http://www.isea2013.org/events/107-projects/
If a system fails in a forest
Presented by ISEA2013, 107 Projects and the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.

Communication is mediated by complex systems. Both machinic and biological, it is through engagement with these systems that our lives are shaped: we perceive ourselves and experience our world through the lens of the system. But what do these ubiquitous systems look like? Can we communicate with them, and what do they have to say? Do they even exist without our presence?

Interactive art explores these relationships through systems that require engagement to be realised, and increasingly blur the lines between author and viewer-turned-participant. If a system fails in a forest … addresses questions of communication, authorship and the temporal, emergent nature of art making in interactive media.

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/XAl23

SymbioticA seminar series

Implications of the way we live

Date: 17 May 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Professor Jorg Imberger

By way of introduction I will review the legacy of the last 100 years of "progress. Anthropogenic emissions have triggering new carbon emission loops. destruction of habitats is leading to species instabilities with potential impacts on food production, globalization & increasing wealth inequality is leading to economic instabilities, changing food to a commodity is leading to mental and physical health issues and the massive increase in our capacity to destroy has shrunk the time scales of destruction to much less that the time scales required for healing. So what are we to do? I shall explore 10 simple suggestions:
1. Re-establish continuity between generations
2. Seek harmony rather than conflict
3. Learn to how live on a finite planet
4. Re-establish food as part of life
5. Introduce carbon/water neutral living
6. Curb wealth inequity
7. Foster mental and physical well being; curb advertising
8. Subdue technology, re-introduce "Creative Loafing"
9. Foster local diversity of job opportunity
10. Preserve the sources of cultural diversity

FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE STUDIO:
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES IN BIO ART
May 21-June 21
School of Visual Arts New York
4 undergraduate studio credits; USD$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

CALL FOR PROJECTS/PROPOSALS
GROWN YOUR OWN
Calling all synthetic biologists, bio-artists, bio-designers, amateur biotechnologists and bio-hackers. Science Gallery Dublin 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, and is supported by a Society Award from the Wellcome Trust. Curated by Professor Paul Freemont (Imperial College), Professor Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art), Cathal Garvey, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, and Professor 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.
http://sciencegallery.com/growyourown
Call closes May 26th 2013

OPEN CALL
Art and biodiversity: sustainable art?
Interest in ecology and sustainable development is unprecedented, as is to the increasing concern overshadowing society's well-being. With the news of massive deforestation and the scarcity of water resources, we are continually reminded of how animal and vegetable species are endangered. It's clear that the need to respect the environment is shared by all but that natural resources are being exhausted through conflict of interest and contradictory action. As a result living and endangered organisms are affected by a kind of universal heritage value, as if representing the memory of an uncertain future.
http://www.cultura21.net/topics/arts/art-and-biodiversity-sustainab...
Call deadline June 15 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS
SLSA 2013
October 3-6, 2013
This year's annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, on the theme of the PostNatural, will be held at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, from October 3-6, 2013.
We are currently calling for papers for a panel and/or roundtable on "Reconfiguring Sensation: Sensory Prostheses and the Postnatural Sensorium."
We are interested in papers that consider questions such as:
-How are sensory prostheses and technologies of sensory substitution (e.g. TVSS) reconfiguring the sensorium?
-What can art-science collaborations, including digital installations, teach us about rewiring the senses or expanding our modalities?
-The rise of neuro-tech in public exhibitions and displays, is it only sensationalism or thrill-seeking, or are there more serious implications for the public understanding of the relation between cognition, perception and sensation?
-Given the availability of biometric data collection for everyday exercise (e.g. FitBit, Nike+, smartphone apps), what are the implications for somatosensation and our somatic imaginary?
-What is 'natural' about our sense modalities anyway? Do we, as Aristotle claimed, have only five senses?
-How have the senses been historically mediated through technologies that help us map our neurophysiological understanding of the body?
-What effective aesthetic examples are there of mashups, remixes, reconfigurations, of senses and affects?
-For those with sensory disability or impairment, how can technologies of sensory prosthesis make aesthetic experience available?
-What happens 'after' touchscreens? How do other aspects of the body me come implicated or addressed in the human-computer interface (HCI)?

Speakers interested in this roundtable/panel should contact (at the earliest possible opportunity):

Mark Paterson
Department of Communication
University of Pittsburgh
Email: paterson@pitt.edu

ESSAY PRIZE CALL
TOPIC: NEW MEDIA ART, ELECTRONIC AUDIOVISUAL ART, MULTIMEDIA ART, VIDEO ART, CYBERART, BIOART, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES and any creative symbiosis between art, science and technology.
MADATAC, in its aspiration to spread the bibliography in Spanish concerning the practice, study and research of new media narratives and tools of the new audiovisual digital art in all its forms, not forgetting the contributions of the past, calls for a prize of essay eligible for all authors, regardless of their nationality, provided that the manuscript is written in Spanish or English language and fits the theme of the prize, be original, unpublished and has not previously been awarded in any other competition, or corresponds to a deceased author before submitting the work for the award. Collections of articles will not be accepted.
For more info: info@madatac.es
Call closes 2 Sept 2013

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/

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://waag.org/en/blog/synthetic-biology-art-making-competent-cells
Synthetic Biology as Art: Making Competent Cells

On Wednesday, April 27th it was time for the 5th edition of Do it Together Bio. The event was led by Laura Cinti and Howard Boland who are co-founders of the C-Lab collective and also winners of the latest Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award. It was a diverse event that included theory, practice, experimentation and discussion around bio-art, synthetic biology, magnetic bacteria and genetic modification regulation and lab safety. Laura and Howard also brought a prototype of their installation Living Mirror, which they currently develop at FOM Institute Amolf, where fundamental research on novel and complex (bio)molecular and materials systems is performed.

http://www.wvgazette.com/Entertainment/201305080189
CHARLESTON, W.Va., USA -- A new crossover exhibit spans two Clay Center galleries when "Wavelengths: The Art & Science of Color and Light" opens Saturday.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=large-hadron-colli...
19 Ways That Art and the LHC Open a Portal to Physics [Interactive]

The collider has inspired artists to create works about the Higgs boson, antimatter and the workings of the machine itself. Explore the interface between art and science in this interactive from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stockholm University.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=large-hadron-colli...

http://www.slippagelitmag.co.nr/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_2392915...
THE CONFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND ART

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=476003
Science, art and the percussion of Mickey Hart
The drummer's clinical and visceral fascination with rhythms and sounds fuels the music he has been making for 40-plus years, first with the Grateful Dead and now with his own band, which opens the new Kempton Music Center on Saturday, 11th May,2013

http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130508183010...
Post Bacc biology and art possibilities?
I am graduating in a few days, and I was wondering where I should go next. I have 2 degrees (Bachelor's of Science in Biology and Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with a Chemistry minor) and am looking towards future ideas.

Now for the nitty gritty: My current overall GPA (barring a few courses that haven't come through yet) is 2.41. I know, it's pathetic. Despite putting on my best war face, taking on college by the horns, dropping any and all fun activities what so ever- I did very poorly in most of my Chemistry courses (which made up ~half of my grades in the sciences). My Science GPA is a 2.1 (with most of my biology courses at B's and my chem courses at D's). My Art GPA is a 3.6, and I have virtually no extracurricular activities that would be corporation or school worthy.

http://waag.org/en/blog/synthetic-biology-art-making-competent-cells
Synthetic Biology as Art: Making Competent Cells
On Wednesday, April 27th it was time for the 5th edition of Do it Together Bio. The event was led by Laura Cinti and Howard Boland who are co-founders of the C-Lab collective and also winners of the latest Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award. It was a diverse event that included theory, practice, experimentation and discussion around bio-art, synthetic biology, magnetic bacteria and genetic modification regulation and lab safety. Laura and Howard also brought a prototype of their installation Living Mirror, which they currently develop at FOM Institute Amolf, where fundamental research on novel and complex (bio)molecular and materials systems is performed.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/can-science-be-used-to-critique-art
Can Science Be Used to Critique Art?

By Michael Byrne
It's an old opposition: art and science. Not opposition in the sense of conflict, necessarily, but rather in the sense of one appearing without the other. On the face of it, art should transcend the inherent boundaries of scientific validity and truth-seeking. There are rules for being a certain sort of art, but not so much for just being art itself, or for being objectively better art or carrying real meaning better or worse than other art.

So much cultural criticism is even designed to make fun of (or pick apart) the very idea that art (literature, music, etc.) can hold lasting truth. Whereas, science is only interested in things that are true, and it has designed highly rigorous ways of identifying truth in the world.

There's a very deep philosophical rabbit hole that comes along with this line of thinking, but let's just summarize the question as, Is aesthetic taste beyond the scope of science? In other words, can it be said with objectivity that the aesthetic of Celine Dion is worse than the aesthetic of, say, Beck?

Is there a fixed truth, a scientific truth, to that claim? Is that possible? In this snip of a recent Closer to Truth episode, physicist David Deutsch explains why the answer is actually yes. Philosophy, morals, art, and science are only separated from each other pragmatically. We simply haven't found the proper methods of bringing them together. Yet.

http://www.dailymail.com/Entertainment/201305080099
Clay Center exhibit explores use of color, light
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Explore an exhibit that spans two galleries when the Clay Center opens "Wavelengths: The Art & Science of Color and Light" on Saturday.

The exhibit includes both the art gallery and the museum's Mylan Explore-atory.

Visitors may experiment with hands-on activities to learn how manipulating color can alter the look of an object. They also may adjust light in the art gallery to see its effects on artwork.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/05/09/art-sci-g...
http://www.artsciencegallery.com/

Join Our Evolution at Art.Science.Gallery.! from h. gillespie on Vimeo.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20130509/NEWS0402/130509015/...
La.Tech exhibit combines biological sciences, art to show learning outcomes
Students in Brandon Moore’s spring quarter Biology of Reproduction class at Louisiana Tech University recently completed one of the most unique and innovative project assignments they will ever experience.

Moore, an assistant professor of biological sciences in Louisiana Tech’s College of Applied and Natural Sciences, tossed aside the traditional paper exam and collaborated with Mary Louise Carter, an associate professor of ceramic art, to challenge his students to use their artistic talents to create sculptures and visual presentations of their scientific concepts in biological reproduction. The completed projects were presented to teams of judges, which were comprised of one biologist and one academician from another discipline on campus.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/10/18178053-art-of-scien...
'Art of Science' exhibit makes the connection between truth and beauty

http://malina.diatrope.com/2013/05/10/antiatlas-call-for-proposals/...
ANTIATLAS ART-SCI CALL FOR PROPOSALS
To know how new network science affects our concepts of frontiers. They have now issued a call for proposals for work by artists, scientists= you will see that the ambition is to be transdisciplinary and find new forms for showing the complexities of the issues around frontiers: There is a special art-science emphasis.

'Art of Science’ exhibit makes the connection between truth and beauty
http://www.vizworld.com/2013/05/art-science-exhibit-connection-trut...

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/399553/group/News
NDSU professors bring science to art restoration
Local work has been noticed nationally

http://pacentre.org./?goback=.gde_1636727_member_236208432
Seeing is Perceiving … Perceptual Awareness Centre, a cross-disciplinary experientially centered research 
FORUM? (activity)
dedicated to understanding human perceptual structure and its DEPLOYMENT IN TECHNOLOGY

SEAD Conference and White Papers report
Networking Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design

to Confront the Hard Problems of our Time

A conference co-hosted by the Smithsonian Institution and NSF-sponsored

SEAD Network, with a luncheon sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts

May 16, 2013, Washington D.C.


SEAD will share results and seek feedback from an exploration of challenges and opportunities for transdisciplinary research and creative work, informed by 200 international contributors. Next we will consider methods for innovative exchanges supporting cross-disciplinary learning across formal and informal education settings. Partner group XSEAD will then discuss designs for a 21st-century online portal to references and displays of work resulting from transdisciplinary collaboration.


By Invitation events:

NEA/SEAD/SMITHSONIAN CONFERENCE
THURSDAY, MAY 16th 9 AM - 12PM, 2PM - 4PM
THE SMITHSONIAN DISCOVERY THEATER AT THE RIPLEY CENTER
We will share results and seek feedback from an exploration of challenges and opportunities for transdisciplinary research and creative work, informed by 180 international participants. Next we will consider methods for innovative exchanges supporting cross-disciplinary learning across formal and informal education settings. Partner group XSEAD will then discuss designs for a 21st-century online portal to references and displays of work resulting from transdisciplinary collaboration.

NEA/SEAD LUNCHEON THURSDAY, MAY 16th 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
THE SMITHSONIAN DISCOVERY THEATER AT THE RIPLEY CENTER
During the NEA-sponsored luncheon, short talks on diverse SEAD topics will be presented.

Public event:
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 include the National Academy of Sciences and Leonardo International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/186238/
NDSU professors getting noticed in world of art restoration

http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/13/space-oddity-atoms-and-the-interse...

“Space Oddity,” atoms, and the intersection of science and art

I’ve viewed two videos recently that took my breath away. One gained traction yesterday: a lonesome lament from an astronaut in space, performed by an actual astronaut in space. Canadian commander Chris Hadfield posted a video on YouTube of himself singing a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” while on the International Space Station. The other was “the world’s smallest movie,” as IBM Research puts it. The R&D organization animated still frames of atoms from carbon monoxide molecules, magnified more than 100 million times. It tells the story of a boy finding companionship with an atom.

The two videos were released independently, from different organizations, but they are wonderfully complementary. One video looks out at the vastest chunks of mass in existence – the planets and the stars – while the other looks down to the tiniest units of matter, manipulated by the hand of human ingenuity; the same ingenuity that brought Hadfield millions of miles out into space to be among the stars and peer onto our planet. The two videos are breathtaking on their own, but are even more notable when considered together: Science has enabled the kind of art we’ve never before seen.

Technology has always been at the forefront of enabling art. After all, the paintbrush was a cutting edge new tool at one point, and Impressionism owes its existence, in part, to the technology that preserved premixed paints in tubes, which allowed artists to dispense with mixing each color individually – and using it before it could dry out. And yes, the C and the G in CGI animation, the form that has dominated major animated features for almost two decades, stand for “computer generated.” But that’s not what I’m talking about. Almost everything we do these days is enabled by computers.

No, I’m talking about science as an enabler and theme. It goes beyond science fiction. It’s science reality.

What’s even better, the science in these videos is the stuff of grade school, fifth period lore, the science in the chemistry set, Bill Nye sense. The big ideas that spark our most basic human curiosity as kids. It’s refreshing to see that kind of science holding hands with art in such an accessible way. And it’s clear that some of the artists/scientists behind the projects themselves feel the same way. “If I can do this by making a movie and I can get a thousand kids to join science rather than going to law school, I would be super happy,” Andreas Heinrich, principle investigator at IBM Research, said in a documentary about the making of the film.

But as unique as these videos are, they still trade in classic, universal storytelling. What better way to convey the loneliness of a Bowie song – and the expansiveness of space – than with all of humanity hovering in your rear window? It’s not likely that “The Boy and His Atom” is the father of a new genre of atomic filmmaking. Though, who knows? Art movements are enigmatic. It could be said that the film was begat by Georges Seurat’s pointillism. Niels West, associate creative director for the atom movie, said he wanted the narrative to feel like “The Red Balloon,” the academy award winning short film from 1956.

FESTIVAL AT-A-GLANCE
(For the full schedule, click here (http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...) )

Friday, June 7 | 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Beaver Hall Gallery
Exhibition: The Beyond Category / Opening Party

The Beyond Category muses on surpassing the thresholds that define our mortal existence. What are the criteria for being in a beyond? Imagining the self as medium; its expression travels to the shores of forever...

Featuring artworks by David Khang, Scott Kildall / Nathaniel Sterne, John Paul Robinson and Alan Sondheim
Curated by Willy LeMaitre

On view at the Beaver Hall Gallery from June 7 - 16

Saturday, June 8 | 10am - 5pm | Ryerson University
Symposium Day 1
* John Paul Robinson: The Amber Archive
* Line Dezaindre: Les ateliers Angus: individual and collective memory in the digital age
* Atanas Bozdarov & Johny Bozdarov: DNA "Mating Call"
* Scott Kildall: Tweets in Space
* Hendrik Poinar: DNA from Fossils, Time Travel and De-Extinction
* Britt Wray: Undoing Forever: A live radio documentary presentation about bringing extinct species back from the dead
* Panel: Non Western Ideas of Immortality

Saturday, June 8 | 7:30PM - 10:00PM | OCAD University
Film Screening of The Singularity + Presentation & Panel Discussion

The Singularity is defined as the point in time when computer intelligence exceeds human intelligence. This notion of superhuman machines has long served as fodder for tales of science fiction. Yet most scientific leaders argue that these changes are inevitable, based on the accelerating rate of technological progress. Ultimately, if we become more machine-like, and machines more like us, will we sacrifice our humanity to gain something greater? Or will we engineer our own demise? THE SINGULARITY is a comprehensive and insightful documentary that asks the question: what kind of humans do we want to become?

Presentation by Randal A. Koene: Neural Interfaces, Neuroprostheses and Whole Brain Emulation
Panel Discussion with filmmaker, Doug Wolens, Randal A. Koene and Trevor Haldenby. Moderated by Greg Van Alstyne

This film screening event is presented in collaboration with sLab at OCADU. http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...

Sunday, June 9 | 10:30am - 5:00pm | Ryerson University
Symposium Day 2
* Ryan Jordan: retro-death-telegraphy
* Alan Sondheim: Digital and Physical Collapse
* Scott Menary: Born in the Big Bang - Neutrinos - The Ultimate Immortals
* David Khang: Amelogenesis Imperfecta / Beautox Me!
* Don Hill: sound landscape memory
* Myriam Nafte: Trophies and Talismans: The Traffic of Human Remains
* Veronica Hollinger: "We Will Be Different": Some Notes on Science Fiction and Immortality

PRE-FESTIVAL WORKSHOP

Thursday, June 6 | 6:00pm to 10:00pm | InterAccess
Pre-Festival Workshop retro-death-telegraphy with Ryan Jordan

retro-death-telegraphy is an experimental workshop where participants will explore and build a range of devices which have at some point been believed to have the potential to aid in communication with the afterlife. For more info: http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=60afcd...

This workshop is presented in collaboration with InterAccess. http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=60afcd...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/05/14/commander...
Commander Hadfield Shows Us What Science Communication Could Be. Visually.

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/05/princeton-universitys-art...
Princeton University's "Art of Science Competition" Reveals the Beauty in Science
Researchers aren't exactly trying to make a Matisse when they work, however the images above reveal that science can be beautiful. However, sometimes these images can have a very helpful, practical use. "Connections" is the theme of this year's art show because images have played a large role in advancing scholarship. Many breakthroughs in the science world have come from connections made through comparing images of nature's phenomena.
With physics and biology, everyday there is a new finding showing that the two are connected in the most fascinating and profound way," Andrew Zwicker, director of science education at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, said. "In a similar vein, connecting the aesthetics of laboratory images to their scientific importance has transformed how we look at our data and results. With the 2013 Art of Science competition, we are celebrating all manner of connections."

NEXT STANFORD LASER: 6 JUNE 2013, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Join us for the next Stanford Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 6 June 2013, at Stanford University, featuring Walter Kitundu (sound artist) on "The Turntable as a Lens," Sean Gourley (Quid) on "A Global Intelligence Platform: the new AI - not Artificial Intelligence, but instead Augmented Intelligence," Jeremy Mende (Designer) and Bill Hsu (San Francisco State University) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror" and Melanie Swan (MS Futures Group) on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt."

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: BE RECEPTIVE ART & SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
The Be Receptive Art and Science Symposium is hosting a multidisciplinary afternoon of discussion and debate by artists, clinicians, medical researchers and carers, investigating personalised medicine, genetics, asthma, and issues of child health. This event will take place at the Royal Alexandria Children's Hospital in Brighton on 4 May 2013 starting at 2:30 PM and spanning the rest of the afternoon

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ART AND BIODIVERSITY
The fourth edition of Plastik, the review of the University of Paris I's center for Art, Creation, Theory and Aesthetics (ACTE), will deal with artistic practice in relation to the subject of safeguarding biodiversity. Since the 1960s, artists have testified to, and denounced, through their work, the ravages that human activity has brought on a planetary scale. Authors are invited to propose texts of 3,000-10,000 words. Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2013 to plastik.art.science@gmail.com.

: GROW YOUR OWN
Calling all synthetic biologists, bioartists, biodesigners, amateur biotechnologists and biohackers. Science Gallery is seeking proposals for projects for the exhibition "Grow Your Own," a curated, open call exhibition tackling provocative questions raised by synthetic biology. Deadline for applications: midnight, Sunday 26 May 2013. The exhibition will run at Science Gallery from October 2013 to January 2014.

Environmental Art and Science Fair

The City of Morgan Hill’s 10th annual Environmental Art and Science Fair and 15th annual Environmental Poster Contest will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road. This year’s Poster Contest theme is “Recycling for A Better Tomorrow!” Posters due by May 3. Fair projects must demonstrate the theme “Be a Part of the Solution to Creek Pollution” and are due by May 14. Details: (408) 310-4169 or visit www.earthdayart.com.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/students-are-put-off-arts-...
Students are put off arts subjects because they don't lead to a job'

Lily Cole warns over career choices as the Standard’s panel debates the influence of culture and technology on London
Actress and philanthropic entrepreneur Lily Cole has warned that Government cuts could put young people off studying the arts at university because they fear there will be no jobs at the end of it.

http://www.scimat-2013.com/
Humanities as Science Matters
Here, you can have all the information about our conference and our event. Here is the Conference Programme 2013.pdf (46,3 kB), discover the invited speakers

http://www.scimat-2013.com/call-for-papers/
conference - Science Matters 2013 - together with an Art Exhibition under the thematic : Arts As Science Matters.
Fourth International Conference in Science Matters) that will take place at Porto in the north of Portugal from 15-17 October 2013 (read more at www.scimat-2013.com). Of course you can also exhibit some of your works.

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-art-science-celebrates-unpredictabilit...

Art of Science exhibit celebrates the 'unpredictability of beauty'
7 hours ago
The Princeton University Art of Science 2013 exhibit can now be viewed in a new online gallery. The exhibit consists of 43 images of artistic merit created during the course of scientific research: http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2013/. The gallery features the top three awards in a juried competition as well as the top three "People's Choice" images

http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2013/

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The art v science debate: your views

The art v science debate: your views

Standard readers share their thoughts on suggestions that Government cuts could put young people off studying the arts at university over fears of employability

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'Students are put off arts subjects because they don't lead to a job'

16 May 2013

The way we can debate whether art or science matters more shows how little has changed in the 54 years since C P Snow’s famous lecture. It is a curiously English obsession, perpetuated by early subject specialisation in our education system.

As our ASPIRES research shows, the assumption that one is either “arty” or scientific contributes to reduced levels of and less diverse participation in key subjects at A-level and beyond. Students from countries with post-16 baccalaureate systems are far more likely to study a mix of arts and sciences. Science can be creative and art, scientific. Both are vital to a healthy, vibrant economy and society.

Prof Louise Archer, King’s College London: Art helps us to think about big issues such as climate change and genetic modification that are rooted in science. Moreover, in the era of “big data” where scientists analyse billions of events thrown up by natural or social phenomena, one of the only ways of understanding it is through visualisation. There is enormous potential here for contributions from artists if only we’d let them.
Dr Johanna Kieniewicz: The last time I looked, art, science,technology and engineering were completely enmeshed. From the music industry, to medicine, to media, to the design of buildings, fabrics and cereal packets. The arts don't just prettify technology, they drive and embody innovation. It's unhelpful and confusing to deem one more important than the other when they are inextricably connected with profoundly important interactions. We live in an era where there is a real demand for digital skills and that crosses all sectors, and very much includes the arts . At TeenTech we help students understand that Science and Art don't live in neat little boxes, we show them the Physics and Maths behind games or movie post production and let them discover for themselves the creativity in say printed electronics. A well known study (Root-Bernstein, Allen, et al, 2008) showed that the more renowned a scientist, the more likely they were to be actively engaged in the arts. Einstein was on the money when he said "The greatest scientists are artists as well".

The Event :

A 2 week exhibit of Paintings titled Subliminal Quest at Crafiti.studio,
from the 15th of April to 28th of April 2013, the exhibit will showcase over
20 paintings of Tamojit’s latest inspiration involving the mind and its
cerebro-neurotic visions on a canvas. Tamojit has been successfully
exhibiting his paintings all over India alongwith nationally and
internationally renowned artists over the years.
Crafiti.studio, Kolkata to promote and felicitate Tamojit
Bhattacharya’s solo exhibit of paintings.

http://cutpastegrow.com/will-myers-on-biodesign-and-bioart/
Bio-art

On Friday, April 19, writer and CUT/PASTE/GROW co-curator Will Myers took us on a trip into the future of biology-inspired art and design.

ELASTIC DIMENSIONS - The Quantum Parallelograph, Book Sale and documentary videos

The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS

Saturday 18 May 2013, noon-8pm

The Arts Catalyst is opening for a special day along with other contemporary art venues in Clerkenwell and King’s Cross on Saturday 18 May 2013 for the first EC1 & WC1 Gallery Day.

Designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating will be demonstrating his 'Quantum Parallelograph', which enables participating visitors to explore their parallel identities in a work that reflects on some of the scientific and philosophical ideas surrounding the theory of quantum physics and multiple universes.

Come and find out more about The Arts Catalyst's projects, through documentation videos of past artists' projects, including Tomas Saraceno’s Poetic Cosmos of the Breath (2007), Simon Faithfull’s Escape Vehicle No 6 (2004); The Making of Rachel Mayeri’s Primate Cinema: Apes as Family (2011), Attention Weightlessness, Critical Art Ensemble’s Genterra 2002, and a new film of the Great Glen Artists' Airshow (2010

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Space can still inspire artists and scientists
Commander Hadfield’s flight to perfection ended when he returned to Earth with a bump in the Kazakhstan steppe earlier this week. Let’s make sure that London’s creative explosion does not end as abruptly as a result of next month’s cuts. We need the relationship between science, engineering and the arts to thrive. After sitting in his tin can, far above the world where Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing left to do, Hadfield, with his combination of music, images, humour and palpable awe, has reminded us all of the magic of the great human space adventure. We all need to take in the bigger picture, a global view of the sparkling synergies between art and science that can take us to enthralling new heights.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21890033
Power of Art: Can painting improve your grades?

Over the last several years the focus of US education has been fixed firmly on the sciences. But research shows that the arts help children do better in all subjects and improve the likelihood that they will stay in school longer.

The Obama administration is putting this theory to the test by investing $2m (£1.3m) for arts education in eight of the most poorly performing schools across the country.

At Orchard Gardens Pilot School in Boston, the results have been dramatic. In just three years the students at the once-troubled school have improved their basic academic skills and many say the arts have changed their lives.

Jane O'Brien looks at the impact of art in education in the sixth and final instalment of the Power of Art series.
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Using arts as a fundamental tool for education increases attendance, raises academic performance and may reduce behavioral problems.  Why is this?  Well, the research hasn't produced a definitive answer, however a study is underway to track performance of students in lower income areas in schools provided with a new arts integrated curriculum.

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Dinosaurs in Motion melds art, science to create stunning exhibit
Payne, an artist and kinetic sculptor, saw an opportunity to meld science and art. So he got to work, creating dinosaurs that museumgoers can not only look at and marvel over, but actually move themselves.
The exhibit features 14 life-size metal sculptures, including a 44-foot-long T. Rex. The pieces can be moved by using either a lever-and-pulley system or remote control. The exhibit tells the story of Payne's work to create the dinosaurs and the mechanics and materials he used, along information about the dinosaurs themselves. The idea here is to meld art with traditional science, technology, engineering and math (better known as STEM subjects) to create STEAM.

The exhibit begins with static sculptures and then moves along to show how Payne brought them to life – first with cables, then electricity, motors and robotics. The dinosaurs are down to their bare bones, so to speak. These are sculptures of dinosaur skeletons, which allow visitors to see exactly how each moves.

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New Workspace "Lab Cambridge" Will Help Artists and Scientists Collaborate
Many wonders of the world being explored in labs double as beautiful visuals. It's this phenomena that is being explored in a new exhibition opening next year in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lab Cambridge will provide a collaborative space in which scientists and artists will create works. The project is basically an American version of Le Laboratoire in Paris. Both the American and Paris versions of the exhibition were created by Harvard professor and active entrepreneur David Edwards. He will teach his Ivy League class at Lab Cambridge, which will be located in D.C.'s Kendall Square.

“Kendall Square is near such a big scientific community with MIT and Harvard and all the biotech firms," said Carrie Fitzsimmons, executive director of ArtScience Labs and director of Lab Cambridge. "But mostly no one know what’s going on inside these laboratories, and what we’re trying to do is open up this space for an open dialogue.”

To get a sense of what to expect from the project, the Paris center has presented works such as “The Olfactive Project” in which artists and scientist try to create an electronic version of coffee that can be sent anywhere. The center also hosted Cira Najle’s “Cummulus” installation that displayed clouds and emphasized notions of atmosphere and water in the air we breathe.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-pursuing-her-passions-2013...
Pursuing her passions
Saint Mary's graduate earns dual degrees in art, science.

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Daily iPad App: NASA's Earth As Art shows us our beautiful planet