http://www.geekosystem.com/syracuse-lava/

Syracuse University Fake Volcano Puts Your 3rd Grade Science Project to Shame

stirring reminder of what art and science can do when they put their minds together, faculty from the art and geology departments at Syracuse University have joined forces to make a DIY lava flow in one of the school’s parking lots. The picture above is not an artistic exploration of the nature of molten rock, or a very convincing substitute that helps students better understand the nature of a geological phenomenon that isn’t often seen in upstate New York. No siree, that is honest-to-goodness homemade molten basalt right there. Hit the jump for more info on the project and a video of the homemade lava flow in action.

Collaborative work of artists, scientists and poets in U.C. Berkeley's garden

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57360#.UDwltKAoQps

A jolt of support from a popular Web cartoonist has re-energized a decades-long effort to restore a decrepit, 110-year-old laboratory once used by Nikola Tesla, a visionary scientist who was a rival of Thomas Edison and imagined a world of free electricity.

From Symbiotica Digest:
SymbioticA related activities

SymbioticA inspires the development of new art-science laboratory in Finland

“We don’t need three hundred SymbioticA’s!! Just a few as really good as SymbioticA” -Roger Malina, Yasmin discussion One Two Three or More Cultures; 50th anniversary of C.P. Snow’s The Two Cultures, 10 May 2009.

SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts has been invited to Finland to consult and assist in establishing a laboratory inspired by its work and unique approach. The name of the new laboratory at Aalto will be published later this year.

Aalto University in Helsinki, intends to encourage transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary work across its Otaniemi campus. The laboratory for biological arts would integrate art with biology and technology and build on what has been done at The University of Western Australia (UWA) with SymbioticA.

One of the roles of the lab will be to link with Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture with other Schools under the umbrella of Aalto University, which is the result of three universities merging in 2010: The Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology and The University of Art and Design Helsinki.

In June 2011 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with between UWA, Perth, and Aalto University, Helsinki. From this August, SymbioticA’s Director Oron Catts and Academic co-ordinator Dr. Ionat Zurr will begin their six month secondment to consult and contribute to the development of the Lab.

FUTURE ART BASE / Biological Arts (working title) will have several activities.

A biological art unit will be established at Aalto, under the Future Art Base. Future Art Base is a semi-autonomous platform for artistic research and social innovation initiated at Aalto University in 2010. At Future Art Base science, technology, biosciences and economy meet art in two streams: art and economy and biological arts.

Future Art Base for Biological Arts offers a place for trans-disciplinary research and education that aim at creating cultural discussion around the topics related to the manipulation of life and biological processes at a practical and theoretical level, including philosophical and ethical dimensions.

The activities consist of research projects and a series of lectures and hands-on workshops in laboratory and natural environments exploring the interfaces between biosciences and art. It provides students and scholars with the ability to engage with life sciences and their applications within an artistic context, thus creating operating approaches between biosciences, engineering and the arts.

The new laboratory installations in Otaniemi Campus opened in autumn 2012 to offer a place for biological-artistic research, education and production. The guidelines for the Artist-in-residence program, with a focus on research and hands-on work in laboratory, as well as natural environments will be published soon.

Teaching and Workshop
Art&Life Manipulation Course, led by Dr. Ionat Zurr, will launch the activities in the Future Art Base biological arts laboratory in October 2012. The Biotech Art Workshop by Oron Catts will be held in January 2013. As well as practical life science skills, the workshop will include ethics processes and procedures. As a think tank workshop, it will combine practice and ethics.

For further information contact:

Ulla Taipale
ulla.taipale@aalto.fi
+358 50 595 7724

From Symbiotica digest:Research projects conducted by Catts and Zurr at Future Art Base:
Crude Matter
Crude Matter is a series of artistic meditations into the notion of the substrate as the main context for life.
The Research will done in Collaboration with local and international partners
More information: Oron Catts, oron.catts@uwa.edu.au
Tissue Engineered Muscle Actuators as evocative cultural objects and vehicles for discourses about material agency and living machines.
Current collaborators: Dr. Ionat Zurr, Mr. Oron Catts, Prof. Chris Salter, Prof. Miranda Grounds, Dr. Jonas Rubenson, Dr. Stuart Hodgetts
More information: Ionat Zurr ionat.zurr@uwa.edu.au

3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012
Ionat Zurr will deliver an oral presentation titled “Framing in-vitro meat as art“ as part of the ‘Tissue Engineered Nutrition’ panel in the 3rd TERMIS World Congress 2012
“Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine” September 5 - 8, 2012 Hofburg Congress Centre Vienna Austria
www.wc2012-vienna.org

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 until mid November 2012, at the new Telefonica Foundation Gallery in Madrid.
http://bit.ly/Kxnan7

CALL FOR APPLICANTS
NEW SEPTEMBER DATE FOR THE ASSEMBLED SELF
The Assembled Self, an arts-science project which explores the impact of genetic sequencing, has changed the date of its upcoming Research Development Workshop, and extended its deadline for artists to submit their expressions of interest. Please visit http://theassembledself.wordpress.com/ for new details.”
Due: 5pm Monday 3rd September 2012

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
3rd Edition Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award
Due to its success in 2010 & 2011 the third edition of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (DA4GA) will take place in 2012. The results of the current edition are on exhibition at Naturalis, Leiden until the end of this year. Always wanted to be at the forefront of riveting art that is trans-disciplinary and pushes the boundaries of technological and artistic possibilities? Then submit your application for DA4GA and take a chance on winning a €25.000 project!
www.da4ga.nl
Due: 10 Sept 2012

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

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/

Living Data: Art from science
Three artists, Lisa Roberts, Christine McMillan and Nigel Helyer have been working with climate change scientists, exploring creative articulation of their research work.
UNtil August 26 2012, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Powerhouse Museum Ultimo, NSW Australia
http://ultimosciencefestival.com/2012/living-data-art-from-science/

BLIGHTED BY KENNING by Charlotte Jarvis
Until 26th August
The Big Shed, Suffolk UK
Jarvis' latest work documents the creation of DNA encoded with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is allowed to contaminate apples sent to genomics research centres to decode.
www.artforeating.com/blightedbykenning

http://www.mmail.com.my/story/eco-warrior-artists-27936

creating art scientifically -

As an artist sensitive to the well-being of the environment, Christine collaborated with Imprint Service Sdn Bhd, an eco-friendly printer, to have all her art pieces printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink.
To instil a greater appreciation for life and nature to the public, artists feel we are draining too much of our natural resources and that we all have the responsibility to do our bit in protecting nature. As an artist and nature-lovers, they like to take upon the duty to remind people on the importance of preserving our beautiful nature.
They make sure they do the little things like recycle and go organic as much as possible.

From GV Art:

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intrusive Thoughts and Representation
Monday 3 September 2012, 6.30 - 8.30pm

This Roundtable event discusses the nature of obsessions, compulsions, intrusive thoughts and how these can be represented through artistic mediums. The panel will be composed of Dr. Simon Darnley, Dr. Erin Sullivan and Jacek Ludwig Scarso, founder of the Elastic Theatre Company and chaired by Art Historian, Dr Marius Kwint.

Art and Mind Symposium

Tuesday 11 September 2012

The science of optimism  - Why are humans prone to hold unrealistic expectations?
 
Dr Tali Sharot is our guest speaker at our Art & Mind Symposium. Tali is the author of The Optimism Bias: A tour of the irrationally positive brain, in which she attempts to answer the question 'What is it about our brains that makes us overestimate the positive?'
 
Dr Sharot is a faculty member of the Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences at University College, London.
 
Email info@gvart.co.uk for further details

Chemistry and its elegance as science art: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2012/0...

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/arts/article_ffa638cc-f16b-11e1-bd4d...

Local Scientists’ Quest for Hidden da Vinci

http://myths-made-real.blogspot.in/2012/08/belated-bio-art-dinosaur...

http://bioartlab.com/635/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm...

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57398#.UD7VeKAoQps

http://johnyml.blogspot.in/2010/07/ready-for-four-some-show-visit-l...

Deepjyoti Kalita from Assam is  a sculptor who attempts to push the boundaries of traditional sculpture. While Kartik pushes his paintings into the realm of sculpture, Deepjyoti pushes his sculptures into the realm of painting. In his work titled ‘Decode’, a set of two dimensional images are kept inside a three dimensional box frame, while a cut out image of the artist moves between the other two images in regular intervals. Light, movement, color and object are employed in this work enquiring the possibilities of video, kinetic art, painting and sculptural installation in one go. Here Deepjyoti seems to be an existential man who is unable to decide upon the choices he is given with. He is given a typewriter, still unable to use it. He is masked to hide his identity, still he is not able to move away from him.

In his other sculptural installation too, Deepjyoti tries out the possibilities of all aforementioned art forms but it is more Foucauldian in approach. In one frame a man seen sitting on a column, the LED monitor then says, ‘Take a Bath’. Then the light Changes and the LED says ‘Now Dry up’. Then man is seen taking a headlong plunge into a water-body and the LED says ‘Bring a Cloud’. The total meaning shift between the sign and the signified, the act of signification happens as an absurd but curious act, and it opens up the possibility to see even the materials used also do not stick to their materiality and become something else in the process.

http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/45079-ilana-halperin-we...

We Form Geology
Travelling Gallery, various locations around Scotland, Aug-Dec 2012

The exhibition spans a range of formats, from super-8 film of an erupting volcano to a short story available within the beautifully presented program. Laser-etched graphite and mica fuse art with mineral bodies, and sit unobtrusively beside specimens on loan from the museum. Boarding the bus, however, the eye is drawn not to the roaring film at the far end, but to an epic copper-plate etching combining photo imaging and traditional drawing on hard ground. The comprehensive notes and delicate forms imprinted onto this large scale print make for compulsive reading and require a squint or two to fully appreciate the passion in the etching. Mineral forms both outside and inside our bodies are analysed and celebrated.

http://sciencedecoded.blogspot.in/2012/08/science-art.html?showComm...

Some information on sci-art

http://www.ranchosantafereview.com/2012/08/30/psychologist-digital-...

Psychologist, digital artist square off on the nature of experience

The next Bronowski Art & Science Forum will feature an illustrated conversation about the nature of experience between UCSD psychology professor Piotr Winkielman and digital video artist Jennifer Steinkamp, 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in the auditorium at the Neurosciences Institute, 1640 John Jay Hopkins Drive.

http://metronews.ca/news/regina/354197/artists-work-uses-unconventi...

Artist uses unconventional means to create colour

Artist Marie Lannoo’s newest exhibit, Magnetic Fields, on now at the Art Gallery of Regina, is a space where art and science meet.

The exhibit is made up of Plexiglas sheets curved into waves and mounted onto the walls, covered in a prismatic foil.

Lannoo, a Saskatoon resident and one of the most well regarded Abstract artists in Canada, had discovered the materials accidentally in a sign shop. The sales clerk had handed her the sheet of the plastic-like material from the top dusty shelf.

“It’s just a very mundane material if you saw it in the raw,” says Lannoo. “And at certain angles all it looks like is see-through plastic.”

But, in the shop, as she bent the material, “suddenly the walls were full of colour,” says Lannoo.

She loved the effect, but had no idea how it happened. So she called in the experts.

“I visited the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon,” says Lannoo, referring to the national research facility where synchrotrons, sources of light that scientists can use to gather information about the structural and chemical properties of materials, are studied.

“I didn’t want to take a physics class,” Lannoo explains, “so I contacted the centre. I went with my materials and asked them to explain to me how this stuff worked.”

How it works is a complicated process of diffraction gratings and logarithmic spirals. But the exhibit, says Lannoo, is also about colour for colour’s sake.

“I have a particular interest in colour in my work. What this exhibition does is it creates (colour) without using any of the conventional materials of a painter.”

The exhibit is on until Oct. 6.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9506444/Superhum...

Superhuman, at the Wellcome Collection, Seven magazine review
Coinciding with the Paralympic Games, this entertaining exhibition explores the theme of artificial enhancement down the ages, writes Andrew Graham Dixon.

his is an entertainingly broad exhibition on the theme of artificial enhancement, timed to coincide with the 2012 Paralympic Games. Like most shows at the Wellcome Collection, it plays on the fault line between art and science.

Gathered under the rubric “What is an enhancement?”, one encounters a miscellany of curiosities, ranging from a ceramic penis of the Georgian period (complete with ingenious ejaculatory mechanism); via a 19th-century silver nose, designed to mask one of the effects of tertiary syphilis; to the sleek surprise of an iPhone. The implication?

Frank McEntire: The God Particle
Salt Lake City Weekly
Art and science have already been colliding and colluding for a while, in the works of many artists locally and elsewhere. Frank McEntire looks at religion and spirituality with the eye of an artist in his mixed-media works. “The god particle … gets ...

http://krt-festival.pl/?p=3035&lang=en

Stelarc – BIOART

Stelarc (Australia) is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed twenty five body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body.

http://www.livescience.com/22859-paleo-artists-dinosaur-art-steve-w...
Science based illustrations of Dinosaurs

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/244020/group/homep...

'The Science of Art' coming to N.D. Museum of Art

A one-day symposium on The Science of Art will be Sept. 11 at the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition by the Oakes Twins.

The events will be of interest to the general public, especially artists, those who love drawing, physicists, ocular engineers and scientists, and medical practitioners who work with human sight, a news release from the North Dakota Museum of Art said.

The Art of the Science Caption
Scientific American (blog)
Instead, I'd like to use the absence of a caption to mention the importance of accompanying science images with the right text. Why? Artists and photographers spend enough time crafting images that it'd be a waste to lose potential viewers simply for ...

http://www.redandblack.com/variety/scientific-illustration-class-pa...

Scientific illustration class paints murals, updates '70s hallways

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/paralympics-sci...

Science and art should be partners rather than enemies

The Paralympic opening ceremony offered an understanding of science that did not strip the world of wonder

The most inspiring thing about the Paralympic ceremony was that it offered an understanding of science that did not strip the world of wonder. Here science and art were no longer conceived of as enemies but as partners in the common task of making the world a more beauteous place, a world as welcoming and magical to the outcast Calibans of this world as it is to kings and dukes. Only this will bring about the brave new world of Miranda's vision – glorious humanity, in all its diversity, restored to fullness of life.

From the Leonardo:
EVENTS

UPCOMING DASER: 20 SEPTEMBER 2012, WASHINGTON DC
Join us for the next DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), 20 September 2012, at the National Academy of Science Building, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. This month, the discussion's theme is Brain Science and the Cyborg: Fact, History, and Possibilities. Feature presentations by neuroscientist James Giordano, educator Monica Lopez-Gonzalez and futurist Jonathan Peck. For those not in D.C., a live webcast will be available here. Find out more

KOSMICA, MEXICO CITY: 27 - 29 SEPTEMBER 2012
Join Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina at the 2012 KOSMICA gathering in Mexico City, 27 - 29 September 2012. KOSMICA is a 3-day galactic gathering, an off-the-planet mix of art, science, debate, music and film, exploring alternative and cultural uses of space. For its first edition in Mexico City, KOSMICA will see over 15 participants actively working in cultural and artistic aspects of space exploration. Urban stargazing, cosmic music, zero gravity dance, armchair space exploration, science fiction and DIY rocket science collide in a unique and unmissable event. Find out more

NEXT LASER: 10 SEPTEMBER 2012, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 10 September 2012, at the University of San Francisco. Feature presentations include "At the Intersection of Beauty and Strength: Earthen Structures that Survive Earthquakes" by educator Hana Mori Bottger, "Lights, Nano, Action!" by educator Jennifer Dionne , "Phenomena as Material" by artist Jesse Houlding and "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in Southern India" by educator Vijaya Nagarajan. Find out more on Leonardo website http://www.leonardo.info/e-LNN/e-LNN.html

http://www.leonardo.info

http://snellville.patch.com/articles/artist-david-babulski-combines...

http://www.bitsofearth.com/news/artist-david-babulski-combines-scie...

Artist David Babulski Combines Science, Art

His work is on display at City Hall during the month of September.

By Crystal Huskey

The City of Snellville, Mayor Kelly D. Kautz and the Snellville Art Jurors are proud to announce the unique mineral artist Dr. David Babulski as the next visual artist exhibiting his work at City Hall as a continuation of the Art on the Wall at City Hall program.

The public is invited to view original works of art and mineral micromounts by Dr. Babulski during the month of September in the community room at city hall during normal business hours. In addition, the public may meet the artist on Sept. 4 at City Hall from 6 -8 p.m.

Dr. Babulski has collected and mounted minerals from across the State. He then uses his artistic skills to capture and paint the beauty of the mineral deposits in watercolor. The mineral mounts are so small that Dr.Babulski first has to use a microscope to examine them in order to capture and portray thedetails. Both Dr. Babulski’s paintings and the original mineral mounts can be viewed at City Hall as a part of this exhibit.

Dr. Babulski grew-up in California where he developed a passion for studying minerals and painting. He graduated from California State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Earth Science and a minor in Art. Dr. Babulski is currently a member of the Georgia Mineral Society and has begun the Mineral Heritage Project. Through his work, Dr.Babulski helps to preserve mineral deposits in Georgia.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/01/sciart-of...

http://sites.tufts.edu/tuftsgetsgreen/2012/08/31/nov-15-cool-scienc...

Students Science Art Competition

http://thefinchandpea.com/2012/08/29/the-art-of-science-linger-a-li...

The Art of Science: Linger a Little Longer

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/events/pages/newsdetail.aspx?URL=http://www.n...

An Art & Science Collaboration based on Red Sprites & the Polar Regions

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/culture/your-southland/76007...

Art will meet science at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery tomorrow when an award-winning multimedia artist, painter and filmmaker presents his work.

Canadian Peter McLeish will be discussing collaborations with scientists in the polar regions as well as his work with red sprites, a phenomenon associated with thunderstorms.

McLeish has been collaborating with American scientist Dr Walter A Lyons since 2001 - Dr Lyons received a National Science Foundation grant for the 42-minute film The Hundred Year Hunt for Red Sprites.

How science inspires artists - an interesting article:

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/03/science-minded-blending-...

http://www.wamda.com/2012/09/iraq-reborn-art-science-hub-through-ba...
Steam project in Iraq and surrounding areas!

Dinosaur ( Paleo) art:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112686077/dinosaur-art-book-r...

The Road So Far... The Artwork of Drue Roberts at The Art Junction
Saturday, September 8 at 4:30 PM
Location: The Art Junction
2634 Prairie Street,

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20120903/LIFESTYLE/2090...

Bio-art:
http://krt-festival.pl/?page_id=3157&lang=en

Science-art interactions in the tiny European country of Malta:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120904/local/science-in...

http://gozonews.com/24861/science-in-the-city-festival-of-science-r...

Science in the City – Festival of science, research and art

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/tags/science-art

http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2012/09/02/science-art-oeuf...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/05/sciart-of...

DNA dance:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/09/art-and-science

Art and science
Swinging genomics

Geology-art:

http://thedailynewsonline.com/entertainment/article_9cf5ef0d-8630-5...

http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/en/que_hacemos/conocimiento/exp...

ART AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE VIDA 1999-2012 revisits a series of works that have been prized in the VIDA Art and Artificial Life awards, held annually by Fundación Telefónica since 1999.
Details:
Opening Date: 10 May 2012
Venue: Espacio Fundación Telefónica Gran Vía, 28. Madrid
> Information on Espacio Fundación Telefónica

The exhibition showcases genetically modified bacteria, “bio-inspired” robots and semi-living neoorganisms, the result of a collaborative effort involving artists, scientists, and technologists in laboratories, closed or open to public participation.

Residency opportunities at Symbiotica:

APPLY FOR RESIDENCY:

Located within the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology School at the University of Western Australia, SymbioticA provides access to the culture and practice of science, providing hands-on experience and mentorship for artists and researchers in residence. Residents practise lab work and are given training in scientific and technical knowledge specific to their field of artistic enquiry. Deadline September 21 2012

http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/residents/applications