Science World in Vancouver to Feature Art From TRU
The Telus World of Science in Vancouver will host work from Thompson Rivers University faculty, students, alumni, and other artists.

Microbes Art Us is a collection of work by TRU microbiology researchers and artists who were inspired by electron micrograph images of cave microorganisms collected by Dr. Naowarat Cheeptham.

Cheeptham’s research looked at cave microorganisms and their potential for new drug development.

Their exhibit was originally part of a 2014 show at the Kamloops Art Gallery titled Cave Microorganisms and Drug Discovery: A Collaboration between TRU Mircobiology Researchers and Artists.

The exhibit will be featured in Vancouver until January 11th, 2016.
http://www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/news/news/Kamloops/15/09/2...

Salk Institute’s Salk Science & Music Series
The Salk Institute invites you to attend the third season of the Salk Science & Music Series, “Be Amazed and Inspired.” The series consists of six remarkable Sunday afternoons that bring together virtuosos from the worlds of music and science. Each concert features stunning performances by both established and emerging classical and jazz musicians, as well as riveting talks about the latest scientific discoveries by the Institute’s world-renowned scientists. You will be amazing and inspired. The series of concerts begin on Sunday, October 11 and conclude on Sunday, April 24, 2016. Each concert begins at 4:00 p.m. in the Conrad T. Prebys Auditorium and concludes at 6:00 p.m. The concert will take place on the following Sundays: October 11, November 8, January 24, February 21, March 20 and April 24. Tickets are available for $45 or $250 for the full series. To purchase tickets, visit www.salk.edu/music.

About the Series:

From its inception, the Salk Institute has seamlessly merged both science and art at the highest levels, creating a unique environment to the benefit of humanity. From 20 years of Symphony at Salk to the celebrated glass art of Dale Chihuly, the Institute cultivates passion and creativity on an unparalleled scale. Our Nobel Laureates and National Academy of Science researchers have set the gold standard for biological discovery and medical breakthroughs for five decades. It is in this spirit that the Salk presents a new program meant to both amaze and inspire; The Salk Science and Music Series.
http://www.seasidecourier.com/calendar/music/salk-institute-s-salk-...

'Psychedelic Space' Turns the Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs Into Art
Kelsey Brookes's new tome Psychedelic Space provides a highly unique peek at one of the most unseeable areas of science: chemistry.
Brookes, a former researcher for the CDC and molecular diagnostics company Genprobe, creates paintings based on the skeletal structure of psychoactive molecule line diagrams: LSD, mescaline, Oxycontin, MDMA, methaqualone, Ritalin, psilocybin. (Just your regular Friday night.) They are aesthetic renditions of a reality we know to be there but are unable to view: vibratory, hallucinogenic, dazzling artistic expressions with a reassuringly real foundation.

Brookes begins each work with a pencil outline of the molecular structure, mapping out where each atom and bond is positioned on the canvas. His paintbrush then uses these loci as points of departure, radiating outward in bands of contrasting hues.
Hamilton Morris’s essay/focused lament that kicks the book off best measures the gap between science and visual expression that Brookes so gracefully bridges. Morris triumphs non-contact atomic force microscopy, our most advanced technique for seeing molecular structures
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/psychedelic-space-turns-drug-chemi...

 Gorgeous Nerdy Science Art

Megan Lee’s scientist art. It’s the perfect mixture of simplicity, unity, and graphics, all with science history as the underlying theme. Most of the scientists she has profiled in art are at least somewhat known if not very well known.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/238250615/50-science-flashcards-rock-star

An event that connects art and science is coming to Trinity Western University (TWU) next month.

The 10th annual Verge Conference, hosted by TWU’s School of the Arts, Media + Culture, is taking place Oct. 1 and 2.

The conference brings together visual artists, performing artists, poets and scientists who are passionate about a wide range of environmental issues.

Topics include how the arts and environmental science methodologies are complementary or compatible, how science-based research and arts-based research strengthen each other and how environmental scientists and artists share ethical responsibilities.
http://www.langleytimes.com/entertainment/328718031.html

A Science Illustrator's Legacy
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/a-science-illustrato...

Mona Lisa remains an enigma as body parts prove inconclusive
September 24, 2015

ROME (Reuters) - Italian researchers said on Thursday they might have found bone fragments belonging to the woman immortalised by Leonardo da Vinci in his acclaimed "Mona Lisa" portrait.

However, the limits of current technology made it impossible to say for certain whether they had discovered the remains of Lisa Gherardini, who is thought to have sat for Leonardo and who was the wife of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

The "Mona Lisa", known in Italian as the "Gioconda", hangs in Paris's Louvre museum and is possibly the most famous painting in the world, depicting a young woman with an enigmatic smile, her hands gently folded on her lap.

Although the identity of the woman is not certain, many historians believe it was probably Gherardini and archaeologists started looking for her body three years ago in a convent where she spent her final days. Additionally they opened the Giocondo family tomb in a Florence church seeking to make a DNA match.

A number of bodies were uncovered, but carbon dating found that only a group of bone fragments came from the early 16th century when Gherardini lived and the Mona Lisa was painted.

Silvano Vinceti, who heads Italy's National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage, said documentation about the burial site and the scientific testing made him confident they had unearthed Gherardini.

"If you were to ask me what I personally, subjectively, think and feel, I'd say I believe that we have found her," he told reporters.

Other experts were much more cautious, saying that given the poor state of the fragments, it was impossible to be sure.

Giorgio Gruppioni, professor of anthropology at the University of Bologna, said that based purely on scientific evidence, the chances they had found Mona Lisa was "certainly not high".

"What we hope is sophisticated techniques will eventually allow us to extract and analyse and compare the DNA to be able to ascertain that genetically these are the remains of Lisa Gherardini," he told reporters.

Despite his upbeat tone, the findings revealed on Thursday were less dramatic than those Vinceti had hoped for when he set out on his quest.

Two years ago, he told reporters that he hoped he would find Gherardini's skull and use that to reconstruct her face to compare it with the Leonardo painting.

In the end, no skull was recovered.

However, he said he was happy with what had been achieved.

"I have done my best because I believe in this and the results for me are most satisfying," Vinceti said.

(Reporting by Matteo Berlenga and Hanna Rantala; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
-Reuters

Microbes as Art: TRU biology images inspire exhibition at the World of Science in Vancouver
A collection of art inspired by a Thompson Rivers University professor’s microbe scans will be featured at Telus World of Science in Vancouver.

The exhibit entitled "Microbes Art Us", is a version of the 2014 Kamloops Art Gallery and TRU Art Gallery shows “Cave Microorganisms and Drug Discovery: A Collaboration Between TRU Microbiology Researchers and Artists.”

Dr. Naowarat Cheeptham, a microbiology professor at the university, was inspired by several electron micrograph images she collected during the course of her drug research. A micrograph is a microscope capable of capturing images of things as small as grains of pollen, or in this case, microbes.
http://infotel.ca/newsitem/microbes-as-art-tru-biology-images-inspi...

Close-Up Science Pictures Make Beautiful Artwork
The pictures submitted to the 2015 National Health and Medical Research Council 'Science to Art' Awards -- which are, quite frankly, mind-boggling.

For those not familiar with the Awards ( Australia), they are dedicated to recognising outstanding artworks which have arisen from research funded by NHMRC. That's right -- the gorgeous images you'll see below are also actually part of real-life medical research.
The artworks range from close ups of a healing heart to colon crypts to something called CDX macrophages -- which may or may not mean anything to you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/09/24/science-to-art_n_818693...

Understanding the hidden dimensions of modern physics through the arts
https://theconversation.com/understanding-the-hidden-dimensions-of-...

Artists use DNA designs to honor Francis Crick — and fund the fight against cancer
The granddaughter of genetic pioneer Francis Crick joined 20 other artists to create a series of 7-foot-high sculptures inspired by DNA’s double helix – and now those sculptures are going on the auction block to benefit cancer research.

Portland artist Kindra Crick told GeekWire she took on the project for several reasons: She’s trained as a molecular biologist as well as a painter, and her grandparents include the late Nobel-winning biologist and his artist wife, Odile Crick. What’s more, proceeds from the auction will go to the Francis Crick Institute, a London facility that’s due to open next year with backing from Cancer Research UK and five other leading medical research organizations. The two-week online sale begins on Wednesday.
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/artists-use-dna-designs-to-honor-franc...

RESIDENCY: The Finnish Society of Bioart together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland, are running a residency with an emphasis on art and science collaborations and the Arctic environment. It is open to artists, scientists and research teams.
Deadline: Fri 30 October 2015
http://bioartsociety.fi/ars-bioarctica-residency

Strata: Art and Science Collaborations in the Anthropocene
SYMPOSIUM: Aberystwyth University welcomes proposals that consider how art and science collaborations are responding to the Anthropocene debate by representing the impacts of human activity on Earth. The symposium is concurrent with the exhibition ‘Stranded’ by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, and is a collaboration between the School of Art and the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences.
Deadline: Tues 10 November 2015
http://cargocollective.com/artscienceclimatechange/Strata-Art-and-S...

Q&A with Fermilab’s first artist-in-residence

Symmetry sits down with Lindsay Olson as she wraps up a year of creating art inspired by particle physics.
The artist says: I’ve been surprised at every turn at Fermilab. As an artist, I’ve been trained to observe the surface of reality. Everything looks solid and unmoving. But the subatomic realm is far more spacious and energetic than I could have imagined.
One of the most powerful lessons I learned with this residency is that I am not afraid to learn any kind of science. I have limits because I lack the background in math. Despite this, I feel confident about learning enough science to make meaningful art. If I can learn science, others can too.
Once I’ve finished the art, the project is far from over. Finding places to show the work I made while at Fermilab will be the next challenge. I want to use the work to inspire viewers to take a closer look at science in general and particle physics in particular. I hope the project helps people with no technical training, like me, to appreciate the beauty and elegance of our universe.

I have no set plans for my next residency, but I have a few ideas simmering on the back burner. Perhaps I will be surprised by another opportunity. My residency with Fermilab has changed my view of reality enough for me to know that there are surprises out in the universe for any of us who take the time to discover what science can teach us.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/qa-with-fermilabs-first-art...

The bridge between art and science
http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbeatsciencehealth/2015/10/01/feat...

Art in a petri dish:

Announcing the 2015 ASM Agar Art Winners #agarart

• First place: Neurons, submitted by Mehmet Berkmen of New England Biolabs, with artist Maria Penil.
• Second place: NYC Biome MAP, submitted by Christine Marizzi, an educator at a community lab. This art piece was created as a collaboration between citizen scientists and artists at Genspace: New York City's Community Biolab.
• Third place: Harvest Season, created by Maria Eugenia Inda, a postdoctoral researcher from Argentina working at Cold Spring Harbor Labs.
• People's Choice: Cell to Cell, with almost 3,500 likes on the Facebook album. This image was created by the group who won first place, Mehmet Berkmen with artist Maria Penil.

http://www.microbeworld.org/component/content/article?id=1998

A professor at Thompson Rivers University, Naowarat Cheeptham along with her students has created an art exhibition called Microbes Art Us.

It's on display right now at Science World in Vancouver and continues until January.

Naowarat is an associate professor in the department of Biological Sciences.

Microbes Art Us - TRU exhibition on at Science World
A TRU professor and her students have created an art exhibit on display in Vancouver.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kamloops/microbes-art-us-tru-exhibiti...

BANDALOOP, a vertical dance troop that addresses concepts like the nature of gravity, climate change, and geomorphology.
http://bandaloop.org/about/

The Artists Who Paint Dinosaurs
There is an entire genre of art dominated by dinosaurs. Paleo art, it is called, and it has a sophisticated critical following.
Paleo art’s master practitioners are in high demand. They make museum murals. They illustrate scientific papers and children’s books. And they do more than paint dinosaurs. John Gurche, America’s most famous paleo artist, specializes in hominins, like the recently discovered Homo naledi.
Simon Stålenhag is not a famous paleo artist. He is a Swedish digital illustrator, and he tends to work in science fiction.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/paleo-art-is-a-t...

Space flight permeates the arts
We do acknowledge and admire the artistic qualities of space imagery, particularly those transmitted back to Earth from robotic planetary missions that probe deep into our universe. And who among us has not stared in awe at the iconic images of space brought to us by way of the Hubble Space Telescope, whetting our appetites for what more we will see, learn and discover about this majestic creation when Hubble is replaced by the even more capable James Webb Space Telescope.

We even have those like Apollo astronaut Alan Bean, who has made a post-spaceflight career of creating art featuring images of and physical elements from space and space travel. I was recently impressed to read that shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott has retired from NASA to pursue a passion for art in what she describes as a mixed-media form of images derived largely from photos she took during her two missions.
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/05/space-flight-p...

Purdue's Department of Computer Science presents a new two-year art exhibit: The Intersection of Art and Science. The collection is open to the public, and there will be a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday (Oct. 8, 2015) on the third floor of Lawson Computer Science Building.

The exhibit features 10 artists who created pieces that represent the merging of science and emotion. The artworks on display examine the expressions unveiled at the intersection of art, science and technology. It is an educational collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts.
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q4/new-art-exhibit-ex...

Human-robot dance - a combination of science and art
Huang Yi combines feats of dance, engineering and technology into a 60-minute performance that includes Kuka, an industrial arm-style robot, and other human dancers. He not only choreographed the human parts but also Kuka — programming one minute of the robot’s movement takes 10 hours of work.
http://www.jconline.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/10/07/human-r...

On Sept. 9 the Reed-Turner Woodland Botanical Artists debuted a selection of their works in an exhibit called “Articulate Visions: The Convergence of Art and Science.” These Botanical Artists are a group of artists who have or are associated with art classes at the Chicago Botanical Garden. Members of the group promote all sorts of regional, national and international exhibitions and conferences. The Reed-Turner Woodland Botanical Artists aim to show plants’ beauty as well as the importance that plants play in our lives.
http://carthagecurrent.com/2015/10/art-and-science-collide/

CAMPUS ARTS: Artist and theoretical physicist present kinetic sculpture
Catalyst Conversations speakers discuss relationship between art and science
Kim Bernard, artist in residence at Harvard, visited the MIT List Visual Arts Center to speak on her sculpture, which had been inspired by the “predictable patterns in matter and motion.” Jacob Barandes, a physics lecturer from Harvard, accompanied Bernard to provide a physicist’s perspective on her artwork. Bernard and Barandes presented as part of the Catalyst Conversations lecture series, which hosts speakers who explore the intersection of visual art with science and technology.
http://tech.mit.edu/V135/N26/catalystoctober2015.html

How to Create Art With Mathematics

Can you generate aesthetically pleasing, symmetrical curves with two numbers and a simple mathematical function?
he beautiful color illustration of frieze patterns above is taken from Frank A. Farris’ Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns (Princeton University Press, 2015), a math book that, unusually, makes an outstanding coffee-table book in addition to having deep mathematical content.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151008-symmetry-math-curves-puzzle...

"Telescope" observes how art and science overlap
Art and science often has a reciprocal relationship. While it might be rare that art aids in scientific discoveries, it’s certainly true that artists often help communicate scientific ideas to non-scientists. Think about artists tackling issues such as climate change, for instance, or companies such as Black Label Movement who have investigated ways to transform physics concepts into dance. And, of course, science has always been at the service of artists, providing new chemistry or technology for artists to employ in the creation process.

In “Telescope” at Instinct Gallery, artists use science as inspiration and method. Whether they’re trying out centuries old experiments or using new technology to explore the possibilities of nature, it’s a show that gets you thinking.
http://www.citypages.com/arts/telescope-observes-how-art-and-scienc...

Math and nature intersect in Professor James Mai’s art

https://stories.illinoisstate.edu/university/research-sponsored-pro...

Arts@CERN announces three new open calls and the arrival of new artists in residence

Geneva, 12 October 2015. CERN has today announced three new open calls giving a chance to artists to immerse themselves in the research of particle physics and its community. Two new international partners have joined the Accelerate@CERN programme: the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) from UAE1 and Rupert, the centre for Art and Education from Vilnius, Lithuania2. The Collide@CERN Geneva award is also now calling for entries, continuing the fruitful collaboration with The Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Geneva3. Last but not least, the Collide@CERN Ars Electronica winning artists start their residency at CERN this week.
Find more here: http://arts.web.cern.ch/

The Art of Planetary Science
Exhibit: Friday, October 16, 2015 - 5:00pm to Sunday, October 18, 2015 - 5:00pm

Place: University of Arizona, USA

This is an exhibition of art, created from and inspired by the solar system and the scientific data with which we explore it.

The Art of Planetary Science is an annual art exhibition run by UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory that celebrates the beauty and elegance of science. It was founded by graduate students in 2013 as a public outreach project to engage the local community in our work, and it continues to be organized and run by volunteer students each year. The goal behind the show is to present a different side of science to the public and to show you what we think is beautiful about the solar system.
http://uanews.org/calendar/61085-exhibit-art-planetary-science

Melding art and science for conservation
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2...

Accelerator lets art meet science

Stockholm University and the cultural institution Magasin III are embarking on a joint effort to create a new meeting place for art and science in the former Manne Siegbahn Laboratory.

The basement floor of the former Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, just north of the metro station, has been empty for a few years. In the beginning of 2013, the last parts of the so-called CRYRING facility were removed from the premises. The equipment was transported to Darmstadt in Germany, where it became part of a large accelerator at the GSI research institute.
New meeting point

We now know what the premises of the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory will be used for. The Vice-Chancellor has decided to create the institute Accelerator, with Professor Johan Kleman as acting director. The basic idea of Accelerator’s operations is for people from various disciplines, as well as from the art and media world, to meet for analysis, comparisons and discussions. The impact, role and expression of art in the present are the unifying issues.
“Accelerator is a laboratory to investigate the relationship between art, science and society,” says Vice-Chancellor Astrid Söderbergh Widding.
http://www.su.se/english/about/news-and-events/accelerator-lets-art...

Science projects come to Destination Arts!

http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/tri_state/pennsylvania/science-...

Artist Painted Physicists Into a 3D Living Chalkboard
A photograph of two painted physicists interacting in real time within a three-dimensional chalkboard “canvas” .
http://gizmodo.com/this-artist-painted-physicists-into-a-3d-living-...

Some of the best thinkers in the world have been both scientists and artists, such as Leonardo Da Vinci.

Jorg Metz is a modern day example of this.

The Melbourne based scientist and artist will be in Port Germein for his exhibition based on his journey to Antarctica.

He has a long history with the Mid North after spending ten years as a chemist in Port Pirie and returning yearly to bushwalk through the Flinders Ranges.

Jorg Metz ventured to Antarctica during the summer of 2011 and 2012, is returning back to the Mid North region to display his artwork through the ‘ICE PACT’ exhibition.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2015/10/port-germein-hauls-in-art-and-sc...

Microbes take center stage in art contest
Microbiologists are good artists!

Using a petri dishes as their canvas, scientists from around the world have produced tiny masterpieces for the American Society for Microbiology’s annual agar art contest. One entrant used their microbes to produce the classic British police box while another painted a portrait of Louis Pasteur. Still others went for landscapes, comic book superheroes or were inspired to reimagine classic art works like Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night.”
For the van Gogh piece produced by Melanie Sullivan, the different colors represent different bacteria. The brown color, for example, is Proteus mirabilis, a bacterium known for its swarming motility that is a common cause of urinary tract infections. The white color is Acinetobacter baumanii, an opportunistic bacterium that can cause infection in people with weakened immune systems and the blue-green color is Enterococcus faecalis, a bacterium that colonizes the GI tract and is a common cause of lower urinary tract infections as well as more invasive infections in immunocompromised hosts.

If only Vincent van Gogh could have lived to see this strikingly accurate reproduction of his iconic "Starry Night" -- especially since, instead of oil on canvas, the work is a bacteria on petri. Because even with these most minute of materials, the night sky still swirls with a palpable momentum of wind, fog and moonlight.

The work of science-savvy art is the product of Melanie Sullivan, a microbiologist who submitted her microscopic masterpiece to the American Society for Microbiology's first Agar Art contest. The competition invited microbiologists to get in touch with their cultural sides in more ways than one, exploring the infectious beauty of infectious bacteria. 

The multitalented scientists used proteins, yeast and good ol' fashioned bacteria to create visions of flowers, skeletons, butterflies -- even a map of New York City. Check out all of the stunning submissions here

2015 Agar Art Winners Gallery...

http://www.microbeworld.org/backend-submitted-news/1998

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113410220/bacterial-art-can-b...

Exhibit brings art and science together
Ann Street Gallery will host an artist reception an exhibit opening for "Art + Science," a group exhibition, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 24.

This event is free and open to the public. The gallery is at 104 Ann St., Newburgh.

"Art + Science" highlights the work of 17 artists and scientists from around the globe integrating concepts borrowed from science into their artwork to create a new aesthetic way to experience science.

Collaborations between artists and scientists are not new, but they are becoming more popular as science offers a range of new media and methods for artistic exploration. Within this new movement, artists are incorporating scientific methods into their practice, and scientists are using scientific data to create works of art.
Featured art includes installations, sculptures, paintings, microetchings, fiber arts, and other mixed-media works, that investigate scientific areas such as digital data programming, microbiology, self-illuminating sculpture, artificial retina research, and creative explorations into the realm of coding.

The exhibition affords a venue for artists, scientists and the audience to explore how the world is perceived through the lenses of art and science.
This exhibition will run through Nov. 28.

For more information, contact Virginia Walsh at 784-1146 or vwalsh@annstreetgallery.org.

6 inspiring musical mashups that intertwine music, science and the arts
Watch videos here:
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/VIDEO-6-inspiring-musical-mashu...

Exhibition Explores How Science Influences Art
An artist fascinated with the intricacies of the brain, creates work that shows the beauty of data culled from neuroscience. Another one critiques our love affair with pharmaceuticals via some seductive-looking artistic interpretations of drugs. One artist demonstrates how wind actually looks — its forces captured on paper with the help of computer software.

Though their specific interests differ, all three artists draw inspiration, and sometimes methodology, from the world of science. And all are represented in “Compendium,” an exhibition about science-influenced art — or SciArt — on view through Dec. 27 at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip.

With work by 13 artists in mediums varying from drawing to 3-D printing, “Compendium” ventures into such realms as biology and medicine, chemistry, earth sciences, astronomy, physics and computer science.
Find more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/nyregion/islip-exhibition-explore...

Galway Advertiser What's On Exhibitions

Chimera - where art and science meet

BY KERNAN ANDREWS Galway Advertiser, Thu, Oct 22, 2015
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A work by Siobhan McGibbon for The Future Is Here.

A work by Siobhan McGibbon for The Future Is Here.

ART AND science - are they complementary disciplines or mutually exclusive? The possible meeting points between the two will be explored in The Chimera Art and Science programme and the exhibition, The Future is Here.

Chimera, is a CÚRAM and NUI Galway based project, founded by Andrea Fitzpatrick, its director and programme. It brings artists and scientists together to create a dialogue around the cultural issues of tissue engineering and medical devices. It also seeks to develop a visual arts research project within the CÚRAM laboratories, exploring experimental practice, with artists given full access to the labs and staff. Work by its artists in residence, Siobhan McGibbon and Joanna Hopkins, will go on public display at The Future is Here, in the Galway City Museum, which opens on Friday October 30 at 5pm.
http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/80404/chimera-where-art-and...

Science and art work together - for this exhibit
The Edwardsville Arts Center's next exhibit, Ecocentric, which opens today, brings together a unique collaboration of science and art. With ecology as the central theme, Ecocentric examines environmental, cultural and social concepts through work that is both stunning and sobering.
http://www.theintelligencer.com/local_news/article_72f850d8-79a1-11...

Cymatics is the science of sound and liquid interaction in the form of visible sound waves. The sound waves travel through the liquid, manifesting in eye-catching ripples and jumps. Glenfiddich decided to use this concept to create a visual representation of the effects of live music on single malt – the perfect metaphor for the marriage of two cultures that culminates in their 21 Year Old whisky.
The artists performed the unique track in a London warehouse that was set up with a series of cymatic devices developed by creative laboratory TenHertz. Each device was specifically attuned to respond and react to different note ranges and sound frequencies, isolated through a speaker via specially programmed software. For example, large decanters were coupled with speakers isolating string instruments and vocals. Additionally, the Double Helix and Zig Zag devices reflected the double bass and percussion of the orchestra and band. The dance of the whisky is pretty fantastic to behold.

The most awesome device was called the Levitron, which isolated a single drop of whisky, suspending it in the air as a result of the tune’s final notes.

Science marries art in this demonstration, the likes of which have not been seen outside of a laboratory.
http://mashable.com/2015/10/23/whisky-cymatics-brandspeak/#qGEuBkPT...

Sci-art Exhibition marks World Stroke Day

An exhibition, organised by a University of Manchester historian and the Stroke Association, is to mark World Stroke Day on 29 October by featuring the creative work of a group of stroke survivors.

Dr Stephanie Snow, who is writing a history of Stroke, and visual artist, Elisa Artesero used Manchester Museum’s extensive mask collection to explore the emotional legacy of the condition.
 

Dr Snow, who  is based at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, is holding the exhibition at the University’s Manchester Museum

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/article/?id=15368

Art inspired by jellyfish population explosion, crowded by science
Beware jellyfish, and not just because they can sting. It looks as if they might be poised to take over the world, starting with the oceans. “The Trouble With Jellyfish,” an installation at Le Laboratoire Cambridge by Mark Dion in collaboration with marine biologist Lisa-ann Gershwin, lays it all out with vivid clarity.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2015/11/03/art-in...

Exhibition: Cosmic technoculture
The story of the Russian space programme is much more than, say, Sputnik, Laika and Gagarin. And its context exceeds that of the Cold War. Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age, more than five years in the making, provides exceptional breadth and depth on the technological and socio-cultural aspects of…
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v11/n11/full/nphys3550.html

UW Geological Museum Accepting Submissions for Art Show

November 4, 2015 — The University of Wyoming Geological Museum is calling for artwork exploring a wide range of topics in geologic history and paleontological discoveries from across Wyoming. Selected work will be displayed in a mixed-media show in the museum’s gallery and exhibit space.

The deadline to submit digital examples of the art is Wednesday, Nov. 11. Artists will be notified by Friday, Nov. 13, if selected. The selected artwork will need to be delivered to the Geological Museum no later than Monday, Nov. 16.

Works will premiere at a reception promoting the release of Disney-Pixar’s animated film, “The Good Dinosaur,” Friday, Nov. 20.

The art show’s goal is to draw inspiration from “The Good Dinosaur” to promote art inspired by geology and paleontology. Submissions must include an artist statement, artist bio and one zipped file containing up to five images of the artist’s work. To apply, visit http://goo.gl/2EKd6O.
http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2015/11/uw-geological-museum-accepting-...

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize returns to National Archives

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/waterhouse-natur...
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Meet the Dopamine Collective, a group of scientists shedding their lab coats to make art
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/thecollective/dopamine-collective-1.318...

Physics and art:

In their first public event, Space.com featured the art of mathematician and cosmologist Ed Belbruno in a gallery showing at New York's Café Minerva — and, next door, hosted a panel discussion probing science, art and the origin of inspiration with a problem-solving artist, an artistic scientist and Belbruno himself, who mingles the two.

Although his professional art and scientific careers do not overlap consciously, Belbruno says, he often finds elements of his scientific work reflected in his paintings: the whorls of orbital mechanics or strange time, and dimensions of cosmology and the origin of the universe. A mix of space science buffs and art lovers visiting the gallery event here Oct. 22 had the opportunity to talk with Belbruno and examine the artwork from his newest series along the walls of the café.

Next door, at Hamilton's Soda Fountain and Luncheonette, Belbruno met with his friends Robert Vanderbei and Rob Mars, a Princeton mathematician and a New York-based contemporary pop artist, respectively, to dig into the connections and differences between creating artistically and forging ahead in mathematics and science. A new video follows their discussion, which was moderated by Live Science op-ed editor Josh Chamot. [The Cosmic Art of Edward Belbruno (Gallery)]
http://www.space.com/30990-art-science-inspiration-belbruno-panel.html
http://www.space.com/28007-cosmic-art-edward-belbruno-gallery.html
http://www.space.com/31011-do-science-and-art-share-a-source-cafe-p...

For three years the Garth and Jerri Frehner Museum of Natural History and the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery on the campus of Southern Utah University have been partnering to offer science and art in a unique way to K-12 students in Cedar City.

“Scientists are far more creative than most people assume,” said Jackie Grant, museum curator and professor at SUU. “When we pair science with art it is more engaging to general audiences such as elementary school children.”
The topic this year was was green infrastructure, specifically green roofs.
http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/cedar-city/2015/11/06/s...