Fabricant Worlds: The power of matter, machine, imagination

Thu Mar 26 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC+00:00

Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge | Cambridge

Royce Institute @ Cambridge University
Publisher/HostRoyce Institute @ Cambridge University
Fabricant Worlds: The power of matter, machine, imagination
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How can the arts engage with material sciences research? This collaborative exhibition investigates.
About this Event

Join us; the Henry Royce Institute, The Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge School of Visual Performing Arts at the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge for the opening of our Fabricant Worlds performance.

Materials are purveyors of potentials, entwined in hidden infrastructures. Our material world is not shaped only by researchers who harness the power of technology but also by artists and designers who interpret the poetics of these scientific advances and imagine new worlds into being. Machines that sustain worlds they create.

Fabricant Worlds joins performance, sound, visual arts and material science to consider how advanced materials research; from semiconductors to biomedical substances, shape cultural imaginaries and possible futures.

Showcasing the results of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Henry Royce Institute and the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge with the CSVPA Graduate School, this exhibition positions the artist as fabricant; not only maker, but world-maker.

Fabricant Worlds joins the creative and scientific expertise of artists, designers, performers and lab scientists, to create a multi-day installation. This begins with a live performance on the opening day at the Cavendish Laboratory’s Maxwell Centre and will display the works produced by artists responding to the question at the project’s heart: How might artists and designers use creativity and imagination to engage with the material and technological realities that structure our world?

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Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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