Fantasy art, health science come together for exhibit

When two Permian Basin physicians collaborate with a team of artists both international and local, the result is “Healing Blade: Fantasy Art in Medicine” on display now at the Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin.

With illustrations of bacteria as villains and antibiotics as heroes, the exhibition details the facts behind each piece while providing a backstory to each character in a universe named Soma.

http://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article_0db859ee-fe0e-11e3-bac4-00...

Art and science merge at Dali Museum
In a blend of the art world and the science community, an exhibit at the St. Petersburg Dali Museum showcased a medley of the two.
The art-science collaboration is derived not only from the museum’s namesake, Salvador Dali, but from what Fries said is a relationship between two fields that benefit from one another.

“Both artist and scientist observe the world,” he said. “Artists typically work to try to represent the world and scientists build instruments to observe it. Having different ways of viewing the world may help with making sense of our observations with the world.”

The art-science dynamic allows for a bridge to be made between two fields, both looking to examine the world, he said. USF students could study the simulation for their research as Fries is experimenting with mixing art and science and bringing that into his research here at USF.

Because PLASM, created by Fries in collaboration with international artist TeZ, runs on unique mathematical algorithms, viewers will never see replicated images, making each viewing unique.
http://www.usforacle.com/news/view.php/762647/Art-and-science-merge...

Art, science unite to study urban ecosystem
Can artistic expression further the goals of scientific inquiry? That’s what the Baltimore Ecosystem Study seeks to find out with its Art and Science Integration Program. An artist-in-residence is paired with biological and social scientists, with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the urban ecosystem. To date, the program has incorporated writers, painters, poets, and dancers.
“We go beyond just using art as a communication tool from science to the public. We use art as a way to stimulate our scientists in new ways of thinking. And that’s a really different kind of program,” said Steward Pickett, a distinguished senior scientist at the Cary Institute.
Waiting to see the results....K
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2...

''Art and Anatomy'' is a collaboration between University of Otago scientists, Dunedin artists and Dunedin School of Art students and staff.
The artists worked with the scientists for eight months, watching what they were doing in their research and responding to that.
The exhibition is part of the 2014 New Zealand International Science Festival, which is on in Dunedin from July 5-13.

''Art and Anatomy'' is on at the University of Otago Hunter Centre until July 11.
http://www.odt.co.nz/campus/university-otago/307853/science-and-art...

Origami show reveals folded paper as fashion, fine art, cutting-edge science
An origami exhibit at Cooper Union college that features the work of 88 artists from around the world reveals the outer limits of paper folding and its breathtaking range of possibilities.

Timed to mark the 55th anniversary of a pioneering origami exhibit in the United States, also shown at Cooper Union, "Surface to Structure" illustrates just how far the art form has come.

Showstoppers include undulating, robotic origami triggered by wall-mounted motion sensors; large, modular, pleated panels and sculptures; clothing; folded sculptures in stainless steel and cast-bronze; and even two polymer-gel micro-origami figures, less than a millimeter in size and displayed using a photographic technique that allows a 3-D shape to be reconstructed from a series of 2-D fluorescent images.
A technique called wet-folding: wiping the paper with a wet sponge or cloth before folding. The moisture loosens the paper fibers, allowing for smooth curves instead of the more traditional sharp creases. The curves are a lot softer and the creases actually stronger with wet-folding.
Wet-folding allows for the voluptuous curves of a lion's shaggy mane or the billows surrounding a unicorn that appears to be standing in the wind, and also works of elegant simplicity.
Other pieces feature an improvisational technique using crumpled tissue paper. Known as "le crimp," it allows for a rich and detailed texture.
The figure of a deer whose neck gives way to gnarled tree branches instead of an antlered head is roughly textured and made from dark brown paper; the result is virtually indistinguishable from tree bark
In the show's science section, one wall features a work entitled "Oribotics (The Future Unfolds)," by Austrian artist Matthew Gardiner. The undulating robotic origami flowers open and close only when a viewer comes near.
http://www.windsorstar.com/life/Origami+show+reveals+folded+paper+f...

Throughout history, artists and art movements use color in unique ways. The differing use of color is obvious from the subtleties of lighter hues in the Impressionism of Monet, the bold color blocks of Piet Mondrian, to the bright Pop Art of Keith Haring.

As optical science continues to expand our understanding of how we perceive and can use color, the potential for artists to employ color as a tool for expression is boundless. In “The Art & Science of Color,” presented by the Susquehanna Art Museum, each of the 22 selected artists considered the subtle possibilities of color at the heart of a work of art, and the long-lasting sensory impressions left on the viewer.

“The Art & Science of Color” is a juried DOSHI Gallery exhibition on view at Whitaker Center until Aug. 22. During the museum’s transitional period until it relocate into its new permanent location in Midtown, Harrisburg, the museum continues to collaborate with area organizations for exhibitions and educational programming space. The “Art & Science of Color” is a perfect fit to complement the scientific focus of the Whitaker Center.
http://cumberlink.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/art-museum-bri...

The Art of Science: Take a Look at the Future of Brain Imaging
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2014/07/art-science-take-look-future-bra...

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - Where science and art collide
The esteemed event, now in its twelfth year, invites artists to examine the world around them and present their own perspective on natural science.
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize will be shown July 26 to September 4 at the South Australian Museum.
http://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/2393375/arts-monthly-july...

Austin artists pay tribute to inventor Nikola Tesla at daylong event
The Serbian-American inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla developed the alternating-current electrical system of transformers, motors and generators that is now the standard power system of the 20th century.

He also designed the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls, pioneered radar technology and X-ray technology (his “Tesla coil” is still used in radio technology today) and began work on one of the first global communication systems. He also planned to transmit power wirelessly and therefore for free.
Though he was forgotten for years, Tesla now enjoys something of an academic and cult flowing. And perhaps not surprisingly, artists rank among his fans.

And it’s artists and art galleries who are once again hosting “The Tesla Project,” a family-friendly fest of science- and art-making activities, live music and an exhibit of Tesla-inspired art on Saturday at the Canopy art complex.
http://www.austin360.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/austin-art...

Maya Lin on Saving the Planet Through Art
Climate change and art’s power to shift perceptions and the place where the land meets the sea.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/maya-lin-interview-pl...

When art and science combine the results can be pretty hair-raising. An artist whose work is based on chemical reactions.
Anna uses an LED lighting system, inspired by natural sunlight, which she installs behind latex artwork. This enables each painting to be controlled using a remote control to keep the artwork ever-changing.
The latex Anna uses is extracted straight from the tree in Malaysia and she buys it by the litre.
She visited Malaysia and spent a month finding out where the material comes from and how it’s extracted.

“When it is first extracted, it looks like a really thick milk. It is only when it’s exposed to the atmosphere that it becomes a plastic.”
http://www.lartexcreations.com/

Science in Pictures: Science is Beautiful!

As illustrating research on risks is particularly challenging, the AXA Research Fund asked its supported researchers to showcase their work in a creative way. The AXA Research Fund has awarded the grantees providing the most original photo, portraying them in a way that clearly evokes their research topic.
http://www.axa.com/en/webdocs/science-is-beautiful/

Microscopic art: ‘Nano Monet’ is world’s smallest masterpiece
: Nanotech engineering has allowed scientists to create the world's smallest masterpiece which is just 300 micrometres across — and it is a copy of a Monet painting! Scientists at the Singapore University of Technology and Design came up with the world's smallest recreated masterpiece, a copy of Claude Monet's 19th century painting titled 'Impression, Sunrise'.

Joel Yang and his colleagues swapped oil paints for a slightly smaller palette of nanoscale silicon pillars topped with aluminium. When light strikes the pillars it creates ripples of electrons that in turn release coloured light of a particularly frequency.

The team created "pixels" of four pillars and varied their size and spacing to produce about 300 different colours, enough to reproduce the Monet masterpiece, the 'New Scientist' reported. Besides reproducing famous paintings, the tiny pixels could also be used to store data or create small security tags on physical objects, researchers said.

L.A. gallery iam8bit creates first-ever satellite art, launching into space Tuesday

The UKube-1 satellite, made by ClydeSpace and the UK Space Agency, will be released into orbit 373 miles above Earth and remain there for 25 years to conduct a variety of tests. But what makes it unique is that it will also be bearing the first-ever satellite art piece etched into its side.

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/science/20140707/la-gallery-iam8bit...

Making Art Boosts Seniors’ Psychological Resilience

German researchers report positive changes in the brains of recent retirees who learned how to create visual art.

Creating art could delay or negate age-related decline in these brain functions.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/making-creative-a...

ART AND SCIENCE: Geneva valedictorian sees beauty in biomedicine
http://www.fltimes.com/news/article_c8d2d436-05e1-11e4-b493-0019bb2...

Teachers from areas throughout Utah gathered at the Southern Utah University campus Monday and Tuesday to learn how to blend instruction in the basic principles of physics with art projects to enhance instruction to their students.
http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/cedar-city/2014/07/08/t...

Symbiotica related:

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 re-framed 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.
Nerves in Patterns on a Screen is the culmination of Devon’s research while pursuing a Master of Biological Art with SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia. During this research, he engaged with scientific laboratory practices, drawing inspiration from the unpredictable and sometimes chaotic experiences when working with wet biology. The outcome, Nerves in Patterns on a Screen, explores the digitization of life processes and the materiality of the digital.

FOOD WATER LIFE Residency Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada 19 January - February 27, 2015 The Food Water Life residency asks artists to explore concerns such as biodiversity; environmental sustainability; social economy; human rights; and envision a new world of tomorrow. Artists working across all mediums who share a deep interest in these issues are invited to gather, brainstorm, and create with Lucy + Jorge Orta. Financial aid is available. Deadline for applications: 16 July, 2014 www.banffcentre.ca/programs

Artist and Animals: a survey
Survey for artist Dr Yvette Watt. Are you an artist who works with animals, or has worked with animals in your artwork? If so, take the time to complete the following survey and/or refer it on to any other artists of relevance to the research.
Watt is interested in responses from artists who use or represent animals in their work in any way. The survey will be used as the basis for research that is investigating the recent significant rise in interest in and use of animals as subject matter for artists.
The survey takes about 15 minutes and closes on 20 July 2014.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VZD7KBQ

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.
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?
www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_future.html

Science As Art: Soundscapes, Light Boxes and Microscopes
Using tools of science — microscopy and biomedical imaging — Olynyk creates installations that explore how people's sensorial experiences of their physical environments impact their understanding of them.
Dark Skies, for example, an installation including projections and a soundscape drawn from field recordings taken in the Rocky Mountains at twilight loosely explores the concept of biomimicry and the complex relationship between natural forms at the micro- and macro-levels. The Archive — a series of photographs and light box sculptures that recontextualizes historically valuable anatomical models, gynecological instruments and prosthetic devices — examines how humanity's relationship with the human body changes when we view it as an assemblage of parts rather than as a whole. As these projects illustrate, Olynyk's work shake's the viewer out of what could be called a complacency toward the world around us.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/science-art-soundscapes-light-boxes-micro...

Inventing Temperature: New Exhibition Explores The Notion Of Science As Truth-keeper
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/inventing-temperature-new-exhibitio...

Schlow Library’s BookFestPA exposes art in writing, science
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/07/11/4261266/schlow-librarys-bookf...

Designer Butterflies, See-Through Frogs, Giant Neural Networks…and Other Works of Modern Art
The distinction between art and science is becoming obsolete, and the results will amaze you.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/07/inquiring-minds-arth...

Scientists' tattoos:

‘Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed’, by Carl Zimmer
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/scient...

The Art & Science of Color
The Susquehanna Art Museum will present "The Art & Science of Color" exhibit at the Curved Wall Gallery of Whitaker Center. The exhibit will be on display beginning July 12 and continuing through August 22.

The exhibit, as one might expect from the title, focuses on the use of color, and how it can affect mood and individual perceptions. The exhibit attempts to go beyond just subjective artistic impressions and examine the scientific process behind our observation of color and our reactions to it.
June 12 – August 22, 2014
http://www.whitakercenter.org/art-on-the-curved-wall

Combining science and art

New home for popular art and science exhibition
Fabric of the Land exhibition to move to new location in Aberdeen city centre

A popular exhibition exploring the links between art and science is set to debut in Aberdeen city centre following a number of successful years at the University of Aberdeen.

The Fabric of the Land features the work of established and emerging artists and gives visitors the chance to experience items of geological interest alongside selected artworks in the exhibition.

Organised by the Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, each year artists, designers and craft practitioners are encouraged to create works, which derive from, or are inspired by the link between geology and the landscape of the earth.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/6508/

Art helping science:

DNA Origami (the art of paper folding was taken as inspiration here ) Delivers Anti-Cancer Drug
DNA origami could be used to deliver harmful anti-cancer drugs in a more targeted fashion, study shows.
Scientists have shown that DNA origami can be used for the targeted delivery of cancer drugs to tumor cells in mice. The study documenting these findings has been published in the journal ACS Nano.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn502058j
Abstract: Many chemotherapeutics used for cancer treatments encounter issues during delivery to tumors in vivo and may have high levels of systemic toxicity due to their nonspecific distribution. Various materials have been explored to fabricate nanoparticles as drug carriers to improve delivery efficiency. However, most of these materials suffer from multiple drawbacks, such as limited biocompatibility and inability to engineer spatially addressable surfaces that can be utilized for multifunctional activity. Here, we demonstrate that DNA origami possessed enhanced tumor passive targeting and long-lasting properties at the tumor region. Particularly, the triangle-shaped DNA origami exhibits optimal tumor passive targeting accumulation. The delivery of the known anticancer drug doxorubicin into tumors by self-assembled DNA origami nanostructures was performed, and this approach showed prominent therapeutic efficacy in vivo. The DNA origami carriers were prepared through the self-assembly of M13mp18 phage DNA and hundreds of complementary DNA helper strands; the doxorubicin was subsequently noncovalently intercalated into these nanostructures. After conducting fluorescence imaging and safety evaluation, the doxorubicin-containing DNA origami exhibited remarkable antitumor efficacy without observable systemic toxicity in nude mice bearing orthotopic breast tumors labeled with green fluorescent protein. Our results demonstrated the potential of DNA origami nanostructures as innovative platforms for the efficient and safe drug delivery of cancer therapeutics in vivo.

Gedankenexperiment exhibit brings art, science together

A fascinating and important exhibition of sculpture (in the largest sense of that word) is now on view at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the art gallery space on the ground floor of their building on 12th Street and New York Avenue in Washington, D.C. The exhibit, organized by the Washington Sculptors Group in collaboration with the AAAS Art of Science and Technology Program and the AAAS Art Committee.
Gedankenexperiment” is the German term used by Albert Einstein to describe his use of conceptual, rather than actual, experiments. Literally translated as “thought experiment” the idea can imply some kind of imaginative or intellectual device used to investigate a proposition, particularly the effects of a hypothesis or theory that can’t easily be proved in the physical world. The challenge then to the artists was to conduct their own thought experiments, but to demonstrate them in artistic expressions of a very wide variety, employing an equally broad range of media to do that.
http://www.gazette.net/article/20140716/ENTERTAINMENT/140719749/115...

 The Chemistry of Art

integrating art and chemistry.

http://www.times-georgian.com/article_42f0d994-0d0c-11e4-b0a3-0017a...

Science fiction art:
http://www.museumofsciencefiction.org/omni/

Jeff Koon's sci-art projects:

Jeff Koons's Science Projects

SymbioticA related:

ADAPTATION
The Cannery Arts Centre, Esperance, WA
19 July - 31 August, 2014
Presented by Art On The Move (supported by The Department of Culture and the Arts Western Australia) Adaptation comes to Esperance! 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).
Opening: 18 July, 6pm, Cliffs Gallery, Cannery Arts Centre, Esperance 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 Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr's research.
synthbioart.texashats.org/

Nerves in Patterns on a Screen
Devon Ward
Runs until 22 July 2014
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 re-framed 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.
Nerves in Patterns on a Screen is the culmination of Devon’s research while pursuing a Master of Biological Art with SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia. During this research, he engaged with scientific laboratory practices, drawing inspiration from the unpredictable and sometimes chaotic experiences when working with wet biology. The outcome, Nerves in Patterns on a Screen, explores the digitization of life processes and the materiality of the digital. http://on.fb.me/1oDv6JS

FOOD WATER LIFE Residency
Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
19 January - February 27, 2015
The Food Water Life residency asks artists to explore concerns such as biodiversity; environmental sustainability; social economy; human rights; and envision a new world of tomorrow. Artists working across all mediums who share a deep interest in these issues are invited to gather, brainstorm, and create with Lucy + Jorge Orta. Financial aid is available.
Deadline for applications: 16 July, 2014 www.banffcentre.ca/programs

Human Mircobiome Commission
The Eden Project is seeking to commission pieces of work for an upcoming exhibition that will explore the unfolding story of the human microbiome providing new ways of understanding and linking human health and planetary health in a rapidly-changing world.
Our body is a community containing many trillions of useful microbes which all work together to keep us healthy (forming, feeding and defending us). We are an ecosystem in the same way as a rainforest is. How does our ‘microbiome’ work? What happens when it goes out of balance? How can we help keep it in balance? How can we apply these lessons to the planet we live on as well as the world within us?
We invite proposals for new work, but are also interested in existing pieces that relate to the subject. We would help and encourage artist/scientist collaborations. We welcome proposals in all variety of media (digital, film, sound, textiles, ceramics etc....)

More information: http://www.edenproject.com/human-microbiome-commission
Artist fee (variable): up to £10,000 (please note this is a maximum, not a target) Deadline for submission: 18th July 2014

BIO-FICTION SCIENCE ART FILM FESTIVAL
Museum of Natural History, Vienna
23 - 25 October, 2014
Submit your SHORT FILM about synthetic biology.
Bio-fiction explores the emerging field of synthetic biology from different disciplinary angles including science and engineering, social science, cultural studies, amateur biology, film makers, artists and designers. We will have presentations, panel discussions, do-it-yourself biology demos, performances, art work and of course film screenings. It features short films on any aspect of synthetic biology, including documentary films, animation, (science) fiction etc.
Submission deadline: 31 August, 2014
bio-fiction.com/2014/

Science artist to build giant phone charger powered by 800 pieces of fruit and vegetable
Early experiments in organic energy have led to artist Caleb Charland’s creation of a huge phone charger, made using 800 pieces of fruit and vegetables and set to be unveiled in London’s Westfield shopping centre next week.

Charland’s large-scale installation, forged from nails and wire threaded through the groceries, is part of Back to Light, a project inspired by the thoughts of scientist Michael Faraday, who once claimed that “nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature”.

“It expands upon a classic grade school science project, the potato battery,” Charland says of the 20-foot wide charger, made for a Lumia device in a commission by technology giants Microsoft and the Carphone Warehouse.

“By inserting a galvanized nail into one side of a potato and a copper wire in the other side, a small electrical current is generated.
A hand-built circuit allows an electrical current, equating to an average of 20mA and six volts, to flow through the structure.

Runs July 24 2014, 9.30am-5pm.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/science-and-nature/science-art/art49121...

German artist Otto Piene, who combined art and science in giant sculptures, dies at 86
— German artist Otto Piene, known for his colorful paintings and gigantic open-air sculptures, has died at age 86.

Piene died suddenly on Thursday, shortly after the opening of his exhibition "More Sky" at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie museum. His death was confirmed Friday by Markus Farr, a spokesman for the group Friends of the Neue Nationalgalerie that helped organized the exhibit. He
tried to break the traditional boundaries of the fine arts by experimenting with light, air, movement, fire and metal.
He also served on the board of Leonardo Science art Journal

SCIENCE fair: call-for-art
When: Through Aug. 25, 12 a.m.
Email: brandon@visualartexchange.org
Price: $10-$15 per entry
visualartexchange.org/2014/07/science-fair
This exhibition is the intersection of science and art. All entries should consider science in some respect. Examples could be art based on scientific research, done in collaboration with scientists, or a grown-up/artistic version of a prize winning science fair experiment. No media restrictions. Entries must fit through VAE’s 104″ x 71″ door to be exhibited. Juried with JPEGs. Two entries per artist. Entries must be received by 11:59pm on Monday, August 25, 2014. Entry Fees: VAE members: $10 per artwork Non-members: $15 per artwork
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/science-fair-call-for-art/Event?oi...

Program combines art, science to further students' interest
The program’s leaders bill it as the intersection of science and art. Open only to girls entering fifth, sixth and seventh grade, Colors of Nature offers enrollees two weeks of hands-on learning on the topics like the behavior of light and where colors come from as well as how and why animals adapt colorful pelts and hides.
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/program-combines-art-scien...

Art needs science. Jeff Koons, the artist/provocateur behind some of the most expensive artwork in the world, doesn’t just rely on inspiration: Nina Stoller-Lindsey discovered that he also needs the advice of Nobel prize-winning physicists, 3D-imaging, and advanced materials to make enormous balloon dogs and mysteriously floating basketbal.
http://qz.com/237427/quartz-weekend-brief-borders-battery-science-t...
http://qz.com/235891/the-science-behind-the-art-of-jeff-koons/

Leonardo Fellowship for Senior Affiliate Members
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce the launch of the Leonardo Fellowship program. The program recognizes accomplished graduate students and junior faculty from Leonardo Senior Affiliate organizations. Selected Leonardo Fellows will have an opportunity to advance their selected research or project area through such activities as publishing in the internationally renowned Leonardo journal or creating a unique art-science project under the auspices of Leonardo, as well as to receive mentorship from senior Leonardo editors. The Leonardo Fellowship includes a cash stipend of $1,000 (U.S.).

For details an how to nominate a graduate student: http://ow.ly/zig1N
Leonardo Fellowship ow.ly

Why we can be transformed by art: What science tells us by Shirley Mueller
https://vastari.com/feature_detail.aspx?id=Y/eZt8wnk0M=

What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime
Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with Physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives in cool, moist areas. What can people learn from the semi-intelligent slime mold? Watch this talk to find out.

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