http://hyperallergic.com/49937/art-and-science-get-intimate/

A lot has changed since novelist and physicist C.P. Snow’s assertion in the 1960s that Western intellectual life was split between two irreconcilable cultures: the arts and the sciences. Around that time, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was just beginning its efforts to bridge those two spheres. Fifty years later, Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery has made a significant contribution to the relationship between art, science and technology with the exhibition Intimate Science and the related book New Art/Science Affinities.

Maths and origami art:
http://paper.li/bnidever/artscience?utm_source=subscription&utm...

SymbioticA related activities

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
Watch a video from the opening here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOTpT6asopY

Read two interviews with Oron Catts on The Urban Times, in which he discusses two projects as well as the ongoing activities of SymbioticA
http://www.theurbn.com/2012/04/interview-with-oron-catts-the-pig-wi...
http://www.theurbn.com/2012/04/interview-oron-catts-victimless-leat...

The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
26 - 30 September 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconson.
SymbioticA's Director Oron Catts will be providing a keynote address at this conference. Last chance to submit your papers!
>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.
Papers Due: 1 May 2012
http://www.litsciarts.org/

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

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

D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
6:00 pm, 24 May
Present by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS), DASER is a discussion on recent developments in experimental and interactive technology in art. This symposium will be webcast beginning 30 minutes prior to the event.
http://nas.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Experience_Future...

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/

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

Old-school microbial paintings by Alexander Fleming, father of penicillin
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Painting-With-Penicill...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&articleID=...

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/doubilet-phot...

Books: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400068715

Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

By Eric Kandel

Conferences and festivals :

The Two Cultures: Visual Art and Science c.1800-2011 26 April 2012
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference York University.
http://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/news-and-events/events/2012/tw...

Art and Science: Knowledge, Creation and Discovery.
Summer Symposium 2012. 28 June – 29 June 2012. The Linnean Society,

The Festival of the Mind. Sheffield 20-30 September 2012
The Festival of the Mind will be a collaboration between the City and the University of Sheffield which will
showcase its cultural strengths through a weeklong festival to be held from
20–30 September 2012.
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/festivalofthemind

Art Science Museum Singapore
The Museum’s showpiece exhibition, ArtScience: A Journey Through Creativity, is an homage and introduction to the nascent field of ArtScience. What unites Art and Science is the instinct to observe, connect, take risks and explore new ideas and ways of understanding nature’s wisdom and experiences that shape our culture.

Visitors to the ArtScience exhibition will explore these mysterious connections between the arts and the sciences through three galleries – Curiosity, Inspiration and Expression – thus undergoing their own journey of creativity.
http://www.marinabaysands.com/Singapore-Museum/About/

http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/ae/story/art-rocks-science-expo-...

The Rehoboth Art League will host Delaware’s first satellite event to the USA Science and Engineering Festival, Art Rocks Science! Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22,. The expo will showcase the interface among art, design, science and technology. Participants will tackle hands-on art projects related to science demonstrations that stretch their core creativity and spark spontaneous innovations. The expo includes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) producers from Delaware’s high-tech businesses, education, arts and community leaders.

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/04/nasa-broke-taps-starving-art-st...

http://www.newswise.com/articles/grad-students-to-mix-arts-with-sci...

The Arts | Science Collaboration Grants encourage independent, cross-disciplinary research between students in the arts and sciences. The grants were launched by the Arts | Science Initiative in 2011 as a pilot program, with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories.

Each collaborative group consists of two or more graduate students, with at least one from the arts and one from the sciences, who have worked together since January to investigate a subject from the perspectives

Share your science-art on guardian Paper:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/18/share-your-art-s...

This month's topic  is science-art to share . Inspired by a number of science-related exhibitions on at the moment including Animal Inside Out at the National History Museum, London and Damien Hirst's Pharmacy showing at the artist's retrospective at Tate Modern,Guardian invites you to add to our growing readers' online art gallery, your artworks on/about/tenuously linked to science. See the instructions below, but do remember that every image is premoderated, so don't worry if you don't see your picture on the gallery straight away.

How to send them your artworks

Send an email to your.photos@guardian.co.uk with "Share your art" in the subject line. Please include your full name so we can credit you properly, and the title (if it has one) of your work. Attach a high resolution jpeg or tiff photo file (maximum file size 20mb) of your art to the email. A selection of your pictures will displayed in our online gallery.

We'll feature some of our favourite pictures from the group on guardian.co.uk/artanddesign. By sending us your pictures you a) acknowledge that you have created the pictures or have permission to do so; and b) grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, free licence to publish your pictures as described. Copyright resides with you and you may reuse your pictures however you wish. 

Bio-art using Microbes:
http://www.helsinki.fi/news/archive/4-2012/17-15-11-01.html

– When the colour of a painting is created using bacteria, the painting can change colour, live or die, says Erich Berger, coordinator of the Finnish Bioart Society.

Bioart that uses living matter in works of art hovers between art and natural sciences. Creating works of bioart doesn’t require any training in the natural sciences. On Wednesday 18 April at the HENVI Science Days workshop, bioartists will let the public in on the technology and show how you can turn a webcam into a USB microscope.

– Building a microscope is technology, not art, but you can use the microscope to make bioart.

The technology is surprisingly simple. You disassemble a regular webcam, turn the lens over and reassemble the camera. The sample to be looked at is placed on a glass plate spiced up with leds. The glass plate works as the microscope slide. A magnification of 150–200 times the size of the original can be achieved.

– It shows everything that a laboratory microscope does. Anyone can see the world of microscopic life, says Janna Pietikäinen, university lecturer in environmental studies.

The afternoon of the workshop (from 2 pm to 5 pm) will be spent at the Think Corner of the university, with the participants and their microscopes available to anyone who wants to bring samples to be identified by microbiologists and plankton specialists.

– You can bring any sample that you wish: from your aquarium, the Baltic Sea, a flowerpot or from the surface of your teeth, Pietikäinen says.

Bio-art ethics and art works:
http://www.metamute.org/community/blog-roll/bioart-ethics-and-artworks

Bio-art:
http://www.inflexions.org/n5_mitchellhtml.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-reviews-the-a...

Review of the book the Age of Insight

Think art - act science:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/53941143-81/art-utah-mus...

Art science combination project wins grant:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/apr/19/orchard-prairie-wins-a...

Conservation and art:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9421646.htm

Science and art:
http://digitalphotoalchemy.com/science-and-art-julia-borovaya/

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/26808-scientists-and...

Science Galley in Dublin is playing host to an interactive workshop this week where five designers from the Royal College of Art in London are working with five Irish scientists to delve into the future of synthetic biology.

The eclectic group is aiming to explore the design of synthetic life and the fate of mutant products.

The Royal College of Art designers, who hail from its Design Interactions lab, are working with developmental biologists, geneticists, bio-engineers and DIY biologists at Science Gallery during the workshop called Mutant Products.

The 10 participants are discussing sketches, proposals and questions of design for synthetic biology at the workshop, which started yesterday and will run for two more days.

Visitors to Science Gallery between today and tomorrow will also have a chance to observe the workshop and even contribute to it, by posing their own questions and thoughts on the topic.

Mutant Products itself is one of a series of activities in the Europe-wide, EC FP7-funded project Studiolab. Which explores creative opportunities where art, science and design collide and engages the public.

As well as Science Gallery in Dublin, which leads Studiolab, Design Interactions at The Royal College of Art, London, Le Laboratoire in Paris is a member, as is RIX-C, the Center for New Media Culture in Riga.

Other members include Ars Electronica in Linz; MediaLab Prado in Madrid; ISI Foundation in Turin; Optofonica, in Amsterdam; Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels; Leonardo in France; CIANT in Prague; Medical Museion in Copenhagen and Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem.

Events at Leonardo:

UPCOMING DASER: 24 MAY 2012, WASHINGTON DC
Join them for the next DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous DASER), 24 May 2012, at Keck Center, Washington DC. This month, the discussion focuses on recent developments in experimental and interactive technology in art. Feature presentations by artist Jonah Brucker-Cohen, educator Max Kazemzadeh, and others. Find out more

UPCOMING NEW YORK LASER: CITIZEN SCIENTISTS
Patricia Olynyk (LEAF Chair) and Ellen K. Levy (past LEAF Chair) are pleased to inform you of the upcoming NY LASER on Saturday, May 12th, 4-7pm. The theme of this event is: Citizen Scientists with guest speaker Linda Weintraub (ArtNow Publications). This event is hosted by the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). The salon is open to all members of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) on a respond-first basis. Those members who wish to present thematically related work after Linda Weintraub?s presentation may participate in the petcha kutcha that follows. The event can accommodate up to four additional presentations. All who wish to attend should reserve a place by sending an email to Ellen Levy at levy@nyc.rr.com.

http://www.leonardo.info/e-LNN/e-LNN.html

Leonardo Publications:

ARTS, HUMANITIES AND COMPLEX NETWORKS: A LEONARDO MULTIMEDIA E-BOOK AND WEB COMPANION
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce the publication of the Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks e-book and web companion. Produced in partnership with the ATEC program at the University of Texas-Dallas and MIT Press, the e-book contains 25 articles documenting the work of 45 leading researchers in the field. The science of complex networks is explored within the contexts of art history, archeology, visual arts, the art market and other areas of cultural importance. Find out more

http://art.broadwayworld.com/article/Noticers-Art-Science-Exhibit-O...

"Noticers: Intersections of Art & Science" Opens on Thursday May 3 with an opening reception 6-8pm. Regular exhibit hours are Mon – Thurs, 9 AM – 6 PM and by arrangement at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 West 3100 South West Valley City, Utah 84119)

Both the exhibit and the opening reception are free and open to the public

Noticers oh-tis-ers (n) 1. People who ask questions about the world around them and interpret those observations through evidence or artistic mediums. 2. Scientists and artists.

With experimentation, observation, reassessment, determination and dedication, both artists and scientists pursue that pure moment of discovery and creation. Noticers: The Intersections of Art and Science addresses the integration and collaboration of these two seemingly disparate fields. Both visual arts and hands-on, interactive installations are part of the presentation.

The heart of the exhibit features 8 interactive “Art and Science Stations”, each with a particular emphasis. Included is a Stroop Test, a Time-Lapse Video, a Community Collaborative Art Project, Wind Tubes, a Magnetic TV, and other thematic, experiential displays such as “This is the Place” and “Pure as the Driven Snow” (details to be revealed by Curators Blake Wigdahl and Dave Stroud at the Opening Reception).

The Utah Cultural Celebration Center presents this interactive art and science exhibition in partnership with the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, The Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and Curators Blake Wigdahl and Dave Stroud of Thanksgiving Point.

For more information about this and other exhibits or events at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, visit www.culturalcelebration.org

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20444528/at-oakland-ele...

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Dancing+to+t...

The band Art Vs. Science look at popular music in a scientific way and evaluate why it is good and break it down to tempo, structure, melody. Then they have art inspirations improvising them trying to channel them.

http://news.wfu.edu/2012/04/20/liz-lerman%E2%80%99s-aesthetic-of-in...

Lerman, who was a recipient of a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, has produced performance pieces that integrate physics and genetics into dance.  She is a leading representative of a growing movement within and outside academe to explore how artistic practices can have broad application in scientific learning and research.  She recently received a National Science Foundation grant to work in partnership with several universities and a group of international researchers in physics and astronomy to produce “The Matter of Origins,” an experimental program that explores the physics of the origin of matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYOUte6Jgk

http://www.nashvillescene.com/countrylife/archives/2012/04/20/the-u...

The Un-Science of Patricia Piccinini's Art

http://events.stanford.edu/events/323/32311/

Earth Systems BBQ and Science/Art Fair

Spring BBQ and celebration of the intersection between science and art.  BBQ open to School of Earth Sciences students, faculty, and staff.  Science/Art fair open to University students, faculty, and staff.

Friday, June 1, 2012.

http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/science-to-art/?goback...

The interplay between science and art is fascinating but ill-defined. Does science produce a kind of art almost incidentally, for example the images of sub-atomic particles colliding in a linear accelerator? They certainly look like art—abstract and evocative. But doesn’t a work of art have to be created with an intention to be so? If not, then any interesting image would be art and that would disturb the existing social system of values that insists that art be created by artists and science by scientists.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120419/NEWS01/204190382/W...

LUX, a new exhibit combining science, art and nature at Cornell University, has an opening reception 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the lower level of Milstein Hall.

The reception will then move to Willard Straight Gallery for a dance performance, 7 to 9 p.m.

"Discussion of LUX," a series of talks, will be held 3 to 5 p.m. Saturdayin Milstein Auditorium in Millstein Hall.

The LUX exhibition will draw renowned artists and scientists from around the world who will discuss and demonstrate how light inspires art and innovation.

The visually stunning exhibit features rooms illuminated with stars and glass water droplets and light suspended in space like a cloud.

Installations in a variety of media include LED sculptures, fiber optics, glass and a work of art done in collaboration with an astrophysicist to create the universe in cube form.

LUX will run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, through May 11 at Milstein Hall Gallery.

For more information, call Beth Kunz at 255-7324 or e-mail aapgalleries@cornell.edu.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20120421/TOWNNEWS/120419374&TEM...

A new exhibition is blurring the divide between art and science through experimental films, poetry readings, music and performance art.

The exhibition, “Tales from a Test Tube,” runs from April 21 through July 27 at the Warner Babcock Institute of Green Chemistry, 100 Research Drive, Wilmington, with an opening reception from 1 to 4 p.m. April 21 at the institute.

The exhibition is curated by Jerry Beck, director of marketing and community engagement at the Fitchburg Art Museum, in collaboration with a class of Fitchburg State University students led by professor Robert Carr.

The concept is for students, artists, scientists and the public to come together to learn how art and science combine to create a more environmentally safe and sustainable world, Mr. Beck said.

The artists offer an exquisite assortment of drawings, paintings, glassworks, ceramics, mixed media, sculpture, photography, film and video, he said.

“Each work of art is a footprint for crossing the previously black and white boundary between science and art,” he said. “This exhibition promotes some important artists and how their work responds to the preservation of the natural world as a unifying life force and the key to our ultimate survival.”

One of the features of the exhibition draws an eclectic audience of teachers, students, scientists and business leaders from around the world, Mr. Beck said.

“The institute, founded by Dr. John Warner, is taking expansive steps in the field of chemistry toward making the world a less toxic environment,” Mr. Beck said. “This means using nontoxic chemicals, such as replacing petroleum-based materials with eco-friendly substances such as plants, water and carbon dioxide, producing less waste and designing techniques that minimize energy requirements and use renewable materials.”

“It is not a philosophy,” Dr. Warner said. “It is not a social movement. It's a science. Today, we need the arts and sciences to come together in new and unprecedented ways. They both need creativity that can lead to critical ecological changes that will sustain us and the world we live in.”

Participating artists include Merril Comeau, Jay Critchley, Bob Harmon Jr., Alexa Kleinbard, Tim Legros, Charles Mayer, Peter McLean, Alison Nesbitt McTyre, Kate Gilbert Miller, Karen Moss, Ian Murray, Stephanie Nichols, Patrick Pierce, Michael Rivera, Collette A. Shumate Smith, Tom Stanford, Ilene Sunshine, Steve Syverson and Michal Truelsen.

For more information, call (978) 590-3759 or visit www.fitchburgartmuseum.org.

http://www2.journalnow.com/entertainment/2012/apr/22/wsliving01-exh...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-prosthetic-art-2012...

Hopkins clinician mixes art, science in facial prosthetics

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/peace-of-art/939964/

Archaeology and natural sciences as art.

Book on Science+Art:
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=1341

Six Stories from the End of Representation

by James Elkins
Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle Physics, and Quantum Mechanics, 1980-2000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17804457
Leonardo's Anatomy drawings on show

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/04/18/grad-students-mix-arts-...

Grad students to mix arts with science in April 26 presentations

The science of exhibitions:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/244113/art-reviews.html

bringing together substantial works from very interesting individualities, demonstrates yet again how important is not only aesthetic but sensitively inventive display to the impact of what is being displayed.

This role of the exhibiting space becomes all the more evident that the four younger generation artists consciously involve its potential behaviour in the structure of their art.

Highlighting each of the few contributions separately with ample room of both distance and closeness, the architecture of the place suggests a particular manner of display considering the character of the work towards mutual enhancement, while also visually and evocatively connecting the whole. Thus, the spectator can see the pieces as part of on-going preoccupations as well as link them against the intuition of a broader background of contemporary circumstances.

Damien Hirst's experiments with "science":

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/damien-hirst-revelations-through-s...

The sight of medicine cabinets neatly filled with pharmaceuticals, or the head of a cow with flies crawling all over it may not be your idea of art, but for evoking emotions and raising questions, Damien Hirst’s work would have to be at the top of a list of true works of art that leave an impact. That impact might wear out as soon as you leave the exhibition, but it’s definitely palpable when walking past dead and living butterflies, a shark suspended in formaldehyde.

For Hirst, “Every work must say something and deny it at the same time.” Hence, his fixation with oppositions, like life and death, science and religion, faith and loss of faith, decay and resurrection, the passing of time and the suspension of time.

“There are four important things in life: religion, love, art and science,” says Hirst. Love is not present in most of his work, but religion and science both have overarching presences. His spot paintings show a meticulous arrangement, almost scientific in terms of how they use color, the distance between spots, and their placement on canvas.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_20444528?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150...

Art that illustrates Biology

Through short, hand-drawn animations, Peralta students have explained photosynthesis, trash elimination and the water cycle.
At Oakland elementary school, environmental science meets art contracostatimes.com

Oakland elementary school uses animation and other arts to teach the children about their environment.

http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/on-the-radio/
Talk on art+science