Bio Art: Life in the Anthropocene - Artlink Volume 34 #4, September 2014
Bio Art: Life in the Anthropocene
Artlink Volume 34 #4
Thursday 23 October 2014, from 7pm

An opportunity to network with artists and scientist interested in Bio Art and the Anthropocene.

This international special issue from Artlink examines a world where life on the planet is evolving in response to the rapid progress of biotechnology in medicine, genetics, science, toxicology and pollution. Distinguished writers examine the relationship of living to non-living; man-machine interactions, machine-plant hybrids, bio-couture, brain-body compatibility; syncretic thinking; viruses and bacteria as the raw materials of art.

Admission is free, but booking is essential via Eventbrite. See more at: http://gv-art-artlink.eventbrite.com

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is proud to announce the winners of its third annual BioArt competition. These ten images and two videos demonstrate the breadth of ongoing research in the biomedical and life sciences. Winning entries were unveiled on FASEB’s website and will be exhibited at the National Institutes of Health.
See the pictures and full details here: http://www.faseb.org/About-FASEB/Scientific-Contests/BioArt/2014-Bi...
http://www.faseb.org/Policy-and-Government-Affairs/News-Room/Articl...

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. Since St. Jude focuses on cancer diseases of childhood, the images, often of piercing abstract beauty or certainly intrigue, carry a potentially deadly implication. We have to remind ourselves that we are looking not at random galaxies of shape and color but at multiplying cancer cells or at fatal parasites invisible to the unassisted eye.
"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...

QUANTUM CREATIVITY in SCIENCE and ART and Augmented Reality. - Paolo Manzelli
https://www.facebook.com/bristoluniversity/posts/651810501601721

Art and Nanotech Converge in Cornell University Campus Biennial
Newswise (press release)
“Working with scientists and researchers makes it possible to produce art at the ... in an integrated study of studio art and research-based science.

Stephen Hawking: 10 times art met science
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/25225369/stephen-hawking-10-times-art-m...

On 16 October 2014, Dr Neil Dufton will showcase his science-inspired art in his debut exhibition, Auto-Biology, at Imperial College London.
Featuring a collection of 10 unique prints, the exhibition is an illustrative autobiography of Dr Dufton’s research over the last five years.

Inspired by the works of Salvador Dali and psychedelic music posters from the 1960s, Dr Dufton’s work blends lively, surreal images with concepts from his scientific research. The artwork draws on various controversial topics, such as animal research and stem cell therapy, as well as portraying scientific techniques, equipment and processes. Through his art, Dr Dufton hopes to open up the scientific debate to the wider public.

“Science doesn't always have to be these inaccessible people discussing things that the public won't understand. I think we need to get back to the ideas, the philosophy and the creativity to get people involved and say, you know, science isn't just about measuring things precisely; it's about solving the puzzle,” says Dr Dufton, a Research Associate at the National Heart and Lung Institute.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newss...
Auto-Biology is free to attend and open to all. It will run from October 2014 to March 2015 in the Centre for Co-Curricular Studies, 3rd floor of the Sherfield Building in Imperial College London. The opening night, on Thursday 16 October, will take place from 19.30 to 22.00 and is open to members of the public. The artwork is for sale.

“Every AlgoRiThm has ART in it: Treemap Art Project” is on at the National Academy of Sciences from Oct. 16, 2014, until Apr. 15, 2015.
http://qz.com/278645/t/114611

Brain-themed cabaret kicks off science and art series

“Brains. Most of us have them, but none of us really know how they work.”
Will Kinney, professor
Department of Physics

Buffalo’s Science & Art Cabaret, which hosts conversations between the region’s leading scientific and artistic minds, will kick off its 2014-15 season with an evening of entertaining talks titled “Love Yer Brain.”

The brain-themed cabaret will take place at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Ninth Ward at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. It’s free to the public, with a cash bar.
http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/campus/campus-host-page.host.html...

Canberra exhibition shows Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize short of potential

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/canber...

Art & Science Exhibition at New York Hall of Science Opening October 11th
The Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany is excited to announce that Studio co-founder Julie Rotblatt-Amrany will have a mixed media sculpture titled Neuron Interface featured in the 16th international Art & Science juried exhibition, organized by Art & Science Collaborations. The exhibition will be held at the New York Hall of Science from October 11, 2014 - March 29, 2015.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12238559.htm

The art of biology, seen through the eyes of scientists
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bioart-winners-...

Art of Science Learning sparks innovation with the arts
Balboa Park-based project finds creativity at intersection of arts, science and learning. Seifter’s “Art of Science Learning,” funded by a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant and administered by the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, has trained its participants in opportunity identification, idea generation, core skill communication, design and numerous other skills tied to creativity and driven by an arts-based approach.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/11/art-of-science-learning-...

Art and science unite at SKA
South Africa was represented at the opening by three artists from a community arts centre in Nieu-Bethesda, in Eastern Cape, and an engineering delegation from SKA South Africa. They were Nieu-Bethesda community arts director Jeni Couzyn and artists Sandra Sweers and Gerald Mei, both of whom are descendants of the /Xam-speaking San who lived where the SKA telescopes are being built in a remote area of Northern Cape.

http://www.mediaclubsouthafrica.com/tech/4037-art-and-science-unite...

WVU Tech Hosts Second Annual Science & Art Fair
http://www.wvutech.edu/news_archive/2014/10/10/wvu-tech-hosts-secon...
The West Virginia Science and Art Fair returns to WVU Tech on Friday, October 17. The fair, which is open to all West Virginia high school and middle school students, provides an opportunity for students to showcase their knowledge of biology and physical sciences in display projects, a symposium and Olympiad events, and their creativity in art projects.

Mineralogical society’s presentation will celebrate life of prehistoric animal painter Charles R. Knight

Next week, the Nittany Mineralogical Society will host a presentation on renowned paleoartist Charles R. Knight. The talk, “Charles R. Knight: Art and Geology,” will focus on Knight’s life and vast contribution to the world of paleontology through his art.

Knight, who died in 1953, was the first artist we know of to study fossils and skeletal remains and then create complete renderings of what these now-extinct animals might have looked like as they reigned over the Earth. For this reason, Knight often is referred to as the father of paleoart, and his work can be found in books, zoos, museums and even in Hollywood films. According to retired geologist Charles E. Miller, Jr., one of the presenters at the event, films “The Lost World” (1925) and “King Kong” (1933) depended on Knight’s paintings of dinosaurs in order to re-create them in those films. Knight and his work also have been the subjects of articles in Scientific American magazine.

http://www.centredaily.com/2014/10/12/4400228_mineralogical-society...

Carl Sagan's quote art: we are all made of star stuff
https://www.etsy.com/in-en/listing/113485984/carl-sagan-cosmos-star...

West Virginia Science and Art Fair set for Oct. 17 at WVU Tech
Students across West Virginia will show off their knowledge and creativity at the second annual West Virginia Science and Art Fair Friday, Oct. 17, at West Virginia University Institute of Technology.

The fair is being hosted by WVU Tech, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Registration is free and open to public, private and home-school students.
http://www.register-herald.com/news/article_76d12f35-6bd7-59fb-a0a6...

Art and science make beautiful collaboration
Neurons and Other Memories exhibit in Miller Gallery evoke connected world
The creative fusion of art, science, and even history is the concept behind the Miller Gallery’s latest exhibit, Neurons and Other Memories, which opened on Friday. The exhibit is small and understated, taking up only the ground floor of the Miller Gallery’s already modest gallery space. The majority of the works line the walls of a small rectangular room tucked behind the gallery’s entrance.

Within that space, though, is a surprising diversity of works. Most pieces are from the 21st century, but other selections are centuries old, demonstrating humanity’s recent history — since the Scientific Revolution, it seems — of depicting science in visual formats. One such selection is an extraction from Diderot’s Encyclopédie: an almost fantastical illustration of a tree-man, branches and roots outlining the shape of the man like veins and arteries, demonstrating the neural connections that bind the body.

The aesthetic highlight of the exhibit is Greg Dunn’s series of four beautiful, shimmering works: “Purkinje Neurons,” “Synaptogenesis,” “Glomerulus,” and “Retina I” are enamel depictions of neural connections on leaves of gold, copper, and aluminum.
http://thetartan.org/2014/10/13/pillbox/miller

Science and discovery will be on display Thursday, Oct. 16, to Sunday, Oct. 19, in Fond du Lac during the statewide annual Wisconsin Science Festival.

Science seekers will have the opportunity to look, listen, feel, touch, ask questions and discover science, according to an event press release.

WisSciFest brings scientists, artists, citizens and organizations together to engage the public in technology, engineering, art and math.

“Science shouldn’t be a word that’s feared,” said Michael Jurmu, professor of geography-geology at University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac. “Most science can easily be explained using demonstrations and simple concepts.
http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2014/10/12/science-fest...

“Fires of Change” spurred the partnered organizations to get together over two years ago—even before the historic Yarnell Fire in June, 2013.

The wealth of knowledge exchanged between the art and science communities represents a greater challenge to come. The hope is this project will encourage societal exploration of fire, as well as consortia around the country to develop further options and programs to express science through an artistic aperture.

Barb Satink-Wolfson, Southwest Fire Science Consortium coordinator and NAU School of Forestry professor, said in a previous interview with the Daily Sun the idea stemmed from a similar collaboration between the Alaska Fire Consortium and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The SWFSC is a neutral partnership with the Joint Fire Science Program, and connects managers, scientists and policy makers in the interest of education and collaboration.

With a grant from the JFSP secured, Satink-Wolfson and fire ecologist, NAU School of Forestry professor and Consortium Principal Investigator Andi Thode approached the Flagstaff Arts Council with their plan.

The SWFSC also involved NAU’s Landscape Conservation Initiative to facilitate the North Rim workshop and connect with Grand Canyon fire managers.

“Fires of Change” will be next year’s Festival of Science art exhibition, and will run from Sept. 4 through Oct. 31. In funding a project like this, the Arts Council receives support from Coconino County, including use of the County-owned Coconino Center for the Arts; from supporters, sponsors and the City of Flagstaff.”

As of press time, two sponsors for “Fires of Change” have signed on—Full Circle Trade and Thrift and Freeman Huber Law—but more are anticipated in the coming months.
A catalyst for new visions''
http://azdailysun.com/entertainment/a-catalyst-for-new-visions/arti...

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS
The Inaugural (Rest of the World) SLSA Conference
Perth Western Australia
1-3 October 2015
Neolife; full of surprises.
From the odd to the mundane, new forms of life are emerging in labs, workshops and studios. With the promise of exploitation for health and wealth we are seeing life as it previously never existed, albeit smothered in hyperbole, rhetoric and speculation. How do cultures such as Indigenous Australia respond to Neolife? On what terms are countries like China, India, Singapore and Japan, who have a rapidly growing biotech industry embracing or rejecting Neolife? How different it is to the west? Neolife: The Rest of the World SLSA 2015 meeting in Perth, Western Australia will attempt to address these questions from a wide range of approaches.

Abstracts (max 300 words) accepted from November 1 2014 due 21 March 2015.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/neolife-slsa-2015

Lost in Fathoms from GV Art on Vimeo.

Body Image: A fantastic voyage of art and technology

The worlds of art and technology are colliding in a new exhibition that uses MRI scans and CT imaging to create art out of the human body.
http://www.cnet.com/news/body-image-a-fantastic-voyage-of-art-and-t...
When:
6 September to 8 November
Where:
UNSW Galleries
Address:
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd, Paddington
Hours:
Tues-Sat, 10am – 5pm
https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/body-image

Each year, tens of thousands of people from around the country make their way to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for a week-long festival known as Burning Man. It’s a celebration of art and self-expression, but it’s also permeated with science and technology. WCAI on-air host and Living Lab production assistant Alecia Orsini went to Burning Man this year with a mission – to find all the science she could.
http://capeandislands.org/post/science-burning-man

'Delicious' Paintings if science: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/museums-galleries/hc-housatoni...

Infographics:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/2014/10/14/sa-recogni...

Fall into the Arts: George Wise welds science and art: artistic entomologist
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/entertainment/2014/10/15/f...

J. . BROOKS SPECTOR spent time with paleo-artist John Gurche for a conversation that ranged from depictions of evolution in popular film to the tricks of imbuing a clay and fur model of an ancient hominin with a sense that there was life inside that artist’s creation.
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-10-16-looking-on-the-pa...

Conversation on Art, Science & Design
with artist Sri Prabha, critic Margery Gordon and
astronomer & designer Dr. Jorge Perez-Gallego
Tuesday, October 21st, 6:30 - 8 pm
https://madmimi.com/p/153865?fe=1&pact=25645888258

Visitors to the free Salford Science weekender on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 October are invited to take part in an interactive artwork to illustrate the spread of infectious diseases, as part of Manchester Science Festival.

Created by an award winning team of programmers, artists and engineers, TRANSMISSION INTERACTIVE by Becs Andrews Company will transform the University of Salford’s state-of-the-art Digital Performance Lab into a stunning visual and sonic world.

The eye-opening artwork uses interactive technologies such as wireless wristbands and Kinect devices to track visitor movements, triggering visual displays of colour form and light combined with emotive music to create an immersive, hypnotically mesmerising environment.
http://www.salford.ac.uk/news/stunning-interactive-art-installation...

Quantum an ode to particle physics
When Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin decided to embark on a new collaboration between his company of dancers and quantum physicists at the esteemed European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – no big deal – unsurprisingly, Jobin’s dancers were intrigued, if not a little apprehensive.

Nonetheless, Jobin quickly reassured his artists that this collision of movement and science, from which the piece Quantum was born, wouldn’t lead to a final exam in particle physics, but rather a world tour celebrating the 60th anniversary of CERN. It is currently on stage at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2014/10/16/quantum-an-ode-to-particle-phy...

the Art of Planetary Science exhibit is meant to fuse these two disciplines in ways never before imagined.

The program is in its second year at the UA and asks its audience to take a look at pictures of the universe through an artist’s lens. The free event is open Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. The inspiration for art from science is something Jamie Molaro, the founder and lead organizer for the show, said isn’t surprising, given how many microscopes are around the Tucson area.

“It’s a science-y town. I think there’s a lot of that type of art here,” said Molaro, who is also a planetary science student. “We get artists who come to us [and] thank us for putting on the event and [enjoyed] doing this art with this theme.”
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/10/art-and-science-blen...

Science meets art events at Fallsington Library
The Fallsington Library is holding two science meets art events: Feathers! on Tuesday and Magnetism! on Nov 18.

Both events are free to kids of all ages and run from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the library, 139 Yardley Ave.
http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/communities/falls/scien...

Scientific Creativity and Art - A Necessary Partnership
Many of the most important significant advances in science and technology are inextricably linked to art.

In the words of Jonathan Binstock, the new Director of the UR’s Memorial Art Gallery, "we live in a STEM world” - a world shaped by science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But within that world, art is a key determinant of whether new ideas and technologies succeed or fail.

Binstock cited the example of the iPhone. It caught on not because of its technical innovation, nor because of its design elegance and aesthetics. It caught on because of the combination of the two. It takes captivating art to humanize technology, and to connect it to our lives in a meaningful way.

The same holds true for many of the most important ideas in science. It’s one thing to have a brilliant idea - but it’s another if that idea can be represented in a beautiful image that clarifies the concept and captures the imagination of others.

A good example is a recent research breakthrough by Doo Yeon Kim and Rudolph Tanzi, who have for the first time created “Alzheimer’s in a dish”. It promises to be a huge advance in the field, by accelerating drug testing and development - but it caught people’s attention in large part because the images of cultured neurons and Alzheimer’s-like deposits speak for themselves. They are simply beautiful and compelling, with no complex scientific explanation needed.

In the same way, the DNA helix is itself an object of such elegance and simplicity that it captures the imagination. So I was thrilled when Marty Messinger ’49, a life trustee of the UR, recently donated the sculpture “A Dream of Two Snakes” by Ilan Averbuch to the University. The sculpture pays homage to a famous story, that James Watson first conceived of the DNA double helix after he dreamed of two intertwined snakes with heads at opposite ends. And it uses granite to underscore the centrality of DNA as the bedrock of life.

This powerful sculpture has now found a home as a public work of art in Rochester - on Crittenden Avenue, between the UR’s School of Nursing and its Saunders Research Building. It is well worth a visit.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/blogs/inno...

Young Scientists, Artists Showcase Work at Science and Art Fair
http://www.wvutech.edu/news_archive/2014/10/17/young-scientists--ar...

Art meets science in Duke Hall exhibition
Rebecca Kamen, an artist in residence at the neuroscience program in the National Institutes of Health and professor emeritus of art at Northern Virginia Community College.
Artist Kamen finds inspiration through a wide range of research in chemistry, cosmology, spirituality and philosophy. She has displayed her work nationally and internationally in places like China, Hong Kong, Chile, Korea, Spain and Egypt.
http://www.breezejmu.org/life/article_40141ff2-5806-11e4-ba90-001a4...

Oefner, who is famous for joining art and science in his work, is bringing his latest collection of images to the Light Box Gallery in Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi, which will be free to the public.
Fabian Oefner: making art with a touch of science
The 30-year-old artist uses the scientific principles of centrifugal force, magnetic fields and chemical compound mixing to create his photographs. He is also known for experimenting with timed flash to capture the exact moment when paint disperses, to create his vivid works.
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/art/fabian-oefner-making-a...

Avengers Fan Art: Here's the Very Best of the Science Bros!
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/10/21/avengers-fan-art-here-s-the-...

The Imagine Science Film Festival brings science to the people
http://fusion.net/story/22635/about-time-the-imagine-science-film-f...

David Wessel, pioneer in music and science
David L. Wessel, a UC Berkeley professor and a groundbreaking researcher, scholar and performing artist who thrived in the intersections of music and science.
Wessel’s early research and publishing on the musical role of psychoacoustics – a branch of science that studies psychological and physiological responses associated with sound – laid the foundations for much of his career and was part of his path-breaking accomplishments.

Wessel’s work in the 1970s on the compositional control of timbre, or musical tone color/quality, inspired the creation of some of the first computer software for analyzing, understanding and using musical material. He also championed the use of personal computers for music research and creation while working from 1976-1988 as the director of pedagogy and software development at IRCAM, an important French institute for research into the science of music and sound and avant-garde electroacoustical art music.
While at IRCAM, the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustic/Musique, Wessel engaged with composers, researchers and students on topics ranging from computer programming for music to the cognitive psychology of hearing. He described what came to be known as the “Wessel Illusion,” a phenomenon in which timbre determines the way a listener groups the musical notes in a melody.

Wessel was part of UC Berkeley’s Department of Music faculty and served as the first director of UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), which opened in 1988. Wessel developed and taught courses on music perception/cognition and musical applications of computers and related technologies.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/10/20/campus-mourns-the-loss-of...
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/

Combining science, research to create art
http://www.trurodaily.com/Colchester-Weekly/2014-10-21/article-3911...

Art of Science: Chemical romance: Dazzling photographs showcase the rainbow-coloured results of mixing compounds up close

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2801391/chemical-rom...

Ellen McMahon started out as a biologist but later found her passion in art and design. Today, she unites art and science in her work and teaching.
http://uanews.org/story/art-professor-creates-new-world-of-awareness

Fascinating interplay of art and science
Dario Robleto bridges science and art
http://www.ricethresher.org/arts_and_entertainment/dario-robleto-br...

Birth of Stars, an original new play melding scientific data, digital projections, and a human story to explore the parallel between the lives of stars and the people who gaze up at them.
Astrophysics meets theater in ‘Birth of Stars’
http://news.ucsc.edu/2014/10/stars-art-science.html

Bellybutton Portraits: Creating Art Through Science

Oct. 23, 2014 | Thursday, 5:00pm

Location: Nature Research Center - 3rd Floor Instrumentation Lab

Help New York artist Joana Ricou create a Bellybutton Portrait Series. Swab your own bellybutton in our lab, and Joana will grow and photograph the resulting microbial portrait of your other selves, the parts of your body which are not human. Your portrait will be shared anonymously with you on a website and featured in an upcoming art exhibition at the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK.
http://naturalsciences.org/programs-events/bellybutton-portraits-cr...

Science can be extraordinarily captivating, and that’s one of the things we really want to impart.

SMART is an acronym for Science Meets Art. It will feature a variety of presentations, exhibits and lectures for attendees of all ages.

“SMART Festival is illustrative of the deep connections between science and art. Both involve exploration, discovery and creativity, but in different ways. We want to highlight those connections, so it should be a fun two days.
http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2014/10/22/ul-host-sm...

New exhibits at Davis Gallery & Art Science Gallery
variables can inspire artists. With a mixture of whimsy and seriousness, work by eight artists creatively illuminates variables gathered through personal record-keeping or scientific experimentation.
http://arts.blog.austin360.com/2014/10/24/saturday-arts-picks-new-e...