How Astro Noise show interrogates the world of surveillance
1 March 2016
Art shows about surveillance are a dime a dozen in New York, but this exhibition by film-maker Laura Poitras goes for the jugular, finds Brendan Byrne
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A Crude Look at the Whole: Complexity is still outsmarting us
10 February 2016
Amazing behaviour can emerge from the simplest interactions – although a new book shows how far we are from a simple account of it
Can Europe's arts festivals illuminate our crisis-ridden world?
23 September 2015
Climate change and technological dystopia were centre stage at three recent festivals in Norway and Austria, but the artworks struggled to rise to the challenge
Autumn's science books weigh up humanity's future options
9 September 2015
Are we fighting and tinkering our way to destruction – or finding solutions to every problem? We take the temperature of the new season's smart thinking
Technology of the future needs to be designed with a heart
12 August 2015
The future is tech-shaped. But are the creators embedding our systems into their designs? Two new books look at why we need to act
Biocode mixes art and academia to explore pigeonholing
17 April 2015
A conference on the fallibility of humans' propensity to categorise proves to be a pleasurable romp through unmapped territories
Putting animals online: Does it protect or destroy?
26 February 2015
Even in the digital realm, observation and conservation make uncomfortable bedfellows
Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket
3 September 2014
Seventy years ago this month, one of the second world war's scariest weapons began to rain terror on London. But the V-2 was also the world's first spacecraft
Why insects bug us so much
11 December 2013
None of us is neutral about insects. The strong emotional reactions they provoke have deep roots, says Jeffrey A. Lockwood in The Infested Mind
