http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/12/bacteria-research-inspi...
Bacteria research inspires students' creative artwork
It was a little bit of both having art students learn about what goes on in a science lab and having lab members learn about how artists work,” said Gregory Page, associate professor of art, who teaches the course.

Women Make Science More Creative
New research into how scientists look at art contradicts stereotypes and uncovers significant gender differences
http://pegasuscomps.com/bayer150art/

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2013/12/10/3156905/women-make-science-...

"Not Invented by Nature" at BioQuant Centre in Heidelberg
On December 9-11, the eilslabs at DKFZ and BioQuant, as part of the coordination of the Helmholtz Initiative on Synthetic Biology is hosting the International Symposium "Synthetic Biology - from understanding to application" and the accompanying arts exhibition "not invented by nature". The symposium has received very good feedback with over 250 registered participants and an impressive line-up of international speakers. The conference will be accompanied by a public evening on synthetic biology entitled: “Constructed Life: Synthetic, useful,… good?” ). Panel members are Petra Schwille (MPI Martinsried), Wolf-Michael Catenhusen (German Ethics Council), Markus Schmidt (Biofaction, Vienna), Thorsten Moos (FEST Heidelberg) and Ursula Damm (Bauhaus University Weimar). Discussions are in German, simultaneous interpretation is available. The discussion taking place on Monday, December 9 at 18:30h in the BioQuant Center will followed by an additional highlight, the vernissage of the BioArts project “not invented by nature”. The artwork of this exhibition was created by international artists after a four week wet-lab residency at the DKFZ Heidelberg Life Science Lab. The BioArts Exhibition will be open for public until end of January 2014.

http://ibios.dkfz.de/tbi/index.php/news#!

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/artists-the-original-neuro...
Artists, the original neuroscientists

Art and science: ‘two cultures’ with shared values
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/columnists/art-and-sc...

ArtScience at the Williamson Gallery

Williamson Gallery director Stephen Nowlin interviewed in SciArt in America magazine:
http://williamsongallery.net/sciart.pdf

Williamson Gallery included in ARTnews Magazine cover story on ArtScience:
http://williamsongallery.net/artnews.pdf

Upcoming ArtScience in 2014

Folded
June 17 - August 20, 2014
After 30 years of studying origami as his passion, Dr. Robert J. Lang gave up
his day job as a laser physicist to focus on both the art and science of origami.
He is now one of the most respected origami artists in the world and uses his
background in science and mathematics to design complex and lifelike forms
from uncut squares of paper.

REALSPACE*
October 3, 2014 - January, 2015
"Realspace" describes the existence of things in their raw state,
untouched by human fictions, superstitions, or mythologies -- the naked
natural, the real revealed. Like scientists, realspace artists are observers of,
commentators about, and experimenters with this rawness -- their art
examines its emotional and transcendent, conceptual and epistemological implications.

*Part of AxS 2014 | Pasadena Festival of Art & Science

Continuing exhibition through January 19, 2014 Lynn Aldrich: Un/Common Objects:
http://williamsongallery.net/uncommonobjects

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/12/bacteria-research-inspi...
Bacteria research inspires students' creative artwork

http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2013/10026.html
Beauty and the lab: scientists reveal the art of science
From a heart-shaped cell nucleus to a 3D molecular syringe, creative scientists at the University of Bristol have revealed the beauty found in complex and technical research.
The University of Bristol’s annual Art of Science Competition challenged researchers to look for aesthetic beauty in their laboratories to help make their work more accessible to the public.

There were over 63 entries this year, capturing a range of intriguing and eye-catching subjects from slices of live brain tissue, a DNA helix made from DNA and a microscopic fluorescent image of a fruitfly’s circulatory system.

What is the Cell Picture Show?

A place to showcase striking images in cell, developmental, and molecular biology; a place to learn about cutting-edge research with beautiful images.
Want to contribute?

Send us your lab's most artistic or interesting images obtained from your day-to-day research for consideration in an upcoming slideshow.
http://www.cell.com/Cell_Picture_Show#!

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/12/14/gifts-gua...
Original Gifts for Science and Art Geeks

http://forward.com/articles/189222/jewish-artists-incorporating-sci...
Jewish Artists Incorporating Science Into Their Displays Offer Critical Perspective
Advances in Tech-Influenced Artwork Open World of Possibilities

Life under the Microscope: Stunning Photographs from the BioScapes Competition [Slide Show]

Microscopes transform the way we see and understand the creatures on our planet
http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=life-under-the-m...

Researchers Show the Art of Science at University of Bristol’s Annual Competition
From a heart-shaped cell nucleus to a 3D molecular syringe, creative scientists at the University of Bristol have revealed the beauty found in complex and technical research.

The University of Bristol’s annual Art of Science Competition challenged researchers to look for aesthetic beauty in their laboratories to help make their work more accessible to the public.

There were over 63 entries this year, capturing a range of intriguing and eye-catching subjects from slices of live brain tissue, a DNA helix made from DNA and a microscopic fluorescent image of a fruitfly’s circulatory system.
http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=29007

SLIDESHOW: Students from Cambridge Regional College, Sawtry Community College, Netherhall and Bottisham Village College demonstrate the art of science
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Education/Education-news/SLIDESHOW-...

Accidental Art of Science: Parking Lot Mitosis
http://thefinchandpea.com/2013/12/15/accidental-art-of-science-park...
http://www.scilogs.com/six_incredible_things_before_breakfast/the-r...
The rainbow connection
Despite its superficial resemblance to something living, the rainbow is inanimate. But the absence of animation makes it no less remarkable. This rainbow is woven of the finest of chemistry and physics. A trinity – comprising two liquids and light – dance together to create a dazzling vision.

The first ingredient is no more, no less than water. Water is so prevalent on this planet, so integrated into our very being, that it’s easy to forget what a wonder it is.

Water’s origins harken to the very earliest days of our universe, 13.8 billion years ago. Within three minutes of unleashing its incredible energy, the Big Bang created the conditions that yielded huge quantities of simple atoms, hydrogen, helium and lithium. Of course, hydrogen is the key ingredient of water.

By another billion years after the Big Bang, active stars had forged more complex atoms, like carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The oxygen forged in those celestial furnaces was flung into space when those same stars lived out their creative lives, and exploded as supernova. As they whisked at phenomenal rates across space, oxygen atoms collided with hydrogen, to make water.

Now, water in space does not a watery planet make. Even though water would have been plentiful as cosmic matter congealed to make our sun and its planets some 9 billion years after the Big Bang, the fiery conditions on early Earth would have boiled water right off its surface. What’s more, the absence of an atmosphere would have resulted in that boiled water drifting right back into space.

A cooled Earth, with a thin atmosphere could contain water, but by the time those conditions had arrived, most, if not all, water would have been a thing long past. In fact, the atmosphere would have prevented water in any substantial quantity from just drifting onto the planet’s surface. Instead, our planet was reliant on another source of water, a different kind of extraterrestrial source.

Multiple hypotheses have been invoked to explain the preponderance of water on Earth’s surface. Some of these involve delivery by either meteors or asteroids, through impact with the planet. Asteroids are cooled hunks of icy rock that share our solar system. Every now and then, some cross paths with Earth. On even rarer occasions, they collide. Earth continues on its way, scarred but undaunted, while the asteroid is integrated into the fabric of the planet. In earlier days of our solar system, such collisions were more frequent – those that could collide have had billions of years to do so. Water may also be delivered by smaller collisions, involving meteors, likely the derived from the tails of comets. Hypothetically, these collisions peppered our planet with different kinds of minerals, and created its oceans.

Call for proposals: deadline 2 February 2014
BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD
Always wanted to be at the forefront of riveting art or design that is trans-disciplinary and pushes the boundaries of technological and artistic possibilities? Then submit your application for the BIO ART & DESIGN AWARD (previously DA4GA) and take a chance on winning € 25.000,- for your project!
Did you graduate no longer than five years ago in the field of art or design? Do the breakthroughs of Life Sciences fascinate you, and do you have a knack for (applied) arts and/or design? Then we want you to send in your idea for a project that combines artistic merit with the vast developments in Life Sciences. But read the information about the call, deadlines, requirements, procedure, etc. in the award regulations carefully first!

Use the online registration system to send in your idea for a project.
The deadline for applications is 2 February 2014.
http://www.badaward.nl/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_5817114915940352...!

From Leonardo:

ANNOUNCING: LONDON LASER
Leonardo/ISAST is pleased to announce a new addition to the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous series: London LASER. In the spirit of all LASER events, the London LASER is a program of evening gatherings that will bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with audience members. The London LASER series is the eighth LASER program and the first of the series to take place in Europe. London LASER will be hosted by the University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martins MA Art and Science) and the University of Westminster (Broad Vision research and learning), in association with Leonardo/ISAST. The London LASER launch event will take place on 18 February 2014, 6?8 p.m. at the University of Westminster.

CURIOSITY3 PRESENTS: EPIDEMICS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE
Seasonally appropriate topics at this time of year, epidemics are a vast and far-reaching concern for populations across the globe. On Monday 16 December, 7 p.m., join Columbia University?s School of the Arts, Digital Science Center and Office of Government and Community Affairs for presentations and a panel discussion featuring epidemiologist Stephen Morse, artist Lorrie Fredette and social scientist Samuel Roberts as they discuss their unique perspectives on epidemics and consider the medical and societal causes behind ?plagues? both past and present.

 website:
http://www.leonardo.info
  email:
isast@leonardo.info

http://io9.com/thrilling-concept-art-for-science-fiction-museum-we-...
Great Concept Art for the Science Fiction Museum We Desperately Want

http://www.golocalprov.com/lifestyle/trender-natural-science-photog...
TRENDER: Natural Science Photographer

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/collider_a_gimmicky_lo...
Collider: a gimmicky look at the LHC
Collider is the London Science Museum’s new exhibition devoted to the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. It is billed as an ‘immersive exhibition’ that ‘blends theatre, video and sound art with real artefacts from CERN’. But from the off, the exhibition is too chaotic to be truly enthralling.

New Art at Stockton Mixes Science and Sunlight
Artist Ray King turns scientific phenomena into art at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey’s new $39.5 million Unified Science Center, through two large-scale glass installations.

Using the sun and glass, Ray King created two masterpieces, the Stockton Wave and Sun Sails, which bring the science of optics to light in a public space. King, who splits his time between his Philadelphia studio and his Stockton, New Jersey farm, works with glass, metals and cable constructions, but light is the key element that infuses life into his art.

http://galloway.patch.com/groups/schools/p/new-art-at-stockton-mixe...

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Museum+Nature+exhibit+reveals+sc...
Museum of Nature exhibit reveals the art and science of fish X-rays

When Science is Art: a New Map of Wind Patterns

A new map of wind patterns is so visually stunning it’s easily mistaken for art.

http://www.universetoday.com/107271/when-science-is-art-a-new-map-o...

Bio-Fiction is the international Synthetic Biology Science, Art and Film Festival series. It features short films on any aspect of synthetic biology, including documentary films, animation, (science) fiction etc.
The first festival was held in Vienna, Austria, in 2011, when it received 130 short films from 26 countries, of which a jury selected 52 films, and awarding 5 films with major awards. The Second Bio-fiction Festival will take place from 23 - 25 October, 2014. The Venue will again be the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria.

Bio-fiction 2014 is produced by Vienna based Biofaction
http://bio-fiction.com/2014/?goback=.gde_1636727_member_58193893027...!

From KiiCS
Music and Neuroscience: Developing New Business Ideas and Products/Services

Music and Neuroscience is the incubation theme of the Science Communication Observatory (OCC) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Spain. Last June, together with the Music Technology Group (also from UPF), the OCC organised the Neuro-Music Hack Day (n+MHD), a neuroscience and music competition that lasted 24h and took place within the internationally renowned Sonar Festival. The n+MHD was intended to generate products and technological apps that could eventually be developed into viable business projects at the crossroads of music and neuroscience.

The competition gathered computer programmers, neuroscientists and artists combining their competencies and working together to create apps, hardware, software, etc., connecting these two disciplines. Three projects won the competition as they presented the best creations in terms of originality, innovation and entrepreneurship:

Syncopathy (Assaf Talmudi, Jonathan Rubin and Tamar Regev), which enables small robots to play Israeli drums on the basis of neurological and physiological signals (1stprize).
Blow up (Wagner, Tobias Baur and Florian Lingenfelser), a videogame where the protagonist overcomes a screen avoiding obstacles by running and jumping. The videogame character’s movements are controlled by the respiratory flow and heart rate of the player (2nd prize).
p300 Harmonies (Zacharias Vamvakousis), an app with which users can modify the pitch and harmony of music using brain signals (3rd prize).

The winner of the n+MHD will also compete for a trip and ticket to take part to the Picnic Festival in Amsterdam (September 2014)

Life Sciences: Bringing Science to the Fore through Art and Design

Waag Society, in The Netherlands, chose Life Sciences as its incubation theme. It has developed the competition DA4GA - Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (continuing as Bio Art & Design Award in 2014) to encourage, facilitate, organise and disseminate collaborations between arts, design and the Life Sciences. The objectives are to find new spaces, materials and situations for artistic representation and presentation, on one side, and to inspire science and contribute to the societal discussion about life sciences, on the other.

Each year, 12-16 of the most prestigious Life Sciences research institutes in The Netherlands are matched with a selection of artists/designers following an international call for artistic/design proposals involving Life Sciences. After this, the resulting interdisciplinary teams re-define together the artistic/design proposals to compete for the award. An independent jury then selects the three winning projects to be realised and presented to the public at a dedicated exhibition. The competition can lead to art works, projects, new products, etc.

In the 2012/13 edition, the winning projects were: Ergo Sum, in which donated cells by artist Charlotte Jarvis were transformed by the Netherlands Proteomics Centre into a sort of biological self-portrait; Fish Bone Chapel, for which artist Haseeb Ahmed used 3D-printing to copy and enlarge mutated skeletons of zebra fish in order to create an installation that invites to reflect on how genomics research challenges the dividing lines between life and death; and Living Mirror, an interactive bio-installation by Laura Cinti & Howard Bolandand FOM-Institute AMOLF that combines cells with electronic and photo manipulation to create real-time portrait images.

Among others, Waag Society will be following the relations between the artists/designers and the scientists, encouraging and mentoring the winning teams to make the most of their collaboration, and making the model sustainable and repeat it.

http://www.kiics.eu/en/News-Events/KiiCS-News/KiiCS-Art-Science-Inc...

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/19/san-diego-visual-art-net...
Art, science and the ‘DNA of Creativity’
SD Visual Art Network project headed for Oceanside Museum of Art

http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/34961/
Borrowing from Physics and Art for Improved Compression
The ability to compress information is becoming more and more invaluable as more applications require massive amounts of data. For example, some medical tests require analyzing millions of cells while they stream by, in real time and not every computer can handle it. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have recently developed a new compression technique which should help with that though, and it relies on anamorphism.

Anamorphism is an artistic technique dating back to the sixteenth century and involves morphing images to create optical illusions. It is also used in film to fit wide images onto narrow frames. The UCLA researchers developed the anamorphic stretch transform (AST) algorithm in order to stretch and warp both analog and digital signals. By stretching the important information, it can be preserved even while a great compression ratio is achieved. That ratio can even surpass that of JPEG compression for images.

Part of the reason the researchers developed this new technique was because of prior work of theirs that led to medical testing that could produce more data than some equipment could process. With this compression, it should be possible to record and digitize analog signals that are faster than the sensor and digitizer, while reducing the bulk of data produced as well.

Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Science Illustrations
by Maria Popova

A lavish celebration of the intersection of art, science, and technology.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/27/natural-histories...!

The Arts – enhancing science discovery and understanding
Art class or crafting with kids is an activity that can fill up some free time and a time to work on fine motor skills in disguise, but it can be much more.
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/the_arts_enhancing_science_discovery_a...

http://www.sgvtribune.com/lifestyle/20131224/science-and-art-meet-i...
Science and art meet in protist photos by Arcadia resident

http://www.newsminer.com/features/youth/fairbanks-educator-teaches-...
Fairbanks educator teaches science through art

http://newstodaynet.com/arts/spider-art-dating-back-4000-bc-found-e...
Spider art dating back to 4000 BC found in Egypt
New York: Scientists have discovered a one-of-its-kind spider rock art, dating back to 4,000 BC, in an Egyptian valley.

Archaeologists found a broken rock panel that depicts possibly the only known example of spider rock art in the entire Old World, researchers said.

The panel, now in two pieces, on the west wall of a shallow sandstone valley, in the Kharga Oasis, is located in Egypt's western desert about 175 kilometres west of Luxor.

Researchers said the rock art may date to about 4000 BC or earlier, which would put it well into prehistoric times, before Egypt was unified, said Ikram, 'LiveScience' reported. Facing east, and illuminated by the morning sun, the panel is a "very unusual" find, said Egyptologist Salima Ikram, a professor at the American University in Cairo who co-directs the North Kharga Oasis Survey Project.

Smithsonian scientist proves pollinators are more than just "ornaments of
life"

http://artdaily.com/news/67063/Smithsonian-scientist-proves-pollina...

'The Art and Science of Rainbows' For Children
http://rye.dailyvoice.com/events/rye-library-hosts-art-and-science-...

Geology of the mind of a sci-artist:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/geology-of-the-m...

Marc Tschida with Press Puzzles will create jigsaw puzzles during WonderLab’s First Friday Evening Science of Art program from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology, 308 W. Fourth St., Bloomington.

Tschida will use a scroll saw to create an original jigsaw puzzle showcasing a Bloomington landmark. Participants will be able to make their own photo puzzle to take home and use old puzzle pieces in a variety of craft projects.

The purpose of First Friday Evening Science of Arts programs are to expose visitors of all ages to a different artistic medium each month and to show the connections between art and science.
http://www.tribtown.com/view/local_story/WonderLab-s-First-Friday-s...

SPIE to Celebrate Light in Art and Technology at Gallery Show
Bellingham, Washington, USA (PRWEB) December 28, 2013

A light-themed gallery exhibition sponsored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is opening early next month -- just as the news of an International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies has been proclaimed by the United Nations. The Art of Light and Technology will run through January at Allied Arts of Whatcom County in Bellingham, Washington, where the societys headquarters offices are located.

Works by three regional artists will be complemented by a display of 32 posters designed by students at the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, Germany, in support of the International Year of Light. The observance is sponsored by scientific and educational organizations worldwide, including SPIE, to promote improved public and political understanding of the central role of light in the modern world, and help raise awareness of the possibilities inherent in light-based science and engineering, said SPIE President-Elect Philip Stahl.

"Light is one of the ways we experience and represent our world, through vision and the visual arts," Stahl said. "It is central to how we express our deepest emotional and philosophical thoughts."
http://www.itbusinessnet.com/article/SPIE-to-Celebrate-Light-in-Art...

Mathematical Impressions: Art Imitates Math

Mathematics frequently offers inspiration to artists. Some of their works are mathematical models, some incorporate math symbols or objects, some are inspired by a theorem or proof, and some show patterns and structures with a mathematical aesthetic. The art exhibition at the annual Bridges Conference showcases a wide range of artworks inspired by mathematical thinking. As with any art form, the more background you have and the more you study the works, the deeper your appreciation will be.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/multimedia/mathematical-impression...!
http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2013-bridges-conference

http://www.wickedlocal.com/brookline/features/x800890504/MIT-kineti...
MIT kinetic sculpture exhibit melds art and science

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/essay-why-botanical-illustration-sti...!
Essay: Why botanical illustration still matters in the digital age
With nineteenth century Audubon prints now fetching record rates at auction, an art exhibit entitled Plants, Birds and Pollinators: Art Serving Science is more likely to evoke historic than contemporary associations.
“There is diversity within a species. Illustration offers us the opportunity to present the ideal or representative of that species.”
“You can point things out, you can highlight things and call the viewer’s attention to a certain detail by making it color or black and white.”

PNNL's Science as Art

http://www.pnnl.gov/publications/calendars/
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/12/31/2753890/pnnls-science-as-a...

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/01/01/2754163/biomorph-exhibit-o...
'Biomorph' exhibit opens Jan. 6
When art meets science, anything can happen. That's the subject for the next art exhibition at Columbia Basin College, which opens Jan. 6 in the Fred Esvelt Gallery on the Pasco campus.

Look at what a science-artist wants to do!

Looking for a collaboration on a sci-art project

Vladimir Kaigorodov Scientist and Artist

Paradise Food company
December 2013

I think about creating very cheap food-like substance that can effectively reduce life expectancy of old people to 3-5 years. It can be perfect solution for those hungry youngsters who want finally to get the life-insurance and a legacy of their parents. All they need is to convince the human targets in a special health value of our super-yogurt. With special sphingo-lipids that cause heart-failure in a some reasonable time.
And he says he is deadly serious! ( I am deadly sirius ;-) )

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&di...

The Imagine Engine at the Intersection of Science and Art
Visual artist Daniel Kohn and his scientist collaborators at the Broad Institute — an interdisciplinary research institute of Harvard and MIT committed to accelerating the understanding and treatment of disease — provide us with one example. Kohn views the contemporary space as being "polyphonic." He feels that in order for humans to look at, and to really understand, contemporary life and their place in it, they need to peer through parallel fields of human knowledge that see the world through different (but complementary) points of view. These points of view have their own tools and traditions that can be applied in concert to empower investigations in art and science as "knowledge generation fields in an evolving web of meaning."

http://www.livescience.com/42320-intersection-science-art.html

Finding a connection in science, visual arts
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Finding-a-c...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: CLOUD AND MOLECULAR AESTHETICS
The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference seeks papers that explore this year?s theme: the cloud and molecular aesthetics. The third international conference, to be held 26?28 June 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey, will bring together artists, theorists, scholars, scientists, historians and curators, and will focus on a critical investigation into the new objectification of the imaged world around us; the aesthetic, artistic, theoretical and practical implications of a new topography of data; our contemporary understanding of clouding, assembly and camouflage in a post-material age; and more. Deadline to submit: 24 January 2014.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/04/saya-woolfalk-beatriz-mont...
Art And Science Have Never Looked So Good Together! (Oh, really?!)

Art therapy helps Boston bomb victims to recover:
http://www.modbee.com/2014/01/03/3116011/boston-marathon-bombing-vi...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304866904579268...
Hundreds of Items in Joanna Ebenstein's Collection of Curiosities Meet at the Intersection of Art, Science