The Bartlett: Rachel Armstrong


	Dr Rachel Armstrong MA [Cantab] BMBCh [Oxon]



Personal Profile Dr Rachel Armstrong is a writer, multimedia producer, television presenter, arts collaborator and general medical practitioner specializing in non-Darwinian techniques of evolution and the challenges of the extra-terrestrial environment. She regards the discipline of architecture as holding a unique place in the cultural imagination being simultaneously iconic and personal, and which offers an ideal forum to engage with and reimagine our experience of the world so that we can reinvent our role within it. She is a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett and member of Professor Neil Spiller’s AVATAR Research Group, developing a new architectural methodology called Systems Architecture, which is which is the study of complexity within the discipline of the built environment that enables the convergence of the nano-bio-info-cogno technologies and extends from the macroscale flow of information to the micro scale organization of building materials. She has worked as a technical tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture with students exploring the connections between biology, medicine and architecture. She was technical advisor to international performance artists such as Orlan and Stelarc on projects that explored the possibilities and implications of extreme anatomical and biotechnical modification and is the author and producer of a large range of multimedia projects and digital medical programmes ranging from printed literature to virtual reality and the Internet. Her first Science-Fiction novel ‘The Gray’s Anatomy’ was published in 2001 by Serpent’s Tail. She was also an editor of an Art & Design Issue entitled ‘Sci-Fi Aesthetics’, released in 1997 by Wiley-Academy, and ‘Space Architecture’ for Architectural Design in 2001. She has published extensively on post-human evolution and alien phenomena, working at the intersection of art, science and technology. [http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/mail-art/centre/texts74.htm] Selected publications ‘The Gray's Anatomy’ Serpent’s Tail, UK 2001. ISBN: 1852426357 [www.zone-sf.com/rachelarms.html] [http://www.Octocon.com/2001/guests.php] Masters of the Universe, Science, politics and the new space race (edited by Melissa Mean and James Wilsdon) “Space Tourism” P58 Demos Hendy Banks, London 2004 ISBN: 1-84180-119-4 [http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/masters] MIR 2003 Extremeophiles, Surviving in Space Short Story entitled ‘Extremeophiles’ By Dr Rachel Armstrong The Arts Catalyst’s 3rd International Science & Art Conference. In association with the ICA Royal Institution, September 19, London 2003 [http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/extremophiles.html] The Cyborg Experiments:The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age By Joanna Zylinska Chapter 11, Anger, Art and Medicine: Working with Orlan, P172 -178 Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002 ISBN 082645903X, 9780826459039 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iWbtdujciTIC] Architecture – the subject is matter (edited by Jonathan Hill) “Wet Architecture” P 239-248 Taylor and Francis Books Ltd., Hampshire 2001 ISBN: 0415-2354-64 2001: Building for Space Travel (edited by John Zukowsky) Harry Abrams Inc., Publishers in association with the Art Institute of Chicago “The Future of Space Tourism” P 175-179 New York, 2001 ISBN: 0-8108-4490-1 (hardcover) ISBN: 0-86559-188-1 (AIC pbk.) I levitate, what’s next (edited by Aleksandra Kostic) Association for Culture and Education KIBLA Publisher Peter Domas Dobrila Edition TOX, Year 6, no 7 Print Solidarnost d.d, 2000 Slovenia ISBN: 961-6304-03-8 http://leonardo.info/reviews/sep2110/bk_LEVITATE_pepperell.html Space Architecture (edited by Rachel Armstrong) Architectural Design Vol 70 No 2 March 2000 John Wiley & Sons Ltd., New York ISBN: 0-471-86438-2 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NEsMAAAACAAJ&dq=space+architecture+AD+Armstrong] Body Probe Torture Garden 2 - Mutant Flesh and Cyber Primitives Edited by David Wood Alien Abduction and Sex in Space by Dr Rachel Armstrong Publisher: Creation Books; 1 edition (December 15, 1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 1840680040, ISBN-13: 978-1840680041 [http://our-alternatives.com/Articles/tabid/178/ContentID/452/MenuID/132/Default.aspx] Sci-Fi Aesthetics (edited by Dr Rachel Armstrong) Art & Design Profile No 56 Academy Group Ltd. London, 1997 ISBN: 0-471-97855-8 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z6UHAAAACAAJ&dq=sci-fi+aesthetics+armstrong] Totally Wired: Science, Technology and the Human Form By Dr Rachel Armstrong Publishers, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 16 Apr-13 May 1996) ISBN-13: 9781900300056, ISBN-10: 1900300052 [http://www.foyles.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781900300056&DS=Totally-Wired] Punk Science Dr Rachel Armstrong Cybersociology Issue Five [www.cybersociology.com/files/5_punksciencearmstrong.html] Cyborg Film Making Dr Rachel Armstrong Cybersociology Issue Five [http://www.cybersociology.com/files/5_cyborgfilmmaking.html] Medicine and the Media: Surgery as Satire Dr Rachel Armstrong BMJ 1996;312:1308 (18 May) [http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/312/7041/1308] Orlan: Public Money and Public Profile By Dr Rachel Armstrong Submitted by mute on Thursday, 2 October, 2008 [http://www.metamute.org/en/content/orlan] "Post-Human Evolution," Artifice Dr Rachel Armstrong, P 53-63 Black Dog Publishers, London (1995) [http://www.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Orlan/Orlan.html] More Women Travel : Adventures and Advice from More Than 60 Countries by Natania Jansz, Miranda Davies ‘A Troubled Guest’ by Dr Rachel Armstrong Rough Guides (Firm) Published by Distributed by Penguin Books USA, 1995 ISBN 1858280982, 9781858280981 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k7QBAAAACAAJ&dq=more+women+travel]

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