January 2007
The Arts Catalyst commissions new artworks that surprise expectations about science and technology. Making alliances across the science/art divide, we enable artists to cross specialisation boundaries and gain access to scientific technologies and restricted environments. Our projects extend the boundaries of possibility for artistic practice, open up the social, cultural and global contexts of science, and provoke questions about technological, socio-political and environmental forces affecting our lives.
This e-bulletin also highlights international projects and opportunities that intersect with our interests.
Section 1 - Arts Catalyst projects
Section 2 - International news, events, opportunities, networks
Section 3 - Books, journals, DVDs & CD-Roms
Section 4 - Space, culture & the arts
Section 5 – Media arts
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Section 1 - Arts Catalyst projects
DARK PLACES
Five artists’ research projects have been chosen for The Arts Catalyst and SCAN’s new programme that will culturally or politically interrogate scientific sites in the UK. The artists are Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou, Chris Oakley, Steve Beard & Victoria Halford, Lucy Panesar and Susan Collins.
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/darkplaces/darkplaces_index.html
A CULTURAL POLICY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
A paper on The Arts Catalyst's study for the European Space Agency on cultural utilisation of the International Space Station will be presented at the 2nd Space and Society Conference in the Netherlands, February 2007 (http://www.congrex.nl/06a12/). The Arts Catalyst’s director Nicola Triscott has also been invited to speak on cultural perspectives on space at the European Space Agency/British National Space Agency’s 2-day workshop on future European Space Exploration Scenarios in Edinburgh, 8/9 January 2007
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/ISS.html
Arts Catalyst’s short film Gravitation Off! and Laurie Anderson’s photographs of Star City from her Arts Catalyst trip to Russia in 2005 are part of:
SPACE IS THE PLACE
Touring the USA: November 2006 – November 2008
An ICI Exhibition
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/Exhibitions/space/space.htm
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Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
I-TASC
Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation
The members of the first I-TASC Reconnaissance and Communication Expedition are in Antartica and will stay there between December 2006 and February 2007. The project is part of the 2007/08 International Polar Year, beginning in March 2007.
http://www.i-tasc.org/
INVISIBLE – Roz Mortimer
Thu 11 January 2007, 4pm
BP Lecture Theatre, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London
UK premiere of INVISIBLE, a new sciart film. When scientists went to collect breast milk from Inuit mothers, they were expecting to find the purest milk anywhere on earth. But the milk of the Inuit mothers was loaded with chemicals migrating from the south.
http://www.wonder-dog.co.uk/invisible.html
CHRISTINE BORLAND
To 28 January 2007
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
A series of sculptures examining the frailty of the human condition through the fragility of the human body. A new work takes as its starting point the apple tree which provided Isaac Newton with his revelatory moment.
http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk
AT THE SPEED OF TIME
Long slow time symposium
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK
Sat 27 January 2007, 11 am – 4.40 pm, £25/£20
In a world of accelerated speed and increasingly short attention span, discover how contemporary artists are responding by promoting the alternative - slow and long time.
Book on +44 (0) 20 8312 8560
First Call for Abstracts: Deadline 31 January 2007
MUTAMORPHOSIS: CHALLENGING ARTS AND SCIENCE
International Conference, Prague
8 - 10 November 2007, Prague , Czech Republic
Organised by CIANT in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations. The festival will feature the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina.
http://www.mutamorphosis.org
CURRENT ENCOUNTERS IN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS
10 weekly meetings Wednesdays from 7 to 9 pm
Starting 31 January 2007
Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, Wales
£61 / £49
This course will study examples of science-arts relationships in cosmology, biosciences, architecture, installation art, textiles, crafts, therapy and science fiction.
http://www.cf.ac.uk/learn/science/arts_science.php
transmediale 07
unfinish!
31 January – 4 February 2007
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10, Germany
* Keynote Lecture: Stelarc
Thu 1 February 2007, 8pm
Akademie Hanseatenweg, Studio 1
Lecture-performance by Stelarc describing the project 1/4 Scale Ear: the artist recently attached a third ear to his forearm.
* Conference Panel: Unfinishing Creation
Thu 1 February 2007, 3pm
Akademie Hanseatenweg, Studio 1
Conference on the relationship between humans, science, and the future.
* transmediale.07 Conference
Conference on the phenomenon of finiteness in art, science, architecture, computer science and politics.
http://www.transmediale.de
VICTOR GRIPPO: Tables of Work and Reflection
To 4 February 2007
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3, UK
Admission free
Influential Argentinean artist Victor Grippo ‘s sculptures and installations take on science and art, alchemy, struggle, propaganda and social change.
http://www.camdenartscentre.org
SENSE DETECTIVES
Olivier Ruellet Synchromy 9 - 23 January 2007
Alan Schechner 6 Million 26 January – 22 February 2007
Ian Grant Texturiser 17 March – 1 April 2007
Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, TW8, UK
Sense Detectives is Watermans' latest collaboration with Thames Valley University's Digital Arts department to explore sensor and search technologies.
http://www.watermans.org.uk/
THE 7TH SWISS BIENNIAL ON SCIENCE, TECHNICS & AESTHETICS
20 – 21 January 2007
Museum of Transport, Lucerne, Switzerland
http://www.neugalu.ch/e_bienn_2007.html
Lecture series:
LUMINARIES: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF LIGHT 2006/7
Mon 15 January 2007, 6.30pm, £5
Natural and Unnatural Vision, Dr Andrew Parker, Oxford University, Physiology
Mon 5 February 2007, 6.30pm, £5
Leonardo and Light, Professor Martin Kemp, Oxford University, History of Art
Louise T Blouin Foundation, 3 Olaf Street, London W11, UK
http://www.ltbfoundation.org
FROM COGNITION TO CONDITIONING
A one-day research forum on dance science
19 Febuary 2007
London Sport Institute, Middlesex University, Archway Campus, London, UK
With talks from the leading dance science researchers in the UK today, capturing both health and performance aspects.
Email Sanna Nordin S.Nordin@mdx.ac.uk
Call for Exhibition Proposals
ANATOMY IN THE GALLERY
Deadline: 1 March 2007
International Museum of Surgical Science , Chicago, US
A rotating exhibition program at the showcases medically themed contemporary art. Proposals are accepted at any time, but the deadline to be considered for 2008 is 1 March 2007.
http://www.imss.org/anatgallery.htm
THE ETHICS OF PROGRESS - Unlimited Theatre
16 March 2007 - Oxford Playhouse
22 March 2007 - Leeds Metropolitan Studio Theatre
A performance-lecture delivered by Unlimited’s artistic director Jon Spooner, explaining superposition, quantum entanglement and teleportation.
Also offered to secondary schools. For 14 years to adult.
http://www.unlimited.org.uk/shows/ethics.php
VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL CULTURE AND BIOSCIENCE
5 – 13 March 2007
The National Academy of Sciences co-hosts a Virtual Symposium on the Internet, a meeting of experts who will discuss the intersections between visual culture and bioscience.
The discussion will be accessible via the web at
http://www.visualcultureandbioscience.org
BI-CENTENARY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE
Tue 29 March, 7pm
Dana Centre, Science Museum, London UK
Tackling the issues surrounding tracing genetic lineage and the legacy of slavery. Is DNA the key to finding your African or European roots? Can genetic testing give you a better sense of who you are?
SUBTLE TECHNOLOGIES
24 – 27 May 2007
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Four-day multidisciplinary event exploring complex and subtle relationships between art and science. This year's theme is in situ – art body medicine. Now accepting proposals.
http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2007
Research Seminar:
ART AND SCIENCE: AN INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP
13 June 2007, 1pm
Institute of Human Genetics, Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Speaker: Ninette Rothmuller, PEALS, Newcastle University
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/news/events.htm?type=2&id=4873
RE:PLACE 2007
Second International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany
15-18 November 2007
The conference will be devoted to examining the manifold connections between art, science and technology, connections which have come into view more sharply through the growing attention to media art and its histories.
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events/replace2007.html
NOTICE
Italy-based production company wishes to talk to individuals based in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Eire who are current or former scientists or mathematicians, and who are now practicing artists or musicians. Fee available.
Contact Stuart Brown on (contact details no longer available)
LEONARDO ELECTRONIC ALMANAC DISCUSSION: Wild Nature and Digital Life
How to sign up to the DigiWild Moderated List
Email: LEAdigiwild-subscribe@googlegroups.com
http://groups.google.com/group/LEAdigiwild
Call for papers:
NANOTECHNOLOGY, NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND ART
Leonardo, with the Exploratorium and the Nanotech Informal Science Education Network, will publish a series of special sections periodically over the next 5 years exploring the intersections of nanotech/science and art.
http://leonardo.info/isast/journal/calls/nanocall.html
LINK UP: Mentoring, Advice and Guidance programme for disabled and deaf artists
Training Round 1 : 11, 18 and 25 January, The Irish Centre, Hammersmith.
Training Round 2 : 9, 16 and 23 January, LVS Resource Centre , Holloway Rd
http://www.shapearts.org.uk/projects
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Section 3 - Books, Journals, DVDS, CD-Roms
AXIS
Current issue January 2007 to April 2007
Art into Science into Art
http://www.axisweb.org/dlIssue.aspx
LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook, edited by Max Andrews
A compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned projects exploring art’s varied modes of response to notions of territory, the Earth and the emergencies of the 21st century.
Published by RSA Arts & Ecology In partnership with Arts Council England
Distributed worldwide by: http://www.cornerhouse.org/books
SIGNS AND HUMOURS: the poetry of medicine
Edited by Lavinia Greenlaw
Signs and Humours brings together 100 poems written over the last 2,000 years to show how one of the most basic human concerns – the body – has continued to fascinate and agitate poets.
Available April 2007 £8.50
Publisher: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk
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Section 4 - Space, Culture & the Arts
2nd SPACE AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE: Space Options for the 21st Century
27 Feb-1 March 2007
ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Exploring some of the many critical issues which are having an impact on society, such as global warming and climate change, natural disasters, energy needs, and security, to explore how space applications are helping to provide solutions to terrestrial problems.
http://www.congrex.nl/06a12/
SPACEARTS: The Space Art Database
Leonardo/OLATS and the Ours Foundation have joined forces to create a database documenting the works of artists who, since the mid-19th century, have taken outer space as a theme, subject, or object for their creations. Artists are invited to submit their work for inclusion in the database.
http://www.spacearts.info
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Section 5 – Media Art
DIGITAL ‘O6: BIO/MED SCIART
ASCI's 8th annual international exhibition of digital prints
To 15 January 2007
New York Hall of Science, New York, US
Co-Curators: ASCI Director & Smithsonian Medical Collections Curator
Online exhibition: http://www.asci.org/index2php?artike=821
12TH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART BIENNALE WRO 07 COMPETITION
16 - 20 May 2007
Wroclaw, Poland
WRO Foundation for Media Art announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication. The main prize is €5000. The deadline date for entry submission is 15 February 2007.
http://wrocenter.pl
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