by Roger F Malina | January 2, 2011 In preparing for last year’s US National Science Foundation/National Endowment of the Arts workshop, I was forced to articulate the best case for why it would be a good thing for society to encourage more collaboration between artists and scientists, see http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=4093. I found it impossible to quantify [...]
Lovely Weather, The End of Astronomy and the need for ArtSci Socio-Economic indicators
Editorial: L|R|Q – Leonardo Reviews Quarterly, No. 2
Big Data, Citizen Science and the Death of the University by Roger Malina As Michael Punt mentions in his editorial in this issue of L|R|Q, a number of commentators have been recently discussing the topic of “big data”, noting the transition that many disciplines are seeing from an age of data scarcity to an age [...]
Calling all Nano-Artist-Chemists: Art Science Residencies
Calling all Nano-Artist-Chemists: Art Science Residencies As co chair of the IMERA Art Science program I am pleased to bring to your attention IMERA, the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, has issued a call for proposals for art science residencies with a deadline of Jan 31 2011. We seek residencies by either artists ( all [...]
Now Featured on Leonardo Thinks
ArtScience: Integrative Collaboration To Create a Sustainable Future by Robert Root-Bernstein, Todd Siler, Adam Brown, Kenneth Snelson Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, intermedia, transmedia, and multimedia are becoming ever more prominent within the sciences, technology, and arts. These new ways of conceiving knowledge and its products creates opportunities and confusion about objectives. To stimulate discussion about where [...]
Article: Naba, 30 anni con stile
Naba, 30 anni con stile. Una mostra dedicata alla ricerca artistica. The article, with some nice portraits is here (in Italian).
Starting December 1: YASMIN discussion: Science, Technology, Art, POETRY
Leonardo/OLATS, Co Sponsor of YASMIN is pleased to bring your attention to a new YASMIN discussion beginning Dec 1 2010 : TOPIC: Science, Technology, Art, POETRY In this YASMIN (http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/) discussion we wish to discuss the varieties of poetry today that connect to science, the arts and technology. There are examples of poets who have also been scientists or engineers; poetry [...]
Now online: What is a Climate Artist?
Presentation from the Lovely Weather Art and Climate Change Conference in Letterkenney is here.
Now online: Data As A Source of Alternative Reality
Data As A Source of Alternative Reality was presented in Trondheim, Norway at CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED 11: Making Reality Reality Really Real!, a conference that was held in Trondheim, Norway, in conjunction with the new biennial for arts and technology ‘Meta.Morf 2010 – New.Brave.World!‘
Interview with Roger Malina: Prague 29, 2010
Now online: In Defense of Space Art: The Role of the Artist in Space Exploration
“In Defense of Space Art: The Role of the Artist in Space Exploration.” Published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1991.