Liliane Lijn

We have an ambivalent relationship with technology. It can reveal to us the beauties of nature, yet rob us of the ability to fend for ourselves. It makes life more convenient, but can it also enrich our lives in other ways?

Making sense of our association with technology is the territory of artists Liliane Lijn and Leila Johnston. They discuss the bond between maker and things made, chaired by University of Oxford art historian Martin Kemp.

The inaugural New Scientist Live event, courtesy of the team behind the world’s most popular science weekly, was a four-day festival of ideas and discovery which took place at ExCeL London featuring British astronaut Tim Peake at the opening.