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The role of art education in an age of ecological crisis and the globalisation of knowledge
A workshop presented by ISEA2013 with Leonardo Education & Arts Forum (LEAF) in collaboration with ISEA2013 Education Workshop and in partnership with the MCA and the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at COFA, UNSW.

What is the role of art education in an age of ecological crisis and the globalisation of knowledge? This workshop positions transdisciplinary approach as the key to sustainable, meaningful solutions. It will address the development of an art and science cloud curriculum, based on cross-disciplinary initiatives in North America and Europe in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) and Science, Engineering Art and Design education (SEAD).

http://www.timesonline.com/top_stories/cv-students-create-art-throu...
CV students create art through science

http://www.virology.ws/2013/04/23/the-science-themed-art-of-deb-skl...
The science-themed art of Deb Sklut
Deb Sklut, an artist who is inspired by the power of science.

http://www.frontiersin.org/blog/GGI_Launches_GLASSIFY!_Art_and_Science_Challenge_During_Brain_Awareness_Week/292?goback=.gde_1636727_member_211105444.gmp_1636727.gde_1636727_member_235080835

Art and Science Challenge During Brain Awareness Week

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/04/24/science-c...
Science Communication’s Image Problem
People want art because of the artist, moreso than ever. How many people felt they had some personal connection with Picasso, with O’Keefe?

http://artplantaetoday.com/2013/04/12/seeing-trees-in-print-and-dig...
Seeing Trees: In Print and Digitally

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10657250.htm
Art and Science: The Absolute Protagonists Of The Chianti Star Festival
From 29 June to 11 August international artists, researchers and scientists will come together in San Donato in Poggio (Tuscany), one of the most beautiful backdrops in the world
The theme of the dissemination of scientific culture will be addressed, thanks to the participation of professors and researchers from OpenLab, the communication structure of the University of Florence. These are just some examples of these collateral events: Professor Roberto Casalbuoni will talk about the symmetries and the art of Escher, Professor Luigi Dei will explain scientifically Ravel's Bolero, Professor Alberto Righini will reveal the secrets of stars, Galileo and wine. The artists will also be present in the first week of the Festival to meet the public and disclose important aspects of the role of the artist: when the artist is called upon to interpret the infinitely small so as to provide the scientist with a representation of what the human eye cannot see; when their works are influenced by the evolution of science and technology; when their art can improve the lives of hospital patients. This latter aspect will also be discussed by Professor Donatella Lippi, Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence, who, beginning with the work by Picasso Ciencia y Caridad will address the theme of science and art in medicine. Elaine Poggi will present the project Healing Photo Art; her role to take works that have been donated by important photographers from all over the world to hospitals in various countries. Some artists will share their experiences of having been commissioned to create an artwork specifically for care homes or hospitals with the public.

In short, a calendar full of events and initiatives, available at http://www.chiantistarfestival.com,

From SEAD Digest:
Call for Participation
*Melliferopolis Workshop:*
*Understanding the Essence of Flowers - Exploring Pollen*
June 12th to 14th 2013, from 09:00 to 17:00
(more detailed program will be published later)
Harakka Island, Helsinki, Finland

There is an intrinsic link between bees and flowers. In evolution they
arose at the same time, bees feeding on nectar and pollen; the flowers
relying on the pollinators for reproduction. Bees visiting flowers
and harvesting their essence is a choreography that nature performs each
year. In these encounters, the flowers disclose their secret to the
bees, who take it home in the form of scent and taste.

In this three-day workshop, we explore the environment of the
Melliferopolis bees living on Harakka Island, in front of Helsinki, Finland.
First, we concentrate on the scientific aspects of the bees' surrounding
in the chemistry laboratory built on the island in 1929 for military
purposes.

In a second part, we focus on the poetic aspects of plants and
pollinators, their relation and communication with each other. Inspired
by these dynamics, we engage with the visual aspects of pollen,
inviting drawing, painting and collage to reveal stories and metaphores
behind this natural phenomenon of pollination.

*To participate in the workshop no preliminary knowledge is necessary.
Please write a short statement of motivation/intention (200 words)
before the 20th of May and send it to: ulla.taipale@aalto.fi

A maximum of 15 workshop participants will be accepted, 10 places are
reserved for students of Aalto University and 5 for other interested
people.*

The workshop is part of Aalto Biofilia ?Base for Biological Arts program
and takes place in collaboration with Harakka Luontotalo of Helsinki
Environmental Centre.
It is guided by Christina Stadlbauer (beekeeper, artist, chemist), Asta
Ekman (chemist, responsable of the Harakka environmental laboratory) and
Lina Kusaite (illustrator, artist).

*The workshop is part of Melliferopolis ?Honeybees in Urban
Environments, a research project by Christina Stadlbauer at Aalto
Biofilia, initiated in 2011. *

Melliferopolis is supported by Biofilia at Aalto University, Kone
Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Helsinki Environmental Centre
and Luontotalo Harakka and Helsinki City Cultural Centre.
Other collaborators can be found in the
www.melliferopolis.net/collaborations

More info at:
http://melliferopolis.net
www.biofilia.aalto.fi

http://www.scribd.com/doc/138170789/Making-of-Tupuxuara-leonardii

http://www.scribd.com/doc/138170789/Making-of-Tupuxuara-leonardii

http://www.dailyhelmsman.com/time-pools-exhibition-highlights-aquif...

“Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer” is a collaborative exhibition between Jason Miller’s digital art class and the League of Imaginary Scientists, a group of artists that blurs the line between art and science.

Miller, who is also the AMUM’s media specialist, volunteered his digital art class when he found out the League of Imaginary Scientists was coming to Memphis.
Scientists way of thinking was different from ours (artists); they thought on a scientific level when thinking about how to present and through what mediums, which was a counterpoint for artistic way of thinking as a class and helped to balance it out.”
The main feature of the exhibit is an enormous “cloud,” suspended from the ceiling. This cloud is much more high-tech than any old cumulus, though.

http://www.impactpub.com.au/micebtn/index.php?option=com_content&am...
Chianti meet for Tuscany
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Art and science will coincide at the first edition of the Chianti Star Festival in San Donato in Poggio, in the heart of Tuscany, from 29 June to 11 August 2013.

http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/colonization-size-exc...
Colonization
Colonization was an experiment with using an uncolored marker “blender” to force soft colors to bleed into each other in geometric patterns.

The patterns of circles and rings are reminiscent of petri dishes and microbial growth experiments gone a bit amok. It was inspired by my first laboratory job, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, when I was high School senior. Our group was sequencing some of the viral plasmids and vectors that are now widely used in Biotechnology and genetic engineering.

Much of Microbiology involves using the growth properties of microorganisms to amplify something happening on the molecular level. For example, small somewhat randomized changes are made to a plasmid’s genes. The plasmids are then inserted into a population of host bacteria, at a dilution that ensures that multiple insertions are rare. The bacteria are diluted so that each one is far apart in solution. When they’re dropped onto a petri dish, each individual bacterium is a few mm to a few cm away from the next. Each separated bacterium grows mitotically into colonies of millions of bacteria, identical to the original bacterium that started the colony. Each colony can be tested, selected, and grown further.

Equal growth in all directions on flat, fairly uniform Agar medium creates circular colony patterns. If there are liquid resources diffusing through the medium (in a natural environment rather than a dish) then rings will form as resources are periodically depleted by too fast colony growth.

The microbe growth pattern idea is emphasized with a counterpoint of fine line drawings echoing the larger softer marker patterns.

The original was created using Prismacolor art marker and Pigma “micron” pigment ink ultrafine felt tip pen on acid free paper.
Size Exclusion Chromatography

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-m-eger/art-based-learning-gets-n...
National Science Foundation Embraces Art Based Learning

http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.php
MESSENGER OF LIGHT: ANNOUNCING FRANK MALINA EXHIBITION IN PILSEN CZECH REPUBLIC

http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/spinodal-decompositio...
Spinodal Decomposition
Spinodal decomposition is one way for a blend of two things to come unmixed. In spinodal decomposition the components of the blend spontaneously separate, forming complex interwoven swirls of composition. In the thermodynamics of phase separation, there are two regimes. in one regime the energy cost to form an interface between the two separate phases is greater than the energy saved by keeping the incompatable components separated. In this regime there is an activation barrier or activation eneregy needed to form the interface. Once an interface is formed, a domain of one phase is nucleated inside the other and growth. This is referred to as “nucleation and growth”.

In spinodal decomposition, the energy penalty for boundary or interface formation is less than the energy saved by separating the phases. Phase separation occurs spontaneously through a more “fluid” process known as “Spinodal decomposition”.

In Materials Science and Metallurgy, components and phases aren’t necessarily exactly the same thing. There are the chemical components of a material – the unique atomic or molecular species that comprise the material. Phases are often solutions of one component in the other, or event ordered arrangements of components. To find out more, look up: phase diagrams, solid solutions, metallurgical phases, metallurgical microstructure, steel microstructure, spinodal decomposition, nucleation, phase transitions.

http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130428/CITY...

UB museum presents the human brain as science, art – and one man’s lasting passion

http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/cellular-generation-i...
Cellular biophysics art
A little fantasy on cellular structure and function. A cell is like a little Biological factory or engine in many ways, and that is an aspect of cellular function that has always fascinated me.

The soft wash effects in the colored areas were created by layering marker colors on the reversed side of the drawing paper and allowing the ink to seep through. When the paper is flipped over, single marks have a soft uneven washed appearance with a faint dark line around the edges from the properties of the ink and paper fibers. In places where marker was applied more than once in layers, each pass with the marker pushes more color from the previous layers through to the other side of the paper. This property allows me to create mask effects, broken shapes and different types of contrast. When the colored portion was finished, the paper was lipped so I could work on the less saturated and more interesting side where the ink seeped or was pushed through the paper. Fine line traceries with an ultrafine tip felt tip (micron pigma 005 through 03 pens) were added. Selected colored regions were filled in with marker to create pops of saturated color.

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/04/call-for-project-pro...
Call for project proposals: GROW YOUR OWN, Science Gallery, Dublin
“Calling all synthetic biologists, bioartists, biodesigners, amateur biotechnologists and biohackers. Science Gallery is seeking proposals for projects for our upcoming flagship exhibition GROW YOUR OWN…

“GROW YOUR OWN… is a curated, open call exhibition tackling provocative questions raised by synthetic biology. Curated by Paul Freemont (Imperial College), Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art), Cathal Garvey, Daisy Ginsberg, and Michael John Gorman (Science Gallery), GROW YOUR OWN… offers audiences a participative experience to explore the possibilities and potential implications of synthetic biology, through an exhibition, events and workshops.

“Deadline for applications is midnight, Sunday May 26th, 2013. Full details and the online submission form can be found at: http://sciencegallery.com/growyourown

http://bloodonsilk.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/blood-on-silk-surgery-2...
Blood on Silk; Surgery 2013 detail

http://io9.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-this-summers-geekiest-art-and-...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22301843
Oliver Sacks on science, art and awakening the brain

Oliver Sacks is approaching his 80th birthday, but the renowned neurologist remains prolific.

The British doctor, whose work inspired the movie Awakenings as well as Harold Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska, is still seeing patients in his adopted home of New York.

He is still recounting his clinical findings - in the style of his The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - and is currently working on two books.

And Sacks's thinking on the working of the brain and the intersection of science and art is still proving an inspiration to artists.

New York Live Arts, the arts group led by the choreographer Bill T Jones, has just held a festival called Live Ideas: The World of Oliver Sacks, with theatre, dance and performances dedicated to the neurologist and his exploration of the connection between mind and body.

Sacks spoke to the BBC about his life and how much we still have to learn about the brain.

He also shared footage he filmed himself with a Super 8 camera when he was working on the patients in the Bronx borough of New York City in the late 1960s. The original footage has been edited in a new film by Bill Morrison, called Re:Awakenings.

Produced by Anna Bressanin, Images by Ilya Shnitser

Re:Awakenings by Bill Morrison was commissioned by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas: The Worlds of Oliver Sacks and made possible by The Opaline Fund.

Footage of patients, 1969 at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York, courtesy of Dr Oliver Sacks. Music by Philip Glass performed by Andrew Sternman, saxophone. The dance State of Heads was by choreographer Donna Uchizono.

http://www.mdavisstudios.com/a-better-zbrush-neuron/

From Leonardo:

NEXT SF LASER: 13 MAY 2013, UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Join us for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 13 May 2013, at University of San Francisco, featuring Lucia Ayala Asensio (UC Berkeley) on "Fluid Skies - or how to combine art, history and cosmology", Sara Loesch-Frank (Lettering Artist) on "Follow the Glow: Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art", Reuben Margolin on "Making Waves" and Sasha Leitman & John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA", along with the opportunity to meet colleagues and network!

NEXT DASER: 16 MAY 2013
Greetings, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area readers! Join us for the next D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), 16 May 2013 at the Keck Center, Washington, D.C. for a discussion exploring the topic of SEAD: The Network for Science, Engineering, Art, and Design. Enjoy presentations by Roger Malina, Gunalan Nadarajan, Bill O'Brien, and Carol Strohecker.

NEXT NYC LASER: 18 MAY 2013
The next NYC LASER will take place Saturday, 18 May 2013, 4-7 PM at LevyArts. Speakers will include Nurit Bar-Shai (artist) and Ellen Jorgensen (PhD cell and molecular biologist) discussing Genspace, New York City?s community biolab. Organizers are also soliciting four presentations from interested individuals, with reports on work (in art or science) related to the topic of the speakers: five minutes from each speaker with a maximum of 10 slides. This event is free and open to the public. Email your interest in presenting your work to LEAF Chair, Adrienne Klein: aklein@gc.cuny.edu. Space is limited; to reserve your place, send an email to Ellen Levy at levy@nyc.rr.com.

LEAF WORKSHOP @ ISEA2013
What is the role of art education in an age of ecological crisis and the globalization of knowledge? The LEAF workshop Art Education in the Modern Era will address the development of an art and science cloud curriculum, based on cross-disciplinary initiatives in North America and Europe in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) and Science, Engineering Art and Design education (SEAD), Friday 14 June 2013 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rocks, Australia. Free to ISEA2013 registered delegates.

From Leonardo:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALDAS SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Caldas, in Colombia, intends to develop academic processes aimed at providing an educational service with quality criteria, so that through a holistic concept of the individual humanities, that create science, arts and technology for the service of society, for the development of the society and the consolidation of a national identity. The School has major strengths in the research of arts, design, philosophy and educational studies, we work on academic programs in fields such as visual arts, performing arts, music, philosophy, modern languages, literature, educational research and visual design, creating spaces for cultural and academic projection for creating a dynamic interrelation in art, science and technology in the region and the country. It is of great interest to University of Caldas to carry out work between the institutions to achieve the proposed targets.

CALL FOR PAPERS: LEAF PANEL AT CAA 2014
Would you like to present at the next College Art Association conference (Chicago) on a panel affiliated with Leonardo Education and Art Forum? This session will focus on experiments with space and time in postwar art. Presentations may address topics such as the impact of scientific sources, the influence of musical serialism and uses of time on the visual arts, and expanded cinema and early video art?s attempts to provide new perceptions of space-time. Proposals deadline: 6 May 2013. Please submit a 1-2 page double-spaced proposal, letter of interest, CV, and contact information to both: melissa.warak@gmail.com and larisa.dryansky@paris.sorbonne.fr.

Modeled after similar community mailing lists YASMIN, REDCATSUR, and LASSI, Texas HATS (Humanities, Arts, Technologies and Sciences) aims to connect researchers and artists collaborating on a variety of projects and initiatives involving the arts, sciences and technology in Texas. To join the list: http://texashats.org/

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

The 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art is being presented by ANAT in Sydney from 7-16 June. The program will include 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 an opening keynote address by Michael Naimark. ISEA2013 will showcase the best media artworks from around the world and provide a platform for the lively exchange of future-focused ideas.

AIRSHOW
French Choreographer and Leonardo New Horizons award winner Kitsou Dubois, known for her projects in/with weightlessness, is preparing a duo with two planes from the prestigious acrobatics team of the French Air Force. This project will be part of Marseille 2013, European Capital of Culture. The event will take place on 26 May at Salon de Provence for the 60th Anniversary of the Patrouille de France; the avant-premi?re is at the Air Show of the Fert?-Alais on 18-19 May.

KOSMICA X ASTROCULTURE
The next KOSMICA event will take place on Wednesday 15 May 2013 at The Arts Catalyst in London. Curated by Jareh Das, the event will focus on Astroculture as a cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the twentieth-century imagination. It will bring together space enthusiasts who have wide-ranging interests that include performance, cosmology, Afrofuturism, science fiction literature, music, mythology and philosophy.

GV art :
You, Me & the other Person
Katharine Dowson, Eleanor Crook & Pascale Pollier

Exhibition continues until Saturday 18 May 2013

Our current exhibition Me, You or the Other Person meditates on the representation of the human body. The concept of the figure is interpreted, dissected and revealed by three contemporary female sculptors.
GV Art & Mind Symposium
7 May 2013, from 7pm

Presentation by Charles Fernyhough

What can fiction tell us about the mind and brain?
Literature provides us with depictions of human consciousness that are unparalleled in their richness. On the day of publication of Fernyhough’s new novel, A Box Of Birds, he will explore the idea that studying fiction can provide scientifically useful insights into the phenomenology of human experience, and provide a test of whether neuroscientific advances really change humanity's understanding of itself.
Data, Truth and Beauty,
Exhibition 24 - 29 May 2013
Private View: Thursday 23 May, 6-9pm

RSVP to info@gvart.co.uk to attend

The Broad Vision project (University of Westminster) presents an art/science exhibition at GV Art that explores the integrity and aesthetics of information. Artworks and artefacts include data bending, bacterial portraiture, self-illuminating sculpture and dream inducing installations. All accompanied by an interdisciplinary events programme of workshops (25 May) and a symposium (28 May).
Transience
Susan Aldworth

6 June – 20 July 2013
Private View: Wednesday 5 June, 6-9pm

RSVP to info@gvart.co.uk to attend this historical event

Susan Aldworth, an experimental print and film maker, investigates the transience of self. Her fascination with the physical brain has led to new work which employs techniques from the traditional to the more radical. In Transience Aldworth explores the brain as matter – a historical first - etching from human brain tissue.

The Body is a Big Place' 
Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy

Exhibition 20 May - 8 June
Pig hearts performance - 20 May

This solo exhibition of 'The Body is a Big Place' is a large-scale media art installation exploring the fragile boundary between life and death within a broader exploration of organ transplantation. 

Kapelica Gallery: www.kapelica.org
Kapelica specialises in leading-edge performance and bioart practice and has been at the forefront of these genres for two decades.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130430/local/Science-bo...

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/04/particles_o...

Particles on the Wall exhibit explores Hanford nuclear reservation in art and science

http://pacentre.org./?goback=.gde_1636727_member_236208432
Perceptual Awareness Centre (PAC). www.pacentre.org. Getting serious about the ontology of the experiential.

http://becomingbodies.blogspot.co.uk/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_23...
Some of the Expert Group Comments from a Preview Screening of Becoming Bodies, 7th February 2013: An extremely interesting and very well put together film…Interwoven…with paths that took us on visual and audio journeys…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/may/01/dra...
The play is the thing: drama and food research

http://williamsongallery.net/intimatescience/
Intimate Science
Workshops on science and art on June 29 and 30, 2013
CMU, Pittsburg, USA

https://www.facebook.com/events/154832364692080/

http://www.pomona.edu/news/2013/04/30-physics-phest.aspx
"Physics Phest" A Night of Physics in the Arts was Held on May 2
Physics Phest is a community celebration of the relationship between the arts and physics—a night filled with music, dancing, visual and interactive arts. Pomona faculty members and students will demonstrate their physics and arts projects and multidisciplinary collaborations. Featured music includes Alex Cole and the Inland Emperors and Prof. Dwight Whitaker with Los Whateveros. Prof. Thomas Moore will lead the audience in contra dancing, Prof. David Tanenbaum will demonstrate interactive labs and nanotechnology, and Brackett Observatory will be open to visitors. Physics Phest will be held on Thursday, May 2, from 5:30-10 p.m. at Sontag Greek Theatre (adjacent to Seaver Theatre, 300 E. Bonita Ave., and east of Oldenborg Dining Hall, 350 N. College Way; in the event of rain it will be held in Doms Lounge, Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St.).

First held on Alumni Weekend in 2011, the student-driven event is an opportunity for students to showcase their multidisciplinary creativity and energy. The 2011 event (Physics Phest was rained out in 2012) featured a wide array of exhibits, performances and demonstrations, including: student art that used infrared cameras and high-speed physics video equipment; performances by several student bands; exhibits of student-built devices such as a programmable music-making circuit with lights and buttons; a performance art exhibit in which people would enter into a special “coffin” where a video program would play on a monitor mounted inside; the implosion of a gigantic barrel with stem power; and a Tesla coil.

Developed by students, faculty and staff, that first event proved to be contagious. Alumni leaving their dinner event in Frank Dining Hall heard the music and festival noises and followed those sounds down to Sontag, joining the students for dancing and conversation—making it a cross-generational evening. And thanks to Twitter, what started as an event for physics majors was soon flooded with 5C non-physics students, said Cathi Comras, academic coordinator of the physics and astronomy department.

Prof. Bryan Penprase called the evening “a wonderful blend of crazy physics with artistic energy.” Physics and the arts are natural companions, he says.

“Physics and art are both essentially creative explorations of what is possible. Physics expresses these possibilities in mathematics, while the visual arts tries to represent a picture of them. In both cases the imagination of the practitioner begins with a vision, and these visions underlie both subjects and inspire scientific discovery and artistic creation.”

For more information, contact: cathi.comras@pomona.edu or (909) 621-8724.

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=220975
Exhibit visualizes the frontiers of science at the boundaries of art
May 2, 2013

The art of acid. Materials science Ph.D. student Mark McClendon captures polylactic acid in this image in the exhibit.
An annual science imaging contest has sparked a heated but creative three-year rivalry between two materials science Ph.D. students at Northwestern University.

http://stateofmatter.eventbrite.com/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_237...

State of Matter: Collisions and Connections in Art and Science
MA Art and Science, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM (BST)
London, United Kingdom

http://www.anca.net.au/exhibitions/327/afterimage/
Afterimage
8 may 2013
19 may 2013

Exhibition of photographic works by Polish born Brisbane based artist Renata Buziak.

Afterimage is a photographic series based on Buziak's memories of places and events experienced in her childhood. For the past several years, Buziak has been developing a process called 'biochrome', in which she utilised to create the images for Afterimage. This 'biochrome' process is based on organic decomposition in combination with photographic materials.

Exhibition opening Wednesday 8 May from 6pm. To be opened by Dr Denise Ferris, Photography and Media Arts, ANU School of Art.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130504/LI...
Two worlds merge into one. A show
"Ocean Stories: A Synergy of Art and Science," seven collaborations that are at Boston's Museum of Science's Art & Science Gallery through June 2, 2013.

http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/entertainment/205799331.html
The Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo Museum and Vancouver Island University’s International Centre for Sturgeon Studies partnered to hold the exhibit Ancients Among Us: The Art and Science of Sturgeon. Artists are asked to interpret the theme and explore issues related to the history, biology, ecology, economy and/or mythology.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/05/creepy-or-cool-p...
Creepy or Cool? Portraits Derived From the DNA in Hair and Gum Found in Public Places

From SEAD:
A workshop with the Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design (SEAD) co-hosted by the Smithsonian Institution that will be taking place on May 16th at the Discovery Theater in Washington, DC. The event includes a luncheon sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. SEAD will share results and seek feedback from an exploration of White Papers for transdisciplinary research and creative work, informed by 180 international participants. Next, SEAD will consider methods for innovative exchanges supporting cross-disciplinary learning across formal and informal settings. Partner group XSEAD will discuss designs for a 21st-century online portal to reference and display work resulting from transdisciplinary collaboration.

This workshop is by invitation only. But if you would like to contribute, SEAD would like to hear from you. What is the one take away you most believe needs to be heard by potential supporters of SEAD research, creative work, and/or learning? Please respond by commenting online at http://wp.me/P2oVig-rm

As a reminder, the next deadline for the Art Works grant is August 8, 2013. Art Works supports the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and strengthening of communities through the arts. Within these areas, innovative projects that merge art and science are strongly encouraged. Details and guidelines are available on our website in the “Apply for a Grant” section at http://arts.gov/grants/apply/index.html. You can also view an archive of an art-science webinar highlighting NEA’s funding opportunities and application process at http://arts.gov/grants/apply/Art-Science-webinar.htm

http://www.oillyoowen.com/work/the-beginning-was-the-end/?goback=.g...
the shared territory between cognitive science, philosophy, theoretical physics, and science fiction. Philip K. Dick has influenced my practice for decades, and Ubik informed my process in Java, along with Dick’s essays and speeches. Some fundamental bases for this work were the ideas of knowledge as a living thing, as a kind of plasma existing all around us, that aggregates into form and interacts with us; and of Humanity as utterly flawed but eternally forgiving, repeating, and renewing its relationship with that knowledge.

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=The+Eden+Project+UK&client=fi...

http://www.exploreutahscience.org/science-topics/technology/item/11...
When Art and Science Intertwine
What at first glance looks like art is actually much more. Each piece is a window into scientific discovery.

The collection comes from the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah, a group of computer scientists that specializes in making visually oriented simulations and interactive software. They collaborate with researchers in fields ranging from astrophysics to the health sciences, to find new ways to gather and make sense of their data.
Half of our brain is used for image processing, and visual processing is the fastest of our senses,” says Chris Johnson, director of the SCI Institute. “Visualization is a good way for us to interface with all that data.”
The simple act of looking at a single picture arms physicians and patients with knowledge to make an informed decision.
That is the purpose of scientific visualizations, to clearly communicate data so that others may understand and better use the information behind it.

http://sse.royalsociety.org/2013/exhibits/science-art/
Science art
Exhibit

Presented by Odra Noel

Art can do two things for science: to help explain and visualise abstract concepts, and to show how beautiful science can be. This exhibit presents human biological tissues located on a world map. Each continent shows the part of the body that, when it becomes diseased or dysfunctional, is the main cause of death and morbidity (or one of the main ones) for the people who live there. When seen through the microscope, the tissues that form our organs and body parts can be stunningly beautiful, with all the complex structures that determine and enable their function forming beguiling, literally organic, patterns.
Fat Tissue Odra Noel 2013_310 Sedcondary More to love: Adipose tissue (fat)

What are the main causes of death around the world?

If we need to pick a single cause, cardiovascular disease is the winner. And if we look into it in a little more detail, we see differences from area to area, not only in the causes of death but also in the diseases that are the greatest burden for those societies.

North America struggles with rising obesity, and this adipose tissue (fat) is more beautiful close up than you would imagine. Central and South America are represented here by pulmonary tissue (lungs); smoking and respiratory infections are a leading cause of death. Europe, with its ageing population, suffers greatly from neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia (neurones, brain tissue). Great swathes of the middle East and central Asia are shown here as cardiac muscle (heart), as these regions are afflicted with rising levels of hypertension and other causes of heart and cardiovascular failure. The far East and the Pacific look beautiful in pancreatic acinar tissue; its failure causes diabetes, a major problem in this area, frequently described as a diabetes epidemic.

The small population of Greenland is marked by a few sperm cells (infertility); the only artery is in the middle of the Amazon rainforest; and hidden among the tissues are five mitochondria, the organelle responsible for producing the chemical energy that cells need to live, and the current focus of much research into their key roles in death, disease and ageing.

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'Our supporters are dreamers and believers'

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Art has often been defined as the creative expression of knowledge that enables us to fully appreciate the beauty of the visible world. However, over the years, the metaphorical distinction between art and science has led to the discovery of endless shades of genres that can seamlessly blend the two.

“Creation exists at the core of our human existence. If we do not keep creating something new, we will stagnate. Art is not limited to a canvas or any medium. It can come in many forms. In fact, both art and science thrive on creativity,” said Shweta Thakur and Shinoy Thomas, the brains behind Ruins of the Renaissance (ROTR), an innovative festival that will merge all elements of art and science.

The idea for the festival came from a simple dream — to recreate Woodstock. In fact, it is meant to encourage people to get in touch with their creative side. Shweta says, “Everyone is born creative but due to our routines, we are unable to be whoever we wish to be.”

ROTR will be held on May 25 and 26 at a 30-acre campus in Innovative Film City. It will have multiple workshops, galleries, exhibition spaces, installations and live performances. There will also be an equal representation of arts and science to create a unique experience for all. “We are curating 150-200 experiences in multiple disciplines through various events. We hope that people pick up a cue from at least one of them and pursue their passion once they leave — even if it means one hour a week,” she said and further added that they will bring down artists and engineers from across the country to showcase their talent during the day.

While ‘non-performance’ part of the festival content is being crowd-sourced, the performing acts will be sponsored. With respect to funding, the duo are working with a lot of partners who are on-board pro-bono primarily because they believe in the concept as much as they do. Despite scores of festivals and concerts being organised throughout the country, Shinoy Thomas believed that there were many other disciplines which had so much to show and offer but just because it was not done in a commercial set up till date, people weren't aware that they existed. “So, we decided to have a multi-disciplinary festival which automatically meant merging art and science. The basic thought was that creativity and innovation is the common goal of every discipline and we should dream to create a festival of the scale of Woodstock but much more in scope,” he said.

Both Shinoy and Shweta feel that art represents freedom and artists are freedom fighters of sorts. They truly believe that artists are people who have the courage to look beyond everyday life and have a vision to create something extraordinary. Likewise, everyone associated with the festival has the similar vibe. Their weapons may vary but they have always been fighting for the freedom of the mind. “This festival is a result of many such free thinkers. Our only expectation is that people come with an open mind and take back a bit of the festival with them to add that magic to their real lives. Our major supporters are the dreamers and believers. They come in different shapes and sizes. And, we are all working together to create a movement through this festival. A movement to set people free,” they said.

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Art and science inspire Durham display
ART and science collide in a new exhibition.

Stephen Sproates’ Numerous Forms of Number collection explores concepts in art, physics, geometry and maths.

It includes 2D and 3D art and is on display at the World Heritage Site visitor centre, on Owengate, Durham City.

In the past, Mr Sproates has worked with Durham University’s pioneering Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics and Sir Arnold Wolfendale, the former Astronomer Royal – who gave a talk during the exhibition’s official opening on Saturday (May 4).

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Grad Students Complete Arts-Science Collaborations
Recipients of the University of Chicago’s 2013 Arts | Science Graduate Collaboration Grants will present the fruits of their projects from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, in the penthouse of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th Street. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

The Arts | Science Collaboration Grants for up to $3,000 encourage independent, cross-disciplinary research between students in the arts and sciences. The grants were launched by the Arts | Science Initiative in 2011 and receive support from the Office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories.

Each collaboration consists of two or more graduate students, with at least one from the arts and one from the sciences, who have worked together since January to investigate a subject from the perspectives offered by their disciplines.

“This Arts | Science Initiative asks: can the arts and the sciences enrich and influence each other’s questions, tools, methodologies and specific curiosities?” said program director Julie Marie Lemon. “These graduate collaboration teams exemplify the ability of our students to explore the possibilities that can result from bringing radically different subjects and approaches together. These future scholars and practitioners have tread nimbly to create a space — a location — to experiment within our institutional setting through direct dialogue and interaction.”

From SymbioticA:

1.a SymbioticA related activities

Field_Notes - Deep Time
Call for Applications
15th - 22nd September 2013, field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station 23rd, 24th of September 2013, conference in Helsinki Field_Notes - Deep Time is a weeklong art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, will develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the "Deep Time" theme. Field_Notes - Deep Time is in search of artistic and scientific responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and comprehension, and the time of biological, environmental, and geological processes in which we are embedded. The local sub-Arctic nature, ecology, and geology, as well as the scientific environment and infrastructure of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station will act as a catalyst for the work carried out.
http://bioartsociety.fi/deep_time/

Semipermeable (+): SymbioticA at ISEA 2013
Powerhouse Museum Sydney
8 June-21 August 2013
SymbioticA's latest exhibition curated by Oron Catts looks at the membrane as a site, metaphor and platform for a series of artistic interventions and projects, some commissioned specifically for the show and others selected from the many projects developed at SymbioticA since 2000.
Artists include: Cat Hope, Nigel Helyer, The Tissue Culture and Art Project, Verena Friedrich, Sam Fox, Ben Forster, Guy Ben-Ary & Kirsten Hudson, Donna Franklin, Tagny Duff, Andre Brodyk and Svenja Kratz.
http://www.isea2013.org/events/semipermiable-plus/

Conference: New Materialisms IV - Movement, Aesthetics, Ontology
16-17 May 2013
Oron Catts is a speaker at New Materialisms IV, held in Turku, Finland.
http://movementaestheticsontology.wordpress.com/

The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things Public talk with Oron Catts
Date: 30 May 2013
Time: 6 to 7pm
Venue: Murdoch Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, University of Western Australia
Parking: P3, Hackett Entrance 1
Cost: Free, but RSVP essential
Bookings: http://bit.ly/Y9MTN4
In 1906 Jacques Loeb suggested making a living system from dead matter as a way to debunk the vitalists' ideas and claimed to have demonstrated 'abiogenesis'. In 2010 Craig Venter announced that he created "the first self-replicating cell we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer", the "Mycoplasma laboratorium" which is commonly known as Synthia. In a sense Venter claimed to bring Loeb's dream closer to reality. What's relevant to our story is that one of the main images Venter (or his marketing team) chose for the outing of Synthia was of two round cultures that looked like a blue eyed gaze; a metaphysical image representing the missing eyes of the Golem. These are the first bits of a jigsaw puzzle that will be laid in this talk. Through the notion of Neolifism, this puzzle will explore and Re/De-Contextualise the strange materiality of things and assertions of regenerative and synthetic biology. Other parts of the puzzle include a World War II crash site of a Junkers 88 bomber at the far north of Lapland, the first lab where the Tissue Culture & Art Project started to grow semi-living sculptures, frozen arks and de-extinctions, Alexis Carrel, industrial farms, Charles Lindbergh, worry dolls, rabbits' eyes, ear-mouse, gas chambers, active biomaterials, in-vitro meat and leather, incubators, freak-shows, museums, ghost organs, drones, crude matter, mud and a small piece of Plexiglas that holds this puzzle together.