Ant Nevin

in 2019 I was selected as Artist in Residence at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona. What I wanted to do with this time was to find ways in which the convergence of art and science might consider how each area impacts the other and how, together, they shed light on who we are and where we’re heading. Ultimately this project turns the spotlight on how designer/artist/scientist collaborations can explore what it means to be a human in the 21st Century and the cellular nature of our being and ways in which we understand and experience it through the lens of science and technology.

For the IRB residency I’ve been exploreing ways of bringing together microscopy techniques, rich data about cell mutation and creative uses of light, audio and other forms of creative technology to create a series of hybrid, immersive and beguiling installations which materialise the scientific process and the seemingly countless spread sheets of data that the IRB scientists look at. Obviously COVID 19 has screwed that up a bit. But I’m busy working away in my studio lab in New Zealand and soon will have the first iteration of a project that will exist physically and virtually. This will bring several live streams of data together with video mapping technologies to create several scale large instalations.