I wrote a postface for the new book about the work of artist Sonya Rapoport which I preview here (book comes out in 2012) Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport Edited by Terri Cohn ABN 978-1-579714-187-1 https://heydaybooks.com/ Foreword: Conflict of Interest by Roger Malina For the work of artist Sonya Rapoport [...]
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Sci|Art Nanolab UCLA Summer Institute
Sci|Art Nanolab UCLA Summer Institute Start: 16 Jul 2012 8:00 am End: 27 Jul 2012 5:00 pm artsci.ucla.edu/summer The Sci | Art NanoLab is a highly competitive summer program for high school juniors and seniors interested in collaborating with diverse and notable minds to challenge traditional, polarized perspectives of the arts and sciences. Throughout the [...]
Artist Ruth West work with genomics and other sciences
Artist Ruth West has a long practice involving working with scientists and creating new ways of visualising and navigating scientific data recent examples at : http://merc-art-science.blogspot.com/2011/06/ruth-west-san-diego-interdisciplinary.html See details on Atlas in Silico at: http://www.atlasinsilico.net/gallery.html and on utube ATLAS in silico is a physically interactive virtual reality installation. It fuses art and emerging technologies with pioneering [...]
Artist Rachel Mayeri on her Art for Non Human Primates
Artist Rachel Mayeri, http://www.rachelmayeri.com/ with Jean Pierre Dautricourt on her IMERA residency in the Primatology Center Her project is to make art works for other primages http://www.imera.fr/index.php/en/media-library/article/18-mediatheque/167-mayeri-rachel.html Given the state of permanent crisis in regards to species extinction and the complex relationship between human and non-human primates, especially within the realm of scientific inquiry on [...]
Artist Natalie Settelies and Plant Geneticist Stephen Tonor
Artist Natalie Settelies and Plan Geneticist Stephen Tonor talk about art science collaboration on a “Social Sculpture” project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwYNmn1UY4c&context=C2ae48ADOEgsToPDskLpvMcQGq4_NSwjUadepaW- Natalie Settles, artist in residence, Tonsor Lab for Plant Evolutionary Genetics, University of Pittsburgh; adjunct assistant professor, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania andStephen Tonsor, associate professor, Plant Evolutionary Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chemist Richard Weiss on Science for Art Conservation
Richard G. Weiss, is Professor of Chemistry at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. talks about Science for Art Restoration Collaboration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py-WgMRPPSk&feature=uploademail Scientific discoveries that arise from science applied to an art application
Presentation by Astronomer Christopher Impey,
Presentation by Astronomer Christopher Impey, University Distinguished Professor & Deputy Head of Astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson on his experience teaching physics and maths to Buddhist monks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPo23bP1nE&feature=uploademail Impey has a long history of art science collaboration http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/leonardo/summary/v043/43.5.impey.html The authors, an astronomer and an artist, have collaborated on a series of seven mixed-media constructions and [...]
Chimpanzee with Synaesthesia
http://www.nature.com/news/the-chimpanzee-who-sees-sounds-1.9541 \ Interesting paper in Nature: The chimpanzee with synaesthesia “The finding hints that chimps, like humans, experience some form of synaesthesia, an uncommon condition in which the senses become intertwined, says Vera Ludwig, a cognitive neuroscientist at Charité Medical University in Berlin, Germany, who led a study published this week in Proceedings of the [...]
Next Steps in building Network of Science Engineering Art and Design
Next Steps in building Network of Science Engineering Art and Design As I mentioned in this blog there was a meeting Nov 14/15 of the NSF funded group working on establishing a network of science engineering art and design (NSEAD but a first decision was to come up with a better name). http://malina.diatrope.com/2011/11/12/nsf-art-science-workshop-at-maryland-institute-college-of-art-nov-14-and-15-2011/ The group [...]
Art-Science Speed Dating
How do art and science connect? What do artists and scientists have in common? The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with PositiveFeedback present: UNFOLD: Climate Change Art & Science Dating Game Thursday, December 1st at 7pm Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, 2 W. 13 Street [...]