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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 & projects
Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
Section 3 - Art-science books, DVDs & CD-Roms
Section 4 - Space, culture & the arts
Section 5 - Art & technology
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Section 1 - Arts Catalyst events & associated projects
For the latest from Arts Catalyst, go to www.artscatalyst.org
ENDO-ECTO - Phillip Warnell
Friday 10 February 2006, 3-8 pm
Nash Room, ICA, The Mall, London, UK
Performance/endoscopic journey through the gastro-intestinal tract with invited speakers on performance & medical imaging.
Booking essential, limited numbers. £6, £4 ICA members
Tickets: +44 207 930 3647
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/biotech/endoecto.html
MARCHING PLAGUE - Critical Art Ensemble
Saturday 4 March 2006
Tyneside Cinema, AV Festival, Newcastle, UK
Critical Art Ensemble's new film, commissioned and produced by The Arts Catalyst, centres on the recreation of sea trials conducted by the UK government in the 1950s as part of a programme of bioweapons research.
www.avfest.co.uk/av06.html
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/biotech/caeplague.html
ZERO GRAVITY: ARTISTS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF WEIGHTLESSNESS
Space, Architecture and the Brain - An Art and Mind Festival
Friday 10 March 2006 7.30–10pm
Theatre Royal Winchester, UK
Films and presentation by Nicola Triscott, director of The Arts Catalyst. Part of 'Architecture of the Universe', with Charles Jencks on The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
www.artandmind.org
ICEBLINK - Simon Faithfull
18 Narch - 14 May 2006, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1 - 30 April 2006, Cell, London, UK
8 April - 8 May 2006, Parker's Box, New York, US
Exhibition of work from artist Simon Faithfull's journey to Antarctica. Curated by Lisa Le Feuvre. Produced by The Arts Catalyst. Publication in collaboration with Bookworks.
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/global/iceblink.html
KATE TIERNEY
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE at the Centre for Astrophysics & Planetary Science (CAPS), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Autumn 2005 - Summer 2006
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Tierney's residency involves a practical, aesthetic and intellectual exploration of sound in space, with the artist’s participation in an observing run at an international observatory.
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/KateCAPS.html
A CULTURAL POLICY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Update on the Arts Catalyst's study for the European Space Agency on cultural utilisation of the International Space Station available at:
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/ISS.html
PFIZERS SPONSORS EAST OF EDEN
Pfizers has announced sponsorship of Lucy Stockton-Smith's ecology project with Sandwich Technology School.
An Arts Catalyst/Creative Partnerships Kent project
www.artscatalyst.org/education/eastofeden.html
THE ZERO GRAVITY HANDBOOK : A Cultural User's Guide
edited by Nicola Triscott and Rob la Frenais
£15/€22 Cornerhouse Publications - www.cornerhouse.org
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Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
VASULKAS RETROSPECTIVE
To 30 January 2006
ICA, The Mall, London, UK
www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14440
2006 SYNAPSE ART AND SCIENCE RESIDENCIES
Deadline for proposals: Friday 3 February 2006
Australian new media artists can now apply to participate in the 2006 Synapse Art and Science Residency Program organised by ANAT in residence with one of the following host science organisations:
Department of Archaeology & Natural History, Australian National University
Phylogica Ltd, Subiaco Western Australia
Rothamsted Research, West Common Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
For further information, contact Mimi Kelly, ANAT - mimi@anat.org.au
ARCO SPAIN
9 - 13 February 2006
Madrid
Seminars include The Era of Posthuman Engineering, From Body Art to the Transgenic Body, Biotechnology: the Theoreticians and the Artists, and Biotechnological Thinking.
www.arco.ifema.es
DAYS OF BIOART .06
15 - 16 February 2006, SymbioticA Tissue Engineering and Art Workshop, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain
16 - 17 February 2006, Seminar, Centre d.Art Santa Mònica, Spain
Presentations, workshops and debates about biological and living art with some of the pioneer artists, curators and critics in the field. Participants: Andy Gracie [hostprods], Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr (Tissue Culture and Art Project), José Eugenio Marchesi, Jens Hauser, Antonio Cerveira Pinto, María Jesús Buxó
www.capsula.org.es
www.gencat.net/casm
ENGINEERING ART NETWORK:
Materials event at Dan Flavin Retrospective
18 Feb 2006 Jan 1-3pm
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
A Materials 'Cabinet of Curiosity' has been designed and installed by materials scientist Mark Miodownik and artist Zoe Laughlin for the Dan Flavin: A Retrospective exhibition. The cabinet explores the nature of fluorescent materials. A chance to experience hands-on demonstrations of fluorescent and phosphorescent materials.
www.hayward.org.uk/talks.asp
ARCHITECTURE AND THE BRAIN:
Curating, Designing and Perceiving Space
27 February 2006, 18:30 - 20:00
Gallery 1, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
A cross-disciplinary dialogue on the design and perception of space between Professor Marina Wallace, designer/architect Brent Richards, and scientist Professor Michael Morgan.
www.artandmind.org
AV.06
2 – 12 March 2006
Newcastle Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, UK
A new bi-annual international festival of art, moving image, music and new media. AV 2006 will explore the interplay between digital and biological life.
www.avfest.co.uk/av06.html
SPACE, ARCHITECTURE AND THE BRAIN
Where and How We Find Ourselves
An Art and Mind Festival
10-12 March 2006
Theatre Royal Winchester, UK
Box Office and Programme Leaflets: 01962 840 440
www.artandmind.org
SUTURE Part Two
To 31 March 2006
Exhibition Launch & Artists Talk: Saturday 14 January 2006 2PM
The Old Operating Theatre Museum, Crypt of St Thomas Church,
9a St Thomas St, London, UK
New works by Richard Squires and Phillip Warnell.
www.richardsquires.net/suture
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN - ART/SCIENCE PROJECTS
On March 29 2006 a total eclipse of the sun will be visible on a path from Brazil, Ghana, the Northern Sahara, Libya, the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, the Black Sea, Georgia, Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan. YASMIN, a consortium of organisations and individuals promoting communication and collaboration in art, science and technology around the Mediterranean Rim, is working with artists and scientists who will be on or near the path of the eclipse to see if they can stimulate good art/science projects to use this eclipse as a conceptual framework for a YASMIN initiative. If you are interested in being involved or kept informed please send an email to: rmalina@prontomail.com
CALL FOR ARTWORK INSPIRED BY THE ATOMIC UNDERWORLD FOR BOOK PROJECT
Deadline: 31 March 31 2006
Seeking images inspired by biological or macromolecular structures invisible to the naked eye, any medium.
www.JulianVossAndreae.com/CallForArt
NEW CONSTELLATIONS: ART, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
17-19 March 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
International conference with Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble, and Roger Malina, Leonardo
www.mca.com.au/newconstellations
ART, POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES
Series of interdisciplinary workshops
15 March, 29 March, 10 May 2006
Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK
Representing and Intervening - Wednesday 15 March 2006
Brian Forde, Oron Catts, Maureen McNeil and Richard Twine
History: Bio-Remediation between Art and Science - Wednesday 29 March 2006
Charles Zerner, Mel Chin, Georg Dietzler, Richard Bardgett and Marcia Pointon
Art, Science and Institutions - Wednesday 10 May 2006
Bronac Ferran, Anna Munster, Joseph Nechvatal, Charlie Gere and Kate O'Riordan
www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/history/research/science_art_politics.htm
4th BIANNUAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF SLSA (SCIENCE LITERATURE ARTS)
13-16 June 2006
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.slsa.nl
THE SHIP - THE ART OF CLIMATE CHANGE
June 2006, Natural History Museum, London, UK
2006, Liverpool Biennial, UK
Cape Farewell launches its first major exhibition, a unique national touring programme designed to deepen public understanding of climate change. Heather Ackroyd, & Dan Harvey, David Buckland, Peter Clegg, Siobhan Davies, Alex Hartley, Gary Hume, Rachel Whiteread and others.
www.nhm.ac.uk
CALL FOR PANELISTS:
CREATIVE WORKING METHODS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands
This panel will map out and discuss the correlation between motives, methods and selected techniques of those involved or interested in interdisciplinary collaboration in art, technology and science.
www.v2.nl
SYMBIOTICA - Residency Programme
School of Anatomy and Human Biology , University of Western Australia
SymbioticA is an evolving place of artistic investigation that is accessible to people throughout Western Australia and beyond, offering artists-in-residence cutting edge technology and the ability to realise projects that involve scientific/biological experiments.
www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/
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
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Section 3 - Books, Journals, DVDS, CD-Roms
Pioneers in Art and Science DVD:
ART, POETRY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Ken McMullen's new film follows author John Berger who travels to CERN, Geneva, for a provocative series of discussions with experimental and theoretical physicists. Commissioned by Arts Council England.
Available to buy:
www.pinnacle-entertainment.co.uk/product_vid.php?productID=95181
REAL SCIENCE: ENCOURAGING EXPERIMENTATION AND INVESTIGATION IN SCHOOL SCIENCE LEARNING
NESTA has launched this new research report. Copies of the report can be requested from:
research@nesta.org.uk
LIQUD GEOGRAPHY SERIES
Hayden Lorimer & Kate Foster – Cross-bills
Joyce Majiski – Confluences, Influences, Passages
Louise K Wilson – Aerial Stories: notes about gravity, bodies and the
view out the window
Proboscis announces the publication of three new eBooks. Liquid Geography is a Proboscis research theme exploring contemporary perceptions of geography, territory and landscape. You can download all the eBooks (in A4 and US Letter versions) at:
http://diffusion.org.uk/quick_diffusion.html
CIAC Electronic Magazine : Fall issue on art & bio(techno)logy
Bilingual (French & English) online magazine devoted to cyberculture and art. Every issue is organized around a particular theme. The Fall 2005 issue has a feature article on Adam Zaretsky
www.ciac.ca/magazine/
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Section 4 - Space, Culture & the Arts
COSMIC AFRICA
Monday 30 January 2006 at 6.30pm
The Royal Society, London, UK
African astronomer, Thebe Medupe of the South African Astronomical Observatory, will look at celestial beliefs from different parts of the African continent and how some of these ancient African perceptions link with current scientific knowledge.
www.royalsoc.ac.uk/event.asp?id=3885&month=1,2006>
GEOSTATIONARY BANANA OVER TEXAS - Cezar Saezs
Montreal artist César Saëz is attempting to put a gigantic floating banana into orbit. The high altitude banana blimp will be visible in the sky above Texas. Saëz is looking for talented engineers who have experience in the fields of airship construction, bamboo structures and low orbit thermodynamics to assist with the project. Mathematicians, cultural critics and anyone who happens to have a suitable launching pad in northern Mexico are also encouraged to contact him at: info@geostationarybananaovertexas.com
www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/
SPACE BOOMERANG
To March 9 2006
Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, New York, US
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known place in the Universe, even colder than the -270°C background glow from the Big Bang. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a young planetary nebula with faint arcs and ghostly filaments embedded within the diffuse gas of the nebula's smooth 'bow tie' lobes. Space Boomerang is a group exhibition with: Michel Blazy, Mike Bouchet, Loris Gréaud, Mark Handforth, Ann Veronica Janssens, Lang/Baumann, Jonathan Monk, Gianni Motti, Bruno Peinado. Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler
www.swissinstitute.net
Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRES:
SPACE AND SOCIETY
Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2006
2-6 October 2006
Valencia, Spain
The IAC is the largest general space congress in the world. A number of sessions give opportunities to present papers covering space culture and arts, including Space Tourism and Popularisation of Space, and education sessions.
www.iac2006.org
SPACE ART TRACK at
International Space Development Conference 2006
4 - 7 May 2006
Sheraton Gateway Hotel at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, US
As a part of the Space Art Track, artists and teams will collaborate in developing an ensemble of artworks for parabolic 'zero gravity' flight.
Contact the Co-Chairs:
Lowry Burgess - lb30@andrew.cmu.edu
Frank Pietronigro - frank@pietronigro.com
NEW ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY SPACE GROUP DISCUSSION PAPER:
HUMANS IN SPACE: UK POLICY
This discussion paper is the start of a RAeS initiative to help inform UK policy on human spaceflight to be followed by a forum in Spring 2006. Opinions are sought on the issues and questions posed in this paper. Please send your comments to space@raes.org.uk preferably by 31 January 2006.
www.raes.org.uk/space/
See the news entry headed "Humans in Space: UK Policy". Click on "click
here" to read the discussion paper in PDF format.
BRITISH ROCKETRY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
2006 CONFERENCE
6-8 April 2006
Charterhouse School, London, UK
Topics on the provisional programme include Space Tourism, Rocket engine development at Westcott, Blue Streak, Manned Space Flight plus many other
old favourites. Send offers of papers, presentations or suggestions.
Contact: BROHP2@aol.com
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Section 5 - Art & technology
EXPLODING TELEVISION: TEA TIME TV
27-29 Jan 2006
Witte de With | center for contemporary art, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) brings you Exploding Television, a series of guest interventions, talks, workshops and telepresentations.
www.v2.nl
NODE.London - registrations of interest for March 2006
NODE.London [Networked, Open, Distributed, Events: London] is a growing network committed to building on the shared infrastructure, sustainability and visibility of media arts practice in London. Artists, groups, curators and producers are invited to register interest in producing a piece of media art as part of a London-wide season of media arts in March 2006.
http://nodel.org/independent_projects.html
ISEA 2006
5-13 August 2006
San Jose, California, US
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu
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