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The Observatories asked: What techniques make us feel those fight-or-flight or must-buy-it-now urges? It also demonstrated how easy it is to manipulate people through subconscious smell. In standalone structures in the centre of Milton Keynes,

Nanoparticles are already in daily use, for example, enhancing the functionality of sun creams and sticking plasters. Meanwhile, work is underway to develop revolutionary, futuristic advances – such as tiny machines that can zip around our

Drawing by Numbers demonstrates the conversion process from an analogue life drawing to a digital drawing described in code. At a workshop at the Media Space in the Science Museum, London, participants could scan a recently completed life drawing

Perturbations in the natural order have torn the fabric of the space-time continuum, and unexpected growths are seeping into our world - perhaps from our own future. Augmented reality apps transform our mobile devices into "ARscopes;" allowing us to

Evolution of Fish is an augmented reality large projection that turns the surroundings--outside on building facades, or inside on gallery walls--into an underwater reef, filled with schools of fish. Visitors can use iPads to guide the fish around

Human brains can subtract unwanted sense data – including sound – from the environment when we focus attention. The rest of the information is still being processed; it’s just attenuated, pushed to the background. In Sound Mind explores this

Dogs’ Ears explored the beauty and language of the dog ear. Presented as a video chat website, visitors logged in, browsed dogs and instant messaged with them online. Each dog responded in its own language, whether with an English ‘woof woof’, a

Bird & the Moon explores the representation of environmental data by incorporating nature back into the loop – making the live data feed back into a system that aesthetically links us back to the natural world. The work includes a seasonal affective

In Lend Me Your Face!, a neural network animates a single photo of each participating visitor's face to match "driving videos" of leading public figures.* The deepfakes are displayed in large projections surrounding the public. The visitor is

In the first year of the coronavirus pandemic it was thought that transmission was primarily through physical contact. We were hyperaware of the surfaces we touched and of the traces that may or may not be on those surfaces. Indeed, for those alone