The art of science
Putting the spotlight on creativity in science, WA scientist Gary Cass illustrated how easy it is to create artistic works using saturated salt solutions.

At a recent Microscopic Crystal Art Workshop held in Karratha, Gary grew crystals onto microscope slides and then used polarising light filters to show the audience how the crystals transformed and changed colour, resulting in spectacular works of art.

Each participant had the chance to create their own microscopic crystal art, and to take home photographs of their masterpiece.

For many of the attendees it was also a chance to use a high magnification light microscope for the very first time.

Gary also shared his other art and science collaborations such as the creation of an designer dress made out of fermented beer, which will be on display at the World Expo 2015 in Milan.
http://sciencewa.net.au/-events/item/3670-the-art-of-science

Physics: The impulse of beauty

Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk revels in Frank Wilczek's treatise on how symmetry and harmony drive the progress of science.
Nature
523,
156–157
(09 July 2015)
doi:10.1038/523156a

Published online
08 July 2015
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v523/n7559/full/523156a.html

FASEB Announces Annual BioArt Competition

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) launched the fourth annual BioArt competition and is accepting entries through August 31. Participants are invited to submit captivating, high-resolution images and videos produced as part of cutting-edge life science research. The competition is open to members of FASEB constituent societies as well as to other biomedical and life scientists who can demonstrate current or previous funding from a US federal agency.
To learn more about the competition or submit an entry, please visit www.faseb.org/bioart or contact FASEB at BioArt@faseb.org.

After two space missions and nearly three decades with NASA, retired astronaut Nicole Stott is taking on a new frontier: modern art.
Stott decided she would devote the rest of her time to crafting artistic renderings of images she captured in outer space.

Besides, she said, embarking on this new creative opportunity would allow for opportunities to shine light from a different perspective on the things that were happening in space.
She wants to use her artwork as a vehicle to educate students about careers in science, technology, engineering, art and math.

These artworks, Stott said, afford her the opportunity to educate students and others about the wonders of space, science and technology.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/clearwaters-nicole-stott...

Stemming from her childhood fascination with observing insects, Mindy Lighthipe has forged a career that’s equal parts art and life science. Lighthipe, a botanical illustrator by training, has exhibited her art in juried and solo exhibitions since 1998. Her work depicts the natural history of—and symbiosis between—plants and animals.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43489/title/F...

Art meets science in the Frost’s second ‘Curious Vault’ event
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article2687915...

Neuroscientist-turned-artist uses photolithography to light up the brain
neuroscientist-turned-artist has also brought in some high-tech experimentation to take on a rather ambitious goal: creating the largest artistic rendering of the human brain.

Dunn's approach is the culmination of decades of exploration into the intersection of neuroscience, art and the surrounding world, and the results are shimmering, reverent "micro-etchings," portraying the complex inner workings of the brain.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-pulse/83847-everything...

Flagstaff Artists Inspired by New Horizons Mission to Pluto

http://knau.org/post/flagstaff-artists-inspired-new-horizons-missio...

Pluto Flyby Already Inspiring Artists
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/pluto-flyby-already-...

A fascination with science has led New Plymouth artist John Schumacher to create a whole exhibition full of work.

He'll showcase at least 12 paintings, photographs and sculptures inspired mainly by biology in his exhibition called In The Shape of Things.
His exhibition is open to the public from 1pm to 4pm on the 25 and 26 July and from 11.30am to 5.30pm until it closes on July 31, (NZ).
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/midweek/70190702/bi...

Got a Disease? Own It – with Unique University of Michigan Science Art
Beautiful images from medical research labs .
If you have a chronic disease or a child born with a medical problem, it may sometimes feel like the diagnosis owns you.

But now you can turn the tables and own _it_.

How? By buying unique art that’s made by University of Michigan Medical School scientists who study everything from diabetes to digestive disorders to genetic diseases.

Through a program called Bioartography, they turn images made in their labs and pictures taken through microscopes into artworks that look beautiful on any wall.

This week, they’ll sell prints and notecards of their art at Ann Arbor’s famous Art Fairs, which run from Wednesday through Saturday. Every year, their booth attracts people with different health conditions who seek out a way to “own” their disease in this new way.

And the proceeds from all sales help young scientists launch their careers and do more research on the conditions.
http://newswise.com/articles/got-a-disease-own-it-with-unique-unive...

The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory’s Art Meets Science Exhibition again charmed the public in its fourth annual opening event on July 9. The exhibit, titled “Is it Art, or is it Science?” paired the work of scientists and 40 local, national and international artists in a collaboration that demonstrates the interwoven relationship between the arts and sciences.

Featured collaborating artist and scientist duos included James A. Coffman and Kimberly Callas, Benjamin L. King and Beth Pfeiffer, James Wolfe and Jens Zorn, and many more.
http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/art-meets-science-ag...

Daniel Glaser, director of the Science Gallery at London’s King’s College, alludes to something magical that happens when art and science collide, not just in the research sector but also in the public arena. The science and art collision becomes an effective portal for people to access the issues of our times in a recreational setting.

Dr Glaser heads up this new type of interdisciplinary public institution aimed at engaging 15 to 25-year-olds. It won’t have a building until 2017 but it’s already running programs. He recently visited Melbourne as a guest of Carlton Connect, The Florey Institute and University of Melbourne, and spoke about the rise of the public Sci-Art movement and insights into functional interdisciplinary research.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/voice/where-arts-and-sc...

Brewer Science is bringing science and art together for a festival of creativity that will benefit science classrooms in two area schools.
The festival begins at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 25, and includes child-friendly hands-on science experiments led by Brewer Science interns and co-op students. The festival also includes a demonstration by the Rolla robotics team, science activities with the Kaleidoscope Discovery Center and the Sinquefield Invention Lab, and art activities by the Osage Arts Community.
http://www.therolladailynews.com/article/20150716/NEWS/150719305/19...

BioArtography: turning science into art
Stunning images help support young scientists
BioArtography program -- unique art made by University of Michigan scientists who study everything from diabetes and cancer to digestive disorders and genetic diseases.
The program began in 2005 as a fundraiser. Proceeds are used to send young scientists to research meetings.

These are all done in the course of biomedical research and people trying to find mechanisms of disease or cures for disease.
After the fair is over, the images will be available to order online at www.bioartography.com. Images from previous years are also available.

Scientist applies her skills to understand art's true chemistry
Mindy [Melinda] Keefe always wanted to be an artist, and was accepted into several art programs when she started college. But she wasn't quite sure she was good enough, or if she would ever be able to make a living. She chose science, but was able to stay true to her artistic roots; she's now a chemist who is passionate about paints.

Keefe works for Dow Chemical, and has forged relationships with the art restoration community to help restore modern paintings.
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-pulse/84079-scientist-...

Art and science combine to reveal the inner workings of our DNA
How can cells that contain the same DNA end up so different from each other? That is not only a difficult question for science to answer, but also a challenging one to represent visually. Biomedical animation, called Tagging DNA, which visualises the molecular mechanisms behind epigenetics is difficult to do.
It is a combination of science and art: https://theconversation.com/art-and-science-combine-to-reveal-the-i...

Kirigami, a variation on the more well-known origami in which paper is both folded and cut, allows the creation of remarkably intricate works of art. Now, however, scientists are putting the technique to use for more than just aesthetics. They’ve discovered that cutting a conductive nanocomposite in a similar fashion allows it to stretch up to 370% without loss of electrical performance. This may be just the breakthrough needed to develop practical and functional wearable electronics.

http://inventorspot.com/articles/where-art-meets-science-kirigami-f...

Call for Artist Proposal in BioArt
http://beallcenter.uci.edu/print/224
http://beallcenter.uci.edu/content/call-artist-proposal-bioart

Art Meets Science of force and motion
Artist Terry Hilt will be the featured speaker at the second Art Meets Science Café, presented by the MDI Biological Laboratory on Monday, July 27, at 5 p.m.

Hilt’s work is influenced by the constant motion and force of the landscape — the physics of gravity, velocity and electricity as these create continual movement with the sea, fields and sky. In this café, Hilt will take participants on an exploration of her use of strong lines and richly applied watercolor as medium.
Visit www.mdibl.org/events/or call 288-3147.
http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/art-meets-science-of...

Modern Artist Angela Palmer on Sculpting From Science
https://www.inverse.com/article/4746-modern-artist-angela-palmer-on...
http://www.angelaspalmer.com/

Sound Sculpture: Artist 3D Prints from Music, Mathematical Algorithms & Organic Shapes
Today, as artists are able to take the fabrication of large-scale pieces and installations into their own hands at the 3D printer, we are able to see a whole new generation of intellectual art emerge: novelties like songs being converted to 3D printed sculptures as well as fractals, and mathematical patterns.
http://3dprint.com/83765/3d-printed-sound-sculpture/

Royal College of Art triumphs bioart with new appointments
Two world-renowned artists and curators exploring the ethics of regenerative biology technologies are set to join the Royal College of Art.

Oron Catts and Dr Ionat Zurr, who are known for their cutting-edge work in bioart, have been appointed as visiting faculty in the School of Design, headed by professor Dale Harrow, from January 2016.
The pair's work has won acclaim for exhibiting innovative scientific processes -- such as tissue engineering and biotechnology -- in an artistic context, and is at the forefront of a growing interest in the overlap between the worlds of science and design, in everything from architecture to food.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/29/catts-and-zurr-synth...

Prescription for medical students: A day at the art museum?
With the growing number of people with Alzheimer's disease, understanding their care is vital for doctors. Yet medical students often just learn the facts and may only see people with advanced disease who are at the hospital or nursing home. A study shows a new way to help medical students learn about the disease--at the art museum.

For the study, which was published in the July 29, 2015, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, 19 medical students attended a 90-minute museum art program designed for people with dementia and their caregivers.

The students, many of whom had little experience with people with Alzheimer's, appreciated the experience.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/aaon-pfm072415.php

The inaugural event for the University of Minnesota’s new bee lab explores ties between art and science involving the tiny insects.
The groundbreaking event will mark a new collaboration between artists and scientists called the Institute for Advanced Study Bee Arts Collaborative.
http://www.mndaily.com/ae/art/2015/07/29/making-artful-buzz

‘WEIRD SCIENCE’

Marianne Boesky Gallery

118 East 64th Street, Manhattan

Through next Friday

In the 1960s, “artist’s math” reigned: Makers of all types, from sculpture to music and dance, were obsessed with grids, cubes and Fibonacci numbers — although it wasn’t the kind of research that would win a Nobel Prize or even help you pass a high school math exam. The group show “Weird Science” follows a similar logic. It’s science for artists — or the patina of science — in which theory and practice blur, and the results verge on the fantastic and paranormal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/arts/design/review-weird-science-...

Bridges 2015: a meeting of maths and art - in pictures

The Bridges Conference is an annual event that explores the connections between art and mathematics.
View the art works here:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/g...

ADHERE, the tape art depicting human organs, will be on display at the Science Museum through October 4th. You’ll find it on the second floor of the museum, just a hop, skip, and a jump away from The Human Body, which explores cells, reproduction, genetics, bioethics, and nutrition.
ADHERE: Helping art and science stick together
In his exhibition currently on display at the Science Museum of Virginia, VCU grad Nickolai Walko shows the intricate workings of the human body using…tape.
http://rvanews.com/entertainment/adhere-helping-art-and-science-sti...

More than 70 first through 11th grade students attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s new STEAM summer camp option July 20-31. The students participated in a special art lab during the University’s Odyssey Science Camp that encouraged creative thinking as it related art-making processes to the camp’s science content.
Creativity in Art and Science flourishes at SIUE Art Lab
http://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/creativity-in-art-and-s...

Science Images Of The Week: Hard Drugs, Beautiful Chaos, And More that depict the aesthetics and art of science: View the images here:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/73116/20150730/science-images-wee...

Professors connect chemistry and art in a workshop
Participants included organic chemists, inorganic chemists, physics professors, two analytical chemists, a printmaker, an art historian and three general art professors.
http://www.salisburypost.com/2015/07/30/catawba-professors-connect-...

An art project featuring a live tree that bears 40 different kinds of fruit is more than just a conversation piece. The so-called "Tree of 40 Fruit" — blossoming in a variety of pretty pink hues when completed — is rooted in science.

The eye-catching artistic rendering of the tree brought worldwide attention to its creator, Sam Van Aken, a professor in the school of art at Syracuse University in New York. And although Van Aken's "Franken-tree" is not common, the processes that hold it together are, according to experts.
http://www.livescience.com/51717-science-of-forty-fruit-tree.html

UC Irvine to exhibit artworks created via biological engineering
UC Irvine has put out a call for artists who want to manipulate the building blocks of life as we know it to create art as we’ve never known it – works made of living organisms that owe their existence to biological engineering rather than evolution.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-uc-irvin...

IN UWA physics professor David Blair’s Guildford lounge room sits an array of eccentric contraptions which turn the science of lasers into an artistic lightshow.

Clocks, aquariums, windscreen wiper motors and teapots — all combed from local op-shops — are used to make the machines that distort light and explain science using art.

While his lounge room light show may seem appropriate for a rave, they will actually be used as a teaching aid at this month’s Gingin Science Festival.
http://www.communitynews.com.au/news/Laser-artist-beaming-with-exci...

UC Irvine looking for artists to create biological art in new exhibit.
A new international exhibition debuting this winter at UC Irvine aims to bring artists’ work to life.

The university’s Beall Center for Art and Technology is seeking artists who can create art through the techniques of synthetic biology, an art form that gained prominence in the last couple of decades and uses biological materials like DNA strands, cells and living organisms to mimic nature.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/art-676643-center-exhibition.html

A new perspective between art and science

The Keweenaw Science and Engineering Festival is going on right now in the Houghton area. A special addition this year is the Scale Balancing Art and Technology art show. Fifteen regional artists brought in photographs, paintings, and sculptures that combined art with science, engineering, technology, and math. Some of the art shows you what scientists see through a microscope.
You can see the art show from 8 am to 8 pm in the Rosza art gallery at Michigan Tech. For a full list of events at the Keweenaw Science and Engineering Festival visit their website :
http://www.keweenawscience.org/events.php

http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=1240252#.VcW...

Chemistry and art:
Visual art and chemistry will collide at Catawba College next spring in Aesthetic Alchemy, a special honors course offered by professors Dr. Carol Anne Miderski and Professor Ashley Pierce.

The course will explore the connection between chemistry and art with a focus on the tactile arts of the American Southwest. They will incorporate chemistry in context throughout course lecture and discussion as well as through the hands-on lab sections of the course.
http://www.salisburypost.com/2015/08/06/catawba-professors-build-ch...

New exhibit at Kettering shows connection between science, engineering, and the arts
"Genesis: The Origins of an Idea," is on display at Kettering's Humanities Art Center through September 30.
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2015/08/new_exhi...

Behold, the majesty of weird, but beautiful science!
Artist or scientist? Work of art or laboratory machine? The two pairs needn't be exclusive and people have collected a batch of real-world photos to prove it. The artistry in crafting experimental machines to explore the fabric of our world rivals that used to create futuristic movie sets or avant-garde sculptures. The closer you explore reality, the more unusual and exotic it tends to appear. With that in mind, they offer you a gallery of science-based gadget porn to dazzle your eyes and titillate your brain.
View them here: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/08/the-artistry-of-science-in-photos/

Thousands of adults and children have participated in the ever-growing Arizona SciTech Festival, the state's largest celebration of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) held annually in February and March.
The art pieces have finally made their way up to Prescott (the last stop on the exhibit's journey) and will be on display until the end of August at The Spot, a STEAM-focused children's museum located inside the Prescott Gateway Mall, 3250 Gateway Blvd., next to Dillard's. The artwork is in the museum's window.
http://dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&Art...

Cutting-edge science as you’ve never seen it before
By viewing scientists at work in the lab as artistic, creative figures, photographer Dan Stier has created a surreal series that shows researchers in a whole new light
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/09/cutting-edge-sc...

Brain disease and art

A Dundee art graduate has secured funding for her creative business – which uses her own brain scan to raise awareness of MS.

Visual artist Kirsty Stevens, a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, is one of 16 creative start-ups to secure a share of £100,000 investment from Starter for 6.

Diagnosed with MS seven years ago, Kirsty has created Charcot as a means both of offering beautiful designs and raising awareness.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/medical-science-inspi...

A second Mona Lisa?

A Second da Vinci Smile Has Been Discovered

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/illusion-chasers/another-da-vin...

Week-long Blogathon on the Intersection of Art and Science

Western States Arts Federation’s “Barry’s Blog” will be hosting a weeklong blog focusing on the intersection of art and science starting today. The blog will feature contributions from Rieko Yajima (American Association for the Advancement of Science), young Moo Kim (Drexel’s ExCITe Center), Julia Buntaine (SciArt in America), Lucinda Presseley (Innovation Collaborative), Gregory Mack (National Science Foundation), and Bill O’Brien (NEA) responding to questions related to challenges and opportunities at the intersections of the arts, sciences and the humanities. The blog has over 12,500 listserv subscribers and the hosts are urging anyone with news, project examples or notable links of interest to contribute them to conversation via the blog’s comments section.
www.arts.gov

“How Creativity Works in the Brain”.

The NEA’s executive report detailing findings from a working group the agency co-convened with the Santa Fe Institute is now available online. The convening brought together thought-leaders from psychology, neurobiology, neuro-technology, education and the arts to conduct a transdisciplinary investigation into the nature of creativity in the brain. These experts from across art and science were assembled in the hopes of gaining a new and broader understanding of how creativity functions in the brain and across these various domains and to seek new understanding of how creativity can be nurtured, optimized, and deployed.

The research would also look at the issue of internal rewards, including "How do aesthetic processes during arts creation link to the pleasure centers of the dopamine-driven midbrain system?"

The second research objective is to "submit behavioral assessments of creativity to neurobiological testing to validate them further, for the purpose of encouraging their widespread use by educators and employers." Findings backed up by hard data will be easier for people to accept, making them more likely to be implemented.

"The arts and sciences, technological progress, economic prosperity—nearly every significant advance achieved by entire societies—are driven by human creativity," O'Brien writes in the report's preface. "Yet somehow our understanding of how creativity should be defined, nurtured, and optimized remains surprisingly elusive."

Perhaps the fastest and most effective way to change this, he adds, "will be via an all-hands-on deck approach that synthesizes and activates insights across arts, sciences, and the humanities."

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/creativity-and-the-brain-w...

GroundWorks: Improving and Supporting Practice in the Third Space

The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) has issued a call for proposals for Third Space Transdisciplinary Exemplars (e.g., at the intersections of Science, Engineering, Arts and Design—SEAD) that integrate arts and/or design practices with work and research across other disciplines. These exemplars will be explored during a conference on November 8-12 at Virginia Tech as part of an ongoing conversation centered on developing and testing new peer review standards that could be applied in the transdisciplinary “third space”.

NEA Research Grants

The NEA’s Office of Research and Analysis is inviting applications to support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Matching grants range from $10,000 to $30,000. The grant program description references how some of the most compelling research about the arts has originated in non-arts specialties and that the NEA encourages applications from diverse research fields (e.g., psychology, education, economics, sociology, medicine and health, communications, and urban and regional planning) in addition to projects that address a diverse array of topics concerning the value and/or impact of the arts. –

Deadline: October 20, 2015
Notification: April 2016
Earliest Start Date: May 1, 2016
Office of Program Innovation

National Endowment for the Arts

1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 628

Washington, DC 20506

202 682 5505

artandscience@arts.gov

www.arts.gov

Science plus art is equal to change according to ... Krakauer—whose research background is in the evolution of information processing mechanisms in genetic, neural, linguistic and cultural systems -

Simple Machines: Science & Art Integration (Video)
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/inspired_instruction/2015/08/simpl...

Particle Physics and art:
http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/review-particle-physics-by-katrina...

Carnegie Museum of Natural History illustrator turns science into art
Mr. Klingler has served as scientific artist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with a long list of credentials and accomplishments, along with the attitude that “I just do art and have fun doing it.”

Through Sept. 6, 48 pieces of Mr. Klingler’s artwork on exhibit at Thomas Ridge Environmental Center, Presque Isle, Erie. They display his diverse artistic skills emboldened by scientific accuracy that, combined, capture the beauty, grace and personality of animals in their natural habitats, then and now.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/science/2015/08/11/Mark-Klingler-t...

Art-science collaboration is helping people explore some of life’s most challenging questions.
What science and the arts can teach each other
Drawing on skills and exercises developed by scientists exploring complex systems – such as a large river valley where the needs and actions of farmers upstream may be at odds with the needs of eco-tourism operators further downstream – Boho Interactive ensure that people can learn about the universe through the playful application of scientific techniques.
Artists bring a kind of communication skill – that’s one thing that artists have that scientists don’t, but they bring a kind of rigour. And for artists that’s really exciting.
‘Science has a tool kit for understanding some of these big challenges, as I said before, but scientists aren’t trained communicators. They’ve got a very different set of skills. And in fact, as has become very evident in the last 25 years with the climate debate, the very practice of science as being open-minded and acknowledging uncertainty and so on has been really exploited by special interest groups. And scientists, with their prerogative of being fair and equal and so on, that kind of trips them up in the media-scape.

'So artists can kind of fill in some of the gaps, and can be as deceitful and manipulative as anyone, and use that on behalf of some of those scientists who maybe can’t advocate for themselves in the same way.
When you would have a physics lab or physicists working with a dancer or visual artist or another scientist [from a different field] working on a particular problem or issue for society; and just the ability to look at things through a different lens would be – and is – really helpful’.
http://www.artshub.com.au/festival/news-article/features/festivals/...