http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2013/may/31/art...

Bodypainting meets science in the curious art of Victoria Gugenheim

Victoria Gugenheim received her first set of face paints at the age of 9, and then just kept working downwards. Now a world-class bodyartist, she combines her art with a passion for science and nature. Click here for the accompanying gallery
The history of science has long been intertwined with the history of art. Scientists develop and exchange ideas, while artists are experts in communicating ideas to a wider audience, making use of techniques developed through science and engineering over the years. In fact art is so common in science that we often fail to recognise it as art at all – the false color imagery of NASA for example, or Feynman's famous diagrams of particle behaviour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/may/31/venice-biennale-...
Venice Biennial: Here is the face of beauty and truth in our time. This exhibition daringly mixes science and art, with photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans alongside the most spectacular images captured by the Hubble telescope and interplanetary robot explorers. There has been a revolution in how we picture space, and images of the planets and stars are among the wonders of this century. This is a chance to get closer to the aesthetic marvel that is the cosmos.

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Theatre-company-fuses-science-drama...
Theatre company fuses science and drama to create innovative work

http://subtletechnologies.com/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_245829652
The 16th annual Subtle Technologies Festival of Art and Science starts next week in Toronto.

This years theme is immortality. We will be investigating subjects from mind uploading to de-extinction and archiving. How about thinking of neutrinos as the ultimate immortals? Lots of interesting topics from artists and scientists.

Ryan Jordan is an electronic artist conducting experiments in derelict electronics, possession trance, retro-death-telegraphy and hylozoistic neural computation. His work focuses on self built hardware, signal aesthetics, and the physical/material nature of experience. He has presented his work internationally in a wide range of venues from art and academic institutions to derelict warehouses and squats at places such as Transe(s) Symposium; CTM Festival; ISEA; and NEXT Festival. He runs noise=noise, a research laboratory and live performance platform aiming to develop a network of artists, programmers, and researchers working in the areas of noise, experimental, exploratory, and outsider arts.

This workshop is presented in collaboration with InterAccess (http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...) .

Saturday, June 8 | 10am - 5pm | Ryerson University
Symposium Day 1 (http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...)
* 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
* Ryan Jordan: retro-death-telegraphy

Saturday, June 8 | 7:30PM - 10:00PM | OCAD University
Film Screening of The Singularity + Presentation & Panel Discussion (http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...)

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.

Sunday, June 9 | 11:00am - 4:30pm | Ryerson University
Symposium Day 2 (http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60afcd5...)
* 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
* Panel Discussion with Veronica Hollinger and Eric Boyd. Moderated by Roberta Buiani.

To see the full schedule and to purchase tickets, visit our website! (http://subtletechnologies.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=60afcd...)

http://www.ladailypost.com/content/submit-your-art-2013-smart-art-c...
Submit Your Art to 2013 SMART Art Contest
In conjunction with the Los Alamos MainStreet event, The Next Big Idea, SMART, Science and Math based Art Competition will begin accepting artwork entries June 1 for this year’s International SMART Art Contest.

What is SMART? It is science and math-based artwork demonstrating scientific or mathematical concepts, principles, or phenomena in creative ways.

It can be created digitally using computers, be photographic, or be produced through traditional fine arts methods. including drawing, painting, pottery, fiber arts, and so on. The contest will be free to enter, and all entries will be received by uploading a digital representation of the artwork onto the contest website.

Since the inaugural competition, we have received more than 1.600 entries from all around the world and our winners have shared $2.500 in prizes.

The juried competition will culminate with exhibits and an awards presentation at the Next Big Idea Festival 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos

The online entries will go live on June 1 and entries will only be accepted until July 31.

You can view more information and a sampling of entries from last year’s competition at http://nextbigideala.com/smart-submission.htm.

http://bayareaartgrind.com/2013/05/31/art-science-collaborations-in...
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (NY), International/National Open Call for Entries, Science Inspires Art: The Cosmos
The 15th Annual Art-Sci Juried Exhibition will be held at the New York Hall of Science

Deadline: July 21st, 2013

The 15th Annual Art-Sci Juried Exhibition, The Cosmos, are seeking original art created in any visual media and inspired by astronomy (including astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, astrogeology), questions of cosmology, extraterrestrials, or the nature of matter and/or time in relation to universal laws.

For more detailed information, jurors, exhibition dates: http://www.asci.org/artikel1188.html

From SymbioticA:

1.a SymbioticA related activities

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, Corrie Van Sice, Verena Friedrich, Sam Fox, Benjamin Forster, Guy Ben-Ary & Kirsten Hudson, Donna Franklin, Tagny Duff, Andre Brodyk and Svenja Kratz.
http://www.isea2013.org/events/semipermiable-plus/

Semipermeable Roundtable at ISEA 2013: Life...but not as we know it Tues 11 June 4-6pm Featuring Benjamin Forster, Oron Catts, Nigel Helyer, Sam Fox, Cat Hope & Guy Ben-Ary http://www.isea2013.org/events/semipermeable-roundtable/

The Science of Stelarc
Curtin University, Rm. 204:126 Western Australia 19th June, 2013 Featuring a presentation by Stelarc Keynote address by Joanna Zylinska For decades the Australian Artist Stelarc has worked to transcend the limits of the human body.This symposium is an opportunity to discuss the ways in which Stelarc's work is a manifestation of science. Topics of discussion will include Stelarc's Third Ear, Prosthetic Head, Man-Machine Interface, Body Art, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Biotechnology, Post-Human Art, the ethics of the Post Human and much more. Oron Catts will also be speaking at this event. Places are strictly limited, book now to take advantage of early bird discounts Full registration: $50.00 Concession registration: $25.00 Registration Desk from 9:00AM Symposium starts 10:00AM For full programme details and more information www.ScienceOfStelarc.com

SymbioticA's Agency in Movement Symposium Friday 21st June 2013 9am-5pm The University of Western Australia G06 Moot Court Free registration (RSVP essential to christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au) The Agency in Movement symposium employs a variety of disciplines to explore the complex relations between movement and vitality.
Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a "body" and measuring its change in position relative to another reference frame. Therefore, movement is relative, means ever changing and is perceived as visceral and "alive". The Symposium will include invited speakers from diverse disciplines (art, performance, biology, biophysics, biomechanics, and philosophy) who will explore and interrogate the conceptual and technical relations between life (biological or artificial), movement and perceptions of "vitality", with the hope that some interesting meeting points and/or negations will emerge. The symposium stems from an Australian Research Council project exploring the use of skeletal muscle tissue which is grown, stimulated and activated in a techno-scientific surrogate "body". This moving twitching (semi) living material evokes, makes unease, and asks, in sensorial and theoretical means about issues of aliveness and agency. The project is concerned with onto-ethico-epistemological (Barad 2010) questions about life and the affect created through the phenomenon of movement.
Speakers include: Monika Bakke, Andrew Pelling, Elizabeth Stephens, Tony Bakker + Gavin Pinniger, Stuart Hodgetts, Chris Salter, Jennifer Johung, Oron Catts, Miranda Grounds, Ionat Zurr, Stelarc and Joanna Zylinska http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/symposiums

From SymbioticA: Adaptation exhibition in Katanning
until 30 June 2013
16 Austral Terrace, Katanning WA
SymbioticA's Art and Ecology project Adaptation, exhibited first in Mandurah last year is now on show at Katanning Art Gallery.
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/exhibitions/adaptation

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

VIDA 15.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards VIDA 15.0 supports excellence in artistic research into artificial life. Projects that win a VIDA Award must be capable of expressing the complex organization of life systems and the hybrid nature of life. The VIDA jury will evaluate artistic projects that meet these criteria and, more importantly, will select those projects that challenge our current understanding and definition of life.
To submit your project for consideration, please read the COMPETITION RULES carefully and complete the ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM posted on the Vida website:
http://vida.fundaciontelefonica.com/en/call_entries-vida15/
Entries close: July 31st

http://www.news.wisc.edu/21832
A virtual elephant from a marriage of biology, engineering, and art
With a novel melding of biology, engineering, and art, the 10-inch long cast has now been transformed into a 3-D digital model, capable of simulating interactions between a real African elephant and its physical environment.

Porter, a University of Wisconsin-Madison zoology professor, has long used casts like the elephant to determine physical characteristics such as heat transfer properties and environmental drag forces that would affect their live counterparts. From these properties, he identifies the physical environments in which the animal could live based on its physiological needs.
A collaboration with UW-Madison engineering physics professor Riccardo Bonazza, art professor Steve Hilyard, and graduate student Peter Dudley has now developed 3-D animated models and confirmed that the numerical calculations match the physical ones from the wind tunnels.

The results, recently published online in the Journal of Experimental Biology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology, validate the use of these virtual animals to understand the real ones.
Heat transfer properties have dramatic impacts on all aspects of an animal's ecology, Porter says, from feeding to breeding. His research focuses on the links between physiology and ecology and how an animal's metabolic needs — energy use, food intake, heat and cold tolerance — guide where in the world it can live.

He credits the combination of creative interdisciplinary partnerships and powerful technology with expanding the possible questions they can address.
"No one has done the ecology of any fossil animal because they've never been able to study it," he says. "Now with this virtual reality we are already beginning to reconstruct paleoenvironments and the paleoecology of animals in a quantitative fashion. We can say, how much food did a mammoth need in a day? What would be their distribution limits?"

http://malina.diatrope.com/2013/06/02/big-data-made-sensible/
http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store/dp/B007S0UA9Q
http://olats.org/studiolab/databody.php
http://www.amazon.com/Art-and-Atoms-ebook/dp/B00A9Y3ZCW
http://ahcncompanion.info/
Wikidata: Where Arts and Humanities Meet Graphs

From Leonardo:

4TH ARTS, HUMANITIES AND COMPLEX NETWORKS SYMPOSIUM: 4 JUNE 2013

The fourth Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks takes place 4 June 2013 at DTU in Copenhagen. The symposium highlights arts and humanities as interesting sources of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research and natural science helps overcome the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice. Furthermore, the symposium focuses on striking examples where artists and humanities researchers make an impact within the natural sciences. By bringing together network scientists and specialists from the arts and humanities, the symposium aims for a better understanding of networks and their visualizations in general. Running parallel to the NetSci2013 conference, the symposium also provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers and practitioners of complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.

BERKELEY LASER: 5 JUNE 2013, UC BERKELEY
Join them  for the launch of the new Berkeley LASER series, in Room 110, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 6:45PM. Like its LASER sisters, this series? bi-monthly agendas include presentations of Art/Science projects, news from audience members and casual socializing/networking. Speakers for this first evening include Indre Viskontas on ?Music that Moves,? Robert Buelteman on ?Photography without the Camera,? Jennifer Dionne on ?Lights, Nano, Action!? and Vijaya Nagarajan on ?Embedded Mathematics in Women?s Ritual Art Designs in Southern India.? Sponsored by the Minerva Foundation.

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."

For more details, visit: http://www.leonardo.info

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ART, CREATIVITY, CULTURE AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE
This unique special issue of the journal Artificial Life (MIT Press) connects the themes and methods of Artificial Life with the wider areas of art and creativity and the field's implications for culture. It is an unusual but exciting step for a scientific journal to support a special issue on art and creativity. This certainly sits well with Artificial Life's interdisciplinary approach and provides a unique opportunity to draw together works that sit between the formally established disciplines. The intention is for the special issue to be of broad and long-lasting appeal, not only for regular readers of the Artificial Life journal, but for readers engaging with other sciences, and with the arts and humanities. Deadline for proposals: 1 August 2013

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SCIENCE INSPIRES ART: THE COSMOS
Ever since early humans looked up in wonder at the sun, moon, and stars, we've been on a quest to decipher the mysteries of our cosmos. The vastness and unreachability of the "unknown" captivates the imaginations of scientists and artists alike. Art & Science Collaborations is also on a mission of discovery: they are seeking original art [executed in any media and documented via stunning images] related to astronomy (including astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, astrogeology), questions of cosmology, extra-terrestrials, or the nature of matter and/or time in relation to universal laws for an art-science juried exhibition to be held at the New York Hall of Science from 31 August 2013 to 2 March 2014. Deadline for submissions: 21 July 2013.

EXHIBITION OPENING: SEA CHANGE: 8 JUNE 2013
The Women Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD) presents Sea Change, an exhibition of a diverse collection of contemporary projects by internationally renowned artists, architects and scientists who explore the shifting interactions of land and sea. Scientific, lyrical and fantastical, their works use kites, giant seal costumes, pin-hole cameras, shadows and stilts to explore the subject of sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. WEAD (http://www.weadartists.net) is an international organization focusing on women?s unique perspectives to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art. The exhibition takes place 8 June--15 September 2013 at Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, perched on stilts above a salt marsh at 4901 Breakwater Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545, U.S.A.The Center is partnering with the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to work!
with Bay Area communities to begin planning for sea level rise and to educate the public about anticipated changes.

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

http://www.wctv.tv/templates/respSubCommunityEventPopup?c=y&ep=...
Summer Camp "ALL THAT!"
Jun 3, 2013 - Aug 16, 2013 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
Camp “ALL THAT!” 2013 will offer students 3 years old through the 8th grade the opportunity to participate in art and science activities in a fun, interactive, and safe environment. Each week features an exciting new theme and offers new opportunities for exploration and discovery. Age appropriate camp themes feature topics such as Marine Archaeology, Lego Robots, Dinosaurs, Space, Photography, Spy Science, and stimulating art topics such as digital photography and architectural design!
Aimee Hills-Hayes, (850)513-0700, ahills@thebrogan.org

http://www.indiablooms.com/EnvironmentDetailsPage/2013/environmentD...
CERN launches open call for digital arts strand
he Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the digital arts strand of the 3-year Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by CERN in 2011, under CERN’s new cultural policy, Great Arts for Great Science.

The winner will receive a fully funded residency at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with the world of science. This is the third year of the collaboration between CERN and Ars Electronica.

http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2013/06/art-gallery-set-to-open-in-int...
Bryan Ohno Gallery is opening its NEW Seattle International District art gallery on Thursday, June 6. The gallery, located at 521 S. Main Street, will feature contemporary art that blurs the line between art and science, challenges art traditions, and embraces cultural intersections.

The first artist to be featured in the gallery will be Adrianne Smits, a Yale-educated painter biologist who has just recently returned from fieldwork in Cambodia.

Prior to the NEW gallery, Bryan Ohno directed the Bryan Ohno Gallery originally in Pioneer Square and the C2 Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. (end)

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/06/huntsvilles_annual_jazz-n-june....
Huntsville's annual Jazz-N-June Festival to boast science and arts symposium
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - One of Huntsville's longest-running summer events will be back this month with a youth science and arts symposium.

The Tennessee Valley Jazz Society's annual Jazz-N-June Festival will be held June 20 at the Cooper House, located at 405 Randolph Ave. The festival, which will feature budding scientists and artists, is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon

Archimedes: Art and Science of Invention” is up at the Capitoline Museums until Jan. 12. For more details, see http://mostre.museogalileo.it/archimede.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2013/Jun-04/219310-eureka-r...
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2013/05/science-art-policy-and-the-...
Science, Art, Policy, and the Importance of Good Science Communication
What sci-art is really doing

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=859313615340691f5af3cc94b&i...
COSMIC ADDRESS
COSMIC ADDRESS
Exhibition Details
15-27 October 2013

Graydon Gallery
29 Merthyr Rd, New Farm, Brisbane
Queensland, Australia.

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/48/4731/knitting-sche...
Knitting Scheme Development - From Art to Science
Commercial knitting scheme on single knit fully fashion jersey fabric is studied by knitting with different fibres (wool, acrylic, cashmere, pima cotton and combed cotton) under three different knitting tensions (tight, normal and loose tension). Results show that different materials would affect the final fabric dimensions in terms of knitting tension and machine gauge. Tightness factor is a good indicator to predict different machine gauge and fabric loop length. Construction of knitting scheme must take into account of textile fibres and knitting tensions.

http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/9138/arizona-state-univer...
Arizona State University student creates algae-inspired art
Carrier will blend art and science together throughout two summer semesters on the ASU Polytechnic campus as the inaugural artist in residence at the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation (AzCATI).
In-depth research in algae will be an essential catalyst for my artwork and I'm excited to dive in to this project.” - says the artist
“Great minds, from scientists and researchers to philosophers and poets, must work together to create a cultural shift toward a sustainable existence,” Dirks said. “Artists like Philip tell stories that instruct us or stimulate us into thinking about what that future is going to look like.”

ASU School of Art Director Adriene Jenik said the relationship between LightWorks, AzCATI and the School of Art can foster and enable new insights or perspectives on the research done at the algae center.

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10462877.Art_and_science_come_toge...
Art and science come together at city museum

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_23396058/art-science-inte...
Art, science intersect at 'Inspired by Space' live planetarium show at Chabot
OAKLAND -- Art and science intersect at a new live planetarium show at the Chabot Space and Science Center.

The show illustrates how artists have inspired discoveries by astronomers and astronomy has inspired art.

"I've been interested in where those two things crossed," said Jonathan Braidman, the show's team leader. Braidman studied physics and film in college.

Through June 22, the show titled, "Inspired by Space," takes place each Friday and Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., in the Ask Jeeves Planetarium.

A show at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday will feature a question and answer session with renowned astronomer and UC Berkeley professor Geoff Marcy. Marcy is known for his work discovering and determining the characteristics of planets of other stars.

"Inspired by Space" reinvents the live planetarium show at Chabot, Braidman said. Previous shows were less scripted. With more scripting, Chabot has increased the show's flare and drama.

http://www.arlingtontimes.com/community/210275231.html
Pioneer hosts annual Science and Art Fair
ARLINGTON — Pioneer Elementary’s annual Science and Art Fair on Friday, May 17, turned STEM into STEAM by debuting a new theme this year, “STEAM into Science.”

http://menlopark-atherton.patch.com/groups/weekend-planner/p/brain-...
Brain Scans Inspire Artist Laura Jacobson
Art and science meet in a new installation of clay sculptures, etchings and acrylics at the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging.

The pieces by artist Laura Jacobson, a Stanford alumna, are inspired by MRIs of the human brain and reflect the work of the center to investigate connections between neuroscience and society. The center, in the basement of the Department of Psychology, uses the MRI to support research that advances understanding of the brain, including decision-making, cognition, perception, child development, education and emotion.

http://events.stanford.edu/events/381/38151/
Art of Science Exhibition

The Art of Science Exhibition celebrates the aesthetics of research and explores the interconnected nature of science and art. This year they received over 100 submissions from members of the Stanford community in over 25 different departments, ranging from Geology to Stem Cell Biology, from Materials Science to Aeronautics. An exhibition showcasing the best pieces took place on Friday, May 31, between 4 and 6 pm, in the first floor atrium of the Packard Building, near Bytes Cafe. Prizes were awarded at 5:30 pm.

This event was organized by the Stanford Materials Research Society and cosponsored by the Stanford Biosciences Student Association, Stanford IEEE, and the Stanford Polymer Collective.

http://aagnearts.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-los-alamost-science-a...
The Los Alamos Science and Math art contest is open for entries
Their website is here (http://www.nextbigideala.com/smart-submission)

Reasons to enter:

1. You have some work that qualifies as science and/or math themed art

2. NO entry fees

3. NO other fees. Not even shipping. Finalists and winners are represented using digital files, transmitted over the internets

4. Cash prizes

5. Exposure on the website and archives, and at the festival

6. Possible bragging rights – if you win or place. This is an International competition!

You will need:

1. A jpeg photo of each piece ( a good one for judging)

2. A caption for each piece

3. A title for each piece

4. An explanation of the math or science content/ context/ relevance of each piece

5. Your address. email, etc (don’t worry, they’re legit)

If you are selected as a finalist they will request a high resolution tiff (*.tif) format version of your image. A good high resolution image starts with a good flatbed scan (if the original is small enough), a high quality large size render of a digital artwork or for large artwork a good sharp large picture using a DSLR camera (at least 14 megapixels).

They will ask you to perform color separations on your tif and send the color separated layers. This is a standard menu item in some image handling software, and an add-on that is easily integrated into GIMP (I’ll come back and post some links tomorrow).

If you win a prize they’ll send a check out to you within a few weeks along with a big goofy ribbon.

The math and science level is not super high. This is a family oriented festival with an art contest attached, so think about descriptions of your science and math themes that will be accessible to a general interested audience. If your work is based on specialized or sophisticated science or math, be prepared to talk people through it in your captions.

The judges also do not practice “art speak”, so try for plain English.

A good jpeg for judging shows only the artwork – no barn walls, yards, curious cats, etc sneaking in from the background. Remember that they won’t see the original, so it’s better to get a clean image by cropping more than cropping less for a more “accurate portrayal” with messy stuff at the edges. Most clean glare free shots are either polarized or in the shade. This will muddy your colors and shift some of them to the blue end of the spectrum. Brighten and color correct them back so they don’t look like they’re underwater. And try a little sharpening to compensate for camera lens imperfections and sensor limits.

Good luck!

The Art of Communicating Science | Psychology Today
A conversation with Karl Bates,director of research communications at Duke By Jonathan Wai, Ph.D....
www.psychologytoday.com/.../the-art-communicating-science

http://symbiosisartscience.org/meeting/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_...
Planning Meeting July 26-28, 2013
Symb A S A
Symbiosis Art+Science Alliance

Konfirm: Jon Adams and Simon Baron-Cohen

The Arts Catalyst, London

Friday 14 June, 6pm doors, 6.30pm performance

A performance and talk in which Jon Adams presents the first artistic output from his residency at the Autism Research Centre, Cambridge, and discusses his project with the centre's director Professor Simon Baron-Cohen. Konfirm is a sound work prompted by systematic processes which will be presented in audio and visual metaphor.

The Language of Cetaceans: Ariel Guzik and Mark Simmonds

The Arts Catalyst, London

Friday 12 July, 6.30pm doors, 7pm talks

A special event with Mexican artist, musician and inventor, Ariel Guzik, who is representing Mexico in the Venice Biennale2013. Guzik presents his long-term project communicating with whales and dolphins (cetaceans). Environmental scientist and campaigner Mark Simmonds discusses the role of sound in cetacean society and the impact of sonar and noise pollution.

Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica

The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU, Scotland, Friday 26 July to 2 October 2013

MOSI - Museum of Science & Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP, 21 October 2013 to 6 January 2014

Initiated by the British Council and curated by The Arts Catalyst, Ice Lab presents some of the most innovative and progressive examples of contemporary architecture in Antarctica in a visually rich exhibition, highlighting the diverse and cutting edge science that takes place on the frozen continent. Torsten Lauschmann has been commissioned to make a new audio and light work for the exhibition and will create this in collaboration with ‘We Made That’, the exhibition’s designers.

CONSUME
gallery@calit2, UC San Diego, USA
until 14 June 2013
Exhibition considering the intersection of art, technology and food systems, including interdisciplinary ideas around health, energy, technology and the environment. Works by Brandon Ballengée, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Justine Cooper, Beatriz da Costa and Jamie O'Shea.

19TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON AESTHETICS

21-27 July 2013
Krakow, Poland
Panels discussing aesthetics, art, science and technology

SCIENCE CENTER IN NORWAY, CALL FOR ART PROJECTS
Vitenfabrikken, Science Center, Sandnes, Norway.

Vitenfabrikken Science Center explores modern science through public participation. This call is looking for three limited-time art projects in unstable media.

SUPER-COLLIDER ICELAND EXPEDITION
Book now for Super-Collider's art/science expedition to Iceland in September.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/06/07/188895997/seeing-indiffere...
Seeing Indifference To Art And Science At The 2013 Venice Biennale
Two things jumped out at me when I visited the show "" at the at this year's . The first is that in a show that claims, according to the wall text, to "initiate an inquiry into the many ways in which images have been used to organize knowledge and shape our experience of the world," the work on display is openly indifferent to anything that might be called knowledge, science or learning. Instead the exhibition is a disturbing celebration of the work of mystics and self-styled visionaries.

On display are séance induced abstractions by Hilma of Klints, images from Jung's Red Book, Aleister Crowley's tarot cards, blackboard doodles from Rudolph Steiner and Guo Fengyi's Chi-Gong visions, among much else.

Is this of a good joke? In the age of climate-change deniers and unreasoned skepticism about human origins, I don't find it very funny.

Or could it be, is it just possible, that from the playful heights of the art world, the very difference between seeing and knowing, on the one hand, and fantasies of communication with sages on the astral plane, on the other, has become too difficult to make out?
I wonder whether the curator's indifference to knowledge and science is also what explains his apparent indifference to art.
Art and science are different, to be sure. But they have a common origin in our joint engagement with a shared reality; and each thrives only in the crucible of community. Where there is no knowledge, there can be no art. And where there is no art, there is not even the desire for knowledge.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jim-ruxton/post_4934_b_3405245.html
Where Art Meets Science
Toronto based organization Subtle Technologies has been playing a role in breaking down barriers between art and science for the past 16 years. As Director of Programs, I have had the opportunity over these years to meet a number of extremely fascinating, intelligent, and creative people. When my friend Pamela Brown and I started Subtle Technologies in 1998, I assumed artists and scientists were as far apart in terms of thinking as one could imagine. Over time I have grown to appreciate the similarities far more than the differences between the disciplines. Artists and scientists share an intense curiosity and interest in the world around them. I now see both camps as explorers uncovering the hidden, whether it be a concept unspoken in society or an unseen mechanism in a cell or galaxy. Each spring when we bring a roster of artists and scientists together at our annual festival, sparks fly. While artists and scientists may have different tools, language and skills, they share the common bond of curiosity.

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18808137-artist-puts-a-...
Artist puts a human face on discarded bits of DNA

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N27/synergymos.html
THE SECRET LIFE OF RESEARCHERS: Creating your own opportunities
A case study at the intersection of art and science
Ocean Stories, an exhibit housed in the Art Science Gallery, a 2000-square-foot gallery twenty feet tall. By exploring Ocean Stories, you will discover oceanography translated through the prism of artwork.
In the center is a complex sculpture in the form of an amusement park. It consists of intricately woven reeds and rope laced with colored wood and paper. But the primary medium used here is actual data. Each component of the sculpture is based on real physical, chemical, and biological data collected in the Gulf of Maine. The Labrador Current is represented by a roller coaster curving over a hand crafted bathymetric map of Georges Bank and nearby coastal features. The merry-go-round shows how krill abundance relates to seasonal variations of air and water temperature, salinity, currents, wave height, and solar azimuth. The Ferris wheel shows the cycle of krill moving up and down in the water column in concert with the rise and fall of the sun. The Swing ride shows the tidal patterns of the Bay of Fundy. Artist Nathalie Miebach has essentially plotted data in a new grid space, creating a sculpture that affords the viewers with a new appreciation for the patterns found in the complexity of nature — the cycles and mechanisms that drive natural processes in the Gulf of Maine. This piece offers insight into how scientists and artists — both of which are researchers and careful observers in their own right — make sense of the complex world before them.

As you proceed from this sculpture to the abstract video art, etchings, poetry, photography, paintings, and wall sculptures throughout the gallery, you will encounter the physics of salty swirling whirlpools, the impacts of changing ocean chemistry, the mysteries of the deep ocean, and the rhythmic light patterns in Cape Cod eel grass beds. Also present in the artwork are various meditations on the process and practice of both art and science.

http://arcadenw.org/article/science-art-and-inquiry
Science, Art and Inquiry: Issue 31.3 Feature Introduction

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RSC collaboration unites science and art at the Venice Biennale
A new art work by artist and designer Helen Storey MBE that explores the chemistry of glass and flame has gone on display at the world-renowned biennial art and culture exhibition, the Venice Biennale.

The Dress of Glass and Flame is a joint collaboration between the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Helen Storey Foundation, University of Sheffield, Berengo Studio (Venice/Italy) and the London College of Fashion. Produced by Berengo Studio, the work seeks to perpetuate how it was made by keeping this process 'alive' in the finished dress.

"A flame is a magical dancing chemical reaction. It is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic reaction, taking place in a thin zone and the heat is so intense it excites the molecules enough to produce light. Colour and temperature of a flame depend on the fuel involved in the combustion."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/books/review/curtis-whites-scienc...
Faith in the Unseen
Curtis White’s ‘Science Delusion’

http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/1560309/museum-victoria-exhibiti...
Museum Victoria exhibition fuses science with art
A MUSEUM Victoria exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat encourages audiences to look at science in a new light.
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The Art of Science features centuries-old scientific illustrations, contrasted by examples of modern macro-photography which invite a glimpse beyond what is visible to the naked eye.

Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Peter Freund said the latest exhibition had received a strong response since opening in Ballarat last Saturday, on the back of the gallery’s hugely successful Capturing Flora exhibition late last year, which followed a similar theme.
Fusing art and science, the exhibition of works curated by Museum Victoria examines the aesthetic merit of scientific drawings and looks at the intricacies of nature through a magnified lens.

“There is an aspect of finding artistic appeal in unexpected corners,” Mr Freund said.
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“You can see these amazing shapes and forms and colours.

“They are very skilfully crafted works.

“They have one primary role, which is as a scientific record, but they have an artistic dimension as well, so they serve a dual purpose

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Steam rooms in schools