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Honor Harger

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Director of ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.

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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.

21.02.2026 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

21.02.2026 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

🍊🍊πŸ”₯🐎

17.02.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What does this round of psychosis look like?

14.02.2026 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

That’s dark. It was hard to watch.

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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

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04.02.2026 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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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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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.

17.01.2026 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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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10.01.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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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...

10.01.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes β€” 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."

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. πŸ§ͺ🌟

πŸ”— www.space.com/space-explor...

10.01.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

10.01.2026 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

10.01.2026 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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02.01.2026 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a bizarre piece of censorship. I’m not even sure the president would deny this.

25.11.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œRadio 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.

23.11.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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…

Some stars speak not in light, but in radio. I just wrote about a newly discovered class of binary stars, what I call β€œradio polars”, first identified by Iris de Ruiter and her team. They were also explored by @astrobites.bsky.social in a recent article.
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DESI 2024 in the News: Is Dark Energy Weakening? New Uncertainty Invites Optimism About the Fate of the Universe

Didn’t DESI already discover this?

www.desi.lbl.gov/2024/04/22/d...

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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, β€œit’s all really there!”

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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.
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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.

20.10.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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…

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:

20.10.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

04.10.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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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.

04.10.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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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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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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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