Honor Harger is a curator from New Zealand interested in the cultural impact of scientific ideas and how digital technology is shaping society. Since 2014, she has been the director for ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Under her leadership, ArtScience Museum has presented significant exhibitions that explore aspects of science, including big data, particle physics, natural history, marine biology, climate change and space exploration.
They have also produced large-scale exhibitions by some of the world’s major artists including Leonardo da Vinci and M.C. Escher, as well as showing work by contemporary artists. Since 2022, Honor has also been Vice President of Attractions at Marina Bay Sands, overseeing SkyPark Observation Deck, the Digital Light Cancer by teamLab and the Sampan. Prior to joining ArtScience Museum, Honor was the director of Lighthouse, a digital arts venue in Brighton, UK.
In 2010, she was guest curator of the transmediale festival in Berlin and from 2004 – 2008, was director of the AV Festival, a large biennial of digital art, film and music. Honor was also the first curator of webcasting for Tate Modern in London,, where she also curated events and concerts from 2000-2003. Honor has given talks at conferences and festivals such as LIFT, TED, SciFoo, Webstock, MuseumNext, Ars Electronica, Innovative City Forum, and 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 and other places. http://honorharger.org/