From SymbioticA Digest:
ADAPTATION EXHIBITION
6 May - 10 June 2012
INQB8 Centre for Contemporary Art, 63 Ormsby Terrace, Mandurah Western Australia
Exploring the microbe to the macro, and everything in-between, Adaptation is SymbioticA's art and ecology research project undertaken by artists at Lake Clifton since 2008. Adaptation features the work of: ART ORIENTÉ OBJET, JUAN M. CASTRO, ORON CATTS, GALLIANO FARDIN, CATHERINE HIGHAM, GLORIA KEARING AND ROB EWING, PERDITA PHILLIPS, VYONNE WALKER, CARMEL WALLACE, ANNAMARIA WELDON.

Lake Clifton as a location and as a metaphor, offers a microcosmic peak into the broader issues of ecology and life itself.

Adaptation broadly scopes issues spanning the creation of life, indigenous culture, colonisation, scientific discovery, developmental booms, to fragility in the face of
climate change. Outcomes of SymbioticA's Adaptation residency and collaboration projects will be showcased in this exhibition.

Experiment 02 - Biological Empathy Virus
Screen Space Ground Floor, 30 Guildford Lane Melbourne Australia
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
18:00 until 21:00
Special one night only developmental showing of the 'Experiment 02 - Biological Empathy Virus'at Screen Space Gallery in Melbourne.
The work was developed during Carl Scrase's residency at SymbioticA. It captures four conversations that occurred during his three months immersed in the science of empathy and weaves them into a poetic multi-channel video work.
www.seri.net.au

Alife13
July 19-22 2012
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA
With keynote from Oron Catts
Online registration now available
http://www.regonline.com/alife13 for full details

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS
PLASTIK Art and Science: The next issue of 'Plastik Art & Science' will be devoted to artists working on and
questioning nanotechnology. What are the new types of relationships that are going to emerge between artists, spectators and the complex physical matter? Can
experimentation on such a minute scale render the macroscopic response of matter tangible? How can one make something that occurs on a scale of a billionth of a metre
visible when the matter itself no longer corresponds to the traditional laws governing it on a larger scale? How should one consider the aesthetic experience of the
spectator when the material of the artwork becomes sensitive to its environment?
http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/
Due: 15 June 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

Trust me, I'm an Artist: towards an ethics of art/science collaboration
Thursday 31st May 2012, 6-8pm at ENS, Paris, France
Next event is with Art Orienté Objet
www.artscienceethics.com

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/

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/*

Leonardo Programmes:

EVENTS

NEXT LASER: 14 MAY 2012, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 14 May 2012, at the University of San Francisco. Feature presentations include "Reinterpreting the Great Wall of China for the Age of Globalization" by artist Shan Shan Sheng, "A Global Intelligence Platform: The New AI--Not Artificial Intelligence, But Instead Augmented Intelligence" by physicist Sean Gourley, "Urban Ecology: New York City's Visionary Urbanism" by writer Mark Feldman, and "Unlocking the Power of Play; Situational Design Applications in the Civic Realm" by artist Jeff Hull. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

ARTS, HUMANITIES AND COMPLEX NETWORKS
THE FIRST ARTICLE COLLECTION FROM LEONARDO FOR THE KINDLE
Produced in partnership with Leonardo/ISAST and the MIT Press, this project includes 25 articles that focus on an emerging area of research and scholarship: complex networks. The collection documents the efforts of 45 leading researchers whose work explores the meaning and application of the science of complex networks to art history, archaeology, visual arts, the art market and other areas of cultural importance. These works were presented at Leonardo Days during the Network Science conferences, at the High Throughput Humanities conference and in the print journal Leonardo. Find out more

LMJ SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: "NOTATING ACTION-BASED MUSIC" BY JURAJ KOJS
In "Notating Action-Based Music" (LMJ 21) Juraj Kojs discusses the notation of action-based music, in which physical gestures and their characteristics, such as shape, direction and speed (as opposed to psychoacoustic properties such as pitch, timbre and rhythm), play the dominant role in preserving and transferring information. Grounded in ecological perception and enactive cognition, the article shows how such an approach mediates a direct relationship between composition and performance, details some action-based music notation principles and offers practical examples. A discussion of tablature, graphic scores and text scores contextualizes the method historically. Listen to two MP3 audio recordings and view a video related to the work discussed in this article on the MIT Press web site. Find out more

MEMBERS

UCLA ART |SCI CENTER RENEWS AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP WITH LEONARDO
The Art | Sci Center at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving "Third Culture" by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. The center's affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting edge researchers and laboratories as well as a dedicated gallery for exhibitions. Here too the center hosts the Sci | Art NanoLab Summer Institute for high school students, introducing them to the vast possibilities in the quantum field of artscience for present/future generations. In cooperation with CNSI, the UCLA School of the Arts and the Department of Design | Media Arts, the Art | Sci Center supports visiting research scholars and artists in residency from around the world. The center hosts lectures, mixers and symposia to bring artists and scientists together in order to mesh these cultures and inspire individuals to think about art an!
d science as already interrelated and relevant to our society. Find out more

From Leonardo:
New Exhibit Opens May 5; Sneak Peek Friday Night

The Leo will unveil a new exhibit on Saturday, May 5. Think Art – Act Science, a collection of eight installations created by international artists as part of the “Swiss Artists-in-Labs” program. This unique initiative places artists into long-term residencies alongside scientific researchers—a perfect match for The Leonardo.

Enjoy Fish Skin, a “sonic fresco,” with miniature speakers and piano strings arranged in waves. A short film titled The Rocket for the Rest of Us ties major inventions of the past to the construction of the world’s first solar-powered rocket. In When I Woke Up the Sun Had Moved you’ll find nine “dancing” robots making digital trails that are projected live. For more information, visit our new exhibit page.

SNEAK PEEK… Although the public opening is on May 5, you can come by for a sneak peek on Friday evening at 8:30 p.m. for a live sound performance by artist Alexandre Joly.

Up Close and Personal with the Artists

As part of the opening festivities for Think Art – Act Science, we’ll be hosting several special events on Saturday. Join our artists in-gallery for two free (with admission) workshops, or drop in Saturday evening at 5:30 for a FREE-to-the-public discussion – Creative Collisions – which will delve into the rise of multi-, cross- and transdisciplinary research, careers, products and art (and museums!). What’s fueling this new movement? Will our future insist that we become “Renaissance” men and women? Visit our calendar for details.

http://www.redheadgallery.org/index.php?option=com_content&view...

Elaine Whittaker's

Cc: me

May 23 - June 16, 2012

Opening Reception:   Friday, June 1, 6:30 – 9:00pm
 

7:30pm Poetry Reading:  by Jim Johnstone, Julie Roorda,
Ruth Roach Pierson, Larry Sulky

Ambient sound piece by Tom Auger

The Red Head Gallery presents Elaine Whittaker’s Cc: me, a mixed media installation of drawing, live bacteria, and sound. The body becomes a site for the infectious nature of language – nuanced, messaged, poetic, copied.  Abstracted human figures, sketched using discarded carbon fax typographies, are presented as both wall drawings and insertions in petri dish installations teeming with live bacteria.  These spent faxes, of once urgent environmental campaigns, are juxtaposed against crass viral commercial messaging, become shadowy iterations of the body, images of mutable histories, degraded texts, and transformative ecology. Four local poets, Julie Roorda, Jim Johnstone, Ruth Roach Pierson and Larry Sulky, and sound artist, Tom Auger, respond to the work. The poets’ words are, in turn, transformed into evocative tracings of wit, longing, memory, and life. Installations of word, sound and object. The textual, the aural and the visual. The carbon copy of yesterday becomes the transfigured art of today.

Science,art and craft exhibition:
http://mumbai.rims.ac.in/image-gallery/science-art-craft-exhibition...

Noticers: The Intersections of Art and Science Exhibit
Salt Lake City Weekly
The Utah Cultural Celebration Center is pleased to present 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 ...
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http://malina.diatrope.com/2012/05/03/making-science-intimate-trans...

Making Science Intimate: Translating and Integrating the Arts and Humanities with Biology and Medicine

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=12971

31 May, Paris: “Trust Me, I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art and
Science Collaboration”
http://malina.diatrope.com/2012/05/03/31-may-paris-trust-me-im-an-a...

Dear Colleagues

you are invited to Trust Me, I'm an Artist

The Salle des Actes, The École normale supérieure, 45, rue d’Ulm 75005
Paris, France

http://dmse.mit.edu/news/blog/dmse-alum-makes-art-based-science

DMSE alum makes art, based on science

April 29, 2012

http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/events/mc-davinci-science-jeff-l...

Jeff Lieberman wants to get people excited about science through art

When Jeff Lieberman mixes science and art

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2012/05/04/seeing_ho...

Seeing how she saw science
Photo exhibit showcases Berenice Abbott’s work at MIT

http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/kids/mc-gp-science-works-da-vinc...

Art and science merge at ScienceWorks at DaVinci Center

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/zzzz-pages-to-be-deleted/news/beautif...

A QUIET and beautiful partnership between science and art has trumped the big guns, winning a major art award.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/may/0...

Astronomical art: the changing face of the supermoon

The art and science of Medicine:
http://www.liberianobserver.com/index.php/opinioneditorial/item/125...

You have been thoroughly immersed in and taught what it is to become a physician. You have been captivated and guided by your professors through the stormy waters and armed with the knowledge of the SCIENCE of medicine. You are bursting with your knowledge of biochemistry, and physiology; of internal medicine and the rudiments of general surgery and all of the prerequisites that have brought you here today. You are ready to begin your careers. But there is another and equally important and complementary aspect of this science which will equip you and guide you throughout your journey as you take care of your patients and as you interact with your colleagues. This is known as the ART of Medicine.

Bio-art and victimless leather:
http://www.thestate.ae/victimless-leather-immortal-bioart-life-supp...

http://bioartandtextiles.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C
Bioart and Textiles Workshop
Saturday, 26 May 2012 from 11:00 to 16:00 (GMT)
Oxford, United Kingdom

On this practical and theoretical workshop with Anna Dumitriu, participants will begin to learn how to work safely with bacteria as an artistic medium using commonly available supplies. They will start to develop a bacteriocentric view of the world, understand the textile techniques used in the exhibition and discuss the new advances in clinical microbiology being investigated by the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project. The workshop will also look at other key artists in the field of bioart, issues of public engagement in science, ethics, and the nature of collaborative art/science practice.

http://open.nasa.gov/blog/2012/05/08/science-art-and-human-spacefli...

Science, art, and human spaceflight

May 8, 2012 | The more advanced science gets, the closer it is to art. The more advanced art gets, the closer it is to science. - Buckminster Fuller

http://subtletechnologies.com/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_113875339

International artists and scientists coming together at their festival to share their work with each other and their audience.

Subtle Technologies Festival

Slime-mould art and science:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8982310/Intell...

http://blog.cofa.unsw.edu.au/?p=8261&goback=.gde_1636727_member...

What happens when art meets science?

Focusing specifically on their own practices, this presentation by Michele Barker, Anna Munster and Paul Thomas will explore the methodologies and outcomes of two very different approaches to the art + science process.

More info

When: May 15, 2012
Where: COFA lecture theatre: EGO2
Cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road
Paddington, NSW

"TRANSCENDING BORDERS: The Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Society on a Global Stage"

On Monday, June 4, 2012 from 5 to 7 pm, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman, Austrian Ambassador Dr. Hans Peter Manz, and Salzburg Global Seminar President Stephen Salyer will be hosting a series of panels at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC.
"Transcending Borders" is an international dialogue around the nexus of art, science, and technology in the 21st century. Today's artists and scientists improve our critical understanding of the world by provoking new ideas, experimentation, and creative strategies. This conversation will be moderated by Amanda McDonald Crowley and will feature Gerfried Stocker from Ars Electronica with Joel Slayton from Zero1, the artist/scientist team of Liz Lerman and Drew Baden, Clare Shine from the Salzburg Global Seminar, and policy makers from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation.

NEA Art/Science Webinar

The NEA supports art/science projects across all disciplines through our Art Works grants. Anyone interested in learning more about funding opportunities for art/science projects is invited to log on to a NEA webinar on June 14th at 3:00 pm EST. Agency representatives will be on hand to provide information and answer questions. Our next application deadline is on August, 9th.

To join the webinar, go to http://artsgov.adobeconnect.com/art-science/ and click "Enter as Guest." Type in your full name, and then click "Enter Room.” You can listen using your computer speakers or dial-in toll-free to 1-877-685-5350, participant code: 942738.

An archive will be posted Monday, June 18 in the "Podcasts, Webcasts, & Webinars" section of the NEA website.

http://freshwatercleveland.com/forgood/cuyahogaartsandculture051012...

Free classical concerts held in churches throughout the city, a science, math, technology and engineering (STEM) high school at Great Lakes Science Center, and a partnership between Inlet Dance Company and the Music Settlement are just a few of the unique projects funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

Art and science exhibition:
http://www.ithaca.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_c45a9eb6-9950-...

“LUX: An Art and Science Exhibition” has been curated by Cornell artist-in-residence Natalie Tyler. It presents the work of contemporary artists and scientists working with light. A series of lectures and demonstrations took place at the university on April 21. The art exhibit component of the event is split between gallery spaces in Milstein Hall and Willard Straight Hall and concludes this week. (The show runs from April 20 through May 11.) It features artists from around the world.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2012...

Grad Engineering Programs Probe Intersection of Science, Art

Art training can help engineers think more creatively

http://www.toacorn.com/news/2012-05-10/Community/Center_explores_ar...

Art conservation with the help of science

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47355334/ns/technology_and_science-scie...

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2012/0510/122431583969...

IN THE EYES OF scientists, dance has never been so chic. These days, the two disciplines are chatting about the perception of movement, bodily memory, or the cognitive processes underlying the creation of choreography and improvisation. And then there’s “Dance your PhD”.

It’s an initiative by biologist and journalist John Bohannon that challenges scientists to use dance instead of Powerpoint to explain their research.

Sign up here:
http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...

Highlights included in a three-day pass include:

SYMPOSIUM ON ART, BIOLOGY and TECHNOLOGY

See talks on....
* Using Biology to Inspire Engineering Design
* Art from Synthetic Biology
* Exploratory Soundscapes of Arterial Flow
* Proposal for Resuscitating Prehistoric Lives
* Primate Cinema: Apes as family

PERFORMANCE: EXPERIMENTS
Created in collaboration with behavioural ecologists, this multimedia dance
performance by Vancouver-based LINK Dance probes the connections between
science and art.
Co-presented with DanceWorks.
http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...

Attend the Friday May 25 @8pm showing included in the Festival three-day
pass. Or, purchase tickets separately for either showing (Friday May 25 &
Saturday May 26 @ 8pm) here:
http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=60afcd...

NEW WORKSHOP—REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
We are now releasing tickets to an additional event: the Festival workshop
entitled The Physarum Experiments. Join London-based visual artist
Heather Barnett exploring the creative possibilities of the
single-celled organism Physarum, aka slime mould.
http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...

http://chambreblanche.qc.ca/EN/actu.asp?cleLangue=1&cleActualit...

Within the framework of the Manif d’art 6 under the theme of Machines – The shapes of movement, LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE welcomes the Berlin artist Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. The artist will show the installation « GAMMAvert - a X-SEA-SCAPES », an artwork that presents a poetic and scientific confluence in which a photography of the Baltic Sea, a place near the artist’s childhood home, is manifested in the form of high-pitched chirps and pulses of light. Referencing the ocean waves in the photograph, the room is awash in « standing waves ». These sound waves are so low that they can be both heard and felt as the viewer wades through the gallery space bathed in a monochrome green glow formed by a single frequency of light. Besides the presentation of this exhibition, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag will realize a residency in LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE during which he wishes to deepen his researches about the phenomenon of auroras borealis, Thulé and the Inuit culture. Finally, the artist will give a master class on May 31st at 5 pm. to our artists-run centre. Reserve now at: info@premiereovation.com.

GAMMAvert - a X-SEA-SCAPES
	Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
	3 mai au 3 juin 2012 Within the framework of the Manif d'art 6 under the theme of Machines – The Shapes of Movement /// Opening on Sathuday May 5th, 2012, at 3 pm

+ infos about the exhibition

http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/10/3191601/program-to-show-speci...

Program to show special bond between science, art

Art and science seem so different, so separate. Yet so often, they’re linked. Science is the mechanics of how something works. Art is the perfection of its expression.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2012...

Grad Engineering Programs Probe Intersection of Science, Art
Art training can help engineers think more creatively, some grad students say.

http://diybio.org/2012/05/08/bioart-laboratories-grand-opening-may-...

BioArt Laboratories Grand Opening May 18 in Eindhoven

May 8, 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/tessa-farmer-nymphidia_n_1...

Insect corpses, taxidermy, tree root and superglue are the primary components of London-based artist Tessa Farmer’s intricate sculptural installations. Known as an “enchanted entomologist” who considers her work to be a representation of both science and art, Farmer creates scenes of darkly gothic fairy skeletons made from insect remains she finds on the roads near her home.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/institute_for_figuring_math_...

Institute For Figuring's New Space: An Art Gallery For Math and Science Nerds

A new space has opened its doors in Chinatown, and this time it's not your usual funky alternative art gallery. The Institute For Figuring is a center for hands-on discovery of cool scientific and mathematical concepts, with a strong artistic bent.

Australian twin sisters Margaret Wertheim, a noted science writer, and Christine Wertheim, a poet and faculty member at Cal Arts' MFA Writing Program, founded the IFF seven years ago with the goal of creating fun, participatory projects that would engage new audiences in scientific and mathematical ideas. Instead of presenting things in a clinical manner, their projects tease out the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of physics, geometry, biology and other lines of inquiry. The IFF has operated on a pop-up basis since its creation, and this brick-and-mortar space is a new venture.

http://sondrabarrett.com/the-inside-story-mouth-embracing-wine/?gob...

http://brinc.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/chromosome-painting-2/?goback...
Chromosome paintings

Organic chemistry and art:
http://graphjam.memebase.com/2012/05/12/funny-graphs-where-science-...

Q&A: Textile expert turns artist-entrepreneur
Florida Today
With a minor in textile science and a decade of experience managing a textile laboratory, Steele takes her interiors business a step further by designing the fabric herself. Her textile designs are on display at The Art and Soul Gallery in Cocoa ...
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Somebody said this recently:

My reply: Scream is a thinking art work and how the artist felt about nature in relation to his internal conflicts. It conveys a message. The tormented expression in the scream transcends time and is iconic in its expression of complete despair. It powerfully portrays/communicates despair,loss abandonment...and you don't need to be in that frame of mind to appreciate it.It's uniqueness is an enormous attraction and cost/value incidental.An acquisitive collector will pay whatever they are able. It is just not another art work. If collectors can relate to it to such an extent as to spend a bomb on it who are we to protest? The artist's ability to make the collector see what he sees and pay so much is really admirable.

Yes, one painting can make you a great artist. It is the quality and not quantity that counts. Mona Lisa made da Vinci famous. In fact da Vinci created just 12-15 works in his entire life time. But still the world considers him as one of the great artists in the world.
It looks as though you give importance to visual appeal rather than the message that touches the soul. That is why you are unable to see the importance of Munch's work.

( Art is interpreted differently by each individual, however, one thing that stays in common is the fact that one 'experiences' something upon seeing an artwork - a feeling or a thought. In this case, the viewer is encouraged to experience the artwork as a whole, and be a part of it. It is an imagination converted into something tangible along with a result of associated intangibles—it is "definitely art". )

Bio-art lab is opening :
http://diybiology.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/invitation-opening-bi...

http://bioartlab.com/about/

http://www.oceano.org/rubriques.php?lang=fr&categ=1265713956&am...

Events - Exhibition Marc Quinn, The Coastal Zone
May 12 to October 15, 2012

The Coastal Zone
The Oceanographic Museum
Artist biography
Interview with Marc Quinn

A
The Coastal Zone
May 12 to October 15, 2012,
the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco dedicates a major exhibition at the British artist Marc Quinn. On this occasion, many works, paintings, sculptures and installations will be unveiled in the galleries, his great court, and panoramic terrace.
Marc Quinn and the Oceanographic Museum: alchemy, a shared universe.
To prepare for this exhibition, Marc Quinn wished to work closely with the team of the Oceanographic Museum and soak up the scene, a masterpiece of monumental and decorative art, its atmosphere, the diversity of its collections and vision of the Founder of the Oceanographic Museum, Prince Albert I, wishing to "unite in one luster the two driving forces of civilization: the Art and Science" in the service of the oceans, source of life for future generations.

Life will be at the heart of this exhibition, a real chemistry between the world of the artist and the world oceans presented at the Oceanographic Museum. Beyond a meeting, this is a shared universe.

An exhibition designed by the artist as a renewed dialogue between and original art and science without borders
Bringing together an outstanding creations of Marc Quinn exhibited among the remarkable collection of marine specimens and marine life, this exhibition will establish a renewed dialogue between Art and Science. Exposed in parallel, the two disciplines reinforce each other. Their juxtaposition will understand the works of the artist, the museum's collections and the aquarium from a different perspective allowing us to see what else we think we know.

Schools trying to weave art into science:

http://www.theledger.com/article/20120513/NEWS/205135007

By weaving science with art we can use real world activities to not only teach students about technology, but also teach them to see beyond what lies on the surface.

Both art and science require the use of observational skills, curiosity and constant experimentation with colors, textures, shapes and forms.

Post your science-art here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may/14/share-your-art-b...