[spectre] (fwd) Arts Catalyst Art-Science e-bulletin - 12/04

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:31:07 +0000
Subject: Arts Catalyst Art-Science e-bulletin - 12/04
From: The Arts Catalyst <info at artscatalyst.org>


Arts Catalyst Art-Science e-bulletin - 12/04

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS & PROJECTS IN ART-SCIENCE

A selection of events, projects, news and announcements in the fields of art
and science, and space & the arts.

In this bulletin:

Section 1 - Arts Catalyst events & associated projects
Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunites, networks
Section 3 - Art-science books, DVDs & CD-Roms
Section 4 - Space & the arts
Section 5 - Art & technology

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Section 1 - Arts Catalyst events & associated projects

THE ZERO GRAVITY HANDBOOK : A Cultural User's Guide
edited by Nicola Triscott and Rob la Frenais
Introduction by Nicola Triscott. Essays by Eduardo Kac, Marina Benjamin, Rob
La Frenais, Kodwo Eshun, Marko Peljhan, Mikhail Ryklin, Judith Palmer.
* To be published January 2005 *
Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications - www.cornerhouse.org (from Jan 05)
 
RESEARCH IS NOT TERRORISM:
STEVE KURTZ, CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE
Wed 9 Feb 2005 - Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street,
London, UK
Sun 6 Feb 2005 - transmediale.05, Berlin, Germany
Artist and activist Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble was wrongly
arrested earlier this year by the FBI on charges relating to bioterrorism
(www.caedefensefund.org/). Arts Catalyst and Transmediale have invited Steve
Kurtz, with Claire Pentecost from the Critical Arts Ensemble Defence
Fund, to speak about his experience, his work and the implications of the
case for freedom of research in art and science.
info at artscatalyst.org
 
THE SYMBIOTICA BIOTECH ART WORKSHOP
Old Operating Theatre, 9a St Thomas Street, London, UK
28 March - 2 April 2005
Workshop: Mon 28th March - Fri 1st April 2005
Public discussion: Saturday 2nd April 2005
Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret, Southwark, London
Intensive 5-day workshop for artists interested in social and cultural
implications of biotech and biomedical developments. The workshop will
teach practical engagement with these technologies and explore ethical
implications. Organised by Arts Catalyst. Led by Oron Catts and Gary Cass
of SymbioticA, University of Western Australia. 
info at artscatalyst.org
 
ASTRO BLACK MORPHOLOGIES
Flow Motion in association with The Arts Catalyst
John Hansard Gallery/SCAN, Southampton, UK
5 April - 14 May 2005
Multimedia installation and sound-art performance by Flow Motion (Eddie
George & Anna Piva), with Adrian Ward from Signwave, based in a dialogue
between contemporary astronomy, digital art and electronic music. The
installation takes as its starting point X-ray data from black hole
Cygnus-X1 and the processes of sound transformation particular to Dub and
experimental techno.
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/astroblack.html
 
SPACE SOON: Call to Artists
The Arts Catalyst is selecting ideas for the exhibition 'Space Soon', which
seeks an alternative vision for space exploration, to be held at the
Roundhouse in London in September 2006. We are interested in seeing brief
outline proposals from highly experienced artists with international track
records.
www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/World_space.html
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Section 2 - International art-science news, events, opportunities, networks
 
CAFE SCIENTIFIQUE
Tue 7 December 2004, 6.30pm
Waterloo Sunset, Hayward Gallery, UK
How advertising, film and science worked together in the image machines
of the late nineteenth century with Professor Simon Schaffer. Chaired by
Sian Ede, Gulbenkian Foundation. £5/3.50. Excludes exhibition entrance.
 
SIMON FAITHFULL'S ANTARCTICA DISPATCHES
A drawing a day from artist Simon Faithfull's 2 month journey to Antarctica.
Subscribe at: www.simonfaithfull.org/antarctica
 
KITSOU DUBOIS: ANALOGIES
To 19 Dec 2004
Maison de la Villette, Paris, France. 
This dance piece results from a process of research and experimentation
developed by Dubois, with direct links to space research experimentation
in microgravity and in water.
www.villette.com
 
'THE MATERIAL WORLD' CAPE FAREWELL FEATURE
Thu 30 Dec 2004
16:30 - 17:00 on BBC Radio 4
Cape Farewell is a series of expeditions into the Arctic, exploring the seas
that hold the key to understanding the health of the worlds' ocean currents,
drawing together scientists, teachers and artists. 
www.capefarewell.com
 
WONDERFUL
VISIONS OF THE NEAR FUTURE
To 9 January 2005
Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Exhibition emerging from the discussions and realizations of artists and
scientists working together collaboratively. Jordan Baseman, Christine
Borland, Adam Chodzko, Dorothy Cross, Richard Dedomenici, Peter Fend, Kerry
Morrison, Jane Prophet, Third Angel and Alexa Wright and Alf Linney.
www.wonderfulwebsite.net
 
PHANTOM LIMB PHENOMENA CONFERENCE
A Neurobiological Diagnosis With Aesthetic Cultural and Philosophical
Implications
15-16 Jan 2005
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Conference organised by Warren Neidich, Department of Visual Arts, and Jules
Davidoff, Department of Psychology
www.artbrain.org
 
BRIAN DUFFY: OPTOPHONIC LUNAPHONE
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, UK
To 23 Jan 2005
Optophonic Lunaphone is the sound recording of a performance held at mac in
Birmingham, that explored the 'celestial soundscape'. Brian Duffy created a
unique instrument called a Lunaphone, consisting of six specially adapted
telescopes that collected light waves from the night sky. Co-commissioned by
Ikon, Vivid and mac.
www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/currentExhibitionsBrianDuffy.htm
 
FUTURE FACE
To 13 Feb 2005
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7, UK
Wellcome exhibition exploring the artistic, scientific, cultural and medical
aspects of the face through art, objects and digital media.
www.wellcome.ac.uk/futureface
 
TIME, SPACE, GRAVITY, LIGHT
To 27 Feb 2005
Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
An exhibition that presents ways in which artists use science and technology
to evoke a subjective, emotional response from the same physical
phenomena.  
www.skirball.org
 
TIM OTTO ROTH: I SEE WHAT I SEE NOT
To end March 2005
Servicplan's art facade in Munich
Images from astrophysics and elementary physics transmitted in near real
time. Partners: Max-Planck-Institut f|r Radioastronomie, Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SOHO mission and Fermilab.
Follow project daily live via webcam between 17 and 20 o'clock MET.
www.kunstfassade.de
 
COSMOLOG
Diary of Jem Finer's artist in residency in the Astrophysics department of
Oxford University, October 2003 - June 2005, with commentary by Pedro
Ferreira.
http://cosmolog.org.uk/
 
ARTS & SCIENCE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS [UK]
A second round of Arts and Science Research Fellowships is to be supported
by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), Arts Council England and
the Scottish Arts Council. Available to researchers across the UK.
Contact Kathryn Willey, AHRB PR Officer: k.willey at ahrb.ac.uk
 
OPPORTUNITY AT THE EXPLORATORIUM, SAN FRANCISO
The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and human perception in San
Francisco, is seeking artists for a project-based residency to create works
that explore the question: "Why listen?" for their new Listening project.
Primarily seeking sound artists, but will consider artists from a variety of
disciplines.
www.exploratorium.edu/arts
 
VISIONS OF SCIENCE - OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS
Visual artists whose work has been inspired by science can enter a new award
in the Novartis and The Daily Telegraph Visions of Science Photographic
Awards. The original artwork may be a painting, sculpture, photograph or
installation, but the entry should be submitted as a photographic image.
£500 prize money. Winning entry will be displayed as a photographic image as
part of the national touring exhibition Visions of Science.
www.visions-of-science.co.uk.

ASCI eBulletin
Since 1991, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) has been providing the
art-sci-tech community with timely information about the news, events,
exhibitions, workshops, lectures, opportunities, and resources in this
burgeoning field. The ASCI ebulletin, one of the world's most comprehensive,
multidisciplinary, hyperlinked art-sci information listings, will keep you
"ahead-of-the-curve."
www.asci.org
 
LEONARDO NEW HORIZONS AWARD
The Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Governing Board (Leonardo/ISAST) is pleased to announce a special
Leonardo New Horizons Award given to Critical Art Ensemble (CAE).
www.critical-art.net.
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Section 3 - Books, DVDS, CD-Roms

CREATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY: A USER'S GUIDE
Natalie Jeremijenko & Eugene Thacker
Biotech Hobbyism seeks to counteract our sense of alienation about
biotechnology and fuel curiosity. The Biotech Hobbyist kits have been
transformed into a publication in the form of a 'users manual'.  These
manuals will also exist in the format of an e-book that can be freely
accessed via the Web. Commissioned by Locus +. Includes texts by Denna Jones
& Heath Bunting.
http://www.locusplus.org.uk/index2.html
 
PIONEERS IN ART AND SCIENCE SERIES
Arts Council England launches their Pioneers in Art and Science DVD Series.
It begins with the first major documentary on the life and work of Gustav
Metzger, founder of auto-destructive art, directed by Ken McMullen.
www.artscouncil.org.uk [see Interdisciplinary Arts Unit]
 
TALKING BACK TO SCIENCE: ART, SCIENCE AND THE PERSONAL
This publication and DVD present the outcomes from the nine projects
supported by the Wellcome Trust's Science on Stage and Screen scheme in
2001.
Available from Cornerhouse Publications - www.cornerhouse.org

ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE AND ART
EMMY award winning children's video linking science and art and new DVD
bonus material has a slide show and study guide for teachers. 
www.customflix.com/205573
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Section 4 - Space & the Arts
 
THE EDGE OF THE MOON
Currently touring USA to Mar 2005
Expo, Japan, April 2-3 2005
Tour April & May 2005, UK
New show from Laurie Anderson, NASA's first artist-in-residence. 
Performances in the UK: North-West tba organised by David Metcalfe, and BITE
at the Barbican, London.
www.pomegranatearts.com/proj_laurieanderson.html
 
THEATRE O: ASTRONAUT
5 Apr - 7 May 2005
Barbican, London, UK
X is a man with no life. Wife. Child. Job. Endless cigarettes. Out of the
blue the European Space Agency selects him for their new Mars Initiative. A
domestic odyssey about faith, lost opportunities and conquering gravity.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/bite/show33.htm
 
Call for Papers
INSPIRATION OF ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA CONFERENCE
Proposal Deadline: 31 Dec 2004
Conference Dates: 26 Jun - 1 Jul 2005
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago 
Proposals invited for conference presentations at the Fifth International
Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomenon  (INSAP).
www.adlerplanetarium.org/INSAPV
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Section 5 - Art & technology

TRANSMEDIALE.05
4 - 8 February 2005
Berlin, Germany
BASICS is the theme for this year's international media art festival.
www.transmediale.de/05/pdf/tm05_call.pdf
PERVASIVE AND LOCATIVE ARTS NETWORK (PLAN)
A new international network of practicing artists, technology developers and
ethnographers working in pervasive and locative media. CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION - deadline extended to Friday 10th December. For more
information, ben at open-plan.org.
 
Call for Proposals
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND
PERFORMANCE ARTS (DTPA 2005)
5-6 July 2005
School of Intermedia and Performance Arts, Doncaster College, Doncaster, UK
Proposals invited for papers, performances, presentations, workshops and
poster presentations. Deadline for expressions of interest 5 January 2005.
david.collins at don.ac.uk
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