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Honor Harger

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Director and Chief Curator of Futures Imagined. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.

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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It was prompted by Liam Spradlin’s @iamli.am fascinating new essay for @aeon.co on “computism” and the limits of reducing human experience to data: aeon.co/essays/if-co... I connect his argument to exhibitions, embodiment and what art can make knowable, that is beyond computation.
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If computers count all the petals, who tastes the cherries? | Aeon Essays
The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’ve just published Beyond Computism: The Power of Embodied Artistic Experience, a short reflection on why physical, embodied encounters matter in an age increasingly shaped by AI, computation and data. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/b...
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Beyond Computism: The Power of Embodied Artistic Experience
Beyond Computism: The Power of Embodied Artistic Experience By Honor Harger 20 September 2026 We live in an age increasingly governed by the assumption that if something can be measured, it can be …
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Together, these essays point to a crisis of the future itself. Confidence is diminishing and our stories about the future are being hijacked. In In Defence of the Unfinished Future, I argue that museums can help return the future to the public realm through art, design and experience.
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In Defence of the Unfinished Future
In Defence of the Unfinished Future By Honor Harger 31 July 2026 A society can lose its future before it arrives. It happens when the people who will live longest in that future no longer believe t…
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Separately in @aeon.co, @alirizataskale.bsky.social argues that we’re also losing control over the stories through which the future is imagined. Silicon Valley borrows science fiction’s imagery while abandoning its politics, turning warnings into business strategy. aeon.co/essays/how-s...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A society can lose its future before it arrives. In a fantastic new essay for @science.org, @anne-goujon.bsky.social argues that this century’s greatest scarcity may not be labour, capital or natural resources, but our capacity to generate confidence in the future. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 02/08/2026
Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math.
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Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling
We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Across 7 sessions we explored adaptive capacity to climate change, AI, work, education, travel, and the intersection of science and design. Thanks to all who came to make the first Forum so fulfilling. If you’re keen to be at a future BFF let me know! www.futuresimagined.com/projects/bal...
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Bali Futures Forum | Futures Imagined
Seven windows onto the future, exploring how futures practice can serve people, communities and the planet.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In July 2026, we convened the inaugural Bali Futures Forum in Uluwatu, bringing together practitioners from diplomacy, foresight, technology, education, sustainability, design, science and culture to explore a simple question: what does it mean to practise futures well? balifutureforum.com
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Bali Futures Forum
An intimate, off-the-record gathering for futures and futures-adjacent practitioners in Bali, Indonesia.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My latest piece explores the machines the photographers visited, and what tell us about the nature of scientific imagination. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/e...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Global Physics Photowalk sends photographers inside physics laboratories around the world. Their images answer questions like: what does a neutrino detector look like? Or a machine that winds cables for @cern.bsky.social? Or a tunnel carved a mile beneath South Dakota to detect mark matter?
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
To me, physics laboratories are some of the most beautiful places on earth. Beauty, for a physicist, is not incidental, it is often how they know they are on the right track. inspired by a piece in quantamagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the labs featured in the latest Global Physics Photowalk.
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Elegant Machines for the Unseen
Science is often portrayed as rational, abstract, numerical. But spend any time inside a particle physics laboratory and that distinction collapses. These are places of extraordinary aesthetic forc…
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
There is a full universe behind that wonderful new Artemis II "Night Marble" view of Earth. Here's a breakdown of the stars (and one planet) in the field of view. Look at us! Just a planet hanging out in space. Annotation by Rodrigo González Peinado. 🧪🔭
Annotation of all the stars (and the planet Venus) visible in the background around the image of Earth in the new nighttime view of our planet from Artemis II.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Some thoughts on melancholia as a cosmological feeling and who or what might be around to witness the merging of Andromeda and the Milky Way - Milkomeda. open.substack.com/pub/honorhar...
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Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological Feeling
Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological Feeling
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Five years ago this would have sounded like science fiction. Now someone has assembled an AI, genomics and mRNA treatment pipeline. It hints at a new hybrid model of biomedical science where individuals, universities and AI systems begin working together. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/m...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entrepreneur, Paul Conyngham, used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a personalised mRNA cancer treatment for his dog after she was diagnosed with an aggressive tumour. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/m...
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Medicine’s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology
Medicine’s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology By Honor Harger15 March 2026 A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entre…
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It brings together artists, designers, filmmakers and architects to explore how futures are imagined - and made. From speculative worlds and Indigenous cosmologies to Afrofuturism, Asian futurism, and visions shaped by young people in Singapore, the show offers a more hopeful view of the future.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is the final weekend of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum After months of inviting audiences to imagine futures beyond the familiar dystopias, the exhibition closes this weekend. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy Lunar New Year! Welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse. Hoping the horse carries success and swift progress, and that fire brings light, renewal, and joy. Wishing everyone good health, and happiness in the months ahead. Gong xi fa cai! 🍊🍊🔥🐎
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
What does this round of psychosis look like?
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
That’s dark. It was hard to watch.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The reflection presents the philosophers, artists, scientists and writers who have inspired my thinking in creating the Forms of Life season of exhibitions and programmes, including @edyong209.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @sarahichioka.bsky.social honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/f...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’ve just written a new piece: Forms of Life: Curating Encounters Beyond the Human. It sets out the ideas behind ArtScience Museum’s 2026 season. Forms of Life is about the lives we share the planet with - animals, plants, and machines. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/f...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It launches with Insects: Microsculptures Magnified which opens today, and NOX: Confessions of a Machine a show about AI. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib... Forms of Life includes film programmes, workshops, conferences & festivals that reveal the lives of others and imagine strange kinships.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I am pleased to announce ArtScience Museum’s 2026 season: Forms of Life: Beyond the Human The year-long season explores multispecies worlds, machine intelligence, insects, ocean life, plants and fungi. It includes exhibitions and programmes about entanglement, coexistence, and other forms of life.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
So Argus finds things, DSA listens for violent radio events, and LFAST helps explain what those discoveries actually are. This is privately funded, curiosity-driven science - rare in a space sciences sector where private investment skews more towards extraction and spectacle. 🔭🌟📡💫🧪
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The 3 Earth-based instruments are notable. Argus uses 1,200 optical telescopes to detect changes in visible light. DSA scans radio waves for brief, energetic signals. LFAST analyses near-infrared spectra to reveal what distant objects are made of. www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-obse...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The headline is Lazuli. This is the first privately funded space telescope. With a mirror much larger than Hubble’s and a possible launch as early as 2029, it will study exoplanets, dark energy, and wide-field cosmology, advancing curiosity driven science. www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-obse...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
There are some very interesting moves happening in astronomy early this year. Eric Schmidt is now funding a serious slice of future infrastructure. Through Schmidt Sciences, 4 major instruments, 3 on Earth and 1 in space, are redefining observational astronomy. 🧪🌟 🔗 www.space.com/space-explor...
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Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space
"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price."
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Opening later in January, NOX: Confessions of a Machine by Lawrence Lek explores machinic intelligence and non-human systems. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib... Together with Insects, it forms part of ArtScience Museum’s 2026 programme looking beyond the human.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Insects: Microsculptures Magnified opens at ArtScience Museum on 17 Jan. Curated with the American Museum of Natural History and enriched by research from Singapore, it bridges photography and contemporary science to reveal insects as vital ecological actors. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A new year is an opportunity to reframe how we see the world. So I love @whoi.edu’s Ocean World: www.whoi.edu/campaign/why... Thinking from the ocean outward reveals a planet defined not by the land but by the sea - a planetary system shaped by currents, chemistry, and deep time. 🧪🌊🌏
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
What a bizarre piece of censorship. I’m not even sure the president would deny this.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“Radio polars” are a magnetic white dwarf (the remnant of a Sun-like star) and a cooler red dwarf locked in a tight orbit. Discovered through low-frequency radio astronomy, they act like unseen lighthouses, guiding our understanding of a dynamic, layered cosmos.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Some stars speak not in light, but in radio. I just wrote about a newly discovered class of binary stars, what I call “radio polars”, first identified by Iris de Ruiter and her team. They were also explored by @astrobites.bsky.social in a recent article. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/h...
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Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky
Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky By Honor Harger 23 November 2025 Two stars orbit each other so closely that their surfaces seem almost aware of one another. One is a dense white dwarf – the r…
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Didn’t DESI already discover this? www.desi.lbl.gov/2024/04/22/d...
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DESI 2024 in the News: Is Dark Energy Weakening? New Uncertainty Invites Optimism About the Fate of the Universe
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My new essay, It’s All Really There: The Electromagnetic Life of the Universe, explores how we live inside a vast ocean of plasma and radio waves. How everything from weather to light to radio signals, moves within the same electromagnetic field, and, as Feynman said, “it’s all really there!”
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second. That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
It brings together 105 works by more than 40 designers, artists, filmmakers, architects, and writers, who explore the future from multiple perspectives from Asia, Africa and the Pacific, before finally arriving in Singapore - where we are.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that. Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future. I've written some reflections on it here:
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Another World is Possible
Another World is Possible By Honor Harger 20 September 2025 In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. As my friend Liam Young says, it’s as if we are…
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
From the moment you step aboard, you feel the convergence of science, storytelling, and technology. The Summit gathered oceanographers, technologists, and filmmakers to imagine new relationships with the sea. Amid it all, we announced a new OceanX exhibition opening next year at ArtScience Museum.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I’ve just spent a few days aboard OceanXplorer, the remarkable research vessel of OceanX, which has been docked in Singapore for the OceanX Summit. It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine. oxsummit.oceanx.org
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
As we move deeper into the exhibition, we encounter other artists and designers like Osborne Macharia, Serwah Attafuah and Leeroy New. They draw from their own cultural lineages, Indigenous, African, Asian, to create visions of futures which are possible, plausible and maybe even desirable.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I’ve been reflecting on the themes of our exhibition, Another World Is Possible From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
At our symposium We Dream in Futures and the Design Futures Forum, Liam spoke with urgency about why he makes these works. He reminds us that world-building is not just an artistic gesture - it is a political, ethical, and environmental act. The futures we imagine shape the future we make.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Liam Young’s cinematic worlds are at the heart of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum. We’re proud to present the global premiere of World Machine, Liam’s new work tracing Asia’s role in AI. Alongside it are Planet City, After the End and The Great Endeavour.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Another World is Possible is inspired by where we come from - Singapore. Here, the future is cautiously optimistic, and shaped through planning, imagination and collective effort. At a time when the world feels more uncertain than ever, this is our gift to the world on Singapore’s birthday.
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
From Indigenous cosmology to Asian futurism, from video games to radical design responses to the climate crisis, Another World explores world-building as a practice. The 100 works by 40 designers, artists, and architects suggest a future alive with possibility www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I’m thrilled to announce that Another World Is Possible is now open at ArtScience Museum. Co-curated by me, my team and Liam Young, this is a show about how we imagine the future. At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
For In the Ether, quantum mechanics is also explored through art. Libby Heaney, Semiconductor, Amy Karle, and Yu-Chen Wang present new works created with scientists, transforming entanglement, time, and uncertainty into shared experience. We’re really excited about this year’s festival. Come visit!
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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I’m excited to announce In the Ether: A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology, opening 6 Sep at ArtScience Museum. Marking the International Year of Quantum Science, we bring quantum physics into public space together with CQT and Ethereum Singapore. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...
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