chromosome painting:
http://www.goforwarddesign.com/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_120595111

http://picturingscience.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/conference-color-b...

Conference | Color between Science, Art, & Technology

Colour in the 17th and 18th Centuries:
Connexions between Science, Art, and Technology
Technische Universität, Berlin, 28-30 June 2012

Organized by Magdalena Bushart, Reinhold Reith, and Friedrich Steinle

Knowledge of how to use, combine, analyse, and understand colour has always been widely distributed, if not dispersed. Painters and architects, dyers and printers, pigment producers and merchants, physicists and chemists, natural historians and physiologist, among others, have been dealing with colour, its properties, mixtures, harmonies, meanings and uses. For long periods, different communities that were concerned with colour and the knowledge about it did not interact? at least so it appears.

One of the first to come up with fundamental claims concerning colour in full generality was Newton whose 1704 Opticks indeed quickly became a common reference point for most of those who reflected on colour. Throughout the 18th century, however, the reactions to Newton remained wildly controversial, from unrestricted appraisal via indifference to open and fierce opposition. Several attempts to reconcile Newton’s account with practitioner’s knowledge remained unsuccessful, and this was still the case in early 19th century, when the physiology of colour perception opened yet another field of colour research. The central aim of the conference is to bring together scholars who are interested in how the various strands of colour use and knowledge were interwoven and connected.

Technische Universität Berlin, Architekturgebäude, Room A 053, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin,

http://www.gvnews.com/sahuarita_sun/the-universe-on-stage-astrophot...

The universe on stage: Astrophotographer sees art, science come together

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Jun/3/-mathematics-can-be-f...
Origami and maths teaching

Sastry (Bangalore) uses Origami to simplify arcane concepts of science and mathematics. Recipient of Karnataka government's Best Science Communicator Award for 2012, Sastry has been popularizing science and mathematics subjects across India since 1982. According to him using paper models mathematics and science can be enjoyed and fun to learn. Students get visual illustration of what they are taught in the classroom.

Origami is a Japanese art through which you make paper art, like making paper cups and paper boats for example. Ori means to hold, gami means paper. Similarly there is another paper art which is called Kirigami. Kiri means cut and gami means paper.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/tour+through+jungles+beauty/672001...
Art, science and evolution

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/surface-tension-future-wat...

Water makes up around 70% percent of the Earth's surface and nearly two-thirds of our bodies, yet few people give much thought to the stuff. But a new exhibition in New York City aims to change that--by featuring artworks and commercial products that merge the science and art of the world's most vital substance.

Science Gallery Dublin's Surface Tension: The Future Of Water opens to the public Friday, June 1 at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in the city's Chelsea neighborhood, as part of the World Science Festival.

Science of art: Limestone carving teaches science:
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=87385

Mass extinction graphics:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/01/opinion/sunday/are-we...
http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/mass-extinction-graph...

Space Art:
http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2012/06/03/science-art-arti...

Weather science, art and music:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR449477.aspx

The WAM (Weather, Art and Music) Festival, held in Reading town centre from Friday to Sunday (1-3 June), 2012. It will be celebrating the weather, rain or shine, in a colourful fusion of science and art.

http://noemalab.eu/focus/noemas-n-blog-subtle-technologies/
festival for science, art and culture

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/05/indonesia-...

http://science.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/05/creative-connections-at-ea...

Creative Connections at Earth • Science • Art Exhibit

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and Carbon Arts invite Australian artists and artist‐led teams to submit proposals for iconic data‐generated public artworks that engage with environmental and behavioural issues in evocative, unexpected and playful ways.

One proposal for each of the sites in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney will be selected for development and production. Selected artists / teams will participate in an intensive creative development lab led by world-leaders in data-driven arts practice taking place in Sydney from 29th October – 2nd November 2012.

Detailed information, including proposal guidelines and a range of background material, is available at: www.anat.org.au/echology/.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 5PM (CST) 27 JULY 2012

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_20747808/ambitious-ne...

Ambitious new exhibit brings an artistic eye to scientific research

Entrants Sought for Science and Math-based Art Contest

http://www.nextbigideala.com/

A science and math-based art juried competition and exhibit (SMART) will once again be a part of The Next Big Idea festival in 2012. 

Artist entries are currently being accepted until the end of July at the www.NextBigIdeaLA.com/smart. 

Science and math-based art demonstrates scientific or mathematical concepts, principles, or phenomena in creative ways. 

It can be created digitally using computers, be photographic, or be produced through traditional fine arts methods including drawing, painting, pottery, fiber arts, etc. 

The contest will be free to enter, and all entries will be by upload of a digital representation of the artwork on the contest website. 

Entries will be accepted through July, but entries will be posted to a gallery on the website as they are received to allow for viewing. 

Contest winners and awards will be announced and an exhibit will take place in conjunction with the Next Big Idea Festival on Sept. 15.

The Next Big Idea has been established as Los Alamos’ festival of science, invention, innovation, and discovery. 

2011 will be the fourth year for the festival, which also features a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Student Day. 

 http://www.theartlist.com/art-calls/2012-science-math-based-art-com...

Bio-art contest winners and their art works:
http://www.ecology.com/2012/06/07/bio-art-contest-winner/

Science, art, nerd stuff:
http://pinterest.com/cory3d/science-art-nerd-stuff/

Crocheted Coral reef art:
http://www2.tbo.com/entertainment/arts/2012/jun/08/fxnewso10-croche...

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/arts/article_e846eaa2-b0f0-11e1-9603...

Where Music Intersects With the Brain: A Guide to Art and Science

Scientific studies about what parts of our brain show movement when we hear music, and said scientists are testing to see whether there’s crossover between perceiving human emotion in someone speaking and the emotion inherent in music.

A really interesting question from  evolutionary history. Perhaps our ability to discern differences in sounds — like the trumpet and cello — comes from those early days when, in the dark of night, early mammals needed to distinguish between the kinds of bugs they wanted to eat.

looked in-depth at a new scientific study explores how the brain changes in the first five years of playing an instrument and how it might compare to practicing karate.

Until a few decades ago, consensus held that our brains were not capable of changing much after a critical period in childhood. Now scientists know human brains change throughout life. They have a name — brain plasticity — to describe how experiences can change structures within the brain or the entire brain itself.

Finding out what experiences do what in the brain could upend some long-held education traditions. A kid struggling in math could be enrolled in music to strengthen the weak spots in her brain, rather than sit through times tables sessions after school.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-art-revi...

'Physics on the Fringe' bridges science, art worlds

Founded by Margaret Wertheim, a science writer, and her sister Christine, a poet, as a venue for exploring “the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and engineering,” the IFF is best known for its Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project, an increasingly global community art initiative that encourages the crocheting of reef-like forms according to principles of hyperbolic geometry.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/features/arts-on-friday/70...

Water drops; we take them for granted but they're life to the planet.

Palmerston North artist Fran Dibble's latest installation With the Power to Move Mountains and Carve Valleys marvels at the fact that single, commonplace drops of water can combine to have huge effects creating landscape.

She's created a tear-shaped water drop, contrasted against small sand pillars that have landscape tops.

And while everyone recognises the tear shape of a water drop, in reality water looks nothing like this when it actually falls.

She says the droplet shape is more like a hieroglyphic of water, a symbol of it, rather than a realistic interpretation.

Her installation is at Zimmerman Contemporary Art until June 30.

The work is being displayed as part of Palmerston North city's S+ART (science plus art) project, to promote the convergence of science and art.

Both domains require talented, creative minds; the idea is to bring them together. Dibble is an artist trained in science – biochemistry and botany – and says time in the laboratory has been a rich source of inspiration for her work.

Bio-art:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/06/08/day-glo-v...

http://www.examiner.com/article/cuny-isc

CUNY Panel discusses intersection of art and science

Meeting Environmental Challenges with Art in the Public Sphere at CUNY’s Institute for Sustainable Cities explored how art and science can support each other and can both actively engage the public to create awareness, discourse, and hopefully coalesce in meaningful change

http://www.space.com/16082-intergalactic-travel-bureau-nyc-arts-fes...

The Intergalactic Travel Bureau will be featured as part of Guerilla Science's exhibit at the FIGMENT Art festival, which is being held this weekend (June 9 and 10,2012) on New York City's Governor's Island.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=15011...
Art Romancing science: On the Nature of Things, an exhibition by Peter James Smith at Orexart, contains brilliant Romantic painting, still-life, meditations on poetry, science, mathematics and collections of found objects.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/02/2838195/um-math-professor-use...

Using equations to create art

University of Miami math Professor London Tsai’s exhibit, “Quantum Shift,” features Tsai’s aluminum sculptures, as well as drawings by Judith Berth King. The exhibit is on display at Art Center, 800 Lincoln Rd., through June 17.

Tsai’s sculptures cover a variety of topics as wide-ranging as mathematical equations, mass production and desire. He has been painting for 25 years, and his drawings are higher-dimension math projected into 2D. This exhibit represents his shift into the 3D world, where he felt he could even better express himself. All displays have QR codes, which people can take a photo of with their phone’s QR reader to get Tsai’s comments on his pieces.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/209415/teachers-revisit-theater-techni...

Using the arts to teach something as basic as math and science.

Science-art interactions are getting better:
http://www.listener.co.nz/current-affairs/science/art-for-sciences-...

http://www.listener.co.nz/current-affairs/science/art-for-sciences-...

http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jun/12/teaching-physics-throug...

Teaching Physics Through Arts

UCSB Lecturer Incorporates Painting and Performing into Physics Classes

Jatila van der Veen, a Physics lecturer, combined her background in the arts and sciences to form a new method that presents the subject matter in a more engaging fashion.

Her method is called “Noether Before Newton,” named after Emmy Noether, a German mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

“Symmetry and broken symmetry guide our understanding of the laws of physics, from Newton’s classical laws of dynamics to Einstein’s general relativity to modern cosmology, particle physics, string theory, and beyond,” explained van der Veen, “Symmetry and asymmetry are also at the heart of our aesthetic experiences in art, music, and dance.”

Van der Veen encourages the use of dance to explain the symmetries of translation, reflection, and rotation. “Visual art seems to be the most accessible art form for teaching contemporary physics, followed by music … I have had students in my class, for whom dance is their art form, use dance to illustrate symmetry and group theory for their own physics-art projects,” she said.

Van der Veen not only stresses the importance of the arts but suggests that by combining arts and sciences we can partially “rescue” the arts within schools in today’s world of extreme budget cuts. “I believe that participation in the arts has a tremendous potential to both boost students’ self-esteem and sense of self efficacy, as well as provide additional learning pathways to understanding math and science,” she said. “By incorporating arts-based teaching strategies along with math and science, we have the potential to save arts in school as well as improve learning of science by providing ways of visualizing concepts for math and science which are inherent in all art forms.”

http://www.voxy.co.nz/entertainment/make-some-noise-sounds-amazing/...
The science of sound

http://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_93ef8f58-b448-11e1-9ed...

environmental artwork

SymbioticA related activities

The Biological Portrait
Thursday 5 July, 3:30 PM
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
SymbioticA Director Oron Catts will give a lecture about different approaches to Biological Portraiture, from DNA to Mata fauna, and everything in between. As part of the lecture audience will be invited to sample and grow the microorganisms that populate their bodies, exploring the creative potential of personal flora as a medium of portraiture.
http://bit.ly/MEUH34
RSVP essential: admin-symbiotica@uwa.edu.au

Crude Life, the retrospective of The Tissue Culture & Art Project Warsaw Copernicus Science Centre 2nd to 24th June 2012 http://bit.ly/LXaA2c

VIDA Art & Artificial Life 1999-2012, Telefoncia Foundation, Madrid The Tissue Culture & Art Project's NoArk Revisited; Odd Neolifism is one of 23 works in the retrospective of winning project from VIDA Telefonica Art & Artifical life thirteen years history, on show from the 10th of May for six months, at the new Telefonica Foundation Gallery in Madrid http://bit.ly/JMsxEy

SymbioticA:
NONHUMAN: The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
26 - 30 September 2012, Milwaukee, Wisconson.
SymbioticA Director Oron Catts will be providing a keynote address at this conference. Last chance to submit your papers! From its inception, SLSA has distinguished tself 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/

Dr Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. Dr Sonique) is a sculptor and sound artist with an international reputation for his large scale sonic installations, environmental sculpture works and new media projects. Nigel will discuss six recent projects, that focus upon the role of memory and site in establishing identity such as GhosTrain and three, including Vox on the Rox, that develop the concept of 'audio portraits' and sonic cartography into the arena of art and science. www.sonicobject.com. This talk is presented by SymbioticA in conjunction with the Lawrence WIlson Art Gallery at The University of Western Australia.
http://bit.ly/MxQU45

CALL FOR ARTWORKS
ScienceInspiresArt 2012: VITAL SIGNS
ASCI's annual, international, art-sci competition exhibition will be held at the New York Hall of Science, September 1, 2012 - February 3, 2013. This year we are seeking original art inspired by our biological world with a special interest in what lies beneath its surface, and/or reflects upon scientific research questions, processes, ethics, and the stunning discoveries being made in biology and the biosciences today. Previously, we only accepted original digital prints, but this year we also welcome giclee prints made from any original 2-d art, as well as digital photos of 3-d art if that image is compelling in its own right.
http://www.asci.org/artikel1219.html
Due: 17 June 2012

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 PARTICIPANTS
Haptic InterFace 2012
The Wearables Lab* is pleased to announce Haptic InterFace 2012: a new challenge for designers, artists, developers and creative practitioners who want to come face to face with the unexpected and new. This event will take place from November 10th to 20th, 2012.Professionals and creative thinkers from a range of backgrounds are invited to engage in an innovative trans-disciplinary laboratory that explores the borders and intersections of art, science and technology. Our aim is to develop new ideas in relation to the body through the creative use of materials and praxis. This is an un-conference-style event that is participant-driven. Participants will be encouraged to mash-up materials and technology and to find ways to let innovation happen in real-time.
Due: 1 August 2012
Contact katia@hkbu.edu.hk for submission details

CALL FOR PAPERS
EVOMUSART 2013
2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
3-5 April 2013, Vienna, Austria
The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. The main goal of evomusart 2013 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.
Due: 1 November 2012
http://www.evostar.org

Supersonix Conference: The Art and Science of Sound London
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

The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture
22 - 23 June 2012
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne 'Interference Strategies for Art'
Today we're saturated with images from all disciplines, whether it's the creation of 'beautiful visualisations' for science, the torrent of images uploaded to social media services like Flickr, or the billions of queries made to vast visual data archives such as Google Images. These machinic interpretations of the visual and sensorial experience of the world are producing a new spectacle of media pollution. Machines are in many ways the new artists. The notion of 'Interference' is posed here as an antagonism between production and seduction, as a redirection of affect, or as an untapped potential for repositioning artistic critique. 'Interference' can stand as a mediating incantation that might create a layer between the constructed image of the 'everyday' given to us by science, technological social networks and the means of its construction.
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/transdisciplinary-imaging-conference-...

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An Art for Science
Kashmir Life
Then he showed them that children can be taught mathematics and science through paper art in an interesting manner. Ten years later he became secretary of a science popularization network called Karnatka state Vigyhan Parishad.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Illuminated-Origin-of-Species/17...

The art of science illustration:
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/fa1ecfc5ffda48eaac149ed8a2595...

From the engine institute:
The Engine Institute, Inc., in collaboration with Brown Universitiy's North East Planetary Data Center introduced 3D modeling of planetary surfaces and asteroids to presented accessible science and sculpture to middle school children. This collaboration provided 65 students from the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School’s 4th grade class with a unique set of complementary skills and knowledge ranging from gaining an understanding of our universe, new scientific methods for data visualization, to learning about sculpture.
Falling Water by Stine Diness
China Blue Interviews Natalie Tyler Curator of LUX: Art & Science Exhibition

China Blue speaks with Natalie Tyler about her exhibition Lux: Art & Science, an exhibition and conference on the art and science of light held at Cornell University. Read more here.
Laurant Grasso
Future Archaeology by Laurent Grasso

Read about the "Anechoic Pavilion" created by Laurent Grasso for this Hong Kong exhibition. Read about it here.

Memory 1
Coming of Age: The Art and Science of Ageing

This exhibition explores how and why we age as seen through the eyes of artists and scientists. Read more here.
Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite

Josiah McElheny’s work grapples with the conondrum of how to represent archeological time. Featured in the exhibition is a piece that has never before been seen. Based on astronomy, A Study for “The Center is Everywhere” is an abstraction of celestial bodies elegantly made withhand-cut crystals signifying stars and galaxies and the brass rods tipped with light bulbs represent distant quasars. Read more here.
Dissect
Science on the Back End
Who but Matthew Day Jackson could come up with such a wild title for this show that features a great piece by Nick van Woert. Read about it here.

http://www.kpax.com/news/art-and-science-come-together-in-hamilton/

The local arts community has teamed up with Rocky Mountain Laboratories to create a colorful exhibit called Science In Wonderland.

Bloom hopes Science in Wonderland can help drive home the point that while Rocky Mountain Labs does work with some pretty ugly diseases - their research can help save millions of lives - which, in itself, is a beautiful endeavor.

The exhibit runs through October 12 and will be updated continuously with new pieces from local artists - including live speakers on most Thursday nights. It closes with live performances by the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre in original music and dance based on the mystery of the viruses.

Bio-art winners:
http://bmcdb.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/faseb-2012-bioart-winners/

This Thursday, June 14th the National Endowment for the Arts is presenting a webinar on supporting art/science projects across all disciplines through our Art Works grant. Anyone interested in learning more about funding opportunities for art/science projects is invited to log on to the 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.

Instructions for joining the webinar

The webinar is free and open to the public and pre-registration is not required.

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.

If after listening you have additional questions or concerns, please email artandscience@arts.gov.