Fermi lab's artist residency program offers people another way to understand physics, through the eyes of artists who can interpret Fermilab's science in compelling ways.
Artists like connect with the scientists, and have go to lectures as well as spoke with them one on one. They think and believe that scientists today are the real rock stars!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/lifestyles...

The science of preserving art
Preserving art and cultural heritage through Lafayette College’s IDEAL Center for Innovation. Students in the interdisciplinary Cultural Conservation and Nanotechnology program took courses in chemistry, conservation history, and art along with hands-on workshops to prepare for summer training, study abroad, and other activities.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/towaco-s-rachel-elias-exp...

Five fascinating science art exhibits open this month—on the cosmos, changing seas, our relationship with nature and more.
Get the details here:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/5-science-art-exhibi...

Canberra-based visual artist Erica Seccombe has captured 'X-ray vision' of mung beans as they sprout, and the results have scientists intrigued.
As part of her project called Grow, Erica Seccombe has captured the transformation of seeds as they germinate, from embryo to first leaf stage. But unlike conventional time-lapse photography, you can actually see what's happening inside the beans as well as outside.
Ms Seccombe created these 'virtual sprouts' using state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning and data visualisation technology at the Australian National University. "I have captured the most precise possible virtual model of the seeds in the process of germination," said Ms Seccombe, who is doing the work as part of her PhD in photography and media arts.

"They are the truest representation of the original as possible.
"Both the interior and exterior of the virtual germinating seed can be observed simultaneously and from any angle, inside and out."

As the seeds grow, their density changes and this in turn is reflected in the micro-CT scan. While her interest is in making art, the bubbles revealed inside the seeds have caught the attention of scientists.
The bubbles seen forming in the first two videos have caused quite a bit of discussion among researchers at the Australian National University's Research School of Biology.

"There's a couple of interesting ideas that we've had about what they could be," Professor Adrienne Nicotra said.

"It might shed light on some processes that are going on inside the seeds before the seed coat bursts." Her guess is that they are bubbles of carbon dioxide (CO2) from respiration, trapped inside the seed.
When a seed germinates it soaks up water and its metabolism kicks in, and if the seed coat is good at letting things in but not out, then the CO2 could build up inside the seed, Professor Nicotra adds. One idea is that such pressure could even help split open the seed.

Another idea, put forward by biophysicist and PhD candidate, Mr Amit Singh, is the bubbles are formed by liquid converting to gas as a result of pressure building up in the seed as the embryo grows. "This phenomenon has been reported elsewhere but this would be the first instance of it being seen in seeds," Mr Singh said.

Although, he adds, the bubbles might simply be an artefact of the experiment: X-rays from the micro-CT scanning may be heating the water inside the seed, causing it to vaporise.

All agree more experiments need to be carried out to say what's happening.

"I think what's really fascinating about the images is that they're primarily art but they illustrate what might be some really interesting biological processes," Professor Nicotra said.
'This method of visualisation gives the big picture'
To produce her videos, Ms Seccombe first rotates the seeds in a 3D microcomputed X-ray tomography machine to capture various 'slices' of the seeds that are then put together to give a 3D image with 1-2 micron resolution.
Ms Seccombe said it took 45 minutes to do one 360-degree scan, which is worth $10,000 of equipment and staff time.

This raw 'volumetric' data is then visualised using the open source Drishti technology, developed by Dr Ajay Limaye at Vizlab.
Although she hasn't set out to help scientists, her Drishti-generated images of sprouting seeds, and also of insects, shells and other items has led to a lot of interest from experts, including seed scientists, entomologists, biologists and mathematicians.
Ms Seccombe communicates a sense of wonder to scientists and public alike.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/x-ray-vision-shows-seeds-spro...

“Circus Science” performance mixes science lessons with aerial and acrobatic feats
Not every circus performance combines the art of acrobats, aerial silks, stilts and belly dancing with a litany of science factoids, but that atmosphere was prevalent Sunday afternoon, as girls and women between the ages of 6 and 66 completed feats of strength and flexibility, all while demonstrating the mysteries of how the world works.

The last of two January performances of the Girl Circus’ “Circus Science” was held Sunday afternoon at the Wildish Community Theater in downtown Springfield. The performance was beyond sold out, as all 283 seats were taken and a half-dozen audience members were resigned to standing room only.

The performance pondered the very meaning of space, time, elements and matter, all to a circus-jazz-pop original composition score, the beating drum of vocalists and singers, and performances from 20 youths and seven adults.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33951010-75/girls-circus-sci...

The Crossroads of Art and Science Residency is back at Florida Gulf Coast University for a second time. This event will be hosted by the Art Galleries of the Bower School of Music & the Arts. After a successful event last year, this year they bring in artist Michael Massaro and his exhibition “Michael Missaro: The Vanishing.”

The exhibition will be open for display in the ArtLab Gallery, which is at the west side of the Library building at Florida Gulf Coast University, Feb. 11 to March 17.

This event brings in an artist to work alongside FGCU’s science faculty which takes place at FGCU’s Vester Marine and Environmental Science Research Station. Assistant Professor James Douglas, of Marine Science, is collaborating with Michael Missaro.

http://naplesherald.com/2016/01/18/fgcu-brings-back-celebrated-art-...

The Woman Who Made Science Beautiful with art: Maria Sibylla Merian
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-ma...

University Of Houston Brain Study Explores Intersection Of Art And Science

The theory that the brain has a positive response to art is not new to science. But a researcher at the University of Houston is using a different approach to test that belief.
if someone could look into my head at this moment and see what’s going on in my brain, would they be able to see that I like what I’m looking at?

Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, (better known as “Pepe”) is in the process of finding out. The University of Houston College of Engineering professor is collecting neural data from thousands of people while they engage in creative activities, whether it’s dancing, playing music, making art, or, in my case, viewing it.

“(The hypothesis is) that there will be brain patterns associated with aesthetic preference that are recruited when you perceive art and make a judgement about art” .
http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/01/20/134348/u...

Art meets science: The Neuron Project
http://www.channel3000.com/entertainment/Art-meets-science-The-Neur...

The basis of the "European Digital Art and Science Network" is a big manifold network consisting of two scientific mentoring institutions (CERN and ESO), representing Europe's peak in scientific research, the Ars Electronica Futurelab -- providing state-of-the-art technical production possibilities in a trans disciplinary discourse, and seven European cultural partners representing strong and various European cultural- and artistic positions.

Check it out, at http://www.aec.at/artandscience

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ECLIPSE
Coming to the Williamson Gallery
in June, 2017.

August 21, 2017, is the day of the The Great American Solar Eclipse, in which the moon's shadow will cast across the United States and nowhere else on the planet. Williamson Gallery curator Stephen Nowlin is collaborating with Williams College, Massachusetts astronomer Jay Pasachoff and New York Historical Society curator of drawings Roberta J.M. Olson to explore the art, science, and cultural impact of eclipse phenomena.

More Eclipse 2017 info, at NASA .

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Visit recent Williamson Gallery's exhibitions through video vignettes.

ECLIPSE Coming to the Williamson Gallery in June, 2017.

August 21, 2017, is the day of the The Great American Solar Eclipse, in which the moon's shadow will cast across the United States and nowhere else on the planet. Williamson Gallery curator Stephen Nowlin is collaborating with Williams College, Massachusetts astronomer Jay Pasachoff and New York Historical Society curator of drawings Roberta J.M. Olson to explore the art, science, and cultural impact of eclipse phenomena.

More Eclipse 2017 info, at NASA .

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Visit recent Williamson Gallery's exhibitions through video vignettes.
REALSPACE exhibit, 2014-15

Dan Goods' & David Delgado's
"Refraction"
"The beauty of untamed waves of light intersecting with rowdy waves of water are allowed their expressive chaos and feral subtleties."
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Read Williamson Gallery director Stephen Nowlin's recent columns for KCET's ARTBOUND:
How Art and Science Interact in Southern California
A focus on the art-science-technology track of Southern California's present creative economy.
Read it now . . .
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UNCERTAINTY
Coming to the Williamson Gallery
in October, 2016

The Williamson Gallery approached scientists at Caltech and CERN Switzerland's Large Hydron Collider to capture 3-D animated sequences of subatomic particle collisions for UNCERTAINTY, an exhibition embracing ambiguity in art and science. For millennia humans have sought to discover and cling to the comforts of certainty, sometimes inventing fictitious explanations to provide clarity for an indeterminate world. However in science, uncertainty is accepted and built into its methodology. All understanding is considered provisional and certainty is only to the best of our knowledge. UNCERTAINTY will ponder its own meaning, beauty, and lingering 21st-century cultural tensions, through works drawn from the domains of both science and art.

Scientists Take Art of Weaving to Atomic, Molecular Level

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

COF-505 is the first 3D covalent organic framework to be made by weaving together helical organic threads, a fabrication technique that yields significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs.
COF-505 is the first 3D covalent organic framework to be made by weaving together helical organic threads, a fabrication technique that yields significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs.
There are many different ways to make nanomaterials but weaving, the oldest and most enduring method of making fabrics, has not been one of them -- until now. An international collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, has woven the first three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads. The woven COFs display significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs -- materials that are highly prized for their potential to capture and store carbon dioxide then convert it into valuable chemical products.

"We have taken the art of weaving into the atomic and molecular level, giving us a powerful new way of manipulating matter with incredible precision in order to achieve unique and valuable mechanical properties," says Omar Yaghi, a chemist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Chemistry Department.

"Weaving in chemistry has been long sought after and is unknown in biology," says Yaghi. "However, we have found a way of weaving organic threads that enables us to design and make complex two- and three-dimensional organic extended structures."
Yaghi is the corresponding author of a paper in Science reporting this new technique. The paper is titled, "Weaving of organic threads into a crystalline covalent organic framework."
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2016/01/scientists-take-art...

Merging art with science
Eleanor Gates-Stuart : She could never have envisaged that one day she’d lure crowds of hundreds of thousands to watch giant insects projected onto buildings in Canberra, for bringing about the production of perfectly scaled titanimum weevils, for fusing science, art and communication together in a riotous array of artworks, scientific papers and scientific collaborations.

And she probably never envisaged herself in Perth. But Dr Gates-Stuart is now Scitech’s 2016 artist in residence, during which she will offer a mesmerising installation that invites participants to ponder the mineral riches in WA’s Super Pit.
http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/industry-a-resources/item/4018-m...

‘The Vanishing’ exhibit to premiere at FGCU’s Arts Complex and ArtLab Galler
The second annual Crossroads of Art and Science residency will be presented at the art galleries of the Bower School of Music & The Arts. The presentation will be “Michael Massaro: The Vanishing,” and it will be on display from Feb. 11 to March 17.

On the first day of the exhibition, an artist talk will be held at 5 p.m. at the opening reception. Every year, an artist is given the opportunity to work closely with the science faculty at FGCU’s Vester Marine and Environmental Science Research Station.
http://eaglenews.org/entertainment-and-lifestyle/the-vanishing-exhi...

Glassblowing Artist Combines Science and Sculpture
Featuring renowned glassblower and artist Kiva Ford
The young craftsman works on both useable glassworks for the University’s scientific community as well as his own brand of decorative art pieces that he sells on his website. Ford’s sculptures blend the utilitarian aesthetic of scientific glass objects with creative forms of sculpture and design.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/kivaford

West Union to feature 'Art of Science' exhibit
Set to partially open Feb. 29, West Union promises to provide the dining hall experience West Campus has lacked for years. Additionally, the West Union will feature the "Arts of Science Project"—a temporary art exhibit that showcases research done in labs here at Duke, but with a creative twist.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/01/west-union-art

The Art.Science.Gallery in East Austin was founded in July 2012 with the mission “to make science more accessible to everyone through science-related visual arts exhibitions to engage people in scientific topics in new ways.
The Art.Science.Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 p.m.–6 p.m. Currently, there is an exhibit titled “COSMIC,” where the artists explore the cosmos and space through printmaking.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/01/28/ut-alum-combines-art-and...

Using Kaleidoscopes to Study Art and Science
Artist Fariba Abedin finds light at the end of a color wheel with The Time on Paper .
http://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2016/1/28/serenity-in-shapes

 Leonardo da Vinci drew the machines of the future. He pencilled flying airships and helicopters hundreds of years before aviation became a reality and envisioned giant cannons and armoured tanks well ahead of their use in modern warfare.

It is these mechanical drawings that are to form the foundation of a major new exhibition at the Science Museum, celebrating the scientific genius of the Renaissance polymath.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius, which was first exhibited in Milan and then Munich, will focus on the skilled mechanical drawings sketched out by Leonardo over his lifetime, and display - together for the first time in the UK - 39 wooden models of his inventions, first built in Milan in 1952.

A smaller set of nine models, first built in the UK in the same year for a show at the Royal Academy (RA) will also open the exhibition. The RA show was the first to embrace Leonardo’s place in both the art and scientific world.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/29/scientific-genius-o...

Photographer Craig Ward: he found inspiration for his latest piece, which is making its way around the Internet, in the New York City subway system, in the form of microscopic organisms.

Inspired by a fellow photographer's print of cultivated bacteria that came from her son's handprint, the 34-year-old artist, based out of Brooklyn, N.Y., decided to create his own rendition from the popular (and notoriously dirty) transit service.

To collect samples, Ward used run-of-the-mill tools, like petri dishes, all in plain site of other commuters.

"As soon as you start taking out scientific equipment and petri dishes, people did start to look a bit," said Ward in an interview with New York Magazine. "But no one really challenged me. You can get away with most things on the subway."

The list of microbes that Ward picked up was less-than-appetizing, including Salmonella, E. coli, Proteus mirabilis (which causes kidney stones), Staphylococcus aureus (which causes myriad infections like sinusitis), Serratia marcescens (otherwise known as bathroom slime) and plain, run-of-the mill mold.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/129130/20160129/this-photographer...

Next December, an art exhibit will be set up outdoors near a remote research site on the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet. Video showing the art as displayed against the endless white landscape will be made available online as a “virtual gallery.”

But before then, Alaskans will have a chance to view the exhibit -- the first-ever Antarctic Art Contest -- during Arctic Science Summit Week taking place at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in March.

The contest and the unconventional venue are the brainchild of Erin Pettit, a veteran Antarctic research scientist and associate professor of geosciences at UAF. Shortly before leaving Fairbanks for what is either her 13th or 14th trip to the southern continent, Pettit spoke about the connection between science and art. People often consider the two to be opposites, she said, but both “work on the edge of society’s comfort zone.”

“I use art to teach science,” she said.
https://www.adn.com/article/20160128/art-ice-contest-created-uaf-sc...

Art and Science Join Hands to Prevent Bird-Window Collisions
Lisa Johnson de Gordillo, assistant professor in Visual and Performing Arts, and her 2-D and 3-D design students, have been collaborating with the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science for the past three semesters to develop possible strategies to prevent bird-window collisions on campus.
http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2016/february/art-science-join-hand...

Last month, AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, launched 'Science in pictures' – a community outreach initiative and artwork installation on the hoardings around the construction site of their new Research and Development Centre and Corporate Headquarters on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC).

The artwork, which covers around 40% of our total hoarding area, was the output of a collaboration with STEM Team East, the Cambridge Science Centre and nine local schools – UTC Cambridge, Long Road Sixth Form College, Parkside Community College, St Mary's School, Sawston Village College, Stephen Perse Foundation, Park Street C of E Primary School, St Faith's School and St Alban's Catholic Primary School – aimed at combining the imagination and creativity of over 400 students, aged seven to 17, with the inspiration of science.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Science-Meets-Art-CBC/story-2864591...
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Art Meets Science issues call for artists
The MDI Biological Laboratory has issued a call for applications from artists for its fifth annual Art Meets Science exhibit, to be held this coming summer. “A Fresh Field of Life: Artists, Naturalists and the Vision for Acadia” will celebrate the vision of George B. Dorr, one of the founders of Acadia National Park and a benefactor of the MDI Biological Laboratory.

“A Fresh Field of Life” is based on Dorr’s remarks at a 1916 celebration of the proclamation creating the Lafayette National Monument, the original name of the park.
http://www.mdislander.com/living/arts-a-living/art-meets-science-is...

“A Walk in the Park with Chemistry” exhibit in the Arboretum is an example of art, science fusion on campus.
https://theaggie.org/2016/02/01/flowers-and-trees-and-molecules-oh-my/

Science-art show on mind and consciousness
States of Mind is at the Wellcome Collection, London from 4 February-16 October
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/03/to-oblivion-and...

Converting climate data into striking paintings

Climate data is usually seen in pixels, spreadsheets, and maps. But watercolor paintings? Not so much.

That’s what makes a growing series of paintings by Maine-based artist Jill Pelto so striking. They combine haunting imagery from the natural world with hard data showing the impact climate change is having.
http://grist.org/article/artist-turns-climate-data-into-striking-pa...

Fermilab artist-in-residence to create science-inspired works
The important science that happens every day at Fermilab in Batavia is not always the easiest to grasp.

Accomplished scientists study the nature of particles that make up matter and radiation -- among the smallest objects in existence. And those particles can only be explored with the most sophisticated technology.
For the second year, Fermilab is now hosting an artist-in-residence who aims to help the public see particle physics in a big, new way.

This year Chicago artist Ellen Sandor was selected for the honor. She is founder and director of the collaborative artists group called "(art) n" and has spent her 40-year career visualizing the invisible.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160204/entlife/160209556/

‘Spectrum’ Show Celebrates Link Between Art and Science
Annual Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience show slated for March 18, 19 at Peters Projects Gallery, Santa Fe, features works from artists and scientists
This year’s show, ‘Spectrum,’ will feature stunning artwork by artists inspired by nature and dazzling images by scientists studying nature at the smallest scales.
http://newswise.com/articles/spectrum-show-celebrates-link-between-...

Art Under the Microscope
Artist, Scientist Collaborate on Phytoplankton Project
http://www.free-times.com/blogs/art-under-the-microscope-020416

Art from under the microscope

Artist uses microscope slides to make colorful, abstract art
“View from Under the Microscope.”

http://www.thestate.com/entertainment/local-events/article59148643....

Art is colliding with science inside Canada's home for particle and nuclear physics.

The artist-in-residence program at TRIUMF in Vancouver is bridging the divide between the two disciplines, allowing artists to interpret science, while bringing those scientific ideas to the public in a more accessible fashion.

Blaine Campbell, an Edmonton resident who holds degrees in mathematics as well as a fine arts degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, is the newest creator to fill the post.
http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/158075/When-art-science-collide

Hunsicker, uses natural fractals, patterns that repeat over and over again on all scales, from tiny particles all the way out into the cosmos, to create her artwork.

“Synergy,” a new exhibit on view through June 2 at the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a collection of Hunsicker’s paintings and prints that explore the nature of the cosmos, and all life, through the lens of physics.
http://www.recorder.com/home/20955672-95/when-art-and-science-colli...

“Upside Down & Inside Out” - OK Go Makes Art at Zero-G

OK Go just dropped their most spectacular - and daring - music video yet, “Upside Down & Inside Out.” Filmed in microgravity over many parabolic flights in Russia, “Upside Down & Inside Out” sets a new precedent for what’s possible as artists consider our future in space.
OK Go melds art, music and dance with their passion for science. They are celebrated around the world for tech-savvy choreography and unparalleled artistry. Their latest experiment opens the question: what can artists do when they break the bonds of gravity? As we contemplate how humans will expand our existence in space, we often think about issues like survival, energy sources and communications. OK Go urges us to also think about art.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/erin-greeson/20160212-upside-down-in...

what does connecting the arts and sciences mean for research?
Connecting the Arts and Sciences is the theme for this year’s TEDxCambridge University event, referring not only to the divide between arts and sciences students but also between their respective disciplines. In a university like Cambridge, the two disciplines are as connected and diverse as the students, and research should be more focused on providing multiple interdisciplinary perspectives of important topics in society today.
http://www.varsity.co.uk/science/9755

Science Through the Lens of an Artist
The whirling, shimmering zigzags of color seem like a modern tech-art combination — so distant from their roots in the detailed scientific processes that inspired them. These works of art are abstractions of scientific concepts, brought to the forefront of UCSB’s art and science communities by the new Art of Science competition. This program was launched in 2012 as a platform for the intersection of the Arts and the Sciences.
http://dailynexus.com/2016-02-11/science-through-the-lens-of-an-art...

Shortlist announced for scientific images competition
The Art of Research competition aimed to find images which celebrate the diversity of scientific research at Imperial.
It was coordinated by Imperial Innovations – responsible for commercialising research from the College – and was open to all staff and students at Imperial. The shortlisted images (below) were selected by a panel of science communicators and artists. A selection of entries will be displayed at an exhibition in the College Main Entrance from Monday 15- Friday 19 February. The winners will be announced on the final day of the exhibition.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newss...

Embryo picture claims top spot in scientific images competition
An image of an alligator embryo has won the Art of Research scientific images competition at Imperial.

The competition aimed to find images which celebrate the diversity of scientific research across the College. It was coordinated by Imperial Innovations – responsible for commercialising research from Imperial – and was open to staff and students.

The overall winner is Dr Arkhat Abzhanov, Reader in Evolution and Development Genetics in the Department of Life Sciences, for an image taken of an alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) embryo dissected from an egg.
The runner up is Dr Dafni Hadjieconomou from the Institute of Clinical Sciences, whose image shows the brain-gut signalling system in a fruitfly.
The competition was judged by an independent panel drawn from the science and art worlds. Sabrina Taner is responsible for sourcing new biomedical imagery for the Wellcome Trust’s image library, while Jen Wong is Head of Programming at Science Gallery London and Co-founder and Director of Guerilla Science. Susan Aldworth is currently Artist in Residence at the University of York’s Sleep Lab.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newss...

Music to Fight Global Warming
The score for the Climate Music Project, a music-and-video piece about the causes and effects of global warming that will be performed for the second time on Friday, Feb. 19 at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.
http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/02/19/science-meets-art-music-to-figh...

Finding the art in research
For scientists used to describing experiments in scientific papers, distilling their research down to one picture and a 150-word description presents a challenge. But this is what the ‘Research as Art’ competition demands.
http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2016/02/19/finding-the-a...
For Nature’s full coverage of science in culture, visit www.nature.com/news/booksandarts.

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Art in Science
An Art in Science exhibit will be held in the Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory at the University of Delaware from April 4-16, culminating in a symposium from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 16.

The event is aimed at highlighting exceptional research at UD, engaging and educating the local community on the impact of the research, and sparking interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) among students from local elementary and high schools.
The deadline for submission of high-resolution images acquired from research activities, along with a short description of each image and its context, is noon on Thursday, March 3. Approximately 60 images will be chosen for printing and display.

The submitted images will be judged by a panel of artists, engineers and scientists for aesthetic quality and ranked.
http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2016/feb/art-in-science-022316.html

David Walsh puts scientists in the curator's seat for new Mona exhibition
Mona founder chooses four ‘biocultural scientist-philosophers’ to explore the links between evolutionary biology and art
When professional gambler, art patron and newly ordained officer in the Order of Australia David Walsh says he’ll be exploring the biological basis of art, take him seriously!
For a new exhibition opening at Mona in November, Walsh has skipped the rank and file of art curators and enlisted four “biocultural scientist-philosophers” to pull together four concurrent exhibitions that look at the links between evolutionary biology and art.

Titled On the Origin of Art, the show will see cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker, professor of literature and evolution Brian Boyd, evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller use art to explain the scientific reasons we create.
On the Origin of Art is at the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, from 5 November 2016 to 17 April 2017.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/25/david-walsh-put...

Robot Can Now Critic Art
scientists have successfully developed a robot that is full well capable of forming its own opinions concerning art – in other words, a robotic art critic.
The robot has been programmed to obtain a human crowd’s response to work of art before using all of that collected data as a “based” so that it can come up with its very own “artificial taste.” Well, with robots being able to transform selfies into line drawn art.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/02/robot-can-now-critic-art/

New Exhibition about Art and Science in the Contemporary World
Biology and Art is an exhibition considering the relationship between art and science in the contemporary world. Comprised of nanoscopic neurons, slime mold ceramics, and natural installations, this exhibition explores the reciprocal nature of biology and art. Including concepts that marry scientific research with artistic inquiry, Membrane investigates human curiosity and man’s modern relationship to the natural world.

BOSTON CYBERARTS. MEMBRANE: BIOLOGY AND ART. OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MARCH 25TH 6 – 8PM. EXHIBITION: MARCH 26TH – MAY 1ST, 2016.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc., 9 Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

http://www.yareah.com/2016/02/29/boston-cyberarts-new-exhibition-ar...

A controversy: ONLY ONE ARTIST CAN USE BLACKEST MATERIAL IN THE WORLD
The latest controversy in the art world is a furor over the darkest material ever created.
In 2014, Surrey NanoSystems announced that it had created Vantablack, a "forest" of nanotubes that can be grown on an aluminum base. It is the darkest material ever, absorbing so much light that it can fool the eye into seeing a smooth surface on a crumpled sheet of aluminum foil.
It's really neat, but many artists are furious that the exclusive rights to use the ultra-black material in art have been given to Anish Kapoor a sculptor.
Surrey NanoSystems is restricting the use of Vantablack in art, but not other areas, citing the difficulty of actually using the material, and their basic desire not to deal with the customs headache of exporting it from the UK. Vantablack is not a paint or a pigment, as Surrey NanoSystems points out
Vantablack is generally not suitable for use in art due to the way in which it's made. Vantablack S-VIS also requires specialist application to achieve its aesthetic effect. In addition, the coating's performance beyond the visible spectrum results in it being classified as a dual-use material that is subject to UK Export Control. We have therefore chosen to license Vantablack S-VIS exclusively to Kapoor Studios UK to explore its use in works of art. This exclusive licence limits the coating’s use in the field of art, but does not extend to any other sectors.
Surrey NanoSystems.
While artists might disagree with the idea that a nanotech company gets to decide what is "generally not suitable for use in art", Surrey NanoSystems is not restricting the use of Vantablack entirely.

http://www.popsci.com/only-one-artist-can-use-blackest-material-in-...

http://www.popsci.com/only-one-artist-can-use-blackest-material-in-...

Art-science exhibition featuring gravitational waves makes journal cover

The Einstein Collective, a MSU-heavy group of artists, scientists and educators, collaborated to create Black (W)hole, an installation that was featured on the cover of the February issue of Leonardo, a journal dedicated to the application of contemporary science and technology in the arts.
http://www.montana.edu/news/16007/msu-art-science-exhibition-featur...

Art in Science in art - a beautiful way to present both...

More than 1,000 community votes were cast in UC Santa Barbara’s third annual Art of Science competition sponsored by the Schuller Lab and the campus’s Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships at the California NanoSystems Institute. From the 40 entries, five winners and five honorable mentions were chosen.

Graduate student Suoqing Ji took first place, with postdoctoral scholar Daniel DeMartini coming in second place. Three third-place awards were presented: Graduate students Juan Manuel Escalante and Kurt Kaminski shared an award for their collaborative piece and postdoctoral scholar Christian Pester received a single third-place award. The People’s Choice award was presented to postdoctoral researcher Emmanouela Filippidi.

The five honorable mentions were graduate students David X. Cao, Preeti Ovartchaiyapong and Nancy Scherich, undergraduate Bianca Dunn and postdoctoral scholar Nan Shi.

Beginning March 28, the artwork will be exhibited at the UCSB Library, in the first-floor Tower Gallery. The exhibit will move to the campus’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum in the fall.

 http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016531/science-beautiful#sthash.UzjKA...

BioArt : What is our True Relationship with the Human Microbiome?
The exhibition “Nonhuman Subjectivities – The Other Selves. On the Phenomenon of the Microbiome” was curated at Art Laboratory Berlin last weekend.
http://labiotech.eu/bioart-what-is-our-true-relationship-with-the-h...

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Scientific art: It is so beautiful when physics meets technology

Witness the most mesmerising creations – from kinetic wind-powered sculptures to sound waves in water, the fluid dynamics of liquid mercury and face and projection mapping. It is glorious!

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/2016/03/05/scientific-ar...

In World Science Festival, Brisbane, Australia, starting on 9th March, 2016, a five-day ­extravaganza of cutting-edge knowledge that is programmed more like an arts expo.

The festival’s co-creator, Brian Greene, says this is deliberate. “Most people see science and art as radically different,” says Greene, a physics professor at Columbia University in New York. “One of the goals of the World Science Festival is to reach the person who would go to an art event but never a science event — have them come in for the art, and leave with the science.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/briefs-nation/art-key-to-world...