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.

The presentation is based on the book “How Nikola Tesla Invented the 20th Century”. The biography tells the story of Tesla’s life and analyses his impact on the development of our modern world. Tesla’s significance is derived from well-researched facts, without speculative conspiracy theories. His story is told as a fascinating mix of ingenious inventiveness and narcissistic hubris against the background of the birth of modernity. Myths and facts are separated to paint the picture of Nikola Tesla as the intellectual founding father of our modern world.

http://tesla.byethost10.com/

IMPORTANT: please note that the lectures will take place in different locations, and that the Tesla Talk will not be in the usual lecture theatre.

1. Time and location: 1pm – 2pm, UCL (University College London), Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, WC1E 6BT
2. Time and location: 6pm – 7pm, UCL (University College London), Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, WC1E 6B

From the first drawings of microorganisms to the x-ray images of DNA to Apollo’s photograph of earth, scientific images are at once illuminating and beautiful. Whether scientists are delving into how an enzyme unzips a strand of DNA or studying the nanostructure of a gecko’s feet, graphic visualizations convey a wealth of information, inspire new discoveries and delight our eyes and imagination.

You are invited to explore some of the newest and most fascinating images from two emergent branches of science during a two-day public celebration held at the Santa Fe Complex on April 1 and 2. The Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience will feature public lectures on how scientists create art through advanced microscopy and computer simulations as well as on new techniques that promise to reveal even more. Throughout the event, digital and conventional art will be exhibited including the first showing of the winning pieces in the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science magazine.

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

It’s one explanation for why humans no longer have tails, birds and turtles are toothless and snakes have stayed limbless.

But a new analysis, done by a researcher at Stony Brook University, found that while frogs lost teeth in the lower jaw at least 200 million years ago, a particular type of marsupial tree frog regained those lower teeth about 20 million years ago.

Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/science/15obfrog.html?ref=science

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