Sunday 2 November 2008, 3 – 7pm
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey, UK

Artist Joanna Griffin leads a public event of workshops and activities for all ages. Griffin has been collaborating with the scientists at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory to explore our connection to the orbiting environment of satellites. Everyone can join in the storytelling sessions about satellites and space exploration; there will be lantern-building workshops, tours of the centre and its grounds, and guided stargazing and satellite-spotting after dark.

Admission free, please contact the Arts Catalyst on admin@artscatalyst.org or 020 7375 3690 to book.

New commissions by Chris Oakley, Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou

Private view, Thursday 13 November 2008, 6-8.30pm
Exhibition runs: 14 - 16, 20 - 23, 27 - 30 November 2008, 12 – 6.30pm.
Nicholls and Clarke Building, 3-10 Shoreditch High Street, Spitalfields, London E1 6PG, UK

The Arts Catalyst with SCAN present a new installation work by Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou and a commissioned film by Chris Oakley. Both pieces deal with the intricacies and contradictions at the heart of nuclear power's re-emergence as a concern for our time.

Friday 28 November 2008, 10am – 6pm
The Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, WC2, UK
Admission is free, please register at arts@rsa.org.uk

In partnership with the RSA Arts & Ecology, The Arts Catalyst with SCAN present a forum exploring the impact of nuclear power in art and culture. Prominent artists, writers and experts will discuss their work and engagement with the issues around nuclear energy, from Hiroshima through the 50s’ ‘white heat of technology’ and the Cold War nuclear tensions to present day energy debates. Speakers include American ‘nuclear sculptor’ James Acord, artist Gustav Metzger, Kate Hudson, chair of CND, and Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble.

IN CONVERSATION: TOMAS SARACENO with ROB LA FRENAIS & TONY WHITE
Friday 24 October 2008, 11am
A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool L1 OBY, UK
Topic: 'Art Beyond Science'.  As part of 'MADE UP WEEKEND Music! Talks! Performance! Art! Smoke! Film! ', a Liverpool Biennial event. Admission is free on the day subject to availability. Ph +44 (0)151 709 7444 or email tickets@biennial.com
www.biennial.com

ACTIONS IN AND AROUND THE EARTH'S ORBIT
Friday 14 November, 9pm
O' - via Pastrengo, 12 Milano, Milan, Italy
at Sincronie 2008
Arts Catalyst programme of video works about Space (and) Art as part of the Sincronie 2008 festival of music, skies and astronomy. Presented by Rob La Frenais, Curator, including work by Zero Genies Ansuman Biswas & Jem Finer, Simon Faithfull, Anne Bean and the MIR Consortium.
www.sincronie.org

PEACHY COOCHY
Thursday 27 November 2008, 8pm
Arts Cafe, Arts Admin , 28 Commercial St, E1 6LS, London, UK
Rob La Frenais, Curator, The Arts Catalyst, takes part in David Gale's Peachy Coochy on the subject of levitation.
www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/project.php?id=211

HUMAN FUTURES: ART IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
30 October 2008, symposium 10am - 5pm
Tickets £25.00/£20.00
FACT, Wood Street, Liverpool, UK
Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts Catalyst, speaks at this interdisciplinary symposium to explore questions, ideas and propositions about the challenges that humanity faces in the future. The symposium brings together contributors from FACT’s new book ‘Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty’ edited by Andy Miah.
http://humanfutures.wordpress.com

DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES AND THE VISUAL ARTS SECTOR
2 December 2008, 2–5.30pm
Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Free: LCACE partner staff and VAGA members. £30 for other attendees.
Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts Catalyst, speaks at this event, organised by LCACE and VAGA, to explore the potential for the development of collaborations and partnerships between the research base in the university sector and the visual arts sector. Other speakers are Stephen Beddoe (Artquest, Univ of the Arts), Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary, Director, Beyond Text) and Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths). Event chaired by Antonia Payne (Univ Worcester). Places limited. Please rsvp to info@lcace.org.uk by Friday 21 November 2008. 

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

SPECTROPIA: ART+COMMUNICATION 2008
16-18 October 2008
Riga, Latvia
International festival of new media culture exploring electromagnetic fields.
http://rixc.lv/08/

SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE MOON - Ulrike Kubatta
Wednesday 29 October 2008, doors open 7pm
The Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2NP, UK
Film about Jerri Truhill, who was trained as part of NASA’s top secret Mercury 13 programme, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts.
Also: Talk at Newcastle University Fine Art Dept
Wed 29 October 2008, 11am
www.starandshadow.org.uk

THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST - Klara Hobza
1 November 2008, 1-5pm
A multifaceted artwork inspired by a historic paper airplane contest that took place in 1967 at the Great Hall in what is now the New York Hall of Science.  
Call for entries: www.publicartfund.org

SEIZURE – Roger Hiorns
Until 2 November 2008
51-189 Harper Road, London SE1, UK
A commission by Artangel, in which Hiorns has grown a copper sulphate crystal within a derelict flat.
www.artangel.org.uk

THE ISLANDERS: AN INTRODUCTION – Charles Avery
To 8 November 2008
Parasol unit : foundation for contemporary art, 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, UK
Works which describe the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island.
www.parasol-unit.org

DOCTOR ATOMIC EVENTS
To 10 November 2008
CUNY Graduate Center/NYC's Science & the Arts Program, NY, US
Focuses on the Manhattan Project, the program to develop nuclear weapons during World War II, presented in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s new opera Doctor Atomic.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart/

OBSERVING BEAST, TIME, EVOLUTION: ART AND SCIENCE
To 2 November 2008
Kunstverein Hildesheim and Roemer-und-Pelizaeus Museum, Hildescheim, Germany
Exhibition of international artists including Mark Dion and Sanna Kanisto.
www.kunstverein-hildesheim.de and www.rpmuseum.de

RADIOASTRONOMY - Radioqualia
Saturday 15 November 2008
Sincronie 2008, h 21 - Casa dell'Energia, P.za Po, 3 Milano, Milan, Italy
An art and science project which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves.
www.sincronie.org

CROSSING OVER: EXCHANGES IN ART & BIOTECHNOLOGIES
To 21 November 2008
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, UK
Exhibition of contemporary art that addresses genetic manipulation and bioengineering.
www.crossingover-exhibition.co.uk

CRANEOZOIDES: REVOLUTION - José Eugenio Marchesi
23 - 29 November, 2008
Alameda,18 28014 Madrid, Spain
An artistic review of our relationship with science, myths and religion.   
www.galeriablancasoto.com 

LE LABORATOIRE
4 rue du Bouloi, Paris, France
Presents its second year of experimental art-science collaborative projects, exhibitions, and public dialogues.
www.lelaboratoire.org

EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY
To 12 December 2008
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, US
An exhibition which explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth.
www.ici-exhibitions.org

THE DISCREET CHARM OF TECHNOLOGY:ARTS IN SPAIN
To 15 February 2009
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Exhibition of Spanish art and technology productions.
www.zkm.de

HUMAN/NATURE: ARTISTS RESPOND TO A CHANGING PLANET
To 1 February 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, US
25 February - 28 June 2009
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, US
Works created during multi-year artist residencies at UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe.
www.artistsrespond.org

THE 7TH HIROSHIMA ART PRIZE  - Cai Guo-Qiang
25 October - 12 January 2009
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima MOCA), 1-1 Hijiyama Koen, Minami-Ku, Hiroshima, Japan
Acknowledges the achievements of artists who have contributed to the peace of humanity within the field of contemporary art. Cai Guo-Qiang has been selected as the winner.
www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/

CONFERENCES, TALKS, SYMPOSIA

JEAN-PIERRE HAIGNERÉ & ALASTAIR REYNOLDS - SPACE FRONTIERS
Friday 5 December 2008, 7 – 8pm, 
V&A Museum (Lecture Theatre), South Kensington, SW7 2R, UK
The European Space Agency Astronaut, Jean-Pierre Haigneré and science fiction author Alastair Reynolds discuss the experience of space travel and the effects it has had on design and the arts.  £8/£6. Call +44 (0)20 7942 2211 and mention Arts Catalyst to receive  the concessionary rate.

COMMUNICATE: ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
27-28 October 2008
HP Labs, Bristol
Communicate is a conference for senior environmental communicators.
View the programme: www.festivalofnature.org/conference.php?pageid=303&parentid=299&public=0

CALL FOR PAPERS: RE-IMAGINING THE MOON
Leonardo Journal, MIT Press,  Special Section
Seeks articles from a variety of disciplines exploring various social and cultural aspects related to the moon. Manuscripts will be considered on an ongoing basis until 2012. Send manuscripts/ proposals to leonardomanuscripts@gmail.com. This project follows on the Bangalore Space and Culture Symposium held in 2007, a collaboration of the National Institute for Advanced Studies, The Arts Catalyst, Leonardo/OLATS and the Srishti School for Art, Design and Technology.

THE DRILLING CONSORTIUM
13 November 2008, 7 – 9pm
Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway
An interdisciplinary round table focussing on artistic, scientific and technological parameter of deep earth and ice investigation.
www.ffur.de/roundtable

LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS (LASER)
10 November 2008
SFSU Downtown Center, 835 Market Street, San Francisco, USA
Bimonthly series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology. RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.
www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

THE ANIMAL GAZE: SYMPOSIUM AND ART EXHIBITION
20-21 November 2008
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design (London Metropolitan University), UK
Invited speakers are artists, curators, academics and art historians with a special interest in the representation of animals in art today. To book a delegate place, please visit www.animalgaze.org/bookings.html

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

'TACTICAL BIOPOLITICS: ART, ACTIVISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE'
Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip
Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences.
www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks.html

'HUMAN FUTURES: ART IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY'
The world around us is changing. What will make the first century of the millennium different to the last? What will we love, how will we live, what will keep us awake at night? 'Human Futures' is edited by Andy Miah and features work by George J Annas, Fiona Raby & Anthony Dunne, Norman M Klein, William Sims Bainbridge, Oron Catts and Nicola Triscott. Pre-order the book, contact shop@fact.co.uk Or www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/howtoorder.asp
Price: £35 / $59.95 (hardback), 352pp, 210 x 178mm, cased. FACT, October 2008

OPPORTUNITIES

BRITISH COUNCIL 'DARWIN NOW 'AWARDS
To support an individual’s research project relating to Darwin, his legacy, evolutionary theory, or biodiversity (outside the UK). Up to £5000. www.britishcouncil.org/science-darwin-now-awards or contact darwin@britishcouncil.org. Deadline: 5 December 2008.

VACANCY: RSA ARTS & ECOLOGY CENTRE CURATOR AND PRODUCER
A key post in a pioneering new Centre at the RSA. Closing date Monday 27 October 2008. www.thersa.org/about-us/jobs/jobs/rsa-arts--and--ecology-centre-curator