http://columbiascience.tumblr.com/tagged/Curiosity3#!
Title: ”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

Register: Eventbrite

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. For further events in the series, visit bit.ly/CUriosity3

http://artdaily.com/news/65016/Carroll---Fletcher-announces-represe...
Carroll / Fletcher announces representation of German artist, adventurer and future Astronaut Michael Najjar

Carroll / Fletcher announced that they now represent Michael Najjar. Michael Najjar is a German artist, adventurer and - future Astronaut. Born in 1966, he has lived and worked in berlin since 1988. He works with photography and video, and has been shown in museums, galleries and biennials around the world. The focus of his work is on key elements of our modern society driven and controlled by computer and information technologies. Najjar, widely seen as a visual futurist, transmutes science, history and philosophy into visions and utopias of future social structures emerging under the impact of cutting-edge technologies.

http://news.pioneergroup.com/manisteenews/2013/09/17/science-in-art...
Science in Art” at WSCC’s Manierre Dawson Gallery
Posted by MNA Staff on September 17th, 2013

SCOTTVILLE — The Manierre Dawson Gallery on the campus of West Shore Community College is hosting a new exhibit, Science in Art, until Oct. 25. The four artists included in the exhibit were inspired by the natural world or the abstract world of mathematics and physics. In the photographs of John Poindexter and the ceramic

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/09/17/new-frosh-programs-bring-ar...
As the class of 2017 arrived at Stanford on Tuesday, 88 of its members moved into Burbank house in Stern Hall to take part in two new integrated learning environments for the upcoming academic year: ITALIC and SIMILE.

The newly established programs center on a yearlong, residence-based learning experience similar to the existing Structured Liberal Education program (SLE) but with an emphasis on different subjects. Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture (ITALIC) will focus on the arts, while Science in the Making: Integrated Learning Environment (SIMILE) will have curriculum based on the history of science.

Both programs, which were very popular among incoming freshmen, are intended to give students an opportunity to look at traditional subjects in fresh ways.

“We’re pretty excited about them and excited about the fact that they offer freshmen an alternative that might be right for them in terms of fulfilling requirements,” said Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Harry Elam.

http://one.arch.tamu.edu/news/2013/9/18/steam/
Movement to integrate science, art education gathering STEAM
Artists approach problem solving differently than scientists do,” said LaFayette, who heads the Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design on behalf of the National Science Foundation. “While we are all creative, scientists bring specific knowledge and consistent approaches to solving problems. Artists, on the other hand, understand how to engage people in an issue and attempt to solve problems in ways that scientists and engineers might not think about. What can result when scientists and artists collaborate," she said, "is an innovative solution that combines these approaches.”

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/18/5745811/museum-expert-to-share-how...
Museum expert to share how science helps save art

Mich. -- Using science to help understand the past — and determine the future — of artwork is the topic of a talk by a Detroit Institute of Arts expert.

The art museum's director of conservation and special projects will speak Wednesday morning at the Lorenzo Cultural Center in Macomb County's Clinton Township. Barbara Heller will describe how she and her colleagues use everything from X-ray technology to pigment analysis to figure out the best way treat and store pieces.

Admission is free but registration is required.

The center is part of Macomb Community College and named after former college President Albert Lorenzo.

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Online:

www.lorenzoculturalcenter.com

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Radio-Telescope-Project-Combines-...
Science, Meet Art
Madison, FL - Local college instructors have found a very unique way to combine art and science.

It's a radio telescope. It's a work of art. It's both.

"This is a beautiful marriage of art and science together." Says, Mark Dickson, an adjunct instructor at North Florida Community College in Madison.

The art and science departments at NFCC have collaborated to create a functioning radio telescope displayed on an art sculpture.

The sculpture is about eleven feet tall and the radio telescope dish is seven feet wide.

The telescope will be used to teach science, physics, and astronomy and instructors say it can explore radio signals from the sun, the galactic center of the Milky Way, and cosmic background radiation.

Guenter Maresch, Ph.D., NFCC Physics & Astronomy Instructor, says, "We do labs to observe the sky and actually make images of the sky in the radio wave part of the spectrum."

The steel base of the telescope was designed by Tallahassee sculptor Mark Dickson.

He says, "This is a pretty exciting project to be a part of. It's kind of like one of those once-in-a-lifetime unique projects."

The project is the fifth installation of the Public Art Projects, which showcases works of art throughout campus to expose students to art.

Lisa Thompson, an NFCC Art Instructor, says, "It's important to be able to tap into that creative side of your brain. I think that art enables you to do that. It opens up possibilities in all sorts of fields."

The piece of art/science is displayed behind the science building.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/18/maria-sibylla-mer...
Art, Science, and Butterfly Metamorphosis: How a 17th-Century Woman Laid the Foundations of Modern Entomology
by Maria Popova
Remarkable drawings that shaped the course of science and radically defied gender norms.

At a time when women in science were a rarity, German-born naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) did for the study of insects what pioneering fossil-hunter Mary Anning did for paleontology and egg collector and scientific illustrator Genevieve Jones did for ornithology. One of the most important contributors to the field of entomology in the history of science, her studies of insects in Surinam, documented in her meticulous and elaborate drawings — which are rediscovered and celebrated anew every few decades, including in a recent exhibition at the Getty Museum — were especially influential in shaping our understanding of the metamorphosis of the butterfly and laid the foundation for modern entomology.

http://thefinchandpea.com/2013/09/18/the-art-of-science-sticks-and-...
The Art of Science: Sticks and Swells
When I came across a photo of a Marshall Islands stick chart on Tumblr, I had no idea that it was anything other than an elegant piece of modern art. I was very surprised to discover that the stick chart was an important piece of navigational equipment that was in active use for thousands of years.

The Marshall Islands are a group of over a thousand small islands in the northern Pacific, which were settled in the second millennium BC. Stick charts were an ingenious way to navigate among the islands by canoe. The charts, made from coconut fronds tied together in an open framework, depicted major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns. Shells were sometimes tied to the framework to represent the position of islands. Reading and interpreting the charts was a crucial skill handed down through generations.

The Marshallese continued to use canoes and stick charts for navigation until the mid-20th century, when they gradually switched to motorboats and electronic navigation systems. The charts survive not only as history, but as an art form deeply imbued with the values of an ancient, ocean-centric culture.

http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/seeking-artists-ports...!
1. The Art Exhibit at the Joint Math Meeting in Baltimore

(international, mathemagical)

The first is the Joint Math Meeting Art Exhibit. If you do mathematics themed art, this is a well trafficed exhibit right smack in the middle of the Exposition part of the Joint Mathematics Meeting. Think thousands and thousands of math teachers, math professors, people who use a lot of math, people who like math, the NSA, etc. all stopping by to view your art. The exhibit is international (very international) in scope and is selective. They look for high artistic quality and a fair degree of mathematical sophistication, and they are open to all media (I mean really open to all media and not just saying so). The Bridges organization runs the exhibit, and they do a very good job of promoting to their audience (mathemagical people), maintain an online gallery and archives, and publish a print catalog. Artists get a free copy of the print catalog and Bridges covers return shipping for artwork shipped from out of state. if you’ll be in the area, artists also get to attend the math meeting for free!

The Joint Math Meeting will be held in Baltimore in January. The Art exhibit is now open for submissions. Submissions may be made through October 15 at http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/. Full details are available on the submission site. More information on the meeting is available at http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2014/2160_....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-19/artworks-show-beauty-of-natur...
Artworks show beauty of natural science
A collection of artworks inspired by the natural world and science has been unveiled at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra.

The collection includes 33 winning and highly commended entries for the 11th annual Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

http://the-riotact.com/waterhouse-natural-science-art-prize-winners...

http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=32356.php
Robot opera results from art and science collaboration

http://scvnews.com/2013/09/19/science-meets-art-at-coc-commentary-b...
Science Meets Art at COC
College of the Canyons Art Gallery unveiled its newest installation, “Life as Art: Images from an Unseen World,” exposing the unlikely combination of science and art.
“This show is really a unique collaboration process, but the idea began about 10 years ago with a book my parents gave me, ‘Micro Art Images in a Hidden World,’” he said.

The book is displayed with the micrographs creating photographic fine art from a water sample from Bridgeport, a hummingbird’s feather and rat intestines, just to name a few of the unseen hidden images.

“I’ve always loved what I saw in a microscope,” said Kelly Burke. “But now I’m excited to share it with the community. It’s truly amazing.”
The exhibition will disappear from view Sept. 28.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/09/laurie-andersons-art-tu...
Performance artist Laurie Anderson continues to address the effects of technology and alienation on modern-day society in her latest work, “Dirtday!” She performs it Sept. 21 at the State Theatre, and joins a panel discussion on art and science Sept. 22 as part of the Museum of the Earth’s 10th anniversary celebration.

“Dirtday!” is “a series of linked stories, kind of my favorite mode to work in, which leaves a lot of room for people to make connections between them,” Anderson said. “They are ranging all over the place, from theories about evolution to some sort of dreamlike imagery.”

Performed around the world since 2012, “Dirtday!” is more storytelling than multimedia – there are some short films, music and a minimal stage set: a comfortable chair, about 80 candles and a music stand.

http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2013/september/story96947.html
Electrical Engineer Turns Particle Physics into Art
Particle accelerators are massive structures, used to find the tiniest details of our universe. Scientists around the world flock to these facilities to try out theories, hunt for particles and seek to understand a fully unified theory of physics.
Johnson’s work goes beyond the science at this facility, though. Fusing science and creativity, he crafts art from the energy of the Tevatron.
A few years into his tenure in Batavia, Johnson met some like-minded scientist-artists. “Around 2005 I met Bert Hickman, a retired engineer from Lucent who was very much into high voltage hobbies,” Johnson explains. “He, along with a couple other associates, had been developing a recipe to make Lichtenberg Figures (sculptures making use of branching electric discharges) in acrylic plastic, using a particle accelerator (a technique going back to the 1940's, actually). I volunteered to assist on one of their production runs in 2007 and was immediately fascinated by the process and the possibilities for pushing the technique fuarther.

Johnson has been working on his own pieces since then. “We only get to do this at most two days a year, so there is a lot of careful planning involved, and the progress in techniques is fairly slow, but we're now doing things no one has ever done before with this medium,” he says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24177683
Science Museum opens art archive in Media Space
The Science Museum has launched a photography and art gallery to show off its extensive collection that has been largely hidden.

The £4.5m project is a collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum in Bradford.

The Media Space opens on 21 September.
Mr Blatchford said there was a definite correlation between art and science and said Vivienne Westwood had put it best in a speech she gave at the museum.

"When people say what do scientists have in common with artists, she said 'basically there are two types of people in the world and the thing about great artists and great scientists is that they have great imagination - they can see the world differently', and so that's why having great artists here is very valuable," he said.

The Media Space is running two very different exhibitions for its launch: one featuring the work of respected photographers Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, and the other a digital installation using the latest techniques and user interactivity.

http://hinsdale.suntimes.com/things-to-do/arts/picasso-HIN-09192013...
Hinsdale Central drama explores art and science
Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso walk into a bar . . .

That’s the setting for the Hinsdale Central High School Drama Club’s first play of the school year. The club will perform “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” next week.

Comedian, actor and writer Steve Martin’s play tells of a fictional meeting of Einstein and Picasso in a Paris bar in 1904.

“It’s set about a year before Picasso and Einstein really become famous,” said Jackson Dockery, a junior from Clarendon Hills, who plays an art dealer in the play.

“Steve Martin is a great writer,” Dockery said. “Einstein and Picasso really play off each other.”

The play poses the questions, “What defines a genius?” and “What affects our society more, art or science?” Dockery said.

He believes the way Picasso and Einstein are portrayed is fairly authentic, although the actors are free to interpret the characters.

“We all make the characters our own,” Dockery said. “I watched other productions on You Tube that are completely different from this one.”

The play, with 11 roles, is a good fit for the Drama Club.

“Everyone is perfectly cast, and everyone has their time to shine,” Dockery said. “No matter how big or small their part, they’re hilarious.”

http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Beakerhead+festival+succ...
The perfect way to close out the last weekend of summer 2013 was by attending any of the scores of Beakerhead events.

Beakerhead, which ran Sept. 11-15, was billed as “The most amazing convergence of art, science and engineering.” Further, the festival “brings together art and engineering from across the city, province, country and world to build, compete and exhibit interactive works of art, spectacle and entertainment during an annual weeklong smash-up of art, science and engineering each fall.”

http://nerdlypainter.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/painting-with-glass-l...!
Fun with Optics
An attempt at stacking the lenses and optics incorporated into a painting

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/new-media-exhibition-space-launches...
New Media Exhibition Space Launches At London's Science Museum
Opening this weekend 21 September 2013 at the Science Museum in Kensington,London is Media Space a brand new exhibition area. It will showcase the National Photography Collection held by the National Media Museum through a series of major shows. A collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum, Media Space will also invite photographers, artists and the creative industries to respond to the wider collections of the Science Museum Group to explore visual media, technology and science.

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/arts/headlines/20130921-art...
Art: Nine exhibitions to see in Dallas-Fort Worth Dallas Morning News
This show involves the fascinating interrelationship of art and science in Islamic culture, and all the objects chosen deal in some way with light, or in Arabic.

http://dailyranger.com/story.php?story_id=9229&headline=Innovat...
Innovative mural at Health/Sci rarely looks the same twice

Sep 22, 2013 - By Katie Roenigk, Staff Writer

The new mural hanging in the Health and Science Center at Central Wyoming College is likely to draw a second look from passersby.

The art piece is made up of 42 eight-by-eight-inch glass tiles that create the illusion of movement as they portray objects and scenes specific to the facility and the region. The images follow a scientific theme, beginning with a single atom and eventually growing to incorporate the entire galaxy.

"This is really the perfect blend of art and science," said Kathi Miller, a community member who helped pick the artwork. "I just can't imagine a better piece."

Imag(in)ing Science
The Grunwald Gallery of Art presented Imag(in)ing Science, an exhibit and series of events based on collaborative projects by artist and scientist teams from Indiana University. The exhibit opened to the public with a panel discussion on Friday, August 30, from 5 to 6pm in the Grunwald Gallery. The panel discussion featured several of the artist/scientist teams and the discussion centered on the theme of collaboration and a general overall investigation into the creative nature of the visual arts and its similarities and differences to scientific exploration.

http://theengineinstitute.org/imagining-science

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Education/2013/09/22/The-art-to-lear...
The art to learning Science

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130922/arts-entertainme...
Pretty, artsy and scientific

http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn38010.html
Archives staging
art in science
The National Archives in Canberra is the venue until 10 November

for the top entries in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - the only location outside Adelaide to host the works.
The exhibition displays the top 33 winning and highly commended artworks, selected out of a record 859 entries from around the globe.
As one of Australia's richest art competitions, organised by the South Australian Museum, the Waterhouse is unique in its mission to encourage exploration of the sciences through high-calibre art.
Combined prize money totals more than $100,000, with an overall winner's prize of $50,000 and category prizes of $12,000 each for paintings, works on paper and sculpture and objects. The Waterhouse Youth Art Prize is worth $5,000.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network...

Art attack: why getting creative about climate change makes sense

Bringing scientists and artists together can change attitudes towards global warming. David Buckland demonstrates how to make the cultural shift possible
With this notion Cape Farewell has, since 2001, been collaborating with the world's leading climate scientists and our most influential artists to create a cultural response to climate change

http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=33911
Art meets science in the human body

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/link-between-...
Artist Cornelia Kubler Kavanaugh offers another perspective on nature’s vulnerability in “Fragile Beauty: The Art & Science of Sea Butterflies.” According to the curators, Kavanaugh’s aluminum and bronze sculptures portray Earth’s “invisible” animals, pea-size sea snails commonly called sea butterflies. The exhibit is designed to draw attention to the impact of ocean acidification on these creatures and on such animals as whales that depend on them as a food source.

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/september-2013/artists-chal...
Artists challenged to depict physics

Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.
Particle physics is a source of inspiration. With its grand yet simple questions—What is the universe made of? How does it work? Why is it like that?—it inspires people to dream big and ask fundamental questions.

It can also be an inspiration for artists.

In “Collision,” a contest organized by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, 22 artists (including a few moonlighting physicists) from around the world submitted artwork depicting “new physics.”

New physics, a general term for any phenomenon that’s not explained by the Standard Model of particle physics, is something that’s on the minds of many particle physicists these days. Many experimental observations cannot be explained by the Standard Model. This includes the discovery that dark matter and dark energy make up the majority of our universe, that particles called neutrinos shapeshift from one variety to another, and that almost all of the antimatter that should have filled half of our universe after the big bang seems to have disappeared. And particle physicists expect that there’s much that remains to be discovered in the realm of new physics.

In watercolor, video animation and everything in between, these artists depicted new-physics concepts including as-yet-undiscovered particles and fields, the search for the Higgs boson, and investigations of dark matter. From the nearly two dozen entries, three winners emerged.

In the general category, Saeed Salimpour, who is now studying astronomy and astrophysics after receiving an undergraduate degree in design, won for his video “The Geometry of Fundamental Particles.” (A still from the video is shown above.)

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/health-science/item/60131-perfor...
Performance art teaches Philly students basic principles of physics

Medical science meets abstract art City Pulse
Tuesday, Sept. 24 — Overmedicated and underwhelmed, our culture has an undeniable obsession with pharmacists and prescription medication. Beverly ...
Medical science meets abstract art
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Tuesday, Sept. 24 — Overmedicated and underwhelmed, our culture has an undeniable obsession with pharmacists and prescription medication. Beverly Fishman presents her bizarre, but captivating commentary in vivid large scale on stainless steel planes.

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21710-an-unexpected-alliance-of-ar...
An unexpected alliance of art and social science

http://www.miamiok.com/news/article_7fba3e8f-033c-5ebe-b1fd-9d2df00...
Tar Creek through the eyes of artists, scientists

http://www.sunraysiadaily.com.au/story/1801820/the-art-of-science-o...
The art of science on show at centre
THE development of scientific art over the past 300 years is showcased in a rarely-seen collection of works that’s gone on show at the Mildura Arts Centre.

The Art of Science is a travelling exhibition from Museum Victoria’s archive of artworks, working drawings and rare books, which provide a glimpse into a world of uncommon beauty.
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Melbourne-based botanical, scientific and natural history artist Mali Moir is one of the few living artists who contributed to the show.

http://www.modbee.com/2013/09/25/2941209/marshall-playing-host-to-t...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall University's medical school is playing host to a traveling art exhibit celebrating contributions of African-American academic surgeons.

Officials at the Huntington school say the "Opening Doors:" exhibit will be on display in the lobby of the Marshall University Medical Center on the campus of Cabell Huntington Hospital through Nov. 2.

The exhibit tells the stories of four pioneering surgeons and educators who exemplified excellence in their fields and believed in the importance of mentoring younger physicians and surgeons.

Other academic surgeons from around the country also are featured in the exhibit.

The exhibit has been traveling to medical schools and academic medical centers since 2007. It was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture.

http://www.gvnews.com/sahuarita_sun/news/science-art-come-together-...
Science, art come together at lecture

Paula Fan plays as a slide show of space covers the screen Wednesday during a presentation with astrophotographer Richard Powell.

http://www.itnewsonline.com/showprnstory.php?storyid=289933
Celebrating Centuries of Dutch Innovation in Art, Science, Technology And More
The unique show, "Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis" will be on view at the Frick Collection in New York from October 22, 2013, through January 19, 2014. Additionally, a campaign web site launched by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, www.DailyDutchInnovation.com celebrates centuries of Dutch start-up culture by presenting a new innovation each day in a variety of domains from art and design to massive engineering projects and scientific discoveries.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130926/MN86440)

A defining characteristic of Dutch culture is the creativity and ingenuity that seems to be embedded in the national DNA. You can find it expressed through art, science, technology, architecture, design and more. Whether it is a Rembrandt painting, satellite controlled flood prevention technology, or sustainable living solutions, Dutch innovation is often characterized by its open and humanistic yet rigorously scientific and pragmatic approach.
http://www.dailydutchinnovation.com/

http://www.memphisflyer.com/ExhibitM/archives/2013/09/26/opening-th...
Opening This Week: Art of Science and more
Matthew Hasty, a landscape painter and featured artist in this year’s Art of Science exhibition (opening Friday at Hyde Gallery), has no idea what cell mitosis looks like up close. His painting, The Echoes of Pneuma, would flop in any science fair, due to its imaginative take on cell walls (Hasty: “I used beef tripe for reference”) and inclusion of some antediluvian forms that seem, at best, misplaced in the cell world (Hasty: “...those parts kind of looks like Grover?”)

It’s a good painting, even if (actually, because) it makes a human cell look like a Dantean underworld. For the hard science side of things, there’s Dr. Sharon Frase, an electron microscopist whose research was Hasty’s inspiration.

Frase and Hasty will both be on hand at this Friday’s opening to answer questions and talk about their work.

This is the third year that St. Jude has put on the Art of Science, a project that partners local artists with St. Jude’s scientists. This year’s pull includes video installation, dance, clothing design, painting, sculpture, and graphic art.

Melissa Harris, the exhibit’s curator, explains, “We invited artists to St. Jude to see a slideshow of images from scientists, and they were able to select images based on what they were interested in. The artists and scientists interact at various levels. Sometimes the artist will go into the laboratory; sometimes the scientist will come to the artist’s studio.”

Heather Smallwood, the co-founder and president of the project, says, ““We’re hoping that it will be thought-provoking in many ways. We want people to come away interested by both the art and the science.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/homaro-cantu/video-food-arts-a-world-...
Food Arts: A World of Art in Science, Food as Digital Art
A lot of people associate moto as a science-driven innovation experience. I consider what we do as art in many forms. Science being just one art form we explore in food. But on the outside of the restaurant we like to showcase the inspiration and origination of an idea. Also, how we want you to remember it. So I invite you to experience the digital art we create in food. In my opinion it can have a lasting effect after you experience it in real life.

In this digital expression of Chef Richard Farina's Prawn & Melon dish, we explore a single dish as food art, art in science and food as digital art.

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/the-review/artist-academic-t...
Artist/academic to visit Abu Dhabi to talk of endangered coral reefs

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130927025435-21564708-...
Printing the Future
Shane Hope, whose work is in the permanent collection of science art at Science House, is featured in Gizmodo talking about 3D printing.

The artist was at the New York Hall of Science in Queens to show works created using a homemade RepRap printer to fabricate the works. I've made Mystery Jars from Shane's RepRap scraps. They are quite beautiful, and I love the way even the scraps show the textures and shapes that are possible.

Shane Hope's art starts with molecular structures. The piece in the permanent collection at Science House is called “Transubstrational: As a Smartmatter of Nanofacture.” The molecule most heavily represented in the piece is graphene, which is hot right now.

"Doing science proper I am not," Shane Hope told Gizmodo. "I’m repurposing the representational rubrics of molecular visualization just enough to relay to viewers a sense of how hacking matter happens."

Pieces currently on exhibition at Science House include Google engineer and biochemist Mike Tyka's sculpture of a ubiquitin molecule, Angel of Death, a nanotech series by Jack Mason of IBM and four pieces given to the collection by Laetitia and Richard Garriott de Cayeux, including images of Florida taken by Richard and his father from space 35 years apart. Richard is the first second generation astronaut in the world. Every piece in the permanent collection at Science House tells a story about the future.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/health-science/item/60248-pollut...
Pollution and light dance on the side of the Wilma Theater
A new, outdoor art installation — projected onto the face of the Wilma Theater — is adding more color to the bright lights along Broad Street in Philadelphia.

The display is a collaboration between New Mexico digital artist Andrea Polli and Philadelphia's own smoggy air. Most of the time, the "Particle Falls" exhibit will show a flickering blue and white waterfall.

"But if there is a lot of particulate pollution, you start to see orange and red dots flickering over the waterfall, and if there's really a lot of particulate pollution the waterfall almost transforms to a fireball," said Polli, who teaches at the Social Media Work Group at the University of New Mexico.

Polli consults with scientists to find visual — and immediate — ways to convey the complexity of issues such climate change. Her Philadelphia exhibited is powered by a nearby air-quality monitor, called a nephelometer

David Cordes, an artist who teaches organic chemistry at Pacific University in Forest Grove, says his paintings are “thought provoking.” The many colors, faces and text integrated into each of his pieces will likely make you agree.

“Reflections on Organic Chemistry,” featuring Cordes’ artwork, will be on display in the Fireside Gallery through Oct. 27. The exhibit offers 17 paintings and a wide range of chemistry topics, including posing notable scientists as paintings subject.

Cordes is from New York City, raised in Queens and later living in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He studied history at Hunter College in the city, then moved west and taught high school and junior high school history in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He grew more interested in science and decided to study chemistry in California, before migrating north to Oregon. “I really like the Northwest over all; it’s a glorious place,” he said.

Despite teaching at a private university, Cordes said community colleges hold a special place in his heart. “I had my first chemistry class at a community college in California and it made all the difference in my career. I was very inspired by the people there and by the environment, and I see MHCC as one of those kinds of places,” he said.

Besides his artwork, Cordes is doing research for a new series on alchemy and its history. He enjoys playing the bass and guitar in his spare time, and is learning to play the organ.

His paintings require a lengthy creation process, he said. “What I’ll tend to do is just sketch out kind of an initial picture right on the canvas and gradually work it out from there, consulting organic chemistry text books, history of chemistry books, online resources, maps, as well anything that kind of bears on the story.”

Cordes said he is a “very slow and deliberate kind of painter. The paints are quite thick… you can see that (his work) is very saturated colors, it’s all oil on canvas.”

His love for teaching and chemistry is clear in his paintings, which blend text, portraits and other abstract techniques. Each portrait is unique in the sense that it tells a story. “As humans we like stories, we like narratives and we like tragedy and comedy,” he said. “I think you can inject some of those ‘Aha!’ comedic and tragic kind of elements into the stories behind each of the paintings.”

His pieces aren’t meant as teaching aids, he said, but instead are “more meant to represent at least my own impressions about particular characters and themes in organic chemistry.”

One standout story is that of August Wilhelm Hofman, a 19th century Jew who was both beloved and hated at the same time. Anti-semantic groups wanted Hofman removed from the university where he taught, said Cordes, whose portrait features examples of molecules he helped to map.

He hopes someday to display his past and new artwork together in one place, perhaps in a textbook, for use as a learning tool for students.

Cordes has big plans for his future artwork. He would like to pay tribute to Linus Pauling, an Oregonian who won a rare science-related Nobel Prize for “incredible work on the structure of proteins” who also worked against the spread of nuclear weapons, he said. Pauling is one of his favorites because “he was able to bring together the humanities and the sciences. He’s going to be a special subject for a painting.”

That level of enthusiasm is apparent in Cordes’ displayed collection at Mt. Hood, which he describes like this: “(A) number of very colorful, kind of exciting, bright, cheerful, paintings that can get you excited about science, or at least get you to ask some questions about science and ponder some of the early history there.”
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Syracuse University Lava Project mixes science, art in a man-made volcano
SU's Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) professor Bob Wysocki and Earth Sciences professor Jeff Karson are co-directors of the facility, which mixes art and science in a cool man-made volcano. According to Wired, the geological experiment uses molten basalt to make synthetic lava flows on various surface types next to the Comstock Art Facility in Syracuse.

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The Mind-Bending Science Of James Turrell's Art

Turrell, whose solo exhibit at the Guggenheim closes Wednesday, doesn't just play with the way our eyes work; he exploits how our mind processes images to reveal that at a fundamental level, everything we see is an illusion.

Part of what makes Turrell's work so salient is that, on a basic level, he's playing with the science of how we perceive the world, using his knowledge of our retinal structure and visual system to upend what we think "seeing" really means. Since his days as an undergraduate psychology major, he's been carefully exploring and manipulating the ways people's eyes and brains process light and space, reminding us that at a fundamental level, everything we see is illusion.

His work draws on a background of psychology and mathematics that's somewhat unusual in the art world. "[M]ore than most artists he considers the boundaries between science and art," as Guggenheim co-curator Nat Trotman writes in his exhibit's catalog.

Turrell studied perceptual psychology at Pomona College in the 1960s, and later, in pursuit of a master's degree in art, started experimenting with how beams of light can transform depth perception, appearing to occupy three-dimensional space in a room. He fascinated with what he calls the "thing-ness" of light, the idea that light isn't just a way to illuminate objects, but an object itself.

Early in his career, he also began to play with what's known as the Ganzfeld effect, ("whole field" in German), a disorienting perceptual experiment that consists of filling the entire field of vision with a solid, undifferentiated color. Without any contrast to occupy the brain, it becomes like sensory deprivation, and visual blackouts and hallucinations can sometimes occur.

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artist Brandon Belote sees links between art and science
I think in a lot of ways art and science are related. Art comes from an honest inquiry, much like science does. People are such a strange thing in the universe. Here on earth there are these forms of matter that realize they are matter. This sort of awareness is such a unique thing and I think art focuses on that small part of what it is for us to be an aware piece of matter in this universe. It sort of excercises that awareness. I think for us, art isn't necessarily how beautiful can you make a thing but how aware can you be. I think science in the same way is about that observation. Science is still is an art form. Once you learn how something works than you can imagine what you can do with it and that's how art and science are related because both require observation. Art focuses more on the imagination and what things can become whereas science focuses on what the mechanics of that thing are."

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Art exhibits affirm value of questions

We spend our lives looking for answers.

In the process, we lose sight of the importance of asking questions.

It's akin to concentrating so much on the destination that we miss out on the fun and enjoyment of the journey.

Science is a search for answers, based on logic, rationality and verification. Its workplace is the laboratory.

In contrast, art is a search for questions, based on intuition, feeling and speculation. Its workplace is the studio.

A pair of complementary exhibitions — Circling the Inverse Square and The Lost Minutes, Stage One: Shadow of the Platypus — affirms that asking questions is as important as getting answers.

Organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and curated by guest curator Shannon Anderson, Circling the Inverse Square takes place at the intersection of science and art.

The multimedia exhibition features installation, sculpture, photography and drawings of six Canadian artists who, in various ways, give visual and audio expression to the abstractions of theoretical physics. As such, science becomes the departure point or springboard for art.

Toronto artist Adam David Brown investigates the notion of infinity in Nowhere, a cut-out consisting of a white board with black, oblong holes. The holes are made from concentric rings that suggest a spiral with no ending, suggesting infinite depth.

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Charming and accessible, the 110-year-old Berkshire Museum invites visitors of all ages to make connections between art, history, and science. This current exhibit, “PaperWorks: The Art and Science of an Extraordinary Material,” through Oct. 26, is a case in point. Innovative and provocative works in paper by 35 contemporary artists range from delicate hand-cut paper narratives to graceful sculptures of curved folds to accordion-like carved figures of mind-boggling construction. Displays and videos address the history of paper around the world, especially honoring museum founder Zenas Crane’s heritage in papermaking, which continues to be a key Berkshire industry. Objects and artifacts, including ancient cuneiforms and tablets dating to the seventh century, attest to paper’s importance in communication, technology, science, industry, even fashion.

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imbabwe-born artist Shane Boddington, a guest artist for the ScienceFest part of this weekend’s Waco Cultural Arts Festival, wants festival-goers to think a little differently about Waco — specifically, about the city’s future more than its past or present.

To do so, he’ll do what he does best: create art. Although much of his work is in painting, Boddington intends to build a large polyhedron from semi-transparent glass panels that will reflect light and images on its internal surfaces.

The glass, geometry, lighting and math required for construction emphasis the role that science can play in art — hence Boddington’s appearance this weekend — and, symbolically, suggest the greater role science and engineering may play in Waco’s future, thanks to projects such as the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative.

His concept (and by now possibly a finished piece as I chatted with him early in the week) got me thinking on similar lines: How would you stimulate thinking about a community’s future through a piece of art? What visual language would you use in a place where much public art is representational, that is, art that looks like what it’s depicting? How much of its interpretation do you leave open-ended for viewers to supply, especially since the future is the domain of the imagination?

I found myself thinking of a large steel sculpture installed in Waco more than 15 years ago meant to do just that: Robert Wilson’s 1997 work “The Waco Door” standing outside Art Center Waco.

Wilson, a Waco native, is an artist, designer and director known internationally for his vision and boundary-stretching work. His towering, 22-foot tall steel door, crafted with his hometown in mind, stands slightly ajar and in that ambiguous space past, present and future mingle.

Does it symbolize a conservative mindset unwilling to open more widely? Is it opening into a promising future? Is it shutting? Why is it so tall? Is it rusting for color’s sake or is that commentary?

Good art never exhausts its interpretation and one hopes Boddington’s festival piece, located near ScienceFest activities in the Waco Convention Center, prods viewers’ curiosity — a quality on which both art and science thrive.