Noorderlicht Photofestival 2017: NUCLEUS | Imagining science
From 22 October – 26 November 2017, the 24th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photography Festival will take place. During ‘NUCLEUS, imagining science’ work of 74 photographers from 26 countries can be seen at six locations in Groningen, Eelde and Assen.
Tribute to human ingenuity
NUCLEUS is about science and the representation of it by independent photographers and artists. In response to social developments, more and more artists use science in their research and as a source of inspiration. Science and art form a fertile combination after all. Both disciplines work from an investigative urge, with curiosity, originality, creativity and an open mind as fundamental principles. In NUCLEUS, the photographers tell their stories about science and the representation of it in around 700 images. It is the first time a collaboration from Noorderlicht will occur with KINK in Assen and Museum De Buitenplaats in Eelde.
ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS
Monica Alcazar-Duarte (GB), Evgenia Arbugaeva (RU), Wayne Barrar (NZ), Stéphanie Borcard & Nicolas Métraux (CH), Karin Borghouts (B), Annemarie van Buuren (NL), Alison Carey (US), Francesca Catastini (GB), Debashish Chakrabarty (BD), Caleb Charland (US), Edmund Clark (GB), Robin Alysha Clemens (NL), Ellie Davies (GB), Marcus DeSieno (US), Annabel Elgar (GB), Grégoire Eloy (F), David Fathi (F), Anna Filipova (UK), Todd Forsgren (US), Vincent Fournier (F), Fresh From Poland (PL), Angeline van Gent (NL), Alberto Giuliani (I), Jay Gould (US), Alejandro Guijarro (SP), Phil Hastings (US), Lucy Helton (US), Abbey Hepner (US), Jeroen Hofman (NL), Tjibbe Hooghiemstra (NL), Jos Jansen (NL), Jos Jansen (NL), Anja de Jong (NL), Jaakko Kahilaniemi (FIN), Wanuri Kahiu (KEN), Kahn & Selesnick (US & GB), Daniel Kariko (US), Paul Kranzler & Andrew Phelps (AT & US), Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Peeter Laurits (EST), Luca Locatelli (I), Marie Lukasiewicz (F), Marcus Lyon (GB), David Maisel (US), Anne Arden McDonald (US), Michael Najjar (DE), Nakagawa & Hamburger (US), Beatrice Pediconi (I), Marcus Peters (NL), Agnieszska Rayss (PL), Kate Robertson (AT), Larissa Sansour (PAL), Ulrike Schmitz (DE), Serinyà (S), Robert Shults (US), Michal Sita & Wieslaw Rakowski [1903-1948] (PL), David Thomas Smith (IRE), Daniel Stier (Duitsland), Clare Strand (GB), Andrea Stultiens (NL), Vivan Sundaram (India), Maija Tammi (FIN), Andy Thomas (AT), Wanda Tuerlinckx (B), Penelope Umbrico (US), Peter Voigt (DE), Jakob Weber (DE), Hannes Wiedemann (DE), Sanne De Wilde (B), Henk Wildschut (NL), Xiaoxiao Xu (NL) en Liam Young (AT).
On this 24th Noorderlicht International Photofestival science is a subject as well as a source of inspiration. The human urge to understand and control the world has already led to an unprecedented amount of knowledge given the relatively short time we have been roaming this planet. The achievements of scientific thought have permeated everyone’s lives. This process, which is now already being called the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, will only intensify in the coming years. Artists often ask themselves the same questions as scientists and share many of the same principles like originality, creativity and an open mind. In NUCLEUS the two disciplines will enter into a dialogue with one another