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The Arts Catalyst International Art & Science E-bulletin
March 2008

 

The Arts Catalyst commissions art that experimentally and critically engages with science. We produce provocative, playful, risk-taking projects to spark dynamic conversations about our changing world. This e-bulletin highlights Arts Catalysts' current projects and opportunities, and also lists international projects and opportunities that intersect with our interests.

Truth Serum: Call for Self-Experimenters & Participants, Sat 29 March 2008, Liverpool

SymbioticA Biological Arts Workshop, 10 - 14 March 2008, Bangalore, India
SpaceBaby, a new artists' video by London Fieldworks, Weds 4 June 2008, London
The Arts Catalyst Blog
New: Online video documentation of the Corporate Personae seminar, June 2007
Associated Events

March 2008 - Special Feature Events

LISTINGS

Truth Serum: Call for Self-Experimenters & Participants, Sat 29 March 2008, Liverpool

This is a call to join the Office of Experiments (set up by artist Neal White) in an artwork that is also a cultural experiment in consensual self-experimentation. The experiment will involve individuals coming to a central Liverpool location and taking part in a short psychological experiment based on substantiating TRUTH. If you would like more information, please follow the link below.
more information on the Truth Serum experiment ... 

SymbioticA Biological Arts Workshop, 10 - 14 March 2008, Bangalore, India

Follow the workshop's daily blog - link below. The workshop, taking place at the NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences) in Bangalore, is a joint initiative between the NCBS, SymbioticA, CEMA at Srishti, and The Arts Catalyst

Biological Art Workshop blog at CEMA ...


SpaceBaby, a new artists' video by London Fieldworks, Weds 4 June 2008, London
Scientist discovers sleep gene
Scientist discovers sleep gene
Whitechapel, Angel Alley, London E1
Wednesday 4 June 2008, screenings 6.30 & 8.30pm
Tickets free but booking essential from admin@artscatalyst.org

The Arts Catalyst presents SpaceBaby, a semi-fictional video journey into genetic space. London Fieldworks artists Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist have used documentary footage of the live SpaceBaby experiment, a collaboration with the University of Leicester's Department of Genetics staged at the Roundhouse in 2006 as part of The Arts Catalyst’s Space Soon. The narrative is played out in a world where everyone on earth appears to have fallen into a sleep-like trance.
more on SpaceBaby film ...

The Arts Catalyst Blog

Blogging from our Bangalore Biological Arts Workshop. Plus nanotech in India, human enhancement, space futures, truth drugs and consumerism ... the inside curve on Arts Catalyst's take on art and science. Subscribe to our free RSS feed.
read the blog & hit the RSS feed ...


New: Online video documentation of the Corporate Personae seminar, June 2007

CORPORATE PERSONAE was a seminar on corporate social responsibility and the role artists and activists, such as Platform, the Yes Men and With, play in “identity correction” and interrogating the activities of big business. Online video documentation at bliptv.

more information on Corporate Personae and link to bliptv ...


Associated Events
SK-INTERFACES Exhibition
To 30 March 2008
FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1, UK
The Sk-interfaces exhibition looks at, materially and metaphorically, the concept of skin as a technological interface. Works by Tissue Culture and Art Project, Orlan, Wim Delvoye, Stelarc and others.
www.fact.co.uk

SPACE IS THE PLACE
2 Feb - 13 April 2008
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Laurie Anderson's photographs of Star City and Arts Catalyst's short film Gravitation Off! are part of the exhibition Space is the Place (an ICI exhibition), currently touring the USA.
www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/space/space.htm

March 2008 - Special Feature Events

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Presents:
STRANGE CULTURE
Dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson
USA, 2007, 76 min, Documentary
Sunday, 16 March 2008, 21.00, ICA, London, UK
Monday, 17 March 18.30, Renoir, London, UK
Strange Culture chronicles the breathtaking miscarriage of justice that has befallen Steve Kurtz, a college professor, artist, and member of the politically-charged art and theatre collective Critical Art Ensemble.
www.hrw.org/iff

CHOMSKYAN ABSTRACT - CORNELIA PARKER
To 30 March 2008
Whitechapel, Angel Alley Entrance, 80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1, UK
Cornelia Parker presents her interview with renowned writer and theorist Noam Chomsky who addresses the failings of government, corporations and the media to take responsibility for the ecology of our planet.  Visitors are encouraged to pose questions about the state of the world which form an installation and provide inspiration for an event on Saturday 29 March, bringing together a host of artists, thinkers and activists. http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=4148

LISTINGS
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

ALCHEMY NIGHT
6-8pm, Friday 14 March 2008
The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
A celebration and private view of new work made by: Jordan Baseman, Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Ilana Halperin, Jamie Shovlin
+ The Big Alchemy Discussion, 2pm - 4pm Saturday 15 March at The Manchester Museum
www.alchemy.manchester.museum

GOODBYE VILE EARTH! - Simon Hollington & Kyp Kyprianou
To 16 March 2008
Launch Event Saturday 2nd February 2-4pm.
South Hill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell, UK
Gallery open: Wed 7.30-9.30pm Thu, Fri, Sat 1-9.30pm Sun 1-5pm
Goodbye, Vile Earth! is the result of a residency at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, set up by ex-employees to maintain the RAE's history.  
Admission Free
www.electronicsunset.org

I DREAM OF GENOMES
To 22 March 2008
Islip Art Museum, Islip, Long Island, NY, US
Group exhibition
http://www.islipartmuseum.org/exhibits.html

ABNORMAL -Towards a Scientific Model of Disability
Ju Gosling aka ju90
To 31 Mar 2008
Private view 3.30pm on Thu 31 January 2008
The National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7, UK
http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/

OPEN IN PROCESS
Wednesday 2 April 2008, 6.30pm - 9.30pm
body>data>space, 17-25 Cremer Street, Shoreditch, London, UK
Featuring new work from Soda and an introduction to Post Me_New ID - a co-production between body>data>space, CIANT (Prague) and Eira (Lisbon)
Email Laura to reserve your place: laura@bodydataspace.net

GREENHOUSE BRITAIN: LOSING GROUND GAINING WISDOM - Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
To 4 April 2008
Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, UK
Greenhouse Britain addresses the political and economic challenges of rising sea levels through a multimedia video projection onto a giant relief model of mainland Britain.
http://www.greenhousebritain.net

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

HOST - TRISH ADAMS
To 6 April 2008
Venue: University Art Museum, The University of Queensland
The video installation "host" is an outcome of the artist's residency in the 'bee house' at Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. Her collaboration was with the Department of Visual Neuroscience http://www.maynecentre.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=16812&pid=16058

LOTHAR SCHMITZ: SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
To 13 April 2008
University Art Museum, California State University/Long Beach, USA
http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/pages/Exhibitions/Current/Schmitz/schmitz.html

PLANET IN A PICKEL: ARTISTS SOW SOLUTIONS
To 19 April 2008
Eyebeam's "Feedback" exhibition featuring art + tech responses to our planet's sustainability predicament; Mincluding public workshops with many of the artists.
http://www.eyebeam.org

BRAINWAVE: COMMON SENSES
To 19 April 2008
Exit Art, NYC, US
Exhibition responds to current advances in neurological research;
http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/brain/index.html

BRAINWAVE FESTIVAL in NYC
Explores how art, music, meditation affect the brain via exhibition, cinemas series, concerts, performances, talks, and panels; January to June 2008, at various NYC locations. http://www.brainwavenyc.org

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

CONFERENCES, TALKS, SYMPOSIA

MEDIA ART IN THE AGE OF TRANSGENICS, CLONING AND GENOMICS
14 March 2008, 7.30pm
New Museum, NY, US
Discusses bio-art through presentations by artists Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretsky, Brandon Ballengee and Kathy High
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/156

TALKING ART: Gustav Metzger interviewed by Andrew Wilson
Saturday 29 March 2008, 2-4pm
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium, London, UK
Gustav Metzger is the renowned artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and co-organised the Destruction in Art Symposium in London in 1966.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/13870.htm

THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
27-29 March 2008
Keele University, UK
Papers will address topics in the  interactions of literature and science.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/humanities/BSLS3/registration.html

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS - ARTS & ECOLOGY Culture in a Time of Waste
Wednesday 2 April 2008
RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N, UK
Speakers include: Michael Landy and Professor Daniel Miller
http://www.thersa.org/events/detail.asp?eventID=2481

ROYAL SOCIETY WILKINS-BERNAL-MEDAWAR PRIZE LECTURE
Thursday 10 April 2008, 6.30pm.
‘Hard questions - Contemporary art and the obsession with science' by Siân Ede, Arts Director at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, UK
http://royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=7401&month=4,2008

ARTS AND BIOETHICS - CHALLENGING IDEAS AND CULTURES
Croatian 9th World Congress of Bioethics
September 2008
Deadline:  31st March 2008
The Arts Bioethics Network hosts a 2-hour session of performances in which artists from various genres will present work that has a bioethics &/or human rights theme.  You are invited to send an expression of interest in offering a performance. Works of art are also sought for display in Congress venues.
More details from the Arts Bioethics Network Coordinators:
c.kuppuswamy@sheffield.ac.uk or pmacneill@med.usyd.edu.au

GRASSROOTS
16-17 April 2008
Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland
Grassroots will be a 2-day event exploring the field of art and ecology, and launching an art and ecology network across Nordic and Baltic Sea Region.
e: Leena Souminen at leena.souminen@msl.fi

FUTURESONIC CONFERENCE: THE SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
1 - 2 May 2008 with supporting events 30 April & 3 May
Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK
The Futuresonic Conference brings opinion formers, futurologists, artists, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art communities together around shared issues to do with technology, society, art and the city.
http://www.futuresonic.com

SUBTLE TECHNOLOGIES FESTIVAL 2008 - LIGHT
29 May- 1 June 2008
Toronto, Canada
http://www.subtletechnologies.com

FIGURATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE
3 - 7 June 2008
Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, Germany
European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)

CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED
3 - 5 July 2008
University of Applied Arts Vienna
The Planetary Collegium's IXth International Research Conference. Theme: New Realities: Being Syncretic. A transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology and society
http://cr9.dieangewandte.at

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES
DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice'
14 - 17 September 2008
Cambridge, UK
The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries.  
http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/

First Announcement
NEW LEONARDOS ENGAGED IN THE BURNING ISSUES OF OUR TIMES
18 - 21 March 2009
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , USA
The Leonardo 40th anniversary  ends with a celebration event that will address key issues for the next decades that require  new kinds of interaction between the arts, humanities, and sciences or between arts, humanities and new technologies.
To be kept informed about the conference sign up at:
http://list.unm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=leo40-l&A=1
You will then receive the open calls for participation later this spring.
Contact : leo40@unm.edu
http://artslab.unm.edu/leo40

PUBLICATIONS

Leonardo announces recent publications in Spanish through a
collaboration with ELNIUTON magazine in Bogota, Colombia.
1) Leonardo Lovely Weather Project
http://www.elniuton.com/erotismo/view_niuton.php?ed=04&pag=115
2) Leonardo Artists and Scientists in Times of War
http://www.elniuton.com/colombia/view_niuton.php?ed=05&pag=229
For further information about the Leonardo Lovely Weather Project and
the Leonardo Artists and Scientists in Times of War Project, please
visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/spec.projects.html

ONLINE: DISCUSSIONS, BLOGS, WEBSITES & EXHIBITIONS

BIOART DISCUSSION
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) announces a moderated elist discussion on contemporary art and science collaborations in fields including bioart, artificial intelligence, robotics, climate change and space, amongst others. Running from March to December 2008, each month-long discussion will be led by international experts.
www.synapse.net.au

SCIENCE & THE ARTS WEBSITE - BLOG
http://sciart.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php?action=register

RANE [Research in Art, Nature & Environment]
Promoting and developing an ecological interpretation of nature that is informed by process philosophy and contemporary science. A number of short term research projects that explore these ideas have been commissioned; University College Falmouth, UK.
http://rane.falmouth.ac.uk/art_projects.html

KIRSTEN JOHANSSEN - new website
www.nomadicnaturekit.de

ANDREA POLLI in Antarctica
Andrea Polli is currently at McMurdo base in Antactica:
http://www.90degreessouth.org

SCIENCE IS THE NEW BLACK METAL
Frances d'Ath's AIR residency at the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University, Australia
http://www.anat.org.au/blog/dAth/

LEAH HEISS
Subtle Technologies: AIR Residency at Nanotechnology Victoria, Australia
http://www.anat.org.au/blog/heiss/

OPPORTUNITIES

ARTS AWARDS, WELLCOME TRUST
The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts. Applicants and activities must be in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.
Small to medium sized projects - next deadlines 2 May and 18 Jul 2008.
Next deadline for awards over £30,000 is to be announced.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node2580.html

THE CLIMATE CLOCK GLOBAL INIATIVE
Seeking ideas from artist-led teams to create a major artwork entitled Climate Clock, which will measure changes in greenhouse gas levels; anticipated $5-15 million budget.  http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500

FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA
The foremost international prize for computer-based art in many categories; Deadline: March 7, 2008; Online submission only at: http://prixars.aec.at

2-MONTH RESIDENCIES AT CAMAC, FRANCE
A creative centre for international artists, scientists and technologists working with new media; Marnay sur Seine, France
http://www.camac.org/ver2/proto/bourse_tenot_2008_en.html

THE AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
Grants to Australian artists working in interdisciplinary and hybrid arts to engage in research and development, creative development and/or production; support also for residencies;
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grant_items/new_work_-_inter-arts

SPACE, CULTURE & THE ARTS

UK SPACE CONFERENCE (formerly BROHP)
26 - 29 March 2008
Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, UK
http://www.spaceconference.org.uk

GLOBAL NETWORK AGAINST WEAPONS & NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE
ANNUAL SPACE ORGANIZING CONFERENCE
11-13 April, 2008
Omaha, Nebraska
http://www.space4peace.org

MEDIA ARTS

Call for Papers on Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Submission intent (title and 300-word abstract): 1 September, 2008
Deadline for full paper submission: 31 October, 2008
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=914
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