October 2007
The Arts Catalyst commissions new artworks that unpeel layers of expectation about science and technology. Making alliances with people across the science/art divide, we set up multidisciplinary enquiries and produce provoking projects that raise questions about the technological, environmental and socio-political forces affecting life on earth.
This e-bulletin also highlights international projects and opportunities that intersect with our interests.
Section 1 - Arts Catalyst projects and commissions
Section 2 - International news, events, opportunities, networks
Section 3 - Books, journals, DVDs & CD-Roms
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Section 1 – Arts Catalyst projects and commissions
The British Library, the Open University and the Arts Catalyst present
POLAR The Art & Science of Climate Change
Public talks season & interdisciplinary symposium
Talks: Wed 17 October, Mon 5, Mon 18, Mon 26 November 2007
Symposium: Mon 19 & Tue 20 November 2007
British Library Conference Centre, London NW1
SYMPOSIUM
POLAR: Fieldwork & Archive Fever
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 November 2007
British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1
An interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global climate and society.
10.00 - 17.00 each day
Registration fee £25
For further information contact Kathryn Yusoff (K.Yusoff@exeter.ac.uk)
http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/global/polar_SYMPOSIUM.html
Tickets can be purchased at the British Library box office T +44 (0) 1937 546546 or in person at the Information Desk in the British Library
PUBLIC TALKS
POLAR: The Art & Science of Climate Change
Public lectures at the British Library
Wednesday 17 October 2007
EVERYDAY DISASTERS
Professor Bob Spicer, Open University (http://www.climateprediction.net); Dr Nigel Clark, Open University
Monday 5 November 2007
CLIMATE CHANGE & HUMAN RIGHTS
Aqqaluk Lynge, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Greenland; Dr Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute
Monday 19 November 2007
THE NEW ICONOGRAPHY OF CLIMATE CHANGE (Libraries of ice)
Professor Denis Cosgrove, University of California; Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey; Marko Peljhan, artist, initiator of I-TASC (Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation)
Monday 26 November 2007
GEOPOLITICS OF COLD
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).
All lectures 18.30 - 20.00
The British Library Conference Centre
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
Call for Submissions
LESS REMOTE: THE FUTURES OF SPACE EXPLORATION
An Arts and Humanities Symposium
Glasgow 30 Sep – 3 Oct 2008
Organised by Flis Holland with The Arts Catalyst, Leonardo and Olats. Co-sponsored by IAA Cmn VI
http://www.lessremote.org/
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Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
GRACE WEIR – IN MY OWN TIME
2 October – 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
TAXONOMIES – AGNES MEYER-BRANDIS, ANDY GRACIE, BRANDON BALLENGEE, RAMON GUARDONS
5 October 2007 – 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
WORKSHIP: TOOLS TO SEARCH & CORE SAMPLE SCANNING
directed by Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Saturday 6 October 2007, 5:00 PM
Comafosca, Node d'art i pensament a Alella, Barcelona, Spain
Examination of deep earth and other layers of reality. A workshop with Agnes Meyer-Brandis. The workshop includes a short expedition into deep earth layers, methods, ethics, search tools, discoveries and field work
http://www.comafosca.net
contact: info@capsula.org.es
STRANGE CULTURE – LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON & STEVE KURTZ
Upcoming screenings of Lynn Hershman Leeson's critically-acclaimed Strange Culture (http://strangeculture.net), which chronicles the ongoing story of artist Steven Kurtz and scientist Robert Ferrell, accused by the US government in 2004 of "bioterrorism" and now awaiting trial:
Oct 5-18 New York, Cinema Village, Q&A with Lynn Hershman Leeson & Steve Kurtz
Oct 10-14 Woodstock Film Festival
Nov 8 Philadelphia, First Person Arts, Q&A with Lucia Sommer
Nov 8 Location, First Person Festival of Memoir & Documentary Art
Nov 22 Toronto, A Space Gallery, Reception with Steve Kurtz
For more information about the case please visit: http://caedefensefund.org
PARK NIGHTS: SERPENTINE GALLERY EXPERIMENT MARATHON
Friday 9 November 2007, 12:00 PM
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London UK
The 48-Hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon presented by Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist will be in two 24-hour parts: first in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, then in Olafur Eliasson’s studio in Berlin in November. The experiments performed by leading artists, architects and scientists will explore ideas of time, space and of reality through models, vibrations and perception.
MUTAMORPHOSIS: CHALLENGING ARTS AND SCIENCE
International Conference, Prague
8 - 10 November 2007
CIANT, Prague , Czech Republic
Organised by CIANT in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations.
http://www.mutamorphosis.org
RE:PLACE 2007
Second International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany
15 - 18 November 2007
The conference is 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
SK-INTERFACES
February – March 2008
FACT, Liverpool, UK
The exhibition SK-Interfaces launches FACT’s Human Futures programme exploring the idea of skin as a technological interface.
http://www.fact.co.uk
THE ART & GENOMICS CENTRE
Internship for Life Science Students on Art & Science collaboration project iGene Visions
An internship for students / student assistants. You should be trained within the fields of DNA and protein studies and showing interest in bio-informatics as well as able to make the translation of science towards arts.
http://www.artsgenomics.org
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
BRAIN
Due 15 October 2007
Exit Art is looking for artists who are visualising and investigating the physical and metaphorical functions of the brain. Proposals may be for work in any medium. For details of how to submit:
http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/brain/index.html
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
LEONARDO "LOVELY WEATHER": ART & CLIMATE
http://www.olats.org/fcm/artclimat/artclimat_eng.php
The Leonardo Lovely Weather Art and Climate Project invites papers, special issue proposals and book proposals that deal with artistic approaches to weather, climate and their modifications. A discussion on the topic is being held on the YASMIN network:
YASMIN NETWORK
The YASMIN network, hosted by the University of Athens, is a collaborative project of an informal consortium around the Mediterranean Region that promotes collaboration between art, science and technology.
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
ARTISTS-IN-LABS: PROCESSES OF INQUIRY
Scott, Jill (Ed.)
2006, 136 p., with 85 figures, mostly in colour. With DVD, Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-211-27957-1
Blending ethnographical case studies, scientific viewpoints and critical essays. An enclosed DVD documents the results of a series of artists in labs residencies.
http://www.springer.com/chl/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=2-40109-22-66213330-0
SK-INTERFACES
Hauser, Jens (Ed.)
price: £ 14.95
70 colour illustrations
150pp, 234 x 156mm, limp
Published April 2008ISBN 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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