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Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014 - 3WDS14
We invite proposals for projects, papers, performances, panels and workshops, from scientists, academics, artists, architects, urbanists, engineers, practitioners, activists, inventors and water drinkers.

Symposium theme: WaterViews – Caring and Daring
Symposium dates: 17– 22 March 2014

Deadline for proposals: 22 November 2013 for 3WDS14
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VOICE OF THE FUTURE

Youth Participation in Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014 - 3WDS14
We invite young people up to 18 years of age to submit an artwork, a live presentation or performance, or a curatorial project from a group, on the symposium theme: Water Views - Caring and Daring. No Entry Fee.

Deadline for proposals: 31 December 2013 for VOICE OF THE FUTURE
Download the pdf: English, Spanish and French

PITCH MATCHING SESSIONS 18-21 Oct 2013

Fostering greater creative collaboration among artists and scientists in this year’s symposium, four days of “pitch matching sessions” will offer options for meeting others and exchanging ideas prior to submitting project proposals.
If you are interested, please:

join the doodle http://bit.ly/3WDS14-PitchMatch-doodle
introduce yourself and your work in the doodle comments section.

LEONARDO EVENTS

INAUGURAL UC DAVIS LASER: 3 OCTOBER
The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program at the University of California, Davis presents its inaugural Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) on 3 October 2013, 6:30 p.m. Speakers include the co-founders of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program, artist/educator Donna Billick and scientist Diane Ullman, on "Fusion and Perception"; composer/performer/author/media artist Bob Ostertag speaking about his work; artist Meredith Tromble and physicist/programmer Jordan Van Aalsburg on "The Vortex Touches Down"; and scientist Jim Crutchfield of the Complexity Sciences Center speaking about his work and interests. Location: 3001 PES (Plant and Environmental Sciences Building), UC Davis. Find out more

INAUGURAL UC SANTA CRUZ LASER: 8 OCTOBER
The new Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz will host the launch of UCSC?s LASER series on 8 OCTOBER, 6:45 p.m.
At this inaugural event, artists, scientists and scholars 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 creative, original and interdisciplinary art-and-science projects underway throughout the University of California, the San Francisco 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; and 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. Fin!
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Leonardo Events:
NEXT UC BERKELEY LASER: 9 OCTOBER
Join us for the next UC Berkeley LASER on 9 October 2013, 6 p.m. Presenters include former NASA scientist Zann Gill on "Resolving Prediction?s Paradox: Collaborative Intelligence Ecosystems"; UC Santa Cruz professor Jennifer Parker on "Publishing in Public: Breaking Down Academic Silos to Create Trans-Disciplinary Research"; composer Cheryl Leonard on "Music from High Latitudes"; and Wayne Vitale of Balinese gamelan ensemble Gamelan Sekar Jaya on "Between Ancient Text and Three Screens." Location: Barrows Hall, Room 110. Find out more

NEXT STANFORD LASER: 10 OCTOBER
>Join us for the next Stanford LASER on 10 October 2013, 6 p.m. This LASER event will take place at Stanford?s Center for Research on Computer Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and will be followed by Transitions, an evening of outdoor, under-the-stars electronic music showcasing works from the CCRMA community and celebrating the start of the 2013 season. Presenters include visual artist Taraneh Hemami on "Theory of Survival"; visual artist Kate Nichols on "Misadventures in Art and Nanoscience"; choreographer Katharine Hawthorne on "Choreography as Research" and Sasha Leitman of Stanford CCRMA on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford?s CCRMA." Find out more

NEXT NYC LASER: 17 OCTOBER
Join us for the next NYC LASER event on 17 October 2013, 6:30 p.m. at LevyArts in New York City. The evening?s program includes presentations by Meredith Tromble, past Leonardo Board member, on the collaborative work she is doing with a geobiologist at the KeckCAVES visualization facility at UC Davis, and Dr. Jill Scott, of the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts at ZhdK (Zurich, Switzerland) and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program. Scott will describe AURALROOTS, her current neuroscience residency with SymbioticA in Perth in the Audiology Lab at the University of Western Australia. Space is limited; to reserve your place, send an email to levy@nyc.rr.com. Find out more

KASA GALLERY: CLOUD BANKS
Cloud Banks, Mark Amerika?s new exhibition at Kasa Gallery (Istanbul, Turkey), will explore the way artists, political and economic theorists, metaphysical philosophers and people in business use language as a tool to construct their vision of the world as they see it. As with much of Amerika?s conceptual net art, the title is a pun, one that refers to both a weather phenomenon?a layer of clouds seen from a distance?and the recent rise of both cloud computing and too-big-to-fail banking systems. Clouds obscure and diffuse the light of the sun, much as banks obscure and confuse the effects of contemporary financial realities. The clouded visuality of the words in Amerika?s artworks becomes a way to let the viewer perceive the clouded visuality of the world. Cloud Banks is the representation of a human failure to understand, reconnect and re-contextualize histories, ideologies and contemporary realities. Lanfranco Aceti and Ozden Sahin curated the exhibition, which closes 31 O!ctober 2013.

For more details please visit Leonardo site : http://www.leonardo.info/e-LNN/e-LNN.html

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http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/60418-proof-that-comp...
Proof that computer science guys can be artists too

http://www.theledger.com/article/20130930/NEWS/130939906/1374?Title...
Art in Motion: Professor's Invention Combines Dance and Science
Morris is a dance professor at the University of South Florida, and more recently, an inventor. She was introducing kids with spina bifida and cerebral palsy to a chair she dreamed up. On this weekend in their class, the chair would let them dance. Not pretend to dance, not be pulled by a dancer, but actually dance.

http://newbrunswick.patch.com/groups/schools/p/surrounded-by-scienc...
Surrounded by Science, a Sculpture Rises at Rutgers

A new molecule replica sculpture has been erected on Busch Campus.
The presence of cutting-edge science is hard to miss on Rutgers University’s Busch Campus.
Now the campus has become home to a striking work of art – a sculpture that draws strong connections to the university’s life science research.

The 20-foot, 3,200-pound steel and glass sculpture resembling the most abundant protein in the human body was erected last week outside the new Center for Integrative Proteomics Research as a symbol of the facility and a tribute to its founding director, Helen M. Berman.

The sculpture will be formally unveiled September 26, coinciding with a symposium honoring Berman, who is a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences.

The university commissioned Oregon-based Julian Voss-Andreae, a scientist-turned-sculptor, to create the sculpture, which he has entitled Synergy. The sculpture’s long, wavy strands of tubular steel - interspersed by some 200 tinted glass windows - emulate the Collagen molecule, which makes up the human body’s tendons and ligaments, and supports the skin and internal organs.

http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/inbrief/geology-inspired-art-exhibit...
Geology-inspired art exhibit opens Wednesday

“Numinous,” a sculpture installation from artist Gerri Sayler, opens Wednesday with a lecture from the artist followed by a reception in Central Washington University’s Sarah Spurgeon Gallery from 5-7.

According to a news release from the university, the installation references the artist’s response to the Northwest’s geologic history of freeze-thaw cycles.

Nearly 2,000 monofilaments, hand-drizzled with hot glue and suspended to create the structure, compose the piece.

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131002-905191.html
Intrexon Establishes "Living Arts" Company, BioPop, to Create Consumer Products Inspired by Nature and Made Possible through Science
GERMANTOWN, Md. and CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Intrexon Corporation (NYSE: XON), a leader in synthetic biology, announced today the formation of a new "Living Arts" subsidiary called Biological & Popular Culture, Inc. (BioPop).

BioPop's team of innovative scientists and creative designers, enabled by the synthetic biology engineering technology of Intrexon, aims to create new bio-diverse products like those found in nature. The company plans to utilize the promise of synthetic biology in the field of fine and decorative arts, accessories, toys and unique novelties. The embedded concept is "living art."

To accelerate development of new concepts Intrexon acquired a controlling equity stake in Yonder Biology, now renamed BioPop, although its principals remain significant equity owners. Yonder's co-founder, Andy Bass, has been named BioPop's Chief Executive Officer.

"BioPop will use living organisms as bio-palettes that live, grow and respond to stimuli," Bass said. "Imagine an art piece that 'paints' itself; a living, renewable ambient light source that operates on sunlight, water and nutrients, instead of batteries or electricity. We'll use the same technology to create toys that inspire children through novel uses of nature -- combining innovation, entertainment and imagination."

"BioPop aims to evolve the traditional biotechnology industry paradigm that focuses on healthcare and therapeutics. We are transforming biotechnology to exist in people's everyday lives. The consumer market is large with diverse interests that will play a vibrant role in biotech's future," Bass concluded.

http://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/10/02/new-classes-integrate-sc...
New classes integrate science and art
The courses will examine animation and dance through both artistic and scientific lenses
With the introduction of new interdisciplinary classes, students will have the opportunity to lead an adult dance workshop, create educational videos and explore a duck’s interactions with its surroundings.

Though art and science often appear contradictory, students in two new classes this semester will have the chance to explore both forms, with some using animation to explain basic science concepts and others exploring the physiological benefits of dance.

In VISA 1800: “Communicating Science” and TAPS 1281: “Artists and Scientists as Partners,” students engage with art and science as two mutually beneficial subjects. A Rhode Island School of Design course called IDISC 1524: “Marine Duck Studio: The Art and Science of Ecocentric Practices” will also be available to Brown students in the spring.

VISA 1800 students focus on communicating scientific ideas through animation. RISD and Brown students — with varying degrees of art and science backgrounds — will explore different ways to demonstrate scientific concepts through artistic mediums.

Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience John Stein and RISD professor Steven Subotnick are collaborating on the best ways for students to develop these skills.

“We begin the semester with a series of guided exercises that introduce students to ways of using visual communication in the service of science education.”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/science-and-art-unite-on-...
Science and art unite on river clean-up
LEADING international scientists and researchers are teaming with artists and MONA in a project to clean up the River Derwent.

Unsuccessful multi-million dollar attempts to rid the waterway of heavy metals have confounded science, leaving parts of the Derwent a major toxic concern.

MONA founder David Walsh and partner Kirsha Kaechele have launched the Heavy Metal project to find innovative and creative solutions to one of Hobart's biggest environmental problems.

More than 60 scientists from leading international universities and research centres are working with MONA to identify ways of ridding the river of its heavy metals.

The Museum of Old and New Art is perched near the worst stretch of the river -- between the Tasman and Bowen bridges, where zinc, mercury, lead, cadmium and copper lie thick in the sediment.

"It looks so pristine but we're surrounded by one of the most contaminated rivers in the world," said Ms Kaechele, pictured.

"It requires a creative approach because we don't know what to do.

"How can we be surrounded by this beautiful river and not feel free to eat from it and enjoy it on various levels?"

A heavy metal music festival will be held in January and a black metal musician will compose a piece dedicated to the river.

Ms Kaechele was inspired while MONA was working on foreshore rehabilitation and she was confronted by "Do not swim" signs.

"So I started wining and dining and racking some of the best scientific brains," she said.

More than 60 scientists have contributed and symposiums held, and already some cutting-edge science had been suggested.

Ms Kaechele said everybody approached had leapt at the chance, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alvar Aalto Foundation, Finland, CSIRO and University of Texas, Austin.

Also involved are University of Tasmania and the art school.

http://www.stanford.edu/~suemcc/TSR/styled-16/index.html
Art brought me into the world of medicine and science when I began volunteering seven years ago at a hospital back in Texas. What began as a day of portrait drawing became a new volunteer service for patients and families. From drawing over six hundred portraits of patients of all ages and with various illnesses, I realized that I could offer one small piece of comfort to patients in their struggles to find peace. I was most stricken by the realization that art has the power beyond representing an object and its physical beauty; it is filled with messages, and it is influential.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/absolutely-maybe/2013/10/02/dan...
Dancing, sand art and science: Communication by art-y means
using that for science communication?

Well, 24-year-old medical student Shelly Mingqian Xie, for one. Born in China, raised in Japan, Xie tells how she came to practise this art while doing medical research at Stanford, and shows a video performance here.

She comes to her medical studies after a major in biology and a minor in creative writing. It was while working with patients, though, that she “found the power of art in communication,” she said today. “I always loved art and science…and didn’t know why I had to choose one or the other.”

Xie gave her premier performance of two new stories on the impact of diseases and medical research on individuals and communities, in Washington DC at the headquarters of PAHO, the Pan American Health Organization (regional branch for the Americas of WHO). She’s collaborating with PAHO to communicate complex stories about disease, medicine, research and development.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/former-grateful-...!
Former Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Composes Music from the Sounds of the Universe

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/10/former-grateful-...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4799212/fabian-oefner-science-art...
Fabian Oefner turns simple science into stunning art photography

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner is known for using art to breathtakingly illustrate simple science at work. His latest series of images, called The Invisible Dimension, captures crystals of color rising in reaction to a speaker's soundwaves, magnetic liquid pushing paint into canals, and a flame of burning whiskey traveling through a glass bottle. In a recent TED talk, the artist explains the motivation behind his creations: "I'm trying to use these phenomena, and show them in a poetic and unseen way, and therefore invite the viewer to pause for a moment and think about all the beauty that is constantly surrounding us." You can see Oefner's artistic process demonstrated in his TED talk below, and check out his website to see The Invisible Dimension photos in high resolution
http://fabianoefner.com/

http://ignite.me/articles/culture/art-mystery-finding-inspiration-c...
In technology, we see the marriage of art and science. In ancient Greece, the word for art was techne, from which technique and technology are derived—terms that are aptly applied to both scientific and artistic practices. The vision for a new technology may be inspired by art or science. Who knows how many technological developments and inventions indirectly stem from the minds of science fiction or futuristic screenwriters? (One example: Was the idea for Smartphones born from Star Trek’s handheld communicators? Nokia designed a mobile phone prototype to exactly resemble the communicator, and the locator functions on Star Trek communicators are remarkably similar to smartphone mapping software.) Through science, these sparks of imagination are transformed into real products. But the design – the look, feel and advertised image – of the technology is art.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24327-dance-work-shows-how-ph...
Dance work shows how physics and art Collide@CERN
Up, down, spin …that's dancers at work at the premiere of Quantum, a contemporary dance piece inspired by particle physics. For extra drama, it was performed immediately above the CMS particle detector, one of the two experiments running on CERN's Large Hadron Collider to spot the Higgs boson.

Quantum will be performed at the Thèâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris, on 4, 5, 7, 8 November, 2013; there will be more performances in Annecy, France, and New York, in 2014.
The music for Quantum was created by composer and software developer Carla Scaletti using data from the LHC. Through a process known as data sonification, she mapped particle collision data from CERN's ATLAS detector to specific sounds. The result was a sporadic soundtrack that builds, layer on layer, to a series of crescendos throughout the dance.
Jobin was the second artist to take up a residency at CERN, following German artist Julius von Bismarck's stay last year.

To light Quantum, Jobin used four large, suspended lamps created by von Bismarck for his installation Versuch unter Kreisen. The lamps, swaying in a pendulum-like motion to the beat of Scaletti's music, cast a dramatic and ever-changing light on the performers throughout the dance.

http://annearundel.patch.com/groups/schools/p/art-plus-physics-equa...
Art Plus Physics Equals Innovation at Glen Burnie High

A Glen Burnie High teacher combined physics and art to create a new lens to understand the concepts through, and received national recognition.
Butler's winning idea, "Art at the Speed of Light" combines the Anne Arundel County Public School system's drawing and painting curriculum with her high school's BioMedical Allied Health honors physics curriculum. The result is a class allowing students to study physics through a visual art lens.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57606120-1/science-art-collide-...
Science, art collide in amazing psychedelic photos

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner captures the beauty of basic scientific principles, using sound waves, ferro fluid, and magnets to create art.
First, he explained how he made sound waves visible. After placing a thin piece of tin foil over an ordinary speaker, he poured tiny crystals onto the foil. Playing sound through the speaker caused the crystals to jump, but that happens faster than the blink of an eye. He recorded the experiment with a camera that shoots 3,000 frames per second.

In the next project, he used psychedelic colors to explain magnetism. He poured ferro liquid -- a dark, oily liquid that contains tiny shards of metal -- onto a magnet. Ferro liquid is magnetic, so it quickly formed into a spiky lump. It is also hydrophobic, which means it doesn't mix with water. So when Oefner poured colored water onto the ferro liquid, the water spread out into tiny little canals. The resulting images look like a psychedelic slice of a brain.
In his final project, he poured whiskey into a large bottle, then dropped in a match. The resulting burst of fire is gone in a flash, but stopped in time, the image resembles a smoky head of cauliflower.

"Those three projects are based on very simple scientific phenomena, such as magnetism, sound waves, the physical properties of a substance," Oefner said. "What I'm trying to do is show them in a poetic and unseen way, and therefore invite the viewer to pause for a moment and think about all the beauty that is constantly surrounding us."

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/oct/05/steam-science-art-exhibi...
Science & Art exhibition at Center for the Arts Bonita Springs
What does Origami have to do with geometry? Why is a worm considered art to some? How is music created from a micro-chip? And how can a nanometer of water become a fun, interactive experience?

The Centers for the Arts Bonita Springs opening reception for “Science & Art,” an exhibition where visitors can expect to see, hear and interact with works of art that illustrate how science and art intersect in real life, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11. The reception offers the public the opportunity to view the exhibition while enjoying refreshments and entertainment. The opening reception includes a campus-wide Open House featuring member faculty and visiting artists’ demonstrations and displays in the campus studios.

Through “Science & Art,” guests can explore how art is integral to innovation and how “STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)” education is enhanced through art. With art “STEM” education transforms into “STEAM,” a model needed for our youth to move forward into the next century.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/scientists-students-create-geneti...
Scientists, students create genetically engineered artworks
Four years ago, scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore began collaborating with art students to try and combine artistic sensibility and new science to engineer gene functions in living organisms.

The first year of collaboration saw NCBS scientists help students from Srishti School of Art Design and Technology create bacteria that could emit the smell of freshly ploughed earth or the first monsoon rain. The collaboration using techniques now widely used in the field of synthetic biology built genetically engineered bacteria in the lab that could produce geosmin, a substance responsible for the captivating smell of fresh rain on dry soil.

The 'Smell of Rain' science-art production by NCBS and Srishti went on to win an award at the prestigious International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Competition held annually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.

Every year now, scientists at NCBS collaborate on projects with art students to create genetically engineered artworks.

These science-art collaborations in the realm of synthetic biology have opened a floodgate of knowledge in the field of genomics, resulting in scientists being able to engineer DNA functions of their liking — much like computer chip designers — and incorporating these lab-created DNA into living organisms like the bacteria E.Coli.

The field is advancing so rapidly that synthetic biology labs have become almost hobby labs with biosafety certifications in the US.

"Richard Dawkins writes of evolution as a 'blind watchmaker', paradoxically capable of generating complicated entities through a process of random variation and natural selection. Synthetic biology works in the opposite direction, to design and construct complicated devices with desired properties by borrowing parts from the watchmaker's toolkit," says Mukund Thattai from the NCBS biological systems modelling lab who has put together the science-art collaborations.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/lleucu-sienc...
When two words collide
5 Oct 2013 06:30

Scientists are often excellent writers, says Literature Wales boss Lleucu Siencyn, who explores the common ground between art and science

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/10/beautiful-microscopic-art-is-a...
Spectacular Microscopic Art Is Also World-Changing Science
Fernan Federici’s microscopic images of plants, bacteria, and crystals are a classic example of finding art in unexpected places.

A couple years ago, Federici was working on his Ph.D. in biological sciences at Cambridge University studying self-organization, the process by which things organize themselves spontaneously and without direction. Like a flock of birds flying together.

More specifically, he was using microscopes and a process called fluorescence microscopy to see if he could identify these kinds of patterns on a cellular level. In fluorescence microscopy, scientists shine a particular kind of light at whatever they’re trying to illuminate and then that substance identifies itself by shining a different color or light back. Sometimes researchers will also attach proteins that they know emit a particular kind of light to substances as a kind of identifier. In the non-microscopic world, it’s like using a black light on a stoner poster.

Federici grew up with photography as a hobby, so looking through the microscope at all the different colors and patterns he realized that the process was highly visual. He hadn’t seen many images like what he was seeing published for the general public, so he asked for permission from his adviser Jim Haseloff to post the photos on his Flickr site. Today that site is filled with pages and pages of microscopic images, some of which are from his work, while others are just for fun.

“Microscopy is always serious science,” says Federici, who is now a researcher at Pontificia Univerisdad Catolica de Chile. “For us [in the department at Cambridge] this was something we looked at as outreach. It was a way to bring this scientific data to the general public.”

Many of the photos on the site show particular bacteria colonies that were studied for their self-organizing principles. Others are just images of old plants that were used to teach botany at the university over a hundred years ago. Before fluorescence microscopy, scientists used dyes to try and single out certain cells or structures. Those dyes, which sat for decades on the plants, now make for arty images under a microscope. Other photos on the Flickr page include microscopic images of crystals and oil.

http://www.edgeonthenet.com/entertainment/fine_arts/news/exhibits/1...
Boston Hosts a New, Major Science and Art Work
From dusk to dawn on Oct. 10 through the 13, the winner of the 2010 German Sound Art Prize, Florian Dombois’ "uboc No. 1 & stuVi2" will light up the Boston skyline.

The site-specific public artwork will be the artistic centerpiece for TransCultural Exchange’s 2013 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, Engaging Minds.

Dombois typically works with specific places, using maps and topography. His art explores the relationship between art and science -- in particular, seismic activity. In this way, scientific experiments take on an artistic character and art becomes a science.

During TransCultural Exchange’s Conference, he will shoot a laser over half a mile (across the Boston University bridge, along I90) between Boston University’s new Student Dorm and the Law School. The red laser will measure and project the movement -- the geophysical dialog -- between the two.

"uboc No. 1 & stuVi2" will also bring attention to the Conference’s theme, "Engaging Minds." The piece will underscore the Conference’s aim to help artists not only learn about ways that they can engage with their international peers, but also ways that their work can engage in other fields of discipline.

The Art work will be live streaming on:
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2013/overviewFD.htm

http://www.thestar.com/life/technology/2013/10/04/a_brainpowered_ar...

A brain-powered art exhibit at Nuit Blanche
Twenty participants at a time will put on brain-reading headsets and take part in My Virtual Dream, a game and artistic dreamscape.

http://www.progresstimes.net/entertainment/5049-quantics-exhibit-by...
‘Quantics’ exhibit by sculptor Sebastian opens Oct. 10
The International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS) will present their latest exhibit “Quantics: The Art & Science of Sebastian” with an opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 6 p.m. The exhibit will be on display through March 2, 2014.

In this exhibit the world-renowned sculptor Enrique Carbajal, better known as Sebastian, explores the worlds of quantum physics and nano particles, and combines them with his love for clean and geometric aesthetics.

“Quantics” is more than just an art exhibition. It transcends the museum’s interactive Discovery Pavilion, the Science On a Sphere Theatre, the museum grounds, and the streets of McAllen; thus, demonstrating the fusion between art and science and their dependency on one another for inspiration.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/oct/05/steam-science-art-exhibi...
STEAM: Science & Art exhibition at Center for the Arts Bonita Springs

http://www.kansas.com/2013/10/06/3040548/exhibit-at-friends-riney-g...
Exhibit at Friends’ Riney gallery blends fine art, science

In an exhibit in which science and art collide, artist Jose Alvarado’s creative intuition is a blend of two distinct worlds. Though he has a background in engineering, art has become his focus. In a series of 11 paintings that span his artistic journey to date, he explores the intersection of the two disciplines.

“It’s a depiction of this idea of a combination of two polar opposites and how they coexist,” Alvarado said. “There’s tension, yet unity within that same moment. I slowly try to understand my placement in art and what I want to explore. I learned so much through engineering and I enjoy patterns. I enjoy all these schematic things, how things work. I want to incorporate that into my art.”

http://newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/Science-of-astronomy-...
Science of astronomy through art

Two years ago, the night sky became artist Rohini Devasher’s best friend. In order to discover more and more, she embarked on a journey to discover the hidden world of amateur astronomy. It has since then transformed her from a curious seeker into a curious artist. Bringing the two elements, astronomy and art, together, this Delhi-based artist is ready for her solo show titled, Deep Time.

How did it all happen? From where did astronomy feature in her life? The story began in July 2009, when she travelled back and forth across the country with amateur astronomers to witness stellar astral events. ‘‘Similarity-based metaphors make comparisons between a source and its target based on some correspondence between both. With similarity-creating metaphors, on the other hand, there is no pre-existing parallel between source and target. They create the similarities between the two. And once this metaphor has been encountered, the connection is almost obvious. The proposition, both geographic and metaphoric, offered by the works in this show is in this direction. These maps will be an attempt to imply the unobservable on the basis of what can be observed,” says Devasher.

Date Till October 13.

Time 11 am to 7 pm.

Venue Khoj Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension.

http://ubyssey.ca/culture/carl-sagan-association-823/
Carl Sagan Association crosses the arts-science continuum
As world-famous American astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

While a new universe has yet to be invented by UBC, a group of students has created their own little universe dedicated to Sagan himself. Founded in June of this year, the Carl Sagan Association for the Communication of Science (shortened to the CSA) is one of the newest AMS clubs on campus, with a goal of combining the arts and sciences in a way that any student can access and understand.

http://malina.diatrope.com/2013/10/06/call-for-artists-involved-in-...!
Call for Artists involved in Space Solar Power
International Space Solar Power Symposium (the information and
organizers is contained below) is interested in having an exhibition
of artists who have done work on Space Based Solar Power.

From arts catalyst:
Artquest, The Arts Catalyst and the Central Laser Facility announce a new research residency.

The Central Laser Facility produces some of the world’s most powerful light beams, providing scientists with an unparalleled range of state-of-the-art laser technology. The Beam Time residency offers a unique opportunity for an artist to engage with scientists and their research using state-of-the-art lasers including – Vulcan, Gemini, Artemis, Ultra and Octopus - which can recreate the extreme conditions inside stars and planets; reveal intricate detail of molecular interactions on a microscopic scale; act as 'tweezers' holding the individual micro-droplets that make up clouds; and take snapshots of chemical reactions in action and electricity travelling through material.

On offer: £3000 artist fee, £350 travel expenses

Eligibility: Any visual artist living and working in England who has been practicing outside of undergraduate education for a minimum of 5 Years is eligible to apply. Applicants may not be enrolled on a course of full-time or part-time study during the residency period.

Deadline for applications: 10am Monday 25 November 2013

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/creativity-in-art-crea...!

Creativity in Art, Creativity in Science
Thursday, 24 October 2013 - 6:00pm
Barnard’s Inn Hall
Subject:
20th century history, Art and literature, History, Medical science, Science, Unusual
Overview

In his lecture, Professor Miller will consider the concept of creativity in the context of his research into the history and philosophy of nineteenth and twentieth century science and technology, cognitive science, scientific creativity, and the relation between art and science.

His books include Empire of the Stars and Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, which was nominated for the Pulitzer prize.

http://www.myeasternshoremd.com/community/kent_county/arts/article_...
Making environmental change real through art

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/10/08/nucleus-and-warner-br...
Nucleus and Warner Bros. Present "The Physics of Friendship: A Tribute to The Big Bang Theory"
The exhibit features more than 50 works in a variety of mediums by a roster of professional artists.
Read more at http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/10/08/nucleus-and-warner-br...
Nucleus and Warner Bros. Present "The Physics of Friendship: A Tribute to The Big Bang Theory"

Art Exhibition & Fan Celebration: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7pm-11pm

Free Admission

· Open to Public

· No RSVP

· All Ages

· Costumes Encouraged Artwork on Display: October 19, 2013-November 10, 2013

LOS ANGELES (October 8, 2013) - From October 19-November 10, 2013, Nucleus and Warner Bros. present "The Physics of Friendship: A Tribute to The Big Bang Theory," an art exhibition featuring an international roster of visual talent capturing the equation of love, laughter and laboratories at the core of the super-smart hit show. Now in its seventh season, The Big Bang Theory (Thursdays 8/7c CBS) continues to perfect its winning formula, prompting this artistic tribute to its lovable cast of characters and their expanding universe.

The exhibit features more than 50 works in a variety of mediums by a roster of professional artists. To view a roster of artists, click here: www.bit.ly/bigbangtribute.

In addition to showcasing artwork inspired by the The Big Bang Theory, Gallery Nucleus will launch a pop-up shop featuring exclusive, limited-edition prints and merchandise featuring the art series.

To view a select preview of featured work from the exhibit, click here:

http://www.gallerynucleus.com/page/1826

· "The Big Bang Geometry," by Ale Giorgini - Silkscreen, 40"H x 30"W

· "The Big Bang Theory," by Dave Perillo - Giclée, 24"H x 18"W

· "Cog-nition," by Steve Simpson - Silkscreen, 24"H x 18"W

· "Space," by Boya Sun - Watercolor, Gouache & Ink Transfer, 11"H x 8.5"W

Opening Night Exhibition & Fan Celebration

Read more at http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/10/08/nucleus-and-warner-br...

From Sybiotica:

1.a SymbioticA related activities

Rethinking life through art
The 2013 Creative Arts Lecture, La Trobe University Melbourne
14 Nov 2013 time: 6:00pm
Speaker: Oron Catts
The cultural understandings of what life is and what we are doing in it are lagging behind the actualities of scientific and engineering processes. Our uncertainties about what 'life' is exacerbates the crisis in both humanities and sciences and we now face an urgent need to scrutinise and rethink both the crisis of sustainability and our treatment of the (nonhuman) other. This lecture will discuss how artists are helping us to rethink what life is and methods employed to deal with life as both a raw material and an ever contestable subject of manipulation. Looking at all levels of life from the molecular to the ecological, Oron Catts will address the need to develop a new cultural language when words seem to be no longer appropriate.
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/events/all/rethinking-life-through-art

EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: ART AND SCIENCE IN THE POST-BIOLOGICAL AGE Edited and curated by Dmitry Bulatov
ISBN: 978-5-94620-073-8
How can the radicalisation and redundancy of science and technology progress be defined? What is the evolutionary potential of 21st Century technology trends such as robotics, IT, biomedicine, and nanotechnology? Each of these trends actualizes traditionally formed boundaries of the beginning and end of human existence, the demarcation of norm and pathology, and the distinction of the non (or semi) organic model or entity. These, and other issues, cannot be taken into consideration without the experience of contemporary techno-biological arts - the representatives of which do not so much confirm the technological versions of contemporaneity, as determine these versions' boundaries. Art created under new conditions of postbiology - that is, under conditions of an artificially fashioned lifespan - cannot help but take this artificiality as its explicit theme. In questioning the causes and consequences of technological progress and its central role in today's society, renowned representatives of contemporary art, science and philosophy are attempting to elucidate the foundation that gives rise to "artificial," "technological" reality, as well as to explain how this reality impacts us. Is it possible to reinvent a language that can simultaneously construct and describe the world of technology? The aim of this book is to show how artists are creating new forms and new identities - not as the protagonists of a historically-determined technological narrative, but as its creators.
This volume contains essays by artists, philosophers, scientists, and art historians, including Stephen Wilson (US), Roy Ascott (UK), Pier Luigi Capucci (IT), Paul Brown (UK/AU), Jon McCormack (AU), Simon Penny (US), Ana Viseu (CA), Susan E. Ryan (US), Laura Beloff (FI), Jana Horakova (CH), Dmitry Galkin (RU), Louis-Philippe Demers (SG), Chris Hables Gray (US), Erkki Huhtamo (US), Stelarc (AU), Andrew Pickering (UK), Steve M. Potter (US), Thomas S. Ray (US), Jens Hauser (GER/FR), Robert Mitchell (US), Konstantin Bokhorov (RU), Oron Catts (AU), Ionat Zurr (AU), Melinda Cooper (AU), Luciana Parisi (UK), Colin Milburn (US), Dmitry Bulatov (RU), Joanna Zylinska (UK), Eugene Thacker (US), and Boris Groys (US) http://networkedblogs.com/PxwSL 1.b SymbioticA public talks

Symbiotica:

Music and Human Evolution

Date: 11 Oct 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Winthrop Prof Alan Harvey

Alan Harvey's interest in the evolution and neuroscience of music, through his experiences as both musician and neuroscientist is coalescing into a book-in-development. SymbioticA has hoped to have Harvey speak at one of its seminars for many years and we're thrilled to finally have him on-board.

Harvey's current research focuses on the use of gene therapy, cell/tissue transplantation, nanotechnology and pharmacotherapy in the repair of the central nervous system (CNS), with particular emphasis on the visual system and spinal cord. He is also involved in Alzheimer's disease research, and was a co-leader of the Foundational Research Program, WA Centre for Excellence in Alzheimer's Disease Research and Care (2006-2008). To date he has published over 160 scientific papers or book chapters, including publications in PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain, Molecular Therapy, Gene Therapy, ACS Nano, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Current Gene Therapy, Glia, Neurobiology of Aging, PLoS ONE, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Journal of Neurotrauma, European Journal of Neuroscience, and Experimental Neurology.

Performance Lecture by Alex Murray-Leslie (Chicks on Speed)

Date: 18 Oct 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Alex Murray-Leslie

Alex Murray-Leslie is a multidisciplinary artist, working between the mediums of embodied instrument design, Music, Fashion & Art. She is founder of Chicks on Speed, an international collective of Culture Shockers. Alex has just completed her role as Entertainment Manager at The 34th America's Cup World Series and as co-director of Diane Pernet´s A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Barcelona. Alex lectures & exhibits internationally, alongside researching, curating & programming cultural happenings at art institutions, theatres & cultural festivals globally.

Can You Hear the Plant (Scientist) Screaming?

Date: 25 Oct 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speaker: Claire Pannell

The tales of a mad scientist. Claire will share her personal journey of discovery from the very beginnings. Once she had a promising career as an agricultural scientist and now she is developing a Foley noise art practise and putting elements of surprise into her job as a science communicator. How did she get there and how has her residency at symbiotica affected her journey?

Claire Pannell started her adult life as a soil scientist and plant nutritionist, with degrees from UWA (BSc. Agric. Hons) and Massey University, NZ (PhD) however her serious interests in music lead her to make a career change and she worked as an arts manager for 13 years. Pannell is currently employed at Scitech as a Science Communicator and is a multi-instrumentalist with a history of releases and performances in New Zealand, USA and Australia. Claire performs as Furchick with fistfuls and outbursts of joyful noise.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Contemporary Publics International Symposium Researchers in media and communication, cultural studies, creative arts and visual ethnography, journalism and public relations, architecture and urban design; postgraduate students, educators, and emerging career researchers, are invited to submit an abstract for a major international symposium held at Deakin University on 24-25 February, 2014. What is meant by the term 'contemporary publics' and how does that present new directions in thinking and research around the concept of 'public'. New notions on publics come from a range of media and communication, social, political and artistic fields of inquiry. Networked publics and micro-publics arise from digital cultures and new media platforms; boundaries now blur amongst advertising, public relations and their targets in both physical and virtual space; journalists strive to redefine the role of public broadcasting within new and obsolete concepts of media. Blogs, personal websites, webzines and new forms of engagement emerge within the affordances of technology like mobile phones and within intra-organisational spheres like Facebook and Twitter. Contemporary publics are transforming within urban, interior and installation spaces. Relentless inquiries into the new domains of public and private in the era of 21st century personalised capitalism and consumer culture reveal changing rhetorical and ideological values around of the notion of the public.
250 word abstracts to: kristin.demetrious@deakin.edu.au
Due: 4 November 2013

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

WORKSHOP: EXPLORING COLLABORATION & INTERDISCIPLINARITY Friday 22 November until Saturday 30 November Wellington Forest, Western Australia This residential workshop tackles the rather broad topic of collaboration, particularly collaboration between people not from the same disciplines.
The facilitator, Michelle Outram, is skilled in shaping emergent group processes and will propose a framework for the week which will be discussed and modified by the group throughout the workshop (or discarded altogether). This framework includes learning about each other through each of us developing and facilitating a workshop followed by a feedback session. This enables a reflexive understanding of each other's work and processes.
For further information: http://www.michelleoutram.com/western-australia-2013.html

http://www.news-press.com/article/20131010/COASTAL_LIFE/310100016/T...
The Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs brings art and science together

http://keystoneedge.com/features/philadelphiasteam1010.aspx
Building STEAM: Philadelphia Program Uses Art to Teach Science

http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/The-Art-of-S...
The Art of Space and Science exhibit set for Space Center

http://readme.readmedia.com/Art-historian-Dr-Elizabeth-Kessler-to-s...
Art historian Dr. Elizabeth Kessler to speak at Geneva College on October 24-25
Dr. Kessler will discuss the relationship between art and science, as seen in Hubble Space Telescope photographs and other images.

BEAVER FALLS, PA (10/10/2013)(readMedia)-- Dr. Elizabeth Kessler, an art historian who focuses on the visual culture of science and its relationship to art, will speak at Geneva College. She will be at Skye Lounge in the Student Center for a 7:30 p.m. lecture on Thursday, October 24, "Displaying the Beauty of the Truth: Hubble Images as Art and Science." In conjunction with Geneva's Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Visit Day, she will present "Postcards into Outer Space" in Skye Lounge at 10:10 a.m. on Friday, October 25.

Kessler currently teaches art history at Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and has held fellowships at Stanford University and the Smithsonian Institute National Air and Space Museum. Her first book, Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime, which examines the aesthetics of deep space images and their invocation of the visual language of the sublime, was published in 2012.

The book, according to its synopsis, "examines the Hubble's deep space images, highlighting the resemblance they bear to nineteenth-century paintings and photographs of the American West and their invocation of the visual language of the sublime."

Kessler's background in art has pointed her in the unique direction of science. She maintains that the aesthetics of science must be understood in order for one to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the space telescope's impact.

Kessler is coming to the college as part of the Geneva Visiting Artist and Lecture Series. Her appearances are free and open to the public.

Geneva College invites students to accept the challenge of an academically excellent, Christ-centered education. Offering nearly 40 undergraduate majors, Adult Degree Programs with fully online and campus-based options, and seven graduate degrees, Geneva has programs that place students at the forefront of higher learning. Adhering to the inerrancy of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God's word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today's world.

http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/waay-firstnews-at-thursday-october...
On 10th Oct, 2013,

Today at 4...art and science collide this month at the US Space and Rocket Center.

The USSRC is teaming up with the Arts Council for the Fall for the Arts Campaign, proving that the two do go hand in hand.

This Saturday, kids can learn all about fall foliage at Saturday Scientist. There will be two workshops, one at 10:30 a.m. and another at noon. Admission is $10 for members and $12 for non-members. It is a great way for kids to learn about why the leaves on the trees change color this time of year. We will also get the details on the new exhibit opening in a few weeks, featuring the art of Da Vinci. For more information log on to www.rocketcenter.com for more.

http://scienceline.org/2013/10/bio-artist/
“Bio-Artist” paints life in the laboratory
With living tissue as his artistic medium, Oron Catts aims to put science into perspective.

Oron Catts knits tiny sweaters from cells and grows toy dolls from living tissue, but the “bio artist” wants to make sure his intentions are clear. “I’m not interested in science,” he recently announced to a room brimming with scientists, “I’m interested in life.”

Catts spoke on September 30th at CUriosity3, a Columbia University seminar program that encourages dialogue between scientists and artists. A bohemian with an irreverent, jaunty goatee that contrasts his slick ponytail, Catts is a member of the BioArt movement, which promotes living tissue as an artistic medium. He’s a bioengineer without any formal laboratory experience, a Harvard researcher without a PhD. He embodies the enigma of a science artist.

While the CUriosity3 program aims to connect art and science, the event highlighted gaps in perspective that are difficult to bridge. Catt’s foil was Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a biomedical engineer at Columbia, who provided an overview of stem cell research while regularly trying to squeeze in artistic references. Armed with high-definition micrographs of bright green stem cells, Vunjak-Novakovic’s unfaltering message was that “even cells are artistic.” The crowd applauded as a digital image of cancer cells clustered into a mangled smiley face on the screen behind her –unimpeachable evidence, she said, that science can be pretty.

Catts took the microphone and shrugged. “Art.” he said, “It’s not so much about making pretty pictures.”

He explained that science art is less about aesthetic beauty than it is about arming non-scientists with the context to confront new technology and research. “There is no cultural language to explain where we are at the moment,” he said. According to Catts, scientists are perpetually surrounded by marvels, from stem cells to prosthetic organs, that challenge our traditional definitions of life. And researchers are ill-equipped to capture the societal implications of their work or convey its importance to outsiders.

Determined to confront these marvels at their source, Catts trained as an artist while at several scientific laboratories. He eventually came to believe that his art could accomplish feats that science alone could not. “Artists have a license –that scientists do not have— to speculate and engage without the necessity of doing anything functional,” he said.

And with this license to speculate, Catts has added meatless frog-cell steaks and solar-powered fountains to his repertoire of fleshy dolls and cellular sweaters. His artistic portfolio spans a gamut of scientific fields, incorporating genetics, engineering and cell biology, but never, Catts insists, producing anything remotely “pretty.”

A science artist’s job, he asserted, is to help people cope with the constantly changing world, not to dazzle them with antiquated oil paints or fancy micrographs. For Catts, science art is not about beauty. Instead, he says, it’s a “lifelong search to discover what life is.”

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An artist's view on heart and heart beat

This an art project about the vitality of the Human Heart. It is a sculpture of a garment construction that is also robotic

http://www.reading.ac.uk/art/Bayer150anniversary/?goback=.gde_16367...!
How scientists look at art

This research project is being conducted to celebrate the 150 Year Anniversary of life sciences company Bayer. The study is in experimental aesthetics, and is being conducted by Bayer in conjunction with the University of Reading. It is designed to investigate artistic preferences.

The art of a scientist:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/article/Man-of-science-is...

Huang's scientific background elevates his artwork as well.

“Artists are constantly dealing with geometry and color theory — even physics,” he said. “That's why classical paintings are timeless, because they follow the physical laws.”