The Arts Catalyst International Art & Science E-bulletin
November 2007
The Arts Catalyst commissions art that experimentally and critically engages with science. We bring together people across the art/science divide and beyond to explore science in its wider social, political and cultural contexts. We produce provocative, playful, risk-taking projects to spark dynamic conversations about our changing world.
This e-bulletin highlights international projects and opportunities that intersect with our interests.
For the latest from Arts Catalyst, go to http://www.artscatalyst.org
Section 1 - Arts Catalyst projects, commissions, discussions
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, commissions, discussions
GEOPOLITICS OF COLD
Final public lecture of the series POLAR The Art & Science of Climate Change
Monday 26 November 2007, 18.30 – 20.00
British Library Conference Centre, Euston Road, London, UK
Christine McGourty, BBC polar correspondent; Professor Doreen Massey, Open University, author of For Space (2005) and World City (2007); Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway, author of Geopolitics in a changing world (1999) and Pink Ice (2002).
Presented by the British Library, the Open University and The Arts Catalyst.
Price £6 (concessions £4)
Tickets http://boxoffice.bl.uk or t +44 (0) 1937 546546 or
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/global/polar_TALKS.html
THE ARTIST AS SPACE EXPLORER
Update on the Arts Catalyst's study for the European Space Agency and recent exhibition at the DLR/ESA Space Exploration Workshop in Berlin, Germany, 8-9 November 2007 with Tomas Saraceno, Marko Peljhan, Kitsou Dubois, Simon Faithfull, Tim Otto Roth, Ayako Ono, Liuccia Buzzoni and Agnes Meyer-Brandis.
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/ISS.html
POETIC COSMOS OF THE BREATH – TOMAS SARACENO
Report on the sunrise launch of Tomas Saraceno's experimental solar dome at Gunpowder Park, Essex, UK, 22 September 2007.
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/saraceno.html
BANGALORE SPACE AND CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 2007
Blogs and updates on the symposium held at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, 29 September to 1 October 2007
http://cema.srishti.ac.in/space/
SHARING THE CONVERSATION
Summary of first responses to Arts Catalyst’s initiation of a closer dialogue with its constituencies – Starting a Conversation.
http://www.artscatalyst.org/forum/conversation.html
RECENT ARTS CATALYST COMMISSIONS
The 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 the exhibition Space is the Place (an ICI exhibition).
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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Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
GRACE WEIR – IN MY OWN TIME
To 25 November 2007
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7, UK
Four thought-provoking films by artist Grace Weir that investigate time. The films are the results of the artist's investigations into black holes, notions of time and light, Einstein's theory of relativity, and questions in philosophy and theoretical physics regarding our shifting relationships with clock time.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
VISIONS AND IMAGINATION: ADVANCED ICT IN ART AND SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
Sat 24 November 2007, 9:00 - 18:00
Tesla@Computer Science Department, University College London (UCL)
This symposium will centre around methodological questions and problems within the emerging field of art and science, particularly those involving the use of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT).
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/tesla/advanced_ict.html
MORE THAN US: Conversations Between Humanity, The Arts & Ecology
29 - 30 November 2007
The Town House, Inverness, Scotland, UK
Is humanity’s relationship with nature in terminal decline? Dalziel + Scullion, in collaboration with Scottish Natural Heritage, have invited key thinkers in the field of contemporary ecology to address this subject matter.
http://www.morethanus.co.uk
GREENHOUSE BRITAIN: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom
November 2007 - Spring 2008
Devon, London, Shrewsbury, Manchester, Bristol, and Lancaster, UK
New work by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison and Harrison Studio Associates (Britain): David Haley, Chris Fremantle, Gabriel Harrison. Greenhouse Britain is designed to express what the rising of waters would mean to the landscape of this island.
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Devon, 17 November - 23 December 2007
London Wildlife Trust, 9 and 10 November 2007 annual conference
Darwin Festival, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, 1 - 27 February 2008
Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, 14 February - 14 March 2008
Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, 7 March - 4 April 2008
Storey Gallery, Lancaster, Spring 2008
http://www.greenhousebritain.net
ILLE RENCONTRES ART & SCIENCES DE LA COGNITION
7 - 8 December 2007
Musee d'Art Contemporain "Les Abattoirs", Toulouse, France.
The objective of the Rencontres is to analyse phenomena dealing with artistic creation from the point of view of cognitive sciences: neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science, logic and philosophy of cognition.
The scientific talks will lead to a debate with contemporary artists and the Museum Curator.
http://www.lesabattoirs.org/evenements/evenements.htm
LECTURE Empty Spaces: the Neurobiology of Nothingness - Professor Semir Zeki
Weds 12 December 2007, 18.30
Louise T Blouin Institute, 3 Olaf Street, London W11, UK
The lecture will discuss various forms of art which give the brain the maximum opportunity to create many different interpretations of a single happening.
£5 or free for Institute Members
http://www.ltbfoundation.org/ltbi_events.asp
TOWARDS HEILPRIN LAND – ILANA HALPERIN
To 21 December 2007
Doggerfisher, 11 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Including drawings, photographs, film and installation, Towards Heilprin Land presents the artist's ongoing exploration of geological features - in this case icebergs.
EVENT:
Saturday 8 December 2007, 4pm - Ilana will be discussing her work with Dr Andrew Patrizio (Edinburgh College of Art) and Bryony Bond (Manchester Museum), Free
http://www.doggerfisher.com
FUSION NOW!
To 21 December 2007
Rokeby, 37 Store Street, London WC1, UK
FUSION NOW! presents the work of artists who explore the widest meaning of energy in art and politics, from radically divergent standpoints. Sam Basu / Laura Oldfield Ford / JJ Charlesworth / Alasdair Duncan / Freee / Liam Gillick / Roger Hiorns / John Latham / Andrew Rucklidge / John Russell / Mark Titchner / WITH (http://withyou.co.uk)
http://www.rokebygallery.com
WEATHER REPORT: ART & CLIMATE CHANGE
To 21 December 2007
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, USA
A visual dialogue surrounding climate change. Artists include: Future Farmers (Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine), 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
Some of the sun’s finest unseen moments in an immersive installation of Semiconductor’s film Brilliant Noise. Also two new related works, Magnetic Movie, and Do You Think Science….
Events:
6 December 2007
Semiconductor give a presentation on their experiences at the NASA space sciences laboratory.
21 December 2007 The Longest Night. Live event with Goodiepal, Scotch Egg, Antenna Farm and Semiconductor.
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
Franz John, Andrea Polli, Sabrina Raaf, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Christina Hemauer/Roman Keller, Andrea Polli, Christoph Keller, Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa, Ieva Auzina/Esther Polak, Free Soil, Insa Winkler, Tue Greenfort, infossil, Tea Mäkipää, MVRDV, Yonic, Natalie Jeremijenko, Franco and Eva Mattes, Transnational Temps
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de
CLIMATE OF CHANGE
Opened 9 November 2007
235-245 Union St, London SE1, UK
A platform for artists in all disciplines to submit work/s based on the problems of Climate Change.
http://www.climateofchange.org.uk
TAXONOMIES – AGNES MEYER-BRANDIS, ANDY GRACIE, BRANDON BALLENGEE, RAMON GUARDONS
To 20 January 2008
Comafosca, Node d'art i pensament a Alella, Barcelona, Spain
In "taxonomies" the relationship between human and nature is under analysis through different strategies that comprise the project. "taxonomies" consists of an exhibition, round tables, presentations, workshops and other activities. Identifying, analysing and ordering are the terms of this project combined through the process of investigation of artists, thinkers and other guests, among them Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Andy Gracie, Brandon Ballengeè and Ramon Guardans.
http://www.comafosca.net
LITTLE SAVAGES – TESSA FARMER
To 27 January 2008
Natural History Museum, London, UK
Tessa Farmer’s work involves highly detailed mise-en-scenes of plant roots, bones, insects and animals engaged in ferocious battle. Her creations are located in a space between preservation and perversion.
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 exhibition presents the development phases of the ten-year project, Makrolab (1997-2007), an autonomous art-science communications, research, working a living unit that focuses its research on telecommunications, climate systems and migrations.
Links: http://www.i-tasc.org
MICROSCALE, MACROSCALE, AND BEYOND – TOMAS SARACENO
To 17 February, 2007
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, USA
Saraceno will create a site-specific commission from his Flying Garden series, filled with Tillandsias that derive their nutrients from the air. Conceptually, this air-sufficient agricultural model serves as an accompaniment to other platforms for habitation or play, but also suggests the human self-sufficiency that his project envisions.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
SK-INTERFACES
01 February – 30 March 2008
FACT, Liverpool, UK
Sk-interfaces includes the work of artists that use biology as a material for art and new commissions from artists including the legendary Orlan and award winning Polish artist and architect 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
An exhibition of the bizarre and the very small in collaboration with Heather Barnett & Will Holloway. 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 Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Rejane Cantoni y Daniela Kutschat, Rodrigo Derteano, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, José Carlos Martinat y Enrique Mayorga, Fernando David Orellana, Santiago Ortiz/Bestiario, Mariana Rondón, Mariano Sardón, Mariela Yeregui
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org
FIGURATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE: European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
3 – 7 June 2008
Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, Germany
http://www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen//_/242
SEEDS Festival, Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance & Science, 2008: Ecology
27 July – 17 August 2008
Earthdance, Plainfield, Massachusetts, US
http://www.earthdance.net/seedsfest
AER
Online Exhibition
A critical look at the issue of air quality through the arts, curated by Andrea Polli. The artists in Aer project look critically at the issue of air quality and use various methods to raise awareness of the issue among the public.
http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/aer/
CALL FOR ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROPOSALS ON: WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
V2_Lab in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has a vacancy for a 2 month artist-in-residence on Wearable technology in the period 15 January - 15 April 2008.
Deadline: 1 December 2007
http://www.v2.nl
NEWS: PLEA BARGAIN MADE IN CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE CASE
Buffalo, New York, 11 October 2007, Dr. Robert Ferrell, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, pled guilty to lesser charges rather than face a prolonged trial for charges of 'mail and wire fraud' in the case brought under the US Patriot Act also involving Steve Kurtz of the arts collective Critical Art Ensemble. Dianne Raeke Ferrell, Ferrell's wife, cited prolonged ill health exacerbated by the case as reason for his pleading guilty on lesser charges.
More details: http://www.caedefensefund.org
ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS – ART & ECOLOGY BLOG
http://mtblog.typepad.com/arts_ecology/
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
YASMIN NETWORK – New discussion topic: art & climate change
The November YASMIN discussion focuses on the relationship between art and climate science, within the broader framework of science-art discourse.
New subscribers are invited to join the list at: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/
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Section 3 - Books, Journals, DVDS, CD-Roms
LEONARDO
Vol. 40, Issue 5 (2007)
Celebrating 40 years of Leonardo journal. Leonardo is a print journal, published five times a year, edited by Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and 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 landmark exhibition (of the same name) at FACT in Liverpool. Hauser’s curatorial concept for the exhibition reflects that of the book, involving 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
The theme of space exploration is the focus of Space Is the Place, featuring installations, paintings, works on paper, and sound and video works made during the past fifteen years by an international group of contemporary artists.
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/space/space.htm
SPACE EXPECTATIONS
A Cosmic Study by the International Academy of Astronautics
Assist the International Academy of Astronautics in assessing the status of the space arena with respect to the public’s expectations. Artists/groups include Laurie Anderson, Oleg Kulik, Aleksandra Mir, Marko Peljhan, Jane and Louise Wilson, and The Arts Catalyst’s MIR Initiative.
http://www.space-expectations.org
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Section 5 – Media Arts
TRANSMEDIALE 08: Conspire
Berlin, Germay
Exhibition: 29 Jan - 24 Feb 2008
Festival: 29 Jan - 3 Feb 2008.
http://www.transmediale.de
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IMAGES L-R Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, Tomas Saraceno (photo: Adriana Marques); Winged Self, Ben Blakebrough, 2nd International Artists Airshow; Polar - the art and science of climate change (photo: Kathryn Yusoff); Universe Gallery, Joanna Griffin & pupils from Mulberry School for Girls
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