Container full of brains brings science art to Blackpool Illuminations
New art installation exploring neuroscience and mental health appears amid this year's Blackpool Illuminations
Holidaymakers and stag and hen-do revellers taking in the visual treat of Blackpool Illuminations may have cause to stop and ponder the complexity of the human brain this autumn as a new art installation brings something distinctly cerebral to the yearly spectacle.

Brain Container is a new artwork by Jo Berry housed in an illuminated cargo container with a series of rotating brains cast in acrylic rotating discs.

Berry based her work on a series of drawing interpretations of neuro images (pictures that show the brain’s function), and has been working in collaboration with Dr Lena Palynippan, a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Palynippan is involved in the care of young people who experience psychosis for the first time and uses the images to better understand their condition.

For Berry, who is Artist in Residence at Lakeside, the University of Nottingham’s public arts centre, the work recalls her visits to the Blackpool Illuminations as a child and the wonder she felt when viewing all the beautifully lit, moving, magical images.

But an important part of the project was working with the Arts for Health Groups in Blackpool and Nottingham.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art503943-container-full-of-brains-...

Taiwan to send aritsts to CERN for science-meets-art program
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201410230026.aspx

Art Marries Science: Sculpture Finds Romance with Technology
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2014/10/23/art-marries-science-scul...

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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

The Nevada Museum of Art's Art + Environment Conference attracted artists, critics, scientists and writers from around the world
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/into-the-wild/content?oid=15282604

Witness technology alter our perception of human performers, discover how visual art is changing clinical practice in the health sciences, and experience the potential of historical sound waves.
From Monday 27 October to Sunday 2 November, the fifth annual Melbourne Knowledge Week, hosted by the City of Melbourne, presents over 90 events across the disciplines of science and medicine, art and culture, design and urban planning, business, technology and data, and children and family.

Spanning performance, literature, visual and sound arts, the art and culture program showcases the latest innovations and interventions in the field.
http://performing.artshub.com.au/news-article/sponsored-content/per...

Connecting the dots between art and science:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/how-...

Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land.
The Bruce Museum travels to the southern end of the world for the new exhibition Antarctica: Photographs by Diane Tuft from Oct. 28 through Feb. 1, 2015.
http://www.greenwich-post.com/30978/antarctica-photographs-by-diane...

Quantitative or categorical, discrete or continuous, dependent or independent — variables allow scientists of every discipline to measure and describe the world. And 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...

'Living Paint' Transforms Bacteria Into Art:
Artists created their own masterpieces inside petri dishes using "paint" made of living bacteria in a workshop here on Sunday (Oct. 19), part of the Imagine Science Film Festival. Painters dipped brushes, toothpicks, stirring rods and beads into bacterial mixtures and painted the clear liquid across a jelly-like agar canvas.

The agar serves as a place for the bacteria to grow, acting in the same way for bacteria as soil does for plants. It's full of nutrients that bacteria need to grow. After a few days of incubation, the bacteria smeared on the agar canvases grew and changed color, making the artwork visible.
Gallery of science beauty:
http://www.livescience.com/21096-research-as-art-a-gallery-of-scien...

'Dance Your Ph.D.' finalists announced

http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/10/dance-your-ph-d-fi...

I found a disturbing thing today in sci-art. A sci-artist claimed he did a beautiful sculpture of sci-art. He provided a link to his work:
https://www.codaworx.com/awards/video/2014/entries/spannungsfeld-un...
When I visited the page, I found this message (comment )posted there:
You should share the truth in that you didn't build this nor design it and how it broke because the one time you touched it to package it you failed, and I had to go fix it in -15* weather in Minnesota, and you tried to cover it up and take credit for that too. Liars such as yourself deserve nothing! If anyone wants to know the real story with documentation let me know. Julian poses for fake pictures of him working on his site, and also pictures of ME welding and never gives me credit for my HARD WORK!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_6cl7b_nM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_6cl7b_nM If you watch the video on You Tube, you will know somebody else did the sculpture and not the person (J voss A) who claimed he did it. Shocking!

I am sure this comment on the page will be deleted soon but luckily I read it before it is removed. Now I know the truth!

Art and math collided this weekend at the Columbia Secondary School in the form of lectures, workshops, and an art exhibit featuring works of mathematical art from American and European artists.

Called MoSAIC—Mathematics of Science, Art, Industry, Culture—the festival was an offshoot of the annual Bridges Organization international conference dedicated to the connections between art and mathematics.

“The underlying goal of MoSAIC is for people to create a positive emotional connection to mathematics,” said MoSAIC director George Hart, an engineering professor at Stony Brook University and a board member of Bridges. “Too many people think they hate mathematics because they hated arithmetic in school. Math is much more than the few concepts they see in class.”

Rather than thinking simply of STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—MoSAIC adds “Art” to make STEAM. Columbia Secondary School is the second stop on MoSAIC’s national tour.
http://columbiaspectator.com/news/2014/10/26/mosaic-festival-combin...

DWIH Horizon : Art Meets Science
Date:
Monday, October 27, 2014 to Saturday, November 1, 2014
Venue:
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Dr Rajendra Prasad Rd, Rajpath Road Area, Central Secretariat, New Delhi, DL 110001

The German House for Research and Innovation - DWIH New Delhi is...

http://www.dwih.in/events-list

Two Texas A&M University programs have partnered to help explain climate change issues facing the state.

The Sea Grant Program at Texas A&M has teamed up with the university's Institute for Applied Creativity to create a semester-long internship position that will use videos to address topics surrounding weather, water and climate change.
http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/texas-a-m-program-merges-art-and...

Art and science are not mutually exclusive:
http://www.the-peak.ca/2014/10/art-and-science-are-not-mutually-exc...

Barjeel Art Foundation announced the long-term loan of one of its major artworks for display at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, commencing soon.

The two prominent cultural institutions have joined forces in order to honour the appointment of Sharjah as the Islamic Culture Capital of 2014 and to enrich the public’s knowledge of Islamic history and Islam’s contribution to science.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/6ac7e9a4-c6aa-464b-a92f-d407f3a72ac2.aspx

Science and art under same roof
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2014/10/26/The-Next-Page-...

Exhibit brings art, taxidermy together
http://www.sctimes.com/story/life/2014/10/25/scsus-audubon-exhibit-...

Art & about: Instruments of astronomy
http://www.nst.com.my/node/46194

Kenneth and Cherry, origami art gurus
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/10-things-about-...

Leonardo ArtSci Fellowship Opportunity for Junior Faculty - Deadline Nov 15

Opportunity for junior faculty at universities around the world to be nominated to become a Leonardo Fellow. Universities or departments must be a Senior Level Leonardo Affiliate member first in order to nominate a fellow. Deadline is November 15, 2014

Details here: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leofellowship.html
Leonardo Fellowship leonardo.info

Nomination Period Has Opened for Spring Leonardo Fellowship! Nominations for Leonardo Fellow candidates will be accepted from 15 October 2014 through 15 November 2014. Senior Affiliate members are eligible to nominate junior faculty

Balancing art and science – the future of cinema
http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/10/27/balancing-art-and-science...

In a meeting of art and science, artist Olafur Eliasson and Geology Professor Minik Thorleif of Copenhagen University have collaborated on a massive undertaking to bring attention to rising global temperatures with an installation. There, the immense blocks of ice will melt in full public view a stark reminder of what is happening to the receding ice caps.
http://www.psfk.com/2014/10/greenland-copenhagen-art-science-instal...

Mind Art' Project Allows Individuals Living With Disabilities To Create Art With Their Brains

Education Center’s mosaic windows combine art, science
http://www.theranger.org/2014/10/27/scobee-education-centers-mosaic...

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Will SciArt Find a Foothold on Ello?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/10/28/sciart-on...

Art and science meet in the Boondoggler’s ‘Whack-job’
“Whack-job,” is an original work that mixes live performance with video, written by neurologist and playwright, James Jordan (MD, BFA) and directed by and starring, Dan Gildark.

"Whack-job" is not a typical play, mainly because while an audience member is enthralled by the theatrics, their brain waves and other physiological measurements are being recorded. It’s a multimedia comedy as well as a cognitive psychological experiment measuring audience attention using eye tracking, surveys, EEG (Electroencephalography), heart rate and other observations.

The experimental play will be performed at West of Lenin Theatre (203 N. 36th St), starting December 4 through 6 and 11 through 13 at 8 p.m. To prime spectators, a preview-show, followed by a discussion on “Cognition of Spectatorship,” will be December 3.
http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2014/10/29/news/art-and-science-m...

As both a writer and a scientist, Hoffman said he is always trying to have work published.

“I was exposed to arts and humanities in college at Columbia and it took seed. Somehow I kept reading even though I was committed to chemistry,” he said. “I didn’t try to write a poem ’till I was 40. It took me seven years to get published. But the imperative to publish was from science.”

Hoffman added that his work in chemistry has also led him to publish work in philosophy journals, saying that the fields are interdisciplinary.

“I am inherently reflective about the sciences, so I always think about why we do what we do in science,” he said. “That has brought me into philosophy.”

Additionally, Hoffmann said he believes interdisciplinary work is important due to the overlap between the fields of art and science.

“[The world is] separated in a number of ways,” he said. “We compartmentalize our lives. The arts and sciences belong together.”
As both a writer and a scientist, Hoffman said he is always trying to have work published.

“I was exposed to arts and humanities in college at Columbia and it took seed. Somehow I kept reading even though I was committed to chemistry,” he said. “I didn’t try to write a poem ’till I was 40. It took me seven years to get published. But the imperative to publish was from science.”

Hoffman added that his work in chemistry has also led him to publish work in philosophy journals, saying that the fields are interdisciplinary.

“I am inherently reflective about the sciences, so I always think about why we do what we do in science,” he said. “That has brought me into philosophy.”

Additionally, Hoffmann said he believes interdisciplinary work is important due to the overlap between the fields of art and science.

“[The world is] separated in a number of ways,” he said. “We compartmentalize our lives. The arts and sciences belong together.”
http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/10/29/cornell-close-ups-nobel-prize...

2014 Photomicrography Competition
For the past four decades the Nikon Small World competition has placed photography under the microscope, with eye-catching results. This year’s 20 finalists, announced Thursday, are no exception, zooming in on microorganisms, minerals and even electronic circuitry to find beauty hidden from the naked eye.
See the wonders of science here:
http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/photo

Suffering for their art
A new exhibition compares depictions of military surgery now and 100 years ago
ENTERING the small room that houses “War, Art & Surgery” at the Hunterian Museum in London, the visitor encounters two images hung one above the other. On top, in sepia tones, is “The Birth of Plastic Surgery” (pictured), painted in 1916 by Henry Tonks; below, strikingly similar though tinted in the blues and greens of the modern operating theatre, is “Hands, hands, hands”, by Julia Midgley, a contemporary artist. Her work has been paired with Tonks’s in this thoughtful show marking the centenary of the start of the first world war. The public might be forgiven for growing a little weary of the anniversary, but here at the Royal College of Surgeons, the subject is approached in an unusual light.

Tonks, who was a surgeon himself as well as a subtle and perceptive artist, was not indulging in hyperbole in his painting’s title. The image depicts the operating theatre of Harold Gillies, the pioneer of facial reconstructive surgery. The two first met at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot, where Gillies was developing the techniques that laid the foundation for modern surgeons’ ability to rebuild the human face, using as his subjects the young men who had been horribly disfigured in the trenches.

“The Birth of Plastic Surgery” gives way, in this exhibition, to a wall of the remarkable pastel drawings Tonks made of the soldiers’ injuries. (The exhibition catalogue also shows photographs of the wounded and the work performed on them; it, much more than the exhibition, is not for the faint of heart.)
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21629207-new-exhibitio...

Young At Art Museum is offering a feast for the eyes with "ColorFest: A Celebration of the Art & Science of Color."

The traveling exhibition, which features a variety of themed activities and educational games, runs through Jan. 4 at the Davie museum.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/davie/fl-cn-color-1102-20...

Painter and photographer Diane Burko spoke Tuesday at the Visual Arts Complex about various geological phenomenons such as glaciers, waterfalls and volcanoes.

Burko explained her realization on how her art played a big part in geology as well as helped to represent the concern of glaciers melting. She showed the audience her paintings and explained what they meant to her and what they meant for art as well as science.

“There is an intersection between art and science, and artists today, we cross a lot of boundaries,” Burko said. “Scientific institutions, universities, museums, even think tanks recognize and welcome artists to communicate science for the public.”

She began painting geological sites such as the Grand Canyon, waterfalls and Yellowstone, and realized all of these locations had to do with geology. She then began to paint images such as glaciers, showing a picture of Glacier National Park from about 150 years ago.
http://cuindependent.com/2014/10/30/diane-burko/56872

Switzerland based photographer Fabian Oefner specializes in combining art and science. Here, you can watch him manipulate a ferrofluidic art piece (comprising oil, watercolor, and magnetic, nanoscale iron particles) commissioned by Guster for their forthcoming album, Evermotion.
Oil, watercolors and nanoscale iron particles make for some of the most psychedelic imagery this side of an LSD trip — and we've got the hi-res macro photographs to prove it.

The Nobel Prize—Ideas Changing The World, an exhibition organized by the Sweden-based Nobel Museum. After travelling through Brazil and Sweden, the 100-plus exhibits are being showcased in New Delhi from Friday. The exhibits include historical artefacts, like the flasks used in his laboratory by Alfred Nobel—the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize—as well as modern-day objects like an insulin injection. Each has a backstory about a scientific discovery and its Nobel-laureate inventor. Some of these stories have been captured in touch-screen displays placed in each of the five sections of the exhibition. “There are many stories connected to the artefacts in the exhibition,”

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/drF5oaqrl3bJ5oiMJrIwuI/Taking-scien...

The Art of Planetary Science is an annual event to celebrate the intersection of art and science in Tucson.
On October 17-19, 2014, the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory on the University of Arizona campus hosted the second annual Art of Planetary Science exhibition. Through our work, scientists seek to understand the nature of our Universe and the laws that govern its evolution. We strive to describe natural processes in the most precise language possible – that of mathematics. However, creating scientific knowledge also requires thought, creativity, attention to detail, and imagination. It is not unlike creating art, though the methods may vary. By organizing this exhibit – the graduate students of LPL invited the public to take a new look at this work through an artist’s eyes.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/dante-lauretta/20141031-...

Fusing the best of art and science, London’s Kinetica Art Fair was a chance for visitors to discover a wide range of works by artists practicing this unusual form of art based on movement.
Kinetic art will move you like any other art form, say critics
Kinetic art has been around since the early 20th century, but technological progress now allows artists to create astonishing, interdisciplinary installations, which just never stop moving.
http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/31/kinetic-art-will-move-you-like-a...

Sci-art monument would re-create images of life forms made extinct over 500 years

Today (3rd Nov., 2014) afternoon a tall, elderly gentleman will deliver a short eulogy to past life on Earth while standing on the Jurassic coast of southern England, and in the process begin an ambitious project to remember the 860 species known to have become extinct over the previous five centuries.

Professor Edward Osborne Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and Pulitzer prize-winning author who has been called the "natural heir to Darwin", has come to Britain to break ground on a construction project to rival in scale the great medieval cathedrals of England.

Instead of honouring God, however, the new stone edifice will pay tribute to all known species that have disappeared during the sixth great mass extinction that the planet has experienced in the 4.5bn-year history of life on Earth – and the only mass extinction caused by another species: man.

Like St Paul's Cathedral, the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory (Memo) will be built from the fossil-rich Portland limestone of the Jurassic Coast. Sculptors from around the world will be commissioned to create a gallery of carvings that will set in stone the portraits of each lost species, from the passenger pigeon to the Tasmanian tiger. It will form a visual memorandum of what has been lost since the last dodo was bludgeoned to death by European sailors in the 17th century.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-temple-to-860-lost-spec...

Lost in Fathoms, an exhibition at GV Art in London, presenting the work of Anais Tondeur in collaboration with physicist Jean-Marc Chomaz, investigates fall of the island of Nuuk. The exhibition comprises a series of Shadowgram images and installations.
http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2014/11/01/lost-fathoms-art-sc...

Eureka moments all round at Art Neuro as the artists step into the laboratory
Artworks go on show in London after artists and neuroscientists collaborate in an attempt to stir the public imagination

Across London, 15 other pairs of artists from a range of disciplines and neuroscientists, mainly from Queen Mary University of London, in the East End, and University College London, have been collaborating with the aim of bringing the remarkable, often hidden and unsung, work of scientists out of the lab and into the public imagination.

The 16 original artworks of Art Neuro go on display for the first time from 6-9 November at the Rag Factory, off Brick Lane, east London.

The fascinating exhibition includes interactive optical illusions; a modern take on Hogarth’s Gin Lane exploring addiction; ceramics that magnify the molecules responsible for Alzheimer’s disease; a flashing installation that represents the human brain; and an interpretation by an erotic photographer of the way babies’ brains change in the first few weeks of life.

The principle brain behind Art Neuro is Supatra Marsh, 27, a skin biologist and PhD student at the Blizzard Institute, which is part of Queen Mary.
http://artneuro.co.uk/
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/01/art-neuro-eureka-mom...

The Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science will showcase images from the Hubble Space Telescope, a large-scale model of the Hubble and much more in the upcoming exhibition “Eye on the Universe: The Hubble Space Telescope.”

Also on view will be the Jackson Walker painting “They Called It La Florida,” which is on loan from the Florida House in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts the 1513 Florida landing by Ponce de Leon. FHS executive director Ben Brotemarkle said exhibiting the painting and the Hubble images are like “bookends of Western exploration.”

The exhibition is the first since the museum became a part of the Florida Historical Society. As such, there is an electric excitement in the air over the debut, Brotemarkle said.
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/style/2014/11/01/three-area-...

Professor Ellen McMahon links science to the arts
Ellen McMahon teaches her students to learn the importance of environmental issues through the use of design and art at the UA.

She has been teaching “Critical Issues in Design” for nearly 20 years, and soon the course will be renamed to “Art, Design and Science.” The students collaborate with UA scientists on their projects with the goal of creating visual responses to the science they will work with.
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/11/professor-ellen-mcma...

Professor Ellen McMahon links science to the arts Ellen McMahon teaches her students to learn the importance of environmental issues through the use of design and art at the UA. She has been teaching “Critical Issues in Design” for nearly 20 years, and soon the course will be renamed to “Art, Design and Science.” The students collaborate with UA scientists on their projects with the goal of creating visual responses to the science they will work with. http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/11/professor-ellen-mcma...

'Holistic engineers’ add art to science
http://www.bendbulletin.com/nation/2547533-151/holistic-engineers-a...

To bring chemistry and art together, an exhibition is being conducted:
Harvard Art Museums put pigments on display
The collection comprises nearly 2,000 pigments, along with more than 1,000 items of related materials. Those items include brushes, palettes, waxes, gums, resins, varnishes, John Singer Sargent’s paintbox, and at least one bottle of Elmer’s Glue-All. Artists use the stuff, too. The rest of the museum may be about art, but the Straus Center and its collection are about art-making (and repair). “It’s not just a display of things that never get used,” says senior conservation scientist Narayan Khandekar.

The names of the pigments can be as beautiful as the colors: ultramarine pink, pompeiian blue, genuine cobalt violet. Modern pigments have less poetic-sounding names: PR-251, PR-254 (“PR” for “pigment red”). “But they’re very important,” Khandekar says. “They’re all used in paints today.” Modern pigments, while also on display, are kept separate from their vintage counterparts.
The historical pigments are so varied — in age, origin, container — that a single coherent display scheme wasn’t immediately obvious. Then Khandekar hit upon the most basic of organizing principles: the color wheel. Yellow pigments are in the center, with green, blue, and purple to one side and orange, red, and purple again on the other.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2014/11/01/harvard-art-...

Artwork at the #science #art #museum #singapore opening #ICIDS2014
http://instagram.com/p/u4knKfxWoB/
https://twitter.com/MaisoonAlSaleh/status/528765581315805184

Dance Your Science Ph.D.: Tornado Trapeze Act Turns Science Into Art

Meet the winner of this year's Dance Your Ph.D. competition!

When she isn't out in the forest gathering data for her Ph.D. in plant biology at the University of Georgia at Athens, Uma Nagendra spends a good deal of her time hanging upside down from a trapeze doing circus aerials. To combine the two halves of her life, she teamed up with her fellow aerialists to create the mid-air dance based on her scientific research - and won this year's Dance Your Ph.D. competition!

Find out more about Uma and the rest of the winners:
http://scim.ag/wdance14

Interstellar: Bridging science and art
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/19301/20141103/interstellar-bridg...

Colorful shapes and symbols swarm, spiral and coalesce, then burst into a glorious geometrical explosion of light as actress Emily Schneiderman describes the first moments in the life of a star.
'Birth of Stars' at UCSC Experimental Theater is a fusion of art and science
In "Birth of Stars," a new play opening at UC Santa Cruz on Friday, vivid animations of stellar fusion and supernova explosions flow across three screens that dominate the stage. The images convey a cosmic drama of life and death that mirror the very human story unfolding below.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_26858027/birth-stars-...

Johns Hopkins and its work inspire Baltimore's newest public art project
Optical Gardens, Baltimore's newest work of public art and landscape architecture, on the east side of Charles Street between 33rd and 34th streets.
With references to everything from astronomers seeking other life-bearing planets, to geologists searching for underground streams, to scientists at work in the laboratory, it's public art that was inspired by Johns Hopkins and the Charles Village community outside its gates.
http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2014/november-december/focus-charles-str...

Conservation: several career options where he could combine chemistry and art.
http://wydaily.com/2014/11/03/nathan-stolow-86-artdocument-conserva...

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Painting Across Astronomical Units

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2014/11/04/tr...

Anthropocene – Underground, Underworld, Underwater

Poetry evening with Ruth Padel & Declan Ryan

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 6.30pm for a 7pm start

Two poets respond to themes explored in the new installation Lost in Fathoms, a riveting and original blend of science art and imagination.

http://www.gvart.co.uk/anthropocene-underground-underworld-underwat...