A burning curiosity as to how the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer developed a level of photorealism more than two centuries before the arrival of photography made these people explore it.

About eight years ago, Jenison started exploring what technologies Vermeer might have used to get his staged images so faithfully transferred to canvas. The notion of lenses and mirrors being harnessed extensively in the age of the camera obscura had already been detailed in two books of the past decade: David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters; and Vermeer’s Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces, by Philip Steadman. Both men appear here to bolster the argument.
With Penn Jillette as enthusiastic tour guide, we follow Jenison to Delft, Holland, which lets him prowl around the artist’s neighbourhood, and to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen of England has the original of The Music Lesson on (nonpublic) display. This is the spectacularly crowded composition Jenison decided to re-create in his Texas warehouse, in which he installed a replica of Vermeer’s studio, developed optical gizmos and built props while grinding colours from scratch, et cetera, leading to six tedious months at the drawing board in an attempt to prove his howhedunnit.

Bolstered by clever editing and an excellent neoclassical score, the film somewhat underplays the amount of ingenuity it took Vermeer to visualize, as opposed to merely capturing, the images that became The Milkmaid and The Girl With a Pearl Earring. But Jenison’s finished simulation—clinically impressive but oddly lifeless—testifies to the vital difference that art actually makes.
http://www.straight.com/movies/590881/tims-vermeer-art-howhedunnit

New Technological Art Award 2014, an international art competition of the Liedts-Meesen which is part of our biennial update_5.

Call For Entries – New Technological Art Award of the Liedts-Meesen Foundation (Ghent, Belgium)

Call For Entries starts on December 1st, 2013
Deadline for the submission of entries: March 31st, 2014
Exhibition: November 8th to 23rd, 2014
New Technological Art Award (NTAA) tries to fill a gap in the mainstream art world by paying attention to the technological developments which impel our global culture
http://www.ntaa.be/en/index.html

A composer working at the crossroads of music and science. His music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in significant ways. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoustic music.
For teaching computer music composition, computer sound design and sound synthesis, the books written by Prof. Miranda are real treasure. He is a composer of electroacoustic pieces and notable his scientific research into computer music. Miranda's music is inspired by his research of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A true example of a scientist/artist.

http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/

New Technological Art Award :: Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Zebrastraat Ghent, Belgium
Call for Entries closes 31 March 2014 :: Exhibition 8 – 23 November 2014
The New Technological Art Award presents artworks in which culture-forming technology plays a central role. Entries may be high or low tech, intuitive or experimental, but should alert the audience to current trends in innovation. Selected artworks will be included in an exhibition, with the winning artist receiving €5,000.
http://www.newtechnologicalartaward.be/en/index.html

ICAT Day Offers Cutting-edge Arts and Technology Research
Virginia Tech research that merges the arts and technology, blurs traditional discipline boundaries, and offers new ways to express and create will be showcased during “ICAT Day” on Monday, May 5. This free annual event spotlights the innovative projects designed by students and faculty affiliated with the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
http://theroanokestar.com/2014/04/23/icat-day-offers-cutting-edge-a...

Imagine making music by touching living plants. Imagine entering an illuminated pyramid in which light, color and sound can be controlled by the actions of the crowd or played like a musical instrument. Experience these and other astonishing new projects at California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) third annual Digital Arts and Technology Expo on Thursday, May 8, 2014. An essential source for future trends in entertainment, communication, gaming and digital culture, the Expo will demonstrate how the arts propel technological innovation in revolutionary new directions. Click here for Expo website.
http://digitalartsexpo.calarts.edu/

Clemson University to bring together art and technology at Artisphere
http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-university-to-b...

An International Summit on Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology November 27 - 30, 2014 The Banff Centre Canada Convergence is an arts summit dedicated to exploring the ways that arts practices intersect with each other and with technology in a complex physical and social ecology. The summit will explore what happens when contemporary professional practices in all forms of music, visual and digital art, film, theatre, dance, literature, or interdisciplinary arts cross-pollinate with emerging production and dissemination technologies.
http://bit.ly/1mCjDs0

'The Iron Genie' - working Harmonograph in action from Josh Jones on Vimeo.

University City Science Center Launches Dynamic Public Art Residency
PolakVanBekkum, an artist duo from the Netherlands, are in Philadelphia to lead a dynamic public art residency program, Art Along the Avenue of Technology (AAAT), at the University City Science Center. Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum arrived in May 2014 and will spend six months helping to activate the Science Center's campus through a groundbreaking, place-making and community engagement program.

Through November 2014, the artists will explore the intersection of art, science and technology along Market Street. PolakVanBekkum will create a Google Earth film (NavDoc) that incorporates satellite imagery, photography and GPS to document mobility in the region. "Our work focuses on the mix of art, science and technology, so this project was a good fit for us," van Bekkum notes.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1935670

LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air
Tthe super compact design is smaller than any other pen on the market and it can even be powered by the electricity from a USB port. After turning it on the LIX takes less than a minute to heat up and you’re ready to start creating vertical illustrations. Via LIX:

LIX 3D printing pen has the similar function as 3D printers. It melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures. Lix has a hot-end nozzle that is power supplied from USB 3.0 port. The plastic filament ABS/PLA is introduced in the upper extremity of Lix Pen. The filament goes through a patented mechanism while moving through the pen to finally reach the hot-end nozzle which melts and cools it down. An interesting fact about this light-weight, engineered pen is that these structures can be formed in any imaginable shape.
http://lixpen.com/

VIDA 16.0.

The International Art and Artificial Life
Awards
VIDA, is to recognise artists who are
interested in the current discourse on life through the latest technologies and the m
ost recent
scientific advances. Conceived in 1999, VIDA, which offers a total of 82,000 Euros in prizes, is
currently one of the most prestigious international contests in the field of media art.
http://vida.fundaciontelefonica.com/en/files/2014/05/guidelines_VID...

These Works of Art Were Impossible to Create 20 Years Ago
Artists and scientists are coordinating to produce tech-art, an innovative combination of both fields

http://nationswell.com/tech-art-artists-scientists-innovative-combi...

Automatic Art: human and machine processes that make art GV Art London
4-26 July 2014
The exhibition presents 50 years of British art that is generated from strict procedures. The artists make their work by following rules or by writing computer programs. They range from system-based paintings and drawings to evolving computer generated images.
http://bit.ly/1mTAk1Q

Automatic Art: human and machine processes that make art GV Art, London
4-26 July 2014
The exhibition presents 50 years of British art that is generated from strict procedures. The artists make their work by following rules or by writing computer programs. They range from system-based paintings and drawings to evolving computer generated images.
http://bit.ly/1mTAk1Q?

An International Summit on Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology November 27 - 30, 2014 The Banff Centre Canada Convergence is an arts summit dedicated to exploring the ways that arts practices intersect with each other and with technology in a complex physical and social ecology. The summit will explore what happens when contemporary professional practices in all forms of music, visual and digital art, film, theatre, dance, literature, or interdisciplinary arts cross-pollinate with emerging production and dissemination technologies.?http://bit.ly/1mCjDs0

The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art invites proposals for artworks and performances, call for papers, posters, workshops and tutorials, and panels that consider the ISEA2015 theme: Disruption.
ISEA2015’s theme of Disruption invites a conversation about the aesthetics of change, renewal, efficiencies and game-changing paradigms. We look to raw bursts of energy, Davids and Goliaths, reconciliation, error, and the destructive and creative force of the new. Disruption contains both blue sky and black smoke. When we speak of radical emergence we must also address things left behind. Disruption is both incremental and monumental. Anachronisms; earlier versions. The moments of peace and crisis: the state of things now and a moment ago; the proud Luddites and the insecurity of change; the unstoppable giants, now only shells. ISEA2015 will include a gallery exhibition as well as works that engage with other sites in Vancouver.
ISEA2015 Call for Papers
http://isea2015.org/call-for-proposals/papers-posters-and-panels/
Call for works:
http://isea2015.siat.sfu.ca/call-for-proposals/call-for-artworks/
Deadline for Call for Papers / Workshops: 20 December, 2014

An International Summit on Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology
27 - 30 November, 2014
The Banff Centre Canada
Convergence is an arts summit dedicated to exploring the ways that arts practices intersect with each other and with technology in a complex physical and social ecology. The summit will explore what happens when contemporary professional practices in all forms of music, visual and digital art, film, theatre, dance, literature, or interdisciplinary arts cross-pollinate with emerging production and dissemination technologies.
http://bit.ly/1mCjDs0

Automatic Art: Human and machine processes that make art

The exhibition presents 50 years of British art that is generated from strict procedures. The artists make their work by following rules or by writing computer programs. They range from system-based paintings and drawings to evolving computer generated images.

www.gvart.co.uk

What is Digital art?

Digital art is an artistic practice that uses digital (or computer) technology as an essential part of the creative and presentation process. Born around the 1960s when the first computers were created, digital art has also been defined as computer art and multimedia art. It falls under the broader category of new media art (which includes, for example, video art, sound art, robotic art, glitch art, among others). Digital art is so vast that it is difficult to really pinpoint it in its every single form as computers nowadays aid the majority of artists worldwide at some stage of their creative process.
Types of digital art

Digital art is normally considered to comprise of 2D and 3D visual artworks made with the aid of computer software. These artworks could be:

graphic illustrations
photo manipulation
digital painting and drawing
virtual reality
2D and 3D still imagery and animation
fractal art
vector graphics
digital installations
interactive and participatory installations
video game art

Convergence
An International Summit on Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology
27 - 30 November, 2014
The Banff Centre Canada
Convergence is an arts summit dedicated to exploring the ways that arts practices intersect with each other and with technology in a complex physical and social ecology. The summit will explore what happens when contemporary professional practices in all forms of music, visual and digital art, film, theatre, dance, literature, or interdisciplinary arts cross-pollinate with emerging production and dissemination technologies.
http://bit.ly/1mCjDs0

ISEA2015, Vancouver, Canada
10 - 14 August, 2015
The 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art invites proposals for artworks and performances, call for papers, posters, workshops and tutorials, and panels that consider the ISEA2015 theme: Disruption.
ISEA2015’s theme of Disruption invites a conversation about the aesthetics of change, renewal, efficiencies and game-changing paradigms. We look to raw bursts of energy, Davids and Goliaths, reconciliation, error, and the destructive and creative force of the new. Disruption contains both blue sky and black smoke. When we speak of radical emergence we must also address things left behind. Disruption is both incremental and monumental. Anachronisms; earlier versions. The moments of peace and crisis: the state of things now and a moment ago; the proud Luddites and the insecurity of change; the unstoppable giants, now only shells. ISEA2015 will include a gallery exhibition as well as works that engage with other sites in Vancouver.

Call for Papers
isea2015.org/call-for-proposals/papers-posters-and-panels/

Call for works:
isea2015.siat.sfu.ca/call-for-proposals/call-for-artworks/
Deadline for Call for Papers / Workshops: 20 December, 2014

Are you Hot Under the Collar about Art and Technology

HOT UNDER THE COLLAR ABOUT ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

As part of the run up to the 50th anniversary of the Leonardo Journal
we are organizing some community discussions on topics which
‘make us hot under the collar’. There seems to be much frustration and even

vitriol in our community related to the problems we face working in and

with institutions in the growing field of art science technology practice

We hope you will be part of these discussions
http://malina.diatrope.com/2014/06/27/are-you-hot-under-the-collar-...

How artists are taking the help of technology to create art:

When he was young, artist Shih Chieh Huang loved taking toys apart and perusing the aisles of night markets in Taiwan for unexpected objects. Today, this TED Fellow creates madcap sculptures that seem to have a life of their own—with eyes that blink, tentacles that unfurl and parts that light up like bioluminescent sea creatures.

http://www.ted.com/talks/shih_chieh_huang_sculptures_that_d_be_at_h...

Winning art, on your tablet and in the gallery
An exhibition of creative apps is on view in Germany and will tour internationally

European institution where you would expect to find an exhibition honouring those working at the interface between the arts and technology it’s ZKM—Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition, which will later tour internationally, presents the winners of the App Art Awards, now in its fourth year, where €10,000 prizes are given for achievements in the creation of smartphone and tablet applications in the fields of Artistic Innovation, Crowd Art, Sound Art, and Art and Science.

At a lavish awards ceremony in Karlsruhe—including interactive theatre and laptop-driven music performances—the prizes were given as the developers demonstrated their wares.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Prizewinning-art-on-your-ta...

A thoughtful, critical look at the ways in which artists have used computers and other logical systems to make art, Automatic Art explores the ways in which artists work with algorithms – from the simple to the incredibly complex. Under the broad tag of ‘systems art’, the artists exhibited here, much like scientists, define a set of initial conditions for their art. A palette of colours, rules that dictate how they or a computer apply them, and actions that are taken in response to the mid-stage outputs dictate what will emerge. One might think that the results of such procedural art-making might end up rather dull, repetitive or perhaps looking like an iTunes music visualisation. But despite the prescribed origins of the work displayed in Automatic Art, the work is energetic, vibrant and engaging. http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2014/09/01/summer-highlights/

http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_current.html

Fall Exhibitions in Paris: Robotic Art at the Cité des Sciences
Art made by robots – or robots made by artists – manages to push science and technology into the realm of emotion, as is the case with the trance-inducing Liquid Matrix 3D by Christian Partos and Shiro Takatani
http://www.francetoday.com/articles/2014/10/19/fall_exhibitions_in_...

Building bridges between artists and scientists
Following in the otherworldly footsteps of last month’s Third Kosice Biennial: Kosicean Utopias comes Arte y Robótica, an event building bridges between artists and scientists beneath the domed splendour of Buenos Aires’ Planetario Galileo Galilei. Presented by Objecto a — an artistic space specializing in new media — the series of workshops, performances, and installations delves into new age philosophies exploring “technological” avant-garde art in light of changing, more inhospitable climates.

Traditionally, the avant-garde strived for radical social reforms but Arte y Robótica’s theme touches on the prophecies of Gyula Kosice’s 1946 work The Hydrospatial City, which envisages humankind’s search for new pastures sparked by overpopulation and drained resources. The “technological” avant-garde endeavours to secure the future of man through innovation. A selection of pioneering and problem-solving works by students from Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero’s Maestría de Artes Tecnológicas y Esteticas and members of the Robot Group — a company developing robots for everyday use — are currently on show.
Arte y Robótica — Running until October 23. Planetario Galileo Galilei (Av. General Sarmiento & Belisario Roldán), Argentina,12pm - 5pm.
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/172698/building-bridges-be...

The 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art will take place between October 30 and November 8 across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. For more information and the full schedule of events, visit www.isea2014.org
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/art/isea-the-art-of-keepin...

Art, science, technology show Fase 6.0 is open until Thursday at the CC Recoleta
Art and science have been bunking up in Buenos Aires for the last couple of months — September’s Third Kosice Biennial: Kosicean Utopias introduced the two disciplines beneath the quixotic light of the luminous vanguard before Arte y Robótica consolidated the romance a week or so ago. Centro Cultural Recoleta hosts the latest chapter of the love affair with FASE 6.0, an event peering into the future through art, science and technology.

The exhibition integrates robotics, video installations, biotechnology, and sculpture among other things under the slogan, “Technology, Policies, and Poetics.” Artistic and scientific experimentation form the backbone of the schedule presenting works by the likes of Leo Núñez, Leandro Yabkowski, and Fabiana Gallegos. The sixth edition of the five-day event also pays homage to pioneering filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch — the 76-year-old has worked extensively in Argentina, notably during the sixties and seventies, and played a vital role in the formation of experimental cinema in the country.
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/173105/an-exhibition-peering-i...

'Holistic engineers’ add art to science
Engineering and art were not always completely separate disciplines. Take Leonardo da Vinci, who seamlessly combined the two.
Five hundred years ago, you couldn’t really tell the difference between artists and engineers
At Delaware, the work of putting engineering in a broader societal context involves an interdisciplinary collaboration on a senior design prototype. Among last year’s projects was a device humans can safely wear for chest compression simulations during cardiopulmonary training, and so replace mannequins.

Art students made the device look more lifelike. Theater students, acting as patients, helped make it function more realistically.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/2547533-151/holistic-engineers-a...

Scientist Deliberately Pirates Art on a Nanoscopic Scale
Hovden has ‘pirated’ four famous works of art by scribing them into the surface of a silicon crystal using a focused ion beam. The features in the artwork replicas are five hundred times smaller than the eye can perceive and five times smaller than the wavelength of light.
http://torrentfreak.com/scientist-deliberately-pirates-art-on-a-nan...

Blending art and technology
Himalayan Times
Finding such a genius is difficult, but a similar combination of art, science and technology can be explored at the Art Tech Exhibition, that began at the ...

Raghava KK is part of the tectonic shifts that have lead to the overlapping between technology and art. His latest app Flipsicle where people reply to public questions with photographic answers has managed to gain $ 2 million in funding without ever making a business plan. In an exclusive interview with Krishna Bahirwani, Raghava KK shares his thoughts on his role in the shifts that combine art and technology.
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-new-media-artist-wants-peopl...

Engineering Photography Beautifully Reveals the Intersection of Science and Art
2014 Zeiss Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering

http://petapixel.com/2014/11/20/engineering-photography-beautifully...

Using existing technology to create "art"!

A Cornell Ph.D. student in applied physics etches famous works of art -- Escher, Magritte, Matisse -- onto silicon wafers used in modern digital devices.
Robert Hovden etched the Escher tessellations using focused high-speed ions. Why? Because he's a nanoscientist who spends his days studying objects with electron microscopes. And because maybe no one will notice he's copying famous works of art if the reproductions are so tiny. But don't call the intellectual-property cops just yet. Hovden has copied famous works of art deliberately and openly for his exhibit "When Art Exceeds Perception," an exploration of plagiarism in the age of bits and bytes.
http://www.cnet.com/news/these-works-of-art-are-too-tiny-to-see-but...

Code + culture: new media art from Japan
Domestic media artists have been using programming code in recent years to create some astonishing works of art. We look back at how this scene developed over the years and examine four contemporary artists who have defined the way the genre has evolved.
A new generation of domestic media artists has in recent years attracted plenty of international attention. This new breed of artist is typically defined through their tools — often programming code — working as developers at the intersection of art, design, engineering and technology, among other things.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/12/06/style/code-culture-part...

Electrifying art and technology
The world of fine art evolves as new media present themselves, giving artists new modes and environments for expression.

Given that premise, what better medium to work with than the medium of today: technology, asks Ken Rinaldo, professor and head of the Department of Art’s art and technology program.

Starting 5 p.m. Tuesday, a curious cluster of electronically produced art is plugging into Hopkins Hall Gallery for the Art + Technology program’s biannual student exhibition, “Algorithmic Sequitur,” which lasts through Dec. 12. The works were chosen from roughly 280 submissions by faculty members with an acceptance rate of about 50 percent.
http://thelantern.com/2014/12/department-exhibit-to-showcase-electr...

Kinetic sculptures: Tech art

Tech and design:

Kinematics Dress - 3D-printed gown in motion from Nervous System on Vimeo.

Two historians on a mission to preserve historic structures in Ethiopia inadvertently turned a cutting-edge 3D scanning device into a tool for creating works of art.

Lidar technology uses pulses of laser light to map the contours of 3D surfaces and structures.

For example, 2D photographs can capture the major features of a landscape, but lidar reveals every dip, ditch and rise. It shows the full size of boulders, the depth of canyons. Some lidar technologies can see through foliage, and have been used to hunt for lost cities buried in the jungle. Similarly, 2D photographs of sculptures and frescoes lose an entire dimension of the art work — it would be like photographing a Van Gogh painting in black and white. [See More Amazing 3D Lidar Works of Art]
http://www.livescience.com/49920-lidar-technology-works-of-art.html
http://www.livescience.com/49899-lidar-technology-gallery.html

An artist who teaches people how to do digital iPad paintings

Jeremy Sutton, a physicist-turned-artist, who creates portraits, collages and landscapes using his iPad

http://jeremysutton.com/

http://www.high50.com/culture/jeremy-sutton-david-hockney-inspired-...

The boundaries of art are changing and technology sits alongside it.

When science meets art, the effect is electric

The group also works together as "Professor Science Troupe", a free community outreach program for secondary school students to help popularise and demystify science.

Last year, the group took out the People's Choice award at the Gertrude Street Projection Festival with Pestilent Protrusions, a psychedelic array of animatronically blooming flowers built into a shopfront.

They will exhibit there again in July but their next local festival outing is Federation Square's Light in Winter Festival which runs from June 1-June 19.

Then it is off to Wellington and Portugal spreading the scientific and artistic word.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/when-science-meets-art-the...

Innovative art exhibition and competition

The exhibition themed, ‘Interactions: Crossing Lines’ is led by the powerful visual artist duo of Soji Adesina and Uthman Wahaab.
Tech company Samsung and contemporary art destination, Rele Gallery have announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration featuring an art competition and an art exhibition, a meeting of the worlds of technology and art.

The exhibition themed, ‘Interactions: Crossing Lines’ is led by the powerful visual artist duo of Soji Adesina and Uthman Wahaab. The body of work, to be presented, seeks to deconstruct the concept of how drawings interact with the gallery space. The drawings will be rendered to exceed the boundaries of drawing surfaces, (paper & canvass) travelling onto the walls of the gallery and into digital spaces – Samsung tablet devices.

This innovative exhibition will mark a milestone for the tech and art industry in Nigeria.
http://pulse.ng/arts_culture/techmeetsart-samsung-and-rele-gallery-...

The Science Behind Pixar The exhibit combines different styles of learning, from computer interactives to tactile activities, all while giving visitors lessons in "STEM"

http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/The-Science-Behind-Pixar-32382...

Tech Art at the Heart of Silicon Valley
http://www.livescience.com/52270-art-in-silicon-valley-is-understan...