The best artistic stories that science has to tell

Welcome Disturbances, an exhibition of work from the UCD Science: Artists in Residence project, is at the Lab in Dublin from January 29th until April 2nd; thelab.ie
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/culture-shock-the-best-artistic-s...

Elevating Art to Advance Science: A New View of Vaccination in 2015
Through The Art of Saving a Life, we asked musicians, writers, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, and photographers to share stories of immunization’s impact, both on the course of history and in the lives of those vaccinated.
Through this project, more than 30 renowned artists from two dozen countries have created unique and evocative works of art using a variety of media. Some artists chose to focus on invention, dogged pursuit, and dedication, highlighting the role of scientists. Others explored themes of bravery, determination, and risk, depicting the challenges faced by on-the-ground health workers. For me, the pieces that feature the voices, love, and emotions of parents resonate especially strongly.

Ranging from lighthearted and hopeful to serious and somber, I find that each piece evokes a different thought, feeling, and reflection. I encourage you to view the digital gallery at artofsavingalife.com, which will be updated as more pieces are released this month. If you choose to share the gallery via social media, please consider using #VaccinesWork to join the global conversation on this topic.
http://artofsavingalife.com/

Manhattan pediatric clinic blends medicine and art
http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/24900

Art with heart: Pulse-controlled light beams pierce UAE skies
Powerful light beams controlled by people’s heart pulse shot into Abu Dhabi’s night sky Thursday as part of a new interactive art installation by Mexican- Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

The artwork “Pulse Corniche”is set to show from January 8-17 and features light beams piercing through the sky, the brightness and direction of which are controlled by the heart-rate of visitors to the Abu Dhabi Corniche who can hold a sensor that converts the electrical activity of their heart into a unique lighting sequence.

The effect of Lozano-Hemmer’s piece is a visual poem on vital signs, arguably the most basic indicator that we are alive.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2015/01/...

Maine scientists blend science, art to explore the microscopic world of ‘Tiny Giants’
Scientists from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay have recently combined scientific research and fine art to create “Tiny Giants: Marine microbes revealed in grand scale,” a photo exhibit bringing to light the importance of a world invisible to the naked eye, yet crucial to the health of the planet. The exhibit is kicking off with a special event in Boston’s Innovation District on Jan. 15, and is scheduled to come to Portland in March.
To learn about the exhibit, visit the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences website at bigelow.org or the Portland Public Library website at portlandlibrary.com.
https://www.bigelow.org/

Exploring the unknown: Connecting arts and science in creative ways
http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion-story/5246045-exploring-the-un...

Art of Science

THE RINGS OF WHISKY. A photographer named Ernie Button discovered that whisky leaves behind intricate crochet-like rings after it evaporates. He began experimenting with Scotches, whiskeys and bourbons to see what kind of patterns he could capture as these spirits dried, and then eventually got to wondering about the science behind the rings. Which led him to Princeton's Howard Stone, whose name popped up when he googled “art” and “fluid mechanics.” We'll let the New York Times take it from here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/science/art-in-a-whisky-glass-nea...
https://www.facebook.com/artofsci/photos/a.287528844606107.90497.11...

It is said that innovation is made when art meets science. But what happens when 45 artists and scientists from 14 countries collaborate to unravel the mysteries of light? The story of light, India's 'first science meets art festival' promises a visual and intellectual treat for all.

Celebrating the International Year of Light, the organizers of the festival are making an effort to educate the public about anecdotes of light in science and culture through art installations, live projections, workshops and street performances.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Enlightening-the-public...

Dukoupil Painting With Soap Bubble 2013 from Kopenhagen on Vimeo.

OPPORTUNITIES

OPEN CALL: The Bio Art & Design Award (previously called the DA4GA) grants three awards, each €25.000, to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression.
Deadline: 2 February 2015

http://www.badaward.nl/open-call-2015/

OPEN CALL: ISEA2015 - Disruption submission for abstracts for artist short talks, demonstration and works in progress.
Deadline: 20

http://isea2015.org/ February 2015

RESIDENCY: Open call for residency at the European Southern Observatory in Chile via Ars Electronica
Deadline: 9 February 2015.

http://www.aec.at/artandscience/open-call/

EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Frederik De Wilde's NanoBlck-Sqr #1 and NASABlck-Crcl #1
Carroll / Fletcher, 56-57 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EQ, UK
until 21 February 2015
Exhibition created with a nano-engineered material developed in collaboration with NASA and Rice University.

Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas
The Otolith Group, Ursula Biemann, Claire Pentecost and the Center for Land Use Interpretation are among 20 international artists in this exhibition which, focusing on the Americas from the Arctic to the Andes, explores the greatest challenge of our time – climate change.
Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB
24 January-15 March 2015

How to Construct a Time Machine
MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes MK9 3QA, UK
23 January-22 March 2015
Works by Katie Paterson, Thomson & Craighead, Martin John Callanan and The Otolith Group are featured in this group exhibition of historical and contemporary works that explore how artists play with media to transform our experience of time.

Digital Utopias
Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, Hull HU2 8LB, UK
20 January 2015, 10am-7pm
A one-day conference about how new technologies are enabling creativity across the arts - curation, archiving, collecting and creating from a range of artforms, from the visual arts to theatre.

Art + Science talk
Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, UK
Thursday 12 February, 7 pm, booking here
Talk by artist Andy Charalambous to coincide with the display of James Clar’s sculpture, ALL EVERYTHING, 2014.

Artist Joe Griffith works on a series of sculptures at the Vester Field Station that is part of a project called "Mercury Switch." Griffith is participating in FGCU's Crossroads of Art and Science Artist Residency. Jack Hardman/News-Press.com
Hazards of mercury are depicted in artist's work
http://www.news-press.com/videos/life/2015/01/14/21787203/

Painting Our Way to the Moon
http://www.space.com/28268-painting-inspires-lunar-trajectory.html

Slow-motion science and the art of capturing marine life

New MIT exhibit features high-speed underwater photography by former aquanaut Grace Young ’14.
To raise awareness of climate change, ocean pollution, resource overconsumption, and coral reef health while also conducting deep-sea research and high-speed videography in an underwater marine laboratory.
https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/slow-motion-science-and-art-capturi...

Kenya: Why Artists Seek Science
http://allafrica.com/stories/201501150555.html

Art and science merge at One Canada Square exhibit
http://www.wharf.co.uk/2015/01/art-and-science-merge-at-one-c.html

Tech art and science:
A team of scientists from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and the New England Aquarium will gather at the popular new District Hall, 75 Northern Ave. in Boston’s Innovation District on Thursday, Jan. 15, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. to celebrate the technological and scientific achievement of a gallery of photos that capture microscopic marine microbes that are invisible to the naked eye.

Alda, Krauss explore science and art during ASU Origins event
On stage before a packed house at the Orpheum Theatre, multi-Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated screen legend Alan Alda and ASU Origins Project director and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss held a revelatory, passionate and often witty conversation as part of the inaugural Origins Project Dialogue, Jan. 15.

The theme of the dialogue, “Science and Art: Long Lost Lovers,” tackled the communication links between science and the humanities, curiosity and the joy of discovery, and the importance of science education and literacy in politics, democracy and the future of our society.
https://asunews.asu.edu/20150116-alda-krauss-science-art-dialogue

Richland lab’s downloadable calendar makes science into art
http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/lateststatenews/2822096-8/richland...

The images not only are advancing science — some stand on their own as striking, and often surreal, works of art.

Rebecca Alston's works are now on exhibit at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art. "Three Series: Earth's Voice, Bioforms, Convergence" is at WAMA through Jan. 31.

Earth's Voice, Bioforms and Convergence are three of Alston's series of artwork. Earth's Voice spans 30 years, and works incorporate infrared images from NASA's Space Technology Laboratory. Some images are reworked and hand-finished, and the technology used to create the art almost parallels advances in aerospace technology.

http://www.sunherald.com/2015/01/17/6023427_where-science-and-art-c...

Artist to Showcase Paintings Inspired by Human Brain Chemistry
Nicholas Milinazzo will exhibit his electrochemically-inspired abstract paintings during the month of February in Sagacitas (Latin—roughly translated “I perceive keenly”), a solo art show at 2nd helpings Gallery in Roanoke.
http://theroanokestar.com/2015/01/19/artist-to-showcase-paintings-i...

The big bang of sculpture
Chelsea artist installs big sculpture by Large Hadron Collider
Ottawa Citizen
A smaller but still intriguing question is this: how did an artist who lives in ... with a sense of wonder, that fundamental force of both art and physics.
http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/the-big-bang-of-s...

Physicists Conjure Curves From Flat Surfaces Using Japanese Folding Art
Abstract

In this Letter we explore and develop a simple set of rules that apply to cutting, pasting, and folding honeycomb lattices. We consider origami-like structures that are extrinsically flat away from zero-dimensional sources of Gaussian curvature and one-dimensional sources of mean curvature, and our cutting and pasting rules maintain the intrinsic bond lengths on both the lattice and its dual lattice. We find that a small set of rules is allowed providing a framework for exploring and building kirigami—folding, cutting, and pasting the edges of paper.
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.245502

Science and art intersect at creativity in “Laboratory,” at Zuckerman Museum -
Laboratory: A Site for Exploration and Observation, at Kennesaw State University’s Zuckerman Museum of Art through February 21, invites us to examine the many ways creativity manifests itself across disciplines and time.

Teresa Bramlette Reeves, director of curatorial affairs, along with associate curator Kirstie Tepper and Tim Flowers, senior lecturer of drawing and painting at Georgia State University, has paired the work of seven contemporary artists whose work visualizes complex ideas and systems with historical scientific texts drawn mostly from KSU’s Bentley Rare Book Collection.

The exhibition is organized around the idea that these practitioners, whether artist or scientist, share an inherent need to solve a problem and that observation is at the heart of the investigation. The pairings of contemporary artistic practice with that of 19th-century and earlier scientific examination shows how similar, and sometimes interchangeable, the two can be.
Poetry in Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love & Fallout, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award.
http://www.artsatl.com/2015/01/review-science-art-intersect-laborat...

Physics and art: Belgian dance-theatre artists push beyond boundaries
http://www.straight.com/arts/809416/belgian-dance-theatre-artists-p...

The world's first light art museum

The Center for International Light Art in Unna is the world's first and only museum dedicated exclusively to light art. The works are exhibited deep below ground in the tunnels of a former brewery.
http://www.dw.de/visit-the-worlds-first-light-art-museum/g-18209880

It is commonly said that people are either right-brained or left-brained, meaning they are either creative, image-driven people, or they are analytical and science-minded. A collaboration between Chinese scientists challenges this notion. Their project, "Beautiful Chemistry," shows a diverse range of stunning chemical reactions and phenomena that blur the line between science and art. Macro-videography of various chemical reactions, filmed in 4K resolution, gives us a new perspective on the otherworldly events that occur in the test tubes of scientific laboratories.
https://fstoppers.com/other/chinese-scientists-blur-line-between-sc...

http://beautifulchemistry.net/

The Urbane Gallery, Edinburgh’s dynamic and leading edge art gallery, is taking part in this year’s International Science Festival, featuring the work of artists who have made use of science or technology for the making of their artwork.

Artists taking part in the exhibition, which is entitled ’Art Of The Matter’, include the award-winning Scottish artist Fraser Ross, who makes fascinating sculptures out of magnetic liquid. The fluid not only provides striking, monochrome sculptures through interaction with the adjacent materials, but also behaves in its solid form as a receptor to external environmental changes.
Urbane Gallery – art and science in harmony
http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2015/01/urban-gallery-art-and...

Ten New Findings From the Sciences that Will Revolutionize Architecture
http://www.archdaily.com/590808/ten-new-findings-from-the-sciences-...

1. Complex Adaptive Systems, 2. Self-organization, 3. The Network City, 4. The Geometry of Resilience, 5. Agile Design, 6. Scaling and Fractals, 7. Evidence-Based Design,

Biology professor exhibits interconnected and fleeting ‘Nature in Chalk’
http://www.pottsmerc.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150123/biology-pr...

Call for contributions to a Special Session on Slime Mould Computers:
 Prototypes, Models, Algorithms and Applications organised by Andrew Adamatsky for
The 13th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2015), York, UK


Conference theme: Embodiment, Interaction, Conversation


20-24 July 2015 


Submission of papers: Monday 2nd March, 2015

http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/slime.html

CERN Wants Artists and Architects Working Alongside Its Physicists
What do art and high-energy physics have in common? Quite a bit, if you think about it: Space, time, and the structure of the visible and invisible world, for starters. That's why CERN has spent the past four years inviting artists into its headquarters, and why, for the first time, it's now inviting an architect to stay.
"We believe that particle physics and the arts are inextricably linked: both are ways to explore our existence – what it is to be human and our place in the universe," explained the program's director, Ariane Koek, at the time. "The two fields are natural creative partners for innovation in the 21st century."
http://gizmodo.com/cern-wants-artists-and-architects-working-alongs...

Versuch unter Kreisen - Julius von Bismarck from volker racho on Vimeo.

Science And Art Need Each Other, And Here's Why
http://io9.com/science-and-art-need-each-other-and-heres-why-168206...

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) runs a competition encouraging researchers to share their most arresting images – pictures of research that not only are very pretty, but also that tell us something fundamental about biology.

A panel of judges select an overall winner, and there’s also a popular vote via the BHF supporters’ Facebook page. The winners, and runners up, of the 2014 competition have just been announced.

https://www.bhf.org.uk/reflections
http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2015/jan/27/reflec...

Yale University Art Gallery hosted an exhibit and conversation that would broach the topic of beauty head-on. At its heart, the Concinnitas project is a collaboration between a “mathematician who likes to think about art” (Daniel Rockmore, Dartmouth College) and an “art dealer who likes to think about mathematics” (Robert Feldman, Parasol Press). The result is a portfolio of ten 22×30 inch aquatints (printed by Harlan & Weaver, NY) of scientists’ hand drawn responses to the prompt, “what is your most beautiful mathematical expression?”

As part of a “The Art of the Equation” event at the Yale Gallery on January 22, Daniel Rockmore (Concinnitas project curator), David Mumford (project participant and Fields Medalist), and Lisa Hodermarsky and Molleen Theodore (Gallery curators) took the stage and engaged in a conversation with each other and the audience about the nature of mathematical expressions, beauty, art, and materials.
http://math.yale.edu/art-equation
The Art of the Equation

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Yale University Art Gallery lobby

Free and open to the public, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Play lifts the lid on brain science:
Tom Stoppard, the grand old man of British theatre, is back with his first new stage play in nine years, tackling typically big ideas: consciousness, science and God.

"The Hard Problem" is a 100-minute gallop, with no interval, through neurobiology, religion and improbable "black swan" events in financial markets that is both contemporary and timeless.
http://news.yahoo.com/stoppards-play-lifts-lid-brain-science-160747...

Artists needed for "art meet science"
— The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory is seeking artists for the fourth annual Art Meets Science exhibit at its Salisbury Cove campus this coming summer. The 2015 exhibit, “Is It Art or Is It Science?”, will focus on works that are artistic, scientific, or both, and which reflect the research interests of the laboratory’s scientists.

The exhibit will be up at the laboratory from July 1 through Sept. 30.
http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/art-meets-science-ar...

Science and art work together to celebrate space
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/local/article_9631e2c6-a82d-1...

Roots of Curiosity: symbiosis of art and science
Ar - Champalimaud Neuroscience Program.
Friday, January 30, 2015 at 9:00 PM (GMT)
Lisboa, Portugal
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roots-of-curiosity-symbiosis-of-art-a...
The Roots of Curiosity: symbiosis of art and science (30th and 31st January) Action. Thought. Understanding. Feeling. Exploration. Repetition. Neuroscientists represent the world using cause-effect relationships, principles, mechanisms. Artists...

Art exhibition on Mad Cow Disease to take place at London's Hayward Gallery
"Compelling and unsettling" story to be reassessed as part of History is Now exhibition worked on by scientists
A “multi-layered” display is about to become the first art exhibition to take Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – the fatal brain and spine degeneration in cattle which caused British beef to be banned from European export for ten years – as its theme, opening at the Hayward Gallery next month.
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art515571-first-art-exhibition-on-m...

Prof explores art through music, science and technology
http://www.thebatt.com/news/view.php/859308/Prof-explores-art-throu...

Particle Falls: Art Fueled by Scientific Data
On a cold and clear night in Logan there’s a low-hanging crescent moon, Venus is shining bright above the horizon, and on the side of the Caine Performance Hall on the main campus of Utah State University, there’s an animated waterfall of light. This is Particle Falls, a large-scale work of public art created by Andrea Polli. Polli was invited to display Particle Falls as part of ARTsySTEM, a semester long project initiative to integrate Art & Design with the STEM subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

Polli starts by describing Particle Falls: “If it’s a beautiful clear day and there’s no particulate pollution in the air, you see this beautiful pristine waterfall, but if particulate pollution is detected you might see little red or orange dots over the waterfall and as more pollution is detected, that waterfall turns into something like a fireball.”
http://upr.org/post/particle-falls-art-fueled-scientific-data

Entire worlds live just beneath the surface of what we can see with the naked eye. Though scientists and researchers see these wonders daily, many of us may never see the beauty they often find under their microscopes.20150203_131426.jpg

Thanks to an annual Scientific Art Competition organized by the Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory (CHANL) in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, the Carolina community can celebrate and enjoy vibrant images and artistic patterns produced in labs from around the world.

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) is proud to be hosting a selection of entries from the 2014 competition. The images are on display in the open study space on the second floor of the HSL, a space that now a part of the Library’s Research Hub.
http://hsl.lib.unc.edu/news2014/1422987124#sthash.X5gy0KCg.dpuf

Science inspires art exhibit on display at Fermilab
The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland is the inspiration for an art exhibit that opened recently at Fermilab in Batavia.

The exhibit features the work of eight artists with works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, collage and digital art.
It also includes a life-size, five-story 2-D reproduction of one of the detectors, hanging in the Wilson Hall atrium.

More than 40,000 people have seen this exhibition in nine countries, including two previous installations in the U.S. Roughly 1,000 U.S. scientists contribute to the CMS experiment.

The 50 feet tall, 14,000 ton machine is able to detect the smallest particles of matter in the tiniest fractions of a second.

It is one of the two particle detectors that enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson -- nicknamed the God particle -- in 2012.

The collection will be on display in the Fermilab gallery from Feb. 4 through April 22. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150204/news/150209386/

The need to understand climate change is urgent. For some people, the facts about climate change don’t matter – so we need experiences that stir strong feelings of connection. Artists are leading the way to reconnect methods of analysis and expression in this way. The Living Data program that I lead is one of several initiatives to bring together scientists and artists.

The creative challenge we face is to accurately express the changes happening to natural systems in ways that resonate with feelings of connection. It is not enough to know the science. People process information in different ways.
how art helps us all understand climate change
http://theconversation.com/living-data-how-art-helps-us-all-underst...

National Gallery’s new exhibition titled “Luminescent Forms: Art Under the Microscope,” runs from Feb. 6 to April 17, 2015.
'Luminescent Forms:' Where art meets science
http://www.compasscayman.com/caycompass/2015/02/06/-Luminescent-For...

Inked Animal’s delicate balance of science and art
On Saturday, among other events as part of Print Austin’s big Print Expo + Bin Fest + Print Exchange at Canopy, 916 Springdale Road, the collective Inked Animal will be giving a demonstration of the Gyotaku-style printmaking method. The free event is from 2 to 4 p.m.

Artists, collaborators and conservation biologists Adam Cohen and Ben Labay take the Gyotaku method in a bold new direction.

Science meets art in nanophotography
Giving people an insight into what really is a different world - the world of nanotechnology - that people normally don't get to see seemed like a good way of connecting with people.
A series of compelling photos of the nano-sized world hopes to raise the public's fascination.
The public exhibition will run from February 10 to March 8 ( MacDiarmid Institute, New Zealand).
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/65939316/science-meets-art-in-nanoph...

GV Art & Mind Symposium #26

CAN NEUROSCIENCE EXPLAIN CREATIVITY? – No: it doesn’t ask the right questions.
Professor Margaret Boden
Monday 16 March 2015, 7pm
Please RSVP to garry.kennard@btopenworld.com
http://www.gvart.co.uk/gv-art-mind-symposium-26-professor-maggie-bo...