http://mashable.com/2012/09/28/starry-night-mosaic/?goback=.gde_163...

Take 100 NASA Photos, Stir, Make Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’

We’ve seen Van Gogh’s iconic “Starry Night” painting as both an iPad app and a domino run, but now an astronomy major has recreated it in perhaps the most apt way: with NASA photos of the cosmos.

Alex Parker, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, made the mosaic-style image out of publicly available downloads of NASA’s top 100 images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Cloudy weather prevented him from working on a recent night at the observatory, so he came up with the idea of creating the image for Hubble’s 22nd birthday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2012/sep/29/art-...

Particle physics and illustration are about to collide in the culmination of the Jiggling Atoms project; the brainchild of artist Natalie Kay-Thatcher. Over the past six months 25 dedicated artists have attended lectures and seminars about physics! They have been set the task of visually interpreting aspects of the often-viewed incomprehensible world of particle physics.

A series of four lectures from co-organisers Malte Oppermann and Jennifer Crouch transported the artists from everyday experience and thinking into the strange realm of the atom and scientific methodology. They learnt of the guiding forces and lumpy discrete nature of Nature. In a final lecture from myself we went deeper down the rabbit hole, smaller than the atom to explore particles.

Now enthused and educated about all things science; the artists were given five short briefs. Each brief explored different aspects of particle physics; quantum weirdness, the space between particles, 'seeing' particles with machines, symmetries and the rules of Nature, and the very early history of the Universe. Various methods of interpretation were also suggested; a toy or game, image or series of images, object, comic strip, or info-graphic. While ideas were taking seed a number of seminars and e-mail conversations followed. From these discussions the briefs took on new and exciting dimensions as artists and scientists' explored ideas of representing the subject matter off brief.

Right now as you read the final touches are being drawn, painted, constructed or fabricated. Alongside the exhibition, which takes place next week, will be a glittering array of workshops and talks. If you are in London 1st-7th October then you must come and interact by exploring physics with us. More information can be found on the brilliant www.jigglingatoms.org website designed by the project's artistic director Rosie Eveleigh.

http://today.ttu.edu/2012/09/art-of-science-chemistry-theatre-join-...

Art of Science: Chemistry, Theatre Join Forces to Keep Undergrad Labs Safe

Teaching assistants learn how theatre techniques can lead to greater authorlearning experiment, run by a new partnership between the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, chemistry teaching assistants tasked with instructing undergraduate lab sections spent the day taking acting lessons and learning how theatre techniques can help to increase overall lab safety.ity and presence in classroom.

The eight-hour day fittingly began in the Laboratory Theatre with an hour of theatre games to warm up the students and prepare them for interaction – a prospect that Dominick Casadonte, Piper Professor of Chemistry, readily admits most of the teaching assistants met with some level of skepticism. Students then learned about body and movement, vocal work and status transactions, or how one announces one’s dominance or submission through body language.

“I think art and science are both tied together,” Casadonte said. “We made the point. I said, ‘Why do you think this is called a lab theatre? This is where the theatre students come to create new works. This is where they perform their cutting-edge stuff. It’s just like when you create new compounds in the lab. Both are tied together by this notion of creativity, and I think that resonated with the students.”

Working Together to Stay Safe

Using 16 different safety scenarios, organizers in chemistry drafted departmental responses to each one, such as fire, chemical spills or handling horsing around. Actors from the theatre department would portray the scenarios, stopping at the crucial moment when teaching assistants would have to make a critical decision. The teaching assistants would discuss what they should do, and then be inserted into the restarted scene to handle the situation with safety as the ultimate outcome.

Sometimes, the teaching assistants had to be commanding and take control of a situation. Other times, they had to be soothing in a tense situation to keep the class under control.

http://www.praguepost.com/news/14396-region-where-science-and-art-c...
Science art collaboration at CERN

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/09/30/sciart-da...

SciArt of the Day: Hyperdimensional Suffering

science-art fusion for students:

http://peninsulaclarion.com/community/schools/2012-09-30/juneau-nat...

From Leonardo:
LEAF: DEVELOPING CLOUD CURRICULA IN ART AND SCIENCE 2012
The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) Art Science Cloud Curricula workshops will generate and build an internationally recognized art and science cloud curriculum course outline. The workshops outcome will be a curriculum that is expected to become a benchmark of what we see as quintessentially important to engage in the world of research at the core of Art/Science. This workshop is established in collaboration with the Science, Engineering, Art and Design (SEAD) curriculum white paper and STEAM. The proposed workshops will be able to define and construct an actual sample curriculum that will be placed on an art/science cloud wiki. The workshops will happen in real-time with invited collaborators at two significant events in 2012: The Re-New Interactive Media Arts Conference (19-24 November 2012) and MutaMorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty (CIANT) (6-8 December 2012).

CALL FOR PAPERS: LMJ23: SOUND ART (2013)
Art is getting noisier every day. Whether made by sculptors, video artists, composers, printmakers or installation artists, there?s no question but that "Sound Art" is a genre ascendant. The Turner Prize went to a Sound Artist last year, phonography has revived an interest in R. Murray Schafer?s Soundscape theories, and critical writing is beginning to proliferate on the topic. It?s time for Leonardo Music Journal to give this field a closer look. For Volume 23 of LMJ we solicit articles and artists' statements that address the role of sound in art that wouldn?t necessarily be called "music." The deadline for proposals is 15 October 2012.

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

http://www.leonardo.info

Fractal art: visualization of science:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/mandelbrot-art-math-science-...

Science and science fiction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/science/in-tempe-ariz-science-and...;

http://www.uwindsor.ca/visualarts/reception-for-art-life-student-bi...
Bio-art exhibition

http://www.zmescience.com/space/saturn-rings-shadow-black-white-04233/
Science-art - beautiful saturn's rings in black and white

The art of Chemistry:

http://cen.acs.org/media/slide-show/2012/09/cen-09040-newscripts-Le...

http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i40/Fungal-Violins-Art-Chemistry.html

Science-art:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/10/02/what-did-...

from Symbiotica: SymbioticA related activities

ArtMeatFlesh II in Norway
SymbioticA with Special guests Liv Torunn Mydland, Roger Strand, Zack Denfeld,Cathrine Kramer, Atle Lura and Rune Larsen
6 October 21:00 - 23:15
Following the recent success of SymbioticA's ArtMeatFlesh at DEAF2012 in Rotterdam, ARTICLE 2012 presents the Norwegian edition: an evening that will flesh out some meat with in-vitro meat growers, philosophers and artists. Using the format of popular cooking competition shows, animal protein will meet metabolism cuisine in a battle for supremacy over the secret ingredient of (semi)living meat with no body; an event filled with translation of proteins, behavioural changes versus technical solutions, and amnesia... In this edition of ArtMeatFlesh, Oron Catts - director of SymbioticA and the first person to co-grow and co-eat in-vitro meat - will host some of the more eccentric figures in the eat-lab-meat debate and might even serve a portion of meat-like substance to the audience....
http://www.article.no/en/content/program/2012/symbiotica-artmeatfle...

4S/EASST Conference
October 17-20, 2012
Copenhagen Business School Frederiksberg Denmark Joint conference between the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for Science and Technology Studies (EASST). Ionat Zurr, Chris Salter and Oron Catts present The Affects of Material Agency: Subjectivity, Ethico-Aesthetics on October 18.
http://www.4sonline.org/meeting

From Symbiotica; MYRIAD
By Loren Kronemyer
8-14 November
Opening 9 November, 6-9pm
Free Range Gallery 339 Wellington St, Perth Western Australia MYRIAD is an artistic exploration of insect communication, framed by relationships of control and exchange. SymbioticA masters student Loren Kronemyer has spent the past year researching social insects with the aim of achieving a form of interspecies dialogue. Her experimental process has approached communication as a form of drawing, creating lines through a range of techniques from pheromone manipulation to environmental intervention. The resulting images are living drawings that transform under the shifting influence of insect and human intelligence.
http://www.rubicana.info/index.php?/proposals/untitled-ants/

SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious November 14-December 15, 2012 Maribor, Slovenia Exhibition includes collaborative work by Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson, and also features The Tissue Culture & Art Project.
http://www.maribor2012.eu/en/nc/event/prikaz/3485344/

SOFT CONTROL: Conference
Location: Portal - Valvazorjeva 40, Maribor, Slovenia Conference participants include recognised experts in the field of contemporary art and new technologies, famous artists and philosophers. The conference will place special emphasis on the presentation of new strategies in contemporary technological art and education in the field, as well as practical presentations.

DAY 1: Technological Matter and the New State of the Living Friday, November 16 (2.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.) Featuring Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr.

DAY 2: The Technological Unconscious as a Medium Saturday, November 17 (2.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.) Featuring Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson.

Textobjectext: Writing the posthumanities: Exploring the potentialities of writing practice after the material turn Wednesday 28 November 2012 Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University Melbourne Australia Keynote addresses from Assoc. Prof. Barbara Bolt (VCA, University of Melbourne) & Oron Catts (Director, SymbioticA) http://textobjectext.wordpress.com/

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

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/

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies program at University of California, Riverside welcomes nominations for the SFTS book award. This prize honors an outstanding scholarly monograph that explores the intersection between popular culture and the sciences. We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, the history of science, media studies, and the sociology of science. The award is established for the purpose of recognizing groundbreaking and exceptional contributions to the field. Books must be published in English between January 1 and December 31 2012; edited volumes as well as works by more than two authors are not eligible.
The jury for the 2012 prize will be Rob Latham (University of California, Riverside), Patrick Sharp (California State University, Los Angeles), and Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside). The recipient will be announced at the joint Eaton/SFRA conference from April 11-14, 2013.
Please send nominations for the book prize to Sherryl Vint at sherryl.vint@gmail.com

Slovenian Society of Aesthetics
40th International Colloquium: "Surplus Art: Art - Science - Philosophy"
October 10-13, 2012
Collaborating institutions:
Science and Research Centre & 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

Experiments in (and out of) the studio: Art and Design Methods for Science and Technology Studies One day workshop, Tuesday October 16th, 2012 10:30AM-5:30PM, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen The organizers invite participation in an interdisciplinary one-day hands-on workshop on emerging methods of critical practice in science and technology studies, in particular methods that engage with art and design as well as performance and exhibition. Ultimately, we aim to refine our understanding and also intervene in the way that objects can stimulate and embody critique in STS.
The workshop comprises three parts: (1) A morning of talks and participant discussion in the creation and interpretation of digital and material artefacts will operate as a means of exploring how techno-scientific knowledge is produced and how the social significance of that knowledge is refracted through material things.
(2) A midday ethnographic exploration of the city of Copenhagen will focus on documenting urban technology through notes, photography, video and sketches to feed into the final session. (3) In the afternoon, we invite participants to build 'machines of enquiry' to materialise and experiment with the ethnographic material as a way of prototyping research insights.
If you are interested in participating, please send a brief (3-5 sentences) expression of interest and a short 250-word bio or CV to Dehlia Hannah dh2058@columbia.edu by October 8th at 5pm EST. Please put 'Pre-EASST Workshop' in the subject heading. We will notify all participants about the status of their application shortly afterwards.

Group pushing for science-art museum:

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121003/greenpoint/group-mobilizes...

The science-art museum Brooklyn local non-profit Town Square hopes to help create. "The museum will appeal to people of all ages, in the same way the Natural History Museumdoes."

Town Square — a 7-year-old grassroots group with a 1,500-reader email list and with connections to local schools — is mobilizing on Anderson's idea, she said, and rallying the community to fuse the disciplines in an interactive learning center.

"The approach is for people to learn more about science with the application of art and to learn more about art through the application of science," she said of the concept, in its primary stages of development.

Short term courses in sci-art interactions:
http://sciencegallery.com/blog/2012/09/idea-lab-explore-future-city...

Idea Translation Lab (developed by Harvard University), a broad curriculum course available to Trinity College Dublin undergraduates and Idea Lab (a collaboration with IBM and Dublin City Council). This semester they are offering a free, mini-taster of this process to adults interested in learning more about how to develop ideas for future city needs.

The Idea Lab will work on the boundaries of art and science, engineering, and developing new innovative ideas where these disciplines meet. It is a cross disciplinary course stimulating the development of entrepreneurial skills through collaborative group projects. The course consists of a combination of talks (including many by guest lecturers) and weekly workshop and practical sessions where participants will develop their collaborative projects.

This semester, as part of their wider educational programme, Science Gallery will be offering this course to adults as an evening class. Running for 8 weeks from Tuesday 16th October to Tuesday 11th December, the course will focus on guiding people through activites focusing on modifiying, critiquing and addressing our urban environments and associated social interactions.

Practical sessions will focus on group-based idea generation and collaboration. Over the 8 weeks participants will also learn a variety of 'design thinking' skills, which will enable them to work on developing a prototype project.

Classes will be run every Tuesday evening from the 16 October from 6pm until 8pm, upstairs in Studios 1 & 2 in Science Gallery, Pearse St, Dublin 1.

This course is free to attend, but places are limited to 15 participants. Submission is open to anyone interested in taking the course. No particular skills are required. You can register on their website.

Deadline for registration is FRIDAY 12TH OCTOBER 2012.

http://www.ecsite.eu/activities_and_resources/annual_conferences/59...

Official launch of KiiCS’ Art & Science incubation activities
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 11:27

The EU-project KiiCS’ incubation activities were officially launched on 28th September, in Naples: artists, creative people and scientists will work together on innovative ideas and help communicate science in new and creative ways.
Highlights

From September 2012 until June 2014, KiiCS partners – science and arts centres and multidisciplinary platforms – will develop 9 original and innovative incubation actions associating people from the science and creative sectors (from arts to design to new media) to come up with new ideas for products, services or creative work places in different fields:
What to expect from KiiCS

Each Incubator Partner will organise laboratories, workshops, exhibitions, artists’ residencies, etc. involving its local community of artists, scientists, education institutes or businesses. Creative solutions and intelligent technologies will, for instance, be tried out to aid the development of Smart Cities or, in other cases, new ways to co-create music apps will be explored. The best idea will receive the European KiiCS Award – a voucher of € 5,000 to be spent on business support services to implement the idea.

“KiiCS will demonstrate how crucial science and art centres are to Europe’s culture of innovation. As open-minded, accessible and publically engaging institutions, science and art centres are the perfect breeding grounds for the new ideas that will shape tomorrow’s Europe. Where else can scientists, artists, businesspeople and the public – particularly young people – collaborate so freely?” (C. Franche, Executive Director at Ecsite, KiiCS project leader).

From science to art- exhibition:
http://www.dentonrc.com/entertainment/denton-time-headlines/2012100...

The art of conservation:
http://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/mariposa-daily...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorikozlowski/2012/10/04/a-place-for-bi...

It’s at the intersection of the disciplines that we see the greatest innovation. Where art meets science, where tech meets business. The key is to actually have the two lines of thinking run into each other.

The idea for a place called The Hub originated in London in 2005, as a space for innovators to meet. Hubs now exist in over 25 cities worldwide, including Johannesburg, Melbourne, and Sao Paulo.

http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/20372421/article-Science-colli...

Science collides with First Friday art

FAIRBANKS — Today’s First Friday art show, “Snow & Ice,” is a cold reminder of the months ahead in Interior Alaska.

Organized by UAF’s Geophysical Institute, the show’s photographs range from microscopic ice crystals to satellite images of icebergs. “It’s a great way to see how art and science are closely related,” said Lynda McGilvary, the GI’s design services manager.

The idea arose when staff at the GeoData Center, which maintains data and archives for the GI, sought a way to share historical photos of Alaska’s glaciers. The show features images as early as the 1960s, taken by United States Geological Survey researcher Austin Post.

“In addition to being helpful data, the photos are just stunning,” said Amy Hartley, information officer for the Geophysical Institute.

Interested in selecting a diversity of photographs, the Geophysical Institute partnered with local wildlife and landscape photographer Adam Hughes, who submitted three photos from a recent trip to Barrow. “If it’s a nice clear day we can capture snow and ice. When the sun is shining through it really pulls out the blues,” he said.

Artist in the lab, scientist in the studio:

http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/10/artist-in-the-lab-scientist-in...

Teaching kids science through art:
http://www.pineisland-eagle.com/page/content.detail/id/522530/Pilot...

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/15495442-418/artwalk-blends-cul...

Cummings, a Fermilab particle physicist working with a group trying to design the next generation of particle accelerators, decided to pick up the painter’s brush earlier this year. She painted the station’s Great Hall from a black and white photograph.

Particle physics on canvas

“I believe that I am a scientist today because I forced myself to draw as a kid,” Cunmings said. “There are basic physics concepts involved in being able to draw properly.”

“In the elements of drawing you have to understand perspective and shadows – it is all physics reflecting off of something. Our art is a reflection of how our eyes reconstruct reality,” she added.

Art in science: Caffeine crystals
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=caffeine-crystals&...

Science art: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/10/05/shoot-to-...

Marine Biology art by marine biology scientist:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/outdoors/fl-guy-harvey-boat-show...

On line sci-art exhibition:
http://www.asci.org/artikel1219.html

http://www.asci.org/index2.php?artikel=1234

www.nysci.org

Art of science exhibition:
http://eqn.princeton.edu/2012/10/princetons-art-of-science-exhibit-...

Princeton’s Art of Science exhibit travels to Liberty Science Center

A spe­cial Prince­ton Art of Sci­ence trav­el­ing show, con­sist­ing of 44 images cho­sen from the more than 250 images exhib­ited dur­ing the competition’s first five years, opened last month at Lib­erty Sci­ence Cen­ter. The trav­el­ing show was selected by cel­e­brated pho­tog­ra­pher Emmet Gowin and Joel Smith, for­mer cura­tor of pho­tog­ra­phy at the Prince­ton Art Museum.

The exhibit will be on dis­play at Lib­erty Sci­ence Cen­ter through mid-March, when it will travel on to other venues. More pho­tos of the exhibit here.

http://gizmodo.com/5950250/art-meets-science-at-this-giant-seething...

Art Meets Science At This Giant Seething Flask Sculpture
Andrew Liszewski

What looks like a mad scientist's oversized scheme to conquer the city of Winnipeg is actually a half million dollar sculpture created by artist Bill Pechet. Standing 35 feet tall, the Emptyful artpiece towers over the city's Millennium Library Plaza looking like a constantly brewing science experiment thanks to a colored fountain and misters creating a cloud of fog.

Since Winnipeg is often referred to as 'Winterpeg' by the rest of the country, the sculpture will only run during the Summer months when temperatures manage to climb above the freezing point. But all year round a display of embedded LEDs will illuminate the piece, including warm tones to help battle the frigid temperatures the city is known for.

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2012/oct/09/museum-pieces-art-that-...

Art combines with science to make you think.

http://coloradoartranch.org/AldoandLeonardo.htm

Science and art collaboration in wilderness:

What happens when artists and scientists work together?

How is the art affected? How is the science affected?

Ph.D. and dance:
http://biocreativity.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/dance-your-ph-d-final...

Finger fossil:
http://eleanorgatestuart.com/2012/10/10/finger-fossil/?goback=.gde_...

http://www.lewistownnews.com/articles/2012/10/10/entertainment/doc5...

Art children and their parents. The children, through the Art Center’s joint effort with the CMR Wildlife Refuge and Diane Oldenburg, had the opportunity to view the elk at Slippery Ann. As we made our way to Slippery Ann, our driver, CMR biologist Matt, spoke about the viewing and the meaning of the Wildlife Refuge.

Once there, CMR biologist Jackie told the children some fun facts about the elk. She also had an elk skull for the children to see and a piece of fur for them to touch. Then she asked us to listen carefully to the elk sounds and the differences between males and females voices. We actually got quite close to the elk, which thrilled the kids.

Jacqueline, our Art Education director, then gave the children sketchbooks and pencils and had the children look carefully at the animals in front of them, the strong thigh and leg muscles of the bulls, their strong neck, the differences with the cows, and watch the way the elk were moving legs and body. Then it was time to draw. The children had a unique opportunity and they knew it.

http://www.kyforward.com/2012/10/russell-cave-winburn-students-expl...

Russell Cave, Winburn students explore intersection of art, science through project

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/magazinedetails/magazine/art/When-m...
Bio-art by a scientist

http://www.rubber-bodies.com/blog/2012/09/11/iras-bioart-talk/

http://www.umassmed.edu/news/2012/education/innovative-project-inte...

Innovative project integrates arts with science learning
National Science Foundation funds Worcester incubator for Art of Science Learning

The worth of art versus science is a frequent counterpoint in debates about education. But what if art education not only coexisted peacefully with science education, but enhanced it? Hands-on, imaginative approaches to science education, using many of the methods used in the creative arts, have been shown to attract and retain young people in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). That is the premise of the Art of Science Learning, an initiative to explore ways in which the arts can help improve how people of all ages learn STEM disciplines.

Now, with funding from the National Science Foundation’s $2.7 million award "Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation," Worcester is one of just three cities nationwide, and the only one of its size, selected as an Art of Science Learning incubator in the move to transform STEM to STEAM—with the A added for arts. The Worcester collaborative will be led by the Ecotarium in partnership with an advisory board of interdisciplinary mentors from 10 Worcester educational, business and cultural institutions—including Sandra Mayrand, director and founder of UMass Medical School’s Regional Science Resource Center (RSRC) and director of the Central Massachusetts STEM Network.

“The collaboration of the Worcester art and science organizations, including the Medical School, greatly impressed the site reviewers,” said Mayrand. “A lot of people including representatives from government, business, education and the non-profit world quickly came together to present our case. It was obvious that we all had worked together many times.”

While project development is still in its early stages, Mayrand is especially excited about the opportunities the incubator provides for Worcester graduate students, including those in the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, to participate. “They are the next generation of educators,” she noted. “Many of them are hungry for opportunities to teach.”

The NSF grant will fund arts-based incubators in Worcester, San Francisco and Chicago over the next four years as they develop innovations in STEM learning; structure an arts-based STEM curriculum; conduct experimental research to measure the impact of arts-based learning on creativity, collaboration and innovation; and create public programs using the project’s activities to advance civic engagement with STEM. The teams will learn arts-based techniques for generating, transforming, prototyping and communicating creative ideas and apply them to STEM-related civic innovation challenges. Participants will also collaborate on the development of new educational projects that integrate arts-based approaches into STEM learning.

“Being selected by the Art of Learning and the National Science Foundation is as big a coup as the funding itself,” said Mayrand. “This is great news for Worcester!”

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20121011/ARTICLES/121019913/1...

Class looks at AIDS through lense of science, art

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-10-11/surat/343863...
Art show in science center art gallery in Surat

http://post.jagran.com/us-based-artist-depicted-swami-vivekanandas-...

The life of Swami Vivekananda has come alive through a first-of-its-kind documentary made in laser by a US-based artist Manick Sorcar on the philosopher-saint's 150th birth anniversary.

Full of animation and 3D effects, the documentary uses cutting-edge laser technology to transport the audience to a world where art fuses with science seamlessly.

Funded by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture at Golpark, 'Swamiji' was premiered at Science City on Wednesday , 10thOct, 2012.

Planned as a tribute to the saint on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary celebrations, Sorcar, son of the late legendary magician P C Sorcar, said the one-hour-long documentary was the longest laser documentary ever made on anyone.

He now plans to screen his creation in other major cities of India, the US and other countries.

The documentary starts with rare, black and white original images from the pages of an old picture book where the audience visits famous scenes from the Columbus Hall of the Art Institute in Chicago.

There, Swami Vivekananda gave his famous speech at the Parliament of Religions which opened with the famous address "My Sisters and Brothers of America".

The lines had impressed the august gathering so much that they gave him a standing ovation lasting over two minutes.

As Swamiji's message of religious tolerance is delivered, the black and white images come to life in colourful laser beams and three-dimensional visual effects.

Research for this project started several years ago when Sorcar, who twice won the prestigious 'Artistic Award' from International Laser Display Association in USA, visited the Art Institute in Chicago.

"It was my personal desire to do a laser documentary on the life story of Swamiji who has been the inspiration all my life. Then after being invited by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture my dream came true," said the artist.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/interview-with-eric-k...
Psychoanalysis - art and biology coming together

Art from body parts:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/art-from-body-parts-slideshow/

http://www.bluetrail.us/

Inspired by the America’s Cup’s Healthy Ocean Project, Blue Trail is a call to action. Recruiting the best and brightest artists and designers, scientists and techies, we will produce a “trail” of ten interactive installations along the San Francisco waterfront during the final races of the America’s Cup, each designed to awaken people to the mystery, beauty and fragility of the world’s oceans.

Blue Trail kicks off with a high energy Design Jam Competition on October 27. We welcome artists and designers from all fields, as well as engineers, programmers, educators, students, surfers, ocean activists and all others who care about the planet.

Fractals:

http://www.units.muohio.edu/aisorg/

http://s1015.photobucket.com/albums/af271/alf42001/nanoKinetics%20a...

http://stemtosteam.org/

US Representative Jim Langevin of Rhode Island...

http://langevin.house.gov/full-steam-ahead

...introduced a resolution in the House:

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc112/hr319_ih.xml

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/2012/fall-symposium-on-art-and-sci...

Fall Symposium on “Art and science – a hybrid art and interdisciplinary research” 16th-17th November

Estonian Academy of Arts and Cultural Studies and Arts School Fall Symposiumis based on the view that, despite the “mutual misunderstanding” is the art and science aspects that overlap and intertwine. The intertwining of music, arts, natural sciences, or computer, you can see the new media, telecommunications, and biotechnology are used in art, as well as other experimental nature of artistic practices. Our objective planning of inter-and transdisciplinary symposium examining the phenomena in the context of the art and science of collaboration and the resulting synergies related issues.

This symposium is the second event in the autumn events in a row, which is preparing for a major event, conference and exhibition “Art and science – a hybrid art and interdisciplinary studies,” the 2014th year.

Location: Estonian Academy of Arts, Church Square 1, Knight of the building

Organised by: Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA), the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (EMTA), Cultural Studies and Arts School ( GSCSA)

Supported by the European Social Fund, Estonian Academy of Arts, the French Institute in Estonia, Estonian Cultural Endowment

The symposium schedule:

16th November

10:00 to 18:00 Invited foreign guest lectures, and presentations are followed presentatioonid diskussionid (open to all interested parties, the EEA)

20:00 – concert at the ” Bird, Whale Bug: Music From Nature “- David Rothenberg

(Open to all interested parties, EMTA chamber, Rävala 16)

17th November

11:00 to 16:00 Seminars and discussions in working groups (pre-registered participants, ECA)

1 ECTS receiving a doctorate and master’s degree students who take part in the two day event and attend a presentation on the second day of seminars.

Pre-registration on the second day seminars: Niklas ring, heili.sormus @ artun.ee

Registration Deadline: 1st November 2012

English is the working language of the symposium, symposium and concert attendance is free of charge.

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Art fuses with science in laser documentary of Swami Vivekananda
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The life of Swami Vivekananda have come alive through a first-of-its-kind documentary made in laser by a U.S.-based artist Manick Sorcar on the philosopher—saint’s 150th birth anniversary.

Full of animation and 3D effects, the documentary uses cutting-edge laser technology to transport the audience to a world where art fuses with science seamlessly.

Funded by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture at Golpark, ‘Swamiji’ was premiered here at Science City on Wednesday evening in the presence of Union Minister for Culture Kumari Selja.

“He was India’s biggest cultural ambassador ever. For the world he was like a roaring fire of spirituality,” the minister said.

Planned as a tribute to the saint on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary celebrations, Sorcar, son of the late legendary magician P C Sorcar, said the one-hour-long documentary was the longest laser documentary ever made on anyone. He now plans to screen his creation in other major cities of India, the U.S. and other countries.

The documentary starts with rare, black and white original images from the pages of an old picture book where the audience visits famous scenes from the Columbus Hall of the Art Institute in Chicago.

There, Swami Vivekananda gave his famous speech at the Parliament of Religions which opened with the famous address .

“My Sisters and Brothers of America“.

The lines had impressed the august gathering so much that they gave him a standing ovation lasting over two minutes. As Swamiji’s message of religious tolerance is delivered, the black and white images come to life in colourful laser beams and three—dimensional visual effects. Research for this project started several years ago when Sorcar, visited the Art Institute in Chicago.

“It was my desire to do a laser documentary on the life of Swamiji who has been the inspiration all my life. Then after being invited by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture my dream came true,” said the artist.

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Cutting Sequences on the Double Pentagon, explained through dance from Diana Davis on Vimeo.