Neil Koenig, former Senior BBC producer and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer, interviews Daniel Birnbaum, artistic director Acute Art. 

Chapter headings:

00:00 We're here to idea everyone! To fire up your curiosity and connect you with the people and ideas that shape our world. 
00:20 Welcome to ideaXme. I'm Neil Koenig.
00:25 For more than 50 years the Serpentine Gallery has shown work by some of the world's most famous contemporary artists.
00:38 This creature is a product of augmented reality.
01:04 A parallel digital version of the show has been launched in Fortnite, a hugely popular video game developed by Epic Games.
01:15 The artistic director of Acute Art and curator of the New Fiction show is Daniel Birnbaum.
38:04 At the centre of the game is a replica of the Serpentine Gallery.
38:57 I think it will be the best attended exhibition ever produced.
39:42 What kind of work is on show in both worlds?
39:52 KAWS, many people know his work.
41:15 On the Acute Art App and you can place those paintings in your living room.
41:26 It is an exhibition that lives in 3 worlds.
51:33 Maybe that hybrid world will be the future of art.
52:45 There will be entirely new kinds of platforms I think.

Acute Art has already worked with many high-profile artists, including Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Bjarne Melgaard, Jeff Koons and many more. 

The most recent project that Acute Art has been involved in is NEW FICTION, the first major solo exhibition in London by KAWS (Brian Donnelly b.1974). The show, which opened in January 2022 at the Serpentine gallery in London’s Hyde Park, includes new and recent works in physical and augmented reality. A parallel digital version of the exhibition launched simultaneously in Fortnite, the hugely popular video game developed by Epic Games. In addition, an app developed by Acute Art will “offer a bridge between the virtual and the physical worlds”. All the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition, as well as a miniature version of the entire show, will exist as AR works on the app, which can be viewed at home by audiences around the world, and shared on social media.

In this interview, producer, journalist and ideaXme board adviser Neil Koenig talks to Acute Art’s artistic director, Daniel Birnbaum, about his career in the art world, the creative challenge of curating the NEW FICTION show, and what part technologies such as augmented and virtual reality might play in the future development of art.

Before joining Acute Art in January 2019, Daniel Birnbaum was Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Previously, he curated the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), “Airs de Paris” (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (2007), the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008), and “Zero” (with Tijs Visser) at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2015). In 2009 he was director of the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Daniel Birnbaum co-authored ‘Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition’ with Swedish philosopher and professor Sven-Olov Wallenstein published by Sternberg Press in September 2019.

Video footage of Fortnite game courtesy of Epic Games © Epic Games.
Video stills shot by Neil Koenig.
Video and stills from Acute Art App.

Links:

David Birnbaum: https://acuteart.com/tag/daniel-birnb...

Acute Art: https://acuteart.com

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en...

Neil Koenig:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/

https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en

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Discover why everyone "should fall in love with biotech".

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Dr. Jo Zayner, PhD, Biophysics, is a "visionary" biochemist and genetic designer. For over 15 years, they have pioneered work in the field of bioengineering, publishing a number of scientific papers on the topic. Zayner is transgender and uses they/she pronouns advocating for diversity, body autonomy and science for all. Jo received their PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago, winning several awards for their work on engineering proteins. They then spearheaded work on developing engineered microbes for Mars terraforming at NASA, eventually leaving to start The ODIN, a bioengineering company based in Austin, Texas that is working to make genetic engineering accessible to everyone. Zayner’s groundbreaking work in human genetic engineering and medicine has been the focus of many documentaries, including the Netflix documentary Unnatural Selection https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/8020... and the NYT documentary Gut Hack https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/op... .

They have been made fun of on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and written about in media all over the world including The New York Times, The New Yorker, El País, Le Monde, Time, Scientific American and NPR, among others. Somehow Jo still finds time to be an accomplished artist whose work has been featured in exhibits at San Francisco MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, NY MoMA, ZKM and the Smithsonian.

The ODIN, team believe the future is going to be dominated by genetic engineering and consumer genetic design will be a big part of that. They are facilitating this by offering tailored biotech kits and tools that allow anyone to make unique and usable organisms at home or in a lab or anywhere. Safely of course! Twitter: @4LovOfScience https://twitter.com/4LOVofScience Instagram: @jzayner https://www.instagram.com/jzayner/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/josiah.zayner Video footage from Canva. Voice over for ideaXme introduction: Neil Koenig former Senior BBC producer and journalist and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer. Music for ideaXme introduction: Music: Space Heroes by MaxKoMusic | https://maxkomusic.com/ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward. Our passion: Rich Connectedness!

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This woman is on a mission to revolutionise cancer diagnostics. 

Her company, Genomic Expression, launched only 3 months ago, is scaling up so that people world-wide can have access to her OneRNA test as soon as possible.

Listen to her motivations, her personal story and advice to other women setting out in business.

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Michael Seres ideaXme human health and medical innovation ambassador interviews Dr John B Charles, who was until recently Chief Scientist Human Research Program, NASA.

Check out the full text article: www.radioideaxme.com.

Covered here:

Dr Charles' new project involving forensic research and deceased artist Neil Jabobe who worked on a top secret NASA mission.

Scientific projects to support missions into space.

Comparing human health research for Earth to human health research for astronauts.

Whom Dr Charles would like to meet? What is the question he would like to ask that person?

Staring into infinity and the questions that Dr Charles wished he'd asked his father before his death 15 years ago.. How this realisation has shaped his life.

NASA Biography:

John B. Charles, Ph.D., is retiring after a 35-year career at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). A graduate of Ohio State University, he earned his doctorate in physiology and biophysics from the University of Kentucky. As a postdoctoral fellow, he began his NASA journey at JSC in 1983 in the medical research branch. He became a civil servant in the cardiovascular laboratory at JSC in 1985. He is retiring as Associate Director of Exploration Research Planning. Prior to that position, Dr. Charles was the Chief Scientist for NASA’s Human Research Program.

As a child, Dr. Charles avidly followed the “space race” and was particularly enamored with the journey of Astronaut John Glenn. "At about age 10, I decided to quit dreaming and actually focus on a career in the space business,” Charles said. Through his academic studies, he realized the best way to combine his interest in biology with his desire to do space-related work was to pursue a career as a research physiologist.

Dr. Charles spent a large part of his lab career at JSC looking at the problem of orthostatic intolerance, the feeling of faintness astronauts experience on their return to Earth from orbit. Charles and his team helped to formalize a postflight test of orthostatic function and developed the technique of combining drinking water and salt tablets during lower body negative pressure (LBNP) to restore body fluids and pull them out of the upper body and back into the lower body.

Dr. Charles was the Mission Scientist for two notable space shuttle flights: STS-95, John Glenn’s return to space shuttle flight; and STS-107, Columbia’s last mission in January 2003. As Mission Scientist he coordinated all of the NASA-sponsored biomedical, biological and microgravity science investigations for these missions.

Dr. Charles describes a high point of his career with NASA: "I have to rate as one of the highest the chance to work with John Glenn, because he inspired me way back in 1962 to be interested in spaceflight. Then 36 years later, when he flew on the shuttle, I dealt with him on a fairly regular basis to prepare our experiments for him to do in flight. It was always a thrill for me to see and speak to him. It was sort of a full circle, going from being inspired by him to working with him and having him consider me a part of his team."

As Chief Scientist of the Human Research Program, Dr. Charles’s later years at JSC focused on the One-Year Mission. For that mission, beginning in March 2015, Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko spent one year on the International Space Station (ISS) to advance research of medical, psychological, and biomedical challenges of humans on long-duration missions.

Dr. Charles is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and a Full Member of the International Academy of Astronautics.  He has published over 60 scientific articles, and has received several professional awards." Credits: NASA

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Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme talks with Tamara Rojo, multi award winning Lead Principal Ballerina and Artistic Director English National Ballet.

They talk of upcoming performances, diverse collaborations with people such as Akram Khan, bravery and how arts make a nation!

Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme [00:00:01] Who are you? 

Tamara Rojo, Lead Principal Dancer and Artistic Director, English National Ballet [00:00:03] I am Tamara Rojo I am a ballerina and I am the Artistic Director of English National Ballet. 

Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme [00:00:09] How did you find dance? 

Tamara Rojo, Lead Principal Dancer and Artistic Director, English National Ballet [00:00:12] I found dance by accident. It was very wet day and one of the teachers of the school said to me to wait inside the gym because you will be warmer. And they were doing a ballet class. I had never seen ballet before and I fell completely in love with it. 

Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme [00:00:38] Your first breakthrough was a gold medal. Can you tell us about that? 

Tamara Rojo, Lead Principal Dancer and Artistic Director, English National Ballet [00:00:45] Again at the time it was a bit of a surprise. The ballet scene in Spain was very limited. So, we were not exposed to what was happening internationally. There was a competition in Paris and my director wanted somebody to represent the company but there were only two weeks left before the competition and I was the only one who raised their hand. I'm not sure why. I think more curiosity than anything. I wanted to know who I was in the wider world. I wanted to know where my level was because it was very difficult to know. I was so isolated. So, almost without preparation I went. I never expected to win. I just wanted to see where I sat. So, it was a wonderful surprise because winning that competition opened the world of ballet for me. 

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Tamara Rojo, Lead Principal Ballerina and Artistic Director English National Ballet

Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme Ltd. interviews Dr Sam Illingworth, PhD Atmospheric Physics, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Dr Illingworth is a "poet scientist" who believes that poetry is a powerful tool to communicate and explore science. (For the complete transcript of this interview please visit www.radioideaxme.com)

He is passionate about encouraging the cross fertilisation of ideas from one seemingly unrelated sector to another to create stronger ideas. And feels that when the arts and sciences are brought together the results are powerful, often moving both unrelated sectors forward.

He also believes strongly in the necessity of scientists to communicate their science with the wider world so that people better understand and evaluate how some of the most pressing global issues such as climate change can be solved by science and public participation in tandem. 

Sam urges us all to learn more of science generally in this age of exponential growth in scientific advancement and technology. As he’d like the public to be equipped with the necessary knowledge to question and ultimately take part in the processes that affect us all.

Poetry and science as parallels:

Dr Illingworth has conducted extensive research into the lives and achievements – poetic and scientific of 6 fellow famous poet scientists. These findings have been published in a recent book, A Sonnet To Science. He evaluates through these 6 examples how science is communicated and advanced by poetry.

Climate change 

Dr Illingworth’s special scientific interest lies in climate change research. He has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics and a Masters Degree in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester (and an MA in Higher Education Merit from The Manchester Metropolitan University).  He has worked with the Manchester Climate Change Agency on the Climate Lab 2016 programme, an initiative to engage the public with the issue of Climate Change.

He wrote A Change of Climate with his friend and colleague, Dan Simpson, who he mentions in this interview.

Watch to the end of the interview and you’ll learn how science and poetry really can be symbiotic. Furthermore, you'll hear of Dr Illingworth's passion for music also and how it too can be used like poetry to communicate science. 

Also discover that Sam’s work is not just limited to teaching university students. His outreach programme also extends to schools as he recognises importance of engaging children in major world issues. 

Finally, find out with whom Sam has connected in the past to move his life and career forward as well as who he would like to meet now. For some extra entertainment and inspiration - throughout the interview - expect to hear some wonderful poetry!

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