Deadline extension for entries in response to our Open Call for the European Digital Art and Science Network has been extended until February 16!
http://www.aec.at/artandscience/open-call/

Forensic Sculpture, A Combination Of Art And Science That Aims To Solve Cold Cases
Each student at the Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) begins with a skull. More specifically, each begins with a plaster replica of a real human skull made by a medical examiner, a facsimile of an unidentified crime victim in New York City.

From this foundation, the students sculpt a face, using a block of clay and whatever information they can glean from the ongoing investigations -- such as age, height, gender and race. They also included grimmer details, such as the locations of bullet holes or crushed bones.

The resulting sculptures, lifelike in their realistic portrayals, capture the likenesses of unknown citizens who faced cruel and untimely deaths from a variety of gruesome circumstances, in the hopes that someone walking by the university windows will see a face and recognize it.
"The idea for a Continuing Education forensic sculpture workshop has been on the table for many years," Academy's Director of Continuing Education John Volk explained to The Huffington Post in an email. "It wasn't until a colleague introduced me to Joe Mullins -- a National Center for Missing & Exploited Children forensic imaging specialist -- who has a relationship with the Medical Examiner's office, that the idea was finally able to come to fruition.

"Our partnership is the perfect marriage of art and science. Having students use art and their extensive knowledge of anatomy for a bigger purpose and real world application to help the community at large was an opportunity worth waiting for and one we hope to replicate for years to come."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/forensic-sculpture_n_66317...

Paul McEuen, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Cornell University, will present the Carleton College Verbrugge Lecture on Monday, Feb. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Olin Hall Room 141. Entitled “The Art and Science of Nanoscale Carbon,” McEuen’s lecture is free and open to the public.
http://apps.carleton.edu/news/news/?story_id=1241913

The words SCIENCE, CREATIVITY and EXECUTION were written on the blackboard. Art students came up one by one, presenting their videos, paintings and songs about the astronomy they had learned in Ágnes Mócsy’s class at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. “You know that you’re better off if you have questions for each other,” Mócsy warned the class in order to encourage participation as she critically assessed one student’s poem about the formation of stars and planets. She seemed tough, but a slight smile gave away her delight with what the students had produced.

This mix of art and science is indicative of how Mócsy, a theoretical physicist, lives her life. Born during the 1970s as a member of the Hungarian minority in the Romanian dictatorship, her world today explodes with expression through food, fashion, cycling and her research into the origins of the universe.
http://scienceline.org/2015/02/the-fashonista-physicist/

Algae. To some, that word might conjure unpleasant images of an algal bloom in a lake or an infestation inside their swimming pool. But to biologists and environmental scientists from FIU’s School of Environment, Arts and Society, diatoms – a major group of algae – are an expression of past and present environmental conditions and an opportunity to showcase nature’s beauty in its purest form.

The scientists have teamed up with artists from the Tropical Botanic Artists collective for the second time to highlight the beauty of the aquatic microorganism with the exhibit “In Deep with Diatoms” currently on display at the FIU Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Together, they are adding to a long and rich tradition of artists drawing inspiration from Florida’s environment.
The exhibit will run until Sat., Feb. 22. An opening reception is scheduled for Sat., Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. A panel discussion is scheduled for Wed., Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.
http://news.fiu.edu/2015/02/exploring-floridas-algae-at-the-frost-a...

By mixing visualizations of Earth from NASA with ethereal music, Bella Gaia is attempting to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the oceans as well as overfishing in its first music video.

Art organisations to bring in data scientists to lure new audiences

Some companies bring in “artists in residence” to boost creativity in the workplace. But in a reversal of that trend, three of the UK’s biggest artistic organisations are now recruiting “data scientists in residence” to develop their businesses through what has been described as a “cultural Moneyball” programme.

Two expert data scientists will spend the next six months in residence at the National Theatre, the Barbican and the English National Opera.

The programme will explore new ways arts organisations can take advantage of the volumes of data they create better to understand how to bring in new audiences.

Examples include analysing social media to understand their existing and potential new audiences, and even mapping ticket sales against weather to discover if there is a pattern.

The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction by Nate Silver, famed for his accurate prediction of US voting patterns, was hailed as the “root text” of the project by Anthony Lilley, the chief executive of creative technology company Magic Lantern.

He added that there are “elements of Moneyball”, the book which later became a Hollywood movie about how Oakland As, the baseball team, flew in the face of conventional wisdom and used rigorous statistical analysis to build a team that could compete with the best on a fraction of the budget.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/...

Sponges and their beautiful architecture:
Natural art and architecture can be seen in sponges
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.01...

One of Britain's leading artists has teamed up with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist to turn fragments of drawings by William Blake, JMW Turner and Pablo Picasso into the so-called "wonder material" graphene.

The fruits of Cornelia Parker and Professor Konstantin Novoselov's experiments in art and science will reopen the Whitworth art gallery in Manchester on Friday (today).
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31006334

Biennial’s art and science collaborations
A temporary art installation on campus, part of the Cornell Council for the Arts’ (CCA) inaugural biennial last fall, will soon be on permanent display online and is the subject of an upcoming PBS documentary.

Biennial artist-in-residence Kimsooja’s “A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir,” created in collaboration with Cornell materials scientists and the artist’s son, architect Jaeho Chong, was installed on the Arts Quad in September and will be featured in a Google Cultural Institute exhibition in a virtual 3-D display with 360-degree views.

Fostering interaction between artists and scientists on collaborative projects, the biennial explored creativity and research on the micro scale. The event was conceived to underscore the importance of the arts in a research university setting, highlighting the participation of faculty and students; and to raise Cornell’s profile in the arts internationally.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/02/biennial-s-art-and-science-...

Art Show Features Stunning Pieces from Contemporary Artists and Mother Nature
“Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience” event features stunning images of the cellular and molecular world, as well as avant-garde work of contemporary artists inspired by science and nature.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/art-show-features-stunning-pieces-...

Dharavi’s biennale The Alley Galli Biennale aims to blend art, health and science in one of Asia’s largest informal settlements

The Alley Galli Biennale will be held from 15 February-7 March, 10am-7pm.
http://www.dharavibiennale.com/#dharavibiennale

Bacterial art:
On a cold January afternoon, a group of science students and artists pored over Petri dishes in the MIT Museum Studio, examining the bacteria growing within them. These were not just any bacteria: they were components of the participants’ own microbiomes, which had formed visible colonies in an incubator overnight, thanks to systems biology postdoc Tal Danino.

Danino and artist-in-residence Anicka Yi led a two-day workshop on “The Art and Science of Bacteria” as part of their scientific and artistic collaboration, set up by Meg Rotzel at MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology.
"You can call me F" will be on display at The Kitchen in New York City from March 5 through April 11.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/42157/title/M...

Become Ocean, composed by John Luther Adams, commissioned and performed by Ludovic Morlot, music director, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, won the Grammy for best contemporary classical composition, February 2015.

Indeed, Mr. Adams also won the Pulitzer Prize for the same haunting orchestral piece, suggesting a “relentless tidal surge, evoking thoughts of melting polar ice and rising sea levels,” (2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Music.)

Thus and so, global warming gains recognition within a vanguard of artistic creation, on stage in orchestral performance, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s first-ever Grammy, 2015.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/02/become-ocean-a-grammy-star/

The dancing SCIENTIST: Teacher who uses DNA Boogie and Meiosis Square Dance to explain biology caught on camera

Dr Richard Spencer choreographs his college biology lessons to music
The teacher at Middlesbrough College in Teeside says it 'inspires' pupils
He uses coloured bibs to represent chromosomes and DNA neucleotides
He also writes science lyrics to famous songs like Blame it on the Boogie
He has now been nominated for the $1m (£650,000) Global Teaching Prize

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2952686/The-dancing-...

Teaching science through rangolis
The rangoli exhibition will be open for the public till 16th Feb, 2015
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/teaching-science-th...

Art, meet science.

University of Houston neuroscientist and engineer Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is working with Valls, associate professor of dance, to produce what Contreras-Vidal calls “a brain-computer interface in service of the arts,” part of an ongoing project to study how creativity affects the brain.

Contreras-Vidal will discuss the work at noon Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Blaffer Art Museum on the UH campus, talking about “Your Brain on Art: Understanding the Brain in Creative Action and Context.”
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/cypresscreek/living/art-and-science-...

Michelle Hunter is an artist that loves science. Her paintings and drawings focus on how different areas of our brain are activated through those various activities, and how our brains react to emotional stimuli. Her illustrations explore the brain’s relationship with memory, caffeine, sleep, music, and more. Each time she finishes a piece of art, she writes a blog post to share her creative process and the related research for that piece. Exploring Neuroscience Through Art is her blog; and it explores how we experience the world physically and emotionally through the brain. Research for her Brain Series blog posts is rooted in a variety of scientific resources. Reference sources include scientific articles about the brain related to specific activities, such as what happens in the brain while we listen to music or are in deep sleep.
http://hunterart.blogspot.in/

Georgia Museum of Art to present science-inspired exhibition
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Jay Robinson: Quarks, Leptons and Peanuts” from March 28 through June 21. The exhibition will feature the work Robinson has created since a fire destroyed his home and studio in the mid-1990s and is organized by William U. Eiland, director of the museum, and Todd Rivers, head preparator.

After the fire, Robinson’s work moved in a different direction and he reinvented himself as an artist, taking inspiration from science. He started studying molecular physics and constellations, moving toward abstraction from a previously realistic approach. Despite the fact that he will turn 100 this year, he continues to create work, painting in the burned studio that he later rebuilt. One painting, an untitled African scene, survived the fire and will be shown in the exhibition.
http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/9583-georgia-museum-of-a...

This Is Your Brain on Science
With Cognitive Technologies, East Bay artists and scientists work together to bring brain technology to the masses.
Process of learning to control your mental state using information from an EEG headset is called neurofeedback. Although I've been watching people open flowers, control robotic arms, and light things up with their minds all night, I can't help but feel like I've just watched magic happen.

Cognitive Technologies, which opened January 31 at the Exploratorium (Pier 15, San Francisco), is a collaboration between a group of UC Berkeley students under the same name (Cog Tech for short) and Fruitvale's m0xy Artist Incubator. The exhibit brings cutting-edge neuroscience technology to the general public through a series of interactive art pieces, including "Bloom," "Make It Move" (in which you control a robotic arm with your mind), and "Puzzling Evidence" (a glowing table that lights up with different colors as you focus on completing puzzles).
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/this-is-your-brain-on-science...

Climate Scientist Tries Arts To Stir Hearts Regarding Earth's Fate
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/16/386064582/climate-scientist-tries-art...

Annual Santa Fe exhibit brings together art, science
Science and art will once again come together in Santa Fe next month, as University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers reveal the hidden beauty of living cells and the molecules that provide the essentials of life. The sixth annual “Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience" show, an annual event that showcases scientific images of nature, is set for March 27 and 28 at Peters Projects Gallery, 1011 Paseo de Peralta. The event is free and open to the public.
http://hscnews.unm.edu/news/annual-santa-fe-exhibit021615

The framework and methods of science and technology in art
Thomas Asmuth, art professor at the University of West Florida, will present a lecture on methods of cross-pollinating the disciplines of science, technology and art, while investigating the historical and contemporary progress and pitfalls of this creative form on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce, located at 201 East Zaragoza St. in downtown Pensacola.
http://news.uwf.edu/index.php/2015/02/uwf-professor-present-framewo...

An installation visualising particle physics
It’s not often that visitors to an art exhibition are asked to think about mathematics and particle physics, but The Vinyl Factory’s newest installation does just this, encouraging its audience to observe the aesthetics of scientific theory.
The installation is based on Ikeda’s research on particle physics at CERN, the Centre for Nuclear Research, where experiments into the mathematical theory of supersymmetry are undertaken – the model that helps to explain why particles have mass.

Ikeda is an electronic composer and visual artist who creates live performances and installations using sound, visual art and mathematical theories.

Supersymmetry marks a year of installations taking place at the Brewer Street Car Park in London, and will be followed by Carsten Nicolai’s installation presentation of his project unicolor, which looks at a collection of visualisations.

Supersymmetry takes place 23 April – 31 May 2015 at Brewer Street Car Park, Top Floor, 2 Lexington Street, London, W1F 0LA
http://www.designweek.co.uk/we-like/an-installation-visualising-par...

Nutrition and the visual arts: integrating art, science
In using art as a vehicle for learning about nutrition, Dr. Heilman said he wanted to find “new ways to make nutritional education stick.” While still fairly new, the idea of integrating art into the teaching of other “academic” school subjects is building some momentum. An arts integration experiment at Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler (IAA) in Burlington, Vermont, is achieving results.
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/living/nutrition-and-the-vis...

The German House for Research and Innovation (Deutsches Wissenschafts- und InnovationsHaus – DWIH New Delhi) is organising the ‘DWIH Horizon: Art Meets Science’ exhibition at Alliance Française here from February 21 to 26.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/a-confluence-of-art-...

Crossroads Project: Climate Science & Performance Art
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/02/18/crossroads-project-climate-scie...

3rd annual LeTourneau University art show celebrates aviation
he ballot box already was stuffed early Tuesday morning, just minutes after opening, as viewers voted for their favorite pieces of art at the third annual LeTourneau University’s School of Aeronautical Science Aviation Art Show.
http://www.news-journal.com/news/local/rd-annual-letourneau-univers...

Art Meets Science With New Mountain View Exhibition
http://www.sanjose.com/2015/02/18/art-meets-science-with-new-mounta...

Art Takes on Science: An Experiment in ScienceArt & Blogging
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2015/02/20/art-takes...

'Supernova’ Exhibition Explores Relationship between Art, Science

A multi-media group exhibition is exploring the relationship as well as the intersection of art, science and technology.

“Supernova” is a group exhibition of multi-media works by current and recent graduates of the MFA/MS in Visualization Degree Program at Texas A&M. 

Fresh Arts invites the public to an opening reception beginning Friday, Mar. 27 at 6 p.m. and closing at 7 p.m. with a performance; all dedicated to expose the union of art and science.

A free workshop called Natural Preserves: Aquascaping, follows on May 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. Participants may create their own submerged compositions using re-purposed mason jars and an assortment of aquatic plants.

Both events will be at the Fresh Arts, 2101 Winter Street, Studio B11, Houston, TX, 77007, USA.

http://boom92houston.com/6236/supernova-exhibition-explores-relatio...

Art’s place in the science world
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2015/02/arts-place-in-the-science-...

Art versus science: A beautiful pairing
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/art-versus-s...

Facebook bans photos of artist's "overly sexual" scientific artwork depicting the human body
An artist was stunned when Facebook blocked her from posting images of her scientific work - as it was deemed too sexual.

Rebecca Harris was told she could not show pictures of her hand-stitched textile of the human body on her Facebook page because they are "overly sexual images" that "suggest nudity" and "show a lot of skin or cleavage."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/facebook-bans-photos-artists-o...

Reg Gadney: Kinetic Art/Frank Malina talk at Anglia Ruskin University
http://malina.diatrope.com/2015/02/19/reg-gadney-kinetic-artfrank-m...

Kinetic Art/Frank Malina talk at Anglia Ruskin University

As Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, a terrific new show at the Wellcome Collection, reveals, art and forensic science have strange connections. It is not just that many artists have depicted crime or its aftermath, from Goya to Géricault to Daumier and Sickert onwards, it is that painters and forensic investigators so often have a common interest – the visualisation of a scene or event.
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime is at the Wellcome Collection, London NW1 from 26 February to 21 June
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/22/forensics-the-a...

Scientific art unfolds in China

Artist BiJian Fan is to exhibit scientific art at the Museum of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in April 2015. He will also speak to the students about science-art integration, collaborate with them to create a large scale scientific art collectively.

Open mind, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57cww1VlGks, is a scientific art conceptualized out of fluid dynamics, water’s capillary energy was harnessed to drive a kinetic paper art. It integrated paper and water, two incompatible media in an artistic expression. The use of technologies in capturing and exhibiting the artwork revealed the contemporary art’s digital era.
http://www.vcstar.com/ugc/yournews/scientific-art-unfolds-in-china_...

The Northern Rivers 2015 Arts Vs Science Festival is one of over fifty projects chosen nationally, and will engage the community in conversations, workshops and activities in celebration of the art-science nexus.

"The festival will explore the role of arts & science in understanding & managing our natural world for a sustainable future."

"The Festival includes panel discussions, live science shows, interactive science/art workshops and a science art competition."
http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/arts-vs-science-festival-2015-r...

London's new forensics exhibition explores death as scientists' puzzle, artists' inspiration
An exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection journeys through the afterlife of violent death, from crime scene to mortuary, laboratory and courtroom.
http://www.startribune.com/world/293836251.html
"Forensics: Anatomy of a Crime" opens Thursday and runs to June 21.

Artist-in-Residence Draws Inspiration from Physics
Kim Bernard, the inaugural Artist-in-Resident in the physics department, showcased her interactive kinetic sculptures, including bouncing concrete balls attached to springs and a harmonograph that draws patterns by swinging pendulum, at a talk on Friday, Feb. 20.
“Collision: Where Art & Science Meet”
Art attempts to access the “aesthetic realm of physics.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/2/25/physics-artist-kim-bern...

Combining art with science can create an entire new discipline. That’s the premise of Thomas Asmuth’s lecture this week called “Art as an Exo-Discipline”. Thomas Asmuth is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of West Florida specializing in digital and experimental media. His lecture titled “Art as an Exo-Discipline” is part of the Experience UWF Downtown lecture series and will be this Thursday afternoon, February 26 at 5:30 at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce.
http://wuwf.org/post/uwf-professor-sees-art-exo-discipline

Art pokes fun at our obsession with science and technology

William Crutchfield's work is light and humorous, and pokes some good fun at our obsession with science and technology. Lest we take our science too seriously, Crutchfield reminds us that we produce objects with beauty and flaws all their own. Without a sense of humor, we lose our perspective on our situation, but with Crutchfield, we can laugh at technology and remember that it's only a machine.
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/william-crutchfields-paintings...

The United States Embassy in Bern is looking for sci-art for its walls. Together with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia it has announced a competition for Swiss artists on the theme of the intersection between art, science, technology and the environment.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/winning-artists-to-be-displayed-in-us-e...

French Vogue does quantum physics
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/26/duane-michals-b...

Climate Change: A Conversation About Art, Investment and Science
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jody-christopherson/climate-change-a-...

Math & Computer Science to Present Art Exhibition in Olin
For the second time in five years, the members of the Department of Math and Computer Science will host an exhibition of art works created by members of the department. The exhibit will be open to the public March 6 through March 20 in the Department’s foyer on the 3rd floor of Olin Hall. The Gustavus community is invited to attend a reception to open the exhibition on Friday, March 6, beginning at 3:30 p.m
https://finearts.blog.gustavus.edu/2015/02/26/math-computer-science...

Regional Climate Research Project Hosts Moscow Art Exhibition March 3-4
Art and Science will be the focus of an art exhibition in Moscow Tuesday and Wednesday, March 3-4, hosted by a research project focused on climate change and Inland Northwest wheat farming.

The free exhibition will open from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 at the Village Center Mall at 872 Troy Road, No. 180.
Scientists, regional artists and students will exhibit artworks that bridge the realms of art and science and interpret climate change, said Dianne Daley-Laursen, Moscow-based project manager for the Regional Approaches to Climate Change in Pacific Northwest Agriculture.
http://www.uidaho.edu/newsevents/item?name=regional-climate-researc...

The Art of Science
http://csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/art-science

Pollution + Chemistry = Art
How an artist and a civil engineer use toxic runoff from the Ohio River to create paint pigments
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/techknow/articles/2015/2/2...