1+1≠2
'things that don't up add' - commenced 2009
1+1≠2 is a new collaboration between Kate Richards, Brad Miller, Jon Drummond and Nancy Mauro-Flude. It comprises a series of explorations, across various media, around scientific conundrums – things that don’t add up, such as dark energy, the uncertainty principle, and the uncanny.
The focus of our research is contemporary conundrums in science, things that we are asked to believe but that don’t add up. In an era when master narratives have foundered, these conundrum become metaphors for the human enterprises of questioning and belief, creativity and cognition. By engaging creatively with these conundrum we are working at the frontiers of science and scientific research, we are delving into the interstices and into the heart of the unknown, and we are finding ways to develop projects and technology that are culturally critical. We are interested in the cultural implications of these conundrum, to develop alternative lines of inquiry around them and to contribute to new forms of knowledge. Science has replaced art and spirituality as the main framework for understanding ‘the unknown.’ We believe art has a re-invigorated role to reject the authority voice, the role of dogma and entrenched knowledge, and to investigate the ‘yearning to know’ that science now monopolises in touching parts of the human spirit.
