Nature's art:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=73...

Science-art exhibition:
http://www.scienceweek.net.au/think-science/

Think Science: science art exhibition

An exhibition of stunning science images taken by undergraduate and graduate science students.

First Floor, David Caro Building, Parkville
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When: Sunday, August 19 2012, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Where: First Floor, David Caro Building, Melbourne Graduate School of Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3052

What: Open Day

Theme: Human Body and Movement, Environment and Nature, Health and Medical

Cost: Free

Other: Kid Friendly, Wheelchair Access

This exhibition will feature the top scientific art submitted by science undergraduate and graduate students for this year's "Think Science" photo competition run by the Faculty of Science.

Combine your visit to the exhibition with a visit to the Physics Museum, which is in the same building.

Contact details:

Fallon Mody

University of Melbourne

Email: modyf@unimelb.edu.au

Phone: 0383 446 948

http://news.jic.ac.uk/2012/07/saw_development/
Science-art- writing

The SAW Trust, founded in 2005 by Professor Anne Osbourn from the John Innes Centre, specialises in bringing together scientists, artists and writers to collaborate on science-themed projects delivered in schools.

http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2012/07/22/science-art-irre...

http://blog.newsok.com/bamsblog/2012/07/27/new-exhibit-geometrix-ex...

“Geometrix” explores the math in and behind art
The new exhibit opens 28th, (2012) night at Science Museum Oklahoma.

For more information visit:

www.sciencemuseumok.com.

The STEAM Journal:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/STEAM-Journal-peer-review-is-4229160...

http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2012.html?goback=.gde_1636727_m...

Science visualization Challenge:
http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/international-science...

http://io9.com/5929956/stunning-molecular-biology-illustrations-loo...
Molecular Biology illustration as art

http://inagist.com/all/229756671960948736/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aliciahunsicker/boundless-artis...

Alicia Hunsicker

At the D. Fleiss East West Artist Residency she will research and create boundary-bending work that intersects art, spirit, and science.

The D. Fleiss East West Artist’s Foundation has invited her to embark on a journey without borders and participate in an international artist residency which includes The Symposia of Contemporary Art in Mallnitz, Austria this October. From the healing waters of Austria to the particle collisions at CERN, this artist residency presents the opportunity to travel into new territory and create boundary-bending work that will intersect art, spirit, and science.

Kickstarter Launch! ~ Boundless: Artist Residency in Austria and Journey to CERN

Dinosaur site brings art and science together:
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20120728/LIFESTYLE/307280006/Art...

A new project at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm will help visitors overcome that difficulty as area artists join with paleontologists to create a lifelike, life-size sculpture of the dilophosaurus that left a string of footprints now protected inside the museum.

International images for the science exhibition that resemble art:
http://www.rps.org/international-images-for-science

Science-photography

http://www.fromearthtotheuniverse.org/
universe photos

Open Lab's call for submission of art, poems, music based on science:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/07/30/open...

They accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.

https://openlab.wufoo.com/forms/submission-form/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/07/the-movement-to-put-art...

STEAM Ahead: Merging Arts and Science Education

http://survivingwesterncivilisation.blogspot.in/2012/07/art-religio...
Art religion and science some thoughts

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2012/07/31/bio-art-gone-viral-cantor-...

Bio-art gone viral: Cantor Arts Center displays models of human viruses

science-minded Stanford students and watch artistic renderings of viruses emerge through origami, whittling, collage and more.

On display at the university’s Cantor Arts Center through October 28, Adventures in the Human Virosphere: The Use of Three-Dimensional Models to Understand Human Viral Infections explores the awesome and terrible properties of, as a wall text describes, “the complete pantheon of viral predators that use humans as their hosts.”

Art works depicting smallpox, hepatitis B, rabies, herpes simplex, polio, rubella and other troublemakers are divided into two categories in the show curated by Judy Koong Dennis: icosahedral and helical viruses, and viruses surrounded by an envelope. The enveloped kind feature shapes that don’t fit categories such as cube or sphere; rather, the asymmetrical figures differ wildly from one another.

The pieces are select assignments from Humans and Viruses, a multidisciplinary Stanford course that Robert Siegel, MD, PhD, began teaching in 1983. Students with other backgrounds may take the class, but most are undergraduates studying human biology. Siegel first assigned the model project in the late 1980s, explaining, “Various structures and processes are best understood in three dimensions and from the kinesthetic learning associated with model building.”

Clean edges and symmetry characterize the many faces of the icosahedral and helical structures; several of the geometric pieces use traditional materials such as ceramics, paper or wood. Yu-Jin Lee, who contributed three icosahedral viruses to the show, told me, “As a student and origami enthusiast, I was excited with the challenge to create a virus out of paper. This project has allowed me to have a greater understanding of how objects come together and the importance of models in offering insight into the complex nature of medicine.”

I wavered on whether these contained, efficient structures of the icosahedral and helical varieties felt more intimidating than the exploded treasure chest titled HIV-1, or more dangerous than SARS, the hanging sparkly baby mobile, which could double as a jellyfish with puffball-topped tentacles and ribbons spilling out split sides. The flashy, translucent wrappings of HIV and SARS hint at their interior contents in a manner both dreadful and seductive, and they illustrate a displayed quotation from Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir Peter Medawar, OM CBE FRS, who described the composition of a virus as “a piece of bad news wrapped in protein.”

An electron micrograph of a virus accompanies each object. However faithful to form or radically offbeat each student’s imagining may be, seeing the microscopic made visible, colorful and even humorous (once recognized, the tampons got a laugh) left this viewer curious to know exactly how the immune-system pirates pillage. That something so small as an actual virus could cause so much harm to a comparatively giant human resonated equally scary and impressive. It also made me want to attend the next of Siegel’s Model Marathons, wherein students share their work with each other in “a celebration of infection including costumes, poetry, music and surprises – a clear example of learning gone viral.”

Biodiversity images:
http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/this-week-in-biodiver...

http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Science-Fiction-Aug-2-3755370.php
Science fiction art

From Leonardo:
LEONARDO CALL FOR PAPERS: ART AND ATOMS
The modern world of chemistry is vast and its connection to art strong. From nanocars and extraterrestrial materials to DNA origami and biofuels, chemistry, like art, expresses its transformative, material essence. Chemistry?s unique connection to art ? a science simultaneously steeped in abstraction and application, process and product ? is the focus of the Art and Atoms special section. Find out more on their website.

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

SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION, COPENHAGEN
The Symposium on Scientific Visualization (25-26 September 2012) at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen will explore how connections between art, design and science inspire and advance research, innovation and working processes in scientific data visualization. Speakers will share ideas for and processes of their work in visualization across disciplines. Talks and discussions will address how visual ideas and intentions are transformed by the use of different tools and technologies, how to meet the challenges of cross-discipline collaborations, how to gain and apply inspiration through multidisciplinary processes, and how these processes can enrich both the practice of science and art.

http://www.anat.org.au/2012/08/director/?goback=.gde_1636727_member...

ANAT is seeking a highly motivated Director with a strong creative and strategic vision for the interdisciplinary field of art, science and technology.

Students use art to understand and showcase science: (In India)
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-29/chandigarh/3...

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/aug/02/artistic-touch-artist-finds-...

Artist finds science in felt

Bio-artists who tinker with tools of science:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/08/bio-artists-wh...

The art and science of bio-luminescence:
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/deep-glow/

Fine Art and Science Unite for “Faces of Science” Art Exhibit at Gallery1

Jackson State University’s Gallery1 and School of Science, Engineering, & Technology partner to present BioMedical Faces of Science

About the Exhibit:

Faces of Science is a multi media, inquiry-based exhibit that features large-scale black and white photography. These images represent the diversity in the fields of science and specifically feature biomedical researchers in health disparities research. The interactive feature will give faculty, students and the community a chance to learn more about each scientist. The Faces of Science compelling photography, video, and audio narrative combine to tell the stories of these dedicated researchers, who also happen to come from groups that are often underrepresented in the field of scientific research. Dr. James Perkins, Professor of Chemistry and Founding Dean of JSU School of Science and Technology, is the brainchild behind Faces of Science, a labor of love that has spanned over 20 years. Dr. Perkins engaged Jay Fletcher, and internationally renowned portrait photographer, to photograph the scientists and provide these engaging and stimulating images to “put a face on science” to encourage young students to be motivated to careers in science. The full faces of science series was partially supported with grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health.

Exhibit dates: July 31, 2012 – August 25
Public Reception: Friday, August 10,2012 6:00 – 8:00pm

About Gallery1:

Gallery1 is a contemporary fine art space that showcases Jackson State University’s permanent art collection and features changing exhibitions by regional and national artists. The works of art are selected to provoke thought and to be a catalyst for new dialogue and discoveries about the history of JSU and African-American culture in the south.

Gallery Location and Hours:

1100 John Roy Lynch Street, Suite 4
Jackson, MS 39203
Tuesday – Friday, 10:00am to 6:00pm
Saturday, Noon – 4:00pm

Please contact the gallery in advance to schedule group tours and field trips.
Contact:

Kimberly Jacobs, Gallery Director
Gallery1 at Jackson State University
601.960.9250 (phone)
601.960.7551 (fax)
gallery1@jsums.edu

http://fick.ca/artwork/sea-ice-project?goback=.gde_1636727_member_1...

Earth science art:
http://jumpsuitsandteleporters.com/post/28586136765/earth-science-a...

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20120804/LIFESTYLE/308040007/Mus...|newswell|text|Frontpage|s

Music, art and science unite at conference

http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/esa2012/

Biocreativity On The Road: Ecological Society of America Meeting 2012 - the meeting discusses sci-art interactions.

WK 35 - Engaging Arts/Humanities with Long-Term Research and Education Programs: Outcomes, Approaches, Networking (11:30am-1:15pm, B116). This workshop, organized by Mary Beth Leigh and Frederick Swanson, focuses on how “the visual arts, performance, environmental ethics and history, and creative writing have all found expression in place-based, long-view programs”. The workshop will cover examples of art-science collaborations, business models and funding, and will include a discussion of how to foster future art/science/humanities collaborations at individual sites.

COS 59-5 - Combining art, science, and technology for environmental outreach in an urban watershed (2:50pm, D139)

Bio art using fungi:
http://myths-made-real.blogspot.in/2012/07/bio-artfungus-among-us-m...

Stacy Levy's Mold Garden pieces. Each panel consists of a sandblasted image of an actual mold culture. If that wasn't cool enough, Stacy put real mold on those images to grow. Is this life mimicking art, or art mimicking life?

http://malina.diatrope.com/2012/08/04/call-for-scientists-deeply-en...

Call for Scientists deeply engaged in the arts, design and humanities

One of the obstacles in fostering science/engineering to arts/design
collaboration is the often ‘asymmetrical” nature of the collaborations
where the artist is more invested in the collaboration that the scientist.

In this SEAD white paper we are trying to canvass the views of
scientists deeply engaged in such collaborations . If there are any
scientists lurking on YASMIN who are in this category please
contact Carol Strohecker, details below

Broader-Reaching Scientists: Obstacles and Opportunities Facing
Scientists, Mathematicians, and Engineers Deeply Engaged in the Arts and Design.

Scientists and engineers in a range of disciplines engage the arts and
design for both personal and professional reasons. This SEAD White
Paper goes beyond avocations such as painting or playing a musical
instrument, to examine obstacles and opportunities that scientists
face when collaborating with artists in professional work.

Overlaps among sciences/engineering and arts/design are widely
acknowledged in terms of the shared motivations of questioning and
creativity and the shared approaches of exploration and invention.
Yet, practitioners who attempt collaborative work across conventional
disciplinary boundaries often encounter inhibitory mindsets and
institutional structures. Struggles may also emerge within the
established partnerships: artists may feel exploited, desiring to
contribute more than just illustrations; scientists may disengage
through fear that the artists do not have adequate grounding to
achieve necessary topical depth.

Nevertheless, many scientists manage to produce effective work through
broadly cross-cutting collaborations. In this White Paper we propose
to interview a number of scientists, mathematicians, and research
engineers who have engaged deeply with the arts and design, to elicit
a contemporary snapshot of perceived obstacles and opportunities from
scientists’ point of view.

We will include representatives of disciplines such as entomology,
neuroscience, chiropterology, meteorology, computer science, and
marine ecology. When the interviewees desire anonymity, we will
maintain it. We will conduct some of the interviews through
face-to-face meetings and some through email correspondence. We will
address these questions among others: details on the website

Another work based on DNA structure: http://stellrscope.com/2012/08/06/dna/

Using art to teach science:
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/newsnow/x2095090421/Q-A-Use-art-to-t...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/artist-kelly-richardsons-_...

Artist Kelly Richardson's 'Marine 9' Depicts Futuristic Mars Landscape On Day NASA's Curiosity Lands

The National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis announces that application guidelines are available for funding through Research: ArtWorks. This program supports research that investigates the value of the U.S. arts ecosystem and the impact of the arts on other domains of American life.

The NEA encourages applicants from diverse research fields (e.g., sociology, economics, anthropology) and diverse areas of expertise, including, but not limited to, health, education, and urban and regional planning. Although applicants must be non-profit organizations, they are encouraged to partner with for-profit entities, and/or use commercial and/or administrative datasets.

The NEA anticipates awarding up to 25 grants in the range of $10,000 to $30,000. The deadline for application submission is November 6, 2012 for projects that can begin as early as May 1, 2013.

The NEA will hold an informational webinar for potential applicants on September 12, 2012. More information is forthcoming.

For grant application information and guidelines, please go to http://arts.gov/grants/apply/Research/index.html

To see the grants awarded in the first year of Research: ArtWorks, click here.

For those interested in the Taking Note: Research series on the ArtWorks blog, please click here

Environmental Artist in Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, North Carolina

Posted in OPPORTUNITIES, Residencies

McColl Environmental Artist in Residency Program

DEADLINE: ONGOING

The Center accepts submissions from emerging, mid-career and senior level artists. Local, regional, national and international artists are all eligible for the Artist-in-Residence Program. Students may submit materials for these programs, but they must have completed graduation prior to the start of the residency. Please note, the Center does not accept electronic submissions at this time.

Residency Dates: Vary from several weeks to 3 months
Stipend: $3,300
Materials Budget: Up to $2,000

The community of Charlotte, NC and McColl Center for Visual Art welcomes artists to create works of environmental art in the public domain. This artist residency presents opportunities for established and emerging artists, design professionals and collaborators to create installations that become remedial interventions with the land. Email eair@mccollcenter.orgfor more information.

>> Environmental Artist-in-Residence Program Description
>> Environmental Artist-in-Residence Submission Requirements

MCCOLL CENTRE FOR VISUAL ART
721 N. Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202 | 704.332.5535

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/calgary...

Calgary doctor nominated for science/theatre prize

Eye surgeon by day, by night (or, these days, half the week) Arun Lakra is a writer: plays, screenplays, he’s even recorded an album. Call him a Renaissance Man, call him the ultimate multitasker, call him a workaholic.

The play is Sequence, and it’s nominated for the STAGE (Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration) International Script Competition for the best new play about science or technology. Chosen by jury members that include Pulitzer Prize winners (among them Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner) and prize-winning scientists – including a couple of Nobel laureates – the prize is described as a unique collaboration between art and science

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/collaboration/2007/winter/art-meets-bio...

Sculptor Inspired by Science
Photo

When Carnegie Mellon senior art student Lisa Huyett placed a rose petal into a scanning electron microscope (SEM), she was fascinated by what she saw.

The image inspired her to create "S.E.M. Rose," an art installation that represents the petal's bristly surface.

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 8 August 2012, at Stanford University, Geology Corner, room 105. Feature presentations include "Why Upside Down? Paintings that Rotate" by artist Sydell Lewis, "Dark energy and Dark Matter" by physicist Shamit Kachru, "Music that Moves: the Art and Neuroscience of Effective Performance" by neuroscientist/musician Indre Viskontas and "The Nanocentury: Bringing Digital Control to the Physical World" by educator Christine Peterson.

More information: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events.html#LASER-August2012

http://io9.com/5932927/mythological-beasts-drawn-in-the-style-of-ol...

Mythological beasts, drawn in the style of old biology textbooks

Biology textbooks from the 1800s could be rather outlandish and gruesome, even when describing harmless animals. But artist/biology PhD student Simone Des Roches has taken things one step further and created a naturalist's profile for mythological critters like dragons and unicorns, complete with requisite zoological jargon.

http://staugustine.com/entertainment/arts/2012-08-08/local-glass-ar...
Biodiversity glass art

Local glass artist creates sculptures for UNF building
Thomas Long’s handblown sculpture pieces hang in new green space at the college in Jacksonville

http://wamcradio.org/EarthWise/?p=1181

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is a scientific research and education organization. Sixteen Ph.D. scientists explore pressing environmental problems including acid rain, forest health, the ecology of Lyme disease, and pharmaceuticals in our waterways. Postdoctoral associates and summer undergraduate researchers round out a robust scientific staff.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/08/john-maeda-ste...

From STEM to STEAM: Adding art to science

Rhode Island now includes artists and designers among the people who can apply for science funding.

http://mercerisland.patch.com/articles/orbits-and-pieces-combines-a...

'Orbits and Pieces' Combines Art and Science on Mercer Island

Orbits and Pieces, a new public art installation including titanium tanks and fuel lines is now on display.

"Orbits and Pieces" is a permanent public art installation that includes two titanium tanks and three fuel lines, surplus components originally engineered for the Apollo missions. After the successful moon landing of Apollo 11, the Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions were cancelled and the tanks were no longer needed.

http://www.in-the-fields.org/

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=57017#.UCR...

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8712.html

From science to street art: research comes to life at See No Evil

Postgraduate students from the University of Bristol will be swapping science for spray cans as they bring their research work to life for See No Evil – the UK’s largest permanent street art project.
Complicated concepts from the world of engineering, nanoscience and chemistry will be communicated on canvas as part of the diverse art project, which sees 30 of the world’s most prolific street artists descend on Bristol city centre.

See No Evil will return to Nelson Street from 13 to 19 August, recreating the success of last year’s inaugural event which saw leading graffiti artists turn the dull city centre street into a tourist attraction, bringing in visitors and bolstering Bristol's reputation as a street art centre.

Saturday, 18 August, 2012, will see a total of 10 PhD and EngD students from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded Centres for Doctoral Training at Bristol University not only spray-painting on large boards but also transforming a car in a bid to express the themes and ideas behind their research, translating science and engineering concepts into street art.

From SymbioicA Digest:

1.b SymbioticA seminar series

The Futures of the Biologically Designable

Date: 10 August 2012
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Orkan Telhan

Glowing plants, drug-delivering artificial cells, smell-changing bacteria, propelling mouse tissues… Today, new kinds of biological designs are increasingly gaining public awareness and shifting biological imagination towards new horizons. Next to scientists and engineers, do-it-yourself biologists are claiming crucial roles as the hackers, artists, designers, cultural theorists, and entrepreneurs of the biophilic era. As Synthetic Biology is becoming the go-to-discipline to those who are interested in the biochemical design space, engineering principles become the driving force behind designed biologies.
But what do we mean by “design” when we talk about biological design?

In this two-part talk, Orkan Telhan will trace the long history of biological design rather quickly through a series of designed and commercialized biological artifacts and offer a more discursive view on the evolution of the biologically designable beyond specific disciplinary agendas. Secondly, Telhan will reflect on the outcomes of his research residency at SymbioticA and briefly discuss his current project on “Biosynthesis and the Futures of Sandalwood.”

Current SymbioticA resident Orkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility. Telhan is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts - Emerging Design Practices at University of Pennsylvania, School of Design. Telhan is working towards his PhD in Design and Computation at MIT School of Architecture and Planning. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. He studied Media Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo and theories of media and representation, visual studies and graphic design at Bilkent University, Ankara. Telhan's individual and collaborative work has been exhibited in a number of venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, LABoral, Archilab, Architectural Association, Architectural League/ NYC, and the MIT Museum.