Constellations - constellations.world
The Wellcome Trust funded project Constellations, is an interactive publication and artist film exploring the themes of language, the invisible, the unknown, and imagination in relationship to the Human Cell Atlas by Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann.
The research project looks at the interconnected histories of technologies of seeing, scientific discovery and our relationship to our own bodies. Since the Renaissance, artists and scientists have mapped our bodies in all of its knowable and unknowable complexity, the process of categorizing, classifying and naming fragments undertaken to understand the elusive whole.
The Human Cell Atlas aims to create an open-access atlas of knowledge, mapping how all body systems are connected, impacting almost every aspect of biology and medicine in the future. The visual and textual research interweaves the present with the past and future, showing how and why this proposition of knowledge as a continual unfolding is more relevant than ever, as we move from the documentary to the poetic, from micro to macro, from Cell to the Cosmos.
Stewart and Teichmann are collaborating with the internationally renowned composer Deirdre Gribbin, as well as scientific and medical historians and philosophers Jenny Bangham and Boris Jardine and the art historian and curator, Gemma Blackshaw in an interactive online publication designed by Studio Hato, edited and art directed by Stewart and Teichmann.