Nano+Bio+Art

Center of Contemporary Art, Torun

artists: Acconci Studio, Micol Assaël, Massimo Bartolini, Vladimir Bonačić, Loris Cecchini, Gianni Colombo, Olafur Eliasson, Xárene Eskandar, Alicja Kwade, Jarosław Kozakiewicz, Piotr Kowalski, Christiane Löhr, Katarina Löfström, Jakub Nepraš, Ernesto Neto, Christopher O’Leary & Casey Alt, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Tobias Putrih, Martin Rille, Simon Thorogood & Stephen Wolff, Aleksandar Srnec, Nikola Uzunovski, Johannes Vogl, Victoria Vesna

curated by: Dobrila Denegri

When art and science collide, the Riverside Gallery in London takes the opportunity to display the resulting dissection, decay and disease in all its multi-tonal glory. The result is its latest exhibit, Picturing Science.

After whittling down a massive 650 entries submitted to the open exhibition, the final 26 will be shown at the Richmond gallery until 26 February.

Taking the symbol-filled language of science and layering it with another symbol-fuelled discipline, the artists had great scope to explore themes of medicine, astronomy, neurology and more.

Inspired by experiments to detect neutrino trails, artist Frédérique Swist depicts the subatomic particles as an immense flash of lines, light and neon.

Check out the online gallery for a selection of the best works on show.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/02/picturing-science-exhibit

A once-living example of the most complicated object in the universe is mounted in a case at the beginning of the ambitious exhibition “Brain: The Inside Story,” which opens on Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Ocular Revision is a retake on traditional gel electrophoresis.  Paul Vanouse designed a circular gel electrophoresis apparatus to symbolize the earth.  He created a hypothetical “Genetic Map” by running human DNA through the gel.

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pv28/or.html