Honor Harger

Honor Harger

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 Vice President of ArtScience Museum Singapore, and Vice President of Attractions at Marina Bay Sands. 

Prior to joining 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 Tate, where she also curated events and concerts at Tate Modern.  She has curated an edition of the transmediale festival in Berlin, and led the AV Festival in the UK.

Honor has given talks at conferences and festivals such as TED, SciFoo, LIFT, 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. She is also one of the co-founders of the sound art collective, r a d i o q u a l i a, who are best known for Radio Astronomy, a radio station broadcasting sound from space.

In 2022, Honor was one of the members of the organising commitee of the Future of Arts and Culture study  which examines emerging forces, drivers of change and the possible impacts that may reshape the cultural sector in the coming decade.