Colour blind artist unveils world's first 'eyeborg' device
Neil Harbisson, who sees only in black and white, claims he can now 'hear' colours after attaching a camera to an electronic chip was implanted in his skull
A colour blind artist claims he can now “hear” colours after having a camera device attached to a chip in his skull that converts images into sound vibrations.

Neil Harbisson, 31, who can only see in black and white, has worn an external electronic eye for a decade which picked up colour frequencies through its camera and transformed them into distinct sounds.

But he has convinced surgeons to implant a chip inside his skull, similar to a cochlear implant used by the hard of hearing, that allows him to perceive more intricate colours across the visual spectrum through bone vibrations.

Mr Harbisson, of Camden, north London, developed an interest in cybernetics – the science of electronic medical implants – to help overcome his achromatopsia, a rare form of total colour blindness.

The antenna , dubbed the “eyeborg”, is composed of a camera on one end and an audio input on the other end, which is now implanted inside the back of his skull.
A wifi connector inside the chip also allows him to hear images sent from a mobile phone, without even looking at them. It means he will be the first person to experience an image without actually seeing it for himself.

Mr Harbisson had the implant inserted during a series of operations in Barcelona between December and this month, and was due to demonstrate it at a London art college.
According to the artist, every colour has a different vibration, meaning different paintings, images or even faces have a different note or sound.
Mr Harbisson said he first got the idea for the device when he heard a talk about cybernetics given by Adam Montandon at Dartington College of Arts in 2003.

The pair created the device and Neil memorised the frequencies which related to each colour and decided to permanently attach the “eyeborg” to his head.

He has since been trying to find medics who would implant the device into his skull and last year convinced a doctor and an anaplastologist, a specialist in prosthetics, from Catalonia to perform the operations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10701562/Colour-blind-artist-unv...

Original Science Illustration - Be Radical Science Art - Science Poster
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/145030050475034874/

Learning the Art of Science Illustration
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/05/28/science-i...

2nd Annual Pivot Arts Festival, ART MEETS SCIENCE, Features BAATHHAUS, The Honeypots and More, Now thru 6/14
Pivot Arts launches its second annual celebration of innovative performance events, today, May 28 - June 14, throughout Chicago's Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods. The PIVOT ARTS FESTIVAL serves to bring audiences together for unique performance events. This year the festival's focus highlights the intersection between the performing arts and science.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/2nd-Annual-Pivot-Arts-...

Ask All Your Questions About Synthetic Biology!

http://io9.com/ask-all-your-questions-about-synthetic-biology-15832...

A bio-scientific approach to art
WORKS BY artists exploring bio-sciences will be displayed alongside industrial medical devices in the exhibition Chimera: art of exploration.

Chimera, a group exhibition curated by Andrea Fitzpatrick, opens in the Bioscience Building, NUI Galway, this Tuesday at 5pm, and runs until Friday June 6 from 12 noon to 4pm daily.

The exhibition will feature work by Siobhan McGibbon, whose work is predominantly sculpture based; Marie Connole, whose practice comprises painting, drawing, object-making, installation, and collaborative work; printmaker and designer Paul Maye; and students of the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, who are participating in a short research project, creating works in response to what they have seen and experienced in the NFB research laboratories.

Chimera will also feature medical devices from Boston Scientific, Vornia, Aerogen, and Osteoanchor, as well as materials designed to educate the public on medical device research.

Galway based Swedish artist Cecilia Danell and Prof Rhodri Cedrig from the National Centre for Bioengineering Science will choose the winners of the ‘Biosciences Art Competition.’ The competition includes art works by research scientists and engineers within the Biosciences building and the winners will be announced at the wine reception on Tuesday evening.
http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/69834/a-bio-scientific-appr...

MIT students create original kinetic art

Sculptures from MIT's “Exhibiting Science" class will be on display from May 30 through December 31 at the MIT Museum.
Each student then had to design a kinetic sculpture that used movement to embody their described feeling — whether of fear, anticipation, or excitement. Using everything from bamboo to rubber bands to foam, students built kinetic art that translated energy into motion — either through force of gravity or elasticity of a material — to convey something about the contents of the human heart.
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/mit-students-create-original-kinetic...

Astonishing origami exhibit displays dance of art and science
science and art-origami bridges the two
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/30/world/astonishing-origami-exhibit/

Ilus Art Presents Life Science Images to San Diego International Airport
Ilus Art, a company developing artwork from cellular images captured in the laboratory, announced today its participation in the San Diego International Airport's Life Science Exhibit, opening June 4, 2014.

The special exhibition entitled, "Taking Art to the Cellular Level", will shine a light on the research taking place at companies and research institutes in the Southern California area. San Diego has some of the brightest minds in regenerative medicine, and has long been recognized as a hub for biotechnology and life science research. The exhibit will be displayed in Terminal 2, which will welcome travelers from around the world, including those attending the BIO International Convention taking place in San Diego, June 23-26, 2014.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/Ilus-Art-Presents-Life-...

Art-Science Exploration
http://our.risd.edu/post/87305210574/art-science-exploration

Broad Vision presents an exhibition of imagined futures and possible human evolutions. Integrating art and science, Future Human plays with the possible, the probable and the implausible through a collection of interdisciplinary artworks, experiments and speculative designs. The exhibition invites you to imagine a future where humans have evolved to survive a dark earth, where we can create our own transplant organs, where we harvest natural energy, and where the city is beyond recognition.

The exhibition, which runs until 28 June, will be accompanied by a series of free events designed to engage audiences in some of the laboratory/studio practices experienced on the Broad Vision project, including workshops, demonstrations and talks. See the Broad Vision website for details.
http://www.gvart.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GV-Art-and-Broad-...

Art Imitates Life: Replica of Van Gogh's Ear Created From Live Cells
A German museum has put on display a copy of Vincent van Gogh's ear that was grown using genetic material provided by one of the 19th-century Dutch artist's living relatives.

The Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe said artist Diemut Strebe made the replica using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent's brother Theo.

Using a 3D-printer, the cells were shaped to resemble the ear that Vincent van Gogh is said to have cut off during a psychotic episode in 1888.
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$8887

For Science Center arts residency, Dutch duo to build Google Earth documentary of Philly
http://technical.ly/philly/2014/06/03/polakvanbekkum-university-cit...

Ioannis Michaloudis is creating his own "seventh heaven" by combining art with space technology using the lightest solid known to man.

The international artist and Curtin University lecturer's artworks are made with silica aerogel, which NASA uses as a heat insulator for its spacecraft and to capture "stardust" particles from the tails of comets
Michaloudis also has worked with scientists at NASA and MIT in Boston to imagine the futuristic use of aerogel to create habitable atmospheres on other planets.

The art and science collide in his exhibition On Cloud Seven, which opens at the Perth Town Hall this weekend.
"Imagine an astronaut on a space-walk scattering fragments of silica aerogel into space, and these sky-spores growing into new atmospheres on other planets and make them habitable," Michaloudis said.

"The artworks are presented as an allegory for how scientists could see the world from an artistic point of view. The art goes beyond science, and the artworks are symbols for generating new ideas and thinking."

On Cloud Seven will be opened by the Greek Ambassador to Australia, Charalampos Dafaranos. The exhibition runs from June 7-14.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/arts/a/24107292/sky...

Making Art with Brainscans and 3D Printers
Forbes
Suzanne Anker finds beauty and meaning at the borderlines of science. This visual artist and sculptor talks about “the way in which visual art and the ...

Biocom showcases scientific breakthroughs through San Diego International Airport art program

Biocom and the San Diego International Airport Art Program announce the return of the cell culture exhibit, a showcase of art from microscopic research contributing to life-changing breakthroughs taking place in the Southern California region.

The “Taking Art to the Cellular Level” exhibit is part of Converg(Ing)genuities, a collective exhibition inspired by the creative intersection of art, science, and technology. Twelve different artists and organizations were selected based on their creativity, unique use of media and relevance to the theme. The exhibition is intended to create an imaginative and interactive experience for airport passengers.

The exhibit was made possible by academic and research institutions in the San Diego region, including: Department of Bioengineering, Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Engineering and medicine, University of California San Diego and Nanovision Biosciences, Inc.

Biocom is one of the largest regional life science associations in the world, representing more than 600 member companies in Southern California.
http://www.financial-news.co.uk/22264/2014/06/biocom-showcases-scie...

Chemical concepts basis for artworks
University of Canterbury chemistry, fine arts and art history students have teamed up to create and exhibit sculptures and graphic designs based on chemical concepts.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/10142218/Chemical-concept...

Beakerhead returns with smash-up up of science, art and engineering
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/festival-guide/Beakerhea...

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...

Special Saturday U Program Pairs UW Scientists and Artists
http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2014/06/special-saturday-u-program-pair...

Skull Model Shows Artistry, But Is It a Leonardo da Vinci?

http://www.livescience.com/46351-skull-model-leonardo-da-vinci.html

Science Yields Beautiful Images

CHANL Scientific Art Highlighted
A fantastical umbrella, a flowing robe of snowflakes and a nanoworld from a galaxy far, far away were the top winners in the sixth annual CHANL Scientific Art Competition.

The Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory sponsors the competition. Departments from across campus submitted images, and a vote by attendees at the UNC Science Expo resulted in the selection of the top three as People’s Choice Award winners.
More at: http://chanl.unc.edu/
http://unc.edu/spotlight/art-in-science-yields-fantastic-images/
https://plus.google.com/photos/105570125662063372781/albums/5991437...

Arts|Science Initiative collaborations inspire new directions, approaches to research
In a hall full of scientists and artists, Qin Xu, Ivo Peters and Iddo Aharony were the ones who broke the ice at the May 14 presentations of the 2014 graduate collaboration grant projects sponsored by the Arts|Science Initiative.
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/06/16/artsscience-initiative-...

Adapting to climate change: Art and the community in the Cheng Long Wetlands, Taiwan
Artists involve the local fish farming community in the fifth iteration of the Cheng Long Wetlands Project in Taiwan.

The Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project invites international artists to create sculptural installations in the local setting. The project aims to involve community members, creating awareness of environmental issues and improving conditions for a better livelihood and a conscious environmental practice.
The fifth edition of the Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan’s Yunlin County is themed “Fishing for a Better Environment” and was launched on 2 May 2014. The installations will remain on site until next year’s project in April 2015. From the 157 applicants from 48 countries, curator Jane Ingram Allen selected six artists that submitted proposals focusing on the local fish farming industry.

The artists-in-residence spent the month of April 2014 in the small fishing village of Cheng Long to create outdoor sculptural installations in, on and around the fishing huts. The artists collaborated and discussed with the local community and hut owners to agree on what could be done in their assigned location.
http://artradarjournal.com/2014/06/13/adapting-to-climate-change-ar...

Science Background Works Well for Lakeland Clay Artist
http://www.theledger.com/article/20140618/ENT/140619214?Title=Scien...

A physicist’s excursion into the deep art and science of origami

Susan Orlean: “A lot of people, throughout history, have walked away from respectable careers to become, say, poets or jazz musicians, but there are viable markets, albeit small and competitive, for those pursuits.

Orlean was profiling the Caltech laser physicist Robert J. Lang, who did just that. After an undergraduate degree from the Pasadena institute, a master’s from Stanford, a doctorate from Caltech and a career at JPL, Lang moved to Northern California and began to pursue his longtime hobby of origami as a profession.

The Japanese art of paper-folding has never seen anything like it. Not that its masters in Asia are just doing little swans to hold your chopsticks at the sushi bar. But it’s safe to say that no one prior to Lang had ever applied the deep mathematics that he does to how to take the craft one step further.

The opening reception for “Folded” is Thursday, June 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. The show will be on view through Aug. 20.

SymbioticA Related:
ADAPTATION
23 June - 4th July 2014
All Saints College, Performing Arts, Bullcreek, Perth Western Australia Opening event: 6pm 24 June Presented by Art On The Move (supported by The Department of Culture and the Arts Western Australia) Adaptation comes to Perth! From the microbe to the macro, and everything in between, Adaptation is an artistic research project partnership between SymbioticA and the City of Mandurah.
The participating artists responded to their environmental concerns through biology and scientific methods, and went beyond didactic or descriptive artworks to those that challenge the viewer to think about the broader issues surrounding the Lake Clifton site in Mandurah (home to the trombolites).
http://bit.ly/1oHpBum

Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, A Life and the Arts Web companion of the Leonardo ebook Meta-Life. Co-edited by Oron Catts and featuring papers from Catts and Ionat Zurr's research.
http://synthbioart.texashats.org/

Measuring Motion Signatures, Preventing Injury and Disease and Perceiving the World Around Us:  the Art and Science of Biomechanics

Date: 20 June 2014
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Jacqueline Alderson

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacqueline_Alderson/info?ev=pr...

http://vida.fundaciontelefonica.com/en/
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
VIDA 16.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards
21 May – 31 July 2014.
VIDA is the first international contest dedicated to supporting the arts and artificial life. Over the fifteen years since it was established by Fundación Telefónica in 1999, VIDA has promoted a creative convergence of art, science and technology. With a total of €82,000 in prizes, VIDA 16.0 welcomes the participation of artists of any nationality who offer new ways of understanding artificial life through their work.
The guidelines of the awards and the entry form can be found on the website of VIDA

GV Art, London
16 September - 11 October 2014
Camille Ormston, Susan Aldworth, Kevin Mitchinson Reassembling the Self is an exhibition centred on a study of the condition of schizophrenia, which weaves together art, science, psychiatry and individual histories in an exploration of self, perception and the fragility of human identity. Artworks by Susan Aldworth as well as Camille Ormston and Kevin Mitchinson, two skilled artists with a schizophrenia diagnosis.
http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_future.html

GV Art, London
17 October 2014 - 29 November 2014
Anais Tondeur
Where two continents collided an island once stood. The 34th International Geological Congress termed the era the Anthropocene: an age where mankind has become a geophysical force impacting earth and its ecosytems in supra-human time.  Is the disappearance of the island a one-off or a direct consequence of the Anthropocene?
http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_future.html

Artist/Educator Asia Ward: Creating the Unexpected Through a Singular Blend of Art and Science
Science, magic, memory and art: These are among the tools artist and educator Asia Ward brings to her work. She’s a longtime developer of educational experiences for the Learning Technologies Center at the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown St. Paul. She also does similar programs for the KidWind Project in the Creative Enterprise Zone of St. Paul, teaching teachers how to create hands-on creative learning projects on renewable energy.
http://thelinemedia.com/features/asiaward06182014.aspx

Engineering- art initiative
Youngstown State University’s new Launch Lab, an initiative that combines engineering and art, was among the programs highlighted at the first White House Maker Faire on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., hosted by President Barack Obama.

Martin Abraham, dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, was at the White House to represent YSU. The event features makers, innovators and entrepreneurs using cutting-edge tools to bring life to ideas.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2014/jun/19/white-house-maker-faire-showc...

Artist sees something more in seismic vibrations, captured in art

http://www.digitaljournal.com/a-and-e/arts/op-ed-artist-sees-someth...

Artists, scientists collaborate to express their shared understanding of the land
Science and art meld in "The Ucross-Pollination Experiment," a two-week program that pairs the University of Wyoming's top scientists and artists, who will work together to make a piece of scientific art.
http://trib.com/weekender/art/artists-scientists-collaborate-to-exp...

Meet the other Homi Bhabha (the Indian scientist)-- Art connoisseur
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-meet-the-other-homi-bhabha-art...

Scotch Plains Library to host Art in Science exhibit
Art in Science Gallery, on loan from Monmouth University, will be on exhibit at Scotch Plains Public Library from June 30 through Aug. 25. The exhibit intends to express and highlight the beauty of science through images, drawings, and photos of natural forms and visualization of scientific, mathematic, and engineering processes based on the research and coursework of Monmouth University faculty, alumni, and students. These images reveal the elegance of science art in scientific results, observations, and in failures.
http://www.nj.com/suburbannews/index.ssf/2014/06/scotch_plains_libr...

Tiny Sculptures You Can Only See With an Electron Microscope
When art and science collide, beautiful things happen. That's the case with the Wim Noorduin's nanosculptures. For the past few years, this Harvard materials scientist has been using basic chemistry to create beautiful forms so small, you need an electron microscope to see them.

These delicate flower-like forms are smaller than the width of a human hair, but that doesn't make them any less beautiful. The simplicity of the process Noorduin takes to create them actually makes them even more impressive. He simply mixes chemicals in a beaker to create tiny colorful crystals that grow into a variety of shapes, though he's developed ways to manipulate the process.

http://www.gizmodo.in/science/8-Tiny-Sculptures-You-Can-Only-See-Wi...

Art Folds Into Science In Robert Lang's Extreme Origami
Former NASA laser physicist Robert Lang applies computer programs and math to create seemingly impossible new origami designs.
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3032250/art-folds-into-science-in-rober...

A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Next Creative Breakthrough
Psychologists have demystified the aha! moment
I painted Neurons a few years ago for an art exhibit. I had designed the piece to portray the idea that our brain's neural networks make us who we are. It was only after joining psychologist James T. Enns's vision laboratory at the University of British Columbia in 2013 that I had my own abrupt realization: I recognized how my art could inform science. Using this piece, along with other hidden-object images, I investigated how an individual's focus and attention change when experiencing an unexpected revelation.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-step-by-step-guide-to-y...

SymbioticA related:
ADAPTATION
Until 4th July 2014
All Saints College, Performing Arts, Ewing Avenue, Bullcreek, Perth Western Australia
Open from 8am to 4pm weekdays
Presented by Art On The Move (supported by The Department of Culture and the Arts Western Australia)
Adaptation comes to Perth! From the microbe to the macro, and everything in between, Adaptation is an artistic research project partnership between SymbioticA and the City of Mandurah. The participating artists responded to their environmental concerns through biology and scientific methods, and went beyond didactic or descriptive artworks to those that challenge the viewer to think about the broader issues surrounding the Lake Clifton site in Mandurah (home to the trombolites).
http://bit.ly/1oHpBum
Nerves in Patterns on a Screen
Devon Ward
Opening Friday 11 July 2014 6:00pm
Paper Mountain Gallery, Perth Western Australia Nerves in Patterns on a Screen is a speculative exhibition by Devon Ward that investigates the levels of care and control that humans maintain over microscopic life in order to generate knowledge. Traditionally a hierarchical order is maintained during laboratory experiments, whereby someone observes and something is observed. This project explores how biological technologies that digitally record the activities of life can be reframed as a means of destabilizing this order. Instead of extending of our perceptual boundaries, the limits of the observational tools are shown.Living neural tissue is employed as both medium and agent in this project.

Digital animations are choreographed and corrupted by the electrical signals of neurons as our technological gaze is disrupted by the agency of life. A collection of chapbooks accompanies the digital, featuring typographic collages and biodigital poetries that cut up the rules of language. These works ruminate on the imposition of symbolism on both digital and biological life, creating a biosemiotic exchange in which an electrical impulses are imbued with meaning.

Undiscovered Opportunities: Arts in the healing environment
1 July, 2014
9.30am – 5.30pm
Harry Perkins Institute for Medical Research, QE II Medical Centre Nedlands, Perth A full day conference on the critical role that arts have to play in the delivery of health care in Western Australia, and the current and future opportunities to embed arts in WA’s approach to healthcare. Between 2008 and 2018, more than $7billion will have been spent in Western Australia building new hospitals and improving existing health facilities. This conference brings together key stakeholders in these projects, those currently involved in delivering arts programmes in health care environments and the consumer of health services to explore opportunities to better integrate the arts into the delivery of health services in WA hospitals.
Registration and Programme: http://www.cacwa.org.au/events/category/events

From GV art:
Reassembling the Self
GV Art, London
16 September - 11 October 2014
Camille Ormston, Susan Aldworth, Kevin Mitchinson Reassembling the Self is an exhibition centred on a study of the condition of schizophrenia, which weaves together art, science, psychiatry and individual histories in an exploration of self, perception and the fragility of human identity. Artworks by Susan Aldworth as well as Camille Ormston and Kevin Mitchinson, two skilled artists with a schizophrenia diagnosis.
http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_future.html

Lost in Fathoms
GV Art, London
17 October 2014 - 29 November 2014
Anais Tondeur
Where two continents collided an island once stood. The 34th International Geological Congress termed the era the Anthropocene: an age where mankind has become a geophysical force impacting earth and its ecosytems in supra-human time. Is the disappearance of the island a one-off or a direct consequence of the Anthropocene?
http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_future.html

Science As Art: Soundscapes, Light Boxes and Microscopes
http://www.livescience.com/46555-science-inspired-art-of-patricia-o...

Teachers learn how to apply art with science, technology, math
A group of 25 teachers from all over the state gathered at the University of South Carolina Upstate's George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business & Economics to participate in the Summer Institute for Teachers held by the Chapman Cultural Center.

This year's institute focused on the transition from STEM to STEAM, the inclusion of the arts in curriculum that focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

During the weeklong program, teachers were able to design kites by applying the arts aspect of STEAM. They also learned the science that allows kites to fly, and the forces needed to alter the kite's height.

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20140626/ARTICLES/140629760/-1/93t...

UNT Professor Ruth West Is Linking Art and Science to Make Both Easier to Understand
UNT professor Ruth West is showing me a diagram of branching lines that resembles a March Madness bracket. It's Darwin's handiwork. The scientist sketched the visual tool in order to reclassify earth's living genealogy, as informed by evolution. It's just one artful rendering, but it represents a total change of perspective in how we view and understand the world.
This sweet spot, the intersection of aesthetics and research, is where West digs in. She moved to Denton from Los Angeles last year to educate across four of UNT's colleges -- Information, Visual Arts and Design, Arts and Sciences and Engineering -- and to run UNT's new xREZ Laboratory, a hybrid creative studio and research lab.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2014/06/dallas_people_rut...

Two major annual meetings of scientific organizations, The American Public Health Association and the Society for Neuroscience, have created opportunities for science artists to display and sell their work to their thousands of attendees. Rather remarkably, both take place on exactly the same dates – November 15-19, 2014.

The annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA), held this year in New Orleans, attracts 12,000 attendees in a wide variety of fields related to public health. As part of a new initiative called Art @ The Expo, they are looking for 20 artists or crafters whose work is health, medicine or science related to show and vend at the meeting. The $200 booth fee for 3 days is a fraction of what APHA charges its large commercial exhibitors.
http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/AF9EBED3-714F-48C8-9DB8-255AE33051...

The Art of Neuroscience, part of the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), seeks artists whose work is directly related to neuroscience. For a $300 fee, artists can show their work at the gigantic gathering of some 30,000 neuroscientists in Washington, DC.
http://www.sfn.org/Annual-Meeting/Neuroscience-2014/At-the-Meeting/...

Colour science: Art analysis – pigments of the imagination

''Making Colour” is at the National Gallery, London, until September 7

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cbbefc5a-fc37-11e3-98b8-00144feab7de.html...

UNESCO World Heritage Status Awarded to France’s Chauvet-Pont Cave Art
Decorated cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche,’ France deserves World Heritage status because it is covered in pictures of animals, many now extinct, along with some more primitive negative and positive hand paintings typical of very early humans in Europe.

Chauvet is the name of one of the cave explorers who discovered the more than 30,000 years old cave paintings in the cave, whose entrance 25 metres below the surface had been obscured by a rock fall for probably 23,000 years, experts believe.
The designation is somewhat controversial in that very little research has been undertaken to obtain a correct dating for these 1,000 pictures drawn or carved on the walls of the Grotte Chauvet. Carbon dating efforts made in the early 1990s, soon after the cave was discovered, suggesting an origin of 30,000-32,000 years ago, remain the subject of controversy.
In 2012 Decoded Science spoke to a world expert on the dating of early cave art, Dr. Paul Pettitt, now Professor of Archaeology at Durham University, U.K. – Professor Pettitt explained the difficulty of dating ancient pigments at that time.
Professor Pettitt has declared publically that he believes the Chauvet cave paintings are stylistically rather later than any dating evidence has put them. He has been involved in using other research methods which date certain cave paintings to be by Neanderthals, and therefore earlier than the Chauvet ones by several millennia.

Other studies of artistic skill manifested in prehistoric cave paintings suggest that a sophisticated knowledge of the actual working of animal bodies led to more accurate depictions of horses and cattle, for instance, than more recent artists demonstrate.
The only dating evidence for Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc is in fact for when the caves were inhabited by (now extinct) cave bears. Researchers extracted DNA from bear bones found in the cave, which has offered quite a wide date range for when the cave was occupied by the animals; between 37,000 and 29,000 years ago. To preserve the pristine Chauvet originals for further study, a full size replica is being constructed on the surface nearby, to be opened in April, 2015.
http://www.decodedscience.com/chauvet-pont-darc-cave-art-awarded-wo...

Science wall art, Darwin's wise quote accompanies the phylogenetic tree.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/128604113/science-art-evolutionary-bio...