July 26th, 2010 § 0
A multimedia installation by Ben Aron at the Studio for Interrelated Media at MassArt.
“In 1926 astrophysicist Edwin P. Hubble published an article on Extra-Galactic Nebulae in Astrophysical Journal 64. Within this article, Hubble revealed his calculations on the dimensions of the finite universe. Like thousands of years earlier, the expanse of existence was described by a sole human being.”
July 21, 2010
Visit http://godinefamilygallery.blogspot.com/ for more information.
June 28th, 2010 § 0
University of Toronto
Subtle Technologies Festival.
For 3 days in June at the 13th annual Subtle Technologies Festival, an exciting line up of scientists, artists and designers will journey from around the world to share ideas, science and artworks that explore this year’s theme – Sustainability.
March 16th, 2010 § 0
Lectures + special events - Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Lots of cool stuff happening at the The Harvard Museum of Natural History!!
Two events for those interested in the intersection of art and science.
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Thursday, March 18 – Melissa Milgrom. Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy. The Harvard Museum of Natural History is home to some of the country’s oldest and most varied collections of taxidermied animals. Join us for a gallery social and talk by author Melissa Milgrom, whose new book, Still Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), delves into the colorful world of eccentric naturalists and gifted museum artisans who create the illusion of life through taxidermy. Free for museum members, $20 for non-members. Advance registration required. RSVP to members@oeb.harvarededu
or 617 496-6972 .
For full list of lectures, including Brain Aging by Bruce Yankner of the Harvard Medical School, Zombie Insects by Harvard’s David Hughes, more see,http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php.
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2)
Bizarre Animals: An Evening of Contemporary Art Interventions
Organized by Carlin Wing, (Harvard ‘02) Artist-in-residence
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, ONGOING FROM 7:00 TO 9:30 PM
On the evening of March 26th artists will overrun the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a special evening of performance, sound, and video throughout the galleries. For two and half hours, twelve artists from across the country—including many Harvard alumni and several current students—will transform the museum into laboratory, library, exploratorium, and stage. Through thoughtful interventions and captivating experiments, viewers will experience new ways to engage with the museum’s spaces, its collections, and its history. Participating artists include: Lucky Dragons, Noah Feehan/AKA, Greg Gagnon, Liz Glynn, Jesse Aron Green, Lisa Haber-Thomson, Harlo Holmes, Rebecca Lieberman, Hanna Rose Shell, and Catherine Wing.
Two different guided tours will be offered. On one tour, poet Catherine Wing will steer audiences through the twists and turns of Marianne Moore’s “The Pangolin” and Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Kingfisher” along with some words of her own. On the other tour, new media artist Harlo Holmes will navigate the halls of the museum emanating the voice of Jules Verne’s from her costume.
Video works will be projected on walls and playing on monitors throughout the museum. Hanna Rose Shell’s videos on camouflage will greet audiences in the Evolution Theater and Color Exhibition. The artist herself will be found (or not) in full camouflage attire in and around the 42 foot-long Kronosaurus. Noah Feehan/AKA will be found tending his camera, monitor and slowly cooking piece of steak in Classroom A.
In the first part of the evening, Lucky Dragons, an experimental music collective, will perform in the gem and mineral room with the aid of black lights and student instrumentalists. And then to conclude the event, Jesse Aron Green will present a new performance from the balcony of the Great Mammal Hall, To Draw Old Monuments from the Entrails of the Earth.
Admission: $6.00 at the door. Doors open at 6:30: galleries open at 7:00 pm. The event is free to HarvardMuseum of Natural History members and Harvard University ID holders. Supported in part by Office for the Arts at Harvard through the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Fund, the Department of Visual, and Environmental Studies and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
For information, see www.bizarreanimals.blogspot.com. For directions, parking info, seewww.hmnh.harvard.edu.
March 10th, 2010 § 0
We aim to bring creative practitioners and those who are expert at studying, analysing and designing the synthetic/natural interface together with the existing synthetic biology community to help with the work of designing, understanding and building the living world. We will organize 12 embedded residencies, during which artists and designers will spend time in bioengineering laboratories, and scientists and engineers in artistic and design studios and workspaces. It is our intention that balanced exchanges will foster exciting and productive work.
More specifically, we will bring together individuals from these two communities with the aim of catalyzing fruitful interactions, developing transferable knowledge and skills, and establishing a continuing network of collaborations. Synergetic work between these two broad fields has the potential to lead to new forms of engineering, new schools of art and design, a greater social scientific understanding of science and engineering, and new approaches to societal engagement with synthetic biology.
If you are interested in joining our work as a participating artist/designer or scientist/engineer, apply for one of the twelve residencies.
Questions regarding Synthetic Aesthetics should be directed to:
Dr. Pablo Schyfter
p.schyfter@ed.ac.uk
Stanford Bioengineering
Y2E2 Building-B007, MC 4201
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305-4201
USA
Thank you SIM Alum Lisa Goldberg for the tip!
March 9th, 2010 § 0
A NEW AWARD FROM THE Universitat der Kunste BERLIN !
UdK Award for Interdisciplinary Art and Science
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
The UdK Berlin is one of the biggest, most traditional institutions of advanced artistic education in the world. It has the right to award doctorates and post-doctoral lecturing qualifications and offers more than 40 study courses covering the full spectrum of the arts and related academic fields. With its Colleges of Fine Art, Design, Music and Performing Arts and the Central Institute of Continuing Education it is one of the few centres of advanced art education in Germany with university status.
The Competition
Art and science are moving towards one another, discovering common issues and working methods. The creative, imaginative processes in the arts and sciences are similar, whereas the concrete realisation of their results tends to differ. Repeatedly, this difference is the source of productive tension and areas of friction. In all disciplines of the arts and sciences, further developments over recent decades have been characterised by mutual influences and efforts at differentiation. Today, traditional dividing lines between the spheres can no longer be maintained; they are being newly defined and presented in their permeability.
This competition aims to give the impetus and opportunity to artists fine art, media, architecture, design, music, theatre, visual communication etc. and scientists to work between the priorities of the arts or between the arts and science.
March 2nd, 2010 § 0
About: EMPAC - experimental media and performing arts center - troy, ny usa.
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world
Let’s go!
February 24th, 2010 § 0
Conference | College of the Holy Cross.
Thursday-Friday, March 18-19, 2010
Conference fee: $35 (optional Thursday dinner: $20 additional)
Space is limited. Register online now! (Holy Cross faculty, staff and students, please register here.)
How does what we are learning about the brain through neuroscience and evolutionary science influence how we ought to think about ethics? Recent advances in functional neuroimaging have increased scientists’ understanding of how our brains process moral decisions. Some thinkers suggest that moral decision making is fundamentally an intuitive or emotional process, and that what we call “reason” is a post-decision making method of justification for actions, not a “higher order” process for making decisions. If so, the new science challenges the principle of free will, the argument that reason is the foundation of moral decision making, and the importance of understanding intentions before judging responsibility for action. The potential implications for most Western ethical traditions are enormous.
This two-day conference will bring together some of the world’s leading neuroscientists, moral psychologists, ethicists, including:
Who is coming with me???
September 25th, 2009 § 0
August 6th, 2009 § 0
August 5th, 2009 § 0
If you are in the Bay Area please join me for an opening at Swarm Gallery in Oakland this Friday.
NATURAL SELECTION
Vaughn Bell + Josh Keyes
August 7 - September 13, 2009
Exhibit Opening | Friday, August 7, 6-8PM