In February 2011 Erin and Leah spoke at the 2011 Science Communicators Association of New Zealand (SCANZ) conference. The conference was titled “Listening to the other side: Non-scientists’ experiences of science”, so they shared ideas from their perspective about what it’s like for artists and curators to work with scientists.

To provide even broader input, as part of their presentation The Busy Nice showed this short video for which they’d interviewed three of the Do You Mind? artists about their experiences. Thanks to Alexander Hoyles, Aaron King-Cole and Aleksandra Petrovic for their time and thoughts.

Wednesday 28th July 2010 saw the official opening of the doors to Do You Mind? at Ironbank. With over 300 invited guests making it to the reception, it was a great night with a fantastic response, intriguing artworks, exciting discussions and delicious pizza and drinks.

TV3 Nightline News came to the Do You Mind? opening and interviewed Henrietta Harris about her art practice and contribution to the exhibition. 

Do You Mind? on Arts on Sunday

Brain researchers Kim Wise and Reece Roberts and their artist partners Aleksandra Petrovic and Lia Kent MacKillop were interveiwed by Lynn Freeman on the Radio New Zealand Arts on Sunday show last weekend. Listen to the podcast here.