We were delighted to be invited back to Beta Festival 2024 for a whirlwind of debate, conversation, workshops & connecting with some of the brightest minds working at the intersection of art, science, & technology. We helped facilitate the AI Art Assembly and Artist Bytes, and contributed to a recorded Culture File panel, before helping host the Creative Europe Media Desk networking event. We loved being part of the conversation! Massive thanks as ever to Aisling Murray and to the entire Beta team for another fascinating year of art, science, and technology.

In 2023, we were pleased to be involved in Beta Festival and hosted a pop-up podcasting corner in the Digital Lounge. Listen back to our 2023 episode here.

Art-Science and STEAM have become buzzwords once more, but in transcending, transgressing, or transforming disciplinary boundaries, what are we really looking to achieve? These approaches have opened up new ways of knowing, learning, and creating. Yet, from issues regarding access, to differences in definitions, priorities, and measurements of success, transdisciplinary collaborations have had more than their fair share of challenges.

This community podcast session does more than discuss what works and what doesn’t. It puts it on record.

We hosted a roundtable session and live podcast recording in which we examine the past, present, and future of transdisciplinary collaborations. What can we learn from past examples, from the holistic experiments of Black Mountain College to the living laboratories of Le Laboratoire and far beyond? Together we will discuss how to support, incubate and enact meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations, resisting the urge to look only to the future without first engaging with lessons from the past. Attendees were invited to contribute to a fishbowl style discussions guided by our panel of contributors on local and international examples, and what art-science, STEAM, and transdisciplinary mean to them. 

In creating this community recording, we seek to document and share stories, knowledge, experience, and perspectives at a time when learning to work together across difference, has never been more critical.

Science of Rave brings science into the club.

We are a group of artists, DJs, scientists and science communicators who are actively involved in Berlin’s club life. Our aim as a collective is to offer as many people as possible a safe space for learning and exchanging ideas about club culture and their own clubbing experience. At Science of Rave, we open up new perspectives and conversations in an interactive party format.

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Welcome to the Salon!

In March 2024 we assumed the role of official podcasters of Creative Brain Week – a Global Brain Health Institute innovation at Trinity College Dublin, presented in association with Creative Aging International, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and with support from Creative Ireland and the Atlantic Institute.

We spoke with a plethora of poets and policymakers, hosted reflection sessions, and chatted with some fascinating researchers. In this mini episode, you will hear poetry from the amazing Morag Anderson (Scottish Poetry Library), delve with us into the research of neuropsychologist Dr Tanisha Hill-Jarrett (University of California, San Francisco) incorporating everything from systemic racism to Afrofuturism as art and epistemology, and gain some insights from the Reflection Sessions we co-hosted with Morag at the end of each conference day.

Find out more about Dr Tanisha Hill-Jarrett’s work here:
www.tanishahilljarrett.com/othersideoftime
https://www.gbhi.org/news-publications/storytelling-project-addresses-older-black-womens-healthcare-disparities
www.gbhi.org/projects/creative-minds

Read more about Morag Anderson’s poetry here:
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/morag-anderson/

Watch our full reflection sessions with Morag from Creative Brain Week 2024 on YouTube:
5th March: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3YjDL9v6xI
6th March: www.youtube.com/watch?v=18N_vmEwNgs

Hosted by Dr Amelia McConville and Dr Autumn Brown
Production and Music by Daniel Tatlow-Devally
Thank you to Dominic Campbell and Bea Kelleher of Creative Brain Week, who made these conversations possible, and to the Global Brain Health Institute, Atlantic Institute, and Creative Ireland. More: www.creativebrainweek.com/

Thank you also to Creative Futures Academy for the 2024 Public Engagement Grant which supported the production of this episode.

Join us on social media!
Twitter/X: twitter.com/ArtPlusSciSalon
Instagram: www.instagram.com/artplussciencesalon/

We set up a pop-up podcasting corner in the Digital Lounge at the Digital Hub, where we invited the participants, stakeholders, coordinators, and artists of Beta Festival to stop by and share their thoughts on what it means to facilitate the inaugural year of this fascinating festival of science, art, and technology. We spoke with Julian Ellison (The Digital Hub), Jo Mangan (The Performance Corporation), Marguerite Barry (The ADAPT Centre), and Joanna Walsh (University College Dublin) about their individual contributions to Beta Festival.

Hosted by Amelia McConville and Autumn Brown
Production and Music by Daniel Tatlow-Devally
Thank you to the Beta Festival 2023 Team, especially to Aisling Murray, festival founder and director.

Cross-disciplinarians Amelia McConville and Autumn Brown join tech festival founder Aisling Murray to talk about art, science and tech events both in and beyond the university.