The Art of Sewing Science Into Beautiful Quilts
Von Mertens is an artist who explores humanity’s highs and lows. And while needle, thread and fabric are her medium, she typically finds some scientific phenomena that helps her translate how she feels about an event or subject.
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/needlepoint-science/#x

Cinema= Art + Science
http://www.colum.edu/academics/media-arts/cinema-art-and-science/in...

Art and nanotech converge in campus biennial
Korean artist Kimsooja wanted to explore a “shape and perspective that reveals the invisible as visible, physical as immaterial, and vice versa.”

As artist-in-residence for the Cornell Council for the Arts’ (CCA) 2014 Biennial, she has realized that objective with “A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir,” to be installed on the Arts Quad next week. It will be one of several installations on campus for the semesterlong biennial, “Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology,” beginning Sept. 18 with a talk by Kimsooja.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/09/art-and-nanotech-conver...

Bridging science & art in Provincetown
http://truro.wickedlocal.com/article/20140909/NEWS/140906724
“One of our goals is to emphasize the nexus between science and the arts, and between scientists and artists,” says Rich Delaney, Coastal Studies' ...

“The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed” explores the human heartbeat as a sound and image. It also delves into the rich history associated with man’s efforts to record and share audio of this enigmatic, life-giving rhythm
Visitors to “The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed” have an opportunity to participate in a study by groundbreaking UH researcher Jose L. Contreras Vidal. Patrons have the option of wearing a electroencephalography (EEG) headset that will record their brainwaves while observing Robleto’s art. Data will be gathered from 3 – 6 p.m. on Saturdays throughout September.
http://blog.chron.com/creativepride/2014/09/a-heart-to-heart-with-u...

Science and art team up to create cancer cell and bacteria portraits
http://www.cnet.com/videos/science-and-art-team-up-to-create-cancer...
http://news.yahoo.com/video/science-art-team-create-cancer-22483778...
https://news.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AwrTWVVoFBVUQ20AUDLQtDMD;...§ion=photo

Geology and art:
Museum shows art exhibits inspired by landscapes of Stonehammer http://www.timescolonist.com/life/museum-shows-art-exhibits-inspire...

"Art from Science": Digital imagery of Leigh Anne Langwell and Patrick Nagatani that converts science into art at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St. Exhibit runs until Oct. 11. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Info: 575-541-2137.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_26515278/arts-briefs

Sym.Bi.Osis: Art and Science Intersect, an SRJC art exhibition opens with a reception from 4 – 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 18 in the Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery on SRJC’s Santa Rosa campus, 1501 Mendocino Avenue. The show, which features the work of seven artists whose work is based in scientific inquiry, runs from Sept. 15 – Oct. 16. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays. Info: santarosa.edu/art-gallery.
http://santarosa.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2014/09/news/week-santa-ro...

Bio art labs conspiracy
A new league of labs and organizations is emerging that support artists with their work in biology. Waag Society's Open Wetlab and Mediamatic are inviting experts for a round the table meeting about the future and collaborations within the bio-cultural field. This meeting is set up as an open discussion and exchange of thoughts. What are the upcoming plans and activities? How to create more awareness concerning bio-art, science and design in both government and industry?

Information
This event is for invites only, however if you would like to listen-in, you are more then welcome.

Bio-me
This Round the Table is part of the Bio-me program. How will designing with organisms change our perspective on art, design, food and beer? Find out at Bio-me. Three Days of workshops, talks, tastings, Fermentology! and the expo 'Kunstformen Der Natur'.
When:
Thursday, 18 September, 2014 - 11:00
Where:
Mediamatic Fabriek, VOC–kade 10, 1018 LG Amsterdam
Related projects:
Do It Together Bio
Lab:
Open Wetlab
http://waag.org/en/event/bio-art-labs-conspiracy

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 extraordinary exploration of self, perception and the fragility of human identity.
Sept, 16th, 2014
(www.gvart.co.uk)

Musical twist to science festival
Malaysia's premier science exhibition Petrosains Science Festival 2014 kicks off today, covering a range of fun and educational talks, workshops as well as a music fest to excite all in the family.

The seven-day event, themed “Music, Arts and Sciences”, fuses music and art into science activities and expects to draw more than 70,000 visitors when it ends on Sept 21.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/09/15/Musical-twist-to-s...

ATEC Professor Publishes New eBook on the Union of Art and Science
“Art & Technology” is an educational must read for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) that focuses on the union of art and science.
http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/news/2014/09/atec-professor-publishes-...

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Art and Science of the Moiré

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/2014/09/15/art-and-sc...

“The Art of Stem Cells”: The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art is examining the intersections between art and science in its fourth exhibition of conceptual medical art. It’s a collaboration between OCCCA and UC Irvine’s Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center: Artists and scientists met, interviewed each other, toured laboratories and studied images together. The show includes artists curated by Leslie Davis and OCCCA member artists, such as Pamela Grau, Stephen Anderson, Gregg Stone and Craig Sibley. Through Oct. 10. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 117 N. Sycamore St., Santa Ana. Free. 714-667-1517. occca.org
http://www.ocregister.com/sections/entertainment/

Science is about discovering reality. Art is about unveiling it.
On September 26th, the European KiiCS Award Ceremony on Arts & Science will take place at the Discovery Festival Amsterdam. KiiCS is a European project aiming to develop and test arts and science incubation activities, to identify the best formats that stimulate the collaboration between artists, creative professionals and scientists, and to develop innovative ideas.

The KiiCS project gathers scientists and artists to bring science closer to society through artistic creativity. An international jury will award this prize to the best innovative ideas at the intersection of art and science that originated within the project. Fifteen ideas from all over Europe have made it to the Award. The nominees will present these at the ceremony where the mystery will be solved. Find out which team will take home the award!
http://waag.org/en/event/kiics-award-ceremony-discovery-festival

When:
Friday, 26 September, 2014 - 16:00 to 18:30
Where:
Tolhuistuin, Buiksloterweg 5c, 1031 CL Amsterdam

Art Entangled in Nature
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/art-entangled-in-nature.h...

Boys & Girls Club of Edinburg Rio Grande Valley integrates Art into Science Technology Engineering and Math
http://www.yourvalleyvoice.com/news/boys-girls-club-of-edinburg-rio...

UOW metal researchers mix science with jewellery
It may not appear to be a happy marriage but for a team of University of Wollongong researchers and a Scarborough designer, the pairing of art and science has worked successfully.

Metalsmith Cinnamon Lee and Dr Stephen Beirne, a research fellow from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, have teamed up to use 3D printing to create jewellery.
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2560207/uow-metal-research...

UC offering after-school STEAM program
A unique after-school program will be offered to middle school and high school students at the University of Charleston-Beckley location this fall.

The Science Behind the Art Experience (SBAE) will present a STEAM curriculum, which incorporates Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics topics along with the Arts. The program will deliver integrated science lab activities and art-making sessions.
http://www.register-herald.com/news/article_637902f3-9b0e-59f1-bb3d...

Biology and art: exibition
http://pittsburghbiennial.org. For more on the Center for PostNatural History, visit www.postnatural.org.
http://www.post-gazette.com/life/bookclub/2014/09/16/Let-s-talk-abo...

Dancing with Atoms: Innovative Art Advances Computing and Chemistry
An innovative art installation called danceroom Spectroscopy (dS for short) can draw you into this sub-microscopic realm with the compelling immersion of a video game. In fact, dS uses Microsoft’s Kinect game controller to track your movements, then projects your body as an energy field into a computer-simulated atomic slurry. Atoms of hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, and iron are rendered as streaks of colored light, attracted and repelled by each other’s energy fields as well as by the human-shaped interloper.

It’s literally impossible for your movements not to be in time to the music, because the audio track—sort of ambient electronica—is generated by the action. The vibrations of the simulated atoms, their collisions and coalitions, are fed back into software that assigns them sounds. The result is a dance floor that is both visually and sonically responsive to your every move.
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/09/16/dancing-with-atoms-innovat...

The Universe, contemplating man’s place in the cosmos, led the Arts Council to realize it was on to something: The extraordinary mash-up of significant scientific and artistic institutions and individuals in Pasadena. So the Arts council followed with festivals themed The Tender Land, and Skin, and Origins, and Fire and Water. Now the mashup has been formalized as AxS, pronounced “axis,” a regular event that every two or three years brings together artists and scientists in “exhibitions, performances, educational activities and a Conversation Series which honors and reflects on the allied importance of both the arts and the sciences to the dynamic tenor of our time.”

Beginning this Friday, Sept. 19 through Oct. 5, AxS is back with Curiosity, inspired by the rover JPL sent 50 million miles up to Mars, but also recognizing human curiousity as “the prime motive engine of invention in both art and science.”
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20140916/curiosity-mas...

Art meets science in the Queensland outback
The works are the result of an artist-in-residence program with UQ’s School of Biological Sciences, supported by the UQ Art Museum.

Ms Carmichael, a descendant of the Quandamooka people of Moreton Bay, Queensland, was selected from a competitive field as artist-in-residence to join almost 80 UQ biological sciences students on a 2013 Outback Ecology Studies field trip.

Working across the mediums of painting, design and sculpture, Ms Carmichael’s work visually explores the beauty of nature and surrounding environments, translating her cultural connection with the land and sea.
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/09/art-meets-science-queensl...

National Art Contest At Aquarium Of The Pacific

"This is your ocean,” Wyland, a renowned American marine life artist and founder of the nonprofit Wyland Foundation, explained to youngsters at the Aquarium of the Pacific last Friday. “Imagine the animals that might be in it and paint them. Some of the creatures you are going to paint, they haven’t been discovered yet.”

Wyland, and ocean scientist and explorer Dr. Sylvia Earle, were at the Aquarium of the Pacific to launch the Wyland National “Water is Life” Art Challenge. Students, most of whom had never been to the aquarium before, from Normont Elementary School and the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, were there to take part in group painting activities.

http://www.gazettes.com/lifestyle/wyland-earle-launch-national-art-...

Plant. Grow. Harvest. Repeat

ArtSciSalon is pleased to invite you to the first LASER Toronto,
part of the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous series in Canada.

Where does our food come from? What happens to food when we consume it?
How much of it is wasted, discharged or lost? And are there innovative and creative alternatives to make better, tastier, less wasteful use of food?
Join us for a discussion on the significance of food, its cycles and its futures with guests
Amanda White, Michelle Coyne, Amy Symington and Candace Rambert

Introduction on behalf of Leonardo by Nina Czegledy, Governing Board, Leonardo/ISAST

Science and art intersect with fun at Trawick Prize exhibit
In a great display of the potential for using technology to create art, Feather’s works are part of a current trend that sees art and science in alliance — not as opposites. A number of recent exhibits have turned in this direction, including this summer’s “Gedankenexperiment” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The panel that was organized for that exhibit demonstrated without a doubt that there are a dedicated number of people in our area who, like Feather, are finding ways to entice, delight and hold on to viewers with works of this kind.

These are machines that may demonstrate natural forces, or as art, just work without any apparent purpose. In some ways this is a trend that began long ago with artists such as Jean Tinguely (Swiss, 1925-1991) whose machine sculptures engaged the viewer with loud and often hilariously inexplicable shaking.
http://www.gazette.net/article/20140917/ENTERTAINMENT/140919403/103...

Gallery: The otherworldly beauty of microscopic organisms
Marine diatoms are one of the smallest creatures on Earth. UK-based biologist Klaus Kemp and filmographer Matthew Killip teamed up to showcase these minuscule organisms' diverse beauty.

Environmental artists' work

Science and art:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-i-miller/photos-art-science_b_...

Photographer and Geologist Roger Ballen

http://news.artnet.com/people/artnet-asks-photographer-and-geologis...

It is the intersection of art and science that guided the curators of "Relativity," the show that opens the new season for Greenwich's Flinn Gallery this month. Four artists use textiles, sculpture, oil paint and watercolor to explore that crossroads.

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Artists-engage-in-the-science-of...

Science and art intersect with fun at Trawick Prize exhibit
Wheels spinning, switches buzzing, drums tapping. That’s what you’ll hear when entering Gallery B in Bethesda this month.

Three unforgettable works by Neil Feather, top prize winner of the Trawick Prize for Contemporary Art this year, noisily occupy the far corner of the glass enclosed gallery. They are endlessly entertaining, but also brilliantly constructed.

In a great display of the potential for using technology to create art, Feather’s works are part of a current trend that sees art and science in alliance — not as opposites. A number of recent exhibits have turned in this direction, including this summer’s “Gedankenexperiment” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The panel that was organized for that exhibit demonstrated without a doubt that there are a dedicated number of people in our area who, like Feather, are finding ways to entice, delight and hold on to viewers with works of this kind.
http://www.gazette.net/article/20140917/ENTERTAINMENT/140919403/126...

In Case You’re Tempted to Think 3D Modeling All Looks the Same
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/09/17/in-case-y...

Abstracts combine science, magic
Abstract artist Barbara Takenaga paints landscapes, or perhaps mindscapes, containing strings of dots that might be either biological cells or intergalactic pearls, among other actual or imagined phenomena of the inner or outer cosmos. Long known for bringing a disciplined, detailed approach to her patterns, Takenaga retains her painstaking process in a new series, on view through Oct. 18 at Gregory Lind Gallery in The City.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/barbara-takenaga-abstracts-c...

The Carnegie Science Center in the North Side will host a “Laser Halloween” laser show (Oct. 10 to Nov. 2), with dancing in the dark to the “Monster Mash” and music from “The Addams Family,” “Ghostbusters” and other ghoulish songs.

“Space Out Astronomy Weekend” (Oct. 11 to 12) includes hands-on, interactive activities with a celestial theme. A Halloween-theme Spooky Science Sleepover (Oct. 24) lets kids explore frightful science. And have fun getting rid of your jack-o-lantern at the Great Pumpkin Smash (Nov. 1).

http://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/6681439-74/oct-museum-nov#axzz3...

There may be locations in the world where art and science co-mingle more effortlessly than Hancock Park, but we're pretty sure that the stretch of museums, green spaces, and Ice Age fossil sites along LA's Miracle Mile qualifies as something rather exceptional.

You could watch the La Brea Tar Pits bubble and then, some 90 seconds later, if you walk at a good clip, be gazing at a Picasso at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

TARFEST Music and Art Festival, the yearly tunes-social-creative-sculpture-nature festival brings its FREE goodness to the park on Saturday, Sept. 20.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/the-scene/TARFEST-Art-an...

“Big Ideas for Busy People,” a series of five-minute talks Thursday, Oct. 16, at Discovery from some of UW-Madison’s best and brightest, including cartoonist Lynda Barry, horticulturist Irwin Goldman, biochemist Laura Kiessling, geneticist David Krakauer, physicist T. Rock Mackie, gamer Constance Steinkuehler Squire and choreographer Li Chiao Ping.

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/pat_schneider/outreac...

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize: International appeal
Working the arts desk of The Canberra Times, we'd be hard-pressed to name more than a handful of artists who aren't, at some level, inspired by the natural environment in their work.

It has become almost a cliche, to be mindful of one's natural surrounds as an artistic statement, rather than a state of being. But the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize takes it to the next level. In asking artists to share how the natural world inspires them, the prize is a challenge to make a statement, about the scientific and environmental issues facing our planet.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/waterhouse-natur...

Too to handle
As the People’s Climate March launches this weekend, scientists team with artists to urge museums to drop sponsors who deny man-made climate change
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Too-hot-to-handle/35672

Art in The Sciences

Amidst all the scientific royalty, the one feature for which The Sciences was perhaps best known was its use of fine art. Successful offspring have many fathers, and several former chief editors have claimed major roles in inventing or advancing what became the most brilliant design decision of the magazine's history. In truth, though, fine art was introduced primarily to save money, not to enhance design. Commissioning original oil paintings or airbrush illustrations, as commercial magazines of the day were doing, was out of the question. Even original photography was quite expensive if it was any good. Rental fees for reproductions of paintings and sculpture, however, were quite reasonable.
http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Detail.aspx?cid=4f1719d2-ccfc-4431...

If Neurons Could Talk
Immy Smith does it all – cartooning, fine art, neuroscience and taking part in the art+science “collaborative of polymathic artists”, Imagining Science. Smith is even visiting artist at an herbarium.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/09/19/neurons-i...

Bringing Space Science Education To Burning Man--And Beyond
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3035896/bringing-space-science-educatio...

3D trip around the body
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/3d-trip-around-t...
It sounds like the stuff of science-fiction: a three-dimensional voyage through flesh-and-blood anatomy. Thanks to ground-breaking technology, it is possible at the UNSW Galleries.

In an exhibition that skirts the boundary between art and science, visitors can use gaming devices – an X-Box controller and a virtual-reality headset – to navigate the body's super-highway, the aorta, sourced from real patient data.

Artist Transforms Fungus into a New Building Material
Artist Phil Ross has discovered and created the world's next building material; fungus that can build furniture and small houses.

Ross has been experimenting with fungus for his art works for a couple of decades. Apart from the length of his usage, the fungus material he concocts is also quite solid.

To create his building material, Ross introduced mushroom tissue into molds filled with pasteurized sawdust and allowing the fungus to digest the material.

The result is a sturdy material that is sustainable, having no chance of becoming depleted. It's capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and even bullets. When it's no longer needed, it can be used as compost.

Ross has created numerous works with this material -- from side-tables to beach lounge chairs -- that have found their way to museums and galleries around the world.

He only realized the real-world implications of his fungal material when he built a small teahouse from Reishi mushroom bricks at the Kunstshalle Düsseldorf. After guests sat in it, he boiled the mushroom bricks for tea, as well. He saw that it had numerous uses that could help people.

While his mycelial block materials can do a lot as a building material, Ross says there's still a stigma when it comes to fungus. People see fungus in a negative way since they see molds in breads, for example.

Every new technology requires a cultural paradigm shift, however.

One way this shift can take place is by understanding the capabilities of fungus.

Mycologist Paul Stamets says that a vegetative part of a fungus (the fungal mycelium) can spread, disseminate and distribute nutrients across vast distances. Stamets likens it to the structure of the Internet, and even the Universe itself.
http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/11962/20140922/artist-discovered...

Burke Museum exhibit showcases scientific illustrations
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140921/LIVING/140929956/1172/Dra...

Science meet art, art meet science

How the humanities and sciences became friends
http://www.theargus.ca/articles/ac/2014/09/science-meet-art-art-mee...

Using chemistry to make otherworldly art
Artist Iori Tomita explores the natural art of the skeletal system by exploiting clever chemistry tricks.
Japanese artist Iori Tomita beautifully blends science and art in his series "New World Transparent Specimens" by chemically bleaching and then dying preserved animal bodies. The process uses a chemical mix that breaks down the proteins of the animal while leaving behind collagen that lets the body hold its form. Dyes are used to color the bones red and the tendons blue. When a properly prepared specimen is suspended in a tub of brightly-lit glycerin, the outer shape falls away to translucency, leaving behind all the form and structure of the skeletal system.

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/using-chemistry-to-...

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/sep/23/lawrence-arts-centers-scie...

Science meets art in the Waterhouse prize
Coming face to face with a miniature rhinoceros encased in wood and glass is bound to be provoke curiosity. Is it art, is it natural science, or is it both?

For Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize competition manager Tim Gilchrist, seeing visitors challenge their own ideas of science and art is what it's all about.

The competition's winners and highly commended pieces have travelled from the South Australian Museum to the National Archives for an exhibition of works ranging from the literal to the abstract.

"We find people engaging with all of them and saying, 'Why is that science?' and, 'How does that affect me, why is this important to me?'" Mr Gilchrist said.

"The messages that come through are varied, like the rhinoceros, it's a declining species nearing extinction but the artist can also just decide to portray the beauty of nature."

One of the 33 artists whose work is on display is ANU School of Art graduate Emilie Patteson, whose glasswork was highly commended.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/science-meets-ar...