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 News
Section 2 - International Art-Science News, Events, Opportunities
Section 3 - Books, DVDs & CD-Roms
Section 4 – Space & Culture
Section 5 - Art & Technology
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Section 1 – Arts Catalyst News
For the latest from Arts Catalyst, go to http://www.artscatalyst.org
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Section 2 - International Art-Science News, Events, Opportunities
EXPANDING THE SPACE: Meeting & Workshop on Space & Art
4-6 October 2006
El Segle building, Sant Ferran, 12. Valencia, Spain
In conjunction with the 57th International Astronautical Congress in Valencia, Spain, the October Center of Contemporary Culture and Leonardo/OLATS are organising a meeting for the local and international artistic and scientific communities in order to discuss current issues related with space and the arts.
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/events/spaceart2006.html
INVERSION 1 – Kitsou Dubois
Sat 7 October 2006 (Nuit Blanche)
CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), Observatoire de l'Espace, 2, place Maurice Quentin, 75001 Paris, France
The images in this video installation were realised in parabolic (zero gravity) flights in November 2004 with 6 dancers and acrobats.
WILDERNESS JUNKIES
Special event with artist Dan Holdsworth - panel discussion
Wed 11 October 2006, 6.30pm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE10, UK
£5 entry
To celebrate Dan Holdsworth's exhibition, At the Edge of Space, Parts 1-3, a panel of contemporary artists, curators and scientists discuss ideas and concepts raised in Dan's work, such as wilderness, the edge of space and the limits of knowledge.
Book at bookings@nmm.ac.uk
Dan Holdsworth, At the Edge of Space, Parts 1-3 is showing at the National Maritime Museum until 7 January 2007.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
** IMMINENT DEADLINE - CALL FOR PAPERS **
NEW FRONTIERS IN ARTS SOCIOLOGY:
Creativity, Support and Sustainability
4th Interim Conference of the ESA Research Network Sociology for the Arts
28 March – 1 April 2007
Lueneburg and Hamburg, Germany
Deadline for proposals - 15 October 2006
400/500-word abstract (in English)
Conference website - http://www.new-arts-frontiers.eu
** IMMINENT DEADLINE – RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES FOR SWISS ARTISTS **
SWISS ARTIST IN LAB AWARD 2007
The Artists-in-Labs research group with the BAK, Bundesamt für Kultur announce opportunities for Swiss artists to undertake residencies in Swiss Science labs. Swiss artists as well as artists who have lived for the last 5 years in Switzerland or who are married to a Swiss person are eligible to apply.
Application deadline - 9 October 2006
http://www.artistsinlabs.ch
THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EMERGING TECHNIQUES: SPORTART
12-16 October 2006
Calla d'Or, Majorca
Inclusive registration fee (travel, accommodation, registration) is £250
Symposium registration fee only, is £50/£15 (conc.)
Both fees include access to daily climbing and tumbling workshops, as well as sessions of escalatory rhetoric, vertical polemic, all keynote presentations and panel discussions.
For registration details and further information:
irational@irational.org
AN EAR TO THE EARTH: A Festival of Music, Sound and Ecology
6-15 October 2006
New York City, NY, USA
Co-sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST
International festival bringing together work by creators from around the world - composers, sound and installation artists, scientists, naturalists, and environmentalists - exploring the interaction of humans, sound, and the environment. Festival was conceived by Electronic Music Foundation.
http://emfproductions.org/year0506/eartoearth/index.html
FLESHING OUT: Wearable Interfaces, Smart Materials, and Living Fabrics
9 & 10 November 2006
V2_, Rotterdam, and Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
V2_ and Virtueel Platform are organising a two-day event on the theme of close-to-the-skin technology. Recent developments in science, including DNA and stem cell research, tissue culturing, smart materials and wearable technology, have a growing impact on how we perceive materials and clothing in design practice.
http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/fleshingout
http://www.v2.nl
DESTROYED WORLDS AND THE UTOPIA OF RECONSTRUCTION
To 17 December 2006
Arhus Kunstbygning, J M Morks Gade 12, DK-8000, Arhus, Denmark
16 international artists explore the topic of nature - scientific, destructive, reconstructed and represented. Eduardo Kac, Vadim Fishkin, Mark Dion, Damien Hirst Sommerer & Mignonneau, Nin Bruderman and others.
http://www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk
NEW IDEAS IN ART AND SCIENCE II
2007
Prague, Czechoslovakia
In conjunction with Leonardo’s 40th anniversary, Leonardo will co-sponsor a conference and exhibition in Prague, organized by the International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT).
Info: rmalina@prontomail.com
C-LAB
A developing art/science studio lab headed up by two London based artists, Laura Cinti and Howard Boland.
http://c-lab.co.uk
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.
http://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."
http://www.asci.org
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Section 3 - Books, DVDs & CD-Roms
ICE BLINK: AN ANTARCTIC ESSAY by Simon Faithfull (2006)
Artist Simon Faithfull's new book of his voyage to Antarctica explores the Antarctic as a hole in the imagination by combining myths and fictions, histories of colonial endeavor, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories. A
A Book Works / Arts Catalyst publication.
ISBN 1 870699 92 0 - Price £14.50
http://www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/home.asp
ALIEN INVADERS: A Guide to Non-Native Species of the Britisher Isles (Volume 1)
By Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan (2006)
Researching invasive non-native species of plant and animal life, this collaborative project documents, through drawing and text, the discovery and history of selected alien species introduced to the British Isles, and the effect on native wildlife.
A Book Works publication.
ISBN 1 870699 87 4 — Price £6.50
http://www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/home2.asp
ILYA KABAKOV: THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO SPACE FROM HIS APARTMENT
By Boris Groys
The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space.
MIT Press
ISBN-10: 1-846380-04-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-004-4
$16.00/£9.95
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10790
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Section 4 – Space & Culture
** IMMINENT DEADLINE – CALL FOR PAPERS**
THE 2ND SPACE AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE: "Space Options for the 21st Century"
27 February – 1 March 2007
ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The first announcement and call for papers can be found on the European Space Agency's Conference Web site:
http://www.congrex.nl/06a12/
The deadline for abstract submissions is 13 October 2006
** IMMINENT DEADLINE - SUBMISSIONS INVITED **
NEW INQUIRY INTO SPACE POLICY
The Science and Technology Committee is launching a major and wide-ranging inquiry into aspects of UK space policy, looking at questions such as: should Britain have a human spaceflight programme? The Committee invites written evidence from interested organisations and individuals.
Evidence should be submitted by Friday 13 October 2006 – Word.doc, max 3000 words To scitechcom@parliament.uk
Include a contact name, telephone number and postal address.
Guidance on the submission of evidence can be found at
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/witguide.htm
BRITAIN’S SPACE PROGRAMME – David Williams, Director General, British National Space Centre
26 October 2006, 7pm
The Royal Aeronautical Society, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1, UK
David Williams is the first Director General to be recruited by open competition since the BNSC was created in 1985. Dr Williams will discuss the space programme of the British National Space Centre (BNSC).
http://www.raes.org.uk/space/
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Section 5 - Art & Technology
TAGGED
Five new works by artists working with RFID technology
6 - 21 October 2006
Space, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8, UK
Electronic tagging technologies are increasingly impacting society and are set to shape the future. RFID tags use radio waves and can potentially function without your knowledge, with widespread adoption across many commercial and public industries. Louis-Philippe Demers and Philippe Jean, boredomresearch, Mute-Dialogue (Yasser Rashid and Yara El-Sherbini), evoLhypergrapHyCx (C6), Paula Roush. A new essay by Armin Medosch, The Spychip Under Your Skin, accompanies this exhibition.
http://www.spacemedia.org.uk
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
URBAN PLAY – Trampoline Nottingham Platform for New Media Art
Deadline: 23rd October
Event to be held on 23rd November
The objective of Urban Play is to merge video gaming, art and design with the investigation of the city space. The structures of the city are increasingly pervaded by new media with screens, cctv, electronic networks, mobile devices.
http://www.trampoline.org.uk/Applicationform.doc
TRANSMEDIALE 2007
31 January – 4 February 20007
Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Major media arts festival.
http://www.transmediale.de
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