Science captured as beautiful works of art
Every year, the world’s biggest charity for biomedical research, the Wellcome Trust, awards those who can visually display science as art.
Here is a list of Quartz’s favorite images from the 2016 winners of the Wellcome Image Awards.
View them here: http://qz.com/634928/photos-science-captured-as-beautiful-works-of-...

Arts@CERN launches COLLIDE International Award
Criteria of the call

The competition is open to artists of any nationality or age. Their proposal should reflect upon encounters between art and science, and offer challenging methods of collaboration with CERN scientists. The scope of this proposal should also consider a second developmental phase at FACT, where the artists will have the opportunity to expand their research and test its applications through FACTLab’s facilities and engagement with a wide range of communities. The ultimate goal for the residency will be the research and development of new concepts in laboratory contexts.

COLLIDE Open Call for Entries encourages the participation of artists interested in the ideas described above, complying with any of the following criteria:

Artists interested in the cultural significance of science.
Artists working with digital and scientific media, technology and concepts as inspiration for their work.
Artists engaging with an innovative discourse on contemporary culture, following ambitious standards of creativity.
Artists demonstrating an active interest in the institutional visions, research methodologies, and cultural engagement of CERN and FACT.
Artists interested in the processes of fundamental science and particle physics who are able to extrapolate this understanding into projects of artistic excellence.
Artists pushing the traditional forms of collaboration between the artistic and scientific fields, and asking innovative and provocative questions in this respect.
Artists approaching science and research from diverse angles of enquiry, such as political, ethical, or sociological perspectives.

3. Conditions and participation

COLLIDE International Award grants an artist with a fully funded residency at CERN and FACT. The artist will spend the first two months at CERN, Geneva, followed by a one-month stay at FACT, Liverpool (not necessarily consecutively).

The award includes the following conditions:

15,000 Swiss Francs as an Award.
Allowance for two months at CERN, Geneva and one month at FACT, Liverpool.
Travel costs and accommodation within a fixed budget for the three months of the artistic residency at CERN and FACT.

The awarded artist is expected:

To work with a scientific partner at CERN, and with the teams of Arts@CERN and FACT during the residency, exploring ideas and research and interacting with various communities in each location.
To conduct interventions, talks and/or workshops during the residency, including CERN and FACT staff, as well as other relevant communities such as artists, scientists, academics.
To communicate the creative process and research developed during the residency through social media platforms, a blog or similar, in order to reach global audiences.
To meet regularly with the CERN scientific partner in order to discuss the process of artistic research, exploration and discovery, and to additionally work with other scientists.
During the residency at FACT, to establish conversations and explore collaborations with scientists and academics from Liverpool University and Liverpool John Moores University.
To communicate regularly with the teams at Arts@CERN and FACT to develop the proposal and ensure its satisfactory completion during the residency.
The main scientific language used at CERN and FACT is English, therefore it is essential to speak English fluently.

FACT and CERN are equal opportunity organisations and are fully committed to a policy of treating all of its collaborators equally.
Get more information here:
http://arts.web.cern.ch/collide-international-award

Brain tumors as artistic inspiration
The surprising beauty of “Connecting Narratives,” artist Dr. Immy Smith’s project to bring new attention to brain tumors and the dangers they pose.

Smith, who studied biomedicine before earning a doctorate in pharmacology, is a artist-in-residence at the Brain Tumour Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. There, she worked with the lab scientists to develop an exhibition visualizing the often-unseen issue of treating brain tumors.
“Connecting Narratives” will appear at the Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth, U.K, through April 1.
View her wonderful art here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/art-brain-tumors/

Watercolor Paintings with Climate Change Data

Jill Pelto, an artist and scientist, incorporates graphs of rising sea levels and soaring temperatures in her artwork

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/these-watercolor-paintin...

Artists have created glow-in-the-dark artworks from a living organism as part of the World Science Festival in Brisbane, Australia.

Instead of paint or pencils, the artists are drawing with a type of marine bacteria known as Aliivibrio fischeri, which is usually found in the light organ of the Hawaiian bobtail squid. But put it on a brush, apply it to a petri dish canvas and then turn off the lights, and you can make some sweet science art.
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/glowing-bacteria-art/#3ZCogReHPPq8

Hybrid Hearts And The Science Of Art

`DNA origami` paves way for faster, cheaper computer chips
A team of scientists has opened a door to faster, cheaper computer chips with the help of ‘DNA origami.’

The Brigham Young University researchers reported that DNA, the genetic material of life, might help accomplish this goal when it is formed into specific shapes through a process reminiscent of the ancient art of paper folding.
The study is presented at American Chemical Society 251st National Meeting & Exposition.
Using DNA’s very small size, base-pairing capabilities and ability to self-assemble, and direct it to make nanoscale structures that could be used for electronics, the technique has been identified. the smallest features on chips currently produced by electronics manufacturers are 14 nanometers wide. That’s more than 10 times larger than the diameter of single-stranded DNA, meaning that this genetic material could form the basis for smaller-scale chips.
Using the DNA as a scaffold and then assembling other materials on the DNA to form electronics is the technique. followed by the researchers.
Nature works on a large scale, and it is really good at assembling things reliably and efficiently. If that could be applied in making circuits for computers, there’s potential for huge cost savings.
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-dna-origami-faster-cheaper-chips.html

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nspired by Islam’s artistic emphasis on intricate and complex tessellations and repetition, researchers in McGill University’s Pasini Grouphave created stretchable materials that could be used for expandable stents (for surgery) or even spacecraft components.

This design process for this new metamaterial, known as bistable auxetics, has its origins in two 1,000-year-old tomb towers located in Iran.

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/islamic-art-metamaterials

Artists showcase art inspired by science
"Eureka! The Moment When Art Collides With Science," lasted from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and featured work from artists with diverse backgrounds and inspirations.
http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/story/entertainment/2016/03/18/...

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Scientists on stage

When you put an actor in the role of a scientist, you often end up with a bespectacled, jargon-filled eccentric in a lab coat. But what happens when you put a scientist in the role of an actor? That’s the experiment brewing at an improvisational theatre troupe in Lausanne.

Adria LeBoeuf, The Catalyst’s founder and executive director, describes her creation as a “science-entertainment collective”.

“We may think scientists are very ordered with everything in little boxes, but science is a creative enterprise, and we don't get so many moments in our scientific life to express a more playful creativity,” says LeBoeuf.

The Catalyst’s 40-odd participants hail from different countries and backgrounds in science, art and communications. They meet weekly for improv sessions and workshops, and have also recently launched a monthly English language show called CatCave9 at the Cinema Oblo in Lausanne.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/theory---theatre_scientists-on-stage/42...

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Art Out Of Climate Data

This past September, the artist and environmental scientist Jill Pelto noticed that a chart of shrinking glaciers actually mimicked the subject matter. A longtime painter, she decided to turn the jagged, sloping line of glacial melt into a painting of one such glacier sinking into the sea. Now she's started a series of what she calls"Geoglacial Artworks"—serene, painterly nature scenes subtly encoded with climate data.

A recent graduate of the University of Maine, where she earned a dual degree in studio art and Earth science, Pelto has always been interested studying the natural world. At 16, she began joining her dad—a professor and glaciologist—on trips to North Cascades National Park in Washington to track data on the size of the glaciers in the park.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3058054/infographic-of-the-day/this-env...

Fungi picture sits pretty at science award in Qatar
Competition launched by Qatar National Research Fund seeks to promote research projects through images that highlight their outcomes to a wider audience
The winners of the inaugural ‘Best Representative Image of an Outcome’ (Brio) competition have been announced.

Launched by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) in September 2015, the competition aims to encourage QNRF-awarded research teams to use artistic images and visuals to highlight the outcomes of their research to a wider audience.

Designed to showcase scientific discoveries, the award demonstrates QNRF’s dedication to building the nation’s innovation and technology capacity.

From a total of 50 submissions, ten were shortlisted and three outstanding images have been awarded.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/qatar/fungi-picture-sits-pretty-at-sc...

Scientific art lights up Main Street
Art and science converge in the public galleries at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
From immune cells devouring cancer to layered nanoparticles speckled across an early-stage tumor, these images are windows into a microscopic world rarely seen outside of the lab.
http://news.mit.edu/2016/scientific-art-lights-up-main-street-0323

Bacteria-Grown Book Combines Science and Culture
The world’s first book grown entirely from bacteria has finally hatched from the sterile depths of scientist/artist Dr. Simon Park's laboratory in Guildford, Surrey, UK. Much like Natsai Audrey Chieza does with bacteria-dyed scarves, Dr. Park uses his background in molecular biology and microbiology to explore the intersection between science and cultural creation.

Park has accumulated the largest collection of pigmented bacteria ever recorded, according to Wired. His 'C-Mould' archive has 50 different kinds of microorganisms, each with their own color and idiosyncrasies, a sort of bacterial painter’s palette, if you will.

The book you see above was grown and designed entirely from bacteria. BacterioFabrication: a grown book is made out of biological specimen called ‘Gluconoacetobacter xylinus,’ which naturally produces films of bacterial cellulose, an organic compound with the same microbial structural frame as the plant based material found in cotton and paper. ‘Gxcell’ swiftly forms thick mats of this natural polysaccharide laying the fabric of the book’s pages.

The book was printed out and written on using naturally pigmented bacteria that we can assume is from Simon Park’s vault of vibrant bacteria. He titled the book after Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, and even illustrated what looks like a rendition of a microscopic bacterial portrait.

The book, some of Park's other artwork, and that of other artists is part of the Bio and Beyond exhibition (25 March – 13 May 2016) at Summerhall, part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/worlds-first-bacteria-grown...

The Designer Who Peered Into Microscopes and Saw High Art
CARL STRÜWE
Two kinds of photographs. The first was typical enough: Italian sculpture and architecture he saw on vacation. The second was far less typical: close-ups of diatoms, butterfly wings, snail tongue, whalebone—all taken through a microscope.

By simply zooming in, Strüwe took the familiar and made it alien. The German photographer wasn’t the first to place the lens of a camera into the eyepiece of a microscope, but in the 1920s, he was among the first to do so as art rather than science.
Carl Strüwe: Microcosmos will be on show from April 15 – June 4 at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York.
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/designer-peered-microscopes-saw-high-art/

Land Art Is Helping Physicists Study The Universe
To protect a new particle accelerator from vibrations from nearby streets, Snøhetta came up with an unusual solution: earthworks.
A synchrotron is an incredibly important tool in the scientist's arsenal. It's a special type of particle accelerator that blasts electrons through a series of chambers to make them travel close to light speed, producing ultra-bright light beams that allow researchers to analyze materials at the molecular level.

They play a critical part in unlocking how the universe works—and they require the utmost precision. Even the slightest interruptions, such as vibrations from cars or trains, could destroy the entire process. So when Lund University, in southern Sweden, decided to build a new synchrotron, it enlisted Snøhetta to design a buffer to protect it using the landscape itself to create a natural sound dampener.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3058195/these-beautiful-earthworks-are-...

At This Art Exhibit, The Artists Are Also Astrophysicists
Scientists studying dark energy are amassing thousands of images of galaxies and exploding stars. Now, they're finally getting an art show.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/Art_Gallery/index.html

Art draws out the beauty of physics
When it comes to quantum mechanics, it’s easier to show than tell.

That’s why artist residencies at particle physics labs play an important part in conveying their stories, according to CERN theorist Luis Alvarez-Gaume.

He recently spent some time demonstrating physics concepts to Semiconductor, a duo of visual artists from England known for exploring matter through the tools and processes of science. They’ve done multiple short films, museum pieces and festivals all over the world. In July they were awarded a CERN residency as part of the Collide@CERN Ars Electronica Award.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/art-draws-out-the-beauty-of...

Artists using bacteria as paint...

Medical illustrator Sarah Berman was in a bio-art class at Parsons School of Design in New York when she learned about fluorescent proteins. When genetically modified to produce them, bacteria glow various colors under ultraviolet light. Inspired, Berman decided to cultivate her own bacteria—and use them to make art.

Berman created her “paint” at Genspace, a community biolab in Brooklyn, by injecting DNA that codes for fluorescent proteins into a nonpathogenic strain of E. coli. She found that by mixing her genetically modified bacteria, she could produce different hues. After four months of daily experimentation, Berman chose a palette that included green, red, yellow, and cyan. She smeared the bacteria onto large plastic sheets to create images of the human endocrine system, which she displayed at her senior thesis show in May 2015. But unlike real paint, Berman’s bacteria begin to die once they leave the petri dish—now, her art has become entirely invisible.

http://www.popsci.com/this-artist-uses-bacteria-as-paint

Stunning Satellite Images Turn Earth Into Art

These images illustrate the brutal beauty geologic processes carve into our planet

View them by clicking on the link below

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/these-stunning-satelli...

Astronomical art
eyond the study of the celestial bodies that glitter across the night’s sky, astronomy has a way of connecting science with art.

“It’s really interesting because technology has allowed for amazing images of planets and the moon,” said Mary-Kay Lombino, curator of the “Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy” exhibition supported by the Evelyn Metzger Exhibition Fund at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. “(Astronomy) continues to be a fascination among people and artists.”

Jon Ramer, president of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), which has 115 members worldwide, including professional artists, hobbyists, astronomers, engineers, scientists and others, said astronomical art has inspired many of today’s scientists.
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2...

Hirst's Art Is Leaking Poisonous Gas
In the early 1990s artist Damien Hirst became famous for a series of works featuring dead animals swimming in tanks of formaldehyde. Now a group of chemists claim they have found troubling levels of formaldehyde gas-a known carcinogen-around these publicly displayed artworks.

In the study published in the journal Analytical Methods, researchers took measurements using a remote sensor designed to detect formaldehyde at two museums where Hirst's works were recently on display: the Tate Modern in London and the Summer Palace in Beijing. At The Tate, the scientists tested the air around the tanks containing Hirst's "Away from the Flock" (a lamb) and "Mother and Child (Divided)" (a cow and a calf sliced in half), and found readings that were much higher than they should be, "reaching levels of 5 ppm (parts per million), one order of magnitude higher than the 0.5ppm limit set up by legislation."
In this case, the formaldehyde fumes were likely escaping the tanks via the sealant, which had to be reapplied over the years to prevent the liquid from leaking.
http://www.gizmodo.in/science/Damien-Hirst-Art-Is-Leaking-Poisonous...

Earth as you've never seen it before: Stunning aerial images of glaciers and deserts make the planet look like an artist's canvas
The images come from the fourth installment of a series called Earth As Art by the US Geological Survey
Images are shot by the satellite Landsat 8, which collects more than 700 images across the globe every day
Shots include the Tanezrouft Basin in Algeria, Mount Taranaki in New Zealand and Australia's Great Sandy Desert

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3559377/Earth-ve-nev...

Bio-art
The intersection of art and science
Arizona State University
These are a few examples of the growing (often, quite literally) field of bioart, a form of art that uses and displays living materials.

https://asunow.asu.edu/20160427-creativity-bioart-intersection-art-...

Art through maths

Annalisa Crannell goes to art museums with chopsticks. She is not unusually hungry or over-prepared; she uses them to figure out how to look at the art.
Crannell, a mathematician at Franklin and Marshal College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, studies mathematical perspective and applies her work to the world of art. She writes not only about how artists use perspective but also about how viewers can use it to see art in different ways.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/how-to-look-at-a...

Science as art: Show:  

On the corner of University Avenue in downtown Champaign lies Gallery 217 in the same area where former art gallery indi go Co-Op used to be.

This past Friday, the gallery was filled with artwork spanning the walls of both its floors as well as the people responsible for these illustrations. Nothing was unusual about the people or the artwork except for the fact that these artists were in fact scientists — genomic scientists to be specific — and the artwork was pictures taken from their research.

This event was known as "Art of Science 6.0," and the idea behind it was to merge both science and art to show genomic research is just as vividly captivating as the masterpieces lining the walls of modern art museums. This is the sixth year that the event has been running but the first year that it has been held at Gallery 217.

The  show ran from Friday, April 29 to Sunday, May 1, after which the artwork will travel to places around the local community, such as Research Park, the Alumni Center and Willard Airport.

http://www.dailyillini.com/article/2016/05/genomic-art-showcase

The Spring '16 Science Art Exhibit Guide
The most interesting science art exhibits on display this spring and beyond
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/the-spring-16-scienc...

'Art By Scientists' on view at Unitarian church
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis, 2945 N.W. Circle Blvd., is displaying an exhibit titled "Art By Scientists" .

The exhibit features 25 pieces of art by 10 scientists, including John Byrne, Dudley Chelton, Jane Huyer, Chi Meredith, Charlie Miller, Karen Miller, Priscilla Newberger, Larry Small, Sylvia Yamada and Ron Zaneveld. All have careers in marine science or were associated with Oregon State University.

The exhibit displays artwork in a variety of media, including fabric, photography, watercolors, acrylic and more.
http://democratherald.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/visual/art...

Physicist merges science and art
From black holes to wormholes and interstellar events, Physicist Kip Thorne presented the nature of science through art at the Musco Center for the Arts May 12.

Thorne is a theoretical physicist who has made contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Before retiring seven years ago, he worked as a professor at the California Institute of Technology for 50 years. He is currently collaborating with artist Lia Halloran on a book portraying the experience of poetic science and paintings.
http://www.thepantheronline.com/news/interstellar-physicist-merges-...

The art of mind-bending physics
Schrodinger's Bird brings quantum quirkiness alive in an animation and exhibition that draws on Schrodinger's cat, superposition, and "spooky action at a distance"
'Epiphany' in turning science into art

Schrodinger's Bird runs until June 12 at the Bondi Pavilion, Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-25/schrodingers-bird-the-art-of-...

The El Segundo Museum of Art hosts German artist Michael Sistig in his first solo exhibit in the United States. “Experience 23: Matter,” which brings science into an artistic realm, opens Sunday, June 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sistig said he tries to explain the world through his paintings, which are inspired by scientific theories, through “visual and sculptural representations of worlds no one has ever seen.

http://tbrnews.com/entertainment/science-meets-art-in-new-esmoa-exh...

The Unusual Chemistry of an Experimental Master Artist | Conservation Lab
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/moholy-nagy-chemisty-experi...

Russian Scientists Create Art Through Chemistry
One team of Russian science enthusiasts who have been popularizing science in their home country by way of performances at science festivals, and creating their own TV programs, has been finding out what happens when science meets art.
Art Nauka, led by Nikolay Novoselov, pride themselves on investigating the “physics of the impossible,” and for their latest experiment, have turned themselves in to chemical elements, from carbon to liquid nitrogen. Despite the expected dangers of the latter, “if liquid nitrogen touches the skin for less than two seconds it's not dangerous” says Novoselov, who admits to drinking it and exploding it.
http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1429240/russian-scientists-c...

Reflections of Research ; medical research as work of art
researchers carry out cutting-edge, painstaking research every day and we want them to share a picture of this research.

The most engaging and exciting image is awarded the British Heart Foundation’s Reflection of Research Judges' Winner by a panel of judges.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/reflections

Where art and science intersect
The close connection between art and science is being examined in a new exhibition by the North Shore Arts Association in collaboration with Ocean Alliance.

Artwork depicting the sea and Cape Ann comprise “Art of the Sea and Science,” which will be on display June 17 through July 30 at North Shore Arts Association, 11 Pirates Lane, Gloucester.
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/lifestyle/where-art-and-science-inte...

How artists classified the animal kingdom...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries artists were fascinated by how the animal kingdom was classified. They were in some instances ahead of natural historians.

This is one of the findings of art historian Marrigje Rikken. She will defend her PhD on 23 June on animal images in visual art. In recent years she has studied how images of animals between 1550 and 1630 became an art genre in themselves. 'The close relationship between science and art at that time was remarkable,' Rikken comments. 'Artists tried to bring some order to the animal kingdom, just as biologists did.'

But they classified like this:
Beetles, butterflies and dragonflies
Even-toed ungulates
Wealthy courtiers
In the flesh
Leiden, Universiteit. "How artists classified the animal kingdom." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21 June 2016. .

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160621112201.htm

Bio-art: art with 9000 Petri Dishes

http://labiotech.eu/lohmann-bioart-julia-algae-petri-dishes/

Cancer scientists create series of stunning abstractions with their work!

At first, they look like distant nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope or shots of deep-sea creatures swirling in the dark.

But peer closer into the illuminated photographs that line the 8th floor of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute's new Scott Bieler Clinical Sciences Center, and you can see minute cell structures glowing neon blue, yellow and red.
The cells and surrounding tissues have been injected with naturally fluorescent proteins borrowed from jellyfish, which are used to track the how cancer grows and spreads on the cellular level.
http://buffalo.com/2016/06/27/news/art/roswell-park-doctors-create-...

SCIENTISTS RECREATED VAN GOGH’S STARRY NIGHT USING DNA “ORIGAMI”

Scientists at Caltech have just recreated a tiny version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night by folding DNA molecules. The creation marks the first time this technique, known as “DNA origami,” has successfully scaled up to build large number of DNA-based devices on computer chips. The Caltech team published their findings in Nature.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18287...

The “origami” name may make this work sound artsy, but there are real scientific implications for DNA origami, and it’s part of broader conversation that believes molecules to be “the devices of the future”—as Caltech’s Paul Rothemund told Gizmodo. “But how do you connect them? How do you wire them up into larger circuits? How do you do anything with them? You need an interface between the molecular and the macroscopic world, and that’s what this is.”
Rothemund co-authored the Nature article and is regarded as a DNA origami pioneer. He’s been folding DNA into interesting shapes for a decade now, and his minuscule artwork—which has included smiley faces (see above), snowflakes, and a map of the Western hemisphere—was displayed at New York’s MoMA in 2008.

The methodology behind DNA origami is, of course, incredibly complex. But, in short, Rothemund and Caltech postdoc Ashwin Gopinath developed a way of folding DNA and then tuned injected fluorescent molecules to specific wavelengths, leading to patterns of “hot” and “cold” spots that can be fashioned into images. Gopinath had just watched the “Vincent and the Doctor” episode of Dr. Who and was inspired to design the test around an image of Starry Night—knowing that successfully capturing the painting’s complexity would assuredly demonstrate DNA origami’s power and potential.
DNA origami may have resulted in the most impressive recreation of Van Gogh’s masterpiece thus far, but it is one of several similar recent pursuits, like this rendering of Starry Night in a bowl of water, and this one that uses a handful of bacteria-infested petri dishes.
http://nerdist.com/scientists-recreated-van-goghs-starry-night-usin...

Laws of physics inform Mystic sculptor’s art - Madacsi
http://www.theday.com/events--exhibits/20160729/laws-of-physics-inf...

Biology and art:

http://www.recorder.com/Man-does-art-then-gets-cancer-3734587

It's no secret that science often produces mesmerizing images to go along with all of its graphs, charts and tables. Now some of those images, generated by biomedical research underway in the Kansas City region, have a show all of their own at Kemper East.
Images scientists submitted to KCALSI, and the resulting exhibition, Science to Art, is up through September 12 at the museum's open-to-the-public administrative headquarters a block from the main museum.
Science to Art, through September 12 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's Kemper East location, 4420 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri, 816-753-5784.
http://kcur.org/post/scientists-express-their-artistic-sides-kansas...

Art and science are set to collide in The Waikato Matrix, an experimental project from Wintec researchers Joe Citizen, Jason Long, Gert Hattingh and Andy Fendall. It is designed to raise questions about …Art and science collaborate in new experimental exhibition.
http://business.scoop.co.nz/2016/08/02/art-and-science-collaborate-...

Nasa's secret art studio: how to make rocket science beautiful
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which takes on Nasa’s most ambitious missions, runs a studio where a mix of design and engineering creates stunning results
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/thestudio/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/07/nasa-secret-art-stu...

Morphing Metamaterial Created using Kirigami Technique
A new metamaterial has been created by engineers from the University of Bristol using an ancient Japanese technique known as Kirigami.
Kirigami, in which the cellular metamaterials were based upon, is a Japanese art form that involves cutting and folding paper to obtain a 3D shape. The new technique enables cellular structures to be engineered with precise cuts that create large shape and volume alterations resulting in a lightweight, strong material. The shapes can be created with moveable parts that result in extremely tunable mechanical properties, making it more dexterous than origami.

The research conducted examining the viability of Kiragami structures was concluded in a PhD program run by the University’s EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), and was recently published in Scientific Reports.

The experiment by PhD student Robin Neville examined the mechanical properties of a kiragami object that exhibited shape-changing characteristics with the ability to modify its configuration through a method of actuation mechanisms.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep31067

Cancer Research Center puts the artistry of science on display

Cancer researchers have to deal with some of nature’s ugliest diseases, but they do find bits of beauty along the way – and that beauty is the focus of an art walk presented by Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center recently.

The event features scientific images that were captured by researchers at Fred Hutch, and will be  on display in the Mundie Courtyard on the research center’s South Lake Union Campus, at 1100 Fairview Ave. N.

Art Captures How Rockets Feel Forces
Newton’s laws of motion help create spiraling artwork.
https://www.insidescience.org/news/art-captures-how-rockets-feel-fo...

The Artist in Residence (AIR) Program at the SETI Institute includes ten artists who work closely with SETI scientists for two years. Designed to integrate art and the science, the goal of the program is to “expand upon the SETI Institute’s mission to explore, understand, and explain the origin, nature, and prevalence of life in the universe.

There are no rules in the collaborations between artists and scientists. The idea is not necessarily that the art is supposed to reflect the work being done, or that scientists are supposed to find some frame of artistic reference to expand their search for aliens — though both sides certainly hope that this is the case.

https://www.inverse.com/article/20555-art-science-seti-institute

An artist and geoscientists at NASA are formally collaborating to figure out fresh ways to present the effects of climate change to the public. On Friday, at the Global Exchange summit on art and science at Lincoln Center, Mr. Guariglia was announced as the first artist to be embedded on a NASA Greenland mission — joining more low-altitude flights through 2020.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/design/art-and-science-meld-...

Microbiology makes its mark at the first edition of the London Design Biennaletaking place in Somerset House. Portugal’s exhibition by Marta de Menezes uses bacteria and viruses to create changing art that represents the future direction of the country.

With the common topic “Design by Utopia“, 30 nations have interpreted utopic and dystopic futures using art to make us think about where we’re headed. Portuguese artist Marta de Menezesdecided to use microbiology to represent the changing nature of her nation.

The artist used bacteria, viruses and plants to visualize real statistical data of the gender gap that currently exists in her country. But over the three weeks of exhibition, the bioart pieces have changed and grown to represent the progression towards anequalitarian utopia.

Portugal’s exhibition also counts with computer-generated 3D maps that offer the opposing dystopian future of a sexist society. By using natural elements in her pieces, Marta conveys an optimistic view of what could be achieved.

http://labiotech.eu/portugal-microorganisms-marta-menezes/

 You can see her exhibition at the London Design Biennale until the 27th of September!

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