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Arts Catalyst Art-Science e-bulletin - 05/05

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS & PROJECTS IN ART-SCIENCE

A selection of events, projects, news and announcements in the fields of art and science, and space & the arts.

In this bulletin:

Section 1 - Arts Catalyst events & associated projects
Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
Section 3 - Art-science books, DVDs & CD-Roms
Section 4 - Space & the arts
Section 5 - Art & technology

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Section 1 - Arts Catalyst events & associated projects

Flow Motion's
ASTRO BLACK MORPHOLOGIES
Exhibition 9 - 24 June 2005
Launch & sound performance 8 June 2005
Science Museum's Dana Centre, London, UK
Flow Motion and The Arts Catalyst with the John Hansard Gallery & SCAN
Multimedia installation by artists Eddie George & Anna Piva based in a dialogue between contemporary astronomy, digital art and electronic music.
Exhibition open Mon - Fri 12 - 6pm, Thursdays to 9pm
Launch event & sound performance Wed 8 June 7pm
Exhibition and events FREE, but booking essential with the Dana Centre 020
7942 4040 or tickets@danacentre.org.uk)
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/astroblack.html

DEEP SPACE POETICS
Thu 16 June 2005, 6.30 - 8.30 pm
A talk on the dialogue between art, music and cosmology with Flow Motion and experts from music and science.
FREE, but booking essential with the Dana Centre 020 7942 4040 or
tickets@danacentre.org.uk

THE ZERO GRAVITY HANDBOOK : A Cultural User's Guide
edited by Nicola Triscott and Rob la Frenais
Examining the work that the Arts Catalyst and the MIR Consortium have carried out with artists and scientists in zero gravity and exploring the wider social and cultural context of this work.
£15/€22
Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications - www.cornerhouse.org

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Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks

ARTISTS FELLOWSHIPS AT SPACE SCIENCES LAB BERKELEY ANNOUNCED
Arts Council England, The Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley, California, and Leonardo Network announce that two fellowships at the Space Sciences Laboratory in California have been awarded to the artists Liliane Lijn and Semiconductor.
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcement_ssl_ace.html

AIL - ARTISTS IN SWISS SCIENCE LABS
Conference "Fusion 05" 21 May 2005
Exhibition 19 - 22 May 2005
KKL Culture and Congress Centre, Luzern, Terrace Hall.
Artists in Labs project is an innovative research project which explores the cultural interface between Art and Science. Final presentation.
www.artistsinlabs.ch

NEUROAESTHETICS
20 & 21 May 2005
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Distinguished group of artists, curators, scientists and philosophers exploring art and consciousness.
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk

LECTURE BY ORON CATTS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SYMBIOTICA
23 May 2005
The Arts and Genomics Centre, Room K008 of Gebouw (Building) IV, Kruislaan
314, Science Park Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.artsgenomics.org

THE MIND MAPS THE WORLD: the object is the subject
26 May 2005 6.30 pm
London School of Economics, London, UK
Susan Hiller, artist, Richard Gregory, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. Part of States of Mind
www.lse.ac.uk/bios

LONGPLAYER CONVERSATION 2005
26 May 2005 7pm
Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, UK
Laurie Anderson and Doris Lessing discuss the art and science of keeping time.
www.rigb.org

SPLENDID IMMERSION
Exhibition 26 May - 1 June 2005
Seminar 28 May 2005 20:00
V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Works by Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu, Graham Smith, Sonia Cillari, Hermen Maat & Karen Lancel that explore the structure of immersive aquatic realms.
Seminar will be webcast live and V2_ invites guests online to participate.
www.v2.nl

NATURAL REFLECTIONS
To 30 May 2005
Exploratorium, San Francisco, US
Artists explore culture through nature.
John Slepian, Claudia Hart, Vanessa Renwick, Binh Danh
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/05-2Natural.html

JOB OPPORTUNITY
The Australian Network for Art and Technology is seeking to appoint a new Executive Director. Based in Adelaide, South Australia
Deadline Fri 3 June

BODY STATES: THE PILOT PROJECT
11 June 2005
Ellen Terry Building (Coventry University), Jordan Well, Coventry City
Centre, Coventry, UK
Event exploring the common concerns of the disciplines of live art performance and medical history. Featuring the work of five artists: Ansuman Biswas, Anna Dumitriu, Ju Gosling, Philip Warnell, and Louise K Wilson.
www.warwick.ac.uk/go/bodystates

SYNAPSE DATABASE
Online resource promoting the nexus of art and science.
www.synapse.net.au

NOMADIC LANDMASS - Ilana Halperin
To 11 June 2005
Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, UK
Ilana Halperin's journey to an Icelandic volcano. Aerial photographs, drawings, geological specimens, historic footage of the 1973 eruption.
http://www.doggerfisher.com/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.php?id=33

INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE “SCIENCE AND ART”
16 - 19 June 2005
Hellenic Physics Society, 6 Grivaion Street, Athens, Greece
The aim of the conference is to indicate the common nature of scientific methodology and artistic creation and to stimulate an open discussion on the potential and perspectives that will be opened by the systematic collaboration of artists and scientists, for the formation of a new social
and cultural identity.
www.eef.gr

LILIANE LIJN: WORKS 1959-80
To 22 June 2005
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Retrospective of work by the artist Liliane Lijn.
Tours to the Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham

SYMBIOTICA BIOTECH ART WORKSHOP, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
20-24 June 2005
www.uow.edu.au/crearts/sad/SymbiotechWshop05.html

CLOVER FIELD
24 June 2005 for 5 weeks
Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Road, London, UK
A collaboration between N55 & Yoke & Zoom. The purpose of the exhibition is to grow a field of three and four leaf clovers in the gallery, which will enable the public to find and pick a lucky clover
www.cell.org.uk

ASCI eBulletin
Since 1991, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) has been providing the art-sci-tech community with timely information about the news, events, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, opportunities, and resources in this burgeoning field. The ASCI ebulletin, one of the world's most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, hyperlinked art-sci information listings, will keep you
"ahead-of-the-curve."
www.asci.org
 
* Worldwide Call for Submissions *
LEA SPECIAL ISSUE: WILD NATURE AND THE DIGITAL LIFE
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac is inviting papers [and artworks] themed
around Wild Nature and the Digital
Life.
Deadline for expressions of interest: 8 July 2005
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#digiwild

NESTA FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, is currently seeking applicants for their Fellowship programme. Specifically, NESTA is looking for people of exceptional talent who live or work in the Yorkshire and Humberside region. Fellows may come from any discipline including of course technology and the arts.
Deadline 14 July 2005
www.nesta.org.uk/openfellowship

TECHNOETIC ARTS
International journal of speculative research
Editor: Roy Ascott roy@planetary-collegium.net
www.intellectbooks.com/journals/technoetic/index.htm
Deadline 1st September 2005 (vol.3.3)

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Section 3 - Books, DVDS, CD-Roms
 
THE ZERO GRAVITY HANDBOOK : A Cultural User's Guide
edited by Nicola Triscott and Rob la Frenais
See the Arts Catalyst section above for details.
£15/€22
Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications - www.cornerhouse.org

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Section 4 - Space & the Arts

THE END OF THE MOON
18 - 21 May 2004 7.45 pm
Barbican Centre, London, UK
Drawing on her recent research and travels with NASA, The End of the Moon explores the tangled relationships between war, consumerism and spirituality.
www.barbican.org.uk/generic/details.asp?eventID=2862&artFormID=4&artForm=The
atre&disciplineName=drama

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Section 5 - Art & technology

REFRESH!
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORIES OF MEDIA ART, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
28 Sep - 1 Oct 2005
Banff New Media Institute, Canada
Banff New Media Institute, the Database for Virtual Art, Leonardo/ISAST and UNESCO DigiArts are collaborating to produce the first international art history conference covering art and new media, art and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to contemporary art.
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi

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