Art for science’s sake

Collaborations between the two spheres are producing some fabulous results.

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9th June, 2012

Conversations between artists and scientists are almost de rigueur these days – it seems you can’t have a public science event without an artist there to “interpret” it. This almost always results in good things. Some fabulous written, visual and performed artworks have come out of art-sci collaborations since Paul Callaghan and Bill Manhire gave us Are Angels OK? in 2006. More recently, projects like Artists to Antarctica and Dialogues with Tomorrow have produced an ongoing series of great works. And on June 6, a group of German and New Zealand poets will watch the transit ...

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