Author Archives: Jessica Furseth

BusinessLife, September 2015. Original article, p57-60. Ten top health tech innovations  Vital signs monitoring patch One day, a little sticky patch for monitoring life signs may become standard for anyone who enters a hospital. That’s the hope for SensiumVitals from Toumaz Group, the British semiconductor company, which is currently undergoing clinical trials. “Our product isContinue reading “Ten top health tech innovations”

Apollo Magazine, July 2015. Original article.  Agnes Martin and the singular obsession What is Agnes Martin trying to say? If you really want to know you will have to go see for yourself, because rarely does art lose quite so much in a photograph. Even once you are there, it takes a moment to workContinue reading “Agnes Martin at Tate Modern”

This Is Tomorrow, July 2015.  Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species (Part 2) Modern Art Oxford, 2015 What is technology, but another tool for shaping our identities? Lynn Hershman Leeson has been exploring the relationship between humans and technology for over 50 years, starting in a time before technology looked anything like it doesContinue reading “Lynn Hershman Leeson: Origins of the Species (Part 2)”

The Billfold, June 2015. Original article.  Staycations in the London summer I woke up by myself today in my little flat in Hackney. My husband is away for work, so I slept past 10 o’clock which I never do unless I’m alone. As much as I like company, I’m very good at being by myself,Continue reading “Staycations in the London summer”

This Recording, May 2015. Original article. In which we don’t believe in perfect Physical thrill There’s only a strip of canal visible across the courtyard, but that bit of canal is everything. I’m sitting at my new kitchen table with my laptop, looking up occasionally at the water: you can see the canal boats dockedContinue reading “Physical thrill”

Aquila Magazine (kids 8-12) – May 2015 Big Data: Finding the patterns in the noise We create over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day – that’s a lot of text, pictures, video and social media messages. Powerful computers can analyse this “Big Data” and find new patterns, and maybe even hints about the future.Continue reading “Big Data: Finding the patterns in the noise”

Aquila Magazine for kids, March 2015. Who was Marie Antoinette? Marie Antoinette was executed in the French Revolution. But was the last Queen of France really as out of touch as people thought? And did she really say that people who couldn’t afford bread should just eat cake instead? Marie Antoinette was born in 1755Continue reading “Who was Marie Antoinette?”

Whitehot Magazine, 2011. Original article. Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Mirror of Judgment The Serpentine Gallery, London.  Michelangelo Pistoletto has got us all working for him. The artwork displayed at the Serpentine is only part of the equation; the rest is up to us visitors, moving slowly through the maze of swirling cardboard. The corrugated paper windsContinue reading “Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Mirror of Judgment”

This Is Tomorrow, 2012. Original article.  Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Compendious Quest for Beauty David Roberts Art Foundation, London It is a good thing the word “compendium” features so prominently even before you enter the gallery, as it makes a helpful prelude of what is to come. “Where is the rule?” is what Bouvard and Pécuchet usedContinue reading “Bouvard and Pécuchet’s Compendious Quest for Beauty”

This Recording, February 2015. Original article. The little daylight I got on the plane – you always get on the plane in the end. I went to Norway thinking I could always go back to the city early if it got to be too much: the cold, the dark, the silence. I do that now,Continue reading “The little daylight”