Listening to Dark Matter Exhibition, Madrid
09 March – 26 April 2023 Free entrance booking advised here In Listening to Dark Matter, artist investigator, Rebecca Collins (1982), invites engagement with scientific uncertainty by staging a series of imaginative encounters with dark matter, an invisible yet abundant particle present in our everyday lives. Notoriously difficult to detect, scientists use technologically engineered advanced […]
Collective Practices of Uncertainty
‘Collective Practices for Uncertainty’ A micro-documentary 15.30 mins Language: Spanish with English Subtitles ‘Collective Practices for Uncertainty’ is a micro-documentary to share what can happen when you put artists, experimental composers, and particle physicists together. This unlikely three-day encounter, led and designed by Rebecca Collins, sought to foster intellectual companionship, share performative tactics, and uncover […]
Artistic Research meets Scientific Research
Rebecca Collins was invited to speak at the Winter Meeting of Astrophysics in La Laguna, Tenerife on unconventional research strategies and encounters operating between artistic research and scientific research. This forms part of her ongoing research project, ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) November, 2022.
Listening to Dark Matter
Our Universe contains vast amounts of a new form of matter that neither emits nor absorbs light. We do not know the nature of this mysterious “dark matter”, despite having been postulated more than a hundred years ago. Its search in different types of experiments has meant a revolution in particle physics, since it shows […]
Art & Science: Artistic Research & Sound Art
Rebecca Collins is presenting findings from her ongoing research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) as part of Science Week in Madrid at the Residencia de Estudiantes. She will share ongoing work, opening her notebooks to the wider public, to give insights into what has been going on since installing herself in B14, an office […]
Mend, Blend, Attend Society for Artistic Research, Bauhaus University, Weimar 2022
In July 2022 Rebecca presented her current research project, ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ at the annual Society for Artistic Research conference held at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Professor, Giaco Schiesser chaired the session and, alongside the other presenters an interesting debate was held on how artistic research can be integrated into interdisciplinary environments. […]
Membranes, Microphones, Hydrophones & Particles
The second of four interdisciplinary seminars with Spanish National Radio presenter, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández and leader of acoustic research for astro particle detection, Miquel Ardid. Video documentation of the session forthcoming.
Rebecca Collins is Awarded a Royal Society Saltire Early Career Fellowship
Rebecca Collins is awarded a prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh Early Career Saltire Fellowship and is the next generation of artistic researchers leading European Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Thinking Infrastructures // Performing Meetings With invited guests Johanna Linsley and Rebecca Collins 16 June 2020
In mid-June, I was delighted to be invited by Prof Kristen Kreider and Tom Clark alongside Dr Johanna Linsley to present at MARs (Mountains of Research, Goldsmiths University) to talk about what we are thinking and how we are acting during this time of transition: a time where we are moving so much of our […]