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...

AXS Festival: Meet the artists hired by NASA to create space-inspired works
For the next two weeks, the AXS Festival in Pasadena will explore the intersection of art and science through talks, performances and installations.

Among the works on display is a sculpture designed by a team of conceptual artists working for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
An Art-Science movement

The sort of collaboration happening at JPL is exactly what the AXS festival is hoping to inspire.

Curator Stephen Nowlin says for most of the last century art and science were kept separate, but over the last decade, a new "Art-Science" movement has brought them together.

"It just seems to have sort of emerged and exploded," he explained.

Nowlin works at Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design where he's organizing an Art-Science show at the Williamson Gallery.

"If anything science has made us more aware of what’s unknown, that attracts artists. They want to get in there and play around with these new ideas and make some sense of them."

http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/09/23/46901/axs-festival-meet-the-art...

NEXT: the creative curiosity of the scientist–artist
Explore the unbreakable connection between artistic expression and scientific research in this edition of our NEXT: People | Science | Tomorrow series. Be here as series host Mat Kaplan talks with scientists who are also accomplished artists. We’ll take a look at their work and find out how science informs their art, and how art is reflected in their scientific work.
Guests:
Crystal Dilworth PhD: molecular neuroscientist; violinist; former nationally ranked rhythmic gymnast and professional modern dancer and choreographer; Marketing and Communications Consultant and an active member of the theater community at Caltech, where she teaches rocket scientists how to be “rockette scientists”
Daniel Durda PhD: Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

More from Daniel:

See some of Dan Durda's paintings here: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/paintings.html
James K. Gimzewski PhD: Distinguished Professor, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department; Director, UCLA CNSI Nano & Pico Characterization Core Facility; Scientific Director, UCLA Art|Sci Center; Principal Investigator & Satellites Co-Director, WPI Center for Materials NanoArchitectonics (MANA), NIMS, Japan.
http://www.scpr.org/events/2014/10/04/1509/next-scientist-artist/

In fifty years, as we flee regions made unlivable by climate change, we'll want to adapt quickly to new habitats. That's why we need the inventions of Maja Smrekar, an artist who works with scientists to create visions of the future — and glimpses of our evolutionary past.
http://io9.com/the-artist-who-helps-scientists-imagine-the-future-o...
The Artist Who Helps Scientists Imagine the Future of Evolution

The scientific illustrator on his love for rockfish and why drawings still matter in the digital age.
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/people/the-scientific-illustrat...

Science art. Beautiful.
Electricity discharged into an 3 inch acrylic cube.
https://www.facebook.com/Sciencegasm/posts/820505421334829
Electricity discharged into an 3 inch acrylic cube.

Art-Science Mix, Accelerated
Research on the Higgs boson isn’t the only work to come out of CERN, the world’s largest particle laboratory, in recent years. In 2011, the organization announced a new program, Collide@CERN, to support collaboration between artists and physicists on its campus in the suburbs of Geneva. The first two recipients of these creative residencies were the Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and the German visual artist Julius von Bismarck, who pooled their investigations to create “Quantum.”

The hybrid piece — part dance, part incandescent installation — will have its United States premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival on Thursday. Mapping ideas about subatomic behavior into macroscopic terms, “Quantum” derives something optically striking from a realm we can’t see. As Carla Scaletti’s sound score crackles and drones, a row of hanging lamps churns above six dancers, attuned to subtle shifts in their movement. (Through Saturday, Fishman Space, BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Fort Greene; 718-636-4100, bam.org.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/arts/dance/art-science-mix-accele...

Artist creates Chris Vierra dinosaur from pumpkins for special tribute at Field Station Dinosaurs
An artist at Field Station Dinosaurs in Secaucus took on the challenge of carving a Tyrannosaurus Rex out of the orange vegetable.

The art and science experiment is in celebration of National Dinosaur Month. "Normally I just do silly faces and characters that I'm familiar...
http://newjersey.news12.com/news/artist-creates-chris-vierra-dinosa...

For its first show of the 2014–’15 season, the Yale Repertory Theatre will present a marriage of science and art as it stages one of the most widely known plays of the last two decades.
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/24/yale-reps-arcadia-to-fuse-...

artnet News
Damien Hirst Creates Wunderkammer for Luxe Taxidermy House
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In what sounds like an art and science marriage made in heaven, Damien Hirst's latest artwork, a Wunderkammer or so-called “cabinet of curiosities,” ...
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/damien-hirst-creates-wunderkammer-f...

REALSPACE
Opening Friday, October 3 (7 to 10pm), REALSPACE probes the aesthetic dimensions of astronomy, space exploration, zoology, physics, origins of life, history, and the beauty of knowledge. My REALSPACE essay relates Art-Science to the historical decline of belief in the supernatural, and its replacement by a scientific world view.

More info at: http://williamsongallery.net/realspace
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Williamson Gallery

The Glen Arbor Art Association will host photographer Roy Kropp who will speak on his work and time as Artist-in-Residence at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the GAAA, 6031 S. Lake St., in Glen Arbor. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Kropp, a resident of Sequim, Washington, is a retired marine ecologist and staff member of the United States Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where his work included using scientific literature to investigate perceived or potential issues that may be raised as the world searches for, and begins to use, alternative energy sources in the oceans.
http://www.morningstarpublishing.com/articles/2014/09/27/grand_trav...

What Happens When a Science Cartoonist Paints
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/09/27/what-happ...

College students explore health through art and literature
The science behind healing a wounded body — mentally or physically — can be complicated, intricate and something that not everyone understands.

Pages upon pages of complex words and with even more complex meanings fill textbooks and medical journals, and even though people try and take the time to comprehend the inner workings of the body, many consider that something is missing.

October is Health Literacy Month and a few teams of college students have taken initiative on their campuses to give their fellow students a glimpse into the world of medicine in an emotional and creative way.

To promote health literacy, these students created magazines filled with striking photographs, artwork, poetry, unique stories and prose to bridge the gap between the left and right brain when it comes to the medical field.

http://college.usatoday.com/2014/09/26/college-students-explore-hea...

The Ontario Science Centre celebrates 45 years of inspiring curiosity, discovery and innovation with art
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1418174/the-ontario-science-centre-...

From art to science: Interest in robotics is on the move, but finance remains an issue

http://www.startupsmart.com.au/planning/from-art-to-science-interes...

7 Strange Art Projects Imagine Life After Our Climate Collapses
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/7-strange-art-projects-imagine-life-ea...

"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_26605577/arts-briefs

The European KiiCS Award on arts and science for innovation goes to “Lab Easy: DIY Biology for the Bio-Curious” – a new concept of lab designed to learn about life sciences “by doing” and developed as part of the arts&science activities run by Arts Catalyst (UK) - and to “Slave for Love” – a device detecting whether you are in love or not by measuring the level of oxytocin in your body, developed as part of arts&science activities run by Kapelica Gallery (SL) - in the Young Adults section. The Adult winners (Asa Callow and Rachael Turner from Mad Lab) will be offered free business mentoring support by the St. John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge, whilst the Young Adult (Petja Skomina) will receive an iPad Mini.

See more at: http://www.kiics.eu/en/upload/PDF/KiiCS%20Awards_Winners.pdf

Top entries in the prestigious Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize are now on show at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra.

The Waterhouse is one of Australia's richest art competitions - organised by the South Australian Museum - and is unique in its mission to encourage exploration of the sciences that inspire the creative process.

This year, climate change, natural wonders and species loss are among the themes explored by the competition finalists.

The National Archives is the only location outside of Adelaide to host the winning works of paintings, works on paper and sculptures.
http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/Page_psn42911.html

Science Events: Dancing Particle Physics and Science-Inspired Fashion
October events at the intersection of science and art.

DANCE

Quantum. BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn. Oct. 2-4. $20.

Although the choreographer Gilles Jobin had used sciencey titles like “A+B=X” and “Spider Galaxies,” it was not until 2012, when he was an artist-in-residence at the CERN physics laboratory in Switzerland, that he says he began to feel “science-abled.” Working in a studio above the supercollider, he developed an abstract dance piece that gently riffs on some concepts in particle physics. When the piece comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music this month before traveling across North and South America, dancers will begin with a subtle jiggling motion that evokes the vibration of subatomic particles, which could be seen as a sort of quantum twerk. Under crackling ambient music assembled from supercollider data by the composer Carla Scaletti, they begin to orbit and swarm, pulled by invisible forces like gravity and magnetism. The spectacle will be lit, somewhat ominously, by lamps that swing on motorized pendulums — a “lumino-kinetic sculpture” contributed by the German artist Julius von Bismarck. “You don’t have to know anything about physics, it’s not a demonstration or explanation of scientific concepts,” Mr. Jobin said. “Now that I know that everything is moving, that we are mostly made of emptiness, that our bodies are holding together with incredible forces, it feels different to move my body.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/science/science-events-dancing-pa...

Science and art mix at First Friday art walk destinations
http://www.kitsapsun.com/entertainment/arts-and-culture/art-science...

The Plight of the Supernatural in an Art-Science World
http://malina.diatrope.com/2014/09/29/the-plight-of-the-supernatura...

Announcing a Yasmin Discussion: beginning Oct 15 2014

Science meets art in Stephanie Valentin's Closer exhibition
At the end of the day producing very beautiful images is actually quite liberating compared with working in the scientific sphere where you're often working in a very controlled and precise way".

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

Scientists are becoming artists, thanks to 'NanoArt'
The invention of the electron microscope in the 1930s radically changed how we see and understand the world.

A hydrothermal worm, just half a millimeter long, becomes a creature out of Star Wars. Zoom out from an underwater tropical tree and you’ll find it’s actually a human hair, seen at a resolution of one billionth of a meter.

Now, with new technology developed over the past decade, a number of scientists — or part-scientists, part-artists — are not only observing the atomic landscape but shaping it, creating miniscule sculptures and other works known as NanoArt.

Cris Orfescu, a scientist in Southern California, wants to make sure you don’t call his NanoArt “pictures;" you can’t use a lens and aperture to take photos at this scale. Instead, electron microscopes use electromagnets to zap their subjects with fast-moving electrons, which can reveal the atomic world that light can't penetrate.

Images from electron microscopes have a distinct 3D negative style that gives the landscape a ghostly fuzz. The images are also black and white, but many artist-scientists add layers of color and then print the images onto canvas or fine art paper.

Those nano-landscapse can sculpted through a chemical process, as well as other means. John Hart, a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan, uses a laser to cut patterns like his "Nanobama," from 2008. To the naked eye, it looks like a tiny dot. Through the microscope, though...
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-30/scientists-are-becoming-artis...

Inside a Changing Autumn Leaf
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/09/29/inside-a-...

Science meets art in Stephanie Valentin's Closer exhibition
How might organisms begin to adapt to survive as the climate changes?

It is a question which photomedia artist Stephanie Valentin explores in her exhibition Closer, which she says brings "the perpetually overlooked" - bugs and insects - "up close into a memorable encounter".

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

Art science: The role of art and design in science
Art science and the role that art and design play in science are cross-disciplinary in learning.
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/art_science_the_role_of_art_and_design...

Looking Back on 30 Science Artists in 30 Days
summary of the 2014 SciArt Blitz artists
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/10/01/looking-b...

When art and science meet: 9 Must-See Art Shows Opening This Week
http://www.papermag.com/2014/10/art_openings_new_york_october.php

Now in its fourth year the Merge Festival on London's Bankside mixes the themes of art and science.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/art-science-merge-bankside-140355116.html...

Art & Algorithms entices science, technology and engineering set
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/community/2014/10/01/art-alg...

Connecting people to science through art
To hear him describe it, being launched into space was more like riding on the back of an angry dragon than sitting inside a space ship.

Chris Hadfield didn’t talk much about the technical details of a space launch, but his impressions of it.

The “belching” of the space shuttle Atlantis’ fuel lines when the craft was fueled. The roar of the massive engines as they shoved the vehicle spaceward. The inescapable crush of g-forces pressing down on him.

And the sudden weightlessness of being free from gravity, which he calls “the ultimate oppressor, constantly grinding us down.”

The poetic descriptions of what could otherwise be a dry lecture on engineering or physics, was not accidental.

“The science we do is tremendously important,” Hadfield told a crowd of more than 600 people at the Sheraton on the Falls hotel in Niagara Falls. “But if you really want to reach people, you do it through art. It is how we talk to each other subconsciously about big ideas.”
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2014/10/02/connecting-people-to-...

Artists share sky with SKA scientists
Indigenous artists from WA and South Africa have met at the intersection of art and science being explored by the world's biggest radio telescope, the $2 billion Square Kilometre Array.

Shared Sky, an art and astronomy exhibition, opened at the Curtin University gallery this week. It unites Yamatji artists from the Murchison with San artists from the Karoo region of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.

Their traditional lands were selected for the SKA - a project involving 11 nations - because they are isolated, sparsely populated and generate minimal man-made technological chatter to interfere with any faint signals from space.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/25181215/artists-...

STV Dundee
Art and science coexisting at new Dundee Discovery Centre
STV Dundee
Dundee's new £26 million Discovery Centre will offer the city more than a whole lot of science. For the first time in Scotland, science and art will coexist ...

Damien Hirst’s take on the wunderkammer
The artist’s installation in a 19th-century taxidermy house will be auctioned to benefit natural science education
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Damien-Hirsts-take-on-the-w...

An exhibition of art, created from and inspired by the solar system and the scientific data with which we explore it. http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/art/

'Art and Science' at Merge Festival on Bankside
http://www.londonlive.co.uk/news/2014-10-03/art-and-science-at-merg...

A major exhibition of work from leading contemporary artists will this weekend go on display at Scotland’s first dedicated art-science gallery.
The exhibition shows how visual artists have represented the fundamental scales of life — from molecules to organelles to cells to tissue.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/science-and-art-colli...

More information is available at www.lifespace.dundee.ac.uk.

collision of two worlds: Engineering and Humanities.
Princer, Mary Ann and Anne Dominique are Electronics and Communication Engineering Technology (ECET) students who gave their all in showcasing their talents and artworks in the recent Humanities exhibit at the Technological University of the Philippines-Visayas (TUP-V).

The show displayed the amazing works of both ECET and Mechanical Engineering Technology juniors taking up Art Appreciation. Yes, when science and art collide, artistic crafts of engineers are made.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/lifestyle/2014/10/04/when-art-and...

Tribute to ''art and science'', Gates of Light.
http://www.camdenadvertiser.com.au/story/2608282/tribute-to-art-and...

Science and Art Come Together in Toronto Exhibition
“Excerpts from the Book of Entropy” is a photography exhibition that represents an artist’s inner search to comprehend the mysteries of the universe. Toronto artist Eugen-Florin Zamfirescu has created an exhibit that brings together science and art.

How close is humankind to the truth of this universe? Does energy become matter and can matter turn back into energy? Can time flow back and forth? Intrigued by these questions as well as a search for the deep meaning behind the workings of the universe led Zamfirescu to bring science into his art.

Through the lens of physics, Boltzmann’s entropy formula explains the behaviour of macroscopic systems in terms of the dynamical laws governing their microscopic constituents. “Excerpts from the Book of Entropy” is an aesthetic reminder of this law.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1002348-science-and-art-come-togeth...

Nowhere may the fine line between art and science be slimmer than through a scanning electron microscope.

That’s the instrument UW-Madison scientist Ricardo Kriebel used to photograph a flower of Miconia friedmaniorum, known to grow only in the cloud forests of Costa Rica. The image is delicate, otherworldly — and more informative than you might know.

Kriebel’s work is one of 12 selected winners in the 2014 Cool Science Images contest.
http://host.madison.com/gallery/news/local/photos-cool-science-imag...
http://host.madison.com/news/local/images-so-cool-you-ll-want-to-le...

Microbes as art: pictures
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3036561/breaking-the-molds-see-microbes...

The Crochet Coral Reef exhibition will run until December 4 at New York University Abu Dhabi. Contact Michal Teague for more information: 050 761 8708.
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/environment/abu-dhabi-spins-a-yarn-ab...

Creating Art with DNA
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg Collects DNA Traces Found in Public Spaces as Inspiration for Her Sculptures
What began as exposing a tiny hair trapped in an artwork’s display case shifted into an artist collecting bits of DNA around the city and creating sculptural portraits of individuals who had left their traces behind in public spaces.

These strangers don’t know they happen to be the muses of artist and science enthusiast Heather Dewey-Hagborg.
http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/6130

Fine art and hard science collided in an unlikely way in the far reaches of the world— Antarctica. The result is artist Lily Simonson's exhibit "On Ice," now on display at CB1 Gallery on 5th near Spring Street downtown.

Like the Antarctic itself, Simonson’s work has an air of mystery and majesty about it, but it’s also vibrant. Her canvasses are covered in special paint that reacts to ultraviolet light. With a black light, they glow like aurora borealis.
http://laist.com/2014/10/06/the_alien_antarctic_landscape_glows_in_...

Ecology-art under the sea
Brain-child of award-winning Bahamian artist, Willicey Tynes, the sculpture garden is an integration of art, science, and conservation that will showcase Mr Tynes’ work along with sculptures produced by Bahamian artist, Andret John, and internationally acclaimed sculptor, Jason DeCaires Taylor.

#The collaboration also includes support from the Reef Ball Foundation, a volunteer group that seeks to “help restore our world’s ocean ecosystems through the development and use of aesthetically pleasing, ecologically sound, and economically designed artificial reefs”.
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2014/oct/06/a-whole-new-world-of-art...

Interpretations mostly work in ‘The Art of Science'
At least on the microscopic level, disease is beautiful. One imagines medical research scientists gazing at the vivid colors and shapes of the infinitesimal worlds of deadly cancers they conjure in their instruments and exclaiming over the aesthetic exquisiteness and allure that beguile them. Or perhaps not, but that fancy indicates the dichotomy that perpetually dogs the annual “The Art of Science” collaborative exhibition, whose fourth edition will be displayed through Oct. 17 at the Hyde Gallery of Memphis College of Art’s Nesin Graduate Center.
Scientists from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital contribute images from their studies, along with brief (and occasionally fairly opaque) explanations, and local artists create pieces inspired by the images.
"The Art of Science"

Through Oct. 17 at the Hyde Gallery, Nesin Graduate Center, 477 S. Main.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/go-memphis/arts/visual-arts-news/ar...

Art and Innovation in Light Experiments of Emil Salto Light Forms- October 14 at SECCA
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art presents the first solo museum exhibition of Danish artist Emil Salto in the United States. On view Oct. 14, 2014 through Jan. 3, 2015, Light Forms features monochromes, photograms, films and other time-based works with light and color that will provide audiences with various sensory experiences. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 6 pm.
Space, optics and perception converge in this exhibition as Salto taps into rich histories of Modernism.
http://www.camelcitydispatch.com/art-and-innovation-in-light-experi...