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June-July 2007 issue
ASCI, 130 East End Ave.-1A, New York, NY 10028
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WELCOME TO THE ASCI eBULLETIN: a monthly, hyper-linked listing of news, events, resources, and opportunities in the burgeoning international field of art-science-technology.
SEND YOUR ART-SCI ANNOUNCEMENTS for the ASCI eBulletin to: "bulletin [at] asci [dot] org" by the 20th of each month [we publish ~ the 1st of the following month]. Submit basic information plus a URL or email address where full details are located. We appreciate receiving information in this abbreviated format.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! (new/renewing members):
Jane Snar; David Mark; Greg Blonder; Nita Sturiale; Debra Swack; Joseph Giannetti; Heidi Neilson; Shane Hope; Rosemary Cellini; Mark Callahan, Ideas for Creative Exploration/University of Georgia; Sidney Perkowitz, Emory University; Ronald Mallory; Tarynn Witten, Virginia Commonwealth University; Camille Seaman; Robert McGregor; Claudia Jimenez; Naomi Kim, International Community School of Bangkok; Rachel Mayeri [Harvey Mudd College]; Betty Zimmerberg, Williams College; Gayle Austin, Georgia State University; Julia Gill; Robert Buelteman; Tim Watkins, and Anna Dumitriu.
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ASCI NEWS
- ASCI has begun a new Art-Science Humanitarian Initiative with the production of its first art-science environmental project. "Fishes Feed Us" is a global, public awareness/ youth-action that culminated in a performance by NYC 4th & 5th graders on the United Nations Plaza, June 5, 2007, as part of the UN's World Environment Day celebration. This project is about the human consequences of our collapsing ocean fisheries as voiced by the children in the Indo-Pacific Region that are critically affected. Text excerpts from a KidsFishesBlog became spoken monologues in the performance. Click here for initial image postings and more information. [Full documentation soon.]
- ASCI DIRECTOR CURATES BIO-ART SHOW FOR PFIZER
ASCI founder/director, Cynthia Pannucci was invited by Pfizer's Corporate Art Collections Department to curate an exhibition for the Executive Tower of their NYC Headquarters. The show, "Landscapes of Today's Science," is comprised of artworks inspired by micro-biology and the microbial world; July 10 - Dec.10, 2007; ASCI members included are: Martyn Bouskila, Deborah Cornell, Mara Haseltine, Susan Munoz, Patricia Olynyk, and Jody Rasch. Unfortunately, the show is not open to the public.
- DIGITAL'07: ASCI's international, digital print Open Competition & Exhibition will take place Sept. 29, 2007 - Jan. 21, 2008 in the Walter LeCroy Gallery at the New York Hall of Science. This year's theme will explore how today's artists are inspired by or utilize the underlying structures and patterns of the universe to make their art. [Open Call prospectus will be sent in separate email later this week.]
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FYI
- DISONANCIAS is a new, international art + industry program in the Basque part of Spain, had its first artists matched/working in R&D departments at local companies in 2006; read about artist projects/diary entries/company profiles/etc; Next Open Call to be announced soon.
http://www.disonancias.com
- A. Michael Noll, the documented creator of the earliest digital computer art [summer of 1962] while he was working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, USA; has an amazing website featuring this original digital art, written documentation, published books, and even animations posted on YouTube. http://noll.uscannenberg.org
- Composer and sound designer Susan Alexjander has discovered an entirely new way to listen to the universe: she measures the light vibration of the building blocks of our world [carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen] and then creatively translates those measurements into sound.
http://www.eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/
ad60763f9a5c04fc6c541ba284331562/
- Transdisciplinarity-Net (Td-Net) provides an introduction to transdisciplinarity, a forum for discussion and networking, and a bibliography that was initially organized around environmental and sustainability research but is now broadening to support research in scientific areas, engineering, and the humanities.
http://www.transdisciplinarity.ch
- Landviews.org is an online journal and dedicated network of artists, architects, designers, and ecologists working in and for the landscape. http://www.landviews.org
- Landscape and Arts Network is a UK group founded in 1993 with the aim of bringing together all individuals who are passionate about improving and sustaining the quality of our urban and natural environments. http://www.landartnet.org
- NEW BOOK: "Hollywood Science Movies, Science, and the End of the World" by Sidney Perkowitz [Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl.] Will be published by Columbia University Press in Novemer 2007. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/
- Neuroaesthetics is a relatively new art discipline that has conveniened symposia and is being promoted as a group via the website: http://artbrain.org
- New group: the ArtsActive Network [organizers of programs for artists in science and industry R&D Labs.http://www.artsactive.net
- Ursula Freer, sent the four interesting links below to share:
+ Design ideas and solutions found in nature: solar, self cleaning buildings, water from air and fog, hydrogen tech. etc.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/18
+ A fun video to explain, fractals and chaos theory. [Turn down the audio as there's a loud rocket boom just at the beginning.]
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_jun_12
+ A video showing the connection between the so called "Sacred Geometry" and music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2Dg-ncWoY
+ For an explanation and new information about other phenomena connected to the stone formation inside the RosslynChapel (1400 AD) that embody music see:
http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/rosslyn.html
- Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/
- Green Map Greenhouse, is the new online showcase for Green Map's worldwide network of community-led Green Map projects and the re-launch of their global website.
http://www.greenmap.com
- HiPArt (High Performance Computing in the Arts) is an outreach program coordinated by the Scientific Computing and Visualization group at Boston University fostering a collaboration between software developers and artists and making high performance computing, networking, and graphics resources available to the art community. http://scv.bu.edu/hipart/
- New YASMIN Discussion 1957-2007: Space Imaginaries; moderated by Annick Bureaud; celebrating the anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, 50 years of human presence outside the Earth.
http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/
- Bioart pioneer, Joe Davis at MIT, has just been featured in an online article/slide show by Slate.com. Notable is the direction his current bioart is taking him... collecting magnetic bacteria in local ponds in hopes of using the organisms to build batteries that he jokes may help to solve the world's energy problems.
http://www.slate.com/id/2168469/slideshow/
2168530/fs/0//entry/2168531/
- The Digital Earth community is dedicated to creating a global commons where all people can freely access a virtual world of information and knowledge resources to promote "down to earth" solutions for a sustainable future.
http://www.isde5.org
- Hans Ulrich Obrist has been awarded The Van Alen Institute's inaugural New York Prize Senior Fellowship. The Institute has long served as an architectural and educational resource, supporting fellowships abroad at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the American Academy in Rome. Today the Institute sustains and strengthens this legacy with the founding of an annual prize, established to bring practitioners and scholars to its headquarters in New York City to pursue advanced independent research and to generate public programs. http://www.vanalen.org
- Anna Dumitriu, is currently the "Self-organising" artist in Residence at The Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (one of the leading artificial life research groups in the world). Her residency; her attempts to learn to code in Java; to understand evolutionary computing and artificial life; undertake random acts of performance art (recent ones involving robot shaped biscuits) and meet and interview as many difference researchers as possible are all documented on her blog.
http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/iWeb/
SOA/Blog/Blog.html
- Music designed to enliven the subject of molecular biology by translating nature’s millions of proteins into a musical form. http://www.newscientist.com/article/
dn11775-music-made-to-
- "Jaron's World: Shapes in Other Dimensions" is a recent article published in Discover Magazine, about how a lifelong obsession leads to the mysterious "hedecatope", a seemingly impossible geometric form that, in its own small way, links together the whole universe. [another stunning example of the power of visualization in solving problems]
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/apr/
jarons-world-shapes-in-other-dimensions/
?searchterm=4-d%20shapes
- NEW BOOK: "Pushing Ultimates" by artist and poet Lew Paz is a challenging, enriching journey, encompassing the evolution of consciousness, while skillfully weaving mysticism, theology, psychology, philosophy, quantum physics, neurology, music, art, into meaningful and relevant patterns of clarification."
http://www.plumbell.com
- RSA Arts & Ecology participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale on June 9th with a discussion entitled "Is Art Sinking Venice?". The discussion aims to explore the art constituency's role/responsibilities with respect to environmental issues.
http://www.artsandecology.org
- A new arts/green technology/community center, Green Arts Barns, has been brokered by Artscape, a nonprofit arts organization in Toronto. This multi-tenant arts and environmental centre will be run by and for the community. http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/barns
- Leonardo/OLATS Awards the Leonardo-EMS Award for Excellence to CriticalArtware.
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/announcements/
LeoEMS2006_announce.html
- The students of DAMT [Dept. of Art, Music & Technology] at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, have just published their Spring Newsletter reporting on their department's expansion and facilities/equipment improvements.
http://personal.stevens.edu/~jharriso/DAMT.newsletter.S07.pdf
- Mahmoud Sabri asks ASCI members for feedback on his proposal for linking art & science: Quantum Realism.
http://www.quantumrealism.co.uk
- Leonardo Journal published Rob O'Neill's article, "Emerging Congruence between Animation and Anatomy" in their April issue. The worlds of animation and anatomy have a long-standing connection based on both direct and indirect collaboration. The author surveys a number of projects in which anatomists have consulted on animation projects or animation techniques have been used for data gathering and analysis. The author describes his own work in light of this connection.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/40/2
- More "nano" resouces and image collections:
+ http://qt.exploratorium.edu/nise-resources/
page.php?ID=75
+ http://qt.exploratorium.edu/nise-resources/
resourcelist.php?categoryID=74
- AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR "FREELANCERS"... once only available to NYC freelancers, this health insurance plan is now available in 30 states in USA! http://www.freelancersunion.org/health-insurance-a/
- Math-Art Seminars Archive at London Konowledge Lab [including some videos of the seminars] & links to some amazing images [chaos/fractals/much more].
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/maths%2Dart/
- Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; Editorial e-mail: Convergence@beds.ac.uk
http://www.beds.ac.uk/convergence
- Do you know contact info for any of the artists included in Siggraph's 1982 Art Show? Copper Gilloth & her students are creating a website documenting the show. If you can help, contact her at: "giloth [at] oit.umass.edu"
http://www.people.umass.edu/sig82art/
- The first issue of Journal of Mathematics and the Arts is now available online [free sample issue is downloadable].
http://www.informaworld.com/JMA
- Changing places: Patricia Olynyk has left the University of Michigan to accept the position of Director of the Graduate School of Art (also, a named/endowed professorship) at Washington University in St. Louis; she is very involved in interdepartmental art-science dialogue and projects.
- Artworld Digest Magazine mission is to promote and publish new and emerging artists as well as connect them to a global community of environmentally concerned citizens.
http://www.artworldigest.com/home.html
- The Pari Network has been born out of discussions that followed their May 2006 conference on "Ethical Choices" with the idea of taking theory/ideas into the realm of practical, on-going projects; anyone can join. http://www.parinetwork.org
- Experiments in "sight" can be found at Michel Van de gaer's website for some eye-opening new insights.
http://www.sharp-sighted.org
- Lillian Ball, recently curated, "Called To Action", an exhibition presenting works by artists who not only comment upon environmental issues, but actually intercede to halt degradation and nurture environmental health by working with scientists, government officials and planners; The show was on view at Art Sites, 651 West Main Street (Route 25), Riverhead, NY; closed June 3, 2007; a show catalog is available. http://artsitesgallery.com/Page3.html
- Phone-link to melting sounds of Iceland's Vatnajokull glacier [the largest in Europe], was a recent art-science project by a 25 yr-old, senior at Slade School of Art in London, Katie Paterson; her mission was have individuals connect emotionally with this environmental travesty.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19108923/
- "The commons is an emerging new paradigm for understanding how groups of people can create and preserve value in more sustainable ways. Unlike the conventional market paradigm, the commons consists of a diverse set of models rooted in social norms and ecological principles. A growing number of scholars, activists and policymakers is beginning to recognize the power of the commons matrix and its importance in creating and managing resources." http://www.onthecommons.org
- Rachel Mayeri has just finished the first in a series of video experiments that translate the social dramas of non-human primates for human audiences, called "Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends." This is a collaboration with cognitive scientist, Deborah Forster. http://www.soft-science.org/primate.html
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FESTIVALS / EXHIBITION / PERFORMANCES
- A New Music Marathon; Sat, June 23, beginning at 6pm; Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway @95th St, NYC.
http://www.symphonyspace.org
- An artist's interest in sacred architecture, the bombing of Iraq, and the ruins of a mosque combine with technical virtuosity to create an immersive, 3-D surround video/sound installation where light is a real and virtual medium / video is sculpture / sculpture is architecture, in Michael Somoroff's "Illumination," at Bravinlee programs Off-Site; 508 West 26 Street, NYC; thru Aug.10, 2007. "Illumination I" is a self-contained piece that will be at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Ridgefield, CT; June 24- Oct.14, 2007. http://bravinlee.com/artists/somoroff/
illumination-about.html
- A documentary film of one of Robert Rauschenberg’s most important performance works, "Open Score," will be screened on Thursday, July 12, [6-7:30pm]; at the National Academy of Sciences' building at 2100 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C. A public reception will precede the screening from 5-6pm; a photo ID is required to enter the building. Free. http://www.nationalacademies.org/arts
- At the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City:
+ Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, thru July 29, 2007; ASCI Member, Leni Schwendinger/LightProjects LTD is a featured designer.
+ Design for the Other 90%; thru Sept.23, 2007; the exhibition highlights the growing trend among designers to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world's population (90 percent) not traditionally serviced by professional designers. http://www.cooperhewitt.org
- The New York Hall of Science's two current art-science exhibitions:
+ "Water Colors: The Photography of Michael S. Maurer," explores deep waters to photograph microscopic marine ecology; thru Sept. 2, 2007; Walter LeCroy Gallery, The New York Hall of Science.
+ "BioScapes," July 7 - Nov.30, 2007; images of life science specimens captured through light-microscopes from Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition 2006. http://www.nyscience.org/
events#Gallery%20Exhibitions
- "Psychobotany: Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Human/Plant Communication" is an exhibition that features artworks done by pioneers more than 30-years ago!; thru June 16, 2007 [the website still has all the info!]; at Machine Project, Los Angeles.
http://www.psychobotany.com
- Roald Hoffmann's Entertaining Science Cabaret at the Cornelia Street Cafe (in the Village/NYC), will be featuring an informal talk and performance about "Channelling the Sound of the Cosmos"; July 1, 2007 at 6pm; reservations taken from June 25th onward. http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
- Laura Splan's solo show, "Sympathetic Coordination," is part of "Anatomy in the Gallery" exhibition series of The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL; thru July 20, 2007. http://www.imss.org/anatgallery.htm
- "Under the Skin," textile art that examines what lurks under the human’s largest organ, group exhibit; thru July 14, 2007; Translations Gallery; Denver, Colorado.
http://www.translationsgallery.com/Exhibitions.html
- "Beneath the Skin", science/medicine and the body, group exhibition; thru July 14, 2007, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. http://www.limn.com
- "Up From Flames: Mapping Bushick's Recovery 1977-2007" is heavily-based on the photographs of mixed-media artist, Meryl Meisler, who was a NYC public school teach there at that time; thru Aug. 26, 2007 at the Brooklyn Historical Historical Society; 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, NYC.
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/flames.html
- Marty St. James, London based visual and performance artist, has installed his "The Invisible Man", video triptych filmed in France, 2007 [bringing together Constable, Wells, Magritte, Beuys 'under one hat']; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC. http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org
- The Wellcome Trust [the world's largest medical research funding organization in the world] is opening their sci-art collection's new galleries at their London Headquarters; beginning June 21, 2007; 183 Euston Rd, London NW1; free entry.
http://www.wellcomecollection.org
- The 2nd International Artists Airshow organized by Arts Catalyst and Landscape+Arts Network; June 30, 2007 [3pm till dawn]; Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex [North London] UK; includes a symposium: Aesthetics of Impossibility with 6 artists/teams who received commissions to create their flying-machines; must register in advance!
http://www.artscatalyst.org
- The NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a series of dialogues and exhibitions. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2007/
10thSessionSeries/index.html
- "Hidden Realities" exhibition includes the microbiology inspired paintings and drawings of Jody Rasch; thru June 23, 2007; Gallery Om's, 134 Main St, Fort Lee, NJ.
http://www.raschart.com
- "Sound Waves" is the current exhibition at KINETICA in London, featuring artworks that explore, warp, collect and manipulate sound; May 18 - June 29; Kinetica Museum, SP2 Pavillion, Old Spitalfields Market, London, UK.
http://www.kinetica-museum.org
- HEAD FLU, a public art intervention by Stefano Cagol; Tronchetto, Venice; June 5-July 5, 2007; Commissioned by Fondazione Poletti in collaboration with the Cornice Art Fair/Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice.
http://www.fondazionepoletti.com
- The National Academy of Sciences' [Washington, DC] summer exhibition program includes:
+ Mariana Cook’s photography exhibition, "Faces of Science"; thru July 30, 2007; by appointment, call (202) 334-2436; National Academies’ Keck Center; 500 Fifth St NW, First Floor Gallery.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/
Mariana_Cook_Faces_of_Science.html
+ "Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: Shared Visions Between Art and Technology; thru Aug. 24, 2007 [closed July 4th]; 2100 C St NW, Rotunda Gallery.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/
Speculative_Data_and_the_Creative_Imaginary.html
- "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids" exhibition will open May 26th at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC; will include spectacular sculptures, paintings, and textiles, and other cultural artifacts showing the similarities and differences depicted by peoples around the world.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/
mythiccreatures/?src=h_h
- RAM (radioartemobile) presented "Sound and Vision: an exhibition" held at the Art Moscow Fair; May 15-20, 2007; continuing the research and fusion of sound and visual art.
http://www.radioartemobile.it/pages/info.htm
- The internationally acclaimed new media artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is setting up 6 interactive high-tech installations to represent Mexico in the Venice Biennial this summer.
http://universes-inuniverse.de/car/
venezia/eng/2007/tour/mex/index.htm
- "Kids Take Pictures of New Orleans Today," exhibition through June 29; Opening Reception June 21 5:30pm to 7:00pm; Gallery 1199, 310 West 43rd St, NYC; for more info email: unseenamerica@wdiny.org
- The First International Festival of NanoArt was held in Finland; May 2007, and was co-curated by artist-scientist Chris Orfescu. Contact them re: next year's event.
http://nanoart.blogspot.com
- New media artist, Jill Magid's work will be exhibited at Gagosian Gallery; 540 W. 21st Street, NYC.
- Eyebeam's contribution to the city-wide "Make Music New York's premerie event on June 21, will be sound artists Stephanie Hunt and Marko Tandefelt's "immersive," interactive sound piece on the sidewalk in front of Eyebeam from 4-7 pm [using water as its musical interface]. http://www.eyebeam.org
- SOURCE CODE: A 10-Year Retrospective of Programming, Eyebeam Style; thru August 11, 2007 at EYEBEAM, 540 West 21st St, NYC.
http://www.eyebeam.org
- BELOW [+] FROM "ARTS ELECTRIC" [publication of the Electronic Music Foundation; visit their online calendar for international events. http://www.arts-electric.org
+ Herb Deutsch: 75th Birthday Celebration; June 29, 2007 at 8pm; Inter-Media Arts Center, 370 New York Ave, Huntington NY.
http://www.imactheater.org/deutsch.html
+ Soundscape: Boston, a new work by N. B. Aldrich and Zach Poff; thru August 17; Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA,
http://www.interactivesoundscapes.org/index.html
+ Garden of Memory; June 21; Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA.
http://www.gardenofmemory.com
+ "Green" by Shawn Decker is part of the exhibition "Sound in Art Art in Sound"; thru July 1; Minneapolis Museum of American Art, 50 West Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN.
http://www.mmaa.org
+ Stephen Vitiello: "Night Chatter"; thru September 23; Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC.
http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu
- Soundmarks is comprised of site-specific sound and video installations by Amy Stacey Curtis and the team of Zach Poff + N.B. Aldrich, artist talks and performances; thru Aug.18, 2007; Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA.
http://www.artinteractive.org
- The Exploratorium in San Francisco hosts its version of a science cook-off, when local math and science teachers race to concoct the quirkiest and most ingenious classroom activity from a special secret ingredient.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/iron_science
- Benoit Maubrey's installation "Audio Suitcases" will be shown during the AUGE DES KLANGS exhibition at Schloss Moyland (Joseph Beuys Archive / Kleve) starting June 17.
Other dates include:
+ FEEDBACK FRED will be performed at DAW (Digital Arts Weeks) in Zurich on July 13th in the Cafe Voltaire;
+ AUDIO BALLERINAS and AUDIO GEISHAS at the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland Ohio from July 18-thru 22;
+ AUDIO PEACOCK and VIDEO PEACOCK at SELTEN GEHOERT Festival at Schloss Moyland (Kleve) on August 18th. http://www.snafu.de/~maubrey/
- Robert Buelteman is having a solo show of his color photograms: Road To Santa Fe; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; thru July 7, 2007.
- Lincoln Schatz’s interactive video installation "From Here" opened at One Arts Plaza in the heart of Dallas’s Arts District on April 25, 2007; it is one of the largest interactive video works ever permanently installed in a public space comprised of two 9 x 9 foot video walls. http://www.lincolnschatz.com/work/
present/07/oneartsplaza.php
- Green Machine is a multi-media based exhibition about man's relationship to nature that including site specific installations, an interactive media lab, and a live broadcast performance between Philadelphia and Japan; at Philadelphia's Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education; thru Oct.30, 2007.
http://www.inliquid.com/features/
greenmachine/index.html
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SYMPOSIA / WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
- "Nerd Nite" launches at the New York Academy of Science [open to public]; an informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts. Enjoy a drink while listening to two 20-30-minute lectures on scientific or cultural topics.
http://www.nyas.org/snc/calendarDetail.asp?eventID=9697&date=6%2F21%2F2007+7%3A00%3A00+PM
- The Spirit of Discovery 2, an art and science international meeting on low power society and thought strategies; Trancoso, Portugal; June 21-23, 2007; free.
http://www.asa-art.com/facto/program/
2007/ED2/en/1.html
- Serpentine Gallery Conference: "On the Conditions of Politics", asks the question of How can critical dialogues and active politics be relevant to artistic practice today?; June 28, 2007, 10 am - 5 pm; Conway Hall, South Place Ethical Society, 25 Red Lion Square, London, UK
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/02/
playful_experimentsdyslexia_an.html
- ASIAN / EUROPEAN MEETINGS: International Art Festival and Meetings during July, 2007; Opening: the National Museum in Poznan, Poland on June 30, 2007.
http://www.aem.art.pl
- DIGITAL SCULPTURE AND BIOMORPHISM conference and exhibition in Nancy, France; October 10-17, 2007.
http://www.pimkey.com/%7Einterscu/sculptbio/
sculptbio-index.html
- Mutamorphosis Conference: Challenging Arts & Sciences, will be held in Prague in November 8-10, 2007; Registration open. http://www.mutamorphosis.org
- The Darwin Summer Symposium 2007: Batteries Not Included - Mind as Machine [art/artificial intelligence/artificial life]; Friday, July 13th; The Music Hall; Shrewsbury, UK.
http://www.darwinshrewsbury.org/symposium/
index.html?theme=286
- Future Histories of the Moving Image, an international conference to be held at University of Sunderland; Nov.16-18, 2007. http://myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/
futurehistories/
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OPPORTUNITIES / JOBS
- Sumissions Open: Future Histories of the Moving Image, an international conference to be held at University of Sunderland; Nov.16-18, 2007; submission deadline: 30 June 2007
http://myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/futurehistories/
- Rockefeller Foundation is providing a new Grant Opportunity: "The NYC Cultural Innovation Fund" for innovation, technology integration, partnerships and the arts in the civic agenda; Preliminary Deadline [short project prospectus]: July 20, 2007. http://www.rockfound.org
- Troika Ranch is actively seeking unpaid interns for August and September 2007. During this time Troika will begin creation of our next performance work "Loop Diver" during a two-month residency at 3LD Art & Technology Center in New York City.
http://www.troikaranch.org
- If you speak French and want a Residency Program in France, check-out CAMAC, a center for art, science, and technology just 110kms South East of Paris in the region of Champagne Ardenne on the banks of the Seine.
http://www.camac.org
- Call for Submissions: LESS REMOTE; THE FUTURES OF SPACE EXPLORATION, an Arts and Humanities Symposium to run parallel with the 2008 International Astronautical Congress (IAC); Glasgow, 30 Sept. - 3 Oct 2008.
http://www.lessremote.org
- Eyebeam Atelier's Summer School features one and one-half months of environmental actions, activism and public interventions via its Sustainable Scrapyard Challenge; begins June 23, 2007 [you need to register]; also Summer School participants can elect to collaborate with different artists working with biotechnology to develop projects and take part in the discourse stemming from the issues and politics of biotech work.
http://www.eyebeam.org/learning/
learn.php?page=workshops
- Afterall, a Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, is co-published by Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and California Institute of the Arts through offices in London and Los Angeles; seeking Associate Editors for London & LA offices. http://www.afterall.org
- The University of Sussex, UK; a world-leading centre for interdisciplinary work, is offering a new one-year MSc in Creative Systems. Apply online: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/1-2-2.html AND...
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/courses/
creativesystems/msc.htm
- 2007 SYNAPSE ART AND SCIENCE RESIDENCIES: Call for proposals from Australian media artists; Deadline June 29, 2007. http://www.anat.org.au
- SEEKING: Manager of new Embracing Sound Project (esp) at the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). Please download a job description from:
http://www.anat.org.au/vacancies/esp.pdf
- TAPE PROJECTS is now calling for art/writing/sound works/etc. for the second installment of its quarterly zine/DVD series; Deadline July 14, 2007.
http://www.tapeprojects.org/files/pdf/
TapeZine2Call.pdf
- Susan Alexjander is giving a "Vibration Medicine: Sound & the Biosphere" workshop at the Omega Institute; Rhinebeck, NY; June 22-24, 2007. http://www.eomega.org/omega/workshops/
59ad9422896fdbb4bfe1b2ee8978c0f5/
- The Shahneshin Foundation (SF) announces its Open Call: Shrinkage Worldwide Awards for arts and design aimed at transforming communities and even regions through a poster/manifesto; Deadline: Nov.19, 2007.
http://www.shahneshinfoundation.org
- The Exploratorium's Summer Institute invites science and math teachers to learn about exciting new art-science ways to present their classroom materials. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ti/
- Call for Papers for an inagural symposium: Computer Image Analysis in the Study of Art (EI122); abstracts (500 words) due: July 16, 2007. http://electronicimaging.org/call/08/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=3DEI122
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, invite you to participate in the fifth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis
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NET ART & ACTIVITIES
- Turbulence Spotlight: "Disappearing Places and Time Indefinite" by Matthew Belanger, with Marianne R. Petit; visit the site and post comments about places you have been to that no longer exist. http://turbulence.org/spotlight/belanger/index.html
- Rhizome announces its 2007-2008 awards for netart commissions: http://rhizome.org/commissions/2007/
- The first zoo dedicated to artificial life, The Robotarium, is now open at Alverca, Portugal; a project by artist Leonel Moura.
http://www.leonelmoura.com/robotarium.html
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ASCI MEMBERS' NEWS
- Lillian Ball has two news items:
+ she was commissioned by the House of Sweden [Swedish Embassy in Washinton, D.C.] to create an artwork that opened their Spring exhibition; "Water in the Environment" utilizes video projection on ice to make a statement about global warming, portraying the predicted shifts of the Arctic ice cap.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/11/AR2007041102370.html
+ she curated an exhibition,"Called to Action: Environmental Restoration by Artists", at the Art Sites LLC gallery in Riverhead, NY; they produced a catalog which is for sale. This link will bring you to a list of the artists involved & info on their work:
http://artsitesgallery.com/Page1.html
- Chris Twomey has a print from her "CheeriOpus" series included in the "Summer Sampler" show at Front Room Gallery, Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NYC; thru July 8, 2007. [open Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm] http://www.frontroom.org/samppress.htm
- Sidney Perkowitz moderated a panel: "Prodigies, Nobelists and Penguins" on science in the movies at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2007, and he's working on a screenplay about cloning. http://www.sidneyperkowitz.net
- Meryl Meisler's photographs underpin the exhibition, "Up From Flames: Mapping Bushick's Recovery 1977-2007"; she was a NYC public school teach there at that time; thru Aug. 26, 2007 at the Brooklyn Historical Historical Society; 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, NYC.
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/
flames.html
- Stefano Cagol's "HEAD FLU", is a public art intervention; Tronchetto, Venice; June 5-July 5, 2007; Commissioned by Fondazione Poletti in collaboration with the Cornice Art Fair/Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice.
http://www.fondazionepoletti.com
- Leni Schwendinger's LightProjects of recent renown & current commissions include:
+ the refurbished NYC icon, the Coney Island Parachute Jump
+ the colored light transformation of the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow
+ HTO Park, Toronto, Canada
+ Carroll Creek Bridge, Fredrick, Maryland
+ Shops at Atlas Park, Queens, NYC
http://www.lightprojectsltd.com
- Eva Lee has three announcements:
+ Her "Discrete Terrain: Windows on Five Emotions," multi-channel digital video installation is included in "Connecticut Contemporary"; thru Aug.12, 2007; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/view/
exhibition-specific.php?id=1240&type=Current
+ She will give a talk: "Art, Science & Dr. Seuss," on July 27th at 12pm; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
+ her work is included in "Camera Works," Ridgefield Guild of Artists, June 2 - July 8, 2007.
- David Mark's large paintings that reflect on the changing nature of the earth’s atmosphere, were featured in a 2-person show, "Serene Landscapes," at the Evolving Art Gallery in San Francisco; April-May, 2007.
http://www.evolvingartgallery.com/
artist_david_mark.htm
- Laura Splan currently has artwork in several exhibitions:
+ "Sympathetic Coordination," is part of "Anatomy in the Gallery" exhibition series of The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL; thru July 20, 2007.
http://www.imss.org/anatgallery.htm
+ "Under the Skin," textile art that examines what lurks under the human’s largest organ, group exhibit; thru July 14, 2007; Translations Gallery; Denver, Colorado.
http://www.translationsgallery.com/Exhibitions.html
+ "Beneath the Skin", science/medicine and the body, group exhibition; thru July 14, 2007, Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. http://www.limn.com
- Benoit Maubrey's installation "Audio Suitcases" during the AUGE DES KLANGS exhibition at Schloss Moyland (Joseph Beuys Archive / Kleve) starting June 17.
Other dates include:
+ FEEDBACK FRED will be performed at DAW (Digital Arts Weeks) in Zurich on July 13th in the Cafe Voltaire;
+ AUDIO BALLERINAS and AUDIO GEISHAS at the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland Ohio from July 18-thru 22;
+ AUDIO PEACOCK and VIDEO PEACOCK at SELTEN GEHOERT Festival at Schloss Moyland (Kleve) on August 18th.
http://www.snafu.de/~maubrey/
- Ursula Freer has the two announcements below:
+ 5 of her digital prints are included in The First International Festival of NanoArt held in Finland, May 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/2mbk4y
+ her work is included in the group show: Digital 2007 [Prints, Video, Audio]; June 22 - July 23, 2007; Farrell Fischoff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
- Marianne Petit's collaboration on the net.art project/ Turbulence commission: "Disappearing Places and Time Indefinite" by Matthew Belanger.
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/belanger/index.html
- Ellen K. Levy's artwork was featured as a cover for the May 2007 issue of Nature/Neuroscience.
- Susan Alexjander is conducting her "Vibration Medicine: Sound & the Biosphere" workshop at the Omega Institute; Rhinebeck, NY; June 22-24, 2007.
http://www.eomega.org/omega/workshops/
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- Laura Splan's artwork was recently featured in an article in "The Scientist" magazine, by Graciela Flores, (http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53181) and on "Eight Forty-Eight", WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, "An Artist's Unconventional Medium", Independent producer Tim Carnahan.
http://wbez.org/CityRoom_Story.aspx?storyID=11507
- Athena Tacha spent this spring doing a residency at Bellagio, Italy [The Rockefeller Foundation], and this summer is working on a public art commission on Mohammad Ali.
- Charlie Morrow, a NYC composer, presented Solstice Celebration works at WHITE BOX, NYC on June 23rd.
http://www.whiteboxny.org
- Alyce Santoro has some news about her "sonic fabric" (audible textile woven from cassette tape:
+ sonic fabric was featured on "Create", an episode of Big Ideas for a Small Planet, on the Sundance Channel on June 5, 2007. A couple of "trailers" are at:
http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500203142
+ instead of a solo artist-maker, she will now be working with DesignTex, an environmentally-conscious textile distributor who will carry sonic fabric as part of their "Guggenheim Line" of materials.
+ sonic fabric will be featured in the May issue of Metropolis Magazine
+ she is collaborating with Julian Mock on the creation of a NYC-soundscape from the streets of New York for her next batches of sonic fabric.
- Susan Kaprov's thirty foot-long digital wall mural, ESCAPE, created for the Kings County Medical Center Emergency Room, will be installed in June. The images suggest "getting outta here' via running, flying, crawling, swimming, and flying any which way you can. http://www.kaprov.com
- Roz Dimon’s piece, Madeline #11, went for the highest bid at a silent auction in NYC, May 7, 2007, to raise funds for The Center Against Domestic Violence. Over $100,000 was raised and over 60 artists participated in this auction which included artists such as Christo and Jeanne- Claude, Robert Longo and other well known art world figures. Madeline #11 is a pigment print of a hand-drawn nude using Wacom pen and tablet.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/
category.php?category_id=4&id=12737
- Rob O'Neill has several news items below:
+ his article, "Emerging Congruence between Animation and Anatomy" appears in the April 2007 issue of Leonardo Journal (Volume 40:2).
+ he will be speaking and exhibiting work at the at the DIGITAL SCULPTURE AND BIOMORPHISM conference and exhibition in Nancy, France; October 10-17, 2007.
http://www.pimkey.com/%7Einterscu/sculptbio/
sculptbio-index.html
+ he will be speaking at the Mutamorphosis Conference in Prague in November:
http://www.mutamorphosis.org/index.php?lang=en&node=120&catid=108&id=46
+ he is a collaborator on a large (scientifically important) project:http://graphics.idav.ucdavis.edu/
research/EvoMorph
- Patricia Olynyk has left the University of Michigan to accept the position of Director of the Graduate School of Art (also, a named/endowed professorship) at Washington University in St. Louis; she is very involved in interdepartmental art-science dialogue and projects.
- David Peat gave several talks in London this past April; topics included: "Synchronicity and the Quantum World"; "Pathways of Chance"; and "Active Information: The Integration of Matter and Mind." http://www.paricenter.com
- Natalia Allen's article, "A Material World," is the feature for the premiere Fabric Issue of the JC Report, a bimonthly email magazine providing an insider's view on fashion trends emerging around the world. http://www.jcreport.com
- Deborah Cornell [and her husband, Richard Cornell] have created "SURGE??", a virtual reality reflection on climate change, created for the 2007 Boston CyberArts Festival.http://scv.bu.edu/hipart/
- Lincoln Schatz’s interactive video installation "From Here" opened at One Arts Plaza in the heart of Dallas’s Arts District on April 25, 2007; it is one of the largest interactive video works ever permanently installed in a public space comprised of two 9 x 9 foot video walls. http://www.lincolnschatz.com/work/
present/07/oneartsplaza.php
- James Polk invites you to visit his new Canstruct LLC website: the award winning interactive donor sign at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, original designs for sculptural timepieces, etc. http://www.canstruct.com
- Hilary Lorenz had a solo exhibition, "Tracing Nature," April 12-May 12, 2007; the Safe-T-Gallery; DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC.
http://www.safetgallery.com/LorenzTracing/
TracingNatureWriteup.html
- C.Bangs' rainbow hologram and its components, have been donated to the New York Institute of Technology; she created the hologram in 2001 as a commission from NASA.
http://www.cbangs.com
- Rachel Mayeri has just finished the first in a series of video experiments that translate the social dramas of nonhuman primates for human audiences, called "Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends." This is a collaboration with cognitive scientist, Deborah Forster.http://www.soft-science.org/primate.html
- Abigail Doan has two announcements:
+ a recent article, "Returning to and from THE LAND: Connectivity and Crafting Residency", in the Landviews online Journal. http://www.landviews.org/articles/
the_land-ad.html
+ Her works also appears in the current issue of Art World Digest's The Seed Project. http://www.artworldigest.com
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