Ned Khan

Hugely inspiring art works by Ned Khan

SymbioticA

SymbioticA is the first program that I see which combines art & natural sciences. Perhaps there are more?

meta.morf in Trondheim

Interactions between the arts, technology, and the sciences,

specially in respect of the mind and consciousness, are leading to

the emergence of new artistic forms, technological systems, and

cultural behaviours, as well as to re-evaluation of the hegemony

of western science, and the significance, both spiritually and

materially, of the practices and paradigms of other societies.

Roy Ascott

more - download the pdf:

Science centers and art

Notes from the lecture by Ari Laakso from the Arctic Centre during our exhibition workshop

5 categories of visitors:
Explorists, Facilitators, Experience seekers, Professionals/Hobbyists, Rechargers (John Falk)

Sciencegallery.com - a science centre in Dublin. Combining science and art
Infectous exhibition highlight (youtube).
What if… also www.sciencegallery.com/whatif
Over 250 other SG videos in YouTube

Science Cenre in a snow cave / Tiedekeskus lumiluolassa. Arctic Centre experimental lab in Kilpisjärvi for three days.

Ways of knowing symposium

I found this interesting thing from a friends post on facebook, and since I'm blogging from ipod I realized it didn't copy the links. Oh well, google it up.

A Ways of Knowing: Art and Science's Shared Imagination

Perspectives from the Sciences, Humanities and Creative Arts

An interdisciplinary staff research symposium at the School of Creative Arts hosted by the Art Research Group. Convened by Simeon Nelson, Professor of Sculpture
Dedicated to Robert Priddey, 1975-2010.
When?
29-30 September 2010
Where?
Venue will be announced closer to the event

About the symposium
This symposium is motivated by the sense of wonder shared by artists and scientists at the complex cosmos we inhabit. It forms part of the celebration of the first anniversary of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Creative Arts and is a step toward what will hopefully be a longer-term interdisciplinary research effort in science and art within the new faculty. This first meeting is deliberately broad in scope hoping to uncover as much work in science-art with the University as possible.
If art and science are understood as equally necessary and complementary ways of knowing the world, how does this understanding enrich them? What type of knowledge is produced by the numerous art-science collaborations and interdisciplinary art-science courses that have grown up internationally in the last few decades? What has been the main purpose and impact of these, to interpret and disseminate scientific knowledge or something more fundamental?

Further questions would be: do artists engaging with scientists affect the outcome of any science being done? Can art be a contribution to knowledge? Can science contribute to meaning in a way similar to the arts and humanities? What is the nature of discovery and creativity in art and science? Philosophical questions might look at how the value judgments of the creative arts and the falsifiable statements of science interact when they come together.

Invited external speakers:
Tony Longson, Professor of Art, Cal State University, Los Angeles, Artist in Residence, School of Engineering, Hatfield Polytechnic 1975
Roger Malina, astrophysicist and chairman of the board of Leonardo, International Society for Art, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (not yet confirmed)

Call for Papers
Submissions from any discipline are welcome. Of particular interest would be perspectives from astrophysics, the computational and engineering sciences, music, the visual and media arts, the physical and life sciences, psychology and the philosophy and history of art and science. Abstracts of 200-300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be submitted as e-mail attachments in word to Simeon Nelson , by 15 June2010. Please include paper title, name and job title of presenter and contact details.

More information
Professor Simeon Nelson
School of Creative Arts

Arctic art and science

Ok, here's the first post. I decided to dedicate this to a future goal, plan, idea, and wish to develop an international joint / double degree, a master program on arctic art and science. What would this mean, how would this be accomplished, how can it be done, who would be involved etc. all remain uncertain at this point of time and place.

Arctic art and science can mean:

- visualizing arctic research
- popularizing scientific results
- planning and building exhibitions about the arctic
- finding new ways to collaborate between the two fields
- making people aware about climate change
- building artworks that make you experience climate change
- using scientific methods to create art
- telling about things in a suprising new manner
- dislocating people (location, profession, position, attitudes, concepts etc)
- a lot more

Since the blog is accessible everywhere, I'll just use it for copypasting interesting links, quotes, information etc.

There are certain things I'll focus on:

- Art & science combinations, especially scientific methods used in art (Stephen Wilson's Book Information Arts is an excellent resource for these kinds of things
- Climate change, especially in the Arctic: the way it changes research, politics, policies, ecosystems and life in general over here is drastic
- International collaboration, between Europe (the Nordic countries especially), Canada, US and Russia. Mostly in an educational context since I work as a lecturer at the University of Lapland.