tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156789102024-03-07T08:52:47.578+00:00SEED - seeking dialogue between art and scienceSEED is a Dublin-based group devoted to developing creative projects connecting art and science, including informal salons, exhibitions, workshops and performances.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-33898274069517043132007-11-15T16:17:00.000+00:002007-11-15T16:21:24.162+00:00Bridges LeeuwardenMathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture<br /><br />CHN University Netherlands<br />Leeuwarden, Native Town of M.C. Escher<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bridgesmathart.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.bridgesmathart.org/ </a><br /><br />A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BY<br />Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science<br />Municipality of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands<br /><br />July 24-28, 2008 (Excursion on Saturday July 26)<br />July 29 -- Mathematical Art Public Activity Day<br /><br />Please see <a href="http://www.bridgesmathart.org/2008/2008.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.bridgesmathart.org<wbr>/2008/2008.html</a> for the<br />call for papers, art exhibit submissions, teacher workshops, and<br />other details.<br /><script><!-- D(["mb","\u003cbr\>We also invite you to click on "2008 Conference Flyer", and post\u003cbr\>printed copies.\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>See you in Leeuwarden!\u003cbr\>The Bridges Organization\u003cbr\>______________________________\u003cWBR\>_________________\u003cbr\>Bridges mailing list\n\u003cbr\>\u003ca href\u003d\"mailto:Bridges@lists.uwaterloo.ca\" target\u003d\"_blank\" onclick\u003d\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"\>Bridges@lists.uwaterloo.ca\u003c/a\>\u003cbr\>\u003ca href\u003d\"https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/bridges\" target\u003d\"_blank\" onclick\u003d\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"\>\nhttps://lists.uwaterloo.ca\u003cWBR\>/mailman/listinfo/bridges\u003c/a\>\u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>\n\u003cbr\>\u003c/div\>\u003cbr\>\n\u003cbr clear\u003d\"all\"\>\u003cbr\>-- \u003cbr\>SEED Administrator\u003cbr\>URL: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.seed.ie\" target\u003d\"_blank\" onclick\u003d\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"\>www.seed.ie\u003c/a\>\n",0] ); D(["ce"]); //--></script><br />We also invite you to click on "2008 Conference Flyer", and post<br />printed copies.<br /><br />See you in Leeuwarden!<br />The Bridges Organization<br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">Bridges mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Bridges@lists.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Bridges@lists.uwaterloo.ca</a><br /><a href="https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/bridges" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.uwaterloo.ca<wbr>/mailman/listinfo/bridges</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-26646748575522841862007-10-23T23:34:00.000+01:002007-10-23T23:49:00.787+01:00MutaMorphosis in Prague Nov 8-10<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCcS2UKAIUYrIJhB5euZvmanuZWd_bAbxi-DjpCaxgH4-sHZF20bL9UQYDmN8DjPcGNeaNPmGM0cMQndywEiFbwA3lIchV6hfThKJZMIB8CkJEl79yFQ8ieu1KmZaChw9S6ev/s1600-h/mutamorphosis.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 156px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCcS2UKAIUYrIJhB5euZvmanuZWd_bAbxi-DjpCaxgH4-sHZF20bL9UQYDmN8DjPcGNeaNPmGM0cMQndywEiFbwA3lIchV6hfThKJZMIB8CkJEl79yFQ8ieu1KmZaChw9S6ev/s320/mutamorphosis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124666447494183330" border="0" /></a>If you<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span><span>have not already registered there still may just be time to get to</span></span><span><span> Prague for</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences</span>, a major conference taking place from 8-10 November, organized as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of MIT press art-science journal Leonardo.<br /><br />"More than 80 presentations of artists, interdisciplinary researchers, scientists and creative technologists will focus on the growing interest within the worlds of arts and sciences in extreme and hostile environments", says Roger F. Malina, conference co-chair.<br /><br />There will be a keynote lecture about the architecture of complexity by Albert-László Barabási, who is recognised for the introduction of the scale-free network concept and popularization of<br />network theory, and a lecture by Roy Ascott, pioneering cyber artist who published in 1967 in the first volume of the Leonardo Journal.<br /><br />Among the invited speakers there are Stelarc, one of the world-famous artists using technology to extend capabilities of human body, nano artist Victoria Vesna who will be speaking with nano scientist James Gimzewski, the author of 2005 most downloaded paper in Nature on a pocket sized nuclear fusion device, or artist-scientist duo James Crutchfield & David Dunn who<br />will focus on exploration of bioacoustic ecology of deforestation.<br /><br />In addition, MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences conference will take place in the framework of art festival ENTER which will feature number of experimental performances, screenings and exhibitions. Among the exhibitions there will be the first retrospective of Frank J. Malina (1912 -1981) who was an American aeronautical engineer and painter as well as<br />initiator of the Leonardo Journal. He constructed the first rocket to break the 50-mile altitude mark, becoming the first sounding rocket to reach space, while his kinetic paintings embed an ambitious attempt to explore territories of art-science collaboration.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mutamorphosis.org/">View MutaMorphosis programme</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-25480815817661737242007-10-23T23:24:00.001+01:002007-10-23T23:34:30.771+01:00Le Laboratoire opens in Paris<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO80r7ZI9aVv7TMjaNqmLG7NbrX3GCEuq_C_jjkH_BquW1uK9_ahNt-u3ivJ6N3CUwfcnLI4p5utXdpq-4Hx4opaybD_TPSO344EKHYQou1PU2sqP6pCiLwrJeTW6VSnBYj-vC/s1600-h/LeLaboratoire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO80r7ZI9aVv7TMjaNqmLG7NbrX3GCEuq_C_jjkH_BquW1uK9_ahNt-u3ivJ6N3CUwfcnLI4p5utXdpq-4Hx4opaybD_TPSO344EKHYQou1PU2sqP6pCiLwrJeTW6VSnBYj-vC/s320/LeLaboratoire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124661723030157714" border="0" /></a>Le Laboratoire is a brand new creative space bringing artists and science together that has just opened in a stunning building in central Paris. Founded by Harvard professor David Edwards, who has just completed the book <span style="font-style: italic;">ArtScience: Creativity and the Post-Google Generation,</span> Le Laboratoire aims to provide a space for the development and display of innovations that involve scientists in collaborations with artists and designers. Currently on show are <span style="font-style: italic;">Bel-Air: News about a Second Atmosphere</span>, a collaboration between Edwards and designer Mathieu Lehanneur, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Matière a Penser</span>, a collaboration between Fabrice Hyber and MIT biotechnologist Robert Langer.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lelaboratoire.org/">View Le Laboratoire website</a><br /><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7164/full/449789a.html">Read Nature article (Oct 18) about Le Laboratoire </a>(Nature subscribers only)seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-38466976754911325012007-10-23T23:18:00.000+01:002007-10-23T23:24:06.712+01:00Grace Weir exhibition in London until 25 November<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5w5E_6NG1IVd2K1f-ayFzCim7zkuOcMjLILw8fDX6nvJJUWN4WBVpm97CMaFbGlr7_f-aQ0YZ9-3iJ_1-ZeIRidzW7Aw9oQDtDWEF5yQ4n_3D-inwNNiUqLr45wDugUH_iVv8/s1600-h/GraceWeir.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5w5E_6NG1IVd2K1f-ayFzCim7zkuOcMjLILw8fDX6nvJJUWN4WBVpm97CMaFbGlr7_f-aQ0YZ9-3iJ_1-ZeIRidzW7Aw9oQDtDWEF5yQ4n_3D-inwNNiUqLr45wDugUH_iVv8/s320/GraceWeir.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124661237698853250" border="0" /></a>The Science Museum in London is currently hosting an exhibition of four thought-provoking films by Irish artist Grace Weir that investigate time. The films are the results of the artist's investigations into black holes, notions of time and light, Einstein's theory of relativity, and questions in philosophy and theoretical physics regarding our shifting relationships with clock time. Science and processes of science are Grace Weir’s subjects. But her perspective is firmly that of an artist investigating the world around her, and her work is as much involved with the qualities and structure of film-making as it is with science. The show ends on 25 November.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/Grace_Weir_-_In_my_own_time.aspx">View more details</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-39618710985442286322007-10-04T19:52:00.000+01:002007-10-04T20:17:29.264+01:00Karl Grimes show in Gallery of Photography and National Museum<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6aW3itEwFVsgojgsO70bT7WU8B7elOP_vH9p3FI-BFVEW6j-m81ZA4-VHAklvjMjrxxYeKunuJCLIywqwXu9zPdEigxpwz9xJFWx8mKnD26dth1qI10yfIoCJN-wTJS2dYJL/s1600-h/taxa4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6aW3itEwFVsgojgsO70bT7WU8B7elOP_vH9p3FI-BFVEW6j-m81ZA4-VHAklvjMjrxxYeKunuJCLIywqwXu9zPdEigxpwz9xJFWx8mKnD26dth1qI10yfIoCJN-wTJS2dYJL/s320/taxa4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117558263734401378" border="0" /></a>Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk is the title of Karl Grimes' extraordinary new exhibition of photographs of the collections of the Natural History Museum. Drawing its title from a mnemomic for the Linnaean classification system (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species) the exhibition takes a behind-the-scenes look at the order of nature in one of Ireland's most beloved collections presenting humorous and occasionally disturbing perspectives.<br /><br />The exhibition, based on work done during an artist-residency that was sadly cut short when a staircase in the museum collapsed, is a must-see for anyone interested in the interplay between art and science. It is in the Gallery of Photography and the National Museum, Kildare Street and runs until November 4.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.karlgrimes.net/html/exinfo.html">More details on Karl Grimes' website<br /></a><a href="http://www.galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions/grimes.html">Gallery of Photography website</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1874785943280641892007-09-22T13:05:00.000+01:002007-09-22T13:07:14.136+01:00Stop! Look and Listen -- Multimedia Systems exhibitionWant to interact with a waterfall, probe a brain for memories, or talk<br /> with a therapist made of pins?<br /><br /> Every year students participating in the M.Sc. in Multimedia Systems<br /> Programme at Trinity College collaborate to create exciting and<br /> innovative projects for display to the general public. This year is no<br /> different, with students producing interactive environments that<br /> explore the diverse nature of multimedia.<br /><br /> 26th - 30th September, Regent House, Trinity College, Dublin 2.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tcdmultimedia.com">More details</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-91815096011217038212007-09-22T12:27:00.000+01:002007-09-22T12:37:53.376+01:00Gormley sculpture for Liffey inspired by Weaire-Phelan structure<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dublindocklands.ie/files/20070823102542_Gormley%20blackWhite.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 219px;" src="http://www.dublindocklands.ie/files/20070823102542_Gormley%20blackWhite.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The Dublin Docklands have recently announced a giant sculptural commission for the Liffey by Anthony Gormley inspired by the bubble-matrix structure discovered by physicist and SEED salon habitué Professor Denis Weaire with Robert Phelan. This structure is the most efficient form of foam yet discovered. More art-science-technology projects are in the pipeline with the Dublin Docklands including a visit by Australian performance artist STELARC in November.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dublindocklands.ie/index.jsp?pID=94&nID=105&aID=424">Read more about the Docklands commission</a><br /><a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Foams/structure.php">Read more about the Weaire-Phelan structure</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-76996001460477814792007-09-22T12:12:00.000+01:002007-09-22T12:23:24.997+01:00Constant Light -- Sean Hillen wins Omagh commission<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.seanhillen.com/images/omagh_bentpath14-05_750.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 167px;" src="http://www.seanhillen.com/images/omagh_bentpath14-05_750.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Artist and SEED member <a href="http://www.seanhillen.com/">Sean Hillen</a>, working with landscape architect Desmond Fitzgerald, has recently been awarded the commission to develop the Omagh Bomb memorial with a piece entitled Constant Light using mirrors tracking the sun to pour 31 sunbeams (one for each victim of the Omagh bombing) onto a heart in a large glass pillar marking the site of the blast.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.seanhillen.com/Omagh2.html">Read more about the project</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-58611565994512101102007-07-05T20:33:00.000+01:002007-07-05T20:59:39.863+01:00July 11: SEED salon: EDUARDO KAC<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSIlw1E-MjmLcWllus2m7eV5tSKh0XUIdmwFrsDv9awTau-nEzqzbVYgUECL0TqtISsd5uMiumJi1cadACA4KP3JolPutuc0V3tYz9iLsd2zXl0yPC-f_pIwmSYNSZ8eXYc0s/s1600-h/alba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 201px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSIlw1E-MjmLcWllus2m7eV5tSKh0XUIdmwFrsDv9awTau-nEzqzbVYgUECL0TqtISsd5uMiumJi1cadACA4KP3JolPutuc0V3tYz9iLsd2zXl0yPC-f_pIwmSYNSZ8eXYc0s/s320/alba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083804039676515954" border="0" /></a>Wednesday July 11, 7 pm at the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, Dame Court, Dublin 2.<br />Donation: 5 Euro<br /><br />SEED presents a rare opportunity for an informal conversation and discussion with Brazilian artist EDUARDO KAC (<a href="http://www.ekac.org/">www.ekac.org</a>), one of the most famous and controversial of contemporary artists in the world working with the materials and tools of science and technology.<br /><br />In 2000 Kac caused a media storm with GFP Bunny (pictured), a new life form consisting of a living green fluorescent rabbit. Another work, Genesis, involved encoding the beginning of the King James Version of the Bible into the DNA of bacteria and allowing Internet participants to mutate the scriptural text at a distance.<br /><br />Kac was recently featured as himself in the science fiction novel NEXT written by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. In the 1980s and 1990s he was responsible for pioneering experiments in telepresence art, including his robotic parrot installation Rara Avis. New projects explore the convergence of the digital and biological, the cultural impact of biotechnology, and nanotech poetry. Kac's book <a href="http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/kac.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond</span></a> was published by the MIT Press in June of 2007.<br /><br />As places at this event are limited please confirm your attendance by email to <a href="mailto:seed.artscience@googlemail.com">seed.artscience@googlemail.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">This event is presented in partnership with the Chester Beatty Library and Science Gallery<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><em></em></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-38645621785006428042007-06-26T21:32:00.000+01:002007-06-26T21:44:40.934+01:00July 3 SEED salon with PHILIP ROSS -- LIFE INDOORS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCaGOHGED9KhmjWenT1mlwCRLKzxA6ZKfnx0LpgBqtzGu3OzxVfVTb9UsPEGnPmVSpc1giMQtsLsE3d2rXwB4loluWlgU9bXoMs9u5twyVpqyWuR-Wo4cLfwEf6OAyI2Koq0Hg/s1600-h/webflower.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCaGOHGED9KhmjWenT1mlwCRLKzxA6ZKfnx0LpgBqtzGu3OzxVfVTb9UsPEGnPmVSpc1giMQtsLsE3d2rXwB4loluWlgU9bXoMs9u5twyVpqyWuR-Wo4cLfwEf6OAyI2Koq0Hg/s320/webflower.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080474852751149858" /></a> Tuesday July 3, 7 pm at the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, Dame Court, Dublin 2.<br />Donation: 5 Euro.<br /><br />Many of the artworks made by Bay Area biological artist <a href="http://www.philross.org/">PHILIP ROSS</a> are created through the design and construction of controlled environmental spaces.<br /> <br />Juggernaut (pictured) is a self-contained habitat for one living plant. Three blown glass enclosures provide a hydroponic environment; the plant's roots are submerged in nutrient-infused water, while LED lights supply the necessary illumination. In creating it Ross drew on two culturally divergent traditions - Chinese scholar's objects and Victorian glass conservatories, which share the belief that nature is best understood when seen through the lens of human artifice.<br /><br />In this SEED art-science salon, Philip Ross will present the evolution of his own artwork, which consists of transforming a variety of living species into sculptural artifacts that are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. Mr. Ross is based in the Bay Area of California, where he teaches courses on art, technology, and philosophy at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts.seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-23716976892288328602007-06-06T12:40:00.000+01:002007-06-06T12:58:54.291+01:00June SEED art-science salon: BRIAN SCHWARTZ on Science As Performance<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEbbWF60J0WQjvzSs8URcQ4XdwQKwnqEzht8xYUbL2JP6kd1uLb7PD0SWZhbJjthYzP5mdPWpA6_00isyBG_keg8TrQWiXt4tdYvYrXDGQuMcxJD42JrsOPGy57gdltUGXhcPv/s1600-h/Theatre+of+Science.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEbbWF60J0WQjvzSs8URcQ4XdwQKwnqEzht8xYUbL2JP6kd1uLb7PD0SWZhbJjthYzP5mdPWpA6_00isyBG_keg8TrQWiXt4tdYvYrXDGQuMcxJD42JrsOPGy57gdltUGXhcPv/s320/Theatre+of+Science.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072917578620963602" border="0" /></a> Wednesday June 13, 7 pm at the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, Dame Court, Dublin 2.<br />Donation: 5 Euro.<br /><br />THEATRE, MUSIC, DANCE, the literary and the visual arts can convey the joys and controversies of science. In this SEED art-science salon, New York-based physicist BRIAN SCHWARTZ will illustrate a program at the CUNY Graduate Center entitled <a href="http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart/">Science & the Arts</a> which is designed to communicate to the public the excitement and wonder of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<br /><br />BRIAN SCHWARTZ is VP for Research, Professor of Physics, and co-director of the New Media Lab at the Graduate Center of CUNY. In 2000, Dr. Schwartz ran a landmark symposium, Creating Copenhagen, prior to the opening of the play Copenhagen on Broadway. He produces major public programs at the Graduate Center on the interface between science and theater, art, music and dance (<a href="http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart/">link</a>) He operates a National Science Foundation grant entitled Science as Performance: A Proactive Strategy to Communicate and Educate Through Theater, Music and Dance. Another NSF grant is with the Feminist Press focused on developing science related books for women (<a href="http://www.feministpress.org/about/index.cfm?fa=special">link</a>). Currently he is co-producing a musical based on the novel “Einstein’s Dreams” by Alan Lightman.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Image: Richard Wiseman in a Faraday cage with a million volt spark</span>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-91587949305079200002007-05-22T01:02:00.000+01:002007-05-22T01:32:20.506+01:00Festival of Light: Event on May 28<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN33pQ9pCq_yBBpRREehr19LmSLJ1W7BPHVejVvkVfAWHjBYEGVKPHiYUR_N1jntsHQFdfnfxn5k3MUo8G4eVeQ86PiicAnCcrB2TEsb7ikd9_QmSDu0klI5CiFiTJTUncjVun/s1600-h/light.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN33pQ9pCq_yBBpRREehr19LmSLJ1W7BPHVejVvkVfAWHjBYEGVKPHiYUR_N1jntsHQFdfnfxn5k3MUo8G4eVeQ86PiicAnCcrB2TEsb7ikd9_QmSDu0klI5CiFiTJTUncjVun/s320/light.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067171740212605346" /></a>Monday May 28th, 6.30pm at the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, Dame Court, Dublin 2.<br />Entrance: FREE.<br /><br />Are you interested in light? Does your work involve playing with, controlling, understanding, tweaking or manipulating light?<br /><br />Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerilla projectionists and inventors...<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.sciencegallery.org">Science Gallery </a> at Trinity College Dublin is developing a two week FESTIVAL OF LIGHT as its launching programme in January 2008 which will celebrate the art, science and technology of light through a range of installations and events around the city centre.<br /> <br /><b>SEED and the <a href="http://www.sciencegallery.org">Science Gallery </a> are hosting an informal brainstorming meeting to discuss ideas and possibilities at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2 on May 28th at 6.30pm. </b><br /> <br />We welcome your ideas and suggestions for projects, people to involve and approaches to engaging diverse communities in the project.<br /><br />Projects could be tiny enough to fit in a matchbox or large enough to control the lighting system of a whole skyscraper. Please feel free to bring along examples of your work.<br /><br />For more information on the Festival of Light or to suggest ideas contact: Elizabeth Allen at the Science Gallery <a href=mailto:eallen@tcd.ie>eallen@tcd.ie</a><br /><br />Admission to this event is free but as places are limited, please confirm your attendance by e-mailing Sheloa Nichols: <a href=mailto:seed.artscience@gmail.com>seed.artscience@gmail.com</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1174987797465399112007-03-25T11:15:00.000+01:002007-03-28T08:32:51.226+01:00VizNET 2007 WorkshopIntersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques <br />17-19 April Leicestershire, UK<br /><br />New visualization technologies, practices and techniques have drawn science and the arts ever closer together, and the exchange of ideas between the two has become increasingly important. This workshop is about how to create and represent information or ideas through visualization techniques with a view to achieving better understanding through collaboration in visualization. The workshop is an opportunity for researchers working in science and engineering, or the arts and humanities, to develop practical experience across a broad range of visualization practice and thus a framework for articulating new ideas about working together.<br /><br />Who should attend?<br />• Arts and Humanities researchers, performers and artists, expert in one or more areas of visualization, who would like an introduction to, and overview of, other areas of visualization, including the latest research results, ideas and applications.<br /><br />• Arts and Humanities researchers, performers and artists new to visualization who would like an introduction to, and overview of, the latest visualization practices and techniques.<br /><br />How much will it cost?<br />Registration is free of charge, but essential as places are strictly limited. Participants can click <a href="http://www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2007/register.htm">here</a> to register online and reserve a place at the workshop. There are three registration schemes: Day 1 and Day 2, Day 3 only, and all three days. Participants are asked to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. Two levels of hotel accommodation are offered on the workshop website. Participants can elect to find their own accommodation, for example a B&B in Loughborough, but still need to register online to reserve a place at the workshop.<br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.viznet.ac.uk/viznet2007/"> VizNET 2007 website </a>for further information, or email <a href="mailto:julie.tolmie@kcl.ac.uk"> Dr. Julie Tolmie </a>or<a href="mailto:n.al-najdawi@lboro.ac.uk"> Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1174494042078706562007-03-21T17:08:00.000+00:002007-03-21T17:20:42.090+00:00"Life, Consciousness and Gaia" - 21st March"Life, Consciousness and Gaia: Reflections on the Work of James Lovelock" <br /><br />"Agee seems to have hit that fine balance between allusiveness and clarity, and formal control and spontaneity, that so few poets manage to achieve these days" said Don Paterson referring to "First Light" by author Chris Agee who will deliver the next lecture in the Faculty of Science Public Lecture Series at UCC. <br /><br />At the next lecture which will take place on Wednesday, 21 March, Chris Agee will discuss the two seminal works of James Lovelock, Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia. Whilst recently re-reading the former Chris Agee says he was struck not only by the prescience of the atmospheric chemistry, but his fascinating discussion about the absence of a satisfactory scientific answer to the question of "what is life? "It is this line of thought that I would like to give especial consideration (though not all in relation to the sense of the phrase in the embryo debate), connecting as it does with some of my bio-tech preoccupations in The Earth Issue. I also noticed the strongly contrarian streak in the earlier book and would like to analyse how this continues <br />in the newer one" said Mr Agee.<br /><br />Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University, where he studied with the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald. Since 1979 he has lived in Ireland. He is the author of two books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992) and First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003). A former guest editor of Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry (Chicago) and Metre, he also edited Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia (Bloodaxe Books, 1998, Poetry Book Society Recommendation) and Unfinished Ireland: Essays on Hubert Butler (Irish Pages, 2003). His work is included in the landmark Northern anthology, Magnetic North: The Emerging Poets (Lagan Press, 2006). He now edits Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He reviews regularly for The Irish Times and has recently completed a new collection of poems, Next to Nothing.<br /><br />The lecture takes place at UCC's Boole Lecture Theatre 4 at 8pm on Wednesday, 21 March. The highly popular lecture series, organised by Professor William Reville of the Faculty of Science, UCC, continues weekly until 28 March 2007. Admission to the lecture is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.<br /><br />For further information contact: Marie McSweeney, Press Officer, University College Cork, Tel. 021 4902371; mobile 086 0845182.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1173793384760533322007-03-13T14:40:00.000+00:002007-03-13T14:44:45.710+00:00On Visual Culture and Bioscience<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7922/3064/1600/563647/Virtual_Symposium_Bioscience_and_Visual_Culture-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7922/3064/320/559693/Virtual_Symposium_Bioscience_and_Visual_Culture-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Virtual Symposium, March 5-15, 2007<br /><br />Experts from around the world will discuss the intersections between the visual arts and the life sciences at this international event, which will take place on the Internet. A group of 30 participants comprised of artists, scientists, historians, ethicists, curators, sociologists, and writers will present a variety of perspectives on topics such as artists in the lab,<br />imaging in art and bioscience, and the sociological implications of the growing connections between the two fields. <br /><br />The panelists include: Suzanne Anker (Symposium Facilitator), Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Andrew Carnie, Catherine Chalmers, Troy Duster, Sian Ede, David Freedberg, Karl Grimes, Martin Kemp, Vladinir Mironov, Orlan, Nancy Princenthal, Jill Scott, Andrew Solomon, Susan Squier and Catherine Wagner.<br /><br />The symposium is sponsored by the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County,<br />U.S.A.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/arts/Virtual_Symposium_Bioscience_and_Visual_Culture.html">here</a> for more details.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1170065193456433982007-01-29T09:59:00.000+00:002007-01-29T10:06:33.470+00:00TALK: Science and Art: How to Understand Failure and Accident?This event explores the idea of ambiguity and failure in science and art. Is there a common language that has the power to transform either practice? Artist Cornelia Parker and art historian Adrian Rifkin are among the speakers. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/7849.htm">TALK: Science and Art: How to Understand Failure and Accident?</a><br />Wednesday 7 February, 18.30-20.00<br />Tate Britain, Auditorium<br /><br />£7 (£5 concessions), booking required<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/7849.htm">Find out more</a><br /><br /><a href="https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=2595&Source=web">Book online</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1169655593656098592007-01-24T16:08:00.000+00:002007-01-24T16:21:47.586+00:00February SEED salon: Finding The Art Of Medicine<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7922/3064/1600/585775/Finding_The_Art_Of_Medicine.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7922/3064/320/261713/Finding_The_Art_Of_Medicine.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Tuesday February 6th, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2. <br /><br />Donation: 5 Euro.<br /><br />MICHAEL FARRUGIA is a Canadian with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Victoria and is currently studying medicine at University College Dublin (UCD). He is an aspiring documentary film maker combining film and medicine in his projects. He feels that this marriage of art and science provides an effective educational tool to help promote health, social, and global awareness. Previous work includes research films in the fields of orthopaedics and paediatrics, and he is currently working on a film on infectious diseases. Michael sees art in medicine as an important way of empowering individuals to make healthy life choices and to influence human behaviour to support global sustainability.<br /><br />Click <a href="mailto:farrugia_michael@yahoo.ca">here</a> to email Michael Farrugia<br /><br />For more details, contact: <a href="mailto:seed.artscience@yahoo.com">seed.artscience@yahoo.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1169654301863017382007-01-24T15:52:00.000+00:002007-01-24T16:00:27.770+00:00Science In Museums ConferenceThe Irish Museums Association is holding its annual conference 2007 in Dublin to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Natural History Museum. The theme is 'Science, Technology & Society, the role for museums' and events will be centred in the Merrion Square area of Dublin on 2-4 March. The Taoiseach is opening the main session and there are workshops, talks, evening receptions, site visits and a conference dinner in the programme. Speakers include Dr Jonathan Bell, Dr Marie Bourke, Paul Bowers, Leo Enright, Dr John Falk, Eoin Gill, Dr Michael John Gorman, Dr Peter Wyse Jackson, Mark Leslie, Mary Mulvihill, Nigel Monaghan, Dr Sally Montgomery and Dr Patrick F. Wallace.<br /><br />The Natural History Museum has just been allocated 15M Euro for redevelopment under the National Development Plan 2007 - 2013. An outline of this project will be presented at the conference.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.irishmuseums.org/events.html">here</a> for full details and booking information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1169549618788968262007-01-23T10:48:00.000+00:002007-01-23T10:53:38.800+00:00Second Call for Abstracts for MutaMorphosis<a href="http://mutamorphosis.org">A Leonardo 40th Anniversary celebration</a><br /><br />Deadline to submit abstracts: 31 January 2007.<br /><br />MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences <br />8-10 November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic<br /><br />The international conference will concentrate on the growing interest -- within the worlds of the arts, sciences and technologies -- in EXTREME AND HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. These environments appear as symptomatic indicators of the mutations that are taking place. They are potential vectors that make possible an awareness of the different problems at the origin of the disturbances that threaten the ensemble of the Earth's eco-systems.<br /><br />We invite practitioners in the arts, sciences, engineering and humanities to submit abstracts that explore the limits and extremes within the following streams of interest:<br /><br />1. LIFE<br />How do the arts and sciences deal with new ideas about strategies of life in extreme conditions? <br /><br />2. SPACE<br />How do the arts and sciences face radical scales and extreme environments?<br /><br />3. COGNITION<br />How do the arts and sciences address evolving ideas about cognition in extreme environments?<br /><br />500-word abstracts required by 31 January 2007 via email to mutamorphosis@ciant.cz<br /><br />All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed by the members of International Advisory Committee including Marc Battier, Nina Czegeldy, Michele Emmer, Machiko Kusahara, Lubica Lacinova, Michael Punt, Sonya Rapoport, Nicolas Reeves and others.<br /><br />Submissions accepted and presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference is organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER festival in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations. The festival will feature also the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina. <br /><br />Conference Honorary Panel includes: Rudolf Arnheim, Ivan M. Havel, Jasia Reichardt, Itsuo Sakane, Sonia Sheridan<br /><br />Join us in Prague 8-10 November 2007.<br /><br />Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's projects, programs and activities, visit <a href="http://leonardo.info">http://leonardo.info</a><br />_______________________________________________<br />Leonardo-isast mailing list<br />Leonardo-isast@mit.edu<br /><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/leonardo-isast">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/leonardo-isast</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-20121512365096462832007-01-22T13:17:00.000+00:002007-09-22T13:25:04.657+01:00Support SEEDSEED has received generous support from <a href="http://www.science.ie/">Discover Science and Engineering</a>, <a href="http://www.ria.ie/">the Royal Irish Academy</a>, the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, and <a href="http://www.zero-g.ie/">Zero-G</a> design agency.<br /><br />SEED also benefits from the involvement and enthusiasm of many skilled volunteers.<br /><br />If you are interested in supporting SEED, organizing a SEED event or becoming involved as a SEED volunteer please contact <a href="mailto:seed.artscience@googlemail.com">seed.artscience@googlemail.com</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1169119502651628932007-01-18T11:18:00.000+00:002007-01-18T11:27:14.290+00:00NanoArt 2006 Competition open for VOTEVoting for the first ever NanoArt international online competition is now open. 71 works have been submitted. Please visit artists' albums and vote for your favourite work.<br /><br />To VOTE please click <a href="http://www.nanoart21.org/contest%20gallery.htm"> here </a>and follow directions.<br /> <br />NanoArt is a new art form where micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and/or natural micro/nanostructures are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. The monochromatic electron microscope images are processed further to create a piece of art that can be showcased for a large audience to educate the public with creative images that are appealing and acceptable. To read more about NanoArt and Nanotechnology please visit <a href="http://www.nanoart21.org">www.nanoart21.org</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1168112284717867262007-01-06T19:22:00.000+00:002007-01-06T19:44:45.770+00:00January SEED salon: Sean McDougall<a href="http://www.futurelab.org.uk/showcase/fountaineers/article_intro.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px;" src="http://www.futurelab.org.uk/showcase/fountaineers/article_intro.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Tuesday January 9, 7 pm at the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, Dame Court, Dublin 2. Donation: 5 Euro.<br /><br /><strong>How can connecting art, science and engineering transform education?</strong> SEAN MCDOUGALL has some provocative ideas about this which he will explore through his new <a href=http://www.futurelab.org.uk/showcase/fountaineers/index.htm>intelligent fountain project</a> with <a href="http://www.futurelab.org.uk/">FutureLab</a> and other adventures in learning through design. <br /><br />SEAN MCDOUGALL is Managing Director of <a href=http://www.futurelab.org.uk/>Stakeholder Design</a>. He came into prominence as a commentator on the Northern Ireland peace process and his suggestions influenced the design of the decommissioning process. Sean was a founder member of the UK Department for Education and Skills Schools Design Advisory Council, which is overseeing the implementation of Building Schools for the Future and the Academies programme. He has helped a number of organisations to improve their dialogue with young people, and he advises Back Care, a national charity concerned with the negative impact that poor school furniture has on physical health. a and seminars on risk management for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Prior to establishing Stakeholder Design, Sean was Campaign Leader for Learning Environments at the UK’s Design Council. Here, he was responsible for a Government-funded investigation of how to use design to improve educational outcomes. The result, Schools Renaissance, changed the way in which schools across England think of themselves. Its process of user-led design allowed teachers and students to co-design their own outcomes rather than commissioning specialist suppliers. Outcomes from the campaign included new types of furniture, 360 degree flexible classrooms, new approaches to teaching and learning, a new magazine on educational renewal and <a href="http://www.designmyschool.com">www.designmyschool.com</a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1165433935284648052006-12-06T19:34:00.000+00:002006-12-06T21:58:06.340+00:00December SEED salon: MEET THE MAKERS<a href=http://www.makezine.com><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2504/1420/320/368925/08.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a> Monday December 11, 5.30 pm at the <a href="http://www.odessaclub.ie/">Odessa Club</a>, Dame Court, Dublin 2. Donation: 5 Euro.<br /><br /><br />Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of the legendary <a href=http://www.makezine.com>MAKE magazine</a> will give an informal presentation followed by a conversation about their work in creating Maker Faire, an event bringing together art, science and home-made technology.<br /><br />"I saw the future of conferences today. It was the Maker Faire. " - Robert Scoble, Microsoft <br /><br />Maker Faire is a family-friendly event that celebrates science and technology projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. The Maker Faire Mission is to inspire, inform, connect and entertain thousands of Makers and aspiring Makers of all ages and backgrounds through a public gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science clubs, students, authors, and commercial exhibitors.<br /><br />The first-ever Maker Faire was held in May, 2006 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. The event was wildly successful with over 20,000 attendees including honoree guests Steve Wozniak, Daryl Hannah, Tracy Chapman, and the MythBusters. Makers and Crafters came to show off their projects ranging from robots, bubble blowing, fire torches, to tech-fashion and silk screen-printing. <br /><br />"Everywhere I looked, I saw people of all ages with *wonder* and *delight* in their eyes. I can't wait to bring my son to the next one" - David Pescovitz, Boing Boing.<br /><br /><a href=http://www.makezine.com>MAKE magazine</a><br /><br /><a href=http://www.craftzine.com>CRAFT magazine</a><br /><br /><a href="http://makepublic.oreilly.com/Katie/PostEventSummary5-25.pdf">View the Post Event Summary of last year's Maker Faire</a><br /><br /><a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=Maker%20Faire&w=all">View user photos on Flickr</a><br /><br /><a href="http://makepublic.oreilly.com/Katie/Maker Faire 2006Overview.pdf">Quick Maker Faire overview </a>seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10280736469989615257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1165255645530357272006-12-04T18:04:00.000+00:002006-12-04T18:07:25.550+00:00REMINDER: SEED Still Seeking Artist-Scientist for Documentary...Italian director Guido Chiesa, known for his <a href="http://www.moviement.it/scheda.phtml?art=54">political documentaries</a>, is looking for an Irish-based artist-scientist, to become one of three leading characters in his new feature-length documentary for cinemas. In an attempt to bridge the art of political movements and the science of weather forecasting, he is looking at the fundamental ingredients of human progress, which are common to both worlds. To close the gap, he is looking for a scientist, who is also actively involved in the arts, and who will be interviewed and filmed during their activities. <br /><br />As an artist-scientist (or scientist-artist) the individual will be actively working with both disciplines, and not solely using one to describe the other. All amateur/professional levels are welcome.<br /><br />The selected artist/scientist will be required to be available for filming during one weekend, and also for some shorter sessions (in the evenings, etc.). Filming will ideally take place before the end of January.<br /> <br />If you think that you might fit the profile for this exciting opportunity, or if you happen to know somebody else who does, please contact seed.artscience@yahoo.com as soon as possible, with a brief summary of your activities.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15678910.post-1164286478755294082006-11-23T12:49:00.000+00:002006-11-25T21:01:08.816+00:00Peter Yeadon on Nanotechnology and ArchitectureArchfarm have just published a new fascicle, an essay by Peter Yeadon -- <br />architect, educator and an expert in advanced technologies -- on <br />nanotechnology and its future confluence with architecture.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.archfarm.org">here</a> for more detailsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0