http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23562-hunting-pack-of-bacteri...
Hunting pack of bacteria paints a tangled skein
Bacteria that glide together… make art together? This contender in the Art of Science competition run by Princeton University in New Jersey, entitled The history of gliding, depicts the squiggly gliding paths of the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus.

M. xanthus are social bacteria that move in coordinated packs to hunt prey efficiently and protect one another. Mingzhai Sun and Joshua Shaevitz, both of Princeton, recorded their paths for 4 hours to create this intertwined pattern, which shows where groups of hundreds of thousands of bacteria travelled together. The colours indicate the time elapsed on their journeys, with blue representing the start and red the end.

See the winners of the competition, along with the science behind them, in the Science as Art 2013 gallery.

http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/space-can-still-inspire-a...

Space can still inspire artists and scientists

Cutting arts budgets could damage the collaboration between disciplines that has helped make London great
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.popsci.com/category/tags/science-art
8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/hybrid-cities-inter...
On science-art interactions
Lawrence Bird interviewed Roger Malina, Mariateresa Sartori, and Bryan Connell about the intersection of their work with the city.

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.pangolinlondon.com/exhibitions/briony-marshall-life-form...

Briony Marshall Life Forming
Pangolin London Sculptor in Residence

15th May - 15th June 2013
Pangolin London is delighted to announce the inaugural London solo show of their 2012 Sculptor in Residence, Briony Marshall. Oxford Biochemistry graduate turned sculptor, Marshall's unique science-inspired works are a humbling and awe-inspiring look at the fragility, beauty and complexity of human life. The second sculptor to take up Pangolin London’s year long residency, Marshall approaches the realm of art and science in an innovative and fresh way and confirms her reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming sculptors.
Art works based on science: http://www.pangolinlondon.com/exhibitions/briony-marshall-life-form...

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-dna-11-lab-2012-6?op=1

World's First Lab That Turns DNA Into Custom Art

http://www.olats.org/studiolab/databody.php

The Data Body on the Dissection Table. Arts, Humanities, Medicine and Complex Network
THE DATA BODY ON THE DISSECTION TABLE

Arts, Humanities, Medicine and Complex Networks

Evening Event
Leonardo/Olats – Medical Museion
June 4th 2013
Copenhagen, Denmark
6:30 – 9 pm

The Data Body on the Dissection Table brings together scientists, artists, philosophers, and designers to explore these questions, through roundtable presentations and audience discussion. The event takes place in Medical Museion’s auditorium - the Danish Royal Academy of Surgeons’ former anatomical theater.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=very-fine-art-6-st...
Very Fine Art: 6 Stunningly Beautiful Nanoscale Sculptures

http://io9.com/totally-astonishing-science-art-from-the-2013-art-of...
Totally Astonishing Images from the 2013 Art of Science Contest

http://www.livescience.com/34499-stunning-images-reveal-unpredictab...
Stunning Images Reveal Unpredictability of Science
Art of Science competition at Princeton University.

The gallery, which opened with a reception on May 10, includes 44 images chosen for their beauty and unpredictability from 170 submissions from 24 departments at Princeton. The images were created during scientific research.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/bacteria-never-looked-so-beautiful/
Bacteria Never Looked So Beautiful

http://worldsciencefestival.com/
Where scientists, artists, inventors, story tellers and adventurers come together: May 29th to June 2nd, 2013 New York City, USA

http://www.asci.org/artikel1188.html?goback=.gde_1636727_member_242...

The Cosmos

15th international art-sci jurored exhibition
will be held at the New York Hall of Science
August 31, 2013 - March 2, 2014
Organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
Public Reception: Nov.10, 2013, 3-5pm

http://williamsongallery.net/intimatescience/
Workshops on science-art, June 29th and 30th, 2013

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twobitcircus/steam-carnival-0?g...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/23/the-art-a...
The Art and Science of the Diagram: Communicating the Knowledge of the Heavens, the Earth and the Arcane, Final Part

http://www.theaggie.org/2013/05/23/science-art-and-so-il/
Museum brings science, art and SO-IL

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/05/21/sciart-bu...
Exhibitions based on sci-art:
Princeton University’s ART of SCIENCE
Works by RUTH BAUER and KEVIN SLOAN
OCEAN STORIES: A Synergy of Art and Science
DRAWN TO DINOSAURS: Hadrosaurus foulkii

MARSH MADNESS: Wonders of Wetlands
EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY: Collaborative Art Between Primates
BIRDS IN ART

ANIMAL INSIDE OUT: A Body Worlds
THE ART OF RECOLOGY
REVISITING THE SOUTH: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley
Martin Klimas: SONIC SCULPTURES
DATA, TRUTH & BEAUTY
EXHIBITS: ONLINE
Science Art-Nature’s WINDOWS ON EVOLUTION: An Artistic Celebration of Charles Darwin

The University of Tennessee’s EARLY IMAGES OF EGYPT: Selected Images of Egypt in the Photographic Archive Collection of the Frank H. McClung Museum

The Art and Science of the Diagram
http://news.yahoo.com/art-science-diagram-communicating-knowledge-h...

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/education/2013/05/10/13613/for-pasadena-s...
Math by way of art: For Pasadena school, arts plus math is really adding up

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/anna-dumitriu/wonder-and-terror-in-...
Wonder and Terror in Art and Science
So where do art and science figure in this discussion? It was suggested to me that though art used to be where we would go to experience a sense of the sublime we now turn to science and science imagery, to Brian Cox standing on a mountain saying "isn't it vast?" as a camera swirls around his head. But as an artist who works primarily with those terrifying and beautiful organisms known as bacteria I find myself in quite a unique position to ponder that question. My sense is that the sublime can be found, not in the analytical world of science which seeks to control, but in our relationship with the natural world and all the terrors and wonders that holds. And where does art stand in all this? It attempts a practical, visceral understanding of how aesthetic sensations may be created so that we might know ourselves a little better.

http://www.statejournal.com/story/22416923/wv-military-families-can...
The new exhibit "Wavelengths: The Art & Science of Color and Light." Art and science will be integrated even more with "All the Time in the World," an art exhibit that uses science and technology to illustrate creative ways of expressing and marking time.

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=221977
Art makes it fun to learn about science in Chicago
The integration of art with the STEM fields, and is the reasoning behind legislators and academics push to add art to the national STEM agenda, making a new acronym, STEAM. The STEM initiative promotes science, technology, engineering and math.

http://www.isea2013.org/events/bio-art-session-1/
Microbial Identity: Art and biodiversity of self

Knowing that nonhuman microorganisms outnumber our own cells, we are only just starting to understand the extent of the impact these organisms have on our physiology. Our microbial fingerprints are very complex and specific because as individuals we differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy the habitat of our bodies. Human Microbiome Project’s goal is to establish the largest microbial map of a human body serving as habitat, showing that microbes play a vital role in our lives. This certainly calls for a shift from the traditional notion of body understood as a sealed one-species unity to the notion of human-nonhuman ecology. Such a realisation made the editors of a special issue of Nature dedicated to microbes, in 2008, propose to rephrase the question “Who am I?” and start asking “Who are we?”

Yet our microbial self is of interest not only to life sciences, but also to art and humanities. Artists such as Sabrina Raaf, Stephen Willson, Sonja Baumel, Stelarc and others consider microbes outside of pathogen histories, and work with microbial communities inhabiting human bodies. Examining their work, I am going to show various strategies employed to deal with both the prominent presence of microbes themselves and the impact the microbiological research has on us. Starting from an individual microbial cartography of a human body, I will move on to the serious practical consequences of microbial research, such as controlling our health and identity in medicine, forensics and other profiling practices. I will also elaborate on the ontological consequences of considering the human as a cellular minority. In this context our bodily identity seems to be process-based and graspable only through its current function in the web of trans-species dependencies; hence the life form we identify as our own is only a specific temporary trans-species ecology which constantly reconfigures itself.

The Great Work of the Metal Lover: Art, Alchemy and Microbiology

The alchemical term ‘The Great Work’ (Latin: Magnum Opus) refers to Western alchemy’s perhaps defining, yet seemingly unobtainable, objective – to create the ‘philosopher’s stone’, a mysterious substance considered capable of transmuting base metals into gold or silver. The term has also been used to describe personal / spiritual transformation, as well as individuation, and as a device in art and literature.

The Great Work of the Metal Lover straddles art, science and alchemy in its attempt to solve the ancient riddle of transmutation through modern microbiological practice. A metallotolerant extremophilic bacterium is paired with gold chloride in an engineered atmosphere to produce 24 carat gold. Extremophiles are microorganisms that are able to survive and flourish in physically and/or chemically extreme conditions that would kill most of the life on our planet. It is believed that they hold the key to understanding how life may have originated, due to their unique ability to metabolise toxic substances such as uranium, arsenic and gold chloride. Gold, in turn, has been treasured throughout history for its rarity, malleability and incorruptibility, as it resists oxidation, corrosion and other chemical bonding processes.

This artwork, in addressing the scientific preoccupation with trying to shape and bend biology to our will in the post-biological age, questions the ethical and political ramifications of attempting to perfect nature.

http://www.isea2013.org/events/bio-art-session-1/

http://www.isea2013.org/events/bio-art-session-1/
Stuart Bunt Unintelligent design, the evolutionary limits to biological design

The increasing use of biological forms and metaphors in art, engineering, architecture and design is based on assumptions about the efficiency, beauty and novelty of biological design, while the apparent efficiency and complexity of natural mechanisms has even been used by ‘intelligent designers/creationists’ to reject evolutionary orthodoxy. I will challenge these assumptions by presenting case studies of ‘unintelligent design’, biological inefficiencies and limitations. While biological structures are indeed marvellous in their design and intricacy, there are many design restrictions on biological tissue that man-made constructions can escape. The very nature of our carbon-based life forms restricts the temperatures, pressures and chemistry that can be employed in construction. Cells require a constant energy supply, while the need for nerves and blood supply means that many kinematic pairs are impossible in biological organisms. Biological scale is also restricted by this cellular basis; Reynolds numbers restrict the physical capabilities of biological organisms. The need to self-assemble, the fact that evolution can only act on pre-existing structures and can never start with a ‘blank page’, the need for variability; all place constraints on biological solutions. Selection drives the evolution of a beneficial trait until the marginal costs of continuing are balanced by the costs of not doing so. Evolution selects for traits leading to reproductive success rather than for longevity or health. Much of modern medicine is actually about treating the results of developmental and evolutionary compromises. Even some of our aesthetic tastes may be evolutionarily determined. I will discuss how inaccuracies (usually referred to as ‘natural variation’) are key to evolution and natural selection. How, paradoxically, far from being perfectly adapted biological machines, we may actually be selected and developed to be imperfect.

Kirsten Hudson, Guy Ben-Ary & Mark Lawson The Dynamics of Collaborative Resistance: Negotiating the methodological incongruities of art, cultural theory, science and design

In potēntia is a liminal, boundary creature created as an artistic and speculative techno-scientific experiment with disembodied human material, diagnostic biomedicine equipment and a stem cell reprogramming technique called ‘induced pluripotent stem cells’ (iPS). It is a functioning neural network or ‘biological brain’ encased within a purpose built sculptural incubator reminiscent of eighteenth century scientific paraphernalia, complete with a custom-made automated feeding and waste retrieval system and DIY electrophysiological recording setup. Created by artists Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson in collaboration with Mark Lawson (Course coordinator of Product and Furniture design at Curtin University) and Stuart Hodgetts (Director of the Spinal Cord Repair Laboratory at the University of Western Australia), in potēntia prompts us to consider how techno-scientific developments have led us to a point where, rather than being a concrete and discrete category, who or what is called a person is a highly contingent formation.

Starting from the position that the collaborative dynamics of art, cultural theory, science and design offer fertile grounds to both critique and resist the fetishisation of stem cell technologies, this paper explores how the collaborative team behind in potēntia critically and creatively embrace the methodological dialectics that occur when trying to accommodate the different disciplinary methods and approaches of art, cultural theory, science and design. Constantly negotiating aesthetics versus accuracy, tacit knowledge versus discovered knowledge, risk versus rigor, experimentation versus speculation, appropriation versus expertise, protocol versus intuition, known versus unknown, proof of concept versus creativity, and problematising versus problem solving, this paper positions in potēntia as an exemplar of multi-disciplinary collaborative practice, to suggest how cross-disciplinary collaboration, although fraught with friction and challenges regarding disciplinary protocols, priorities and precedents, also presents new and unique opportunities for unexpected creative discoveries to emerge.
http://www.isea2013.org/events/bio-art-session-1/

http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/1839266/report-a-happy-marriage-of-...
A happy marriage of arts and science
Saturday, May 25, 2013, 11:57 IST | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA
Malavika Velayanikal
Artists, filmmakers, and photographers. Scientists, engineers and innovators.

All of them coming together, experimenting and collaborating, to create an unusual
experience. That is Ruins of the Renaissance, a two-day creativity and innovation festival opening on Saturday at the Innovative Film City, Bidadi.

ROTR will have art shows, workshops, film festivals, galleries, live performances, storytelling sessions, puzzle parties, talks, exhibitions and installations. This festival will nudge one to disentangle from the mundane and reconnect with the joyous inner self to take a fresh perspective on life, Graffiti Collaborative, the organisers of the festival promise.

“We have brought together artists and scientists from different places to collaborate and create around 200 unusual experiences, merging different streams of study like arts, history, science, religion and so on. Those who come to the festival wouldn’t just be spectators, but also will be participating in the projects,” said Shweta Thakur, one of the brains behind the show. “The idea is to share the joy of creativity with the audience.”

Basic photography workshops, which will tackle topics like visual language, know your camera, and simple photography techniques, will be held every few hours, said PeeVee, an engineer-turned-photographer, who runs Korkai, a photography initiative in charge of curating the photography aspect of this festival.

“Most of these workshops would be free for people or at a nominal fee of Rs100. We had invited amateur and professional photographers to submit their photographs. Selected works among those will be exhibited. There will be another photography exhibition curated by acclaimed photographer Clare Arni,” he added.

While these activities go on during the day (11am to 6pm), the evenings are for live performances, which will go on till 11pm, Thakur said. The Manganiyar Seduction—a visually stunning performance by 43 Manganiyar musicians seated in red-curtained cubicles lighting up one after another—directed by Roysten Abel is one of the main highlights of the ROTR.

http://www.artlyst.com/events/art-basel-2013-mch-swiss-exhibition
This year's crop of Central Saint Martins graduate shows have surpassed expectations and created a first rate exhibition not to be missed. It is unusual to see such strong contenders from the undergraduate body competing strongly with the MA programme. I was especially impressed with the oversized drawings by Carla Raffinetti (see above) and the mirrored plexi sculptures by Samantha Scholtz.
The university has divided the degree shows into two distinct sections. Degree Show One shows work from the seven courses of the School of Art which now includes the work of the new two year postgraduate courses: BA (HONS) FINE ART, MA FINE ART, MA ART AND SCIENCE, MA PHOTOGRAPHY, MRes ART: EXHIBITION STUDIES, MRes ART: MOVING IMAGE, MRes ART: THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

There have also been some promising achievements for the school of Art this year. BA FINE ART 2012 graduate, Conall McAteer and winner of the NOVA award for the best Central Saint Martins student of the year, has gone on to win the Clyde and Co Blank Canvas Commissioning prize 2012 and was shortlisted for the Catlin Art Prize.

MA FINE ARTʼs Martin Cordiano who graduates this year won The Red Mansion Award and was selected for the 2012 Threadneedle Art Exhibition. Classmates, Marianne Morlid and Yi Dai have also been selected for this prestigious award.

New course, MA ART AND SCIENCE collaborated with the British Library to put on an exhibition: Encounters Between Art and Science, inspired by the Library and itʼs Science collections.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/05/25/steampunk...
Steampunk as art therapy for the autistic

A whimsical device worthy of Rube Goldberg was the culmination of nine weeks of invention, reinvention, tinkering, and trial and error by 15 young adults on the autism spectrum taking part in a first-of-its-kind art therapy program, “Steampunkinetics: Building Art into Science,” at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

“Steampunkinetics” came about through a collaboration between eminent steampunk artist and designer (and self-described “steampunk evangelist”) Bruce Rosenbaum of Sharon, and UMass Lowell assistant professor of psychology Ashleigh Hillier, who has been involved with various initiatives for young adults on the autism spectrum.

An exhibition of the “Steampunkinetics” project will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. May 31 at the Northeast Arc’s Gallery at Southside, 6 Southside Road in Danvers. Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.

Taryn Plumb can be reached at tarynplumb1@gmail.com

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/creative-fellowship-for-hip-di...
Creative fellowship for Hip Disk inventor
IT looks like a tutu, but it isn't from a ballet. It can play a musical scale, but it isn't a musical instrument. If the Hip Disk defies easy description -- it looks like a pair of Frisbees worn on the hips -- that's because it's from the far frontier where art meets science.

The Hip Disk was developed by Melbourne artist and researcher Danielle Wilde. She describes it as a form of "body instrument" that deliberately makes the wearer feel strange in their own skin.

"I'm interested in how engaging with culture can transform the way we live," Wilde says at her house-studio in Melbourne's inner north.

She may not look as ridiculous as some when wearing the Hip Disk. As she bends forwards, backwards and sideways from her waist, the two disks touch at electronic contact points that make a tone. With practice, she could play a tune. She once had a quartet of "Hip Diskettes" attempting a performance of The Girl from Ipanema.

Wilde is one of seven artists to have been awarded Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships in the most recent round of grants. The fellowships are worth $80,000 a year for two years, for mid-career artists who demonstrate "outstanding talent and exceptional courage".

The other recipients are filmmaker Sophie Hyde, theatre director Chris Kohn, curator Marco Marcon, composer Paul Stanhope, author Maria Tumarkin and actor Matthew Whittet. Nominations for the 2013 fellowships are open.

Wilde recently has departed for a research trip to Europe where she has presented a paper at the CHI human-computer interaction conference in Paris, and will speak at the Nordes Nordic design conference in Copenhagen and Malmo next month.

She is interested in how body interventions such as the Hip Disk may affect brain function. Scientists have researched neuroplasticity and how the brain can "map new neural pathways" to help overcome certain conditions such as age-related cognitive decline.

Often, Wilde says, patients are given exercises that have them "sitting at a computer doing boring things". She wants to explore how devices such as the Hip Disk bring creativity and imagination into play, while stimulating brain function.

"It's not so much doing therapy, it's changing the way we think about culture in our life, and creating engaging activities," she says. Wilde originally trained in physical theatre and studied at the renowned Jacques Lecoq school in Paris. Later, in the US, she became fascinated with research being done in the field of future technologies that "blew my mind". Last year she became the first person to earn a doctorate in fine arts at the CSIRO.

She has made other "poetic-kinesthetic" devices, including the Light Arrays, which are attached to the limbs and back and trace paths of light. She won an episode of the ABC television program New Inventors with the Hip Disk -- a controversial win, as the other entrants were inventors of life-saving devices for snowboarders and rock fishermen.

"Working as an artist and as a researcher is an interesting tension," she says. "When you are doing scientific research, you have a hypothesis, you have a theory, and from one end or the other you work towards that theory. You can change directions and it's very creative.

"Whereas as an artist . . . the creative process requires you to not know what you are doing. You need to create circumstances out of which something can emerge."

http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC23
Fostering Trans-Disciplinarity amongst the Social and Natural Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design
Session Organizers
Benjamín TEJERINA, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain, b.tejerina@ehu.es
Cristina MIRANDA DE ALMEIDA, Spain, cristinamiranda.de@gmail.com

Session in English

Not open for submission of abstracts.
The Network for Science, Engineering, Arts and Design, (SEAD), a U.S. National Science Foundation supported group, has launched an initiative to raise awareness of the impacts, values, opportunities and challenges of cross-disciplinary research and creative work. Following on a vision initiative first developed in 2010, an International White Papers Working Group was formed to issue an open call for White Papers.

The objective of this proposed session is twofold. First, we will present the results of the Open Call for White Papers collected from over 50 papers received from 24 countries. We will summarize the meta-view of needs, opportunities and recommendations concerning trans-disciplinary collaboration in the confluence of the Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design. Second, we will invite inquiry from other researchers. Therefore, in addition to presenting a first set of pre-selected papers that focus on different models and case-studies for trans-disciplinarity in research and in creative practice (see list of authors below), the session welcomes new papers and will be organised around the following research questions:

what are some impacts resulting from trans-disciplinary collaboration between sciences, engineering, arts and design in relation to current research practices?
What are some opportunities and roadblocks related to trans-disciplinary collaboration for individuals and organizations, including government, industry, civic and academic institutions (for example, blended forms of informal and formal learning, and rethinking the distinction between Art, Science and Technology departments in educational institutions)?
How can trans-disciplinary collaboration practices and actions better support research around complex problems?
How can SEAD include Humanities in general and Sociology in particular?

We are seeking to survey concerns, roadblocks and opportunities, and solicit recommendations for enhancing collaboration engaging the sciences and engineering with arts and design.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/science/tasting-words-dna-art-neu...

Tasting Words; DNA Art; Neuroscience on the Small Screen

MEETING

American Synesthesia Association. OCAD University, Toronto. May 31 to June 2.

http://newintelligentsia.com/magical-panorama-snowglobe/?goback=.gd...

Here's an inventive artist/scientist collaboration from Scott Minneman and JD Beltran called the cinema snowglobe project. What questions come to mind for you?
Magical Panorama Snowglobe newintelligentsia.com

Created by artists/technologists JD Beltran & Scott Minneman Summer 2012 The Workshop Residence Magical Panorama Snowglobe from JD Beltran on Vimeo.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/28/beautiful-space-pho...
Beautiful space photography: Part art, part science, part imagination (VIDEO)

http://community.scoop.co.nz/2013/05/chemistry-expert-art-can-help-...
Chemistry expert: art can help deliver smart science grads
A University of Canterbury (UC) chemistry expert believes that art holds the future key to delivering smart science graduates.UC chemistry expert believes art can help deliver smart science graduates.

http://water-wheel.net/taps/dock/449
PANEL 'WATER ECOLOGIES & INTERDISCIPLINARY NETWORKS' for Balance/UnBalance Conference in Noosa, Queensland, Australia

The panel will illustrate & discuss:

• How the theme of WATER gives entry points for exchange and contribution from a variety of people and with various levels of engagement
• How artists, scientists, and activists dedicated to and inspired by water, along with those simply curious, are sharing creativity and knowledge across cultures, disciplines and generations
• Looking at case models from events already produced on various platforms, the presenters will highlight successes, tips, future possibilities, unexpected outcomes and protocols of inclusivity .

http://drjamesmcardle.com/2013/05/28/wild-rails-and-nervous-nystagmus/
Wild rails and nervous nystagmus
Sit opposite a fellow commuter in a suburban train and you will notice that when they look out of the window that their eyes flick rapidly back and forth in an uncanny, robotic manner as they follow the passage of the surrounding scene.
Optokinetic_nystagmus

This characteristic pattern of eye movement is well known amongst vision researchers as opto-kinetic nystagmus. Coined in the mid-eighteenth century (Macbride 1772) from the Greek nustagmos ‘nodding, drowsiness’; nystagmus can be a debilitating syndrome caused by disease or medication and it can result in nausea and dizziness because of the cross-stimulation with the vestibular system and sense of balance.

Opto-kinetic nystagmus, with which we are concerned here, occurs when the whole visual scene moves, as happens when looking out of a window in a moving vehicle; indeed, the effect was once known as ‘railway nystagmus’ for this reason [see Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease: March 1923 - Volume 57 - Issue 3 - ppg 291-292].

http://roslindale.patch.com/articles/5-things-meetinghouse-bank-gra...
5 Things: 'Sentient' Screening at Museum of Science

Tonight there are two free screenings of "Sentient", an original production created by artists in the Studio for Interrelated Media's Art and Science Immersive Media course at the Museum of Science.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/05/museum-launches-cross-disci...
Museum launches cross-disciplinary initiative
Planned courses include “Seeing Art Through Science,” a technical art history course in partnership with art, science and engineering departments. It is structured around the physicality of objects and materials and scientific study of artworks – for example, using X-ray fluorescence and pigment analysis to “see” underlying layers of paintings. Instructors will include CHESS research associate Arthur Woll, museum curator Andrew Weislogel and engineering professor C. Richard Johnson Jr.

http://saratogatodaynewspaper.com/index.php/today-in-saratoga/educa...
2013 Saratoga County Fair Needs Art and Science Projects for Education Exhibits

From GV Art:
Transience
Susan Aldworth

Private View: Wednesday 5 June, 6-9pm

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.
To see the Press Release, please click here

Image : Susan Aldworth, Transience 6 (detail), etching and aquatint, 2013
JULIUS, copyright Elastic Theatre 2013; photo by Ludovic Des Cognets
JULIUS
Elastic Theatre

22 June 7 to 9 pm, 23 & 24th June 11am to 6 pm (duration 35 minutes with hourly screenings)

Award-winning Elastic Theatre in collaboration with Savage Mills returns to GV Art with the complete full-length version of JULIUS (Act I & Act II), their innovative multi-channel film exploring a surreal story of intrusive thoughts and compulsive rituals.

Image:JULIUS Act II, copyright Elastic Theatre 2013; photo by Ludovic Des Cognets
Nature Reserves | Call to Artists
Nature Reserves
Call to Artists
Opens 25 July until 13 September 2013

GV Art is planning a new exhibition, Nature Reserves, conceived and curated by Tom Jeffreys. The exhibition looks to examine our understanding of the natural environment, and the ways in which this is influenced by different methods of constructing meaning – across literature, science and the arts – with specific reference to thinking around the archive.

Click here for further details
Still Life the Food Bowl, Murray River salt, 2011
ISEA 2013, – 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney

We are delighted to announce that Ken + Julia Yonetani will be showing "Still Life: the Food Bowl" which they exhibited at GV Art in 2011 during their first UK show, Sense of Taste

Helen Pynor and her collaborator, Peta Clancy, will be showing video documentation of their recent heart perfusion performances at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, from 8 June-14 July.

Further information see the ISEA wesbite
(www.gvart.co.uk)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/05/30/rio...
In Rio, the 2013 International Symposium on Pterosaurs
the sixth symposium devoted specifically to pterosaurs, and was held at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ (= Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro.

https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/billofhealth/2013/05/31/science-art-p...
Science, Art, Policy, and the Importance of Good Science Communication

http://thesource.metro.net/2013/05/30/science-art-a-beautiful-way-t...
Science + Art = A beautiful way to learn

http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2013/05/31/art-and-science-sch...
Art and Science School

http://www.broad-vision.info/pdf/Broad%20Vision%20-%20Data%20Truth%...
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project
will
open a
n
exhibition
at the GV Art gallery in
London
on 23 May
which
will bring together the
work
s
of an interdisciplinary group of
art and science
students
engaged in collaborative experimentation and researc
h

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Art-Bristol-Science-Meets-Art-Arnos-...
Art in Bristol - When Science Meets Art at Arnos Vale Cemetery, June 1-2

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This intriguing exhibition within Arnos Vale Cemetery examines the fascinating borderland between science and art – in particular where the rigorously scientific field of medicine comes up against the "softer" zones of art, literature and the life of the emotions.

When Science Meets Art features artworks and literary pieces by 12 medical students from Bristol University. These students have taken an extra year during their medicine degree to study medical humanities, examining some of the fascinating overlaps between medicine and the arts and humanities – including the history and philosophy of medicine, and even its depiction within English literature.

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Eureka! Unique exhibition in Rome honours the art and science of the inventor Archimedes
http://mostre.museogalileo.it/archimede/

"Archimedes: Art and Science of Invention" at the Capitoline Museums opens Friday and runs until January 12. "There has never been an exhibition on Archimedes," said Paolo Galluzzi, head of the Galileo museum in Florence, one of the organisers.