Arts and Design Research Incubator links art, science and research
One of the central goals of the Incubator is to find intersections between the arts, science and research. Incubator members have connections throughout campus, Belser said, including with the Colleges of Information Sciences and Technology, Biobehavioral Health, Health and Human Development and the Hershey Medical Center.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/arts_and_entertainment/article_3f7b943...

The terrifying EAR grown using Vincent Van Gogh’s DNA: Artist recreates famously severed appendage using genetic samples - and it can even hear

Artist creates bionengineered replica of van Gogh's detached ear
Genetic samples taken from great-great-grandson of artist's brother
The ear is able to hear using nerve pulses from a computer processor
The artist van Gogh lost his ear more than one hundred years ago, but now the famously severed appendage is making its return in a New York exhibit.

The ear is a living replica of Vincent van Gogh’s, created by Diemut Strebe, who used genetic samples from the great-great-grandson of the artist’s brother.

The exhibit titled Sugababe debuts in New York at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, and its creator insists it is more than just a display of art, it’s a scientific feat.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3314224/The-terrifyi...

Sci-art event:

Ears, brains and music - science or art?

Speaker: Prof. Alan Harvey, School Of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, UWA.
Date: 13th Nov 2015
Time: 1:00pm
Venue: Dr. Harold Schenberg Study Centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA.

The collision of art and science has produced some stunning results in Melbourne, from Emmy and Bafta-nominated biological animations by Drew Berry from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute to Stelarc's pioneering biomedical projects that saw him attach an ear to his arm.

Now those kinds of collaborations between the city's creatives and its science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM for short) practitioners will be cemented with a Science Gallery to be established by the University of Melbourne as part of an international network of institutions.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/art-and-innovati...

Health of coral reefs (science) judged on 'beauty' ( art):
By analysing high-resolution photographic images of reefs and other marine ecosystems, their overall condition can be gauged without using complex and potentially invasive methods of assessment costing millions of dollars, United States research teams have discovered.

This method provides a cost-effective tool that also targets one of the most important socioeconomic values of coral reefs – their natural beauty.

In a study calculating the "aesthetics" of a coral reef, published today in the open-access journal PeerJ, the researchers found that objective computational analyses of the coral photographs, most of them taken randomly, correlated closely with a reef's overall condition.
The scientists – from San Diego State University, the Getty Research Institute, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography – compiled and modified a list of 109 visual features used to assess an image's aesthetic appeal.

The features included the relative size, colour, colour intensity, texture and distribution of corals and other marine organisms depicted in the images.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/art-meets-science-as-cora...

Biochemistry doctoral student bridges arts and sciences with Bearcat Zine
Biochemistry doctoral student Amanda Vaughn’s interest in science and art combine in the zines she creates. A zine is a small handcrafted magazine that focuses on the interests of the artist who made it.
Vaughn integrates the arts and sciences through zine-making. She said she hopes her Bearcat Zine will bridge the widely perceived gap between the two disciplines by using art as a form of communication. Bearcat incorporates a variety of visual elements, such as handmade collages composed of vintage postcards, pictures of cats, biological diagrams and handwritten prose entries.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/11/12/biochemistry-doctoral-st...

Art and science collide in award-winning exhibition in Singapore
This insight into the Large Hadron Collider is an interactive experience that promises to blow your mind
http://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/arts/art-and-science-colli...

Art Project Shows You Just How Dirty NYC Trains Are
Brooklyn-based illustrator and artist Craig Ward seems to have an almost unhealthy obsession with the microorganisms growing in New York's Subway. He's so interested in the bacteria, it's become the inspiration for his science-meets-art project, the Subvisual Subway Series.

While reading about a bacteria-focused personal project from microbiologist Tasha Sturm while on the train in New York, Ward found himself remembering the old urban myth, "When you hold onto the handrail it’s like you’re shaking hands with a hundred people at the same time."

Instead of being instantly repulsed at the thought of fondling the bacteria of several people, he found himself fascinated at the idea of each train car hosting its own unique family of bacteria—shaped by the small collection of passengers riding the same train route every day.

In order to collect the necessary bacteria, Ward cut a series of sterilized sponges into a typeface that mirrored the name of each train line, then swabbed the surfaces on a variety of trains—cultivating his findings in a petri dish. Starting with L Train, Ward found that his science project was a success almost overnight, with a colorful array of shapes and geometric patterns cropping up from the bacteria in the petri dishes.

But it wasn't just pretty colored dots that came up after cultivation. Ward—with help from a bacteriologist in Colorado and New York magazine—identified a surprising amount of scary infectants, including E. coli, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus.
And he tries to grow them in petri dishes toshow them to you!
http://wordsarepictures.co.uk/shop/
http://www.complex.com/style/2015/11/craig-ward-subvisual-subway-se...

Ocean Art Photography Contest Issues Last Call For Entries
the folks at the Underwater Photography Guide will be accepting entries for the fifth annual Ocean Art Photo Competition.

More than $75,000 worth of prizes are available to the winners, including over 20 scuba diving resort, liveaboard dive yacht and underwater photo gear packages.

Grand prize winners would get to choose from a slew of four- to seven-night liveaboard dive packages in the South Pacific.
http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/ocean-art
https://www.deeperblue.com/ocean-art-photography-contest-issues-las...

Fire and Ice; Local exhibit combines art and science
http://wivb.com/2015/11/19/fire-and-ice-local-exhibit-combines-art-...

Communicating science through art:
Artists can often find unconventional and creative ways of conveying scientific concepts to an audience.
Generally speaking, scientists are not usually trained communicators. Often our trained communicators are not scientifically literate. So, principles that impact our lives can be poorly communicated. That is precisely where art can bring us into the conversation.
http://www.wfdd.org/story/science-communication-through-art

Dancing biologist finds inspiration in both art and science

Marine biology and theater major studies one and practices the other
http://news.ucsc.edu/2015/11/clare-xochitl.html

Artist Jackie Brown gives talk about recent “biological art”
On November 11, 2015, artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Bowdoin College Jackie Brown spoke to Colby community members about her recent work. Her talk in Olin 1 was part of both the College’s Center for Arts and Humanities Human/Nature yearlong theme and the art department’s Studio Artist Lecture series.

To begin the discussion, Brown noted that there is a strong relation between her work and the Human/Nature theme, as “ideas about nature and our relationship with the natural world are really at the core of my thinking as an artist.”
http://colbyechonews.com/guest-artist-jackie-brown-gives-talk-about...

Using blood to create works of art....
biologist-turned-artist Jaden Hastings....
Hastings is a bioartist who uses living tissues and organisms as her medium. To make the prints, which she calls “plasmatypes” after the plasma in blood, she drained half a pint of her own blood. Periodically, over the course of months at her studio, Hastings wrapped a tourniquet around her arm, drove a needle into her veins, and pumped out five vials at a time. She then mixed the blood serum with other chemicals to produce a homemade light-sensitive fluid she could slather on paper.
Hastings discovered the technique last winter when she stumbled across an article about one of the first photographic printing processes called albumen printing. Invented in 1850 by French photographer Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, the technique uses a protein in egg whites called albumin as a binding agent for photographic chemicals. Paper coated in egg whites, salt, and silver nitrate became the world’s first commercial photo paper.

The article also mentioned that albumin is found in blood. The protein transports nutrients and keeps fluid from leaking out of vessels. Hastings started to rethink the process of printmaking.
With her plasmatypes, Hastings joins a long line of artists using blood in their work. In the 1960s and 1970s, artists Hermann Nitsch and Judy Chicago used animal and menstrual blood in performances and art installations. Blood amped up the emotional response to the artists’ explorations of martyrdom, penance, and womanhood.

Artists still use blood as a powerful symbol. For example, Jordan Eagles’ Blood Mirror is a seven-foot Plexiglas slab containing the blood of nine gay, bisexual, and transgender men and a protest against the laws restricting gay men from being blood donors. The piece is currently on exhibit at Trinity Church in New York City.
http://www.popsci.com/artist-who-turned-blood-into-photographs

Scientists and musicians compose 'world's safest driving song'
Creators hope the song will be picked up by younger drivers, who are often the most at risk on the roads
Scientists and musicians have combined to create what has been dubbed the world’s safest driving song.

“Safe in Sound”, composed by professional musicians alongside psychologist Simon Moore, is designed to encourage “smooth breaking, accelerating and awareness of speed limits”.

It is designed to mimic the “Goldilocks tempo” of the average human heartbeat (around 50-80 beats per minute) and contains no lyrics or repeating melodies.

The track was an attempt to encourage younger drivers to listen to music “that won’t distract them or encourage erratic driving styles, but, instead to make choices that will help them to be safer on the road.
You can listen to the music here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-and-musicians-...

“Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Art?"—Dec. 10 Debate at NYU, USA

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New York University will host “Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Art?”—a debate featuring NYU English Professor Gabrielle Starr and Alva Noe, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley—on Thurs., Dec. 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (24 West 12th Street [between 5th and 6th Avenues]).

The exchange between Starr and Noe will focus on whether understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts.

Starr, Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science at NYU, is the author of Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience and Noe, author of Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, is a contributor to NPR's 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog and the New York Times’ Opinionator blog.

The event, sponsored by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, is free and open to the public; admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Reporters wishing to attend must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.

Doors open at 5:15 p.m. For more information, please call 212.998.8320 or email consciousness@nyu.edu. Subways: 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R (Union Square).

This Press Release is in the following Topics:
Events, Arts and Science, Research, Speakers @ NYU

Type: Press Release

Press Contact: James Devitt | (212) 998-6808
http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/11/23/can-neur...

“Visualizing Science: Microscopic Images from UNC Charlotte” is a new exhibit displayed on the first floor of J. Murrey Atkins Library until Dec. 9, and through a digital exhibit online that will run indefinitely.
New art exhibit looks at science closely

Exhibit shows photos of 43 microscopic images

Show, by engineers and scientists, at gallery through Dec. 9

they’re really pictures of breast cancer cells, liver mitochondrial membrane and boron-based nanostructures – or that their creators aren’t artists, but engineers and scientists.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/university-ci...

Artist and biologist team up to explain life in Muskoka’s lakes
http://www.muskokaregion.com/whatson-story/6131748-artist-and-biolo...

The Sci-Art Business: Some Reflections by Emeritus Professor Martin Kemp
Can collaboration between artists and scientists help us to acquire new perspectives and/or a broader understanding of the cultural context of scientific work, and who benefits most?

Professor Martin Kemp, broadcaster and author of many publications on art and science will reflect on these questions in his talk “The Sci-Art Business: Some Reflections” at a lunchtime seminar in the Chemistry Research Laboratory.

After the seminar you are invited to view sculptures by artist Katharine Dowson and meet her to learn more about her practice.

Researchers in the Chemistry Department are working to find new ways to combat cancer. As part of a public engagement project for Oxford Open Doors, the Department is host to a series of works by the artist Katharine Dowson, whose sculptures of radiotherapy patients are displayed in the foyer of the Chemistry Research Laboratory.

On Monday, 30 November 2015 from 12:15 to 14:00 (GMT)

Wolfson Seminar Room, Chemistry Research Laboratory
South Parks Road
OX1 3UB Oxford
United Kingdom

The 2015 BioArt Winners
FASEB BioArt Image Winners!

Prof. Mary Lou Guerinot's lab and Prof. Thomas Jack's lab are two of eleven winners of the FASEB BioArt Competiton. Winning images will be displayed at the National Institutes of Health Visitor Center next year. To view all winning images please click here. To read the full press release, please click here
http://www.faseb.org/Resources-for-the-Public/Scientific-Contests/B...

An exhibition of artworks which draw on natural science for inspiration has opened at the National Archives of Australia.

On loan from the South Australian Museum, the exhibition showcases every winning entry from 12 years of the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

The prize was launched by the museum in Adelaide in 2002 to highlight the strong links between art, science and the natural world.

"We think of art and science as really two separate things, and they're not actually, they can be combined extremely well," museum director Brian Oldman said.

The unique art competition accepts any style or medium.
The Waterhouse prize will accept entries again in 2016.

The exhibition of winning works will be on display at the National Archives until March next year.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/art-meets-science-at-national...

Open Call 2016

Artists and designers interested in the life sciences are invited to propose new projects for funding. The BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD (previously called the DA4GA) grants three awards, each of them is €25.000, to fully realize a new work of art or design that pushes the boundaries of research application and creative expression. Winning proposals are developed in collaboration with a Dutch research institution over several months then exhibited to the public in MU Artspace in Eindhoven at the end of the year.
To be eligible for the award you must have graduated no longer than five years ago from a design or art program at either the Masters or Bachelors level. Applicants are encouraged to relate their proposals to recent advances in the life sciences, including (but not limited to) those within specialities such as biomedicine, synthetic biology and ecology. Please be sure to read all information about the call, deadlines, regulations and requirements before submitting an application on the website.
The BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD highlights and explores exciting new intersections among design, artistic practice and the life sciences. The award is a product of collaboration between ZonMW, NWO, TU/e, the Waag Society, BioArt Laboratories and MU. The call procedure will be carried out by ZonMW.
http://www.badaward.nl/registration_form/

These Science Photos Are So Beautiful They're Basically Art

Chosen from a opposite cross-section of biology, they underline all from a ... [It] brings together fantastic examples of art combined as partial of ...
http://www.ooyuz.com/geturl?aid=9361901

A stunning image of a fruit fly winging its way through a virtual environment has taken out the Queensland Brain Institute’s Art in Neuroscience artistic award.

The awards, judged by The University of Queensland’s Dr Allison Holland and Brisbane artist Dr Svenja Kratz, highlight the point where art meets science in the laboratory.

Dr Holland said the winning image was captured by QBI PhD student Kiaran Lawson.

The technical award was won by Iris Wang, whose Axon Petal used of cell plating and imaging techniques to illustrate cell growth patterns.

Details of all winners can be found on the QBI website.
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/12/art-and-science-collide

Science Bridges Life and Death in This Stunning Astronaut Art
http://io9.com/science-bridges-life-and-death-in-this-stunning-astr...

SCIENCE & NATURE - Teaser Trailer from Chromosphere on Vimeo.

Blain|Southern has announced a major solo exhibition of new work by acclaimed US artist Michael Joo. Joo is a conceptual artist who works across a variety of media, the artist blurs the boundaries between art and science. Themes of energy, nature, technology, history and perception recur throughout his practice as he examines narratives of places, people and objects.

By juxtaposing various pools of knowledge and culture Joo addresses the fluid nature of identity itself. The artist does so by making use of an extensive variety of medium: video, sculpture, installations out of any sort of material ranging from bamboo to human sweat and cameras, drawing and print making.
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/blainsouthern-announces-major-solo-...

Polytech.Science.Art Week takes place in Moscow this week
Moscow’s Polytechnic Museum and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art are collaborating this week to hold “Polytech.Science.Art”, a festival dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration between art, science and technologies.

“Polytech.Science.Art” features workshops, discussions, lectures and daily audiovisual performances by artists, researchers and designers from Russia and abroad.

One of the key elements of this year’s festival is a series of dialogues dedicated to ethical issues relevant to modern science and high-tech art. Artist, writer, curator and professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths Joanna Zylinska will be in conversation with researcher of science-art Dmitry Bulatov. A full programme of events can be found online.

“Polytech.Science.Art” will run until 13 December at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow.
http://fest.polymus.ru/en/

Exhibit Explores Science and the Arts

For the eighth year in a row, the office of Academic Advising and Planning is celebrating the newest installment of “Art Matters” on the second floor of the Lightsey Center. This year, students from all departments submitted their art on the theme “Transcending the Ordinary: Exploring the Mysteries of Nature.”

All 32 sculptures, paintings, drawings and etchings in the collection were inspired by plants, animals, rocks and other features of the natural world.

Six artists in particular contributed to a special section of the exhibit called Art + Science.
http://site.cisternyard.com/2015/12/07/art-matters-exhibit-explores...

Chicago artist Ellen Sandor, founder and director of the collaborative artists group (art)n, will be Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s artist-in-residence for 2016.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/fermilab-brings-in-new-arti...

What does space look like? These NASA artists are trying to show you
When NASA scientists see space, it’s often in chunks of data: lightwaves, equations and chemical breakdowns. They know, if human eyes could see it, if they could just picture the universe in the way an astronaut does, they would be astonished.

That’s where Dan Goods and others like him come in.

These in-house NASA artists build abstract art installations that turn complex ideas into awe-inspiring experiences, paint beautiful artwork of sights they’ve never seen and use their artistic skills to promote the work of their counterparts who boldly go where no one has gone before.
Turning data into beauty:
A few miles away from JPL, at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech, Robert Hurt, an astronomer turned artist, uses research papers and scientific discoveries to create images of the universe. Whether it’s recoloring an image snapped by the infrared Spitzer Telescope or creating an animation that tells the story of the galaxy, Hurt distills science into artistry.
Artists provide a different perspective:
Even among other artists within NASA’s Jet Propulson Laboratory, Goods is a little out of the ordinary. The ArtCenter College of Design graduate leads a team of seven that have become coveted by project leads for their ability to come at topics from an artist’s mindset. The group turns the complicated language of scientists into abstract art installations, travel posters and exciting presentations that work for both outsiders and the administrators holding a project’s purse strings.

They might make the design of project more user friendly, or more functional, by coming at it from the mindset of someone who designs for consumers, not scientists.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/science/20151209/what-does-space-lo...

Where art and science collide

An exhibit brings new purpose to a decommissioned UW research facility
Condensed Matter Community,” a curatorial project featuring work by 34 artists in a variety of media, seeks to spark dialogue about the art/science nexus. Instead of a nondescript white gallery, the project has been installed at the Synchrotron Radiation Center, a recently decommissioned particle accelerator in Stoughton. It’s a visually rich environment, with evidence of past experiments, in-progress preparations for new experiments, and even the random personal effects left behind by scientists who worked there.
http://isthmus.com/arts/condensed-matter-community-art-science-coll...

Unique art gallery depicts link between diabetes and dental health
“The Milwaukee Diabetes & Oral Health Gallery” was on display in a vacant storefront last month during Diabetes Awareness Month. A virtual gallery will be available on the Cientificas website in early January.
http://milwaukeenns.org/2015/12/10/unique-art-gallery-depicts-link-...

Stunning Satellite Image Proves Science Can Be Art and aesthetically pleasant!

Who painted this? Van Gogh ? No! The image above isn’t an impressionist’s creation—it’s a slice of the North Atlantic Ocean, with a bit of post-processing to accentuate the confluence of physics and biology.

Captured on September 23rd, 2015 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite, the blue green spirals above are dense algae blooms: waters laden with the microscopic photosynthetic critters that produce half the world’s oxygen.

Algae blooms can be quite striking on their own. But after this image was compiled using red, green and blue bands from VIIRS, as well as chlorophyll data, it was processed to highlight the swirling motion of eddy currents. These currents bring cold, nutrient-rich waters from the deep ocean to the surface—feeding the tiny plant creatures that ride them like surfers on a tremendous wave.

And who says  science doesn't deal with aesthetics? Here is the proof. Science-art , cosmic show of science...

Image credit: The Hubble Helix Team and Dr. Travis Rector, of the Helix Nebula.

Image credit: T.A. Rector (NOAO/AURA/NSF) & the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA), WIYN Observatory and Kitt Peak, Arizona.

Alongside an unprecedented number of heads of state, COP21 (Climate talks in Paris) also witnessed an unprecedented number of artists gathering in Paris for the “conference of creative parties”, ArtCOP21. In doing so, a global network of cultural engagements with climate change was created.

The scientific community increasingly recognises the value of interdisciplinary action in the face of problems such as climate change, and the perspectives of social sciences are increasingly valued. But the prospects of arts and humanities are less often appreciated. As well as the poster-art activism of Brandalism, and the numerous film screenings, art installations, performance works and participatory art activities that took place during the talks, a growing number of arts organisations including Cape Farewell, Julie’s Bicycle and Tipping Point advocate passionately for the value of creative responses to climate change.
https://theconversation.com/why-art-has-a-part-to-play-in-tackling-...

Art is especially good for young students, according to the first large-scale, randomized-control study to measure what students learn from school tours of art museums. Reported in Education Next, the study shows that students exposed to museums, galleries and performing arts centers display better critical thinking skills and education memory — along with greater tolerance, historical understanding and other attributes we all want instilled in our children and grandchildren.

Interviewed about his study recently in Fast Company magazine, Jay P. Greene, from the University of Arkansas, said the changes in aptitude and attitude “were measurable and significant.”

http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article499462...

Artist "Paints" With Nanoparticles Inspired by Butterfly Wings
Combining art and science comes naturally to Kate Nichols. The colors in her pieces don’t come from pigment, but from tiny silver nanoparticles suspended in the paint. She makes them herself, as artist-in resident in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.

The Big Picture: Cell biology as art

Exhibit presents the beauty that scientists uncover in the process of scientific inquiry.
Cell biology as art

The exhibit Cell Biology as Art opens Sept. 15 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Atrium at 520 South Euclid Ave. Free and open to the public, the exhibit continues through Oct. 3.

“The fundamental science of biology is the study of cells. Cells often exist in communities where they work together to carry out complex functions in response to the environment and coordinate the activities that form the essential systems of life. Scientists who study cells explore basic molecular mechanisms and cellular functions. They have the opportunity to explore the intricate interplay between cells in the process of the formation of functional tissues. The understanding of these functions and interactions in 'normal' cells is crucial for identifying the underlying mechanisms of human disease, knowledge that lays the foundation for developing therapeutic targets and novel therapies to counter disease.

“A powerful way to elucidate cell function is to use microscopy to visualize the organization of molecules within the cell and the architecture of cells within tissues. The images presented in this exhibit reveal the beauty that we, as scientists, uncover in the process of our scientific inquiry. The color palate available to us to 'paint' target cells or molecules is limited by the technical restrictions of the microscope. But the beauty of the images obtained using a limited number of colors provides a stunning snapshot of the art of life.

“Art is a visual language that inspires thought, imagination, and questioning — actions that also ground the creative work of scientists in the laboratory. The images in this exhibit are unlabeled to allow viewers to explore the works through their own artistic imaginations, developing a unique lens through which to appreciate the art of cell biology and to realize that, for the scientist, art can become a crucial source of scientific ideas.”

https://outlook.wustl.edu/2014/aug/cell-biology/
http://medicine.wustl.edu/news/cell-biology-as-art/

Art & Science Collide At The “Collider” Exhibition
Moving away from the overly-technical aspects of the scientific secrets being explored, the “Collider” exhibit at the ArtScience Museum stays true to the venue’s name by counteracting jargon with art. It’s not just a nerdy day out – it could be a nerdy day out for the whole family.
Collider exhibition, Gift of Mass art installation inspired by discovery of Higgs boson

Touted as “the world’s greatest experiment”, the Large Hadron Collider was built to explore fundamental questions about the universe we live in, like what is it made from and why is there matter in the universe. The LHC is essentially searching for the initial moment of creation and why everything stays as it is after creation.

Moving away from the overly-technical aspects of the scientific secrets being explored, the “Collider” exhibit at the ArtScience Museum stays true to the venue’s name by counteracting jargon with art. It’s not just a nerdy day out – it could be a nerdy day out for the whole family.

The exhibition sheds light on the breakthroughs that CERN have achieved, but with a candid touch – parts of the showcase are recreations of the CERN offices themselves!
Collider exhibition, Gift of Mass art installation inspired by discovery of Higgs boson

To end off the tour, a special area titled “The Collision Space” allows for young explorers to summarise all they have learnt from the exhibit, even utilising LEGO bricks to demonstrate the Higgs particle and its effects!
The “Gift of Mass” is an interactive art installation presented by the ArtScience Museum in conjunction with the original “Collider” exhibit that began at the established Science Museum in London. This interactive multi-screen installation is a special project conceived in 2012, a few months after the discovery of the Higgs boson, by Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in collaboration with embrio.net collective and the artist Paolo Scoppola.

So come on down for the “Collider” exhibit – now showing at the ArtScience Museum till 14 February 2016
http://popspoken.com/arts/2015/12/art-science-collide-collider-exhi...

Art–Science Collaborations — Avenues toward Medical Innovation
Cardiovascular stents represent a successful scientific advance, but they may have their origins in art: some stent designs have been inspired by the principles of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.1 Indeed, art can inform medical science in myriad ways — providing not only inspiration but also insight and a humanizing touch. A collaboration among physicians, artists, and humanities scholars in Britain entitled “Life of Breath,” for instance, is investigating the understanding of breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), seeking ways in which a multidisciplinary approach can enhance the diagnosis and treatment of this increasingly prevalent disease. Elsewhere as well, it's increasingly common to find artists working closely with medical scientists. Such efforts are an offshoot of broader interdisciplinary art–science collaborations that have a venerable history.

The organization Leonardo — evoking the interdisciplinary investigations of Leonardo da Vinci — was established in 1982 as a forum for exploring the mutual influences of art and science. Similarly, the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology emphasizes an “antidisciplinary culture,” using media arts and sciences to create new technologies. The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative recently convened a conference to explore “art and science, engineering, and medicine frontier collaborations,” encouraging interdisciplinary discussions focused on solving real-world problems. The Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California, devotes a month-long session each year to art–science collaboration. Countless other organizations are promoting similar work.

Art–science collaborations illuminate methods or procedures used in various disciplines that could enhance medical practice. One point of intersection lies in observation. Artists are deep observers: they use their senses and then assimilate their findings, transforming their insights into artistic expression. But close observation has long been equally essential to scientific investigation: in the 19th century, for example, biology emphasized description and classification, and earlier scientists carefully observed the natural world, even as they contributed to advances, such as the microscope, that enhanced their observational capacity.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1509788

Math meets art in Humbel’s January Heider exhibit

“The Fractal Shop: Art Through Mathematics” exhibit by Walter Humbel and ceramic art by Sam David

WHEN: Jan 1-31

WHERE: Marie W. Heider Center for the Arts gallery, 405 E. Hamlin St., West Salem, US

HOURS: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on other days that school is in session (enter through the district office)

For nine months each year, the art gallery at the Marie W. Heider Performing Arts Center in West Salem highlights regional artists — mostly painters and photographers. In January, however, the gallery is going “high tech” with an exhibit by former West Salem resident Walter Humbel.

Humbel’s show is called “The Fractal Shop: Art Through Mathematics” and it will be up for the entire month of January. For those unfamiliar with the term, “fractal” can be defined as an image “generated by successive subdivisions of a simpler polygon or polyhedron.”
http://lacrossetribune.com/courierlifenews/lifestyles/math-meets-ar...

Art World Inside A Petri Dish
Artist Rogan Brown has elevated that simple seasonal art form and taken it to science class.

These large-scale paper sculptures may evoke snow, but actually trade on the forms of bacteria and other organisms. The patterns may feel familiar, but also a bit alien. You're not looking at a replica of a microbe, but an interpretation of one. And that distinction, Brown says, is important.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/25/460869684/is-th...

Picture Credit: Rogan Brown

Workshops to show kids the mathematical applications in art
Registration for three upcoming workshops at the Concordia Arts Academy on the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, mathematical concepts applied to art, began on Monday, Dec. 28.

Local artist and educator Deanne Collins obtained a grant through VSA Tennessee (The State Organization on Arts and Disability), the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the Tennessee Arts Commission in order to offer the workshops for students in Spring Hill ages 9 and up.

The workshops are scheduled for Jan. 16, 23 and 30 from 1-3 p.m. and the content will progress through each session.
http://springhillhomepage.com/upcoming-workshops-will-show-kids-the...

Science Art Exhibits in 2016: The Early Edition

Historical illustrations of skin diseases, sculpted sea butterflies, the effects of rampant wildfires and more are in this edition of Symbiartic's scienceart roundup. Get to these galleries & museum exhibits before they pack up and move on...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/science-art-exhibits...

Snow flakes art - a combination of science and art

Art and science combine in a new exhibit at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks.

The “Letters From the Sky” installation opening Thursday shows how snowflakes form.

It’s the teamwork of Fairbanks artist Sarah DeGennaro and geophysicist Simon Filhol.

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/12/30/letters-from-the-sky-melds-s...

Artistic scientist illustrates effects of climate change

Jill Pelto's artwork combines science and art to illustrate the effects of human-induced climate change. This image depicts salmon population decline using data specific to the Coho species.
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/12/30/living/artistic-scientist-ill...

Science is the king of art subjects. It is the art of innovations.

Education is all about learning all those you want to learn and applying wherever possible.

Artist Matthew Shlian applies engineering know-how to create kinetic paper sculptures that mimic cell structure. His work led to a collaboration with scientists at University of Michigan and a TEDTalk in 2010. Chad Jensen of Thomas Riley Studio, Naples, brought in two pieces of Shlian’s last year that sold instantly.

For the studio’s season launch party, Shlian will give a talk followed by a reception January 7 at Silverspot Cinema. The reception will run from 5:30-9 p.m., with Shlian's talk beginning at 6 p.m. Reservations required. For more information, visit thomasrileystudio.com.
From January 14 to February 23, Shlian's work will be on display alongside the large-scale works from Toronto-based metal sculptor Harley Valentine.

Shlian is currently a visiting research scholar in the Department of Material Science at the University of Michigan. His work for the National Science Foundation explores paper folding structures on the macro level translated to the nano-scale.
http://www.naplesillustrated.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.details&...

Microbial muses
Michele Banks (also known as @artologica) is a US-based painter and collage artist whose works are based on scientific and medical themes, and who has a particular fascination with all things microbial.Michele Banks (also known as @artologica) is a US-based painter and collage artist whose works are based on scientific and medical themes, and who has a particular fascination with all things microbial.
As far as her subject matter goes, pretty much all of it is inspired by science. Many of her pieces depict groups of cells or microbes that have meaning in some way, in terms of their role in disease or global warming, for example. And some of her work is more metaphorical; her brain paintings are more about images of thought than they are about actual neuroanatomy.
http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201513