Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) where the official birth of lab Biofilia at Aalto took place witht he help of Symbiotica.
Biofilia officially opened at the 2nd of February, for more information please see http://biofilia.aalto.fi/en/

Apply for Residency at SymbioticA
The deadline for the next round of SymbioticA residencies is March 21 2013. Check our applications page for guidelines:
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/residents/applications

Symbiotica's Oron Catts will deliver a keynote The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things at the Medical Museion, Copenhagen as part of the It's Not What You Think workshop on the 8th of March - see http://www.museion.ku.dk/oron-catts-the-puzzle-2/ Catts' lecture is open to the public.
Adaptation exhibition available to tour nationally 2013-14 SymbioticA's Art and Ecology project Adaptation, exhibited first in Mandurah last year is now available to tour in Australia via Art On The Move. Interested venues and groups should check:
http://bit.ly/XAl23l
Adaptation's first stop is Katanning (WA) in May.

ART & SCIENCE
An exhibition to provoke debate & discussion Until 16 March 2013 GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY Artists & Scientists Include: Susan Aldworth, Annie Cattrell, Oron Catts, Katharine Dowson, Andrew Krasnow, David Marron, Helen Pynor, Nina Sellars, Anaïs Tondeur, Richard Wingate, Ken + Julia Yonetani and Ionat Zurr.
Including the events: 'Broad Vision' Book Launch (28 February, 6- 9pm) and The Art & Science Debate (14 March, 6.30- 9pm) which SymbioticA director Oron Catts will participate in.
http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_current.html

From Symbiotica:

Date: Friday 22 Feb 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Dr. Richard Paul Hamilton, School of Philosophy and Theology University of Notre Dame Australia

There is a popular view of biological development which goes something like this. Biological form is the cumulative result of internal genetic forces and external environmental ones. Like all models in biology this rather neat view had the advantage of allowing researchers to navigate a path through the bewildering complexity of organic life. But like all metaphors it comes at the price of bewitchment. As Wittgenstein writes in Philosophical Investigations 115: "a picture held us captive and we could not escape it because it lay in our language". One consequence of this bewitchment is that explanatory privilege was given to the internal 'code' enshrined in the DNA, a view most famously (or notoriously) associated with Richard Dawkins' gene-centric account of evolution. This apparently resolved a number of outstanding puzzles in theoretical biology notably the transmission of stable form across generations.

In this context, the Human Genome Project can be seen as the most fruitful failure in scientific history. Such a claim may seem puzzling, since the Human Genome Project might be considered a success, not least in the numerous promising advances in medicine that it presaged. Nevertheless, the somewhat hyperbolic claim that it would finally unlock the secret code which would reveal what it means to be human have been largely unfulfilled and with good reason. There never was such a code.

The last two decades in the biological sciences can be characterised by the slogan: Taking Development Seriously. Whereas the neo-Darwinian mathematical modellers tended to treat the actual process of development as a black box, a sustained effort is now underway to explain the relationship between evolution (phylogeny) and organismic development (ontogeny). One thing has become clear: the simple dichotomous picture of gene and environment is inadequate, even as a simplifying device. DNA rarely exists in isolation and where it does it is inert. There is no reason to give DNA causal or explanatory privilege in developmental processes. Rather, development is a complex and contingent process in which the developing organism constructs itself and to some extent its developmental environment from the resources at hand. The organism makes its own history albeit not in circumstances of its choosing.

If the code metaphor is no longer adequate what can replace it? In this talk I will suggest a new and hopefully fruitful analogy which might capture some of the complexities involved. I will compare the process of biological development to the construction of a Shakespearean play. As Shakespeare scholars have long known there are no definitive Shakespeare texts and it seems likely that Shakespeare never actually sat down and wrote Hamlet or Much Ado About Nothing. Rather the plays were workshopped and Shakespeare provided prompt notes to the players. The texts with which we are familiar are re-constructions of performances which have been handed down corrected and interpreted through numerous generations. Most crucially every new performance of Shakespeare is an interpretation be it a group of Lesbian players doing in Hamlet in Soweto or an 'authentic Elizabethan dress' performance at the Globe in London. Moreover, every performance takes place in a rich and complex interpretative environment and the audience plays as much a role in the play's construction as the author or players.

Similarly, all the natural world is a stage, or so I shall argue.

Apply for 2013 Ars Bioarctica residency
Since 2010 Ars Bioarctica is organizing an artist-in-residency program together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland. The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. It is open for artists and art & science research teams.
The residency takes place in the facilities of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. It provides the residents with a combined living and working environment, kitchen, bathroom, sauna and internet connection.
http://bioartsociety.fi/3-2

School of Visual Arts Residency Programs New York,NY FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE STUDIO:
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES IN BIO ART
May 21-June 21 2013
4 undergraduate studio credits; $2400
>From anatomical studies to landscape painting to the biomorphism of surrealism, the biological realm historically provided a significant resource for numerous artists. More recently, bio art has become a term referring to intersecting domains of the biological sciences and their incorporation into the plastic arts. Of particular importance in bio art is to summon awareness of the ways in which biomedical sciences alter social, ethical and cultural values in society.
http://www.sva.edu/special-programs/summer-residency-programs/bio-art

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

http://www.thenationalstudent.com/News/2013-02-15/Art_and_science_c...
Art and science collide at Imperial College ArtsFest
Imperial College London is a science-based institution. Next week it will be holding ‘the Arts Experiment’, the next public evening event part of the Imperial Fringe.

The Imperial Fringe is a series of monthly public engagement events at Imperial College, each focussing on a different topic of research undertaken from academics within the College. The eveThe official artwork for the Arts Experiment.nt is a part of the College’s ArtsFest, a week-long celebration of the arts, music and dance that Imperial has to offer.

http://thefinchandpea.com/2013/02/13/the-art-of-science-three-to-see/
The Art of Science: Three to See

If you’re anywhere near Montreal, Dublin, or DC in the next few weeks, don’t miss the chance to go see some amazing work.

Montreal, QC: De la Nature, through February 23 at Les Territoires

De la nature presents recent works by artist-researchers Kelly Andres, Brandon Ballengée, Claire Kenway and Alison Reiko Loader, four artists who engage seriously with science and technology in their works.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wythe/cut-paste-grow-science-at...
Genspace and Observatory bring together an exhibition of some of today’s most dynamic bioartists for one unforgettable group show.
For bioartists—the emerging group of practitioners who manipulate living tissues, DNA, and bacteria—these materials become active partners in the art. These installations have a will of their own. Art becomes a dynamic ecology.
Science at Play provides a space to ask fundamental new questions about aesthetics and our assumptions about life and death. What, for example, makes a beautiful blueprint for a beautiful form—what makes a beautiful gene?

By cutting and pasting DNA into a being, the organism itself—both in function and behavior—becomes a chimera, a hybrid natural/engineered being stitched from disparate parts, a result of both Darwinian evolution and the will of the artist. Since antiquity, hybrids were considered abominations.

Today, we can view them in any number of ways: Are these chimerae quasi-artworks or quasi-organisms? Is bioart a new approach to society and ecology, a partnership with the microbial life all around us?

CUT/PASTE/GROW will be partly based on BioDesign: Nature + Science + Creativity, a book written by Will Myers and published by The Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0218/breaking31.h...
Grand designs at UCD science block
But James Earley goes grander still. He has just completed an art work 40 metres long and over two metres tall outside the science block at University College Dublin.
“We wanted to tell the story of the Science Centre both on campus but also to the general public,” says Alexandra Boyd, public engagement and outreach project manager with UCD Research.

They decided to commission a large-scale piece of “graffiti art” applied to wooden hoardings that block off part of the Science Centre’s construction site adjacent to the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology.

There were underlying themes of connections and of moving from local to global and these are reflected in the design eventually submitted by Mr Earley. “It is all about the connections,” he says.
His design was inspired by connecting up with scientists in their labs and having conversations about what they are researching, he said. The design reflects these conversations and conveys six research themes, health; agri-food; environment; energy, culture, economy and change; and information, computation and communications.

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2013/feb/art-science-aaas-021913.html
Artful science
There are “things hidden in plain sight” all around us. But art can help students see their world anew, unlocking discoveries in fields ranging from plant biology to biomedical imaging, according to University of Delaware professor John Jungck.

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/arts/curtain/hc-wesleyan-to-ho...
Wesleyan University presents the symposium “Innovations: Intersection of Art and Science” on Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1 on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown.

The event, which will focus on the themes of research, teaching and activism within the fields of art and science, is co-hosted by the Center for the Arts and the Hughes Program in the Life Sciences and curated by choreographer Liz Lerman.

"The symposium will bring teams of artists and scientists together to share approaches, skills and outcomes of their research at the intersection of art and science," ac coding to the school.

From Leonardo:

FIRST L.A. LASER: 7 MARCH 2013
The first UCLA LASER will take place 7 March 2013 at the California NanoSystems Institute presentation space. The topic for this meeting is Biotech + Art. Everyone invited will introduce their work in 3 minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This will be followed by drinks and food + socializing and making new connections. This event is FREE and open to the public. Art|Sci director Victoria Vesna will lead the LASER meetings.

The Fourth Dimension And Non-Euclidean Geometry In Modern Art, by Linda Dalrymple Henderson
In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception?the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space?were central to the development of modern art.

http://www.leonardo.info

http://www.news.wisc.edu/21521
Science + art exhibit focuses on the beauty of a cure

http://www.theintelligencer.com/article_c102d31b-9358-5c0c-974e-200...

Mastodon Fair Showcases Top Art and Science Students in 7 County Region

http://dailybruin.com/2013/02/21/researcher-fuses-science-and-art/

Researcher fuses science and art

(Agapakis) is so good at communicating science to people in a way that is really fun and interesting”

Agapakis ' next project will be to teach arts and design to science students, and biology to design students. By teaching design students biology,  she hopes to see how they utilize this scientific aspect in their designing.

http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Education/Programs/Discovery-Centre/...
Wednesday After School Science Art

http://www.gvart.co.uk/a-future-for-art-science-interactions.html

GV Art London
A future for Art & Science Interactions?
Debate Thursday 14 March, 7—8.30pm

Panellists: Marius Kwint (chair), Kat Austen, Oron Catts, Robert Devcic, Arthur Miller & Anaïs Tondeur

With contributors from scientific and artistic backgrounds this debate will question the contemporary position of the art & science practice and its future in the cultural landscape.

To be part of the worldwide participation in this discussion you can watch the debate as it is live streamed via the GV Art website: www.gvart.co.uk. In addition to this there will be live tweeting throughout the evening for those keeping up to date with smart phones.

Questions can be proposed to the panel via by Twitter using either @GV_Art or #artandscience so no matter where you are in the world, you can take part in this debate.

http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/preview_wonder_...
Preview: Wonder: Art and Science on the Brain at The Barbican
And despite very readable tomes by the likes of VS Ramachandaran, the study of the brain has yet to make the leap from research activity to recreational pastime for the general public.

However Wonder: Art and Science on the Brain, a groundbreaking festival from the Barbican alongside the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) and the Wellcome Trust, attempts to bridge this gap and help people get to grips with the mysteries and mechanics of the human mind.

The full programme runs throughout March and April and features the likes of comedian Ruby Wax discussing her depression and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and DJ James Holden exploring consciousness through an audiovisual display.

But the opening weekender, which takes place on March 2 and 3, is a free taster featuring a series of creative events for anyone interested in delving into the grey matter. Highlights include a the Big Brain Flash – a public dance choreographed to look like a brain wave – and workshops to dissect jelly brains to find out what’s inside, and eat the remains.

Jenny Mollica, part of the creative learning team at the Barbican in Silk Street who helped produce the festival, says: “It’s a first for the Barbican to combine arts and science together like this,” she said.

Conference

“It all started about a year ago when the BNA asked to hold their annual conference here in April.

“We realised we would have all these amazing cutting edge scientists talking about the advanced aspects of neuroscience, but behind closed doors.

“We wanted to work out how can we bring this to the public and from there it grew from there into this big arts and science festival. The real focus is about allowing the public to find out more about neuroscience through art. We’ve tried to make it really accessible and lively.”

Other attractions include a singing hypnotist’s tent, housing a series of mesmeric acts, and a room that plays the sound of the brain working amplified thousands of times to make it audible to the human ear.
“It’s been interesting with scientists as well. It’s often said that artist are always asking questions, while scientists demand answers. I think it’s true, and it makes for a really good marriage.”

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/article_91ae1e7e-7c81-11e2-bec...
Intersection of science and art at MSU

“The Einstein Project” helps kick off the President’s Fine Arts Series at Montana State University. The series is focusing on the intersection of science and art this year and includes “Celebrating Einstein,” a free public celebration and an international scientific workshop April 2 to 7 to celebrate the centennial of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. For a full listing of events centered on the theme: “Art of Science - Science of Art,” visit www.montana.edu/caa/pfas/ or www.einstein.montana.edu.
'The Einstein Project' makes science into art
“The Einstein Project” runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through March 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Box Theater on the MSU campus.

Spencer Mirabal stands in the center of a black hole constructed as a stage in Montana State University’s Black Box Theater. He clasps his hands together in a manner he said is typical of Albert Einstein while waxing eloquent about theoretical physics.

Mirabal portrays Einstein in the MSU School of Film and Photography production of “The Einstein Project,” a role for which he studied the physicist’s movements and speech patterns. He does not, however, sport Einstein’s signature gray mane.

“It’s not about the caricature of Einstein,” Watson said. “It’s about the history.”

It follows the physicist through the years leading up to the atomic age and dealing with the moral issues surrounding his work.

“This play deals with what fascinates me about Einstein,” director Tom Watson said. “Apparently he’s the type of guy who wouldn’t sit down with pen and paper and work out an equation. He would visualize it.”

This concept is played out near the beginning of the production as Einstein explains that his lab is on his sail boat and his equipment is a violin.

Einstein’s support of artistic endeavors is both well-known and well-documented.

“The greatest scientists are artists as well,” he once said.

This concept is the basis of this year’s President’s Fine Arts Series, which explores the connection between science and art, exploring both in a series of lectures, exhibits and culminating in “Celebrating Einstein,” a free public celebration and an international scientific workshop.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/phone-bacteria-art-photos_...
Phone Bacteria 'Art' Created By British Students Cannot Be Unseen
But now some students in Britain have gone ahead and made bioart out of the most covert, disgusting, disturbing thing out there: bacterial growth on cell phones.

http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/your-smartphone-is-covered-i...
Your Smartphone Is Covered In Bacteria As These Bioart Images Show
We’re all vaguely aware of the unseen bacteria that lurks all around us on our desks, in those free bar snacks (the horror…), and on our smartphones. But a group of students from the University of Surrey in the UK have gone a step further than just going “Ewwww” and have created some bioart using the tiny microorganisms that lie in wait on our cellphones.

They did this by imprinting their phones onto a petri dish filled with growth media and then left them for three days to see what bacteria (if any) would grow. But grow it did, resulting in the images below which feature mostly harmless bacteria (Micrococcus), but they also discovered some disease carrying stuff too (Staphylococcus aureus)—which isn’t great news if you want to use your phone ever again (or borrow someone else’s for that matter).

Dr. Simon Park, who teaches the course that the students created the bioart in, says on his blog: “From these results, it seems that the mobile phone doesn’t just remember telephone numbers, but also harbours a history of our personal and physical contacts such as other people, soil, etc.”

But just think, as well as harboring all that nastiness, lying dormant are the patterns below just waiting to be unearthed.
You can see the pics by clicking on the link above.

http://www.thetranscript.com/ci_22651672/you-got-art-my-science
You got art on my science!
Students at Pine Cobble School received a hands-on lesson combining both art and science Friday with the help of a local artist and some not-so-local sea life.

Robin Brickman, who has received recognition for her illustrations in a number of children's books, visited the school to conduct a day-long workshop based on the book "One Night in the Coral Sea."

"I am combining art and science in a hands-on way to access the science behind what someone is making

http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/2013/april/joe-davis
Scientific Art Goes Rogue

https://www.nasw.org/beautiful-science-art-mathematical-modeling?go...
Beautiful science: The art of mathematical modeling

Beautiful science: The art of mathematical modeling

Mathematical modeling is no longer a tool reserved for scientists. Artists and architects are now using it to create sculptures, abstract graphs and digital seashells that visualize mathematical equations and concepts.

http://www.artecomciencia-ipti.blogspot.com.br/

On the 8th of March  the opening of the exhibition of the first two
devices (multimedia installations) science museum, developed from ideas of
students and teachers. Exhibition of Art with Science Projects


  A project of Arte Com Ciencia  in Sergipe Brazil

http://www.csiro.au/en/Portals/Education/Programs/Discovery-Centre/...
The art and science of dance series

Ms Liz Lea is currently Choreographer in Residence at CSIRO Discovery in Canberra. Her talks and demonstrations mark the starting point of longer conversations and the beginnings of an exciting series of dialogues with scientists working in fields relating to dance.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/02/25/googleplu...

http://malina.diatrope.com/2013/02/25/call-for-art-science-residenc...
Call for Art-Science Residency Applications at IMERA in Marseille, France.
MAY 6 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

http://www.imera.fr/index.php/en/becoming-a-fellow/applications.html

The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF), the University of Texas at Dallas
(UTD) and the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
announce a:

2013 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; BRIDGING THE SILOS

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR EXAMPLES OF
INTER-DISCIPLINARY ART-SCIENCE-ENGINEERING-HUMANITIES CURRICULA
UT Dallas Professor of Physics and of Art and Technology Roger F.Malina and UT
Dallas doctoral [...]

New Leonardo Book: Walking and Mapping; Karen O Rourke
http://malina.diatrope.com/2013/02/25/new-leonardo-book-walking-and...

Walking And Mapping
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/walking-and-mapping

Artists as Cartographers

By Karen O'Rourke

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/02/british-librar...
First fruits of a groundbreaking art-science tie-up
Institutionalisation is an interesting phenomenon. It marks the point at which a social phenomenon becomes big enough to be officially recognised, named and regulated.

Take the “fusion” of science and art. Last year, the prestigious yet edgy art school Central Saint Martins - part of the University of the Arts London - took a step towards making this more formal when it launched a pioneering art and science masters degree programme. Some of the artistic products of the first year of the programme are on show from today at the British Library in London.

But the library has gone further than playing host to the students’ work. Johanna Kieniewicz, the library’s research and engagement manager for environmental sciences, helped set up the programme. And the library made its resources and archives available for the students, as well as giving them room to carry out research involving library-goers.

Scattered throughout the library’s public spaces, the works vary dramatically - from physics-themed visual abstraction to archive-inspired photos of Siberia. They sometimes lack the polish you might hope for in publicly exhibited work, but make up for it by drawing on a deep vein of interesting ideas and stories.

http://journey.harrisburgdistrict42-1.org/?p=652

“Science Art”

Students working on art integrated with Mr. Amolins’ science students’ lab visits with Journey students.

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.p...
Integrating Art and Science in Undergraduate Education

Anatomy Art: Muscles of the headby

Muscles of the head, as shown with the skull and skin.

Order goes skull, muscles, skin.

Done with Strathmore 400 Drawing Paper, tracing paper, black and red conte`, and pastels.

http://tygenco.deviantart.com/art/Anatomy-Art-Muscles-of-the-head-3...

From SymbioticA :

TASML/DSL Artist Residence @ SymbioticA
In collaboration with SymbioticA and with additional funding from SymbioticA, TASML is pleased to announce a call for artist in residency proposals. This exploratory research residency will enable and expose the selected artist to the culture and practice of the life sciences providing an opportunity for developing new skills and knowledge. The artist is expected to practice biological lab work and will be given training in scientific and technical knowledge related to the area of research s/he wishes to pursue. As a part of The University of Western Australia we also offer a wealth of resource, equipment, knowledge and expertise. As the duration of the residency is one month long, this residence is conceived as a professional development program that will enable the selected artist to gain better understanding and articulation of life sciences and art practices. It is a spring board to develop a full research project at a later stage either at SymbioticA or in another research setting. We welcome
explorations of a wide range of the life sciences, such as molecular biology, synthetic biology, regenerative biology, tissue engineering, neuroscience, animal biology and ecology. This call is open to all Chinese artists including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese nationals living / working overseas.
http://tasml.parsons.edu/?p=1166

Apply for residency at SymbioticA
The deadline for the next round of SymbioticA residencies is March 21 2013. Check our applications page for guidelines:
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/residents/applications

t's Not What You Think workshop
Oron Catts will deliver the keynote The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things at the Medical Museion, Copenhagen as part of the It's Not What You Think workshop on the 8th of March – see http://www.museion.ku.dk/oron-catts-the-puzzle-2/ Catts’ lecture is open to the public.

Evaporation of Things
The symposium Evaporation of Things will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 13 March 2013 and the morning of Thursday 14 March 2013 at Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB. http://www.evaporationofthings.com Oron Catts is one of the speakers.

ART & SCIENCE
An exhibition to provoke debate & discussion
Until 16 March 2013
GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY
Artists & Scientists Include: Susan Aldworth, Annie Cattrell, Oron Catts, Katharine Dowson, Andrew Krasnow, David Marron, Helen Pynor, Nina Sellars, Anaïs Tondeur, Richard Wingate, Ken + Julia Yonetani and Ionat Zurr. Including the events: ‘Broad Vision’ Book Launch (28 February, 6- 9pm) and The Art & Science Debate (14 March, 6.30- 9pm) which SymbioticA director Oron Catts will participate in.
http://www.gvart.co.uk/exhibitions_current.html

Apply for 2013 Ars Bioarctica residency
Since 2010 Ars Bioarctica is organizing an artist-in-residency program together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland. The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. It is open for artists and art & science research teams.
The residency takes place in the facilities of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. It provides the residents with a combined living and working environment, kitchen, bathroom, sauna and internet connection.
http://bioartsociety.fi/3-2
Applications can be handed in throughout the year

School of Visual Arts Residency Programs
New York,NY
FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE STUDIO:
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES IN BIO ART
May 21-June 21 2013
4 undergraduate studio credits; $2400
>From anatomical studies to landscape painting to the biomorphism of surrealism, the biological realm historically provided a significant resource for numerous artists. More recently, bio art has become a term referring to intersecting domains of the biological sciences and their incorporation into the plastic arts. Of particular importance in bio art is to summon awareness of the ways in which biomedical sciences alter social, ethical and cultural values in society.
http://www.sva.edu/special-programs/summer-residency-programs/bio-art

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

The Biology of Snow
Aalto Biofilia Open Seminar
6th March, 2013, at 9 am
Otaniemi Campus, Otakaari 7B, School of Electrical Engineering (ELEC) Sähkötalo 1
The seminar “The Biology of Snow” at Aalto Biofilia observes the snow as a captivating natural phenomenon and a significant part of the water cycle. Natural scientists specialized in researching snow will present their research related with its origin, physiology, morphology and the significance for the life in the Earth.
The program, designed by artist and researcher Leena Valkeapää, will give an introduction to the nascency of the snow in the aerosphere, the essence of the snow fallen on to the ground and its significance for the flora and fauna. The snow and the organisms living in it
will be contemplated under the microscope. The seminar will also introduce participants to the tools and methodologies used by natural scientists, and interconnect with artistic thinking and practice. The seminar is open to the public and marks the beginning of “The Biology of Snow and
Arctic Experience” workshop that will take students north to the Kilpisjärvi Biological Field Station of the University of Helsinki. The presentations will be given by three snow researchers, PhD Dmitri Moisseev (University of Helsinki), PhD Sirpa Rasmus (University of Jyväskylä) and Prof. Pekka Niemelä (University of Turku). The snowchange reflects to the decision making of local people and is linked to a larger worldliness of the weather, that covers – beside the knowledge of snow – the Moon, dreams, stars, winds, traditions and experiences.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/127727590/The-Dance-of-Life-Project
Molecular music and dance projects.

http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/2013/02/26/conservation-where-... Science, art and history meet

http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2013/02/28/reflecting-on-encou...
Reflecting on Encounters between Art and Science

http://willamette.edu/people/archives/2013/02/erynn_rebol.html
Student forges connections between art and science

GV Art's calender : March 2013:

GV Art's Calender - March 2013:

The Portrait Anatomised
Susan Aldworth

7 March - 1 September 2013
National Portrait Gallery

Three large portrait installations of people living with epilepsy which expand the notion of contemporary portraiture.

Watch the accompanying film - The Portrait Anatomised Film

To view the Press Release, please click here

Image : Susan Aldworth, Elisabeth (detail), 2012
Annie Cattrell, Pleasure-Pain, rapid prototyped SLS, collaboration with Prof Morten L Kringelbach
GV Art & Mind Symposium, Oxford

15 March 2013,6-10pm
03 Gallery, Oxford Castle, Oxford OX1 1AY

Speaker: Professor Morten Kringelbach

GV Art & Mind, in association with AXNS Collective, are presenting an evening in Oxford which allows you to view the exhibition ‘Affecting Perception: Art & Neuroscience’, and hear a fascinating presentation by neuroscientist Professor Morten Kringelbach entitled 'The Neuroscience of Pleasure' followed by a meal afterwards.

RSVP essential to Garry Kennard, at garry.kennard@btopenworld.com

Image: Annie Cattrell, Pleasure Pain, rapid prototyped SLS, collaboration with Prof Morten L Kringelbach

From GV Art- Calender - 2013:
Beyond Horizons
David Heathcote, solo exhibition
21 March – 27 April 2013
Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris

David Heathcote’s first solo exhibition in Paris following the major retrospective of his work held in London at GV Art gallery in 2010. This Parisian exhibition allows a new audience the opportunity of discovering the work of this uniquely poetic British artist.

For more information, please click here or for Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos website please click here

Image : David Heathcote, Sicilian Woman, 2001
William Utermohlen, Broken Figure (detail), (mixed media) 1996
Affecting Perception: Art & Neuroscience
2 - 31 March 2013, 03 Gallery, Oxford

This group exhibition by the AXNS Collective showcases leading artists affected by conditions of the brain and inspired by recent discoveries in neuroscience. Affecting Perception looks at the connection between art and the mind and includes our very own William Utermohlen (pictured).

For more information, please click here

Image: William Utermohlen, Broken Figure (detail), (mixed media) 1996
Rachel Gadsden, You Inhabit My Soul (detail), mixed media, 2013
This Breathing World
Rachel Gadsden
15 - 30 March 2013, Katara Cultural Village, Qatar

This Breathing World is part of the Qatar-UK Year of Culture 2013 festival. It will also form part of the first ever Arts & Disability Festival in the Middle East created by The British Council, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage in Qatar.

Link to This Breathing World Blog [http://rachelgadsden.tumblr.com/]
Link to Qatar-UK Year of Culture 2013 [http://www.qataruk2013.com/cms/en/]

The newest issue of NEA Arts is now available! This issue focuses on some of the more interesting ways in which technology is being used in the arts. This includes interviews with Nancy Proctor, head of mobile strategies for the Smithsonian, and Ryan Holladay, curator for Artisphere and part of the musical group Bluebrain, which makes "location-aware" music that changes as you change locations. There are also stories on the Black Women Playwrights' Group and Carnegie Mellon University's collaboration on transmedia storytelling as it relates to theater, the art of video games as practiced by Tracy Fullerton and Young Audiences, Inc., and the importance of eBooks in 21st-century publishing.

Online stories include how Kickstarter complements art funding such as NEA's; a look at the unusual partnership of Intel and the VICE media group to create an artist project; a slideshow on Sonic Trace's work in Los Angeles, part of the Localore project to find new ways of telling stories; and the creation of 2012 Academy Award-winning animation short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore as not just a film, but also as an app and a real live book. The online material can be found at http://www.arts.gov/about/NEARTS/2012_v4/index.html.

On February 14th, Bill O'Brien spoke at the STEAM Congressional Briefing in Washington, DC presented by Rhode Island School of Design in cooperation with Representatives Suzanne Bonamici and Aaron Schock. The agenda also featured presentations from RISD President John Maeda; Joyce Ward, Education Coordinator, United States Patent and Trademark Office; and Eric Siegel, Director and Chief Content Officer, New York Hall of Science. View the full discussion at http://vimeo.com/60031427.

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