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2020-01-01

Camacho-Alpizar, Andres

How does a beaver build its dam, honey bees their hive, or a bird its nest? We know of many examples of animal architecture occurring in nature, but we understand very little about how animals know what structure to build and how to build it. Much like we can assign certain buildings or...

2019-01-01

Evans, Daniel

Inspired by the speculative worldbuilding of Ursula Le Guin, Selkie folktales of Scotland and the Faroe Islands, and open-world videogames, Archipelago is a virtual environment generated from the user data of a single Google account. The viewer assumes the role of the Selkie, a liminal figure...

2020-01-01

Boos, Jens

How do we know the stuff we know? In physics and engineering, a lot of our knowledge comes from calculations. And when these calculations become difficult, we need tools to perform them. Fifty years ago, mechanical calculators (pictured left) were the tool of choice, and they allowed us to...

2023-06-20

Deedman, Tamara

My research is situated in the processing and transforming of my family archives – simultaneously treasured collections and hoarded trash – to wrestle with the phenomenon of object attachment as a survival mechanism. Through an autoethnographic lens, I am exploring notions of human attachment to...

2019-01-01

Davies, Leda

As a circus artist, I have spent years developing knowledge on how to move in the air. Coming from a background in circus and theatre, my research examines ways which virtuosic movement can tell a story and embody emotion. This image was captured during a workshop performance of a devised...

2019-01-01

Patterson, Thea

My research in looks at the potentials of the body in dance and somatic practices as a site for embodied theory. It touches on the nexus of several centres of thought, including embodiment, representation, being and knowing. The research is slippery in its concepts and thus slippery in the...

2019-01-01

von Gunten, Konstantin

Brazil is a fusion of powdery sands, mystic jungle, thundering waterfalls, and an exuberant carnival culture, much like the colors and shapes in the image presented here. Our focus is the Atlantic forest, the Mata Atlântica, which home to many species, some of which live nowhere else on this...

2021-01-01

Marriott, Brian

Slice to D4. One after the other, the wells of the plate in front of me are methodically filled with brain slices, precisely cut by a vibrating blade. Each one thinner than a human hair, I delicately transfer each slice as they are cut to a collecting dish with a paintbrush. This self portrait...

2019-01-01

Cooper, Joseph

After over a thousand years of life this Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva D. K. Bailey) continues to look to the next generation with a new crop of its signature bristly cones. This photograph captures a nascent bristlecone and the fresh burst of needles that will help with ancient...

2024-06-01

van der Merwe, Julia

Aquatic insects use polarized light to find water, where they live, mate and breed. In nature, the strongest producer of polarized light is water. Today's anthropogenic world creates much confusion for these insects, as objects like vehicles, glass buildings, plastics, solar panels, and even...