Art school – but one that is increasingly exploring the intersection of art and science.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago already offers science and math classes. But now the school is enriching the content and connecting it to art. Cheng, a mathematician making a presentation to the class on topology, is SAIC’s scientist-in-residence – the school’s second.
http://www.abqjournal.com/564969/news/art-science-meet-at-prominent...

As part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of Chemistry – A European Journal we would like to invite you to enter our cover quiz competition. Each week, for twenty weeks, they will post a multiple choice question based on one of the fabulous pieces of cover art that we have received over the past twenty years.
For more details click here: http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/7677331/The_Art_of_Chem...

The art of Astronomy...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/art-astronomy

A 'Lab in the Gallery' exploring new ways to track everything from heartbeats to heartbreak. Running from 13th February to 16th April 2015.

PLAYFUL SELF – ALEX ROTHERA & JAMES KRAHE (US)
In the future, biometric data will only become more ubiquitous. Look at your phone: your heart is 93 bpm, your watch says you’ve walked 10,020 steps today, a total distance of 7.8 km, and burned 450 calories. Your belt clip notified you to take more deep breaths at work and to consume more natural sugars. Before you realise it, your whole body is beeping and telling you to do three different things at once. But what if our data didn’t overwhelm us, but helped us relax. Looked at the importance of taking a break, breathing, and having some tea? What if data could remind us to pause, reflect, and slow down? In Playful Self, watch your data come to life as you touch every object. See if, by taking deep breaths, you can bring your heart rate as low as possible. Use your data to relax.

ABOUT LIFELOGGING
This free exhibition features exhibits and labs looking at data, people and the impulses connecting them. Drop by to view the installations and talk to the residents or book your place to take part in the weekly workshops.

From critical to creative, LIFELOGGING asks ‘where do we go from here’ and question whether we can record and analyse happiness, beauty and aesthetics the same way we record footsteps and heartbeats. The exhibition explores novel methods for capturing data, for visualising, and for analysing the insights that new data affords us about ourselves and society.

Find out more at https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/lif...

The Antarctic Art Contest is seeking entries that explore and interpret Antarctic research and science. The free contest will accept entries from April 1 to July 31 through its website www.waisartcontest.org. Winning artwork will be displayed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the National Science Foundation, and research sites in Antarctica. An online gallery will also show winning and honorable mention artwork.

The contest explores how art and science rely on observation and interpretation of the world. The contest’s subject is an ice core that engineers and scientists drilled from the center of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Scientists are examining the ice core to make new observations and generate new ideas about the last 100,000 years of climate history.

Individuals or groups can take part in the contest. They may enter in one of three divisions — elementary school students, secondary school students or community. Artwork can be in a variety of formats, including visual, written and multimedia. The website contains a lesson plan that teachers can use with their students.

Find out more at www.waisartcontest.org.
http://juneauempire.com/art/2015-04-08/students-invited-submit-entr...

Social science, art to connect in New York City event
Internationally renowned social scientists from Cornell and other institutions are getting together with artists on April 18 for a salon convened by the Institute for the Social Sciences.

https://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/social-science-art-connect-new-y...

The art of physics
For Toronto playwright Hannah Moscovitch, the unexpected duo was playwriting and theoretical physics.

Her new play, Infinity, centres around a mathematician experimenting with love while her parents — a composer and theoretical physicist — struggle to keep theirs alive. Highlighting what it means to be citizens of time, the play shows that love and time are connected in ways that we never could have imagined.
http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/April-2015/Hannah-and-the-ar...

Making DNA art for DNA day 2015

Topics to create art on:

Things to do with DNA
DNA and health
DNA and the Arts
DNA in the News
http://scienceblogs.com/digitalbio/2015/04/08/making-dna-art-for-dn...

The group exhibition Cosmic Dust, curated by Emma-Lucy O’Brien, which looks at how we orient ourselves in the universe and how art and science can combine with the spiritual to help us put meaning on our world. Merging ideas from artists, philosophers and scientists, exhibits include blackboard drawings produced between 1919 and 1924 by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner.
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/art-and-science-com...

Extinction as Art
http://www.livescience.com/50365-gallery-the-brutal-art-of-extincti...
http://news.yahoo.com/framing-end-extinction-art-interview-21222901...

Jelly fish art:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/jellyfish-in-space-o...

Science meets art: 2015 Cool Science Images unveiled
http://whyfiles.org/2015/2015-cool-science-image-contest-winners/

Shen students contemplate fusion of dance and physics

On the morning of March 30, 2015, the eyes of students at Shenendehowa High School were opened to a contemporary way to contemplate the concepts of physics during “ChoreoPhysics: Seeing the Science, Envisioning the Invisible,” a fusion between the refined art of dance and the notions of physics is a result of the collaboration of Ellen Sinopoli, the owner of Albany’s Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, and University at Albany physics professor Keith Earle.
http://yourcliftonpark.com/2015/04/09/shen-students-contemplate-fus...

Palaeographia: an exhibition blending science and art.

ABSTRACT The exhibition Palæographia was developed for the First International Palaeontological Congress. It consisted of original Australian fossil specimens juxtaposed with scientific illustrations and interpretive artworks in a variety of media. It illustrated Australia's palaeontological heritage. The linkage between science and art triggered positive comments by visitors. The exhibition was popular with families and school groups and provided an opportunity to develop education programmes that incorporated both art and science elements. The exhibition was therefore a mechanism for introducing a new audience to the gallery experience. An exhibition like this could only be developed in a University. The complex and diverse nature of its intellectual base allows a fertile collaboration between groups that rarely work together elsewhere. It was also a good example of how a University Gallery can promote the endeavours of its scientists to a broader audience.
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/255722338_Palaeographia_an_...

The University of Alaska Southeast Juneau campus will be hosting Art Meets Science from April 13-19. Art Meets Science is a week-long showcase of student accomplishments in the liberal arts, Alaska Native oratory, outdoor studies, and scientific, mathematical and social science research.
http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2015-04-12/art-meets-science-week...

NanoArt INTERNATIONAL ONLINE COMPETITION - 7th Edition
FREE Entries - Open to All Artists and Scientists - Seed Images of 3 Nanostructures are Provided for Further Artistic Creation

Submission deadline June 30, 2015

http://nanoart21.org/nanoart_contest.html

Art, Science intersect at art institute
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2015/04/15/art-science-interse...

From Van Gogh's cloned ear to indoor rain: 13 sculptures made by science

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/17/world/gallery/science-sculpture-m...

Science and art meet in origami
http://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/news-columns/explorit-sci...

Art And Science Merge In Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Idea Of Beauty’
You can get a glimpse of that from April 15 to June 14 in a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, titled “Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty.”
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-and-the-idea-of-be...

Art can reflect, interpret, and inspire action, and has the capacity to reach a broad audience across a cross section of social and economic strata. Arts spaces – galleries, museums and other public spaces – provide places for audiences to be receptive to new ideas in new ways. Art can re-energise and re-orient our relationship to the natural world, to reality, and to immediacy.
What art can do to climate science:
http://www.artshub.com.au/festival/news-article/opinions-and-analys...
Undoubtedly, a rational and scientific engagement is vital to forming and enacting solutions to the climate problem we all face. But a cultural shift is also needed, and artists have the capacity to begin and reinforce this movement. Their work can help to fuel a cultural narrative that inspires a vibrant, positive vision of the future.

When music meets science:
Bridging the gap between music and science: it’s the dream, and the objective, of a young, talented and successful conductor.

In Stockholm, where he has his symphonic orchestra, Daniel Harding has created “Interplay”, a thought-provoking series of events combining a concert, a debate and a talk between musicians and scholars from the scientific world.

http://www.euronews.com/2015/04/16/what-is-life-music-and-science-c...

'Dear Data' Shows What's Possible When Information Meets Art
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/dear-data-art-project_n_70...

Arts extravaganza at Fermilab to celebrate one of the world’s largest science experiments
Seeing the CMS experiment with new eyes

The wonders of particle physics serve as a springboard for a community-building arts initiative at Fermilab.
As the hub for the United States’ participation in the CMS experiment, Fermilab, located outside Chicago, is currently showing the Art@CMS exhibit in the Fermilab Art Gallery. Organized by Fermilab Art Gallery curator Georgia Schwender, the exhibit coincides with the restart of the LHC, which recently fired up again after a two-year break for upgrades. The exhibit is not only a celebration of the LHC restart, it also aims to create connections between artists and CMS physicists in the United States.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2015/Art-at-CMS-20...

Students in the undergraduate Neuroscience & Cognitive Science program will host the first "Symbiosis: An Exhibit of Biological Art," an event promoting the fusion of science and art.

(University of Arizona chapter of the national neuroscience)

"Symbiosis: An Exhibit of Biological Art," an event that aims to showcase the aesthetic appeal of life and promote a fusion of science and art.

Scientists often admire the beauty of microscope images and even data, but there is also an interested public that could see the aesthetic beauty in these images and hopefully want to know a bit of the science behind them.

http://uanews.org/story/breathing-life-into-art

Art Can Be a Gateway to Science
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/tom-mortonsmith/art-can-be-a-gatewa...

Migrating Birds Get Boost from Science, Art Collision
Conservation-art collaboration is challenging students to reduce bird-window collisions and also communicate across the science-art divide.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amber-roth/migrating-birds-get-boost_...

Annual Science as Art competition
The public may vote for their favorite image submitted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists and engineers for its annual Science as Art photo contest.

This year staff submitted 60 images. The most striking will be used for the lab’s 2016 digital calendar, and one will be given the People’s Choice award.

Voting is open April 20 until noon April 24

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2015/04/19/3519407_vote-in-pnnls-annu...

Science-art ... Paul Vanouse is an artist working in Emerging Media forms. His artwork addresses complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium. His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization. These "Operational Fictions" are hybrid entities--simultaneously real things and fanciful representations--intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape.
http://upr.org/post/dna-science-art-paul-vanouse-tuesdays-access-utah

Art meets science in UK artist’s ‘Elemental’ art exhibition at Muscat
From microscopic images of DNA to majestic rainforests, science at all its different levels is the inspiration for British artist Adam Ball, whose work is currently on display at Gallery Sarah.
http://www.timesofoman.com/News/50662/Article-Art-meets-science-in-...

The Art of Science
Zion Klos is a hydrologist wrapping up a Ph.D. at the University of Idaho. Lucy Holtsnider is a visual artist with a thick portfolio of multimedia creations. Somehow these two are going to work together to help save the world.
http://www.inlander.com/spokane/the-art-of-science/Content?oid=2443856

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/apr/...
Should art respond to science? On this evidence, the answer is simple: no way

Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda’s installation Supersymmetry is inspired by his residency at Cern – but signifies little more than that physics is weird. Isn’t it time we stopped expecting artists to understand the complexities of science?

Scientists showcase their art
From 3-D-printed sculptures of aquatic organisms to pink paint made from crushed bollworms, the neuroscience department’s first-ever science-inspired showcase, held on Monday from 5-7 p.m. in the lobby of the Gould-Simpson building, proved that science and art are not exclusive.

The showcase, titled “Symbiosis: An Exhibit of Biological Art,” was open to the public, and both artists and scientists were encouraged to submit their own work. The event was a collaboration between the Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Ambassadors and the UA chapter of Nu Rho Psi, which is a national honor society dedicated to neuroscience.

“The term [symbiosis, for us] is actually dealing with sort of the cohesive existence between two things in a general nature, so in this case, it’s science and art,” said Kendra Liu, a neuroscience and cognitive science senior, NSCS ambassador and vice president of Nu Rho Psi. “… We have everything from artists’ interpretation of science to actual confocal images of brains.”

Art pieces ranged from paintings to 3-D-printed pieces of art, and the artists consisted of undergraduate and graduate students, UA faculty and staff and even local Tucson artists.
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2015/04/scientists-showcase-...

Celebrating the art of science
CIENCE and art are set to be fused at a Southampton festival featuring world-class speakers and members of innovative theatre companies.

FULCRUM, run by Nuffield Theatre, returns for a second year and will be led by Ray Davies, pictured, (The Kinks) with Music and Memory. He will discuss the connection between music, memory and sense of self, alongside Dr Tim Wildschut, a psychologist from the University of Southampton.
http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/leisure/arts/12911766.Celebrati...

MIT Receives $1.5 Million to Spur Science, Art Collaborations
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of research, teaching, and programming at the intersections of art, science, and engineering.

Established with the help of a previous Mellon grant, the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) brings outstanding artists to campus to work with faculty and students and sponsors a biennial symposium that addresses interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge, and discovery in various domains of the arts and sciences. Since its inception in 2012, CAST has funded more than twenty artist residencies and collaborative projects involving MIT faculty and students, twelve cross-disciplinary courses and workshops, two concert series, and numerous multimedia projects, lectures, and symposia.
http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/mit-receives-1.5-million-to-...

http://www.markusschmidt.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LEON.pdf
The experiences of bioart exhibition visitors

The effect of music performance on the transcriptome of professional musicians

http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150325/srep09506/full/srep09506.html

Mastering an instrument is no easy feat. It requires timing, coordination, emotional interpretation and an ability to integrate information that comes in through the ears, the eyes and the fingers. But what gives rise to musical ability, biologically speaking?
 
To find out, researchers took blood samples from 10 professional musicians before and after they played a selection of pieces by Stravinsky, Haydn, Mozart, and Bach. And they identified all of the genes that were turned on during the performance—that is, those genes that actually got transcribed into RNAs that could be used to make proteins.
 
What they saw was a boost in the activity of genes involved in neural growth and flexibility, which could account for musicians’ brains being good at forging new connections. Genes involved in motor control were also revved up, as were those that light up the brain’s pleasure center.
 

It's a Small, Small World in Nikon's Microscope Video Contest
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/its-small-world-nikons-...

Cellular biology meets art
Fishman, whose fascination with cellular biology has underpinned much of her career, says the muted, multi-layered collages in "Living Networks" were inspired by blown-up photos of individual cells under the microscope.

"I'm interested in the way that the natural system works," she says. "I'm thinking about the moving, ever-changing cells — this kind of organic, generative process."

Materials used to assemble these collages included archival paper, mylar, plastic paper, enamel and spray paint. Throughout, Fishman says, she was reaching for the translucent quality of human skin. Pieces often involve up to six different layers, with holes cut in different places — all of which gives these paper-thin works a surprising three-dimensionality.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/04/27/beve...

Tips for Science Artists
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2015/04/29/instagram...

Science illustrations and a slew of closings
http://www.montereyherald.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150429/art-l...

“Four scientists and four artists walk into a bar,” he told an audience at Ucross. “The bartender lines up bottles of ecology, geology, physiology, microbiology, dance, sculpture, music, and poetry, along with glasses to shaped to hold playfulness, intimacy, confusion, and urgency. Then he tells them to make themselves a drink.”

But Lockwood says there was no guarantee the ‘drinks’ would actually taste any good. “I thought that with four pairs that we would have a really good chance at one of them working well, two of them working sort of, and one of them maybe not completely blowing up.”

In the end, though, he says all the scientist-artist pairs came up with exciting projects “and something that could not have been done otherwise,” like a ‘rock opera’ (pardon the pun) about Powder River Basin geology.
Some projects—like the opera—look more like art, some look more like science, such as a project between a physiological ecologist and a dance choreographer. Michael Dillon studies honey bees—how they forage in flowers and how pesticides affect them. And if you watch bees closely, you see that they move in very particular ways. But scientists don’t have a good way to notate those movements.
http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/new-possibilities-blossom-when-a...

Art-Sci-Tech PhD and MA students unite ! invitation to blow your horn
http://malina.diatrope.com/2015/04/28/art-sci-tech-phd-and-ma-stude...
http://collections.pomona.edu/labs/

Science and art set to reunite in Brisbane The Australian In a video announcing the event, Alda — an award-winning science journalist, among his other attributes — says art and science are like “two ...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/index.html?sourceC...

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Science illustrator talking with science students

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2015/04/30/talking-w...

'Visualizations in Art and Science' exhibit opens in San Pedro
South Bay Contemporary hosts an art exhibition, “Visualizations in Art and Science,” from May 7 through June 21, at The Loft in San Pedro, located at 401 S. Mesa St., third floor
“Visualizations” is curated by Margaret Lazzari, Vice Dean of Art at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. Lazzari uses works by both artists and scientists to explore the overlap between the two fields. She borrowed the concept from Martin Kemp, who wrote numerous articles in the journal Nature, in which he showed that both artists and scientists use visualizations as a way to comprehend concepts beyond their knowledge.
http://tbrnews.com/entertainment/visualizations-in-art-and-science-...
http://www.southbaycontemporary.com/

Arts@CERN announces three winning artists and launches an open call

Geneva, 30 April 2015. Arts@CERN, CERN’s official engagement with the arts, is today announcing three winning art projects from the different strands, Accelerate@CERN and Collide@CERN, as well as launching the international open call for Collide@CERN in digital arts. Now in its fifth year, Arts@CERN has welcomed more than 70 artists to the Laboratory.
Online submissions open 30 April 2015 and close 23 June 2015: http://www.aec.at/artandscience/open-call/

Earth as art through the satellite's eye
The show, “A Masterpiece Called Earth,” is from 5-7 p.m. at the GeoData Center in 204 Akasofu Building, 930 Koyukuk Drive.

University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty, staff and students created artwork based on satellite images of ice caps, deserts, deltas, mountains, islands and other striking features. Just like the Earth, the pieces vary in texture. They include mediums such as paper collage, felt work, smalti tile mosaic, acrylic painting and watercolor.

The satellite images that served as inspiration are also a work of art. NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey manage Earth-observing satellites and selected certain satellite images for their aesthetic value and compiled them into a collection called “Earth as Art,” which was the basis for many of the pieces although not all.
http://www.newsminer.com/features/latitude_65/earth-as-art-through-...

£3.3m research facilities for synthetic biology open in Bristol
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2015/april/synthetic-biology-research...

Taiwan artists to join science-meets-art program in Geneva
2015/05/01 13:32:37

Taipei, May 1 (CNA) Two Taiwanese artists have been selected to take part in a one-month research program at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, an initiative that facilitates interaction between artists and scientists.

Under the Accelerate@CERN program, dancer Su Wen-chi (蘇文琪) and digital artist Lin Pei-ying (林沛瑩) will spend one month this year at CERN, which operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Culture.

A joint proposal by Su and Lin, titled "Slices of Interconnectivity," was selected from among 15 submissions by candidates seeking to enter the program.
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201505010007.aspx

Intense Light And Sound As Art Meets Particle Physics
https://londonist.com/2015/05/intense-light-and-sound-as-art-meets-...

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A Meeting of Art and Science

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/not-bad-science/2015/05/03/a-me...