How do you protect your sci-art on line?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/30/how-do-ar...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/31/this-weeks-new-e...

Zoe Leonard, London

The photography in the New York-based artist Zoe Leonard's latest show is anything but snappy snap. Firstly, she's turning a gallery into a camera obscura, the age-old device where light is filtered through a hole, projecting a topsy-turvy mirror image of the world outside on to walls and floor. Then there are her latest photos of the sun, which turn light into a subject in its own right. Leonard has blown up what look like pale halos against grey to reveal the glare on the camera lens and the texture of film. Rounding off the triple whammy of alternative photography is her acclaimed 2008 series You See I Am Here After All, thousands of uncannily similar vintage postcards of Niagara Falls sent by holidaymakers across the decades. Rather than photos that imitate life, Leonard explores photography as a thing in the world.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120330/APC0101/203300515/Stud...|topnews|text|APC-News
Students combine science with art

Art, mind and brain intersections:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/30/149698704/art-mind-and-brain-intersec...

Art and Neuro-science : Symposium
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ruth-garde/art-neuroscience-and-rec...

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679275/a-trip-to-the-living-city-of-the...
Synthetic Biology in designing green houses

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/01/bristol-festival-of-i...

Bristol festival of ideas, now in its seventh year, celebrates all ideas that can help change the world for the better. Bringing together arts and sciences, it hosts an intensive 12-day programme of debates each May, as well as special events, exhibitions, books, business events and academic projects at other times.

Studying the science of art:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/31/prweb93...

Course in organic art:
http://www.ifaaonline.com/organic-art

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2012/04/metamorphosis...

“Metamorphs: Artists Spin Science,” a symposium featuring three artists who have combined aesthetic and experimental worlds.

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/localnews/9624376.Art_meets_scienc...

ARTISTS and scientists are collaborating in a Jurassic Coast art project

Art review: 'Nurturing Nature' at the Freedman: art and science
Reading Eagle
A fair balance of art and science, the pieces are more esoteric than straightforward biology, with everything on display engaged by the theme of nature and ecology. The topic of honoring nature with art has been constant throughout history and remains ...

Math assisted art:
http://erikdemaine.org/prints/ScienceArt/

Artist selected for Science Residency programme:
http://www.minister.regional.gov.au/sc/releases/2012/march/sc035_20...

The art of science: science communication:
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Apr/3/the-art-of-science-30...

Science art collaboration:
http://morristowngreen.com/2012/04/02/college-of-saint-elizabeth-pr...

http://thealternativepress.com/articles/college-of-saint-elizabeth-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/maths-reform/9180688/Numeracy-...

Intersections, an exhibition showing how great British artists drew inspiration from the abstract beauty of mathematical models.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9176554/Herbarium-Specimen-Pai...

Herbarium Specimen Painting at Kew Gardens

Music and science:
http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2012/04/messier_projec...

Managing the science and art of Technology:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/women-in-tech-michele-mcgough-on-mana...

Bio-art Residency:
http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/from-the-laboratory-to-...

From anatomical studies and landscape painting to Surrealism’s bio-morphs, the biological realm historically provided a significant resource for numerous artists. More recently, Bio Art refers to the intersecting domains of the biological sciences and their incorporation into the plastic arts.

This interdisciplinary residency will take place in the new Fine Arts Nature and Technology Laboratory located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea gallery district. Each student will be assigned an individual work station, and participants will have access to all of the facilities. The Lab houses microscopes for photo and video imaging; skeleton, specimen and slide collections; an herbarium , aquarium and library. Demonstrations will include microscopy, plant tissue engineering, molecular cuisine and the production of micro eco-systems; students may work in any medium including the performing arts.

The Residency will be led by artist Suzanne Anker, Chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA, and Brandon Ballengée, bio- artist. In addition, visiting speakers will include artists, scientists, and museum professionals. 

www.sva.edu/residency/bioart

Art and science combine in Nano art:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112506329/art-and-science-...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/300795038/nano-art-reloaded

You can watch his video here:

http://kkartlab.in/video/nano-art-reloaded-a-kickstarter-project-fr...

http://thelinemedia.com/features/lineortwo040412.aspx
Conversation between art and science

EVENTS

UPCOMING LASER: 4 APRIL 2012, PALO ALTO, CA (STANFORD UNIVERSITY)
See things from new perspectives at the next Leonardo Art Science
Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 4 April 2012, at Stanford University.
Feature presentations include "Simulating the Vision of Artists" by
ophthalmologist Michael Marmor, "Cultural Perspectives of Science in
Antarctica" by scientist Alan Cooper and musician Julianne Stafford,
"Follow the Glow: Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art" by artist
Sara Loesch-Frank, and "The Art of the Body, The Art of the Pen" by
actor/educator Leonard Pitt. Find out more

DASER WEBCASTS
The DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) series in Washington, DC
(hosted by the National Academy of Sciences) has begun webcasting its
events. As events happen, remote audience members can participate via
the DASER Facebook page and email Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

FREE LEONARDO ARTICLE: VISUAL COMMUNICATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS: THE
FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT, BY RAMA C. HOETZLEIN
Abstract: This paper follows the development of visual communication
through information visualization in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear
accident in Japan. While information aesthetics are often applied to
large data sets retrospectively, the author developed new works
concurrently with an ongoing crisis to examine the impact and social
aspects of visual communication while events continued to unfold. The
resulting work, Fukushima Nuclear Accident---Radiation Comparison Map,
is a reflection of rapidly acquired data, collaborative on-line
analysis and reflective criticism of contemporary news media, resolved
into a coherent picture through the participation of an on-line
community. This article was originally published in Leonardo 45:2,
2012. Read the full paper

http://www.leonardo.info

http://glendonmellow.blogspot.in/2012/04/science-art-communication-...

The golden view of art and engineering:
http://www.bucknell.edu/x77347.xml

Science, art fusion:
http://events.the-burg.com/roanoke_va/events/show/252461864-second-...

From neuroses to neurons - book review:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023504577319903439...
art and neuroscience

The art of science:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577309791428...

Films as science:
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/films-as-science/932631/

Is this Bio-art- Implants on hands?
http://bioartwindsor.blogspot.in/2012/04/does-it-count.html

Bio-art:
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3433453.htm
Video

From SymbioticA digest about its activities:

1.a SymbioticA related activities
ANATOMY on ARTSCAPE
Currently available on iView
As if looking through a microscope, the documentary TISSUE peers into SymbioticA in much the same way its subjects investigate their own work. We meet international artists-in-residence, there to develop their own Bioart under the guidance of Zurr and scientific mentors. We brush against dozens of eerie semi-living artworks and engage in the conversation at the core of all SymbioticA art. In these rapidly changing times, how do we engage with other living entities?

Humorous and playful one moment, provocative and challenging the next, TISSUE explores the world of SymbioticA and the uncomfortable space between the living and non-living.

www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3433453.htm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bij8LCHvFSc

Congratulations to TISSUE director Alethea Jones for winning Tropfest's 20th birthday competition for her short film Lemonade Stand! For more information and to watch the film visit: www.if.com.au/2012/02/20/article/Alethea-Jones-wins-Tropfest-with-L...

CRUDE LIFE: A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE TISSUE CULTURE & ART PROJECT
30 March - 22 April 2012
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gdansk, Poland.
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr will present in CCA Laznia their classic artworks including Victimless Leather, Semi-Living Worry Dolls, Pig Wings Project along with a new work - Crude Matter - conceived especially for the Gdansk exhibition.
http://www.laznia.pl/index.php?idDzial=9&idWpis=911

VAST AND UNDETECTABLE
20 Jan - 14 Apr 2012
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
This will be the San Francisco premier of Leviathans; Phil Ross' video starring slime-mould Physarum polycephalum. Images captured at SymbioticA, with editing by Marcella Faustini and an original score by Scott Arford.
http://www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/2011/vast-and-undetectable/
Watch Leviathans
http://philross.org/projects/leviathans/#projects/leviathans/
1.b SymbioticA seminar series

There will be NO seminar on Friday 6 April. Instead, we present a seminar on WEDNESDAY 11 April:

Topic: "Death By Plastic"
Date: 11 April 2012
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Lavers, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / University of Tasmania, Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year for Tasmania.

Dr Lavers' research is focused on determining whether the removal of plastic from seabird stomachs results in healthier chicks and survival. Her talk will cover her research into the extent of plastic pollution of the earth's oceans and the ecological consequences that result from it.
1.c SymbioticA Residents

Carl Scrase
Residency: Jan-Apr 2012
www.carlscrase.com

Ola Johannson and Amanda Newall
Residency: Feb - May 2012
www.amandanewall.com

Chris Salter
Residency: Feb - May 2012
www.chrissalter.com

Congratulations to former SymbioticA resident Annamaria Weldon, who's poem 'After Devotion', inspired by her residency at Lake Clifton, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The March issue of the Australian Book Review #339 has published the five shortlisted poems. www.australianbookreview.com.au/200-abr-online-edition/270-March-2012

For more info: www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/residents

SymbioticA Lecture series:
1.d Semipermeable lecture series

SymbioticA and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA present the Semipermeable public lecture series. Just like a semipermeable membrane, SymbioticA offers exchange between art and the life sciences. SymbioticA is developing a new research project entitled Semipermeable, which will be facilitated through a multiplicity of artistic and scientific approaches. This quarantine will allow for controlled hybridisation and will act as a membrane for cultural production.

23 May 2012
Of Mice and Men
Orkan Telhan

In this talk, I reflect on the changes that are fundamentally transforming our perception of design and nature today. I discuss a series of work in relation to recent advances in biological sciences and engineering. From living to semi-living, to the non-living, and, synthetically death, I will present new frontiers of design where new ways of composing, assembling, regulating, programming and tinkering life can be seen beyond cheap medicine, better-yielding crops, sustainable building materials or renewable energy, and offer a different logic of life.

Biography: Orkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility. Telhan is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts - Emerging Design Practices at University of Pennsylvania, School of Design.

2.a Careers + Education + Advisories

CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGIES
2 positions available at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies is a new initiative at the University of Warwick. Headed by Professor Celia Lury, it is developing a programme of research, collaboration and public engagement to establish Warwick as a centre of excellence in interdisciplinary methodologies. We are seeking applications for an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor from candidates in any discipline with expertise in interdisciplinary research methods.
Informal enquiries: Professor Celia Lury, email: c.lury@warwick.ac.uk
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/jobsintro/academic/

GEELAB @ RMIT
Game Design For Future Cities/Game Design For Popular Entertainment

RMIT University's Games & Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab) is offering two 3-year full-time PhD stipends, to highly motivated Australians or New Zealanders. At the GEElab, an international research team is investigating how game design thinking can affect and alter architecture & urbanism, mobility, popular media & storytelling,
engagement as well as other sciences. Applications have been extended to 10 April 2012.
http://www.geelab.rmit.edu.au/display/GeeWebEN/Positions

CURATOR MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE
The Curator Mentorship Initiative, generously supported by the Sidney Myer Fund, will provide 4 x 15,000 grants to support the professional development of emerging and mid-career curators of exhibitions and collections in Australia. The Initiative provides the opportunity for emerging and mid-career curators to gain mentored placements within a gallery, art institution or university.
www.visualarts.net.au/grants/curator-mentorship-initiative

Interdisciplinary Residencies:
AUSTRALIA COUNCIL INTERARTS : Artist Initiated Residencies
Artists working in interdisciplinary and hybrid arts are invited to develop proposals for professional development residencies in Australia or internationally. Proposals should outline how you will work in collaboration with the residency host to experiment and develop your arts practice. Applications are encouraged from artists in all states and territories. Residencies should be three months or more, within the funding constraints of the program.
Applications close 1 May 2012 for projects starting on or after 1 August 2012
*Please contact SymbioticA first should you wish to apply to this grant for a residency with us.
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
SYBHEL Project
Calling all writers, film makers, animators and artists - do you have a story to tell about the impact synthetic biology may have on future people? Throughout history, people have used their imaginations to create stories. While stories often entertain, they are also used to make sense of human experience and gain insight into philosophical questions. The possible health advances from the emerging science of synthetic biology may have a significant impact on both our lives and the lives of future people. The SYBHEL Project is instigating a short fiction competition in order to imaginatively consider these issues. We are interested in stories told using a range of different media including writing, film, animation, graphic novels, spoken word or music.
http://sybhel.org/?p=761
Due: 16 April 2012

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
M/C Journal of Media and Culture
This issue of M/C Journal calls for interdisciplinary and accessible discussions on the topic of 'ecology' from a natural sciences or humanities frame. Papers could engage with the emerging inter-disciplines of the 'ecological humanities', 'ecocinema' or 'ecomedia'. Alternatively, papers may discuss Neil Postman's notion of 'media ecology'. Adopting a scientific framework, this term denotes the study of media as dynamic environments whereby, "new communications technologies may not wipe out earlier ones" as John Naugton argues, but alter the ecosystem so the old ones that do survive are those that are able to adapt. As a result, changes in the communications environment bring about cultural change.
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal
Due: 27 April 2012

ALL FOR PAPERS
NONHUMAN: The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
>From its inception, SLSA has distinguished itself from other humanistic scholarly societies through its sustained interest in the nonhuman. Not only does SLSA concern itself with nonhuman actants like tools, bodies, networks, animals, climate, media, or biomes but it is also engaged with such nonhumanistic academic disciplines as mathematics, computing, and the natural and physical sciences.
This conference will take place from 26 -30 September, 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconson. SymbioticA's Director Oron Catts will be providing a keynote address.
Due: 1 May 2012

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography
The Australian Museum and New Scientist magazine invite you to enter the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography for your chance to win a share of $10,000. Open to those 18 years and over, this Eureka Prize is awarded for a single photograph that most effectively communicates an aspect of science. What does science mean to you?
http://eureka.australianmuseum.net.au/eureka-prize/science-photogra...
Due: 4 May 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture Volume 4, Spring, 2013 Published by SUNY Press, TER provides a forum for evolutionary critiques in all the fields of the arts, human sciences, and culture: essays and reviews on film, fiction, theatre, visual art, music, dance, and popular culture; essays and reviews of books, articles, and theories related to evolution and evolutionary psychology; and essays and reviews on science, society, and the environment.
Essays in The Evolutionary Review implicitly affirm E. O. Wilson's vision of "consilience," and give evidence that an evolutionary perspective can yield a richer, more complete understanding of the world and of ourselves.
http://evolutionaryreview.com/
Due: 21 June 2012

Conferences, Talks, Workshops & Symposiums

In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy
3 April 2012
The Centre for Ideas at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) is running a symposium series concerning representations of animals in human culture, beginning April 3rd.
Inquiries: louiseburchill@orange.fr

Supersonix Conference: The Art and Science of Sound Exhibition Road, London, England
21 - 23 June
Supersonix is an international celebration of the art and science of sound in all its complexity. Recent SymbioticA graduate Joel Ong will be presenting a paper on his Masters project Nanovibrancy at the international sound art conference Supersonix on Exhibition Road later this year. His paper will focus on his installation Nanovibrancy, but also on the implications of miniature sound on the philosophy of listening as part of his thesis.
http://www.exhibitionroad.com/supersonix

MUTAMORPHOSIS II: TRIBUTE TO UNCERTAINTY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Prague
6 - 8 December 2012
Do you have something original to say about our world that is increasingly fuzzy, unstable and chaotic? Are you interested in how crisis, uncertainty and complexity can come together in order to question the known as well as predict and/or model yet unknown? Do you want to share projects intrinsically linking domains of scientific, artistic and technological research and creativity that can be introduced as relevant tools for better understanding of our common future? We invite you to respond to the Tribute to Uncertainty theme.
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/tribute-to-uncertainty/

KAREN INGHAM: WONDER CHAMBER
Ffotogallery, Penarth, UK
9 March - 14 April 2012
The Wunderkammer, or Wonder Chamber, is related to and at times synonymous with the Kunstkammer (art chamber) and Cabinet of Curiosity. Wonder Chamber encapsulates the interdisciplinary nature of Ingham’s practice which embraces natural history, medical science, art history, museology, theatrical spectacle and lens-based media (the notion of the chamber, or camera, to quote the Latin origins, being inscribed in photography through the camera obscura, or ‘darkened room’). In particular, Ingham is concerned with notions of layering and concealing and revealing dichotomous states through optical science and illusion. Wonder Chamber and its accompanying publication, acts as an imaginary museum bringing together many of the key works Ingham has been developing over the past few years.
http://www.ffotogallery.org/karen-ingham-wonder-chamber

Experimental Station
until 9th April 2012
LABoral
Gijûn, Spain
Estaciûn experimental [Experimental Station] presents the work of those artists whose work is inspired by an irrepressible impulse that connects them to the purest part of scientific research. Steering away from pre-established guidelines in contemporary art, these creators share a certain fascination in their work for extra-artistic themes - not only for what happens in the field of reality but also in the beyond.
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/

MARTYNAS GAUBAS: THE EMIGRATION
4 March - 24 April 2012
Bishop's Square, Spitalfields, London E1 6AA
The European Public Art Centre (EPAC) is a collaborative engagement between organisations across Europe focusing on intersections between art, science and society. Now in C-LAB's (UK) third phase of the EPAC programme, where artworks rotate between participating countries, Lithuanian artist Martynas Gaubas presents his artwork THE EMIGRATION.

E-SCAPES: ARTISTIC EXPLORATIONS OF NATURE AND SCIENCE (Free Download) Leonardo Electronic Almanac Volume 18 Issue 1 is the exhibition catalogue of E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science, featuring the works of Jane Prophet and Paul Catanese.
http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/e-scapes/*

NEW ART/SCIENCE AFFINITIES (Free Download) http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/nasabook/index.php

ANARCHIST DEVELOPMENTS IN CULTURAL STUDIES ADCS is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of new and emerging connections across disciplines in contemporary anarchist studies.
http://www.anarchist-developments.org/

http://www.openpr.com/news/216957/Julio-Lugo-Rivas-Organic-Visions-...

Art exhibition:

A harmonic sense of balance and motion rests at the heart of all the works of Puerto Rican artist Julio Lugo Rivas, as he seeks to express the stability between disease and wellness. Capturing the microscopic universe of cells and their environment in acrylic and mixed media on canvas, Lugo paints an ethereal and energetic vision, creating an organic abstraction in his mix of atmospheric brushstrokes, staccato splatters, and delicate line work. Lugo builds a deep and murky dreamworld of darkness and illumination as he investigates interactions between clouds, geometric shapes, and cellular forms, graphically exploring scientific theories of microcosms and the great expanse of the cosmos.