“What matters is creating relevant forms of togetherness between practices, both scientific and non-scientific; finding relevant ways of thinking together” (Stengers, I. Another Science Is Possible, 2018. P.145). We are interested in exploring ingenuitive approaches to creative artistic-research by engaging with the challenges of interdisciplinary education through use of innovative materials, situated seminars, creative workshops […]
The Deep Field Project
Research Partners
CREAM at Westminster School of Arts hosts The Deep Field Project which was established with key partners and continues to develop new and exciting relations with a range of organisations Internationally. Scroll down for more information. Founding Partners Office of Experiments Office of Experiments (2004), was founded by Neal White as an independent research network […]
Project Investigators
The Deep Field Project research studio is led by Neal White with support from Jol Thoms (Goldsmiths, University of London). Neal White is an artist who leads the Office of Experiments, and an experienced academic / supervisor. He is Co-Director of CREAM at Westminster School of Arts. Jol Thoms is an experienced arts educator, artist, […]
Extractable Matters Assembly. 2019
The Assembly was organised by The Deep Field Project in partnership with Arts Catalyst, non-profit contemporary arts organisation that commissions and produces transdisciplinary art and research. The event brought together artists, academics, activists and human rights experts to collectively explore the politics of extraction across the globe and the role that its operations play on […]
EX-ART: Liquid Imaginary. 2018
EX-ART brings together acclaimed International artists; Shezad Dawood (UK) Senior Research Fellow- CREAM, and Charles Lim (Singapore), whose works Sea State (Lim) and Leviathan (Dawood) were critical highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2017. Exploring their underlying research. the EX-ART event will draw upon the critical imaginary and use of emergent technology to explore fluid, […]
Test Sites Assembly. 2018
Organised and led by Arts Catalyst with Nicola Triscott and Neal White at University of Westminster. Together with artists, scientists and thinkers interested in re-imagining social, artistic and scientific research as a bottom-up community-led approach, particularly in relation to planetary health, the day explored the complex, interdependent relationship between the health of the planet and […]
Earth Lab. 2017
Earth Lab : An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory. 30 September 2017 Coordinated by Neal White and John Beck, and led by independent curator Dr Rob La Frenais, this colloquium brought together International artists, inventors and thinkers who re-imagine Earth, sea and sky from a bottom-up, post-anthropocenic position, in a wide-ranging, broad-brushstroke survey of […]
Biosphere 2. 2017
Biosphere 2 (Proving Grounds). 19 May 2017 A talk by Kathelin Gray, co-founder of Biosphere 2, in conversation with Dr Rob La Frenais, independent curator. Organised by Neal White with Professor John Beck at Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster. Kathelin Gray is a US producer, who is a co-founder of the […]
Beyond Research
Given the challenges posed by learning to live with the proliferating array of other kinds of life-forms that increasingly surround us – be they pets, weeds, pests, commensals, new pathogens, “wild” animals or technoscientific “mutants” – developing a precise way to analyse how the human is both distinct from and continuous with that which lies […]
The Deep Field Project
The Deep Field Project The Deep Field Project engages with living landscapes, mapping and infrastructural analysis at a range of scales – globally, trans-locally, planetary, among others. We are a research studio expanding the aims of environmental art by supporting interdisciplinary fieldwork, situated knowledge practices, and site-specific inquiry in research-led artistic, cultural and social practices. […]