http://stillwater.patch.com/articles/da-vinci-fest-calling-all-scie...

Da Vinci Fest: Calling All Scientists, Artists and Filmmakers

Online registrations for Da Vinci Fest in Stillwater are due Friday, Dec. 7.

The Da Vinci Fest is now accepting online registrations for the popular science, art and film. Deadline for registering in the 2013 festival is Friday, Dec. 7.

http://stillwater.patch.com/articles/da-vinci-fest-showcases-art-sc...

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/11/116_125569.html

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2012/8973.html

Annual Art of Science Competition 2012

http://www.bris.ac.uk/fmvs/faculty/artofscience/

The annual Art of Science Competition highlights the creativity that goes into the scientific output of Bristol University's academic community, drawing from the best images and movies that have been created by their students and staff over the past year.

You can find out more about the competition and view winning entries from previous years on their website.

Environmental Art Conference- May 2013

Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia is preparing a brief “Save-the-Date” email to send out to people who might be interested in our Environmental Art Conference, May 31, 2013.

If you would like to be a part of this list for more information, please comment with your first and last name, email address, and if you are associated with an organization you may list that as well.
You can also email whitney@schuylkillcenter.org

If anything else, check out their Environmental Art website to see some of the work they have been doing and updates on the conference as they develop. http://www.schuylkillcenter.org/art/

http://www.browndailyherald.com/physics-inspires-art-and-dance-at-t...

Physics inspires art and dance

One of the entries that drew the most attention was a sculpture by visual arts concentrator Fahmina Ahmed ’13 called “Sqrt r^2 – x^2 – y^2.” The sculpture comprised two square hanging wooden planes suspended by ropes. The ropes were strategically dyed black so when viewers stepped back, they saw a sphere. “It is a sculpture based on the equation of a sphere. … I wrote a code to figure out where to paint each string to ‘draw’ a sphere in space,” Ahmed wrote in a description of her piece.

The worlds of art and science have long intertwined, often with spectacular results — consider the oeuvre of Leonardo da Vinci, as both inventor and artist. But it’s relatively rare these days to see a major institution for scientific research go out of its way to invite artists in. An exception to the rule: the Collide@CERN artists in residency program, set up to see what happens when particle physicists meet artists, which has just announced its new laureate. The latest artist to win one of these sought-after residencies is the American sound artist Bill Fontana.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/28/what-particle-physics-sounds-li...

What Particle Physics Sounds Like: Meet Bill Fontana, Artist in Residence at CERN

http://inside.jcu.edu/2012/11/29/student-exhibition-combines-chemis...

Student exhibition combines chemistry with art

One-of-a-kind darkroom prints by Ben Hauser ’13, created with a process of his own invention, are currently on view in the Art History Department, first floor west of Dolan Science Center.

From Arts Catalyst - its programme:

KOSMICA Sound Night
from 6.30pm, 7 December 2012

KOSMICA bridges Earth and space through art and other cultural experiments out of this world. Our next informal gathering for the cosmically curious brings together artists who explore the sounds and sonification of space and our planet: Yuri Suzuki, Honor Harger and Kaffe Matthews. 

Yuri Suzuki - a sound artist, designer and electronic musician will present The Sound of the Earth, a spherical record project where the grooves representing the outlines of the geographic land mass.

Honor Harger's artistic practice is produced under the name r a d i o q u a l i a together with collaborator Adam Hyde. One of their main projects is Radio Astronomy, a radio station broadcasting sounds from space.

Kaffe Matthews makes and performs new electro-acoustic music worldwide. Currently she is completing three Star Gazer chairs an album for ‘Yird, Muin, Starn,’ a vital spark collaboration with Mandy McIntosh, in the Galloway Forest, Scotland.

http://www.maribor2012.eu/en/nc/event/prikaz/3485344/

SOFT CONTROL: ART, SCIENCE AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL UNCONSCIOUS, Top Down (Exhibition Opening)
In context of project: SOFT CONTROL: ART, SCIENCE AND THE TECHNOLOGICALLY UNCONSCIOUS

Event time
Thursday, 15. 11. 2012, 19:00 - Saturday, 15. 12. 2012
http://www.kibla.org
http://www.facebook.com/profil...

MUTAMORPHOSIS II: TRIBUTE TO UNCERTAINTY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Prague
6 - 8 December 2012
Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr and several past SymbioticA residents will be speaking at MUTAMORPHOSIS II in December.
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/tribute-to-uncertainty/

From SymbioticA:
Nature-Nurture: Engaging with Non-Human Life from the Female Perspective
With Donna Franklin – Artist, Curator, and Academic at Edith Cowan University
Friday 30 November 2012, 1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
This talk will present a survey of established women artists who engage with bio-politics, ethics, art and the life sciences, recently shown in Creatures of the Future Garden, an exhibition curated by Franklin who is also a former SymbioticA resident.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
COAL Prize Art and Environment 2013: Adaptation
The Coal Prize Art and Environment rewards each year a project by a contemporary artist involved in environmental issues. Its goals are to promote and support the vital role which art and creation play in raising awareness, supporting concrete solutions and encouraging a culture of ecology. The winner is selected out of ten short-listed by a jury of well-known specialists in art, research, ecology and sustainable development.
The 2013 Coal Prize will reward entries that focus on adaptation issues. The award of the 2013 Coal Prize will take place in spring 2013 at Le Laboratoire, a private art centre specializing in the blending of art and science.
The prize carries an award of 10,000 Euros. Launched in 2010 by the French organization Coal, the coalition for art and sustainable development, the Coal Prize is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, the National Centre of Fine Arts (CNAP), Le Laboratoire, PwC and a private benefactor.
Application deadline: February 28th, 2013
http://bitly.com/S0cMbz

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 surprising dimensions about your own levels of human perception.
http://www.kulturama.ch/90117/index.html

http://bermanarts.wordpress.com/for-the-press/

Meet the Artist event and interactive brain fitness activities
(cognitive calisthenics) for all ages and abilities.
Attendees will get Free access to Berman’s online brain fitness workout.
Optional 3D glasses will be provided.

WHEN:

Sunday, December 2nd at 3:30pm-5:30pm
for opening, meet the artist, cognitive calisthenics and refreshments.

WHERE:

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at C.W. Post in the Atrium,
720 Northern Blvd, Greenvale, NY

WHO:

Interactive installation artist Alli Berman

Monochromatic Images of Orfescu's Nanosculptures in San Diego

Irina Negulescu Studio proudly invites you & your friends to an entertaining evening of wine, live music and art presenting the Los Angeles nanoartist CRIS ORFESCU, Friday December 14, 6-9 PM at Coalesce Gallery in North Little Italy.
If you are in town, here is the address:
Coalesce Gallery
2360 India Street, San Diego, CA

http://nanoart.org/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_191085976

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=artist-josh-simpso...

Artist Josh Simpson Makes Giant, Fiery Glass Planets, Coronas and Meteorites

Science and a furnace turn glass and metallic oxides into fantastic worlds

http://www.culture24.org.uk/science%20%26%20nature/science%20art/ar...

Event Preview: Rivers Remembered, Drill Hall, Portland, December 1 2012
Earlier this month, acclaimed photographer Jim Cooke held an exhibition of his nature-transfixed works at the beautiful Drill Hall in Dorset, showcasing 80 hand-printed photographs in an encapsulation of owners the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust’s science-art philosophies.

There’s a final chance to see them tomorrow night, when Cooke will join Dr Ken Coombe, an award-winning geomorphologist who has supported the Trust’s work, to discuss 20 years of watery observations on rivers from 125 million years ago.

Coombe’s ancestors were involved in the stone industry, and his theory is that three major rivers once existed around Portland. He’s made a three-dimensional model and series of drawings illustrating how the area was uprooted by a series of tectonic plate movements which ultimately made it a quarrying hotbed.

The studies themselves will be enhanced by a series of projected images, accompanied by music.

http://www.dailyrecord.us/Story.aspx?id=13602&date=11%2F30%2F2012

Victoria Vesna, of the UCLA Art|Sci Center, has created a multimedia installation entitled “Mood Swings” which projects the viewer’s body onto a large screen, where the body is translated into “particles” which shift, changing color and sound, based on the viewer’s motions, in order to influence the viewer’s perception and emotional state.  Another artist, Greg Dunn, makes beautiful Asian-style paintings of neurons and other brain structures.  Still others experiment with music intended to reflect or create certain neurological responses.  

This trend is fascinating in that it seems to reflect a desire on the part of artists to delve deeper, even down to a molecular level, into the social and emotional aspects of being human.  Rather than helping to maintain a strict dichotomy between science and the arts/humanities, neuroscience has allowed for art and science to become collaborative partners - a partnership which arguably has the potential to revitalize our understanding of how and why the arts are an important aspect of human development.

http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_cfdd9f4e-3b54-11e2-af9...

Art meets science in Jimmy O’Neal’s work

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//innovation/47547-new-drex...

New Drexel tech space lets art and science collide

Engineers working with fashion designers; artists working with computer programmers; musicians working with technologists.

That's the idea behind a new Drexel workspace in University City opening Wednesday evening.

"I want the ExCITe Center to be a place for really creative people to hang out to do things together," says Youngmoo Kim, the director of the center.

http://artplantaetoday.com/2012/11/16/illustrations-and-the-environ...

Environment and child illustration

From Leonardo:

NEXT SF LASER: 12 DECEMBER 2012, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CA
Join them for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER),
12 December 2012, at Stanford University. Feature presentations
include "Down to Earth: Art, Astronomy and Physics" by artist and
educator Jennifer Parker, "Lights, Nano, Action!" by materials
science educator Jennifer Dionne, and "Street Painting & Burning Man:
Creating Community through Impermanent Art" by artist and street
painter Mark Wagner.

HIGHLIGHT ON AFFILIATE MEMBER
UCLA Art| Sci Center + Lab is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the
evolving "Third Culture" by facilitating the infinite potential of
collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. The
center?s affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
offers access to cutting-edge researchers and their laboratories and
a dedicated gallery for exhibitions. Here too the center hosts the
Sci|Art NanoLab Summer Institute for high school students by
introducing them to the vast possibilities in the quantum field of
art|science for the present and future generations. In cooperation
with CNSI, the UCLA School of the Arts and the Department of Design |
Media Arts, the Art|Sci Center supports visiting research scholars
and artists in residency from around the world. The center presents
lectures, mixers, and symposia to bring artists and scientists
together in order to mesh these cultures and inspire individuals to
think about art and science as already interrelated and relevant to
our society.

FACULTY POSITION, SCHOOL OF ARTS, MEDIA AND ENGINEERING
HERBERGER INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS AT ASU
The School of Arts, Media and Engineering (ame.asu.edu) in the
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State
University (ASU) invites applicants for a full-time tenure-track
appointment in Interactive Media at the associate/assistant professor
level beginning fall 2013. Screening of candidates will begin
immediately; for best consideration, application materials should be
provided by 5 December 2012. If not filled, reviews will occur
monthly thereafter until the search is closed.

http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/tag/bio-art-laboratories/

the workshop NEIGHBOURHOOD SATELLITES ENERGY HARVESTS
27/11/2012 12:00 to 18:30

Baltan Laboratories and Holst Centre organized an art-science workshop during Shaking Science led by German based artists Myriel Milicevic and Hanspeter Kadel. The workshop took place on November 27th in MU, Emmasingel 20, Eindhoven.

In everyday city living, we are surrounded by waste products from our urban infrastructures – heat waste from air conditioners, light pollution emitted from shop windows, vibration caused by heavy traffic and the loud wails of sirens. But these structural leakages are, in essence, a multitude of free power outlets for anyone wishing to collect them, because light, noise, vibration and heat can all be turned back into usable energy.

Neighbourhood Satellites Energy Harvests examined the practical as well as theoretical possibilities of an alternative, decentralized supply of energy by asking: How can citizens use these surplus energy supplies? What would local micro-power-networks, where free energy can be collected, distributed and exchanged, look like?

In this workshop they followed these questions and constructed small portable harvesters for light pollution.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/12/05/celestial...

Science art of stars and space men

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/prnewswire/press_releases/Vir...

Students Discover Biodiversity in National Children's Science-Art Contest

Hundreds of students in grades 2-4 created biodiversity-themed art as part of a national contest, presenting everything from whales, turtles, deer, zebras, and sharks to butterflies and eucalyptus trees.

With the theme "The World's A Place of Living Things," the 17^th annual art contest of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) invited students to share their impressions of biodiversity. Over 400 children submitted artwork for the contest, which addresses national education standards in science, geography and the arts.

In vivid color, students explored the biodiversity in many different regions of the world: from the desert to forests to oceans. Through books, websites and other resources, they researched the contest theme then used their new knowledge to create a visual image of what they had learned.

http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/renaissance-resurrection-linking-...

The image above, from a 1592 collection of engravings based on miniatures by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, offers a moralizing, emblematic interpretation of nature. Under the heading “birth, suffering, and death,” a dead mouse admonishes the viewer that life is short and bitter, while the larva, pupa, and adult hawk moth serve as a reminder of the Christian belief in resurrection. This is the first known published illustration of an insect life cycle. Renaissance historian Brian Ogilvie (History Department) is examining early modern depictions and descriptions of insects and other small creatures to find out how they connected art, science, and religion.

http://io9.com/5966417/gorgeous-minimalist-art-that-strips-science-...

Gorgeous Minimalist Art That Strips Science Fiction Down to its Essence
Charlie Jane Anders

The Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC) in Belgium is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a special science fiction-themed art exhibition called "SF: Art, Science et Fiction." It brings together the work of a number of artists, to explore the links between science fiction and the arts. The artworks include modern art pieces speculating about scientific concepts, such as the nature of time, as well as postmodern takes on "popular myths" like Superman.

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59399#.UMK-...

Just discovered Scharl Portrait of Einstein up for sale for first time

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/dec/08/ice-age-art-b...

Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – in pictures

Images from the British Museum's forthcoming exhibition of ice age artefacts made between 13,000 and 42,000 years ago, which were borrowed from museums across Europe

http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=15592

Art (& Science) Talk with Kerry Tribe

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/should-art-history-be...

Should Art History Be More Like Science?

The history of art as practiced in museums and the academy is sluggish in its embrace of the new technology…. We aren’t conducting art historical research differently. We aren’t working collaboratively and experimentally. As art historians we are still, for the most part, solo practitioners working alone in our studies and publishing in print and online as single authors and only when the work is fully baked. We are still proprietary when it comes to our knowledge. We want sole credit for what we write….

Scientists, social scientists, and engineers don’t work this way. They work collaboratively and publish jointly and quickly for professional review…. In short, humanists largely work alone and on timelines with long horizons. Scientists work together, experimentally, and publish quickly.

http://waag.org/en/news/winners-bioart-competition-da4ga-2012

Winners bioart competition DA4GA 2012

Living Mirror
Laura Cinti & Howard Boland with the FOM-Institute AMOLF
A liquid image of magnetic bacteria. That is the Living Mirror: an interactive bio-installation in which cells are combined with electronics and photo manipulation. Individuals are captured and translated in a live, 3D-portrait. This image reintroduces the ‘fleshiness’ absent in digital media. Living Mirror connects the history of the mirror in literature and arts.

Fish Bone Chapel
Haseeb Ahmed with the Netherlands Toxigenomics Centre
The Fish Bone Chapel is a hybrid building, existing of fish bones. The vertebrae vaults, scaled walls and beating circulation systems of this architecture are derived from enlarged 3D prints and the skeletal structure of fish exposed to mutagenic toxins. Playfully, the Fish Bone Chapel makes a historical connection with the morbid architecture of the Capuchin Monks who decorated the bones of their brothers to symbolize the transience of life and death.

Ergo Sum
Charlotte Jarvis with the Netherlands Proteomics Centre
The artist Charlotte Jarvis is donating parts of her body to stem cell research. These specimens will be transformed - medically metamorphosed - into induced pluripotent stem cells and then into a range of completely different substances. A second self will be created - a self-portrait, a doppelgänger - made from a collage of synthesised body parts: brain, heart and blood vessels, biologically ‘Charlotte’ yet distinctly alien to her.

Designers & Artists for Genomics is an initiative of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative and Waag Society, sponsored by CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences and presented by Naturalis Biodiversity Centre.
Project:
Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award

http://puls.madlab.nl/brain-battle/?lang=en&goback=.gde_1636727...

Play the Future #2: Brain Battle

Art Science debate event: two debate sessions alternated by a diner buffet.

From 4pm till 10pm an interesting program will give you inspiration, lets you meet people sharing the same curiosity and interest.

First session:

Faas Moonen – Associate Professor TU/e Engineering
Arne Hendriks – Artist and Curator
Wiepko Oosterhuis (moderator) – Media Advisor

Second session

Ben Schouten – Professor TU/e Industrial Design
Sander Veenhof – New Media artist
Carmin Karasic (moderator) – Media Artist

December 11, TAC, Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven – 16:00 – 22:00 hours ,

Abstract:

With Play the Future the boundaries between science and art will be exceeded. A project where art and technology meet and create new windows of opportunity for the future.

We are all a part of turbulent times. The world finds itself standing before great challenges concerning the current global economic and ecologic crisis. New technological concepts are required to face these challenges head on. In Play the Future we search for answers and inspiring examples through the confrontation of the fine arts and the world of science.

Play the Future has been created as a program involving the big issues of our time: Energy, Health and Smart Mobility. The region of South-East Brabant (The Netherlands) holds an ecosystem that has developed around these sectors in a big way. We want to make use of this infrastructure to create a dialogue between the ‘autonomous’ worlds of Art and Science, leading to innovative research and development of new solutions for the future.

Interdisciplinary concepts and solutions are the current chains that move innovation. The artist and scientist are able to discover new directions and solutions by means of inquisitive and curious way of thinking and working. The confrontation of the scientist and the artist sharing the same fascination within these themes form the basis of this idea. These research form the central “heart” of Puls2012. This result becomes apparent in more than one form in an exhibition with installations, workshops, hackathons, lectures, performances and a publication.

www.madlab.nl

http://www.kemri-wellcome.org/engagement/layers-unique-science-art-...

In Kenya- Africa:
'Layers' a unique science-art exhibition ,opening Sun 9th Dec 2012 at Nairobi National Museum
5 December 2012 - 3:05pm

Award-wining Kenyan artists James Muriuki and Miriam Syowia Kyambi are proud to present their new exhibition 'Layers' in the Ecology Gallery at the National Museum of Kenya.

The exhibition will open to the public on Sunday 9th December 2012 at 4pm.

Since June 2012 Muriuki and Kyambi have been exploring the research context of scientists working at the world renowned KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi as part of the Art in Global Health artist-in-residence program organised by Wellcome Collection in London, UK.

What has emerged from this process is a fascinating body of work which critically analyses, investigates and re-imagines the ways in which science research affects, and connects with, the broader social context within which it takes place. How can differences in belief systems be negotiated? What happens when a standard research method such as blood sampling is viewed with suspicion by the local community? Are there ways in which traditional medicines can be incorporated into contemporary health strategies?

These questions, and many others, form the basis of a whole process of curious reflection of Muriuki and Kyambi. As artists, they imagine the context of medical research in a very different, and complementary, way to scientists. Their research has been tirelessly documented in photography, interview, sketch and video documentation.

An integral part of the exhibition is a 72 page catalogue which details this research journey through photos, excerpts from sketch books, transcripts of interviews and some reflective texts. This will be launched on the opening night of the exhibition.

A key element that permeates this research are the 5 paths that the artists have identified over the course of the residency; education, belief, context, money and power and exploration. For Muriuki and Kyambi these paths offer a framework with which to understand the axes upon which scientists engage with the local context.

As a way of poetically exploring this hypothesis, the artists developed a mobile photo studio outfitted with various props connected to these paths. Lab coats with gold lapels or local fabrics, school desks, microscopes and scales were placed around the studio. Members of the public, who came to have their photo taken, were then asked if they wanted to include any of these accessories in their photo. These conversations, and the resulting photos, reveal many of the expectations, tensions, hopes and fears that the community in Kilifi have regarding the role of science research in their home town.

The exhibition presents this mobile photo studio, which will operate throughout the exhibition, a film on the process of taking the portraits in Kilifi, together with a study area where visitors can read the catalogue and further engage with the last 6 months of research that the artists have undertaken.

On Tuesday 11th December at 7pm the exhibition presents an evening of discussion surrounding the work of Muriuki and Kyambi and the context of scientific research that they came into contact with. The artists will be joined by research scientists from KEMRI, together with the local curator of the exhibition, Sam Hopkins in an informal discussion setting in the cafe of the National Museum.

This artist residency is part of a global artist-in-residence program establishing 6 artist residencies - in the UK, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. A selection of artworks from these other locations will also be represented in the exhibition.

http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference-page

Beyond Disciplinarity: Interventions in Cultural Studies and the Arts

Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

May 23-26, 2013

• Open for Proposal Submissions: 7 January 2013
• Deadline for Proposals: 11 February, 2013
• Notification of Acceptance: 18 March 2013
• Early Conference Registration: 4 March 2013 - 22 April 2013
• Deadline for Inclusion in the Conference Program: 13 May 2013

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites participation in its eleventh annual conference. The theme of this year's conference, Beyond Disciplinarity: Interventions in Cultural Studies and the Arts, encourages submissions that reflect on the nature, limits, and merits of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. This theme refers to the historic role of cultural studies as a field that intervenes in social and intellectual modes of disciplinarity from a variety of critical locations. The conference aims to attract work that meets those challenges by willfully reorganizing and redistributing the sensibilities and knowledges of disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations.

We are particularly interested in proposals that highlight research and teaching projects intended to rearrange existing forms of knowledge in an effort to create and imagine new institutional contexts for the development of cultural studies and its inquiries, including departments, programs, art centers, museums, and community organizations. As at past CSA conferences, we also welcome proposals from all areas and on all topics of relevance to cultural studies, including literature, history, sociology, geography, politics, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, post-colonial studies, legal studies, science studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, platform studies, visual art and performance studies.

This year's conference is hosted by Columbia College Chicago, the largest arts and media school in the United States with over 10,500 students pursuing degrees within over 120 undergraduate and graduate programs, including a well-established undergraduate program in Cultural Studies. Founded in 1890, the College houses a Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Center for Black Music Research, the International Latino Cultural Center, and the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in Arts and Media, and is located in downtown Chicago, blocks from the Symphony Center of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Museum Campus and the Theater District. The city is also home to over a dozen independent film festivals, around 200 theatre groups and venues, more than 88 colleges, several internationally
recognized research libraries, over 35 radio stations (in several languages), and more than 25 magazines and newspapers, just to name a few cultural and media institutions.

Arduino Workshop for daily life and art: how to make robots, interactive works or electronic musical instruments?

What is Arduino? is an interface that enables communication between the binary world of computers and the analog world outside. To interact with all kinds of sensors and control circuits, lights and motors with intelligent systems.

What can be used? can be a tool for artists who want to work with the use of technology for the development of interactive applications in their works. Also for the development of robotic applications, home automation or even the creation of electronic musical instruments.
What can you learn?
We will explore various possibilities to interact via Arduino with sensors of all types, transducers, servo motors and external circuits. As also with various control software audiovisual Media.
Who is the workshop? FOR ALL! .. Students, artists, programmers, artists, sound engineers, musicians or anyone who is interested in the topic and have a minimum of curiosity.

Who will teach? Duarte Felipe Andres Marin, Sound Engineer, musician-composer and developer of interactive systems in the field of art audiovisual systems controlling technology, mapping, 3D animation, sensors and robotics. He has worked in various programming and interactive installations sync with the company Artefacto Producciones, technical coordinator of the Department of Audiovisual R & D & I in the company of museology Intervento, and collaborated in the creation and implementation of interactive exhibitions and museums.

Source: http://madrid.the-hub.net/evento/taller-de-arduino-para-la-vida-dia...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/12/11/the-sciar...

http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/exhibitions/gaia-photos-by-guy-la...

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59483#.UMlel6z7Qgs

Founder of Cirque du Soleil exhibits photos taken on board the Inte...

Marlborough Gallery announced that an exhibition of photography by Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil and Chair of ONE DROP opens on December 11 at Marlborough Gallery, and continue through January 5, 2013. This creative project, designed by Laliberté for ONE DROP, consists of a selection of large-scale photographs taken by the artist while on board the International Space Station (ISS). The exhibition features approximately forty photographic prints, ranging in size from 20 x 30 inches to 72 x 108 inches. The photographs capture stunning and surprising views of specific natural formations around the world, including the Sahara Desert in Egypt, Dolzhanskaya Point in Russia, the Balkhash Lake in Kazakhstan, the Qaidam Basin in China, the Euphrates River in Turkey, Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, and the Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano in Tanzania.

http://io9.com/5966417/gorgeous-minimalist-art-that-strips-science-...

Gorgeous Minimalist Art That Strips Science Fiction Down to its Essence

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/12/12/scientifi...

Scientific Aesthetics

India's first Biennial :
http://www.indianartnews.com/

http://www.mutualart.com/OpenArticle/MutualArt-Watchlist--Modern-In...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/12/13/james-gur...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-echelman/imagination-becomes-re...

Imagination Becomes Reality

http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/websites-mini/art-of-s...

The Art of Science

Remarkable natural History illustrations from Museum Victoria

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347082/description/The_S...

After a day of computer programming and poring over genetic data, Pardis Sabeti relaxes her brain by writing rock songs.

Born in Tehran, Sabeti is a computational biologist at Harvard and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She studies human evolution — past, current and future. Her cutting-edge work on the adaptations of humans and the microbes that infect them placed her among the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders for 2012. And when she’s not in the lab, she’s the lead singer of an alternative rock band in Boston called Thousand Days.

“When my brain is most active in science, I’m also most musically creative,” she says. It’s not that either music or science fuels the other, she explains, but rather that at times her brain enters a creative mode where both just flow.

If her publication record is any indication — Sabeti and her colleagues have already pushed out 13 scientific papers this year — her brain keeps busy by innovating.

Sabeti’s team has crafted computer programs to find human genes that have been shaped by natural selection. Much of her work focuses on how humans have adapted to infectious organisms, so she looks for genes that have been altered to confer resistance to certain diseases. These kinds of genes offer a big survival advantage and tend to spread rapidly through human populations.

She has found hundreds of such genetic variants in people living in places where diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy and malaria are common. Understanding how these genes help fend off illness may eventually benefit people who were not born with such a genetic endowment, by helping to develop new drugs or other therapies.

In her newest work, Sabeti is also investigating the possibility that some variants in genes that affect hair follicle and sweat gland development might have given certain people some sort of evolutionary edge.

Her music is no less novel. From the beginning, Sabeti and her bandmates performed original music. “We didn’t do covers so no one would know how bad we were,” she says of a band she and two friends started in graduate school. “If you do your own stuff, no one knows how it is supposed to sound.”
Making music may sound like the more glamorous of her pursuits, but Sabeti says research also has its attractions. “For me, it really is a hunt,” she says. “It’s thrilling.”

Soundtrack of a science life
Alternative rock music has played an important role in the life of computational biologist and rocker Pardis Sabeti. Here’s some of the music that has moved her:

Substance by New Order Sabeti says she first fell in love with alternative rock in the car on the way to tennis practice in seventh grade.
Sixteen Stone by Bush The album “really got me through my senior year at college.”
Fischerspooner The band will forever be associated with studying for medical board exams, Sabeti says.
Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails When everyone else had left the lab for the evening, Sabeti cranked up Nine Inch Nails and collected the experimental data needed to finish her Ph.D.
Rokstarr by Taio Cruz and F.A.M.E. by Chris Brown Sabeti says these albums and other “really good hip-hop” put her in the right frame of mind to respond to criticism in reviews of her scientific papers: “You feel good about yourself, but you’re ready to fight.”

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Art and science collide
SRAVASTI DATTA

Interest lies in the characters Picasso At The Lapin Agile
The worlds of art and science collide when Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso run into each other in a bar in Paris in Steve Martin’s Picasso At The Lapin Agile

What would happen if Pablo Picasso were to run into Albert Einstein in a bar? A big bang of ideas, one would suppose. Steve Martin builds on this possibility in his insightful and humorous Picasso At The Lapin Agile. What makes the play even more interesting is that the scientist and artist meet not at their prime, but at the threshold of discovering the genius in them.

Theatre personality Prashanth Nair has assisted Vaisakh Shankar in directing Picasso At The Lapin Agile, which will be staged this weekend. Prashanth says, over phone, that the play appealed for its multi-layered plot. “The playwright hasn’t gone into the intricacies of art and science, his interest is in the characters.”

“The play is set in 1904, addresses many other issues and of things to come. For example, there is a scene in which a waitress, who is independent and states her views, predicts that there will come a time when there will be a craze for automobiles and information will be stored within a small space. The men don’t pay attention to what she says, dismissing her views as far-fetched.”

Further, although the play revolves around Picasso and Einstein discussing their innovative theories, the special theory of relativity and Le Demoiselles D’Avignon, respectively, it also explores the nitty gritty of society. Prashanth adds: “Steve has an interest in the characters. He has made a play on stereotypes; on Picasso being a womaniser and even on the French being loud and particular about their language.” But when it comes to Einstein, Steve provides a true perspective on him, very different from the one we usually associate with him. “Einstein was not eccentric and odd. He was quite a ladies man who wrote some of the nicest quotes on love!” The rivalry between Picasso and Matisse has also been depicted.

For those who think that art and science can never meet, the play addresses how they can and must. “Artists and scientists are involved in the task of creation. The Universe itself is a scientific mystery and a beautiful work of art,” says Prashanth, an award-winning playwright.

Prashanth says they have given equal importance to production values as they have to performances. “The play transports the audience to a particular era. We had to pay attention to costumes, music, sets etc. If we hadn’t, we would being doing an injustice to the play.”

The team at Tahatto also researched Lapin Agile, where the scenes unfold, besides other aspects of the play. “It is a bar where people meet up and discuss ideas, which gives it a fascinating energy. We have recreated the feel of the bar the best we could.”

Picasso At The Lapin Agile will be staged today 14th, Dec. at 8 p.m. and 15th at 3 and 6.30 p.m. at Jagriti Theatre, Whitefield, Bangalore.

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The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art being held in Kochi, Kerala.

The exhibition will be set in spaces across Kochi, Muziris and surrounding islands. There will be shows in existing galleries and halls, and site-specific installations in public spaces, heritage buildings and disused structures.

Indian and international artists will exhibit artworks across a variety of mediums including film, installation, painting, sculpture, new media and performance art.

Through the celebration of contemporary art from around the world, The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the historic cosmopolitan legacy of the modern metropolis of Kochi, and its mythical predecessor, the ancient port of Muziris.

Alongside the exhibition the Biennale will offer a rich programme of talks, seminars, screenings, music, workshops and educational activities for school children and students of all ages.

HEKTOEN GRAND PRIX ESSAY COMPETITION
Essays of 1,000 to 2,500 words on a subject related to medicine and culture by March 1, 2013. Suggested topics include medicine and art or literature, history of medicine, ethics, music, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, etc. Clinical studies or case reports are not eligible.
We are offering two prizes:
The Hektoen Grand Prix, for the winner - $1,000
The Hektoen Silver Prize, for the runner-up - $800
The winners will be announced by email on May 1, 2013. All essays will be considered for publication; the Grand Prix and Silver Prize will be showcased in the Summer 2013 issue, and others will be featured throughout the year.
Submit your essay to contest@hektoeninternational.org by March 1, 2013

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
In its new location, with its impressive façade of windows, the Goethe-Institut is now heading into a new direction: the presentation of new media works, videos and short films throughout the year by German and québécois artists.
For Verena Friedrich's work Cellular Performance, the windows of the Goethe-Institut will be transformed into microscopic specimen slides. During lab stays in Australia and Switzerland, the artist researched human and animal cells, whose manipulation she documented through quick-motion filming. The cells form themselves into predetermined concepts, which borrow from current marketing terms and which postulate that a profoundly deficient body can, on both the cellular and molecular level, be corrected and must. Thus, both the language and the cellular material claim a certain independence, through which both are divested of a pure, instrumental application.
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