Balance/Unbalance International Conference 2013 :: Noosa, Australia
Art + Scientists x Technology = Environment/Responsibility
Call for Submissions closes 20 November 2012
Balance-Unbalance is an 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. The conference will host 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.
The 2013 conference theme, Future Nature, Future Culture[s] is aimed to provoke discourse around what our elusive future might hold and how transdisciplinary thought and action could be used as tools for positive change.
Submissions are now being accepted for the International Balance-Unbalance 2013 conference to be held at Central Queensland University in Noosa, Australia from May 31 - June 2, 2013. Balance-Unbalance 2013 is being held in the town of Noosa, in parallel with the Floating Land 2013 Green Art festival and just prior to the ISEA 2013 in Sydney, so participants can maximise their time in Australia by attending all three events.
http://www.balance-unbalance2013.org/

From ANAT Digest:

Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations
Artereal Gallery in Rozelle Sydney until 3 November 2012
ANAT Synapse Residency 2010 recipients Ken and Julia Yonetani have created art installations made from sugar, salt and now uranium glass.  They have attracted both international acclaim and brought widespread attention to serious issues that threaten the survival of entire ecosystems and the environment at large.  Ken and Julia Yonetani have begun working with Uranium glass to make visible the silent and invisible menace of radiation. In direct response to Japan’s 2011 horrific Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and the phenomenon of leaking radiation, they have developed Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations, which comprises an installation of chandeliers made from vintage Uranium glass beads. This series has been created alongside What the Birds Knew, which focuses on the mining of uranium in Australia at Nabarlek and comprises a five-meter long glowing sculpture of a Green Ant (the Aboriginal dreaming related to the site) and accompanying text-based works made from vintage uranium glass tubing shaped into words reading – ‘radioactive’, ‘meltdown’ and ‘electric dreams’.
The work is showing at Artereal Gallery, 747 Darling Street, Rozelle in Sydney until 3 November 2012.
http://artereal.com.au/home/ken-julia-yonetani/crystal-palace

https://www.facebook.com/events/459603950750245/

Biology of art: Science in the city, Malta:

The aim of the event is to showcase the potential inspiration artists can derive from scientific theories. This will be done by focusing on one theory in particular, the view (favoured mostly by evolutionary psychologists) human art evolved as a by-product of sexual selection. This won't be the place for arguing as to the validity or falsehoods of the theory, although strong cases in favour of it will automatically be made, yet the idea is to open the eyes of the audience to an uncommon theory.

The event

Science-fiction art:

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/multimedia/video/x493668589/VIDEO...

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

http://www.labcanada.com/news/image-contest-to-showcase-the-finest-...

Image contest to showcase the finest in the art and science of electron microscopy

Hillsboro, Oregon - The 2012 FEI Image Contest is coming to a close and all images should be submitted by October 19, 2012. FEI is partnered with National Geographic on this contest titled "Explore the Unseen". It offers owners and users an opportunity to explore their creativity and share their images with National Geographic's worldwide audience. It will allow audiences to discover unseen aspects of their everyday lives and to explore the sub-microscopic world. The image categories with broad audience appeal were chosen. The Natural World: insect parts - wings, eyes, etc. (ideal insects include moth, ladybug, fly, dragonfly, butterfly, cicada, cricket, etc.), spider silk/webs, pollen, allergens, leaves, tree slime, fungus, bacteria & mold, micro-invertebrates seen in water-quality testing, plants, flowers, blades of grass, rock, minerals, sand, etc., ice/snow/snowflakes, other crystals, raindrops, close-up of animals or animal parts: dog, cat, bird, fish (pets a kid would own); The Human Body: insects that live on your body (eyebrows, lashes, etc.) lice, bacteria, body parts: bone (including fractures/breaks), human hair, skin flakes, bodily fluids: snot, sweat, blood, saliva, tears, etc, hands (finger, skin) before and after washing, viruses, endoplasmic reticulum, cell walls, etc, what a tattoo looks like under the skin; Around the house: things you would find in a kids room: t-shirt fibers, stuff on the soles of dirty shoes, dust mites, carpet fibers, hair inside of a baseball cap, sloughed skin, dust, pencil lead, crayons, food: ice cream, candy, bread, french fries, apples, carrots, tomatoes, etc., creatures that live on the mouthpiece of a phone, in the kitchen sink, tires, cars, bikes, toys. There are more categories and suggestions here: Learn more about the 2012 FEI Owner Image Contest.

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/13744

Media Advisory: Science & Art Cabaret to Present a Night of Stimulating Conversation on Failure

Failure will be the topic of conversation at the Science & Art Cabaret on Wednesday, as area thinkers meet to discuss everything from Einstein's most famous mistake to a nearly botched performance at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

The event, titled "Fail," is free and open to the public.

It begins at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the Ninth Ward at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo. Guests will enjoy a night of entertaining conversation and a cash bar.

The Buffalo Science & Art Cabaret presents several events a year where members of the public are invited to grab a drink and listen to top university scientists and creative minds talk about their work. The series is organized by the University at Buffalo, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Buffalo Museum of Science, with support from Greatbatch Medical.

Co-founder Will Kinney, a UB associate professor of physics, describes the event as "an entertaining mash-up of cutting-edge science and technology with art, music, poetry and performance."

"Fail" is the 11th cabaret held since 2009. The lineup for the night will include:

- Salvatore Rappoccio, UB assistant professor of physics, on "Error Analysis"

- Gary Nickard, UB clinical associate professor of visual studies, on "Failure at the Albright-Knox" (which will describe how he dealt with unforeseen problems during a piano destruction performance)

- Scott Watson, assistant professor of physics at Syracuse University, on "Einstein's Biggest Blunder"

- A screening of videos on art and failure created by New York City-based artist David Kramer

For information on the Science & Art Cabaret and past events, visit http://www.buffalo.edu/news/13376 and http://www.hallwalls.org/science-art.php.

http://www.hartwick.edu/news-and-events/sessions-sciart-10-15-12

NEWS & EVENTS
Brandon Ballengée - Vertical fall in the Winter call that dances in the spring nocturnal..., 2010/2012 from "A Season in Hell Series, Deadly Born Cry." In scientific collaboration with Stanley K. Sessions
Hartwick’s Sessions Included in Long-Term “SciArt” Exhibit
October 15, 2012

Dr. Stanley K. Sessions, professor of biology at Hartwick College, is currently included in a long-term "Science/Art" collaboration at the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in New York, NY.

The project, completed via a partnership between New York City artist Brandon Ballengée and Sessions, can be viewed in the Feldman Gallery from Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is free to the public. Ballengée and Sessions have worked together on various "SciArt" exhibitions to date and have traveled the world, including London, Berlin Germany, Italy, and the US.

"The purpose of our SciArt collaboration is to create a true melding together of these two disciplines, Science and Art, which are often seen as having little in common, but which actually have much in common," said Sessions. "Both art and science explore frontiers at the edge of knowledge, create new ways of seeing things, and also generate new insight and interest in important issues. We believe that this kind of collaboration helps bridge gaps between disciplines leading to a better and more widespread understanding about the world around us."

One of the major foci of the current work is on declining and deformed amphibians and other animals that have resulted in numerous publications in scientific journals as well as SciArt exhibitions and publications in art journals.

This project is considered a true interdisciplinary interaction, as the collaboration is of interest to both disciplines. Sessions supplies his personal science expertise as well as many of the scientific specimens, and artist Ballengée constructs the art exhibitions.

The Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery is located at 31 Mercer Street, (SoHo), New York City, NY. For more details on long-term collaboration and The Feldman Gallery, visit http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/home_frame.html.

For additional information on the work, contact Sessions at 607-431-4764 or at sessionss@hartwick.edu.

The art of fusion science:
http://www.efda.org/2012/10/the-art-of-fusion-science/

http://re-new.org/leaf/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_175256155

Developing Cloud Curriculum in Art and Science

‘So what would a “Art Science Cloud Curriculum” be in the face of networked culture?’

IMAC / re-new 2012 invites you to participate in the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF): Art Science Cloud Curriculum Workshop on

monday november 19 at 15:30-18:30

The workshop will be held together with the Interactive Media Arts Conference (IMAC) 2012 at Aalborg University Copenhagen, A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, DK-2450 Copen....

Moderators are Associate Professor Paul Thomas, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales and Morten Søndergaard, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Media Art Curator, Aalborg University Copenhagen

Do art and Plant science need each other?:http://artplantaetoday.com/2012/08/17/do-art-botany-need-each-other...

Making music from weather data:
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/06/09/6815839-making-music-...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Nathalie Miebach decides what storms sound like.

This Boston artist spends her studio time turning reams of weather data — wind speeds, barometric readings and rainfall totals — into music and sculptures. 

Miebach's work has tracked temperate storms, documented the daily weather of beaches. In one particularly poignant project, she created a musical piece that documented changes in weather during the week following her father-in-law's death. For her work, Miebach was selected as a 2011 TEDGlobal Fellow.

Planetary science and art:
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/16/14480338-book-turns-p...

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 honours 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

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Underbelly Arts Lab and Festival 2013: Large-Scale Works
Underbelly Arts is currently seeking expressions of interest for larger-scale new works and developmental projects that require longer lead times for the 2013 Lab and Festival. This is a new initiative that will run alongside their general 2013 artist call out, scheduled to open in early 2013.
http://underbellyarts.com.au/2011/underbelly-arts-lab-and-festival-...
Due:5pm Monday October 22, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS
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

LEAF: Developing Cloud Curricula in Art and Science 2012
Workshops Developing Cloud Curricula in Art and Science
DATE: 19 November 3.30 - 6.30pm
LOCATION: Aalborg University Copenhagen, AC Meyersvænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen
'So what would a "Art Science Cloud Curriculum" be in the face of networked culture?'
The Leonardo Education and Arts Forum (a working group of Leonardo/ISAST),continues its successful international education event-initiative and correspondingly we are organising a workshop to generate and build an internationally recognised and Leonardo endorsed art and science cloud curriculum course outline. You are invited to participate in workshop that will develop a curriculum that could become a benchmark of what is quintessentially important for a person to engage in the world of research at the core of Art/Science.

http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/developing-cloud-curriculum-in-art-an...

International Conference on Research Creativity: Praxis
Presented by Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
21st - 23rd November 2012 Hong Kong Baptist University
As our societies are increasingly reliant on technology, what becomes obvious is the unique contribution that corporeal experience plays in creativity, and creativity plays in research. Scholarship in art creation is equal to that in scientific research. Art creation in some cases may also be the result of research.
http://creativity.hkbu.edu.hk/

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:
Graphite and Beyond: The Art and Science of Carbon
8th November, 2012
6.30pm- 9pm
GV Art London
'Graphite and Beyond: The Art and Science of Carbon' will explore the many meanings of graphite: where this form of carbon comes from, what can be done with it, what its symbolism and literally graphic potential means for artists, and why it is the perfect material for nanotechnology.
The event will be chaired by Philip Ball and contributing speakers include Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan from the University of Manchester, Dr. Alexandra Porter of Imperial College London, and visual artist Anaïs Tondeur.
This discussion is part of the programme of exhibition related events created to compliment Graphite, the new group exhibition at GV Art. This exhibtion, curated by Robert Devcic, engages with the often over-looked medium of graphite within contemporary art. Graphite intends to reflect on these innovative and varying explorations by a group of artists, to encourage discussion surrounding the significance of the pencil, and question the belief that it is a perfunctory or archaic material.
FREE, booking recommended
To book contact: info@gvart.co.uk

When do I See Photons? Exhibition
Until 31 December 2012, Starting sundown every evening
Goethe-Institut Montréal, 1626, boul. St-Laurent, suite 100
Participating Artists: Vera Drebusch, Verena Friedrich, Jan Goldfuß, Hörner/Antlfinger and Sunjha Kim
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/mon/ver/en9785000v.htm

http://www.ecologicstudio.com/v2/index.php

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madeline-schwartzman/algae-art_b_1948...
Algae art's new muse!

http://www.infomus.org/Events/SBM2012/

Workshop on Social Behaviour in Music (SBM2012)

The 3rd International Workshop on Social Behaviour in Music (SBM2012) will be held on October 26th, 2012 in Santa Monica, California as a satellite event of the 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012).

Scientists dance their Ph.Ds:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/7828001/Scientists-dance-their-PhDs

From Leonardo Digest:

MIT PRESS PODCAST: THE SUBLIME IN ART AND SCIENCE
MIT Press Podcast Series Episode #18 features Michael Punt, Sundar Sarukkai, Martyn Woodward and Roger Malina discussing the connections between science and the arts, especially where the sublime?the unknowable, the incomprehensible?fits within these fields. This conversation was inspired by Leonardo Reviews Quarterly 2.01 (which is now available as an e-book from Amazon).

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/podcast_episode18_LEON

EVENTS

UPCOMING DASER: 18 OCTOBER 2012, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Join us for the next DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), 18 October 2012, at the Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. This month, the discussion's theme is Brain Science and the Cyborg: Ethical Issues, Utopian and Dystopian Depictions and the Realities of Policy. Feature presentations by neuroscientist James Giordano, filmmaker Anya Meksin, artist Jill Scott and CEO Michael Swetnam. For those not in D.C., a live webcast is available here. Find out more

COMMUNITY

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BALANCE-UNBALANCE 2013
Submissions are now being accepted for Balance-Unbalance 2013, an international conference to be held at Central Queensland University in Noosa, Australia, from 31 May?2 June 2013. Balance-Unbalance is organized by Ricardo Dal Farra and a team at the Noosa Biosphere (in partnership with UNESCO and international organizations including Leonardo/ISAST). Balance-Unbalance is 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. One of the main goals of Balance-Unbalance is to develop the role of the arts and artists in dealing with environmental challenges. Find out more

PUBLICATIONS

LEONARDO CALL FOR PAPERS: ART & ATOMS
Chemistry?s unique connection to art?a science simultaneously steeped in abstraction and application, process and product?is the focus of the Art & Atoms special section, guest curated by chemist and Leonardo Board Member Tami Spector. We especially seek submissions related to topics on the cutting edge of chemistry, including nanoscience, synthetic biology, fuel cells and neurochemistry. Find out more

FORTHCOMING: LMJ 22?ACOUSTICS
Immersed as we are in electronically mediated sound, at the end of the day?whether it?s coming from ukuleles or earbuds?sound reaches us through acoustic pressure. The sheer physicality of sound, and its quirky interaction with our sense of hearing, has driven many a composer and sound artist to go back to the "year zero" in music?before the codification of melody, rhythm and harmony?and explore fundamental aspects of the physics and perception of sound. LMJ22 highlights writings on the role of acoustics and psychoacoustics in music and audio art. The issue includes a CD curated by Daniel James Wolf and an online supplement available to subscribers entitled "Alvin Lucier?A Celebration." LMJ 22 will be released November 2012.

http://www.leonardo.info

From Subtle technologies:

Join us on October 26, 2012, Bissel Building, room 538  (University of Toronto) from 5 to 7 pm  for a round table discussion  moderated by curator Nina Czegledy,  with Allison Crawford,  Assistant Professor  Psychiatry UofT, Prof David A Steinman, Biomedical Simulation UofT and exhibiting artists Jack Butler and Danielle Drew Belsky. In collaboration with Subtle Technologies, ArtSci Salon and KMDI, University of Toronto.

The round table entitled "The Mediated Body" is inspired by SPLICE : At the Intersection of Arts and Medicine. This show presents a scientific gaze at the human body by showcasing traditional anatomical art, complemented and challenged by contemporary artworks.   Over recent decades the human body has become a key site of scientific, social political and cultural interpretations. The paradigm shifts revealed important questions about alienation, the potential loss of agency and context while at the same time allowing us new opportunities for expressions of identity on a borderless scale. The increased uses of technologies have changed how we see ourselves and the world around us. The panel discussion is intended to investigate and comment on these issues.  The exhibition SPLICE : At the Intersection of Arts and Medicine is curated by Nina Czegledy and is co-presented by Blackwood Gallery and the University of Toronto Art Centre. For more information on the show please visit
the UTAC  website (http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/future-exhibitions/275-splice-at-the-in...) .

http://subtletechnologies.com

http://www.kyforward.com/2012/10/non-profit-profile-living-arts-sci...

Living Arts, Science Center to receive ‘magical’ addition

The Living Arts and Science Center is a local treasure. For more than 40 years, LASC has provided creative and unique opportunities for exploration and education in the arts and sciences for both kids and adults. We don’t always realize the interconnected relationship between art and science, but to anyone who has walked through the doors of the Kinkead House, LASC’s landmark home, it suddenly seems obvious.

“What attracted me to LASC is that it’s the only organization in central Kentucky that understands the symbiotic nature of the arts and sciences,” said Donald Hellmann from JP Morgan Chase, currently president of the Center’s board of directors. “Every individual is born with the capacity to succeed. Exposure to the arts and sciences, and support and encouragement in arts and sciences, are critical to future success.”

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20121017/NEWS/310179996/s...

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20121017/ESN06/310170048/Art-eco...|newswell|text|Eastern%20Shore%20News|p&nclick_check=1
Art and Ecology mix

http://www.canadianarchitect.com/events/event-details.aspx?id=48865
The intersection of art and medicine

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2012/oct/18/festivals
Bloomsbury festival mixes science with art

Intersection of art and medicine:
http://www.mississauga.com/what%27s%20on/article/1520679--art-and-m...

http://sciencematters.unimelb.edu.au/2012/10/the-science-of-conserv...

The science of conserving Gija art
event on 17th October, 2012 at 11:58 am

In March 2011, floods destroyed the Warmun Community and seriously damaged the significant Warmun Community Art Collection. From this catastrophic event, an exciting engagement between scientists, artists, conservators and art managers has emerged that is expanding ways of thinking about art, science and cultural material.

Join us for a unique insight into the art and science of indigenous cultural materials conservation and the culture of the Gija people. This event is jointly hosted by the Melbourne Materials Institute and the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC).

Date: Thursday 25 October, 2012
Time: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre

Admission is free. Refreshments to follow.

Find out more or book online

Associate Prof Robyn Sloggett (Director, CCMC) will discuss the importance of incorporating Gija indigenous knowledge into university-based research and training in art conservation.

Dr Petronella Nel (Lecturer and Researcher, CCMC) will give an overview of current techniques used to analyse cultural materials, with a particular focus on understanding the composition of earth-based pigment, which are prevalent in Gija art. In a pre-recorded interview, artists from the Warmun Art Centre will speak about the significance of the Warmun Community Art Collection for the Gija people and the central place of art in their lives.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/artists-transform-molten-...

Heart of Glass: The Art of Medical Models

Gary Farlow can make art out of arteries. He and his team of 10 at Farlow’s Scientific Glassblowing are able to transform the body’s vasculature—and nearly all of its other parts—into an ornate borosilicate glass sculpture, from the heart’s ventricles to the brain’s circle of Willis. “We do almost every part of the body,” Farlow says. “It can take a pretty artistic mind to make some of these things.” With the help of cardiologists, the team creates custom see-through systems for science and medical training.

Their anatomically correct models can be designed to simulate blood flow, teach placement of catheters and angioplasty devices, or simply test or demo new surgical gizmos. Individual arteries, veins, and capillaries are shaped and fused together, one at a time. Ground-glass joints are added at the exposed ends so a head, say, can be connected to the carotid arteries should customers want to expand their model.

http://www.iop.org/activity/branches/south_west/sw/news/12/page_549...

South West Branch Photo Competition

28 March 2012

The winner and runner up of the Branch’s photo competition were announced at the Festival of Physics in Bristol on 3 March.

The winner of the competition was Pery Burge, currently an artist in residence in the Thermofluids Lab at the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Exeter University, a position funded by the Leverhulme Trust. 

Her photo, entitled ‘Sci-fi Garden Growing’, showing vortices in a soap film earned her the first prize of a Kindle. Find out more about her job and photography work. 

The runner-up was Peter Vukusic with his photo ‘Brilliant whiteness in ultra-thin beetle scales’. He won £25 of Jessops vouchers.

Congratulations to both Pery and Peter!

Winner: Sci-fi Garden Growing’
Sci-fi garden

These two sequential images are of vertically arranged soap film, separated by less than one second. The source of flow comes from a mixture of detergent and glycerol draining from bubbles, not seen, at the bottom of the blue vortex ‘stems’ - the images have been inverted for aesthetic purposes.

Vortices push through oncoming speckled red flow; their shapes modified by this flow, becoming rounded and mushroom-shaped. In the face of the flow, the vortices may also bifurcate - the tall blue form stretching upward on the extreme left divides to accommodate oncoming flow. The relative velocities of upward and downward flow help define the shapes and patterns as they appear.

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_234078_en.html

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/physicist-turns-artist-captures-b...

Physicist turns artist, captures beauty of science and arts on lens

Showcasing the interaction between the beauty of arts and science, physicist-turned-artist and PU alumnus Sukant Saran displayed his work at the Fine Arts museum at Panjab University on Friday.

The exhibition titled ‘SCALES Micrograph - Photo Montages’, includes digital prints of commonplace objects seen under the microscope and photographed. The micrographs are aesthetically juxtaposed with normal photographs of the objects to create photo montages.

According to Saran, “The idea is to portray two scales- the visible and the microscopic scale, in the same frame”. For instance, a pencil shaving as viewed under a microscope is superimposed against the image of a tree which is its point of origin at the macro level.

Another interesting print which also serves as a commentary is titled ‘Watch’ (currency). It is a magnification of a portion of a currency note, near Mahatma Gandhi’s eyes, juxtaposed against a photograph of the note, signifying that his vigilant eye is constantly watchful of the integrity of its holder. Similar effects were used to depict other everyday objects.

From science to art was a long journey of over 15 years for Saran, who claims that he is almost completely an artist now. He says that was involved with editing the in-house journal of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, where he presently works. “Bored of editing the drab scientific journals, I started using graphics in them. Eventually, I started customizing the graphics according to the subject matter,” he says.

He gradually shifted to experimenting with the artistic side of scientific objects and patterns using digital art technology and photography. Saran observes, “The scientific view has grown into such a philosophical world-view, and even a way of life, that people from diverse backgrounds see it in their own fashion. Artists too respond to its beauty and mystery by creating an artistic vision of topical scientific concepts and developments, appealing to the scientifically inclined”.

Through a lecture organised on Friday at PU, Saran described how science and art, regardless of their differences, have always interacted at various levels, constantly informing and enriching each other. The exhibition will continue till October 21.

News for physicist-turned-artist and PU alumnus ...

Physicist turns artist, captures beauty of science and arts on lens
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Sustainability requires science, tech … and art

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Are advances in science and technology the cure to the world’s many unsustainable habits? Some people are coming to the conclusion that the answer is no: know-how and hard facts aren’t enough to solve our problems.

“Narratives, stories, music and images served to warn our early ancestors against predators and natural disasters,” says Paul Shrivastava, director of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business (JMSB). “Art helped them develop defense mechanisms. My colleagues and I believe that art should be used to deal with modern survival threats such as climate change and environmental crises.”

Shrivastava and colleagues from the University of Lorraine and the ICN Business School in Nancy, France, have co-authored an article for the International Journal of Technology Management that argues a focus on the arts is needed — in addition to science and technology — to instill the passion that’s needed to become more sustainable.

“No significant human endeavour has ever been accomplished without passion,” Shrivastava says. “Science and technology by themselves aren’t enough. We need to turn to the arts in order to infuse passion into the pursuit of sustainability and get real results that will heal the planet.”

In addition to building a passion for more sustainable habits, the arts benefit society in other ways that lead to better living as well, according to Shrivastava. Organizations with an eye on the arts can boost employee creativity, improve worker satisfaction and encourage innovations in sustainable products and services.

“We’ve spent decades relying on science and technology and the planet is still in shambles,” Shrivastava says. “Art allows fresh perspectives and new ways interpreting the world. In Montreal and beyond, art is what will make us give up our old habits in favor of planet-changing behavior.”

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Panel talks intersection of science, art

Five artists and scientists spoke Tuesday evening as part of a Brain Storm panel about the connection between science and art. Produced by the Everett Company, the speakers discussed how they had integrated science and art within their own careers and how the two can be combined in science education.

The integration of science and art was at the heart of the discussion. All of the speakers came from disparate fields, and each integrated the separate domains of science and art into their own work.

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Chiara Passa: Tales from Space (2012); 5:08min
Broadcast on Mon 22 October at 07:47PM

Tales from Space is a generative video installation based on the theory of the quantum mechanics. The viewer is surrounded by the projections and listens to short sentences about the concept of multidimensional-space. The words, generating a barrage of random points, blacks holes, micro-flash-dimensions and macro forms of light that intersect each
other; envelope themselves, double back, widen and shrink, depending on the spectrum modulation of the sound narrative that is based on the concept of quantum mechanics.

Work selected as part of 128kbps Open Call.

www.chiarapassa.it

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generative video installation (txt: http://www.basic.fm/?p=1692) will perform at basic.fm on Monday 22 Oct. at 7.47 am (London local time). Program: http://www.basic.fm/

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The exhibition touches the problem of transspecies communication and the changing definition of life in the context of information systems, and the changing definition of a human kind transformed by the recent technology from biotechnology, andthe increasing prevalence of transgenic organisms and various human body integration with computerized machines from various simple devices (smatrphone) subject to the convergence of extended brain functions such as memory , numeracy, to the knowledge of foreign languages, or medical grounds, up to the senses such as sight, hearing (monitoring, interception) to advanced nanotechnology equipment to support the immune system, and performing various operations for the army (Smartdust). Works of art exploring the territory posthumanistic ideas in a critical way and without a utopian vision of the future, often refer to the category of FAKE as a subversive artistic methods. By free use of tactics FAKE questions are asked about the status of the cognitive sciences based on media-mediated experience – and therefore a blurring of the boundaries between knowledge and creativity.

Michał Brzeziński

Life Expanded Definifion

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Thomson Reuters Adds Web of Science Content to Patent Prior Art Research Tools

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Sunday 4 November 2012, 15.00-17.00 hrs.(tbc)
Auditorium, Van Abbemuseum (entrance via museumcafé!)
Entrance: 5,- Euro.

Baltan Laboratories and BioArt Laboratories proudly present a sunday afternoon session with artist/scientist Joe Davis (US), College Tour style. This session is part of Shaking Science, a series of events in November, where life science meets society and society meets life science. The film ‘Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis’ will be screened at the exhibition “BioArt Not Stirred” a joint collaboration between BioArt Laboratories, MU, Verbeke Foundation, Holst Centre & Netherlands Bioinformatic Centre and Baltan Laboratories.

http://bioartlab.com/shaking-science/film-marathon/

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JOE DAVIS: the Mad Scientist of MIT?
04/11/2012 15:00 to 17:00

Baltan Sessions:
MIT’s artist/scientist Joe Davis (US) visits Eindhoven!

Sunday 4 November 2012
15.00 – 17.00 hrs.
Auditorium Van Abbemuseum, entrance via museumcafé.

Entrance: 5 Euro

Baltan Laboratories and BioArt Laboratories proudly present a sunday afternoon session with artist/scientist Joe Davis, College Tour style. This session is part of Shaking Science, a series of events in November, where life science meets society and society meets life science. The talk will cover some of Joe Davis’ motivations surrounding his own work in several fields and some of the practical problems he has encountered along the way. Davis will also touch on the lives and works of others. Through these examples he will focus on the implications for a whole new mentality in the study and practice of art and science.

Joe Davis is an artist and Research Affiliate at Alexander Rich laboratory in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Artist-Scientist in the laboratory of George Church at the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He received his B.A. in Creative Arts from the Mount Angel College, Oregon, USA. From 1981 to 1990 he was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and from 1995 to 2008 a Research Associate at the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto. His research covers areas that include optoacoustics, microscopy, molecular biology, microbiology, and bioinformatics for the production of genetic databases and new biological art forms. He helped to pioneer fields in art and molecular biology and carried out several widely recognized contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and also created works such as Earth Sphere, a landmark at Kendall Square, Cambridge installed in 1989.

The film ‘Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis’ will be screened at the exhibition “BioArt Not Stirred” a joint collaboration between BioArt Laboratories, MU, Verbeke Foundation, Holst Centre & Netherlands Bioinformatic Centre and Baltan Laboratories. For more information about Joe Davis see: http://www.joedavisthemovie.com/ and Art As a Form Of Life

Art in science captured through camera:

http://www.exploreutahscience.org/science-art-and-community

Science? Art? Or both? See the art of science:

http://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/2012/10/23/science-art-or-both...

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8881.html

Unique fusion of art and science makes its London premiere

Press release issued 23 October 2012

Visitors to Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue will be invited to enter a virtual world and become an electrostatic force, where their energy controls the sounds and images in the room.
This unique concept is known as Danceroom Spectroscopy (DS), created by Dr David Glowacki, a chemical physicist at the University of Bristol. It will make its London premiere at the Barbican Arts Centre on 3 and 4 November.

The project is part video game, part science visualization, part art installation, and part social experiment. It transforms people into energy fields and lets them wander through a nano-quantum world which is recreated thanks to 3D imaging and quantum mechanics.

In real-time, the 3D cameras feed their data into a custom-built supercomputer which has a special program to interpret people as energy fields. There’s no limit on the number of ‘players’ and the more they cooperate, the more engrossing it becomes.

There’s also a sonic component – as people move within the space, their energy field causes the particles to slosh and vibrate. The vibrations are analysed by the supercomputer and sent out to a musician who uses the information to create electronic soundscapes.

The net result is an immersive audiovisual experience where people are able to see and hear how their energy fields interact with the invisible nano-world.

A special performance, entitled Hidden Fields, will also be part of the Barbican Weekender on 3 and 4 November. It’s the world’s first ever dance performance that attempts to choreograph atomic dynamics.

For more information, visit www.danceroom-spec.com and www.barbican.org.uk/weekender/home

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Tucker Creek integrates art with math, language arts, science and social studies