Nano+Bio+Art

Art and Science Symposium – Conjunctions of Artistic and Scientific Practices

School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2011

Trans-disciplinarity is a hallmark of the research that is being conducted today in both the scientific and artistic domains. The results are hybrid phenomena such as Nano-Art and Bio-Art, as well as far-reaching speculative inquiries that are changing our perception and understanding of being in the contemporary world. In this symposium, eminent international practitioners and theoreticians from the arts in Europe and the USA will discuss ground breaking creative endeavors and revolutionary institutional initiatives that are shaping the future of the art/science imaginary.

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

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be coming to campus in May to talk with UCLA neuroscientists about how Tibetan Buddhism as well as neuroscience can help people achieve compassion and creativity.

http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/lopsang-rapgay-192875.aspx

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

Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kirstin Ringelberg, Elon University; Michael R. Salmond, Northumbria University
Mao Goes Pop Online: Game Art Worlds in China
Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University
Female Otaku: Beyond the Mask of Anime, Art, and Film
Stephanie Denise Silberman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Episodes: Intersections of the Imaginary and the Real through the Lens of Anime
Adam Fotos, Chicago State University and College of DuPage
Sharing Girlhood
Heather Warren-Crow, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Norma Broude, American University; Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Attaining Full Equality: Women Artists, Museums, and Markets
Connie Butler, Museum of Modern Art

Wednesday, February 09, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York

Chairs: Jeremy Gardiner, Ravensbourne; Bruce Wands, School of Visual Arts

Digital Masters

Matthew Lewis, London Metropolitan University

Form Giving: Investigations into Technologically Driven Object Making Practice

Rebecca Strzelec, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

Object and Illusion: Crafting 3D Rapid Prototype Art Objects from a Printmaker’s Perspective

Paul Thirkell, University of the West of England

Pixels to Stone: Changing the Way Sculptors Think about Their Practice

Jonathan Monaghan, University of Maryland

Wednesday, February 09, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland and CRUMB; Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland and CRUMB
Axel Lapp, International Curators Forum
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam

Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hilary Braysmith, University of Southern Indiana
Artists Engaged with Science and Technology
Ellen Levy, University of Plymouth
Unresolved Problems in the Practice-Based PhD
James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Learning from the Sister Art of Music: The Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) as Possible Model for the Doctor of Fine Arts
Margaret Kennedy-Dygas, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Wednesday, February 09, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marjorie Och, University of Mary Washington
Step Away from the Podium! Adjusting Our Teaching Style to Accommodate Interactive Classroom Learning
Susan Healy, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha
The Sound of Art: Audio-Casting and Student Engagement
Frances Altvater, University of Hartford Hillyer College
Look, Listen, Speak, Text, Draw: VoiceThread TM Changes the Balance of Power
Janice Lynn Robertson, Fashion Institute of Technology
Collaboration in the Virtual Classroom: A Few Strategies that Work
Eva J. Allen, independent art historian