http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=biotechs-first-m...
Biotech’s First Musical Instrument Plays Proteins Like Piano Keys [Slide Show]

A biophysicist and composer have banded together to create a music box that turns biology into sound

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/09/03/take-a-do...
Modern Art Upsetting Your Stomach? Take a Dose of David

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2013-09/04/content_16943...
Science meets art

An exhibition, titled 2013 Shanghai International Science and Art, will take place from Aug 28 to Sept 2. The city's scientist and artist organizations have joined hands to present this annual celebration. The exhibition covering more than 6,000 square meters adopts the latest technology. Interactive creation from 14 countries and regions are presented. A series of lectures on science and art will be given, and awards for outstanding work will be granted. Visit kyz.shkp.org.cn/ to receive free e-tickets.

9 am-5pm, Aug 28-Sept 2. Shanghai Exhibition Center, 1000 Yan'an Road M, Shanghai 021-5383-5606.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/otleynews/10651379...

Science the inspiration for artwork
Artworks inspired by contemporary science and micro-imaging will go on display in Otley this weekend.

Greg Townend’s exhibition at the Bono Art Gallery, on Courthouse Street, opens from 6pm to 9pm on Saturday and will run until October 3.

Entitled Sum Over Histories, the exhibition, according to the artist, takes its cue from “a world of elaborate structure without a plan”

http://helenair.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/dancing-with-helena-s...

An astronaught's encounter with dance and his reflections on science-art

http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/TIFF/tims_vermeer-directed_by_teller
A natural fit for his joke-y brand of demystifying the incredible, one half of the bane of the stage magicians' community, Penn and Teller, documents the attempt of his good friend, Tim Jenison, to replicate the style of famous Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

The catch: Tim isn't a painter whatsoever. What he is, is a scientist. As an expert in the field of optics, Tim, partially inspired by the work of two art historians, thinks he's just about cracked the technological innovation he's certain Vermeer used to achieve the uncanny luminescence of his paintings.

Starting from the idea that Vermeer used some sort of camera obscura or at least a lens, the prodigiously clever, indomitable-to-the-point-of-insanity scientist goes about experimenting and attempting to recreate the conditions the original artist would have been working under as accurately as possible.

This zealous pursuit for optimum authenticity leads Tim to learn Dutch, woodworking, how to make paint from scratch and dozens of other skills the average person wouldn't acquire without monetary incentive. As much as this is an obsessive, serious study on the work of Vermeer and how inextricable art and science have been historically linked, Teller knows that his long-time buddy is a fascinating enough character to carry a documentary on his own.

Understanding his subject's sense of humour as only a close friend can, and being a person that makes his living on comedic timing, Teller uses abrupt editing and Tim's witty asides to set up laughs throughout the picture. Clipping along at a brisk pace, as the experiment yields promising results, the film loses some momentum once the process of actually recreating Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" begins.

Enraptured by his friend's extraordinary effort, Teller spends a bit too much time lingering on sessions of countless tiny brush strokes. Augmenting the project's practical thesis, Teller, who serves as narrator and makes the occasional appearance in front of the camera, considers the illusory divide between art and science, using Tim's thoughts to illustrate, along with many historical examples of the two disciplines working in concert, intentionally avoiding any talk of Da Vinci.

It's a logical complementary topic to examine while deconstructing a modern meeting of the forms. Tim's Vermeer isn't especially vital, but it's certainly entertaining.
(Sony)
By Scott A. Gray

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=93855
Encompassing more of an international artistic scope is the exhibit “Imag(in)ing Science,” which features collaborative pieces between IU faculty in the arts and science departments.

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Part 2 of 3 in an NEH Google Hangout series on #STEMandHumanities.

The Hangout participants will explain the STEM-to-STEAM movement and how NEH, NEA, and IMLS projects reflect the charge to integrate

See the below for general updates on themes related to the insterection of art and science and the National Endowment for the Arts. If you would like to be added or removed from this distribution list, please email artandscience@arts.gov. As a reminder, we encourage art and science project applications in our Art Works deadline. Our next deadline will be in March of 2014 and guidelines will be posted here soon after the new year.

From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs: Innovation from the Arts, Humanities and STEM

The NEH will host a Google Hangout On Air on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 from 2:00 to 2:30 PM
Eastern Time. The Hangout will will discuss the STEAM movement and how National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and Institute for Museum and Library Services projects reflect the charge to integrate the arts and STEM. Participants include STEAM Caucus Co-Chairs Aaron Schock and Suzanne Bonamici, Perry Collins from NEH, Bill O'Brien from NEA and RISD President John Maeda. The NEH will host another webinar on the humanities and STEM on September 23. Watch the webinars live here.

The National Endowment for the Arts announces availability of research grant guidelines

Guidelines webinar scheduled for September 18, 2013

Washington, DC--The National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis announces that application guidelines are available for funding through Research: Art Works. This program supports research for projects seeking to use novel research questions and/or techniques to analyze high-quality datasets containing arts variables. To guide potential applicants through the requirements and application process, the NEA will hold a guidelines webinar on September 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM ET. The NEA encourages applications from diverse research fields (e.g., sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology, medicine and health, education, communications, and urban and regional planning) in addition to projects that address topics concerning the value and/or impact of the arts.

The NEA anticipates awarding up to 25 grants in the range of $10,000 to $30,000. The deadline for application submission is November 5, 2013 for projects that can begin as early as May 1, 2014. For grant application information and guidelines, click here

National Endowment for the Arts: Industrial Designers Play a Critical Role in Manufacturing, Technology, and Innovation

Industrial designers develop the concepts for manufactured products such as cars, home and electronic appliances, sporting goods, toys, and more. Working in a range of industries, industrial designers combine art, business, and engineering to make products and improve systems that people use every day. In recent years, they have also helped design user experiences and systems in a process known as "design thinking." For example, industrial designers have worked on teams to improve the way patients and staff interact in the emergency room. Valuing the Art of Industrial Design uses fresh statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office to describe the industrial designer workforce, the sectors that hire them, where industrial designers work, what they and their firms earn, and what kinds of product innovations they make.

Ovation Announces innOVATION Awards Grants

http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-et-0906-loh-down-on-science-r...
Science communication through art
This isn't tomfoolery — each question is rooted in the scientific world and answered by Sandra Tsing Loh on 89.3 KPCC every weekday. Early birds tune in at 5:49 a.m. to hear the five-time author sprinkle facts with fun in her 90-second segment, "The Loh Down on Science." The show's website describes the moniker as a fusion of LOL (laugh out loud) and OH (aha!).

The Pasadena resident recently teamed up with UC Irvine as an adjunct professor of visual art. Her two classes include "Science Communication Skills," a graduate-level course for science majors, and "The Mirror, the Lamp and the I-Phone: Art and Aesthetics." Also, UCI has proffered administrative and financial help for the syndicated radio show, Loh said.

Loh combines what could be considered right- and left-brain specialties. She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a master's as part of the Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
My mantra is that artists are always scientists even if the reverse isn't always true," he said. "Writing is a very big aspect of what we do in the arts. Artists need to be able to write well, explain to people what they're doing and also create proposals

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/illusion-science-gallery/
Nothing is as it Seems: The Art of Illusion at Science Gallery
Some of most amazing contemporary artists working in the realm of optical illusion have been brought together for a fantastic show called Illusion at Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Curated by psychologist and author Richard Wiseman and researched by magician and escapologist (!) Paul Gleeson, the exhibition explores the myriad ways the mind is tricked through sensory deception. The show includes works from Roseline de Thelin, Gregory Barsamian, Matt Kenyon, Jonty Hurwitz (previously), and many more. Illusion runs through September 29, 2013.

From   SymbioticA

-empyre- September Forum Discussions
Bioart: Materials, Practices, Politics
The September 2013 edition of -empyre- is concerned with opening up the conversation around bioart to include a wider audience with a more robust set of concerns.
Bioart has gained considerable attention since the mid 1990s, and this is due in large part to the proliferation of art exhibitions that have featured biotechnological themes and media, and the critical debate that has ensued over what exactly bioart is, and what its effects may be; scientific, aesthetic, political, and otherwise.
In Week 2 of the discussion Oron Catts (AU) and Richard Doyle (US) look at Ethics of the Semi-Living.
http://bit.ly/1ehpkZm

Deep Time / Deep Futures Symposium
23-24 Sept 2013
VILHO, Kuvataideakatemian seminaaritila, Sörnäisten Rantatie 27 C, Helsinki/Finland
Symposium on artistic responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and time in biological, environmental, and geological processes, within which we are embedded. From 15th to 22nd of September 2013, a group of Finnish and international artists, scientist and practitioners met for "Field_Notes - Deep Time", an art&science field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland, organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart. Composed in work groups, think tanks, and workshops they carried out basic interdisciplinary research and field work with specific topics concerning Deep Time and Deep Futures. In the symposium the five work groups will present and discuss their preliminary findings from the working week.
Featuring contributors Tarsh Bates (SymbioticA PhD student) Oron Catts, Perdita Phillips & Kira O'Reilly (former SymbioticA resident Artists).
http://bit.ly/19kkPcS

The Cell in Art and Science
Speakers: Prof. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (Biomedical Engineering) in conversation with Oron Catts (Director of SymboticA)
When: Monday, September 30 - 7:30pm
Where: 501 Northwest Corner Building, Columbia University (NYC)
CUriosity3 is a public seminar program addressing the intersection between Arts and Science with a view to start interesting discussions and debate around the common ground of creative practice and scientific discovery.
http://columbiascience.tumblr.com/tagged/Curiosity3

ARC Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies is a humanities research facility within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland that commenced operation in January 2000. The objective of the Centre is to foster high quality research and to develop the research performance and culture within the Faculty of Arts. The focus of the centre's work is interdisciplinary research in the new humanities, critical and social theory, cultural studies, and media studies. The centre is currently supporting a diversity of research projects in the areas of environmental humanities, surveillance studies, media anthropology, cultural history, television studies, film studies and celebrity.
http://bit.ly/1cEVlsO
Applications close 15 September

Castaways Sculpture Awards 2014
Rockingham Foreshore
10 - 18 May 2014
Non-Acquisitive Prizes for Recycled Sculpture
http://bit.ly/X9lKW9

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics
Istanbul June 26-28 2014
The Third Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference at the intersections of art, science and culture seeks papers that explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. Clouding occurs when information becomes veiled, foggy, fuzzy, obscure or secretive, or when it condenses, blooms and accretes into atmospheres of chaotic turbulence and pressure vectors, into tidal flows and storms. The cloud also is a new formation of data as a global and seemingly immaterial distribution of storage and means of retrieval. This data cloud exists everywhere and yet is nowhere in particular. As with the protocols of bit torrent files, the cloud provides a new concept of sound and image "assembly", distinct from and beyond the materialist machinic diagrams and the practices of re-mixing or remediation that became characteristic of late twentieth-century and millennial aesthetics. The cloud is not an object but an experience and its particles are the very building blocks of a molecular aesthetic in which we live and act.
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/
Deadline for abstracts is Dec 14th 2013
PostNatural - SLSA 2013
The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Location: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (USA)
Dates: October 3-6, 2013
The planet's poles are melting, alpine ice is in retreat, oceans are rising, island nations are disappearing, species vectors are shifting, tropical diseases are moving north, northern natures-cultures are moving into extinction. Acidification of ocean water already threatens food chains both natural and human while dead zones blossom and coral bleaches. Natural states of exception-historic wildfires, droughts, floods, "snowmageddons" and shoreline erosion-are the norm. Reality overshoots computer models of global warming even as CO2 emissions escalate faster than predicted, with no end in sight. Yet none of this has altered our way of living or our way of thinking: as Fredric Jameson noted, we can imagine the collapse of the planet more easily than the fall of capitalism.
http://litsciarts.org/slsa13/

http://rbth.ru/arts/2013/09/06/science_art_exhibition_to_be_opened_...

Science art exhibition to be opened in Moscow

Disappearing paintings, a cockroach controlling a robot and pigeon droppings used as a cleaning agent—new works by contemporary Russian and foreign artists that combine science and art will be shown at the “eCONSCIOUSNESS” exhibition in Moscow.

The environmental art exhibition “eCONSCIOUSNESS” is set to be held in Moscow on Sept. 18–22 in the Central House of Artists (CHA). The event is part of the ambitious SCIENCE ART program directed by the Moscow Lomonosov State University and the CHA.

Curators want to not only draw public attention to environmental protection issues and promote environmental awareness through art, but also create new ways of interaction between living organisms and their environment.

Biological art expresses artists’ interests in innovative biotechnology, through which living organisms, tissues and cells become mediums of art. Among the installations are also displays that offer specific solutions to environmental problems based on the achievements of modern science.

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/newsnow/x1868835274/Exploring-The-La...
Exploring The Last Green Valley: Science became art in hands of prolific Dr. Allard

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The Last Green Valley can certainly boast about one such scientist/artist — Dr. Harry Ardell Allard. He was born in Oxford, Mass., in 1880.

By all accounts, Allard had an energetic and independent spirit. Just after he graduated from high school in 1899, he ran away, not to join the circus, but to take work on a steamer carrying cattle to England. It was his intention to go from there to South Africa and fight with the Boers against the British. But Britain had instituted travel restrictions to South Africa and poor Harry found himself marooned.

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http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/Behold+Beakerhead+festival+mash...
Behold, Beakerhead: festival mashes up science, engineering and the arts

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813...
Art with a social conscience
The industrial landscapes of the British painter L S Lowry (1887—1976), populated by his idiosyncratic stick figures, are instantly recognisable. As critic Jessica Stephens wrote in 1928, “The work of Mr L. S. Lowry has qualities that make it very difficult to forget”. Although his art might appear naive, his artistic agenda was socially aware: “My ambition was to put the industrial scene on the map because nobody had done it, nobody had done it seriously.”
Curated by T J Clark and Anne M Wagner, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life at the Tate Britain transforms our understanding of the artist's oeuvre. His choice of subject matter was sophisticated, influenced by the French modern tradition, from the late 19th century onwards, of painting the reality of life. The exhibition highlights how Lowry always engaged with the appalling social conditions that existed in Salford as a result of poor housing and medical care, which he observed during the 40 years he walked its streets as a rent collector.

http://www.660news.com/2013/09/09/arts-science-and-engineering-to-m...
Arts, science and engineering to merge in first-ever Beakerhead
What happens when art and science collide? Calgarians get a new exhibit called Beakerhead that’s guaranteed to blow their minds.

It’s the brainchild of two people, one the co-founder and the former host of Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel.

Jay Ingram tells 660News ‘Beakerhead’ is an interactive movement with 70 different contributors.

Their goal is to show creativity through their works of art, spectacle and entertainment in downtown Calgary.

Ingram hopes this exhibit will allow people to look at engineering in a different light.

“People think of engineers as doing fairly important but kind of industrial and not really creative things,” he says. “And I think what Beakerhead will show is that their is a creative side to engineering and we’re going to try to bring it to the streets of Calgary.”

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/09/5719243/vt-museum-to-feature-botan...
Vt. museum to feature botanical illustrations

http://www.visualnews.com/2013/09/09/inspiring-artwork-paper-engine...
The Inspiring Artwork of Paper Engineer Matt Shlian (and How It’s Inspiring Nano-Scientists)
Matt Shlian started school as a ceramicist… but it was only when he realized that he was “interested in everything” that his work really took off. He creates sculptural artworks from flat pieces of paper that show the incredible diversity of the medium while creating beautifully inspiring forms. They are also doing something rather surprising: inspiring scientists.

Along with a team at the University of Michigan he won the NSF (National Science Foundation) award on a nano-origami project that combines both art and engineering. In the process (and as he further explains in his
Tedx Talk) he’s using his art to help others understand the flexible nature of nano-structures. It’s not the first thing you think of when it comes to cutting and folding paper.

Shlian’s process is an interesting one, and one that other creatives should take note of: he often works within a series of limitations.

“For example on one piece I’ll only use curved folds, or make my lines this length or that angle etc,” he tells Strictly Paper. “Other times I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow. Along the way something usually goes wrong and a mistake becomes more interesting than the original idea and I work with that instead.”

To learn more about this impressive and unconventional artist see his Tedx Talk and video with Ghostly International below, then head to mattshlian.com.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/09/10/the-drawi...
The Drawings Behind Charles R. Knight’s Famous Paintings

http://www.sunraysiadaily.com.au/story/1767613/fusing-art-and-scien...
Fusing art and science
METHODS for raising awareness surrounding animal conservation in Australia have been revitalised­ by Brisbane artist Keith Armstrong in his latest exhibition Pitfall, currently on display­ at the Mildura Arts Centre.

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/09/10/3195675/bellingham-museu...

Fly kites and skimboard during Birch Bay celebration
Bellingham museum event focuses on water in art, science

http://au.artshub.com/au/news-article/news/arts/art-meets-science-m...
Art meets science meets imagination

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/09/10/77912/
The Art of Steve Miller – Crossing the Line Between Art and Science
Rod MacKinnon, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist at Rockefeller University, was at New York’s Brookhaven National Laboratory studying the structures of human proteins, when his and Steve Miller’s worlds collided. Miller, an artist who splits his time between New York City and the Hamptons, was visiting Brookhaven to better understand the types of advanced imaging that scientists use.
The meeting inspired Miller to incorporate some of MacKinnon’s scientific notes and computer models into a series of paintings. It seemed logical to him to combine the creative output of an artist and a scientist. ”We’re all asking questions, trying to understand what forces make or shape who we are,” says Miller.

The pair had a similar interest, according to Marvin Heiferman, curator of an exhibition of 11 of Miller’s paintings now at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. “MacKinnon was investigating how potassium ions moved across cell membranes. Miller’s work engages itself with the crossing of borders as well: moving back and forth between photography and painting, shifting from micro to macro scale, combining representational and abstract imagery and what is theorized with what can be seen,” writes Heiferman in an introduction to the exhibition, aptly named “Crossing the Line.”
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/09/crossing-the-lin...

http://pacifica.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/new-arts-and-science...
New Arts and Science Center in Pacifica Hosts Conversation Series

The George Greenstein Institute launches "Courage by the Sea: The Minds of Ocean Heroes" this month at the Oceana Art Gallery in Pacifica.
Founder M.A. Greenstein, Ph.D., a life long mentor of creatives in applied neuroscience, brainfulness and design thinking, envisioned the institute and conceived the Inventio!Brains System to bring her experiences to a broad audience of people curious about their brain and how to make it work better for them.

http://www.gizmag.com/cern-lhc-atlas-mural/28871/
ATLAS: At the crossroads of art and science
"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski

The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is currently the Large Hadron Collider bridging the border of France and Switzerland. The control building of the ATLAS detector, one of two general purpose particle detectors built with the LHC, has found itself adorned with a magnificently bright mural. The story of how the mural came about provides a fascinating glimpse at the crossroads of art and science.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/485751/art-movement-stirs-science-town
Art movement stirs science town

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/09/northwest_port...

Northwest Portland sculptor molds art from science

Julian Voss-Andreae works on his latest sculpture, a collagen molecule piece for Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Artist Julian Voss-Andreae gets very excited about proteins.

For his latest sculpture, he used compound cuts to make one-dimensional pieces of metal into three-dimensional objects — “just like amino acids do” to create proteins, he says. “It’s the same trick nature uses to go from 1-D to 3-D.”

The German artist has a deep science background. He studied physics, mathematics, and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna, focusing on quantum physics for his graduate research. But when he moved to the United States with his Portlander wife, he returned to art. In 2004 he graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in the Pearl District, and now he works out of a large warehouse in Portland's Northwest Industrial District.

His understanding of atoms and molecules gives his science-related and female form pieces depth that appeals to institutions like Rutgers University, which recently commissioned him to create a piece for its Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, a new facility that seeks to foster studies of complex biomolecular phenomena across disciplines — computational chemistry, structural biology, mechanistic enzymology, and bioinformatics.

The center’s founder, Dr. Helen M. Berman, is a fan of Voss-Andreae’s other science-related sculptures, fascinated that someone from the arts could do something so beautiful with science.

http://photos.oregonlive.com/4450/gallery/_northwest_portland_sculp...

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/11/2776916/go-arts-artscience...
The Tacoma Art+Science Salon, an initiative of the University of Puget Sound usually held at Tacoma Art Museum, will move this month to UPS’ Kittredge Gallery, where the art focus will shift to music for an evening exploring computer-performed or generated music.

Seattle cellist David Balatero, Polish composer and musician Marcin Paczkowski and Seattle saxophonist Ivan Arteaga will perform music that’s either performed by computer or created via machine learning on both analog and digital devices. There will be food, conversation with the musicians and social time, as well as an informal panel of musicians and UPS professors to talk about the intersection of music and technology.

The salon is part of a monthly series on third Thursdays, bringing scientists, artists and interdisciplinary thinkers together through conversations and collaborations.

6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 19. Free. Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., Tacoma. 253-879-3236, pugetsound.edu/artsci

http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/18565/is-a-science-student-smarte...
Is a ‘science student’ smarter than an ‘arts student’?

http://www.pr.com/press-release/514895
Brain Tumor Survivor Shares Art and Science Via New Online Business
Two years ago, Paul Franklin Smith underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor; today, he’s finishing a university degree and building a web-based business: Neuronico Art & Neuroscience.

Monterey, CA, September 11, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Paul feels fortunate to be alive and enjoying the stunning coastline near his Monterey, California home. He uses two hiking poles to steady himself as he moves along a trail overlooking the Carmel River Mouth; neck straps hold a pair of binoculars and a camera, which he pauses to use often. Paul takes obvious pleasure in being here, kneeling to examine flowers and foliage, raising his binoculars to study sea otters floating in the kelp offshore, or gazing across the water at fog drifting through the trees at Point Lobos.

“I remember rolling down a hallway on a gurney on my way to the operating room, knowing that I would either wake up after surgery or I wouldn’t,” says Paul. “I was calm; I had had time to think things through, and I felt I was in good hands medically. One can’t help but feel some sadness, though, at the gravity of the situation, and the loss of control. Just before arriving at the O.R., I saw windows on the left side of the hallway, and seeing the greenery of landscaping and a little patch of blue sky made me smile. A few feet later we made a right turn into the operating room, which seemed large and packed with equipment. The anesthesiologist said a few words, put a mask over my nose and mouth, and I was out.”

Fortunately, Paul did wake up after surgery, and green plants and blue sky still make him smile. He’s remarkably intact, too, but Paul says, “I am slightly altered. I’m better at some things, worse at others, and less stable on my feet. It was a life-changing experience finding out I had a brain tumor, having the operation, and deciding what to do with my life. Finishing my degree, even though I’m older than most students, became a priority, and creative expression now feels like a visceral need.” This creative drive keeps Paul inspired while builds the elaborate photo-based image compositions he offers as prints on his new website.

Paul has played piano since childhood, and enjoyed photography his entire adult life. With his website Neuronico Art & Neuroscience (http://SEE.neuronico.net), he has managed to share with the world his academic interests - psychology and neuroscience - and his creative efforts: stunning image compositions built from nature photographs which have been altered and combined in playful ways. Each is colorful and engaging, and each has a voice which, as Paul states with a wry smile, “clearly states something which can’t quite be put into words.”

Neuronico Neuroscience & Art (http://SEE.neuronico.net) is the first website to launch in a series exploring junctions between brain science and culture. It features the art and writing of Paul Franklin Smith, and offers art prints for purchase. Contact psmith@neuronico.net.

Read this very boring article and the videos:

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3017297/how-fiction-influences-science-...

How Fiction Influences Science, According to Google Creative Lab's Robert Wong
By: Joe Berkowitz

http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/73103/details-released-for-2013-sy...
Details released for 2013 symposium at Berlin University of the Arts
A symposium entitled “Perception, Experience, Experiment, Knowledge” is to take place from 10 to 12 October 2013, at the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences of the Berlin University of the Arts.

The show seeks to question the different forms of interaction between art and science, particularly the concepts of objectivity and subjectivity. These ideas are central to the research of nearly all artists working together with graduates on projects, as well as a key part of the international and interdisciplinary programs offered by the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts.

While the term “objective” is easily attributable to the sciences, the arts are labelled as “subjective”. Along the line between the two can be found definitions of artistic and scientific practices. Being that the aim of the Graduate School is to facilitate a dialogue between the arts, the sciences and the humanities, the symposium brings together specialists in all of these fields.

The Graduate School is proposing a program based on intellectual exchange between these different disciplines. The introduction of the symposium is to focus on these notions of objectivity and subjectivity, and is to be followed by five panels on the themes of: Perception (I), Experiment (II), Research (III), Revisions (IV), and Reversions (V), as well as three readings addressing the role of knowledge within artistic practices. Projects by fifteen researchers are also to be exhibited, along with samples, archive material, concerts and documents.

The speakers who are to present include: Michael Annoff, Alberto de Campo, Alice Creischer, Thomas Düllo, Anke Eckardt, Eric Ellingsen, Peter L. Galison, Renée Green, Jens Hauser, Stefan Hayn, Anke Hennig, Ulrike Hentschel, Paula Hildebrandt, Echo Ho, Birgit Hopfener, Stefan Hölscher, Anthony Iles, Valentina Karga, Rotraud Kern, Eva Könnemann, Juliane Laitzsch, Genoël Lilienstern,Yutaka Makino, Tanja Ostojic, Hendrik Quast, Judith Raum, Bert Rebhandl, Martin Rennert, Gerhard Schultz, Klaus Spiess, Susanne Stemmler, Lucie Strecker, Lioudmila Voropai, Emma Wolukau–Wanambwa, Lukas Wegwerth, and Dan Zahavi

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24189-gold-for-chicken-art-pr...
Gold for chicken art project with our health in mind
What do you get if you cross a Belgian chicken and a French chicken? A work of art, according to conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen. The judges of this year's Prix Ars Electronica at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, obviously agree.

Last weekend, the Belgian artist received a much-coveted Golden Nica award for his long-running Cosmopolitan Chicken Project. At its heart is an ambitious breeding programme that aims to distil the genetic diversity of the world's chicken breeds into a single "cosmopolitan" animal.

Every time his chicken-related artwork goes on show in a museum or cultural space, it raises a big debate about globalisation, multiculturalism, art and science, says Vanmechelen. "The whole project stands for bio- and cultural diversity."

Vanmechelen conceived the project in the late 1990s. Since then, his chickens have inspired an extraordinary diversity of artistic outputs including paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures, installations, lectures and taxidermy. But for Venmechelen, the real works of art are the novel breeds of chicken that he has created on a 10-acre site near Meeuwen on the border of Belgium and France.

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It's not rocket science... it's rocket art

'Rocketship' becomes icon at Beakerhead

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Art and science joined in Fort Worden project

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Art + Science = A Change of Focus

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The science and art festival that brings these together for everyone to enjoy, showing how science is fun and relevant to our everyday lives. From 6 pm onwards, a number of young scientists, researchers and artists will be welcoming the public to a festive evening that will include music, demonstrations, debates, scientific cafes, hands-on experiments, street art, exhibitions, films, children's shows and many interactive activities.

The full programme was presented today to the news media and festival contributors by the consortium led by the University of Malta Research Trust (RIDT) and the Malta Chamber of Scientists.

The activities will be held at selected locations and venues in Valletta, running from the Upper Barrakka, Castille and St James Cavalier, down both Republic Street and Merchant Street to St George's Square and the Old Market Square, respectively.

"Science in the City aims to create curiosity towards science, innovation and new technology," said Professor Alex Felice, the Project Coordinator. "We would like to show the public that there is a fair amount of high quality research happening in Malta. We have very valid research projects going on at our University. Science in the City is bringing the researchers closer to the public and highlighting how Maltese society is benefiting from the results of their research and scientific work."

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Full Report: British Science Festival draws to a close
This year's British Science Festival is drawing to a close on Tyneside, but the all important research goes on.

An ambitious project is taking place at the Baltic 39 art gallery in Newcastle.

One of the things that makes human beings unique is our ability to appreciate art and scientists are trying to work out why this is by examining the human brain.

Watch the video based on how art is seen and perceived by brains here:

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Holderness School Exhibit Explores Intersection of Art, Math and Science

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Art and science joined in Fort Worden project
A new public art project and interactive nature trail winds its way through Fort Worden State Park this month.

Blazed by a team of artists and soil scientists — collaborators for more than a year — “The Soil Remembers” takes an up-close look at the history and geology of the area from the perspective of soil and the microbes living within it.

Contributors were public artist Deanna Pindell, Kansas-based soils scientist and artist Rhonda Janke, local painter Dawn Sagar and soils scientist John Fleming.

The team began its work by taking soil samples from a variety of different ecosystems.
A website at www.soilremembers.com rounds out the project, featuring educational information on soils and the geology of the fort, instructions on making art paints from soil and advice on working with microbes in your own soil to make delicately imprinted cloths.

“The Soil Remembers” was funded in full by the artists as a gift to the community.

It began two years ago under the Site-Specific Art program at Goddard College and was installed on the fort grounds for three weeks in 2012. This year's installation is independent of the college.

For more information, email Deanna Pindell at deannapindell@earthlink.net.

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Ambient Plagues Unleashed
Ambient Plagues have been unleashed upon my fair city of Toronto by Elaine Whittaker at the Redhead Gallery.

The show opened September 4th, 2013.
Whittaker is a sculptor, encaustic painter and mixed media installation artist in Toronto, and one of the preeminent sciartists in the fine art scene.
Through sculpture, photography, microscopy, and live bacteria, the artworks blur the boundaries between what is real and what is manufactured, what is animate and what is inanimate. Ultimately, they challenge viewers’ perceptions about their bodies, a site that has become trespassed, tainted, and contaminated by a popular culture that escalates social anxiety and terror of microbes, by artificially creating a sense of bioparanoia.

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ALJ students in Clark use art to express knowledge of science

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Carroll / Fletcher announces representation of German artist, adventurer and future Astronaut

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7 Rediscovered Paintings by Famous Artists

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STEAM programs blend science and art education

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The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will host an installation by the art group Recycle, and the shows “Positive / Negative” and “Videonale.14 on Tour” will be presented. In addition, under a joint project of the Scientific Art of CHA and Moscow State University, the exhibition “eCONSCIOUSNESS” will showcase the latest science-art research projects, which explore the intersection of science and the environment.

In their works, artists actualize the issues of social and environmental responsibility, demonstrating the full range of environmental issues—from the interaction of living organisms and their communities to each other, to their interaction with the environment.

At the science-art exhibition, the "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot" by Garnet Hertz from the United States and "Decon" by Marta de Menezes from Portugal can be viewed.

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New UMass Dartmouth studio designed to link arts, sciences

“Leonardo da Vinci, if he knew what was going on with arts and science, he’d be disappointed,” said Brett Sylvia, a sculpting student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Sylvia was referring to the fact that usually, on college campuses, the arts and sciences exist as separate disciplines.

And, of course, da Vinci was famously both a scientist and an artist.

But in today’s business world, engineers and artists collaborate on projects. So why should it be that on college campuses, that engineering and art students don’t collaborate?

The new IDEAStudio — Innovation, Design, Engineering and Art — at UMass Dartmouth hopes to address that, fostering collaboration among engineering and art students. It’s located in the textiles building near the Charlton College of Business and the Carney Library.

“Artists and engineers work together in the real world,” said Chip Hildreth, who graduated from UMass with a degree in electrical engineering in 1985. “This collaborative approach must be encouraged sooner.”

From Leonardo:
NAUGURAL UC SANTA CRUZ LASER: 8 OCTOBER 2013
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz presents its inaugural Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), ?Exploring the Frontiers of Knowledge and Imagination, Fostering Interdisciplinary Networking,? 8 October 2013, 6:45 p.m. Speakers will lay the foundation for the series by speaking about the intertwining of art and science. Questions like "why art and science" and "why now" will provide context for the series as a local forum for presenting art and science projects underway throughout the University of California, in the Bay Area, and beyond. Presenters include Ken Goldberg, New Media, UC Berkeley; Jennifer A. Gonz?lez, History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC; Gregory Laughlin, Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCSC; Piero Scaruffi, Founder, LASER Series; Gail Wight, Art and Art History, Stanford. Location: UCSC, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Rm. 108. For more information, contact the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at!
ias@ucsc.edu.
NEXT DASER: 19 SEPTEMBER 2013
Join us for the next DASER on Thursday, 19 September 2013, 6 PM at the Keck Center, Washington, D.C. Speakers include director of the American Meterological Society Education Program Jim Brey, neuroscientist and neurothicist Jim Giordano, assistant professor of entomology and biology David Hughes and artist and professor of art Judith Waller. The event is free and open to the public. Registration and photo ID required. For those of you who will not be able to make it, the event will be webcast live starting at 5:30 PM.

SPECIAL NYC LASER: 24 SEPTEMBER 2013
A special NYC LASER will take place Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 6:30?8:30 PM at LevyArts to discuss SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine, a traveling exhibition curated by Nina Czegledy and appearing at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery 19 September?9 November 2013, that aims to investigate changing corporeal perceptions influenced by scientific, social, political and cultural interpretations. SPLICE presents a scientific gaze at the human body by showcasing historic anatomical art as both complemented and challenged by international contemporary artworks. Discussants will include Jack Butler from Toronto, Canada, Joyce Cutler Shaw from San Diego, U.S.A., and SPLICE project curator Nina Czegledy from Toronto, Canada. This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited; to reserve your place, send an email to Ellen Levy at .

MATHEMATICAL RHYMES: 6 SEPTEMBER?6 OCTOBER
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, in conjunction with Operational and Curatorial Research as well as Boston Cyberarts, is pleased to present Mathematical Rhymes, an exploration of art-making practices based in algorithmic and mathematical systems that translate into generative forms of moving image media. The exhibition pairs some of the earliest artworks dealing with the aesthetics of code and the structure of the computer screen with contemporary artists working with the visual and aural effects of computer data and networked technologies. By showcasing influential historical predecessors identified with the beginnings of computer art (Stephen Beck, Manfred Mohr, Lillian Schwartz and Stan VanDerBeek) alongside leading contemporary experimental media artists (Ryoichi Kurokawa, Yoshi Sodeoka and Casey Reas), Mathematical Rhymes promotes an expansive view of the procedural logic and imaginary that characterizes the aesthetic program of generative art.
Find out more programmes like these at:
http://www.leonardo.info