IF I were going to curate a new sci-art collaboration, I would want it first to create a fantastic piece of art and then I’d hope that the collaboration would open windows into a new world, illuminating new ways of approaching or communicating things.
In December 2009 I curated at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in which contemporary artists examined the notion of climate change. Some were concerned when Tracey Emin, one of the artists, told a press conference she was a terrible role model because she leaves her heating and…