Does the growing interest of scientific themes in the literary, performing and visual arts contribute to the public understanding of science? Can works of fiction be critical tools to critique the sciences?

Invoking physics and mathematics as scientific influences for the revolution in art that took place in the early 20th century, our guests discuss the realities behind appearances, the fourth dimension in time and space and the nature of simultaneity.

In an age of bio-technology and bio-engineering, the divide between nature and culture is becoming increasingly osmotic. Archeology meets DNA analysis, genes are bought and sold and urbanization is looked at as an aspect of manipulating nature.

The teratoma, a monstrous form of cells has resurfaced, as an entity which could bridge the philosophical gap between religion and science. Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey discuss their work which centers around live tissue, meat and digital media.