Faecal transplants and bio-art … Eden Project’s latest exhibition explore the science of microbes
Motley crew of microbes has taken over a new exhibition set to open this month at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Invisible You: The Human Microbiome will reveal how we become colonised by bacteria, fungi, protozoa and other micro-organisms, exploring microbes’ role in keeping us healthy and the consequences should our internal ecosystem fall out of kilter.

Besides illuminating segments of text and a mock doctor’s “surgery” boasting films and activities, the gallery will also house more than 10 creative works from artists around the world. “We have become very interested in using art to tell scientific stories and making scientific concepts emotive in some way,” explains Gabriella Gilkes, programme manager for scientific projects.
Invisible You: The Human Microbiome opens on 22 May

Among them is The Human Superorganism, a digital interactive by bio-artist Anna Dumitriu. Created in collaboration with digital artist Alex May, the piece integrates an interactive touch screen with high-resolution timelapse footage of the growth of bacteria harvested from hands.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/eden-project-exhibit...

http://www.edenproject.com/

Artist Explores The Unexpected Beauty Of Menstrual Blood Using Macrophotography

http://www.beautyinblood.com/

‘Living Assemblies’ is a hands-on workshop, led by designer and researcher Veronica Ranner, investigating the coupling of the biological material silk, with digital technologies. This workshop is organised in partnership with The Arts Catalyst in cooperation with Furtherfield.

They invite participants (experts in their own field – artists, designers, scientists, writers, technologists, academics, and activists) to join a weekend-long workshop, in which we will experiment with silk and a range of transient materials to imagine potential future applications for combining biological and digital media.
Apply to attend the workshop

If you would like to attend the 2-day workshop please send a statement of no more than 100 words and explain why you would like to attend and a brief summary of your background.

Deadline for applications: 5pm, 18 May 2015
To apply please email: admin@artscatalyst.org

*Participants must be able to attend the full 2 day workshop*

See the Arts Catalyst website for more details: www.artscatalyst.org

Climate science is looking to art to create change
ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2015 festival of climate change-engaged arts and ideas was developed. Comprising curated exhibitions alongside a series of keynote lectures and forums featuring local and international guests, these events are attracting a broad audience and provide a clear intellectual space for discussion and dissemination of ideas.
http://theconversation.com/climate-science-is-looking-to-art-to-cre...

Surrey's Willa Downing has made a career out of both.

On May 7 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Thursday Artist Talk series at the Surrey Art Gallery, visitors can discover how she tackles the intriguing dialogue between the two fields.

“Although different, art and science share some characteristics," she says."Both use abstract models to understand the world. Both seek to create works with universal meaning. Both are creative: a sense of wonder opens up new possibilities for the imagination, new geographies for the creative process.”

Illustrated with slides and a portfolio of drawings, Downing will discuss her recent body of work that ranges from “wilderness survival skills” to the dialogue in Pride and Prejudice.

With a PhD in biochemistry from the University of British Columbia, Downing has worked in plant research in Canada and abroad. Her scientific work has been published in several international, peer-reviewed journals. Also devoted to making art, Downing has a diploma in painting and drawing from the Emily Carr College (now University) of Art + Design. Inspired by revelations, made by science, of the intricacies and beauty of nature, her work examines wonders of nature in the microscopic and macroscopic. Downing’s work has been exhibited in Metro Vancouver and Victoria. She now lives and works in Surrey. For more information about her work, visit www.willadowning.ca
http://www.surreyleader.com/entertainment/302784271.html

An exhibition highlighting Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's scientific bent of mind will travel through east and northeast India beginning May 9, organisers said on Wednesday.

The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM), under the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), which functions under the union culture ministry, will inaugurate a travelling exhibition 'Rabindranather Vigyan Bhavna' (Rabindranath's scientific thoughts) on the occasion of Tagore's birth anniversary on May 9.

Designed by the NCSM to highlight the "generally overlooked aspect of the poet's rational and scientific bent of mind", the display includes photographs, anthology of quotations, anecdotal collections, interactive multimedia and other items.

After concluding its run till May 18 at the Museum here, it will travel to the NCSM's regional scientific centres in the east and the northeast, including Odisha, Assam and other places in West Bengal.
http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/art-theatre/tagores-love-for...

Forensic artist combines art and science to solve mysteries of the missing
Diana Trepkov’s work assists in the investigation of missing persons and unidentified remains cases.
http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/5600432-ajax-forensic-artist...

Art and science meet at Bowdoin
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/05/08/art-and-science-meet-bow...

Medical illustration and there’s an effort to cultivate more of it in Kansas City:
"One of most enjoyable challenges with this field is not only creating an image that’s appealing aesthetically, but also an image that can be used as a tool to teach".
http://kcur.org/post/kansas-city-art-institute-builds-bridge-betwee...

Astrobiology Students Use Art to Develop Critical Thinking Skills

Foster, who teaches astrobiology at the University of Florida, is trying to figure out how to help her undergraduate students think more critically about the information with which they are presented. For her, a simple answer is starting with a description of an artist's illustration of a scientific concept.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astrobiology_Students_Use_Art_to_...

The connection between mathematics and art
http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/

German artist moves from art to the world of science
http://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2015/05/12/german-artist-mov...

Using science to find out why one artist was compelled to draw people on the subway
http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/05/13/42819/using-an-mr...

Eye problems and art:
For the second year, the Art Meets Science project is pairing renowned scientists with local artist for a new twist on medical arts.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/lifestyle/art-meets-science-new-twist...

Program Links Creativity Between Art, Science
Why does a school that cranks out world-class engineers, scientists, mathematicians and even astronauts even need to offer the arts?

“I think it’s essential because it’s about creativity,” Cario said. “It’s about celebrating that moment of inspiration, because I think that’s something we share whether you’re creating a new dance piece or a new app or engineering something.”
http://wabe.org/post/georgia-tech-program-links-creativity-between-...

Science in Art: The Chemistry of Art Materials and Conservation

Learn the chemistry behind the visual arts, and how an understanding of art’s material properties helps preserve our cultural heritage.
Starts October 19, 2015
What you'll learn

Understanding of materials used to create art
Science behind human perception of art
Techniques used to conserve and date art objects
How art fakes and forgeries are detected

https://www.edx.org/course/science-art-chemistry-art-materials-trin...!

Thunder and lightening art:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/images-expose-thunder-in-...

Science Meets Art: 2015 Cool Science Images Unveiled

Whether a close-up of a leafcutter ant, or a micrograph of the neurons derived from marmoset stem cells, or an MRI of the hidden pathways in the human brain, submissions to University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2015 Cool Science Image Contest continue to put science and nature on eye-catching display.
Sorting through a record number of entries, judges for the contest selected 11 still images and one video as winners of the annual competition. The judges — representing broad expertise in scientific imaging, art and science communication — worked through 115 submissions to arrive at this year’s winning entries.

Submissions overall and winning submissions represent a wide segment of the UW-Madison community, including faculty, staff and students and a range of disciplines from art to zoology.
http://www.labmanager.com/news/2015/05/science-meets-art-2015-cool-...

X-ray art debuts at Switzerland museum
The MB&F M.A.D.Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland hosts X-RAY - an exhibition of x-ray photographs by British visual artist Nick Veasey.

Veasey's artwork is a classic example of the fusion between art and science, transcending classification as photography. Using radiographic imaging equipment, the London-born artist reveals the intricate compositional anatomy of a range of everyday objects in fantastic detail. Solid matter is penetrated and rendered ghostly and gentle, affording the beholders a sense of never-before-experienced perspective.
http://www.komonews.com/news/offbeat/X-ray-art-debuts-at-Switzerlan...

An Art/Science Mashup Births 'Microscopic Sirens'
What happens when you put an artist and a scientist in the same boat? The local artist residency ‘A Studio In The Woods’ aimed to find out, with their new fellowship "Flint and Steel: Cross-disciplinary Combustion". It matches artists with Tulane University faculty to explore social and environmental change through art. Printmaker Pippen Frisbie-Calder and biologist Dr. Tim McLean explored phytoplankton in local wetlands.
Pippen Frisbie-Calder’s show, ‘Microscopic Sirens’ is on display at the Tigermen Den located at 3113 Royal Street now through August 1.
http://wwno.org/post/artscience-mashup-births-microscopic-sirens

'Cyber-archaeology' salvages lost Iraqi art
Priceless historical artefacts have been lost recently, to violence in Iraq and earthquakes in Nepal. But "cyber-archaeologists" are working with volunteers to put you just a few clicks away from seeing these treasures - in colourful, three-dimensional detail.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32742622

Art Meets Science 2015

Forty artists are featured in the 2015 exhibit—“Is it Art or is it Science?”—including collaborations between artist Kimberly Callas and scientist Jim Coffman, Ph.D., and artist Beth Pfeiffer and scientist Ben King, M.S. The sculptures of James Wolfe and Jens Zorn, Ph.D., are also highlighted.
http://mdibl.org/events/art-meets-science/art-meets-science-2015/

Artist Patricia Boinest Potter, whose science-enriched "isomorphic map tables" were on view at the Halsey in January, Shotz examines the intersection of science and math in art through subjects such as light, gravity, and space. She expands on notions of space and form in sculpture by utilizing nontraditional materials such as glass beads and welded aluminum to construct significantly large-scale pieces.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/alyson-shotz-examines...

'Guest Artist' Is Helping To Teach Doctors About Disease
I think this is a wrong way of putting things. This is only expressing your feelings and tell doctors how you feel. This is not teaching them about a disease! I hope people will desist from over-hyping things like this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/20/ted-meyer-geffen-medical-s...

Emerging artists urged to go electric to win a £5000 commission at Manchester Science Festival
Up and coming artists have the chance to win a £5000 commission to create an electricity-themed piece of work.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news...

The intricate work of nine College of St. Benedict/St. John's University students is on display in Paramount Gallery and Gifts Nook Gallery.

The 50 pieces of small-scale work focus on the details of drawing birds, butterflies, insects, flowers and mammals.
http://www.sctimes.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/05/20/art-meet...

Meet the latest phase of genetic engineering: synthetic biology
Synthetic Biology - the designs – and thought experiments – of London-based Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, designer, artist and lead author of the book Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/design/meet-the...

The Surprising Beauty of Science Facilities (PHOTOS) | The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel
Enrico Sacchetti is a science, technology and industrial photographer who specializes in capturing science facilities around the world. His images ...

Artistic Display Brings Zooplankton into Focus
UCSD student’s new art show inspired by collaboration with the Jaffe Lab at Scripps
Artistic depictions of zooplankton currently adorn the walls of UC San Diego’s Geisel Library, as well as the entrance of the Biomedical Library, thanks to a showcase created by UC San Diego biology student and artist Elizabeth Stringer.

Stringer’s two-part exhibit, My Meditations End in Reverie, was inspired by the time she has spent working as a volunteer in the Jaffe Laboratory for Underwater Imagery and in the Physical-Biological Interactions Lab of biological oceanographer Peter Franks at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a part of UC San Diego. The exhibit’s paintings and backlit photographs bring to life the mysterious world of zooplankton, microscopic animals that float near the surface in marine environments.

This project has allowed Stringer, a double major in human biology and studio arts, to combine her passion for science with the arts.
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/artistic-display-brings-zooplankton-f...

Scottish ‘Multiverse’ artland is out of this world
Materials found on the expansive site, from tonnes of earth to some 2,000 large boulders, were used to create the work of art in Upper Nithsdale in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway, which is expected to provide an economic boost to local communities as well as attracting international visitors.

This inspiring new landmark links the themes of space, astronomy and cosmology, with a network of paths navigating features and landforms which represent the Sun, universes, galaxies, comets, black holes and more.

Work on the Crawick Multiverse is nearing completion, with a public launch event scheduled for the summer solstice on June 21.

It is the latest in an impressive portfolio from Charles Jencks, a leading figure in landscape architecture who has created works across the globe, from the UK’s ‘Northumberlandia’ and ‘Garden of Cosmic Speculation’ to Beijing Olympic Park’s ‘Black Hole Terrace’, to name just a few.

http://www.art-antiques-design.com/art/399-new-1m-scottish-multiver...

Acme man's ephemeral sculptures appear to defy laws of physics
Anderson is an Acme artist who balances stones he finds in nature to make physics-defying structures. He uses no adhesive or tricks to make his sculptures, just careful, meticulous balance.

The structures are delicate and temporary. They stand for hours — sometimes only minutes — before a stiff breeze comes along to topple them.

http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/8272152-74/anderson-balance-s...

Teen art exhibit on plastic pollution at Seacoast Science Center
http://www.fosters.com/article/20150526/NEWS/150529704/14329

Chemists and conservators study historic art at the molecular level
The job involves breaking down pigments to the microscopic level. Typically each pigment or dye is comprised of one or two different molecules or chromophores that give it its particular hue.

"This technique can sift through those color bodies, so it can detect each molecule that gives rise to a certain color."
Being able to identify pigments more precisely is important for several reasons: It reveals what the artist had to work with at the time, as well as what commodities were available and where, and it helps determine what the painting originally looked like and how best to protect it — whether it might need low-light to prohibit sun damage or fading, for instance.

The technique is a relatively recent application of something called surface-enhanced Raman scattering, or SERS, that was discovered in the 1970s. Conservation scientists began adopting the technique about 10 years ago as laser microscopes became more affordable.
With SERS, a nearly microscopic paint sample is covered with a synthesized paste of silver nanoparticles that act as a kind of antenna to broadcast which colorant it contains. The nanoparticles also serve to quench fluorescence, which can obscure a detailed look at a sample.
They use the nanoparticles, fluorescence goes away and now we see this huge broadcast signal that's called Raman scattering. "Raman provides you with a fingerprint — a unique fingerprint to each colorant that's in that sample.

"Until SERS there were very few techniques able to unambiguously identify organic colorants."
http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-laser-pigments-201505...

Finding those fingerprints means they can distinguish indigo from Prussian blue, for example, in the dress in the Portrait of Evelyn Byrd, painted in about 1725.

Let's talk about science: Van Gogh’s 'Starry' study
http://www.post-gazette.com/life/my-generation/2015/05/28/Let-s-tal...

Nano exhibits at Museum of Arts and Sciences

‘Zoom Into Nano’ explores how scientists and innovators study and make things that are too small to see.
Nanoscale science is the process through which materials are manipulated on the molecular level to generate very, very small structures and devices. Art-related concepts explored through the displays include pattern, color, light refraction, optics, pixilation and more.

“A visitor can dive into the world of nanotechnology, which is cutting-edge science on the nanoscale (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter)” . “They can stretch a molecule, create a pattern and then shrink it, and transport ‘atoms’ in motion. The exhibition includes more than a dozen interactive stations designed to help students zoom into the nanoscale and get oriented to the idea that there are one billion nanometers in a meter.”

Visitors exploring the exhibit will be able to view different magnifications of familiar objects such as a butterfly wing, oyster shell and salt crystal; shrink a pattern and move individual “atoms”; build a giant carbon nanotube or stretch a molecule.
http://www.macon.com/2015/05/29/3769376_whats-nano-learn-about-it-a...

NASA art exhibit surrounds you with the sounds of space
NASA, a composer and an architect are trying to bring the Earth-orbiting satellite's experience down to the planet's surface with an art installation in New York City this weekend as part of the World Science Festival.
http://mashable.com/2015/05/30/nasa-art-earth-science/

The Mother Art.” Opening reception: 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Exhibit continues through July 18. Art Science Gallery, Canopy, 916 Springdale Road. Free. 512-522-8278. www.artsciencegallery.com
This group exhibit features artistic creations that explore the diverse structures built by animal architects, from birds’ nests to coral reefs.
http://www.statesman.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/arts-picks...

UC DAVIS LASER EVENT: From 'Inner Lives of Cells' to 'Other Side of the Screen'
LASERS are free evening gatherings open to the public that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation
http://patch.com/california/davis/uc-davis-laser-event-inner-lives-...

UC DAVIS LASER EVENT: From 'Inner Lives of Cells' to 'Other Side of the Screen'

‘Through the Lens' illustrates art, science
The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture's summer exhibit "Through the Lens: Botanical Photography of Alan S. Heilman" shows 55 up-close photographs that combine science with art.
http://www.knoxnews.com/knoxville/arts/through-the-lens-illustrates...

Call for art-science projects related to agriculture
Call for Artist: Saint Louis Science Center Ag Project RFQ May 18, 2015

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS – ARTIST-COMMISSIONED AGRICULTURE EXHIBITS

The Agriculture Exhibition at the Saint Louis Science Center (SLSC) will ignite widespread interest in the science and technology of food production, with emphases on plant and animal biology, agriculture, agronomics, and how everyone has a personal connection with agriculture. It will be a one acre indoor/outdoor space with interactive exhibits and activities for families, adults, and school groups.
More details here: http://malina.diatrope.com/2015/05/25/call-for-art-science-and-agri...

Art and Biology, Art and Space, Art-Science in Africa Pocasts on AUDIOLATS
The series of podcasts on the Leonardo "Creative
Disturbance" platform.
Find below an
update of what has been released on Audiolats, the French Leonardo channel

with podcasts in English and French

http://malina.diatrope.com/2015/06/03/art-and-biology-art-and-space...
http://www.olats.org/audiolats/audiolats.php

Drawn to the Wild: A conversation on Animal illustrations in India will be held on June 7, from 3 pm to 4.30 pm, at NGMA, 49, Manikyavelu Mansion, Palace Road.
Drawn to the Wild: A conversation on Animal illustrations in India, to be held as part of Celebrating Art and Natural History at National Gallery of Modern Art, independent researcher, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan with Tatiana Petrova, ornithologist and wildlife artist based in St Petersburg, will highlight the place of art in natural history, with an emphasis on the artistic and scientific rendering of birds both from India and outside.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/the-twain-must-m...

Science meets art in the Bunbury Biennale
A strong environmental theme has emerged in this year's exhibition, Claire feels, which explores the crossover of humans and the landscape.

The Biennale opens on the 13th of June and continues till the 2nd of August, 2015.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/06/05/4249671.htm

Professions that will be in demand in the future:

Mathematical Art Takes a Fresh Look at Wallpaper ( book)
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10435.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mathematical-art-tak...

Bio-imaging art
Biologist Louise Hughes heads the bio-imaging unit at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Also a multimedia artist, she makes labwork-inspired jewellery — including gold pieces based on structures such as the hepatitis virus. Here she talks electron microscopy, centrioles and chromosome earrings.
http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/07/01/the-bio-imagi...

‘Art Meets Science’ show set for July

The opening of the Art Meets Science exhibit “Is it Art or is It Science?” at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salisbury Cove is set for Thursday, July 9, from 5-7 p.m. The event, sponsored by The First and First Advisors, offers an opportunity to view art inspired by science, meet the artists, visit research laboratories and enjoy refreshments.

This fourth annual Art Meets Science exhibit includes work from 40 artists from Maine, the U.S. and abroad. The work of two featured sculptors, James Wolfe of Northport and Jens Zorn is displayed both indoors and around the laboratory’s coastal campus. Wolfe “draws” in steel using strips, bars and rounds with intense chromatic colors that are powder coated and baked onto the steel. Zorn’s three-dimensional aluminum forms are derived from two-dimensional blackboard sketches and written symbols used by scientists.

As part of the Art Meets Science program, collaborations between artists and MDI Biological Laboratory scientists will be on display.

After the July 9 reception, the exhibit is available for viewing during the new Art Meets Science Café series at the MDI Biological Laboratory, offered in partnership with Littlefield Gallery. The cafés feature guest artists discussing the influence of science on their work. Art Meets Science Cafés are open to the public free of charge, and refreshments are available. To register for a tour or the opening reception, visit mdibl.org/events/art-meets-science.

http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/art-meets-science-re...

To Better Understand Lava, an Artist and Scientist Make Their Own
A lab at Syracuse University creates melts basaltic rock in a modified furnace
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/better-understand-lava-art...

Where no scientist has gone before...the arts
Glaser’s work monitored the brain waves of dancers and capoeira practitioners as they viewed examples of each other's styles of performance. The subjects demonstrated activity in their movement cortex in response to motion they were familiar with, more so than actions they hadn't previously performed. While the findings of physical empathy were pivotal in underscoring Glaser's notions of perception and projecting meaning out into the world – as demonstrated by existing knowledge colouring mental reactions to sequences seen – the experiment also put his theory about the successful interface of art and science into action. Figures from both fields worked together, drawing upon their own skillsets, to explore an issue of interest to each, with the findings they inspired useful to everyone.
Glaser proposes an interdisciplinary approach which does not break all boundaries but allows scientists and artists to come together with both ‘convergent and divergent’ way of interacting. Artists and scientists meet over common ground to ponder a defined problem or task before going back to their own areas.

More important than what they work on is where they are able to do so. He celebrates the act of ‘opening up space for unexpected interactions’, including in the most humble and pervasive of meeting points: bars, cafes, and other places where "art and science can collide because everyone’s voice is equal."
http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/trends-and-analysis/sar...

Artist's 'mind-blowing' images of the brain - artwork of Greg Dunn
Dunn is not your run-of-the-mill fine artist. Instead of going to art school, he experimented with painting during his time as a neuroscience graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D in 2011 and has worked as a full-time professional artist since. Aside from his paintings, he also uses a reflective microetching technique that he invented in collaboration with Penn physicist Brian Edwards. Microetching allows flat surfaces to be seen as three-dimensional by using tiny engraved ridges to manipulate how light reflects off the piece.

A new exhibit featuring Dunn's artwork opened Friday at the Mütter Museum in Center City. Called “Mind Illuminated,” it will display a number of his paintings and microetchings in the Mütter's art space, Thomson Gallery, until the end of December. A free gallery reception will be held Thursday for the public from 6 to 8 p.m.
Dunn's work, which hangs at Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Society of Neuroscience headquarters, to name a few. In spring, the Franklin Institute will display an enormous 8-foot by 12-foot microetching of neurons that could very well be the most complex artistic piece to depict the human brain.
http://www.gregadunn.com/