http://go.standard.net/story/science-art-music-meet-at-crossroads

Science, art, music meet at 'Crossroads'

Art and science are meeting at the crossroads, to encourage an exploration of paths to sustainability.

"The Crossroads Project," at Utah State University, is a series of combined art and science activities focused on the Earth's resources. Activities are divided into phases, titled "Connections," "Crossroads" and "Destinations," to represent our society, choices to be made, and where those choices may take us.

• Three art exhibits are on display now through Oct. 10, 2012.

Location:
Chase Fine Arts Center
400 N. 1200 East
Logan, Utah, USA
Admission: Free.
Info: thecrossroadsproject.org.

Environmental Science Center Announces Earth Day Art Contest for Kids
http://b-townblog.com/2012/09/19/environmental-science-center-annou...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20120919/modernism-blending-scien...

The New Modernism: Blending science, engineering, art, and human imagination

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/lost-worlds/2012/sep/19/dinosaurs...
Dinosaur art

http://www.linesandcolors.com/2012/09/20/dinotopia-art-science-and-...
Dino-art

http://www.coastaljournal.com/website/index.php?option=com_content&...
Science-art interactions at brunswick festival

http://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi/2012/09/21/malawi-liverpool-welcom...

Malawi-Liverpool Welcome Trust explores art in health research

Malawi-Liverpool-Welcome Trust (MLW) will embark on a new project which seeks to  bringing artists and scientists together  into dialogue about their research work where the communities will also been involved.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/09/visual_artist_felip...

The relationship between science and art has long left scholars and artists in a quandary. If the scientific field is factually based, does this leave any room for creativity? Ask multi-media artist Felipe Lopez how the two relate and he will tell you a mouthful. To Lopez, it's not even a question of if science and art meet, it's how that relationship can be transformed into an image; the concept is one that he has been tackling his entire short but quite prolific career.

http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/

LEAF: Developing Cloud Curricula in Art and Science 2012

Workshops Developing Cloud Curricula in Art and Science

Science-art sculpture:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/19/sciart-of...

Darrell’s Hallucigenia, based on the genus of fossil from the Burgess Shale

Science fiction art:

http://www.rd.com/recommends/the-best-science-fiction-art/

The art of science learning:

http://boston.broadwayworld.com/article/NSF-Awards-Grant-to-Balboa-...

The US National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $2,654,895 to the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership (Partnership) for phase 2 of the Art of Science Learning Initiative, a project entitled "Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation." Harvey Seifter, Art of Science Learning founder/director, is the project’s director and principal investigator. Paige Simpson, the Partnership’s Interim Executive Director and Director of the Balboa Park Learning Institute, is project administrator.

Over the next four years, this grant will fund arts-based incubators for innovation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) learning in San Diego, Chicago and Worcester, Mass, as well as the development of a new arts-based STEM curriculum; experimental research to measure the impact of arts-based learning on creativity, collaboration and innovation; and public programs using the project’s activities to advance civic engagement with STEM.

he center will also join forces on large-scale university projects such as "Hieroglyph," a project to foster partnerships between scientists and science fiction writers. Finn says he also hopes to turn "Emerge" - a campus-wide event held last March that challenged artists, engineers, scientists, storytellers and designers to rethink possible futures - into an annual event.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2012/09/center_for_scien...

Center for Science and the Imagination to Launch at ASU's Newest Interdisciplinary Building, ISTB4

Under the guidance of university president Michael Crow, Arizona State University has become known for its innovative projects and ever-growing number of research initiatives and interdisciplinary schools.

This fall, the school will add one more to the list: The Center for Science and the Imagination, "an institutional platform for ambitious thinking and creative collaboration between the humanities, arts and sciences." Ed Finn, assistant professor at the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English will serve as director of the center, which will officially launch on Monday, September 24.

Finn describes the centers as a "sort of connective tissue" that will bridge the many pre-existing science, innovation, and research groups within the university. He hopes to connect students, projects and ideas across various disciplines to "foster creative and ambitious thinking about the future."

For example, the center will provide science students a place for creative projects.

he center will also join forces on large-scale university projects such as "Hieroglyph," a project to foster partnerships between scientists and science fiction writers. Finn says he also hopes to turn "Emerge" - a campus-wide event held last March that challenged artists, engineers, scientists, storytellers and designers to rethink possible futures - into an annual event.

For a full list of future collaborations see the center's website:

http://csi.asu.edu/

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.

The exhibit also marks the 25th anniversary of the appearance of the term Artificial Life. It is therefore an homage to the trust that Christopher Langton, the person who coined the term, placed on the capability of electronic technology and genetic engineering to achieve full development of new in silica and in vitro lifeforms. The exhibit also bears witness to the involvement of other fields of knowledge that opened up subsequently, which have formed a base supporting the transdisciplinary dialogue between art, science and humanities.

SymbioticA in Finland
For updates on the new laboratory in development at Aalto University in Finland check out:
http://arts.aalto.fi/en/research/future_art_base/

Balance-Unbalance International Conference 2013 May 31-June 2, Noosa, Queensland, Australia International Conference designed to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities. We are thoroughly looking forward to hosting artists, scientists, economists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, engineers and policy experts from across the world to engage in dialogue and action towards a sustainable future. Balance-Unbalance 2013 will also host a diversity of virtual components allowing global accessibility and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of a major international conference.
http://www.balance-unbalance2013.org/call.html
Due November 20 2012

Slovenian Society of Aesthetics
40th International Colloquium: "Surplus Art: Art - Science - Philosophy"
October 10-13, 2012
Collaborating institutions:
Science and Research Center & Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies, Vitanje
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Metelkova, Maistrova 3, SI-1000 Ljubljana Between the 16th and the 18th centuries in Europe a transition takes place from the scientific tradition of the Middle Ages to the new age of science, which is today known by the term scientific revolution, when the field of science is being constituted in a modern sense. At the end of this period in a similar manner art as an autonomous sphere has been established, which becomes the subject of aesthetics as philosophy of art. In the 1980s and 1990s the discussions about the end of art, philosophy of art, art history and modernity are very dynamic and diagnose bigger changes that happen in the field of art.
http://www.sde.si/2012.html

Neuromedia Art and Research
Until March 17th 2013
Kulturama: Science Museum, Englischviertelstrasse 9, Zürich NEUROMEDIA is an exhibition by artist Jill Scott merging neurobiological anatomy and physiology studies with media art. The innovative exhibition features four interactive sculptures (SOMABOOK, THE ELECTRIC RETINA, «ESKIN» AND DERMALAND) involving scientific research results as well as documentary films on the scientists and involved, the artist and her work processes. The exhibition offers profound insight into the relationship between art and science. Inspired by molecular and cellular research, cinema, philosophy and human health, NEUROMEDIA was developed while Scott was artist-in-residence at the University of Zürich from 2004 - 2012. This is the first time these artworks are being exhibited in a science museum. NEUROMEDIA will allow you to discover surprizing dimensions about your own levels of human perception.
http://www.kulturama.ch/90117/index.html

From SymbioticA digest

http://www.idea.org/blog/2011/03/29/framing-art-and-science-in-term...

science based Astro-dance in a festival:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120922/LIVING/3092200...

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/09/22/north/art-meets-science-a...

The IAIA technology hub is hosting the northern branch of the Albuquerque-based 18th International Symposium On Electronic Art, through dome exhibitions and an outdoor sound walk at the south Santa Fe campus.

Eco-art in Oman :

http://www.timesofoman.com/echoice.aspx?detail=12773

Trailblazing the science of turning junk into art

Students of the recently formed Creative Engineers Club at Caledonian College of Engineering (CCE), led by Haitham Al Saqri, took old junk accumulated in the college, divided it into competing teams and then turned it into sculptures using their engineering, design skills and imagination. "

http://www.browndailyherald.com/scientific-art-reaches-new-heights-...

Scientific art reaches new heights at interdisciplinary talk

Sewitz started a Group Independent Study Project last semester that focused on the intersection of science and art, where he met other students who were interested in the lecture series. He brought the idea to the Creative Scholars Project — a community of students and professors at Brown and RISD who come together to discuss and refine creative projects.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Creative-Mind-Initiative-at-Brow...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/24/sciart-of...
Painting that inspired Sagan's Cosmos

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2011/12/08/curiosity...

http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/1507468--physicist-tur...

Physicist turned artist enjoys career change

the Kanata Lakes woman had worked as a scientist, first studying quantum mechanics at the prestigious Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, then later developing radar systems for the Department of Defence.

From 1996 to 2001, Tremblay managed teams of scientists developing the next generation of telecommunication technology at Nortel Networks.

But always in the back of her mind, she carried with her the dream of becoming a full-time artist, a seismic career switch for a woman who had spent the past 20 years developing impressive academic and professional credentials in the fields of physics and telecommunications.

The change in careers came a little earlier than originally planned with the fall of Nortel.

“I’m now a full-time artist with science as a hobby,” said Tremblay.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/dark-matters-art-exhibiti...

The Universe Unseen, on Display in Chelsea

“Dark Matters,” a new collection of paintings and sculptures by the artist Shea Hembrey.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19647038

http://festivalofthemind.group.shef.ac.uk/

Music from tiny particles' movements set to debut

The random dance of tiny particles bouncing around in liquid has been turned into a unique sound display.

The jostling molecules of liquid bump the particles to and fro in an effect called Brownian motion.

Now a chemical engineer and an artist have joined forces to turn this random molecular dance into music.

The project, called Scale Structure Synthesis, was developed for the University of Sheffield's Festival of the Mind, held from 20-30th september, 2012.

The festival will see a number of pairings of science specialists with non-specialists in the name of public engagement, alongside talks, exhibitions and demonstrations.

http://nanoart21.org/nanoart_2012.html?goback=.gde_89849_member_169...

NanoArt 2012 INTERNATIONAL ONLINE COMPETITION

FREE Entries - Open to All Artists and Scientists - Seed Images of 3 Nanostructures are Provided for Further Artistic Creation

Submission deadline November 31st, 2012

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-09/turning-everyday-objects-...

German Art Laser Turns Random Desktop Crap Into Exotic Musical Instruments
Using a distance measuring laser and a stepper motor, designer Dennis P Paul turns everyday stuff into audio loops.

An Instrument for the Sonification of Everday Things from Dennis P Paul on Vimeo.

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/25/4290485/inspiring-budding-en...

Inspiring Budding Engineers with Indian Art

Two alumni of Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will exhibit works from their collection of modern and contemporary art in the halls of the engineering and applied sciences school through March 30, 2013. The exhibit, "Shifting Sublime," includes the work of prominent Indian artists as well as historic Bollywood posters from the private collection of Marguerite and Kent Charugundla.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091027/NY99197LOGO)

"Engineering is founded on the principles of simplicity and style, and frequently the most structurally sound designs are the most beautiful, as well," said NYU-Poly President Jerry M. Hultin. "The splendor of the Brooklyn Bridge, whose cables were fabricated by NYU-Poly graduate James Woods, displays this most elegantly. We thank Kent and Marguerite for exemplifying how a love of science and engineering and a love of art can coexist and strengthen each other, and for generously sharing their collection with the NYU-Poly community."

"Art is everywhere – outside your window in the morning, in the pot of the lobby plant, in your mobile phone and in everything designed and engineered," said Marguerite Charugundla. "Every time you look at art, you see something new, and art changes the way you look at the world. We wanted to share our art with NYU-Poly's students, who come from all over the world, in the hope that it will expand their vision and their lives."

NYU-Poly educates students from 56 countries; one-third are international students, and 10 percent come from India.

The Charugundlas, recent graduates of NYU-Poly's masters program in Management of Technology, have been patrons of modern and Indian art for more than a decade, and they turned the first floor of one of their New York telecom business offices into the not-for-profit Tamarind Art. The gallery showcases Indian artists and helps fund struggling art associations in India.

The exhibit will formally open with a private reception on the NYU-Poly Brooklyn campus September 27, 2012. Works exhibited throughout three buildings include paintings by the seminal modern artist M. Sashidharan, acrylics by the award-winning artist Kamal Mitra, Partha Shaw, Stanley Suresh, Samir Aich, Pratul Dash, Narendra Rai, and prints and video by Australian digital artist Kathy Smith. Rupa Shah curated the exhibit.

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/09/25/4290485/inspiring-budding-en...

SOURCE Polytechnic Institute of New York University

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120925/arts-entertainme...

Maltese artists who are exploring various scientific phenomena have joined up in an interactive exhibition, entitled How?', that brings together science and art.

The exhibition will be part of the Science and the City events in Valletta on Friday.

How does the human mind work? How can a fly be compared to a human or be useful towards the future of the human race? How is a child born with a deformity? How does something stretch and get fatter?

Each artist will be seeking to represent a particular scientific research. For inspiration and accurate results, these artists had the opportunity of working with a Maltese scientist specialising in the chosen area by the respective artist.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/7726403/A...

Billy Apple art project was dreamed up in 2009 by Dr Hilton, who holds the peculiar combination of a PhD in biochemistry and a masters in fine art from Elam.

"I wanted to make an art project that was genuinely about science, because a lot of people try and make art about science . . . but I look at it and think, ‘scientists wouldn't really take that seriously'," the Unitec lecturer says.

The process of immortalising his friend Billy Apple involved drawing b-lymphocyte cells from his blood and then growing them in a tissue culture.

They were then virally transformed to grow indefinitely, a process that is "reasonably routine" in the modern world of science.

The results of his work were displayed in an incubator at K Rd's Starkwhite Gallery in 2010.

"Everybody called it ‘the fridge' because it was just the cells in quite an expensive incubator, but it looked like a beer fridge," herecalls.

The Immortalisation of Billy Apple was significant enough to win the biochemist a prestigious Prix Ars Electronica award for hybrid art.

Dr Hilton grew the project further and has rmanaged to place Billy Apple's cell-line into the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC).

The United States-based "tissue bank" preserves a wide range of cell-lines but is not typically in the business of art collecting.

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/09/25/arts/universe

‘Charting the Universe’ spotlights scientific instruments

Inspired by the painting “Portrait of a Lady as an Astronomer,” Kresge Library’s “Charting the Universe” exhibit, which is on display in Fairchild Hall, draws on objects from Dartmouth’s King Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments to showcase the tools that contribute to our visual understanding of the universe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-finn/introducing-the-center-fo_b_1...

Introducing the Center for Science and the Imagination

we started something new at Arizona State University: the Center for Science and the Imagination. Our mission is to foster creative and ambitious thinking about the future. We want to bring writers, artists, scholars, scientists and many others together in collaboration on bold visions for a better future. But more than this, we want to share a sense of agency about the future, to get everyone on the plane thinking about how our choices inflect the spectrum of possibilities before us.

http://exp.lore.com/post/32148463512/art-meets-science-meets-remix-...

Art meets science meets remix – Harvard astronomer Alex Parker’s tribute to Van Gogh, a mesmerizing mosaic made of Hubble images.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/25/sciart-of...
Dinosaur art

http://therapidian.org/artprize-artist-profile-2012-abbey-adams-con...

Abbey Adams combines her love of nature, art and science, painting and drawing with all three.

Science and art may seem like they are on two opposite sides of the creative spectrum, but to painter and illustrator Abbey Adams, they literally go hand in hand. Through art, she is able to be closer to the topic, critter or scene and get a better understanding of what each is all about.

“I enjoy exploring the parallels between art and science,” she says. Adams definitely sees aspects of art in science and in turn, aspects of science in art. Both rely on processes of discovery.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2012/09/science-images-t...

Science Images that Border on Art

http://college.blogs.tuscaloosanews.com/10079/public-invited-to-ope...

scientist-artist who is just interested in non-scientific art: Dr. Art Bacon

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/27/windows-o...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/27/windows-o...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/28/sciart-of...

Astro-dance at Fringe Festival:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120922/LIVING/3092200...

http://physics.nd.edu/news/33662-art-and-nuclear-astrophysics-featu...

Art and nuclear astrophysics featured on Inside Science TV
September 21, 2012 • Categories: News

Using accelerators to probe the orgins of artwork is featured by Inside Science TV:
http://www.insidescience.org/?q=content/art-and-nuclear-astrophysic....

The program interviews Prof. Philippe Collon, as he describes techniques used in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame.

Inside Science TV is produced by the American Institute of Physics.

The research is further described in the January 2012 publication of Physics Today, "Accelerated ion beams for art forensics," by Prof. Collon and Prof. Michael Wiesche

http://www.columbiatribune.com/weblogs/art-axis/2012/sep/27/voice-s...

Art and science merge to educate public about vocal health

The University of Missouri will present the first-ever MU Voice Symposium and Vocal Arts Festival at Missouri Theatre. The purpose of the event is to bring awareness to the importance of the voice and to techniques that can be applied in order to preserve it.

Matthew Page, assistant professor at the University of Missouri, talked about the purpose of the event and how it brings together diverse areas of expertise. "The people who are" organizing the event "are physicians ... speech language pathologists, and music faculty at the university," said Page. "We have intersecting interests in vocal health."

While "elite" voice users, as Page put it, like actors and singers are trained in proper voice use and preservation, other professional voice users might fall through the cracks and risk damaging their vocal health.

Art of science exhibition at Memphis:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/ExhibitM/archives/2012/09/27/art-of-sci...

http://mca.edu/artists-and-scientists-team-up-to-enlighten-the-memp...

Artists and Scientists team up to enlighten the Memphis community

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital partner with local artists to produce this exhibition aimed at bridging the gap between the two disciplines and helping the community better understand the research done at St. Jude.

The art of cooking and science:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120927/NEWS/109279988/1312

Basic cooking lectures at times sound more like a chemistry lesson, covering the culinary uses of xanthan gum, or the physics of why oil and water won’t mix. And just this month, the school was approved to offer a new major in culinary science, a field encompassing food science and culinary arts.

A recent class covered dessert making via liquid nitrogen. Chef Francisco Migoya carefully dunked strawberries into a smoking container of the super-cold liquid, then shattered them with a mallet and ground the shards into a fine berry dust for use in an ice cream dish. Frozen borage petals were added for garnish.

The famous French chef Auguste Escoffier never studied ion-dipole attraction and James Beard never had to consider the complex and sometimes outlandish creations of molecular gastronomy. But science has crept into cooking in so many ways, from cooks using lab centrifuges to separate ingredients to high-end restaurants that serve aerated foie gras. The trend, sometimes referred to as modernist cuisine, is loosely defined as the movement to incorporate scientific principles into the cooking and presentation of food.

And the movement has stars, like Chicago’s Grant Achatz and Spain’s Ferran Adria, who made gorgonzola balloons and vanishing ravioli for a select few at his former restaurant, elBulli. Practitioners even have a manifesto: “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking,” a 2,438-page text published last year by Nathan Myhrvold, the first chief technology officer at Microsoft, which includes tips for preserving truffles in carbon dioxide.

The emphasis on science is signaled most dramatically with the new bachelor of professional studies degree in culinary science. Beginning in February, students pursuing the degree will be able to take courses such as Dynamics of Heat Transfer, Flavor Science and Perception, and Advanced Concepts in Precision Temperature Cooking.

To Loss, a strawberry is not just something to be sliced or dipped, but something with cells and enzymes that can be manipulated for best taste and presentation. Loss explained that the strawberries smashed in the kitchen classroom have more surface area and thus more flavor. And ice cream made in liquid nitrogen is smoother than the stuff on the supermarket shelves because ice crystals don’t have time to form.

http://www.dane101.com/current/2012/09/27/nerds_on_a_scene_the_wisc...

How do scientists help artists, and what does creativity have to do with science?

Interactions between art and science at

The Wisconsin Science Festival

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/28/scientists-call-color/

“Is black a color?” “Does black even exist?”

According to Harry Cooper, Curator and Head of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, the answer to both of these questions is no.

At the latest Andrew W. Mellon Symposium in Conservation Science, held Saturday in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cooper joined scientists and artists from around the country to discuss the material and immaterial aspects of color, ranging from the dyes of the Renaissance Italian palette to the preservation of American minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s colored neon bulbs.

The day-long event was organized by Erin R. Mysak, a postdoctoral fellow in Conservation Science.

“I hope for the general audience to understand a bit more about how science and art are interrelated,” Mysak said. “It’s often hard for the public to access science, and it’s not so much that way with art. I wanted to try to bring science to the public and help the public understand how scientists add to the scholarly body on art."

The topic of color was explored from a variety of angles throughout the day. Lectures ranged from Renaissance Italian art to color in archaeological material to brilliant marine-quality enamel. Francesca Esmay, conservator of the Panza Collection at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, presented on Flavin’s electric lights. Esmay elaborated on the challenge of maintaining Flavin’s artwork despite the perpetual need for replacement bulbs, highlighting the difficulty of sustaining a work of art as technology changes.

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=151300

The Hulda Festival is the second journey into art and science on board Ilhan Koman’s historic schooner. It serves as a platform for artists from different disciplines to interact together and with their audience in targeted regions.

The events take place through an interdisciplinary approach, interaction and creativity.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2012/9/28/235307/Unum-Hosts-Geometry--A...

Unum Hosts Geometry + Art = Expression Art Exhibit By Red Bank High School Students

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0929/1224324587507...
Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
One reason is to see Cosmos at the Castle, a multimedia exhibition that takes visitors on a tour of the universe using interactive cinema-sized screens and individual touchscreens.

The castle itself dates back to the late 16th century, when a tower was built to guard the approach to Cork from pirates and raiders. The tower later helped to guide ships to and from the port.

Why now? Blackrock Castle Observatory hosts regular open nights and exhibitions that celebrate the fusion of art and science through astronomy. For example, it hosts free child-friendly workshops and public lectures on the first Friday evening of each month.