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Dr Ele Carpenter is Curator of the Nuclear Culture project and convenor of the Nuclear Culture Research Group. Her curatorial research investigates nuclear aesthetics through commissioning new artwork, publishing, curating exhibitions, site visits and roundtable discussions in partnership with arts organisations and nuclear agencies. Ele regularly participates in European workshops on the role of culture in long-term radioactive waste management, and was interviewed for 'Radioactive Art' on BBC Radio 4 (2 March, 2017). Carpenter is Professor in Interdisciplinary Art & Culture at Umeå University, Sweden, and Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of the Arts, University of Cumbria.

Recent curated exhibitions and roundtable discussions include: 'Splitting the Atom' CAC Vilnius, Lithuania (2020), ‘Perpetual Uncertainty’ Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden (24 Feb – 26 Aug 2018), Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium (Sept - Dec 2017), Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden (Oct 2016 - April 2017); ‘Material Nuclear Culture’ KARST, Plymouth, UK (June-Aug 2016); ‘Actinium’, S-AIR, Sapporo, Japan (July 2014). Ele is editor of The Nuclear Culture Source Book (2016).

The project has been supported by: Bildmuseet, Z33, Malmo Konstmuseum, The Arts Catalyst, Arts Council England, AHRC Early Career Research Fellowship 2012-13, Daiwa Foundation, Goldsmiths University of London, CHASE Doctoral Training Programme , and Umeå University.

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All articles

Fluid Encounters Between Art & Science

The Nuclear Culture Source Book

The Smoke of Nuclear Modernity

Nuclear Culture on Film

Report on MoDeRn

The Culture of Nuclear Dismantling

Recent blog posts

The name of the Atomic Rose

Splitting the Atom

Radiation and Covid-19

Decolonising the Nuclear:Public Lecture & Workshop

Nuclear Culture Research Group Email List

Nuclear Culture Research Symposium

Lab for Variable Risk Perception V&A

Temporary Index, Nucleus, Wick

Inside Out Earth: Residues of the Athropocene in Africa

Nuclear Cultural Heritage