At the beginning of June 2019, a dozen of MA Art and Science students arrived at Joya for a week of creative isolation at Cortijada Los Gázquez (3281 ft.1000m alt.) A 20 hectare ‘off-grid’ rural farm in the heart of the Sierra María-Los Vélez Natural Park, Almería, Spain. A life-long project by Simon and Donna […]
SLoAS (Studio Lab of Art and Science) is a platform for diverse practitioners to traverse the boundaries of art and science, exploring the possibilities for purposeful change and enduring collaborations where these two fields meet. The flagship of SLoAS project is a residency that brings together students from different disciplines in order to explore new […]
MA Art and Science class of 2019 presented RIFT. RIFT was an interactive experience involving conceptual sciences, positive social change and sensory stimulation. Produced by the interdisciplinary artists studying at Central Saint Martins, RIFT brought together 17 artists deriving from varied scientific disciplines including biodesign, parasitology, astronomy, anatomy, neuroscience and more. RIFT channelled these concepts […]
In mid-January of 2019, a group of over 20 MA Art and Science students made their way to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. Famous for its discovery of the Higgs Boson to the World Wide Web, and home to the Large Hadron Collider. From learning about these discoveries to seeing where they were […]
Held at Apiary Studios in March 2019, MA Art & Science students collaborated with MA Fine Art and MA Photography and Contemporary Image to mount an exhibition by 92 artists spread over five rooms and two floors. Here is a taste of some of our work on show:
COME TOGETHER: ART AND POLITICS IN A CLIMATE OF UNREST WITH CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, HELD BETWEEN 15–20 JANUARY 2019 Art is necessarily caught up in contemporary politics in many complex ways. Come Together invited the public to join forces, to ‘come together’ and consider how we might reflect on and tackle our current state of […]
Our annual Open Studio event was held on 4 December 2018. EmbryonicA hosted work in progress, research, and experiments, as a highlight and review of some of our embryonic thoughts through practice, at the end of the first semester. Here are a few photographs from the event, featuring some of the student work showcased (photos […]
MA Art and Science student, Shannon Bono, discusses representation at Central Saint Martins and reflects on the accomplishments and steps to progress of the BAME (Black Asian and minority ethnic) students of UAL during Black History Month. (The first section of this piece was first published on the Post-grad community blog). My experience at UAL […]
… a symposium of ideas, performances, videos and artworks on the theme of ‘Technologies of Romance’ 28 September 2018 Science Museum “The MA students responded, by contrast, to the broader imaginary realms to which the Science Museum Group collections might take one, giving us a performance of imagined flight, exploring the Moon through photographs, film […]
The Museum of Extraordinary Objects How artists from MA Art and Science created a museum from the future to help the Royal Society shape the UK’s research culture. Imagine a Museum from 2035 in which all the exhibits reflect key moments in the history of UK science culture over the previous 20 years. That’s exactly what […]