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25 October 2011

25 October 2011

Artificial Biological Clock acquired by the MoMA

19 October 2011

19 October 2011

Speaking at MoMA's Talk To Me Symposium.

20 October 2011

20 October 2011

Electrocyte Appendix at Design Faction, Lodz Design Festival

29 September 2011

29 September 2011

The Immortal installation premiered at AND Festival, Liverpool

28 September 2011

28 September 2011

Life Support , Genetic Heirloom, Electrocyte Appendix, and The Posthuman Condition exhibited at What IF, curated by Dunne & Raby for Beijing's first International Design Triennale

24 July 2011

24 July 2011

Artificial Biological Clock, Phantom Recorder and the Disclosure Case are all on display at the new MoMA exhibition Talk To Me until November 7 2011.

17 June 2011

17 June 2011

Electrocyte Appendix will be exhibited at The Body Lab during the Urban Explorers Festival, Dordrecht.

26 April 2011

26 April 2011

Short interview about Ready-to-use Models in wmmna today

22 March 2011

22 March 2011

A-Z lecture about the work on show and a little bit more. Z33, 8pm.

02 March 2011

02 March 2011

It's Nice That

16 February 2011

16 February 2011

A talk about cats and breeders by Nina Pope from Somewhere at Alter Nature: The Unnatural Animal, in Z33 tonight.

28 January 2011

28 January 2011

Alter Nature: The Unnatural Animal, an exhibition of work by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen at Z33. Includes an installation of new work in progress in which Tuur will be cooking Black Bile while I attempt to cheer up a depressed rat. Lectures and events throughout the winter, more details on the Z33 website

19 January 2011

19 January 2011

Kingston lecture cancelled by the snow storm will happen this week

21 November 2010

21 November 2010

Electrocyte Appendix exhibited at Alter Nature: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. CIAP contemporary art gallery, Hasselt.

20 November 2010

20 November 2010

Electrocyte Appendix exhibited at the Demain, c’est aujourd’hui #3 show, Life Support and Poltergeist Machines on display at the Prediction exhibition, Saint Ettiene Design Biennale.

17 November 2010

17 November 2010

Talk at Liverpool School of Art and Design, John Moores University.

25 October 2010

25 October 2010

Genetic Heirloom at the Wellcome Trust's window until January 2011

16 October 2010

16 October 2010

Electrocyte Appendix exhibited at BIOTOPIA: Art in the Wet Zone, Urzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark. Part of PORT 20:10 – Festival of Contemporary Art & Social Technology.

1 October 2010

1 October 2010

Phantom Recorder exhibited at Designed Disorder, a group show in Manchester's CUBE gallery. Part of Abandon Normal Devices festival.

20 September 2010

20 September 2010

Profile piece in the amazing FILE magazine

20 September 2010

20 September 2010

The Genetic Heirloom project will be launched at Further Instructions: An independent exhibition at the Arts Catalyst, during this year's London Design Festival.

2 September 2010

2 September 2010

Electrocyte Appendix exhibited at The Imaginarium: A Theatre for Constructed Ecologies, curated by Studio Lukas Feireiss and Tomorrow's Thoughts Today with Luis Berríos-Negrón. As part of the Exhibition Examples to Follow! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability at Uferhallen, Berlin.

2 September 2010

2 September 2010

Phantom Recorder exhibited at this year's Ars Electronica, Linz

16 July 2010

16 July 2010

Life Support mentioned in MoMA's new Design Series book British Design

7 July 2010

7 July 2010

Future of Genetic Screening workshop run by Tuur and I in collaboration with future explorers Pantopicon.

24 June 2010

24 June 2010

The new Who Am I? Gallery at the Science Museum opens. Disclosure Case is in the permanent collection as the Emerging Artist Commission.

14 May 2010

14 May 2010

Artificial Biological Clock exhibited at the National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY.

11 May 2010

11 May 2010

Phantom Recorder on we-make-money-not-art

15 March 2010

15 March 2010

Commissioned by the EPSRC and the RCA, Phantom Recorder [a collaboration with Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair] will be shown at the Impact! Exhibition.

10 March 2011

10 March 2011

Creative Review 30/30 Paola Antonelli selection

24-26 February 2010

24-26 February 2010

Electrocyte Appendix presented at this year's Design Indaba conference, Cape Town.

24 November 2009

24 November 2009

Commissioned by Studio Naidoo, Electrocyte Appendix will be presented and exhibited at the Iscid World Design Congress in Singapore as part of the Protofarm 2050.

8 October 2009

8 October 2009

Life Support and Artificial Biological Clock exhibited at What If? Future Form, Future Function at the Science Gallery in Dublin until 13th December 09.

5 October 2009

5 October 2009

Life Support and Artificial Biological Clock featured in the book Design In Britain

7 September 2009

7 September 2009

Life Support shown at Boer Zoekt Stijl at the Designhuis, Eindhoven until the 27th September 09.

23 August 2009

23 August 2009

Life Support and Artificial Biological Clock exhibited in this year's ISEA Juried Exhibition. Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.

21 June 2009

21 June 2009

Review of Eye of the Storm talk on while you were sleeping

12-20 June 2009

12-20 June 2009

I will be presenting my work on the second day of the Eye of the Storm Symposium at Tate Britain.

29 May 2009

29 May 2009

 

8 May 2009

8 May 2009

Artist talk at the 1+1=3 Conference, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London.

10 April 2009

10 April 2009

Haaretz

April 2010

April 2010

ICON magazine's list of 20 designers who are shaping the future.

25-27 February 2009

25-27 February 2009

Life Support and Artificial Biological Clock presented at this year's Design Indaba conference, Cape Town.

12 February 2009

12 February 2009

Life Support nominated for a Brit Insurance Designs of the Year award in the product category. It will be exhibited in the Design Museum in London until 14 June 09.

15 November 2008

15 November 2008

A prototype experiment exhibited at Inside, Outside, Around. Body States, Cite du Design, Biennale Internationale Design, Saint Etienne.

10 November 2008

10 November 2008

Life Support and Artificial Biological Clock featured in Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty

1-2 November 2008

1-2 November 2008

Life Support exhibited at the Designing Debate exhibition. I will also be speaking at the Battle of Ideas discussion.

14 October 2008

14 October 2008

Life Support exhibited at The Art of Bioethics ll at the National Theatre alongside Material Beliefs.

30 October 2008

30 October 2008

Artist talk at the Human Futures Symposium, FACT, Liverpool.

19 September 2008

19 September 2008

Life Support exhibited at Living Proof, RCA.

14 November 2007

14 November 2007

Seen and Heard, a one day public installation at the Young Vic, commissioned for the new Demos pamphlet launch. Designed with Tuur Van Balen.

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