THE ARTS CATALYST INTERNATIONAL ART & SCIENCE E-BULLETIN
December 2007
SUBSCRIBE TO THIS E-BULLETINThe Arts Catalyst projects, commissions, events:
Aleksandra Mir’s calendar for 2008, Gravity: The Eternal Countdown
The Arts Catalyst blog
Polar - the art and science of climate change
The Artist as Space Explorer, our work with the European Space Agency
Space is the Place, ICI exhibition with earlier Arts Catalyst commissions
Listings:
1 International exhibitions and events
2 Opportunities, calls and networks
3 Books, journals, DVDs
4 Space, culture & the arts
5 Media arts
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The Arts Catalyst Projects, Commissions, Discussions
http://www.artscatalyst.org
Gravity, Aleksandra Mir, 2006
GRAVITY: THE ETERNAL COUNTDOWN – ALEKSANDRA MIR
Limited Edition Calendar for 2008
** ORDER NOW: http://www.cornerhouse.org/books/info.aspx?ID=2509&page=0 **
This limited edition calendar for 2008 by artist Aleksandra Mir documents the construction and dismantling of her spectacular rocket Gravity, a monumental ephemeral sculpture built in the former engine shed of the London Roundhouse in September 2006. The 20 metre high rocket was built out of junk: steel, fibreglass, tractor tires, industrial fans and a discarded tank from a toothpaste factory. It took two days of construction on site, stood erect for three days only and was dismantled in another two days. The rocket that effectively went nowhere is commemorated through a mixture of production stills, drawings, space ephemera and the artist’s own pin up photos taken in scrap yards around England during the search for old and dirty things to make the work. Throughout the calendar, data inserted in its corresponding date highlights failure or resistance in the history of space exploration – a catalogue of various failures, disasters, minor mishaps and political hurdles.
Available from Cornerhouse Publications, Tate Modern London and Printed Matter New York (from 14 December 2007)
Publisher: The Arts Catalyst, Artist: Aleksandra Mir, Author: Ken Hollings
Price £12.95
ISBN 9780953454655
Announcing: THE ARTS CATALYST BLOG
Inside views on our projects and investigations. In addition to our e-bulletin, you can now subscribe to our RSS feed for free:
http://artscatalyst.typepad.com
POLAR: The Art and Science of Climate Change
The first series of public lectures and symposium is complete. We plan to put extracts of recordings of the sessions on our web-site. In the meantime, you can read abstracts from the symposium via the link below. The Polar archives book is currently in development and will be published in March 2008. Anne Brodie and Weather Permitting are being commissioned to create artworks for the next phase of Polar.
http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html
THE ARTIST AS SPACE EXPLORER
We recently returned from Berlin, where we curated the exhibition The Artist as Space Explorer for the ESA/DLR (European Space Agency and German Space Agency) conference on space exploration. Artists included Tomas Saraceno, Marko Peljhan, Simon Faithfull, Tim Otto Roth, Agnes Meyer-Brandis and Kitsou Dubois. The exhibition emerged from a study into cultural utilisation of the International Space Station programme, undertaken by The Arts Catalyst in 2005. An update on our work for ESA and detials of the exhibition can be seen at:
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/ISS.html
Laurie Anderson, Star City, Russia, 2005
SPACE IS THE PLACE
Laurie Anderson’s photographs of Star City from her research trip organised by The Arts Catalyst, and Arts Catalyst’s short film Gravitation Off! and are part of the exhibition Space is the Place (an ICI exhibition), currently touring the USA.
20 October – 30 December 2007
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/space/space.htm
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LISTINGS
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Section 1 – International exhibitions and events
LECTURE Empty Spaces: the Neurobiology of Nothingness - Professor Semir Zeki
Weds 12 December 2007, 6.30pm
Louise T Blouin Institute, 3 Olaf Street, London W11, UK
£5 or free for Institute Members
http://www.ltbfoundation.org/ltbi_events.asp
ANDREA POLLI’S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
http://www.90degreessouth.org
TOWARDS HEILPRIN LAND – ILANA HALPERIN
To 21 December 2007
Doggerfisher, 11 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Drawings, photographs, film and installation present the artist's ongoing exploration of geological features.
http://www.doggerfisher.com
FUSION NOW!
To 21 December 2007
Rokeby, 37 Store Street, London WC1, UK
Artists exploring the widest meaning of energy in art and politics, from radically divergent standpoints.
http://www.rokebygallery.com
WEATHER REPORT: ART & CLIMATE CHANGE
To 21 December 2007
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Future Farmers, Newton & Helen Harrison, Pierre Huyghe, Basia Irland, Marjetica Potrc and The Yes Men.
http://www.bmoca.org/artist.php?id=74
BRILLIANT NOISE – SEMICONDUCTOR
To 13 January 2007
Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
The sun’s finest unseen moments in Semiconductor’s film Brilliant Noise. Two new works, Magnetic Movie, and Do You Think Science.http://www.fabrica.org.uk
ECOMEDIA
Ecological Strategies in Today's Art
To 13 January 2008
Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, D-26121 Oldenburg, Germany
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de
TAXONOMIES – AGNES MEYER-BRANDIS, ANDY GRACIE, BRANDON BALLENGEE, RAMON GUARDONS
To 20 January 2008
Comafosca, Node d'art i pensament a Alella, Barcelona, Spain
The relationship between human and nature. Exhibition, round tables, presentations, workshops and other activities.
http://www.comafosca.net
LITTLE SAVAGES – TESSA FARMER
To 27 January 2008
Natural History Museum, London, UK
Detailed mise-en-scenes of plant roots, bones, insects and animals engaged in ferocious battle.
http://www.parabolatrust.org/residencies/littlesavages.html
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS – MARKO PELJHAN
To 1 February 2008
LJU COSINUS BRX Gallery, Offices of the European Commissioner for Science and Research Dr. Janez Potoãnik Berlaymont, 11th floor, Rue de La Loi 200, BE-1040 Brussels, Belgium
The development phases of the ten-year project, Makrolab (1997-2007).
Links: http://www.i-tasc.org
TANGLE – UNLIMITED THEATRE
6 – 9 February 2008, 8pm, Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Weds 12 & Thurs 13 March 2008, Warwick Arts Centre
A sci-detective story, mixing Albert Einstein with Great Uncle Bulgaria and quantum physics.
http://www.unlimited.org.uk/shows/tourdates.php
Book online at http://www.northernstage.co.uk
Touring with
THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS: SCIENCE +ART – UNLIMITED THEATRE
Fri 8 February 2008 at 9.45pm at Northern Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Weds 12 March at 9.15pm Warwick Arts Centre, UK
The Ethics of Progress pushes theoretical physics into real life situations and imagines the world as it might be.
See a preview of this show at http://www.unlimited.org.uk/shows/ethics.php
MICROSCALE, MACROSCALE, AND BEYOND – TOMAS SARACENO
To 17 February, 2007
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Site-specific commission from his Flying Garden series, filled with Tillandsias that derive their nutrients from the air.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
GREENHOUSE BRITAIN: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom
1 - 27 February 2008
Darwin Festival, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK
New work by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, David Haley, Chris Fremantle, Gabriel Harrison.
http://www.greenhousebritain.net
SLEEPING & DREAMING
To 9 March 2008
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1, UK
Explores the theme through the eyes of artists, scientists, film-makers and historians. Programme of associated events.
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/sleepinganddreaming/index.htm
SK-INTERFACES
01 February – 30 March 2008
FACT, Liverpool, UK
The work of artists using biology as a material for art and new commissions from artists including Orlan, SymbioticA, Wym Delvoye, Critical Art Ensemble and Zbigniew Oksiuta.
http://www.fact.co.uk
SMALL WORLDS: THE ART OF THE INVISIBLE
To 6 April 2008
Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford, UK
Small Worlds combines microscopic imagery with digital design, animation and poetry.
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk
EMERGENTES
To May 2008
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijon (Asturias), Spain
10 projects by Latin American artists/works in progress exploring cultural developments using science and technology
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org
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Section 2 – Opportunities, calls and networks
Announcement: ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN ANTARCTICA FELLOWSHIPS (UK artists and writers)
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Arts Council England announce an opportunity to Artists and Writers across the art forms. Two individuals will be invited to spend up to 8 weeks in the Antarctic between November 2008 and March 2009.
Application form and further information available on the British Antarctic Survey website:
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: 1 March 2008
ARTICLE 2008 – CALL FOR ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS (Nordic productions)
Article - a nordic biannual exhibition for unstable and electronic artforms - invites proposals for artistic work and conference talks. Application deadline: 1 January 2008. Maximum size of attachments 1Mb
More information and submissions: iolab@iolab.no
LEONARDO CALL FOR PAPERS - Smart Textiles: Science and Technology of Textile Art
no submission deadline
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/calls/smartextiles_call.html
LEONARDO CALL FOR PAPERS - Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Art
no submission deadline
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/calls/nanocall.html
CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Inaugural issue: March 2008.
http://www.inderscience.com/ijart
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Section 3 - Books, Journals, DVDS, CD-Roms
LEONARDO
Vol. 40, Issue 5 (2007)
Journal edited by Leonardo the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, published by the MIT Press.
http://www.leonardo.info/leoinfo.html
SK-INTERFACES
Hauser, Jens (Ed.)
price: £ 14.95
70 colour illustrations, 150pp, 234 x 156mm, limp
Published April 2008 ISBN 9781846311499
Hauser’s book will accompany the exhibition at FACT in Liverpool: a multidisciplinary approach to the topic of skin, involving art, science, politics, philosophy and architecture.
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3823
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Section 4 - Space, Culture & the Arts
SPACE IS THE PLACE
20 October – 30 December 2007
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Art exhibition on the theme of space exploration.
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/space/space.htm
IMAGINING OUTER SPACE, 1900-2000, An International Conference
6 – 9 February 2008
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld, Berlin, Germany
Conference on the cultural history of outer space, space travel and space exploration.
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/outerspace
INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY'S 12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM:
‘SPACE SOLUTIONS TO EARTH'S GLOBAL CHALLENGES’
20 – 22 February 2008
Strasbourg, France
Registration and preliminary programme http://www.isunet.edu
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Section 5 – Media Arts
TRANSMEDIALE 08: Conspire
Berlin, Germany
Exhibition: 29 Jan - 24 Feb 2008
Festival: 29 Jan - 3 Feb 2008
http://www.transmediale.de
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Images (L-R): Rocket Garden, Aleksandra Mir, Wastegloo, Anne Brodie, Cosmic Flash (proposal), Tim Otto Roth, Satellite installation with Google Earth, Joanna Griffin with Lambeth Academy
