ever wondered how art-science collaboration works in practice?

Are you keen to connect with the art-science community to explore the spaces between disciplines?

Read more about how to join here: bit.ly/3fQiKAw

At ASCUS we are winding down for the year and ASCU

At ASCUS we are winding down for the year and ASCUS Lab will be closed 22nd Dec-4 Jan. It’s been a challenging year but we’d like to thank you all; our lab members, audiences, funders and communities for your support. Things have been quieter as we busy ourselves behind the scenes to change the ways we bring you our work, so thank you for your patience and we look forward to sharing new ideas and experiments with you next year. In the meantime wishing you all a relaxing and restful festive break and see you in 2021 🎄🔔🎁☃️❄️

Great to see the culmination of @beverley.hood.stu

Great to see the culmination of @beverley.hood.studio' project #Webeganaspartofthebody which began with a residency at #Brownlab in partnership with ourselves.

We can't wait to experience @beverley.hood.studio's mixed reality world. View #ASCUSLab as you've never seen it before.
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#Webeganaspartofthebody mixed reality #MR artwork for @magicleap headset finally final and finished. 3.5 years in the making, starting with an @ascusartandscience residency at the #Brownlab eczema generic research laboratory #universityofdundee in 2017. Made with the help of many great collaborators - thank you all!!! Unity development by #hemalbodasing sound design by @soundslikezoe LIDAR scans by @___asad.k supported by @creativescots @edinburghcollegeofart & @edinburghuniversity @educreatestudio. Time to lie down...

#ASCUSLabTools. You'd be forgiven for feeling 'all

#ASCUSLabTools. You'd be forgiven for feeling 'all shook up' sometimes in #ASCUSLab

There's a whole lot of wobbling, spinning, shaking and vibrating going on. It's all down to the lab 'vortex' and 'belly dancer' stirring and mixing machines known as agitators.

They provide a variety of motions for small and bigger experiments to dissolve solutes, mix reactions and much much more. We can't wait for you to join the experimentation again.
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