Science Gallery London

01/07/2024

MY KIND OF BLACK
Curated by The Spit Game UK
17 July – 12 October 2024

A celebration of self-expression and authenticity, our new exhibition that champions the vibrancy of young Black talent through film, rap and spoken word.

Curated by young creatives from – and speaking directly to young Black people – the exhibition centres on four original films created as part of their 12 month Just Futures residency at Science Gallery London.

Exploring a range of themes – education, consent, the ethics of humour, and conspiracy theories – the films offer a lens through which to experience the complexity of these contexts from a young Black person’s perspective.

Once you’ve watched the films and taken a look behind-the-scenes, step inside the Spit Game Studio and give voice to your own kind of creativity.

Stay tuned to learn more about the collective, and the four films they have made in the run up to our opening on 17 July.





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28/06/2024

Have you seen Careful Whisper in our Takeover Space? 👀 It's an installation which intersects feminist science with cardiology.

Check out unique sonic experiments drawn from encounters in the cardiology labs at King's 🎧

Head to our website to learn more. The link is in our bio 🔗

10/06/2024

Where will our food come from in the future? And what cultural sensitivities might be at play as we rethink global consumption?

Bringing together performance, speculative design and science, BAT NIGHT MARKET is a collaboration between Taiwanese artist and British designer , co-commissioned by and Taipei Performing Arts Center .

Set in an imagined future where bat species are extinct, it invites visitors to consider a plethora of entangled issues that surround these mysterious creatures – through games, tastings and sensory experiences.

BAT NIGHT MARKET is the culmination of two years of creative R&D both in Taipei and at Science Gallery London, during which Kuang-Yi and Robert collaborated with a number of researchers from King’s College London; look out for professor of tissue engineering Lucy Di Silvio; bat ecology researcher Martha Gallardo Galaviz; and global health security expert Gemma Bowsher, all of whom feature in the performance.

Bat Night Market runs until 15 June. Tickets: £22 (£18 concession) available from LIFT - link in bio.






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20/05/2024

London Observatory 2024: Reclaiming the ‘Smart’ Street
Tue 21 May, 10am – 12pm
Science Gallery London
Free entry

Over the last decade, the street has emerged as one of the primary sites where everyday publics encounter AI. The ‘smart’ street and its users harbour massive amounts of data and computation that is deployed by public and private entities for multiple purposes in often opaque ways.

Join us tomorrow for an artist-led workshop with Mukul Patel, Manu Luksch and Yasmine Boudiaf, which invites you to reclaim the street as a site that is citizen-centred, and rethink the concepts of ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’.

Follow the link in our bio to get tickets for this FREE workshop – conducted as part of the London Observatory for AI in the Street, a collaborative project organised by organised by King’s College London and funded under the AHRC programme.

29/04/2024

Accessible Spaceflight with Irene Do Giulio
Thu 2 May, 1pm - 1.45pm
Science Gallery London
FREE tickets – link in bio

Continuing the space travel themes of our latest exhibition The Overview Effect, this Thursday 2 May, we’ll be hosting a free lunchtime talk with Dr Irene Di Giulio.

Irene is a lecturer in anatomy and biomechanics in the Centre for Human & Applied Physiological Sciences at King’s College London.

Her talk will focus on her research in the field of human spaceflight. Irene researches ways to make space more accessible and inclusive, with a focus on people with disabilities – work funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency (USA).

This event will take place in the Workshop on the first floor of Science Gallery London. Tickets are free but please book in advance – link in bio

23/04/2024

The final part of The Overview Effect is now open, upstairs in Gallery 1.

The Last Day (2023) is a seven-minute video by New York-based artist Rachel Rose, which comprises thousands of medium format photographs shot in her children’s bedroom.

The work is structured in seven days, and in each day, she lit the still lifes sequentially from sunrise into night. Each day’s still life symbolises a different epoch in the history of the earth. A bottle of milk stands in for the early amorphous, pre-vegetal world, a rubber bathtub toy illustrates ocean life, trucks become ciphers for late industrialisation.

On the last, seventh day, the artist made a radar sensor-enabled carpet which acts central protagonist, emitting light depending on its proximity to humans, ominously signalling the end of times.

The work lays bare that the history of earth’s landscape – from the primordial, to the prehistoric, to the industrialised and into the near future – is embedded in the development of imagination.

The Overview Effect is open Wed – Sat, 11am – 6pm.

Stills courtesy of the artist

20/04/2024

What makes someone an expert? What are you an expert in?

“Experts by Experience: Who Knows Best?” is now on display in the Takeover Space on our ground floor.

Created by co-researchers with a range of expertise and lived experience, “Experts by Experience: Who Knows Best?” challenges the idea of ‘the expert’ and explores the limitations of traditional approaches to research. Their co-created manifesto, games and case studies advocate for the value of centring ‘experts by experience’ to challenge the neutrality of research and enable those most affected by an issue to generate knowledge that can bring about positive social change.

“Experts by Experience: Who Knows Best?” is on display in the Takeover Space on our ground floor until 5 June 2024.



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01/04/2024

📢 Opening this week 📢

Dementia is the most common cause of death in the UK, but access to good end of life care is highly unequal.

Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) is a six-year research collaboration between and that aims to generate a step-change in how care is provided.

Now as part of the project, a new exhibition reveals the human stories of what it’s like to care for a loved one who is dying with dementia. Curated by , their stories are told through portrait photography by two times winner of the BJP Portrait of Britain prize  and comic strips by pioneering cartoonist and doctor . 

“Dementia Journeys” opens in Gallery 2 this Wednesday 3 April. To read an interview with Allie and Tia, one of the carers featured in the exhibition, visit our blog or pick up a copy of our new zine.

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📸 Tia Ling photographed by Allie Crewe

01/04/2024

📢 Opening this week

Dementia is the most common cause of death in the UK, but access to good end of life care is highly unequal.

Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care) is a six-year research collaboration between King’s College London and University College London that aims to generate a step-change in how care is provided.

Now as part of the project, a new exhibition reveals the human stories of what it’s like to care for a loved one who is dying with dementia. Curated by , the stories of three carers are vividly told through portrait photography by two times winner of the BJP Portrait of Britain prize  and comic strips by pioneering cartoonist and doctor . 

“Dementia Journeys” opens in Gallery 2 this Wednesday 3 April and runs until 22 June. Visit our website or pick up a copy of our new zine to read an interview with Allie and Tia, one of the featured carers.

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26/03/2024

A Japanese astronaut’s existential wonder for the cosmos sparks an exploration into how we navigate our everyday lives in ’ film “Swallow Up” – the second chapter of our current exhibition THE OVERVIEW EFFECT, a series of video artworks exploring ideas around our time on Earth.

The exhibition is free and open Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm (though please note we’re closed for Easter this Friday 29 and Saturday 30 March). As well as enjoying the film, you can also spend some time in our reflection space with its space meme generator!

If you want to carry on pondering the vastness of the universe, don’t miss OUT OF THIS WORLD on Thursday 4 April at 6.30pm – an evening of artists’ films about space travel that includes ’s “The Phantom Menace”; ’s “The White Stone”; and existential YouTube videos selected by Ruth.

                     

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24/01/2024

And that’s a wrap!

Our most timely season to date, “AI: Who’s Looking After Me?” presented in collaboration with came to a close at the weekend after seven hugely successful months.

Named as one of the best free exhibitions in London by Evening Standard, Condé Nast Traveller and Visit London, the season aimed to look beyond the hype, and take a playful and questioning look at this fast-developing technology from a range of perspectives.

In total, we welcomed 30,000 visitors to the exhibition and accompanying events programme, which included two capacity Friday Lates; a visionary workshop with the Stemettes; lunchtime presentations from King’s researchers in the AI Forum; new spoken word performances by Poetry Luv’s young artists; a special recording of the BBC Global News Podcast; and a series of lively panel discussions exploring transparency, regulation, and AI’s implications for healthcare, the workplace and the arts.

A huge thanks to all the audiences, participants, collaborators and colleagues who made the season what it was!

You can read the full story on our blog, where you can also watch recordings of some of the lively panel discussions that you might have missed - link in bio

23/01/2024

As "AI: Who’s Looking After Me?" comes to a close after seven months, we look back at our most timely season to date, presented in partnership with FutureEverything

As "AI: Who’s Looking After Me?" comes to a close after seven months, we look back at Science Gallery London’s most timely season to date

04/01/2024

On Saturday 13 January, join Sarah Selby in person at Science Gallery London for ‘Between the Lines: The Intervention’ - the culmination of her 2023 Lumen Prize-winning project.

‘Between the Lines’ highlights the risks of algorithms used within the UK’s immigration and justice systems in disconnecting individuals from the decisions made about them.

In this ongoing research project, first-hand testimonies of people detained by the UK border regime are encoded into synthetic DNA before being embedded into writing ink and inserted into pens. These pens are then distributed to individuals working on the frontline of UK immigration control, intending to trigger a process of reflection among the actors of this regime, as the personal experiences of those affected become part of the bureaucratic system.

Join Sarah in the Gallery between 12pm - 3pm as she fills the pens with the synthetic DNA writing ink, prepares them for distribution, and discusses her work in this informal durational performance.

Free entry, no need to book.

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