Water is in the Air – L'Eau est dans l'Air

Interdisciplinary Workshop
Leonardo/Olats – IMéRA
Marseille June 25 - 26 2012

http://www.olats.org/studiolab/eau.php

In the framework of the European project StudioLab, Leonardo/Olats, in collaboration with IMéRA, is organizing a two day workshop on the theme "Water is in the Air".

Based on singular artistic and scientific projects involving water as case studies, in hard sciences as well as humanities, this workshop seeks to explore trans-disciplinary crossings. We will be seeking to deepen our understanding of how the large variety of art-science collaborations function today; examining the roadblocks to such collaborations and the new opportunities they provide. We also seek to develop ideas for innovative ways to work and engage with different kind of audiences and publics.

Among the axis and issues on water that have been selected:
- clouds: triggering artificial rain, to whom belongs the water in the clouds, poetics of clouds, man made clouds;
- waves: scientific breakthroughs on the understanding of waves formation and structure confronted to the image of water and waves in art;
- aerosols and raindrops: the science of water in the air;
- 4th state of water.

Participants : HeHe (Heiko Hansen & Helen Evans), Jean-Marc Chomaz, Nathalie Delprat, Monsieur Moo, Synergetica (Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand), Ana Rewakowicz, Peter Richards, Javiera Tejerina-Risso, Patrice Le Gal, Jacques Sapiéga, Harold Vasselin, Victoria Vesna, et Emmanuel Villermaux.

Pecha kucha sessions within which the audience is able to present its projects complete this two-day workshop.

The workshop takes place at IMéRA, 2 place Le Verrier, 13004 Marseille
http://www.imera.fr

It is open for free to the public upon registration within seats limit.
To register, contact: Pascale Hurtado : pascale.hurtado [@] imera.fr

Studio Lab Project: www.olats.org/studiolab/partenaires.php
Leonardo/Olats: www.olats.org
IMéRA: www.imera.fr/

http://bradfest.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/science-art-and-the-end-of...

Science, Art, and the End of the Species: Werner Herzong, Cormac McCarthy, and Lawrence Krauss

I was just recalling this fantastic conversation between Herzog, McCarthy, and Krauss on NPR’s Science Friday from April 8th of last year. Quite eschatological.

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135241869/connecting-science-and-art

Unlocking the potential with science, tech and art .

http://www.dlux.org.au/cms/dLab/science-art-and-technology-keys-to-...

The art of science: insects:
http://thefinchandpea.com/2012/06/13/the-art-of-science-love-motel-...

Call for Proposals: Present your Art-Science work at the International Sculpture Center’s 2012 Conference in Chicago.
Are you working on the cutting edge between science and sculpture? The Art-Science panel of the ISC conference invites proposals for a presentation of science-inspired sculpture. The deadline is August 15, 2012. For submission guidelines, see www.JulianVossAndreae.com/Chicago2012.
The “Art-Science” panel is organized by Helen Glazer and Julian Voss-Andreae.

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Julian Voss-Andreae
+1 (503) 329 5203 (PST)
www.JulianVossAndreae.com

OPEN CALL FOR PHD CANDIDATES FROM THE I-NODE OF PLANETARY COLLEGIUM
Open call for PhD candidates from the I-Node of Planetary Collegium in the inter-disciplinary field of art, science and technology. The PhD program is placed at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC), on the island of Kefalonia, Greece, and is running under a memorandum of agreement between ICAC and the University of Plymouth, UK. The PhD program is the well-known Planetary Collegium program and leads to the degree of doctorate from the University of Plymouth. Find out more on website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/jun/17/art-science-w...

the Wellcome Image Awards 2012, made possible by microscopy, record a beauty usually hidden to the human eye – and the overall winner will be announced this week.

The Wellcome Image Awards 2012 exhibition will be open from Thursday (21 Jun) until 31 December, at the Wellcome Collection, London NW1; wellcomecollection.org

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/wellcome-ima...

http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/index.htm?image=1#image_1

http://www.robchapman.tv/forum/threads/music-as-language-science-ar...
Music and science

http://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/freaky-fungus-turn...
Fungus turns life forms into art-like structures!

Artists and scientists come together to discuss future:
http://www.kqed.org/arts/multimedia/article.jsp?essid=97565

http://blindedbyscienceut.tumblr.com/post/25380242650/todays-radio-...

They Blinded Me With Science had an exciting program on 18thJune, 2012! They interviewed University of Texas at Austin graduate student Ammon Thompson about a new art-science collaboration called The Art of Evolution, in which you can explore incredibly creative visualizations of simulations about common topics in evolutionary biology. Currently, the website features interactive simulations on Mating, Genetic Drift and Coalescence.

LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
http://malina.diatrope.com/2012/06/17/leonardo-scholarship-for-medi...

LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
=> First International Master of MediaArtHistories
(low-residency, English language, international faculty)

In affiliation with a driving force leading the field, Leonardo/ISAST, The
Center for Image Science is pleased to announce their continued cooperation with
a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course in
MediaArtHistories, for the start in November 2012.

CFP: Present your Art-Science work at the 23rd International Sculpture Conference

The Art-Science panel of the ISC conference invites proposals for a presentation of science-inspired sculpture.

Deadline: August 15, 2012

From Julian Voss-Andreae:

“Are you working on the cutting edge between science and sculpture? The Art-Science panel of the ISC conference invites proposals for a presentation of science-inspired sculpture. The deadline is August 15, 2012.

For submission guidelines, see http://www.JulianVossAndreae.com/Chicago2012 .

The “Art-Science” panel is organized by Helen Glazer http://www.helenglazer.com/ and Julian Voss-Andreae http://www.julianvossandreae.com/ .”

About the International Sculpture Conference
http://www.sculpture.org/chicago2012/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/06/16/a-confere...
Science communication - science illustration

http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Art-Science-webinar.html?goback=.g...

Webinar: NEA Art/Science Grant Workshop

On June 14, 2012, NEA (US) Senior Advisor for Program Innovation Bill O'Brien hosted a webinar on NEA funding opportunities available to support art-science projects across all disciplines. A ten-minute presentation was followed by a question & answer session.

Science and art fun :
http://chasingcheerios.blogspot.in/2012/06/science-and-art-fun.html

Artists and artist-led teams are invited to submit proposals for iconic data-generated
                 public artworks that engage with environmental and behavioural issues in evocative,
             unexpected and playful ways.

ANAT and Carbon Arts are pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for three high‐profile artworks to be developed for

Lend Lease sites in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

http://www.anat.org.au/echology/

Art of science:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/jun/17/art-science-w...

http://artradarjournal.com/2012/06/20/emerging-taiwanese-sound-arti...

Emerging Taiwanese sound artist addresses environmental issues – interview with Hsu Yen-Ting

http://viaearth.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/world-premiere-first-infra...

WORLD PREMIERE – First Infrared (720nm) real color and long exposure enhanced images of Egypt Marvels

http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/home_frame.html

Collapse: The Cry of
Silent Forms
May 5 – July 31, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/brandon-ballengee-col...

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_20904819/christa-mart...

The blending of science and art can be complicated for some people -- merging both sides of your brain doesn't always make sense. But it's perfectly reasonable for local artist ANN AMICA ALTSTATT, who specializes in lithography. She fell in love with the medium in college. At the same time as her first lithography class, she was also taking Vertebrate Paleontology. "I had some really wild dreams that quarter where the two disciplines combined in unexpected and inexplicable ways," she says."Something clicked and I feel as though I have been trying to reconcile and honor this relationship between my art brain and my science brain ever since."

Fortunately, we get a chance to see the merging of the two sides in a show called "Earth Science Art" which is hanging at the R. Blitzer Gallery in Santa Cruz until July 7. According to the project's website, this show "pairs artists from California's Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area with scientists from the Santa Cruz-based U.S. Geological Survey's Pacific Marine and Coastal Science Center." Altstatt's work in this show is a four-panel mixed media piece inspired by the marine structural geology of the Central Coast.

Also look for her work to be featured at the Museum of Art & History's Art Market Saturday series on July 28 in Abbott Square.

http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2012/06/17/science-art-mysi...

Science Art: Mysis2kils: Mysis Zooplankton by Uwe Kils.

Dark field microscopy is the art of using indirect light to illuminate specimens under your microscope lens; because the light is indirect, it doesn’t shine into the microscope, and the specimen appears to be floating brilliantly against a night-black background.

Image via Wikimedia Commons, on which Uwe Kils has quite a few wondrous images.

I decided to look up dark field microscopy after seeing this photograph of fruit fly sperm that looks like a study from Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The technique seems to be the same, on a small scale, as the way the moon is lit by the sun.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47908520/ns/technology_and_science-sc...

Welsh scientific art competition taken with a grain of salt

The competition, organized by Swansea University in Wales, is open to all Swansea researchers in any field

Unethical dead body art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J05w5pWvL9Y

http://pinterest.com/pin/12807180160819756/

The 2012 Bio-Art Winners of FASEB's annual scientific imaging competition.

Fish sculptures from plastic bottles - is this bio-art? No, is my answer!
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/06/giant-fish-sculptures-made-fr...

http://chronicle.com/article/Neuroscientist-Finds-a-Place/132319/?g...

Siddharth Ramakrishnan, aNeuroscientist Finds a Campus That Embraces the Intersection of Science and Art. He met Victoria Vesna, a multimedia artist who directs the UCLA Art|Sci Center, at a party and they decided to collaborate.

Collaborations on art exhibitions founded in scientific topics like Hox genes and olfactory umwelts. Through art, he hopes we are breaking the accessibility barrier to science. In the small Art|Sci community, he talked to researchers who have contemplated working as artists but realized it's more amenable to make a living working as scientists. And a lot of artists he had met have thought about going into the sciences at one point. There seems to be a penchant for both inside a lot of people.

He wondered how to balance being a scientist while whetting his creativity within Art|Science and have deferred to Professor Gimzewski's advice that it's tough, but you just need to keep creating and something will come out of it. Some researchers do laugh at you, but more and more young scientists are excited about collaborating with artists.

For the last three years he has been at Columbia University, creating hybrid neural-electronic devices, biosensors, and biobatteries. Last fall he applied for the position at the University of Puget Sound. When he went there for interviews, he didn't have to hide anything. Every single faculty member he met made a point of asking him, "So tell me about your art work. How can I be involved?" It's a place where the liberal arts and sciences truly seem to be together.

The neuroscience program at Puget Sound developed a few years ago, when some faculty from biology, occupational therapy, and psychology came together and volunteered to develop some courses in neuroscience. What they created has blossomed, and they wanted a more dedicated position to take it further.

Apart from the core neuroscience curricula, he also hopes to develop interdisciplinary classes in art and science after his appointment begins, in January,2013.

For artists working with emerging technologies, engaging social and cultural issues raised by the amazing innovations in science, this is a particularly exciting time to live in.
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/projects/projects_frameset.htm

Related to the comment below - Victoria Vesna's art project

http://www.dublinscience2012.ie/2012/07/science-art-and-submarines/

What happens when an artist plays with science? And hangs it in a museum? And an art expert walks into it? And falls over? Who picks it all up and how exactly does a hoover work?

These and other questions will be thrown up in the air at IMMA on Sunday 8th July,2012.

Science, Art and Submarines

Earth science and art:
http://blogs.kusp.org/features/2012/06/21/earth-science-art-combine...

The Convergence of Art, Science and Beer
Seattle Post Intelligencer
In homage to the forgotten heroes of beer, Yonder Biology crafts art work based on the ... Yonder's scientists interpret the DNA code and resident artists use the ...

http://malina.diatrope.com/2012/06/24/sead-call-for-white-papers-on...

SEAD CALL FOR WHITE PAPERS on ISSUES FACING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SEEKING to ENHANCE COLLABORATION AMONG THE SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, ARTS and DESIGN

The US National Science Foundation -funded Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design (SEAD: http://sead.viz.tamu.edu/) is issuing an open International Call for White Papers from the community. The Principal Investigator is Carol LaFayette of Texas A&M University.

For full details please visit the websites.

http://www.zero1.org/programs/opencall?goback=.gde_1636727_member_1...

The ZERO1 Garage
Part incubator, part research lab, part think tank, the ZERO1 Garage, launches this fall! The ZERO1 Garage is where principles of artistic creativity are applied to real world innovation challenges. Through the lens of art and technology, it will inform strategies for research, development, and creativity by provoking challenges that address the complex world in which we live. The ZERO1 Garage is envisioned as a platform for creative risk-takers from the arts and culture, business, science and academic sectors to interact, engage, and spur innovative change.
ZERO1 Fellowship with sponsorship from Google Public Policy
The centerpiece of the ZERO1 Garage is an interdisciplinary peer network/brain trust composed of innovation experts engaged in collaborative research and experimentation. For this, we are currently seeking artist candidates to apply for a ZERO1 Fellowships in collaboration with Google Public Policy. This fellowship is designed around an Innovation Challenge; our charge to each candidate is to artistically consider a complex issue concerning cultural policy in an information society. The candidate will develop an original artwork that serves to interpret or illuminate the current state of difficulty associated with molding cultural policy so that it conforms to the reality of a society that is more connected with and dependent on technology than ever before. The project duration is six months, with a fellowship award of $10,000.
Review all details and full RFQ here.

The following materials are required for application. Please e-mail submissions to sarahbeth@zero1.org
• Current professional vita
• One-page summary of a proposed creative research and/or project focus.
• Link to current work or works in progress
• Contact information for three references
Download pdf of RFQ

Please e-mail any questions to Sarah Beth Nesbit at sarahbeth@zero1.org

http://aap.cornell.edu/events/events_details.cfm?customel_datapagei...
Lux - art and science exhibition

http://os.tnw.utwente.nl/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_127677788

Art based on Nano structures and Bio-molecules:

Biomolecules and nanostructures

The Optical Sciences group studies the interaction of light and matter at the nanoscale. They do this by exploring ways to shape light and its environment. It's what they call active and passive control. Their current focus is on the interaction of light with biomolecules and nanostructures. They are part of Twente University's Department of Science and Technology and member of the MESA+ institute.

Optical Sciences Group: Welcome to the page of the Optical Sciences Group of the University of Twente, Netherlands.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/dna-art/

Have Your Genome Made Into a Piece of Art

In the race  to uncover the structure of DNA,  the molecule of life, researchers bickered over how its strands fit together in three-dimensional space. James Watson and  Francis Crick won this race.

From SymbioticA Digest:

The Biological Portrait
[RSVP essential]
Date/Time: 5 July 2012 (3:30pm) follow-up at 12 July 2012 (2:00pm)
Location: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia & SymbioticA Lab, room 222 Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology
Oron Catts, Director of SymbioticA, will present a lecture on biological portraits at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, during which attendees will find petri dishes into which a personal flora of bacteria will be collected from each interested participant and cultured for a week in the laboratory. Viewing of this biological self-portrait will be conducted one week later at SymbioticA’s lab room 222 on Thursday 12 July between 2- 3 pm. Location: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Cnr Fairway, Crawley. When: Thursday 5 July, 3.30–5pm. (Then Thursday 12 July 2012, 2-3pm School of Anatomy and Human Biology Lab Room 222).
Bookings: Places are limited. Please RSVP to admin@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au by 5pm on Monday 2 July 2012. Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or lwag@uwa.edu.au

PROJEKTET: Ola Johansson and Amanda Newall
19 May - 15 July
Opening 18 May 6:30 PM
Fremantle Arts Centre
Projektet draws on the notion of the immune system as a bio-artistic blueprint of personal and cultural changes In a joint residency with SymbioticA, Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson conduct lab-based research along with applied performance work in local communities in the metropolitan Perth area. The exhibition will involve a variety of media, such as lab results, costume, physical objects, video and performative actions. Experiments with our most outreaching and personal site of identity, the corporeal immune system, will provoke graphic, material, conceptual and live reactions that applies to site-specific circumstances where social actors will ultimately come up against the limits of their own identities/communities. Bio-artistic game concepts will incite personal and collective (inter)actions toward future communal relations beyond biological determinism and cultural utopias.
http://bit.ly/LP4dgZ

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

Neanderthals- science-art?!
http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2012/06/24/science-art-le-m...

http://darwintunes.org/

A group of scientists from the UK are turning a lot of machines loose on some random machine generated tonal loops. It is a little like American Idol for machines. The machines randomly generate these rhythmic tonal patterns and you the public, get to vote on what loop you like the best. Each winning loop gets another generation and is combined with other winning loops to begin the process of melodic and harmonic composition. It is kind of like Bach meets African thumb harp meets pac-man. If you would like to be a part of the creative process of this science experiment just go to their website.

http://scinerds.tumblr.com/post/26010653274/arpeggia-where-science-...
Science-art and photography

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/19961/artist-folds-science-i...

Dr. Robert Lang enjoyed math and science, which inspired him to pursue an education in these fields. Eventually he received his Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech. He soon realized how both his art and scientific studies coincided.

“Some of the things he learned along the way of a scientific career turned out to be really beneficial for the artistic development,” he says, “In particular, in science, math, and engineering people learn to try to describe a phenomenon in a mathematical way, and if we succeed in developing that description, then we can use the techniques of math to learn a lot more".

Once Lang recognized the overlap between his hobby and educational theories, he utilized the blend between art and science to develop his artistic abilities even further.

“It seemed to me that we could use the same approaches in my art, because origami seemed to be governed by mathematical principles,” he says, “If I could learn what those principles were, then I could use the tool kit that I developed in my engineering and science education to accomplish my artistic goals.”

His understanding of how art and science are combined has bolted him into a career of more than just folding paper into the art of Origami.

Lang leads origami workshops, attends international origami conventions, is an acclaimed author, offers science and engineering lectures and also uses his research for technological solutions.

The psychology of art theft:
http://www.mutualart.com/OpenArticle/What-s-the-Motivation-Behind-R...

Chromosome painting : Discovering the beauty of DNA:
http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/chromosome-painting-discove...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthU59YvuqY&feature=player_embe...

From ANAT:

Colliding Ideas: Art, Society and Physics :: RMIT, Melbourne
Free Public Symposium :: 12 - 5 pm, Sunday 8 July 2012
“WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY EXQUISITELY DEPENDENT ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IN WHICH HARDLY ANYONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY” - CARL SAGAN
Recent discoveries in physics have changed our lives forever. From iPhones and the internet to medical imaging and genetic engineering, modern technology has largely been developed through advances in physics, yet few people understand it. The ‘Colliding Ideas’ symposium will address the social and creative parameters of the physical sciences, taking inspiration from the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics, also in Melbourne, where they may be making an announcement about a future-changing discovery. ‘Colliding Ideas’ will explore the dimensions of physics and ask what is going on in there, how it relates to our social world, and how it affects us culturally and physically. And, in such contexts, how do the perspectives of physicists relate to and differ from those of artists and visual communicators who use physics-based technologies. The symposium will feature key speakers from CERN and the Australian Network for Arts & Technology, alongside contemporary media and fine arts practitioners and theorists. A series of talks and audiovisual presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and public Q & A. Lunch and refreshments are also provided.
For more information and to register your attendance visit: http://www.rmit.edu.au/collidingideas

Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award 2012 :: Netherlands
Call for Proposals now open :: Submissions due 10 September 2012
The Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award highlights and explores the exciting and novel possibilities between design, artistic practice and life sciences. Conceived by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative, the Centre for Society and Genomics, and Waag Society, the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio-art, and produce new work in close collaboration with the Netherlands most prestigious Genomics Centres, for example in the fields of sustainability, food, health, bio-informatics, agriculture, and safety. Successful projects will be exhibited at Naturalis in Leiden, from mid June 2013 until the end of the year.
http://www.da4ga.nl

Science-art pictures:
http://cellularscale.blogspot.in/2012/06/science-art-at-artomatic.html

The art and science of science illustration:
http://www.redandblack.com/variety/art-professor-values-textbook-il...