CUT/PASTE/GROW: Science at Play Bioart in Brooklyn
Until May 11, 2013
Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12-6 PM
Life is restless. Bioartists-the emerging group of practitioners who manipulate living tissues, DNA, and bacteria-must embrace this restlessness. The lab is a garden, and the bioartist is the gardener for the new millennium, where breeding advances naturally into gene splicing.
CUT/PASTE/GROW 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?
http://observatoryroom.org/2013/02/24/cutpastegrow-show-opening/

THE PORTRAIT ANATOMISED by Susan Aldworth
National Portrait Gallery, London - Room 38a
Until 1 September 2013
Admission Free
Three people whose sense of identity is challenged by a common neurological condition will have their portraits on show at the National Portrait Gallery, London from March - September 2013. Elisabeth, Fiona and Max are all living successfully with epilepsy. Their life-size portraits have been created by internationally renowned artist Susan Aldworth, whose work explores the relationship between mind and body. "What is the subjective experience of having a fit like? How does epilepsy affect your life?" These are questions Aldworth put to her sitters.

ECHO PART 1 - A NEUROLOGICAL SOUNDSCAPE
A site-specific intimate and immersive experience into an auditory world of an 85-year old living with dementia.
APR 17 - 21, 2013 | A SITE-SPECIFIC EVENT (HOBART)
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CONSTANTINE KOUKIAS, SOUNDSCAPE BY JANE BAKER, PRODUCTION DESIGNERS ELVIO BRIANESE & PETA HEFFERNAN, LIVE SOUND ENGINEER GREG GURR LIGHTING DESIGN JASON JAMES
A new work from the Tasmanian creative team behind The Barbarians (MONA FOMA 2011), IHOS Music Theatre & Opera Artistic Director Constantine Koukias has worked closely with collaborators Jane Baker (Scenarist and Sound Artist) and architects Elvio Brianese and Peta Heffernan (Directors of Liminal Studios) to explore the inner world of the neurologically disjointed and emotionally isolating experience of living with dementia; creating a 20 min experience for only 24 persons at a time.
Echo Part 1 - A Neurological Soundscape requires each audience member to wear a set of headphones. They will be seated in the round along the perimeter of a revolving stage and will experience an environmental manipulation of visual and auditory suggestion, launching them into the space that is neither awake nor asleep. Like many IHOS productions, this will be a unique experience that will premiere in Hobart.
After 22 years of productions, Echo will be the last work for IHOS, before Artistic Director Constantine Koukias relocates (temporarily) to Amsterdam to pursue the creation of a new company. Don't miss this opportunity!
April 17-21 2013
http://www.sac.org.au/portfolio/echo-part-l/

BIOMEDIATIONS: ART, LIFE, MEDIA
One-day symposium at Goldsmiths, University of London
Date: Tuesday 14 May 2013
Venue: Goldsmiths, New Cross, MRB Screen 1
'Life' signifies many things. To begin with, it is a philosophical abstraction referring to our meaningful existence in the world. But 'life' also refers to biological processes taking place at environmental, social and cellular levels, as well as technical experiments with media, computer systems and biological models. Life as such doesn't therefore exist: it is always mediated by language, culture, technology and biology. It is these multiple mediations of life that form the theme of this symposium Biomediations: Art, Life, Media.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/calendar/?id=6375

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/10/02/what-did-...
What Did You Miss?
science-art

http://artrubicon.ca/89338/ongoing-call-for-ars-bioarctica-artist-r...
Ongoing Call for ARS BIOARCTICA Artist Residency, Lapland, next deadline Apr 20
NEXT DEADLINE: APRIL 20, 2013 for summer/fall 2013
Applications accepted through the year.

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland

Since 2010 the Finnish Society of Bioart is organizing the ARS BIOARCTICA RESIDENCY PROGRAM together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland.

The residency takes place in the facilities of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. It provides the residents with a combined living and working environment, a basic laboratory, internet connection and sauna.

The Kilpisjärvi Biological Station offers to the residents the same possibilities and infrastructure as its scientists and staff. This includes access to scientific equipment, laboratory facilities, the library and seminar room as well as the usage of field equipment. A dedicated contact person in Kilpisjärvi will familiarize residents with the local environment and customs.

The emphasis of the residency is on the Arctic environment, art&science collaboration and is open for artists, scientists and interdisciplinary
research teams.

Applications throughout the year but if you want to be included in the summer/fall schedule for 2013, please send your applications until 6.4.2013

Applications have to include:

* a biography and CV of the applicant or group
* a work plan
* the desired residency starting time and duration

Travel to and within Finland to Kilpisjärvi have to be covered by the applicant. The Finnish Society of Bioart will assist with the funding process.

The evaluation of the applications emphasizes the quality of the proposal, its interaction of art&science, its artistic and scientific significance, the projects relation to the thematics of Ars Bioarctica and its feasibility to be carried out at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in the given time.

Send applications or questions to Erich Berger
erich.berger[@]bioartsociety.fi

Residency website: http://bioartsociety.fi/ars-bioarctica-residency/

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/4/14/nation/1295335...

Ipoh woman engineers new form of dances
PETALING JAYA: The worlds of arts and science are often poles apart but Ipoh-born engineer-turned-dancer Audrey Kwan seems to have found a way to enjoy both.

The 27-year-old is putting her engineering skills to good use, creating dance performances and workouts that express science.

After quitting her engineering job in Kuala Lumpur two years ago, Kwan headed for Aberdeen where she enrolled for her second degree at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance.

She has since been actively involved in stage performances and dance films in Scotland.

“Engineering is a skill-based knowledge I acquired. Having a second degree in dance has been a bonus and I believe that I can combine my knowledge in science and arts to create my ultimate career path,” she said in an e-mail interview.

Her Dancing Architecture performance as well as Wonder Woman and Bloke Fitness workouts have won her many fans in Aberdeen while two of her dance films were shown at the Jump Cut Film Festival in Dundee last year.
Audrey Kwan Audrey Kwan

She is now working closely with a cancer research organisation on an underwater dance film entitled Adaptation.

Kwan described her choreography of Dancing Architecture as a duet of art and science.

“The main concept behind architecture is capturing motion in stillness. In dance, every movement holds a shape if frozen. These shapes should show strength, versatility and agility and like buildings and city designs, they should be strong and functional,” she said.

Her Wonder Woman workout is a series of exercises that combine elements of physics, release techniques, yoga and Pilates while Bloke Fitness is the male version of the workout.

Kwan is now planning an art hub in Aberdeen with dance studios, an art gallery, spas as well as architecture and design studios under one roof.

The hub, she said, would act as an “incubator” for entrepreneurs to actualise their artistry to reality.

She has plans to expand the hub to different cities over the next 10 years.

Art and Science Come Together in Nikon Time-Lapse Competitio
Vancouver Sun
A time-lapse movie showing the immune response in the lymph nodes of a mouse edged out a fruit fly sperm fight for top honors at this year's Nikon "Small World in Motion Photomicrography" competition. In it's second year, the competition showcases 2012 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZWWzDWRaaM

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201304120261
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Art, science, the element of time and interactive technology join forces in the Clay Center's latest exhibit, "All the Time in the World."

"The exhibit fits the art and science mission of the Clay Center," said Arif Khan, Clay Center's curator of art. "The two visual artists are both inspired by the history of science in their work."

http://bioarttheatrelabs.com/about/
Founded in 1988 by Madeleine Barchevska, BioArt Theatre Laboratories, Inc., and its health-through-communication products, were built on research that incorporates both science and art. Initially created for purposes of enhancing stage performance, we later broadened our scope to train and develop business leaders, legal, medical and IT professionals, classroom teachers, as well as experienced actors in on-going ”stretching” for the stage.

http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2013-04-14/art...
Art of Science' exhibit opens Thursday
Now in its third year, the "Art of Science: Images from the Institute for Genomic Biology" exhibition will open on Thursday evening at the Indi Go Artist Co-op, 9 E. University Ave.

The exhibition will feature two-dimensional images and video related to research at the University of Illinois institute that addresses significant problems in the environment, medicine and energy use and production.

http://www.riverheadlocal.com/east-end-arts-council/9146-art-a-scie...
Art & Science at East End Arts Gallery
The East End Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the new juried, all media art show, Art & Science, at the East End Arts Gallery which will open with a reception on Friday, April 26, from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. This show will feature artwork that depicts the two very different – but very connected – concepts of art and science; guest juried by artist and science teacher Kryn Olson. At the reception, the public is invited to enjoy refreshments and meet the artists. The 2013 0414 eea arts science gallery exhibitreception is a free event, open to the public. The show will run through June 14, 2013. The Art & Science show is sponsored by Peconic Bay Medical Center and is in collaboration with the Long Island Science Museum. The East End Arts Gallery is located at 133 East Main Street in Riverhead, NY and open hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“Art and science are as diverse as two things can be. One is more mechanical, the other more mystical – but in the twenty-first century, which is which? Try using both as your concept, or demonstrate one with the other.” Original works in all media that explore art and science may be submitted. For entry information and complete drop-off schedule, visit: http://eastendarts.org/Temp2013/Art&ScienceProspectus.pdf.

The Art & Science show is one of seven art shows of 2013 at the East End Arts Gallery, under the umbrella theme “Celebrating Our Diversity”. For the full 2013 Gallery Schedule and more details, visit http://eastendarts.org/Temp2013/2013GALLERYSched.pdf.

http://www.studio360.org/2013/apr/05/winner-remixing-spring/?goback...
Science and creativity:
Several weeks ago we gave you a challenge: using a dozen bird songs recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, we asked you to create an original musical composition on the theme of Spring. We received more than 100 compositions, ranging from classical to electronica to jazz, even radio drama. (Listen to them all below.) This week, Greg Budney, curator of audio at the Lab, and Kurt Andersen announce their favorites. The winning entry, Marlo Reynolds’ “Certhia Americana,” took the Brown Creeper as its base, mixing the bird’s call with a poem written and performed by Reynolds’ collaborator Gump. Budney says it captured his own field recording experiences “spot on.”

The song of the brown creeper enters
Zigzagging upward it gleans insects –
Once learned, the high, insistent call is hard to forget –
In mature woods and large old trees –
Often heard –
But hard to see –
Under the sun

Reynolds often records bird songs and uses them in his work, including these sounds from China that you can download and use in your own work.

Thanks to all the creative participants in the Remixing Spring Challenge.

→ Listen to the remixes featured in this week's show on Soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/studio-360/sets/remixes-featured-in-tom-hanks

From Leonardo:

NEXT L.A. LASER: 18 APRIL 2013
The next L.A. LASER will take place Thursday, 18 April 2013, 7-9PM at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA. This event is FREE and open to the public. Everyone invited will introduce their work in a 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food/socializing and making new connections. Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com

25 APRIL 2013
Greetings, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area readers! Join us for the D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), 25 April 2013 at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. The discussion explores the theme of data visualization. Enjoy presentations by Gary Berg-Cross, Katy Borner, Ward Shelley, and Stephen Mautner.

Website:
http://www.leonardo.info

E-mail:
isast@leonardo.info

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ART AND NUCLEAR INFLUENCE
Case Pyh?joki - Artistic Reflections on Nuclear Influence is a transdisciplinary artistic expedition, production workshop and series of events in Pyh?joki, North Ostrobothnia, Finland, 31 July - 12 August 2013. The sixth nuclear power plant of Finland is planned to be built at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyh?joki. The aim of this project is to explore artistic perspectives on the vast changes planned in Pyh?joki and ways of considering energy production and consuming in the world. The Case Pyh?joki project covers the participants? travel, accommodation and per diems. Deadline to apply: 5 May 2013. Send letters of inquiry to: Mari Keski-Korsu mkk@katastro.fi
AT KASA GALLERY, ISTANBUL: BODY OF EVIDENCE
Body of Evidence (21 March to 20 April 2013), by Tom Corby in collaboration with Gavin Baily, initiates a series of new artworks and installations designed to blur the boundaries between medicine, data, documentation, economics and art. Conceived as a complex autoportrait of the body undergoing advanced treatment for cancer, the exhibition serves as the primary site where the possibilities, visibilities and public manifestations of the body at its most vulnerable are tested to their limits.

http://www.youngacademic.co.uk/news/collaborative-art-and-science-e...
Collaborative Art and Science Exhibition Launched at University of Westminster
Young Academic has today learnt that The University of Westminster’s Broad Vision project will open an exhibition at the GV Art gallery in London on 23 May. This will bring together the works of an interdisciplinary group of art and science students engaged in collaborative experimentation and research.
Broad Vision exhibition features interdisciplinary works from art and science students…

The exhibition ‘Data, Truth & Beauty’, which will run until 29 May, explores the integrity and aesthetics of information. It will feature digital investigations into data bending and glitch art; biological experiments with bacterial portraiture and self-illuminating sculpture; psychological studies on the perception of beauty; and creative explorations of the realms of reality.

The works on display are the result of what happens when a group of curious and questioning minds come together to explore alien territories, work with unfamiliar materials, and develop new ways of thinking. The Broad Vision ethos encourages self-directed learning through the sharing of skills and asking ‘What if…?’

Investigating areas as diverse as microbiology, programming, photography and qualitative research, students have collaboratively explored multiple avenues of inquiry, to find collective points of connection across the terrains of art and science.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/opinion/sunday/what-the-brain-can...
What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art
By ERIC R. KANDEL

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/science-as-art/?pid=6669
Science as Art: Nanoscale Materials Imitate Everything From Flowers to Frost
Flowers, cupcakes, tombstones and a giraffe are just a few of the objects scientists have coaxed materials into impersonating. Imaged through microscopes -- and with the help of a little artistic license -- complicated nanostructures can sometimes take on surprisingly familiar guises.

Since 2005, the Materials Research Society has hosted a Science as Art competition at both of its biannual meetings, challenging entrants to infuse a bit of creativity into the images of materials they meticulously manipulate and manufacture. This year's first-place winners, and a selection of our other favorites from the 2013 spring meeting are featured in this gallery.

http://www.mrs.org/science-as-art/

Science as Art

Visualization methods provide an important tool in materials science for the analysis and presentation of scientific work. Images can often convey information in a way that tables of data or equations cannot match. Occasionally, scientific images transcend their role as a medium for transmitting information, and contain the aesthetic qualities that transform them into objects of beauty and art.

As a special feature of MRS Meetings, we offer the popular Science as Art competitions with entry open to all registered meeting attendees. The galleries below represent some of the best entries from past meetings.

http://theengineinstitute.org/jonathan-feldschuhs-baby-picture-of-t...
Jonathan Feldschuh’s Baby Picture of the Universe

http://theengineinstitute.org/john-grade-capacitor
John Grade – Capacitor
Capacitor, the newest work from Grade’s studio, is being unveiled at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin on April 16. Created with perforated fabric skins stretched over mechanically fastened wood frames, the sculpture mimics the soft movement of an oceanic organism. Its cell-like components are linked to weather patterns through sensors installed on the Center’s roof. As information about wind speed and air temperature are communicated to Capacitor, temperature changes dim or brighten the lights; shifting winds contract or expand the entire sculptural form, which opens and closes like a blooming flower. Grade’s team calculated statistical means based on local weather patterns over the past one hundred years and keyed the information into a control panel. Variance from recorded wind and temperature patterns determines how bright the sculpture will glow, and the degree to which the sculpture will open. The artist states, “The whole of the sculpture will appear to be very slowly breathing.”

Capacitor’s forms are inspired by coccolithophore, a one-celled marine plant that lives in the upper layers of the ocean. These photosynthesizing organisms are environmentally significant because they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, thus helping to cool the planet. Each fluted shape in the sculpture represents an individual organism; each cluster communicates specific information, as a visual manifestation of the weather patterns outside the museum walls.

http://www.frontline.in/stories/20130503300809200.htm
Art and science of taxidermy

http://fm.kuac.org/post/nova-producer-brings-art-science-television...
NOVA Producer Brings 'Art of Science Television' to Fairbanks

http://elcerrito.patch.com/articles/richmond-celebrates-earth-day-w...
The Richmond Art Center (RAC) in partnership with the City of Richmond and numerous East Bay organizations will host the First Annual Upcycle! Richmond.

This free maker-festival will showcase hands-on art, science and alternative energy projects for the whole family this Saturday, April 20 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Ave.

http://davidbiello.com/2013/04/16/the-art-of-life-in-the-anthropocene/
The Art of Life in the Anthropocene
Posted on April 16, 2013 by dbiello

THE RED VEINS of a certain pink petunia flower come courtesy of human DNA — the A’s, C’s, T’s, and G’s that teach a cell how to build itself. With the help of a virus, Brazilian-born Eduardo Kac was able to stitch human DNA — his own — into a petunia, veining the flower’s petals in red by generating an antibody with a snippet of his genetic code. This so-called “Edunia” is neither the product of genetic research, per se, nor botanical gamesmanship. Kac is simply an artist, and the Edunia (along with limited edition seed packs) has been exhibited from Minneapolis to Barcelona, a show he calls “Natural History of the Enigma.”

Or, as Kac puts it:

The petal pink background, against which the red veins are seen, is evocative of my own pinkish white skin tone. The result of this molecular manipulation is a bloom that creates the living image of human blood rushing through the veins of a flower.

Such is art in the Anthropocene, this new era of man necessitated by our ever-expanding impacts on the planet as a whole, from geology to biology. Kac’s work is hardly alone. Bio-art in the Anthropocene ranges from a book stored entirely in DNA to a poem “written” by a microbe, a living poem known as “The Xenotext” to its progenitor (not exactly author) Christian Bök of the University of Calgary.

Science, art meet in mountain economy - The Asheville Citizen-Times
More engineering degrees awarded in the mountains could attract more industries and jobs for the region, Western Carolina University Chancellor David ...
www.citizen-times.com/.../Science-art-meet-mountain-econom..

http://www.westernfrontonline.net/news/article_e5f04612-a6a5-11e2-b...
Legislation bundles art with national S.T.E.M. programs

A bill introduced in the state Senate over the weekend would expand the current emphasis on education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, widely referred to as S.T.E.M., to include an “A for art.”

S.T.E.M. doesn’t go far enough, and an emphasis in the arts would support creativity and improve innovation, according to the bill.

Jeff Newcomer, chair of the engineering department at Western, said art and design often go hand-in-hand.

“Our Industrial Design program is a great example of mixing art and technology education,” Newcomer said in an email. “When it’s done well, you can develop great programs.”

The prime sponsor of the Senate Bill 5909 is Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, D-Bothell.

One of the co-sponsors of the bill, Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, said there is a significant link between math and the arts, and it makes sense to promote both in education.

NEA+Smithsonian+NSF-SEAD conference
(USA)
The NSF-sponsored SEAD network is planning a series of events in Washington DC on May 16, 2013, co-hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, with a by-invitation luncheon sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a public, evening event at the National Academy of Sciences.

Evening DASER event -- you are invited!
NAS / LEONARDO DASER

KECK CENTER, 500 FIFTH STREET NW, Room 100

At 6 pm, discussions will continue in an open public forum hosted at the National Academy of Sciences,
"D.C. Art Sciences Evening Rendezvous" (DASER), Co-hosts are the National Academy of Sciences and Leonardo International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

http://www.smartbrief.com/04/16/13/why-stem-should-be-integrated-li...
Why STEM should be integrated into literacy, storytelling
While teachers in the humanities often are encouraged to integrate science, technology, engineering and math topics in classroom instruction, integration must be a two-way street, write Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, N.J. In this blog post, they write about the potential benefits of connecting more STEM lessons to storytelling, artwork and literacy, a change that potentially could draw more students, including girls, to the STEM field.
View Full Article in: ScientificAmerican.com : http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/budding-scientist/2013/04/16/to...

From ANAT
Early Bird Registrations end MIDNIGHT tonight AEST
ISEA2013 Conference :: 11 - 13 June 2013
The 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art is being presented by ANAT in Sydney from 7 - 16 June. ANAT has just released the second program announcements, including public talks by Stelarc, Genevieve Bell from Intel and Mark Hosler of Negativland; performances by Stereopublic, Ryoji Ikeda, George Poonkhin Khut and James Brown, and Eric Siu's Touchy; and the Conference Opening Keynote Address by Michael Naimark - amongst many others! ISEA2013 will showcase the best media artworks from around the world and provide a platform for the lively exchange of future-focused ideas.
http://www.isea2013.org

Creative solutions for a changing climate
http://www.carbonarts.org/
Deadline for submissions: 20 May 2013 :: Budget: $25,000
Artists, curators, cultural organisations and creative teams are invited to submit proposals for a temporary public artwork that engages with data on Sydney’s progress towards Sustainable Sydney.

SymbioticA :: Agency in Movement Symposium
9am-5pm, Friday 21 June 2013 :: University of Western Australia
The Agency in Movement symposium will explore the complex relations between movement and vitality. Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a "body" and measuring its change in position relative to another reference frame. Therefore, movement is relative, ever changing and is perceived as visceral and "alive". The Symposium will include invited speakers from diverse disciplines - art, performance, biology, biophysics, biomechanics, and philosophy - who will explore the conceptual and technical relations between life (biological or artificial), movement and perceptions of "vitality", with the hope that some interesting meeting points and/or negations will emerge.
The symposium stems from an Australian Research Council project exploring the use of skeletal muscle tissue which is grown, stimulated and activated in a techno-scientific surrogate "body".
Speakers include: Monika Bakke, Andrew Pelling, Elizabeth Stephens, Jonas Rubenson, Stuart Hodgetts, Chris Salter, Jennifer Johung, Oron Catts, Miranda Grounds and Ionat Zurr
Free registration (RSVP essential to christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au)
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/symposiums

Soft Control - Open Call for Interdisciplinary Projects :: Hangar :: Barcelona, Spain
Apply by 21 April 2013 00:00h (GMT +1) for June Residency
Hangar is calling for participation in its first edition of Spring Sessions, to be held at the Hangar art production and research center based in Barcelona (Spain). The Spring Sessions are intensive and interdisciplinary meetings between artists and other professionals for developing a specific part of a larger research project. Ongoing artistic, theoretical or applied research projects that include collaborative processes with other fields such as cultural studies, scientific research or technological development. The part of the project to be developed in Hangar has to include the participation of a professional from another field, selected by the artist. Either the artist OR the professional from another field should be based in Barcelona. The participant based elsewhere will be able to live in Hangar's guest house during the development of the residency (one month).
http://hangar.org/en/news/soft-control-convocatoria-oberta-per-a-pr...

http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/flow-instability/?gob...
Flow Instability
An exploration of the fluid, gel, and paste properties of acrylics and acrylic media. The transparency of acrylic media, combined with a wide variety of viscoelastic properties allows flow phenomena to be frozen in and captured as part of a painting. In “Flow Instabilities” clear tar gel (Golden) was rough mixed with heavy bodied acrylic color, and then poured onto the canvas in linear patterns. The tar gel tends to form elongated strands as it flows, but strand formation is slow. By moving the container at different rates relative to the strand formation, the flow can be destabilized and broken. Destabilization and flow breaking cause periodic cellular patterns of paint within the clear film when it dries. Curious? Look up flow instability, periodic doubling, bifurcation.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/04/intriguing-scien...
Intriguing Science Art From the University of Wisconsin

http://deerpark-northbabylon.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainmen...
The art show will include a special exhibit, dubbed “Art in Science,” which will highlight award winning science projects that also have an artistically creative visual appeal.

The show will kick off with an awards presentation and reception on Fri., May 3 starting at 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. The exhibit will continue on Sat. and Sun., May 4 and 5 at 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

http://artplantaetoday.com/2013/04/19/gps-technology-botanical-art/...
GPS Technology & Botanical Art

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/particle-physics-as-art/?...
The Art of Physics: Winning Photos of Giant Particle Colliders

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/earth-as-art-gallery/
Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space

The U.S. Geological Survey has released a new selection of particularly interesting images from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites. These space craft have been prolific sources of data for earth scientists, but the new shots were chosen solely based on aesthetics.

We've selected our favorites from the USGS' Earth as Art collection in this gallery, which will take you on a tour of the world from the glaciers of Antarctica to the deserts of Algeria.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/science-as-art/
Science as Art: Nanoscale Materials Imitate Everything From Flowers to Frost
Flowers, cupcakes, tombstones and a giraffe are just a few of the objects scientists have coaxed materials into impersonating. Imaged through microscopes -- and with the help of a little artistic license -- complicated nanostructures can sometimes take on surprisingly familiar guises.

Since 2005, the Materials Research Society has hosted a Science as Art competition at both of its biannual meetings, challenging entrants to infuse a bit of creativity into the images of materials they meticulously manipulate and manufacture. This year's first-place winners, and a selection of our other favorites from the 2013 spring meeting are featured in this gallery.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/dna-art/
Have Your Genome Made Into a Piece of Art

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/animal-art/
Animal-Made ‘Art’ Challenges Human Monopoly on Creativity
Art is usually considered a uniquely human ability, but that may not be true. Given the opportunity, animals like chimpanzees and gorillas and elephants produce abstract designs that arguably rise to artistic level.

Arguably is, however, the key word. It's hard enough to agree on an essential definition of human art, much less an animal one. But it's a debate welcomed by Jack Ashby, manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London.

"That's the question we're asking people: What is art?" said Ashby, who thinks that human art may well reflect a creativity expressed in animals' natural behavior, even if people don't always appreciate it.

Ashby organized the Art by Animals exhibition, on display at the museum through March 9. On the following pages, Wired looks at possible animal art from the exhibition and elsewhere.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/January2012/270112-art-by-a...
Art by Animals comes to London
27 January 2012
AbyAnimals

An exhibition featuring works of art from several species of animal, including paintings by elephants and apes, starts next week at UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology in collaboration with a graduate from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art.

A highlight of the exhibition is a painting of a flowerpot by the elephant Boon Mee who was formerly a logging elephant in Thailand. Art by Animals features art by elephants, orang-utans, gorillas and chimps and places their handiwork alongside animal specimens and historical documentation.

Since the mid-50s, zoos have used art and painting as a leisure activity for animals, also using the activities to raise funds for conservation or the zoo by selling the works.

Co-curator Mike Tuck, a graduate of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, said: “We believe the exhibition at the Grant Museum to be the first to exhibit multiple species’ paintings and to attempt to take a broad view of the phenomenon.”

While many species in captivity have interacted with paint, the exhibition aims to ask visitors the question of whether animals can be creative and make art, and why some animal creations are considered valuable and creative, while others are dismissed as meaningless.

Although it is fairly clear that any notion of art by animals is essentially anthropomorphic it starts to raise very interesting questions about the nature of human art

Will Tuck

Jack Ashby, Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology, said: “Whether this is actually art is the big question. While individual elephants are trained to always paint the same thing, art produced by apes is a lot more creative and is almost indistinguishable from abstract art by humans that use similar techniques.”

“Ape art is often compared to that of two or three year old children in the ‘scribble stage’,” he added.

Co-curator Will Tuck said: “Although it is fairly clear that any notion of art by animals is essentially anthropomorphic, it starts to raise very interesting questions about the nature of human art.”

Images of monkeys painting date back at least to the 17th century in European art, and possibly earlier, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the actual animal paintings became a serious subject.

This rise in popularity tied in with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionist movement in art, which started to look closely at the act of mark making itself, and what it reveals about the artist’s subconscious. Within this newly emerging context the art of animals, particularly primates, took on a radically different meaning.

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Dinosaurs: the Art and Science of Paleontology
Aurora Historical Society Pierce Art & History Center: Dinosaurs: the Art and Science of Paleontology, to May 3. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays to Fridays. Admission is free. At 20 E. Downer, Aurora. Call (630) 906-0650 or visit aurorahistory.net.

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James Kitchen says he’s interested in many topics — history, environmentalism, science and of course art — but more than anything he likes to look for the connections between things: between art and science, between people and ideas, between past and present.

It’s that last connection that’s particularly inspired Kitchen. For more than a decade, the Chesterfield artist has earned praise for the way he welds old bits of farming equipment, industrial machinery, and other iron and metal scraps together to create inventive sculptures — often on a massive scale — that are paeans to humor, history and his own restless, creative energy.
The Western New England show, which runs through May 18, is centered around one of Kitchen’s larger pieces of recent years, ‘‘Einstein’s Onion,’’ a swirling mix of curved, intersecting rods and bands and a huge, soaring arrow. Kitchen was inspired to create the 9-foot sculpture after reading a biography of Albert Einstein, seeing the artwork as a way to symbolize the mysteries of the universe and the landmark theories the famous scientist developed.

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Visualising the Sound of Wheat
The above picture shows sound as a waveform visual (top section) and wheat images converted to a sound file (below section).

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New ArtSci Salon Event at Fields, April 25, 6:30-9:30 pm
Thursday, April 25, 6:30-9:30 pm
Fields Institute
222 College St, Toronto, M5T 3J1
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Creative Approaches to Scientific Visualization

Don’t miss this great event: we have invited two pioneers in Science Communication and Scientific Visualization. Bonnie and Justin will demonstrate new and creative approaches to the modeling and communication of scientific knowledge. Communicating science to different and larger audiences has been a topic very dear to the participants in the ArtSci Salon.

This event will kick off the ArtSci Salon series at the new venue at the Fields Institute

Bonnie J. Scott
Bridging entertainment and education: The art of designing video games to teach science
Bonnie will be discussing how she became a biomedical communicator and her work in the exciting new area of educational science video games. She is passionate about designing meaningful user experiences that educate people about healthcare and scientific issues while leveraging interactive and multimedia technologies. Her area of specialization is in molecular visualization and exploring how games can be used to teach science in schools, public spaces, and corporate environments.

Justin Pahara
Immersive 3D Molecular Worlds
We will explore the atomic and molecular worlds of biology and solid-state electronics in 3-dimensions! So come and immerse yourself in the world of the small.

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Monkey painting!

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Announcing the Texas Network for Art Science Technology: TEXAS HATS