About Speaker

Honor Harger is a curator from New Zealand interested in the cultural impact of scientific ideas and how futures are imagined by museums and cultural organisations. She is the Director of the ArtScience Museum in Singapore and Vice President of Attractions at Marina Bay Sands. The Museum presents significant exhibitions that explore aspects of science and technology, including big data, particle physics, natural history, marine biology, cosmology, space exploration, and climate change. Its permanent exhibition, Future World, a collaboration with teamLab, embodies its future-focused programme. Before joining the ArtScience Museum, Honor was the Director of Lighthouse, a digital culture, visual arts, and film venue in Brighton, UK. She was also the first curator of webcasting for the Tate, where she curated events and concerts at Tate Modern. Honor has given talks at conferences and festivals such as TED, SciFoo, LIFT, Webstock, MuseumNext, Ars Electronica, Innovative City Forum, and the World Architecture Festival, as well as lecturing at the European Space Agency, the Centre Pompidou, MIT, California Institute of the Arts, and the American Film Institute. Honor is also one of the co-founders of the sound art collective, r a d i o q u a l i a, best known for Radio Astronomy, a radio station broadcasting sound from space.