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Public Engagement in Science through Art _ Event by waag Society_on 31 January 2014, Amsterdam
Public Engagement in Science through Art
Politics, Ethics, Power and Propaganda – An ‘ICT and Art Connect’ Event by Waag Society
This special evening of short talks, discussions and networking brings together artists, scientists and technologists to investigate the role of art and public engagement in science. We consider forms of best practices and hope to develop new collaborations.
Many people believe that art is able to communicate important issues in science and technology to a wide range of audiences, that aren’t reached by traditional science communication techniques. But is this view well founded? What are the issues that need to be considered to achieve best practices? Are we talking about the instrumentalisation of art to create science propaganda? Or about enabling artists to work with cutting edge technologies in contexts that enable audiences to participate in debates around emerging technologies and ethical problems that they would not otherwise have access to? And how can we help achieve the best results for both art and science?
For more information on the programme follow this link:
http://waag.org/en/event/public-engagement-science-through-art
New Dino Valls’ Monograph
Texts: Prof. John Wood and Steven Brown Specially handbound edition and a book inside the book, app. 140 pages, 24 x 30 cm. Available in April/May 2014
DINO VALLS
Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Since 1988, he has lived and worked in Madrid. Building on a childhood passion for drawing, Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Zaragoza in 1982, Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting.
As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art, Valls’ work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being. In the early ’90s, Valls began studying the use of egg tempera, adapting and customizing the techniques of Italian and Flemish masters from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries to create new works in combinations of tempera and oil. His paintings elaborate and expand upon the methods of past masters, employing formal figurative techniques as the medium through which to explore the human psyche in a conceptual framework laden with profound psychological weight and symbolism.
Valls has participated in important international exhibitions of contemporary art, and has held numerous showings in Europe and the United States.
“I know of no other contemporary painter whose work is grander in conception or more beautiful in its execution than that of Dino Valls, nor do I know of any living painter whose work is more filled with the imagery of pain than Dino Valls’. How does one reconcile the pain and the beauty? Are they reconcilable, and, if so, what do they mean? His paintings can deliver the same terrifying shock of Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece or Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas. Valls is our great contemporary master of pain and beauty. His work staggers us and forces us back to it again and again, which is art’s most ancient and magical power.”
Prof. John Wood
Pre-order Dino Valls’ Monograph here:
http://www.galerievevais.de/products/item.Dino_Valls_Catalogue.html
“Stranger Visions” of Heather Dewey-Hagborg at the New York Public Library
Januray 7 – April 4, 2014.
Mid-Manhattan Library, Front Windows and Third Floor.
Opening exhibition of Heather Dewey-Hagborg entitled “Stranger Visions” at the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch of.
This work is exhibiting as part of Art Wall on Third and Art in the Windows series.
Saturday, February 1, 2014, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library, 1st Floor Corner Room.
455 Fifth ave. (at 40th st.), New York, NY 10016
On February 1 at 2:30pm Heather Dewey-Hagborg will be discussing the work with 319 Scholes, curator Lindsay Howard, as part of the library’s Artist Dialogue series. Technical details of the work such as collecting and analyzing genetic material from public
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/45/node/229458Recent news about Heather’s Dewey-Hagborg work
Stranger Visions recently returned from a surveillance-themed exhibit Trace Recordings at the University of Technology Sydney as well as Destroy Yourself locally at Kunsthalle Galapagos in Brooklyn. Heather Dewey-Hagborg completed a site-specific version of the work for the show Grow Your Own at the Dublin Science Gallery and spoke on a Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board panel about issues of genetic surveillance.Stranger Visions was reviewed by Chin-Chin Yap in Arts Asia Pacific, featured in C Magazine as part of their winter surveillance issue, and made the cover of Government Technology.*Photograph: Thomas Dexter
Benjamin Vierling solo exhibition “A Decennary Retrospective” in Seatle, 17/01/14-14/02/14
“Firebird,” by Benjamin A. Vierling
7:00pm/Geo Studio (3rd floor)Showcasing select drawings and paintings from 10 years of work, 2004-2014, A Decennary Retrospective is California artist Benjamin Vierling‘s first solo exhibition in Seattle. Employing primarily a 15th century mixed media technique of egg tempera and oil paints on panel, he integrates mythical references with contemporary subjects to bridge the timeless with the ephemeral. The iconic compositions of these panels indicate a rich historical precedent, distilling influences from the classical era, through the renaissance, the romantic period and into the present.Artists’ Reception: January 17, 6:00pm –
8:00pm
For more information for the exhibition check here: http://www.gageacademy.org/events/?page=current&type=5
NATURAL SCIENCE: exhibition opening by Jennifer Willet
The first NATURAL SCIENCE exhibit by Jennifer Willet will open at Artcite Gallery in Windsor Ontario Canada on January 17, 2014.
In July 2011, twenty artists, scientists, filmmakers, theorists and students engaged in an art/science research experiment where a diverse set of individuals came together to live and work at a bioart field research station in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. BioARTCAMP was a collaborative art/science project designed by Jennifer Willet and co-produced by INCUBATOR Lab and The Banff Centre. Participants worked to build a portable laboratory in the forest and conducted a variety of scientific, ecological, creative, and theoretical projects. BioARTCAMP served to provide alternative visions of of the biotech future: ecological, embodied and responsible visions of our relations and responsibilities to the other life forms we share our planet and our laboratories with.
In this exhibition, NATURAL SCIENCE, Willet will present an un-natural history collection; a collection of items, life forms, images, and stories resulting from the BioARTCAMP project. In the NATURAL SCIENCE collection traditional hierarchies between what is natural and unnatural are undermined. Lab specimens co-exist with local ecological specimens, cultural artefacts and human subjects. These objects, in tandem with photographic, video, and archival documentation of the camp attempt to recount the BioARTCAMP experience and serve to re-imagine the role of biotechnology in our shared natural history.
Video Direction: Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks
BioARTCAMP Participants: Iain Baxter&, Angus Leech, Tagny Duff, Paul Vanouse, Marta De Menezes, Marie Pier Boucher, Kurt Illerbrun, Bulent Mutus, Jeanette Groenendaal, Zoot Derks, Jennifer Willet, Jamie Ferguson, Britt Wray, Kacie Auffret, David Dowhaniuk. Additionally, Tokio Webster, Grant Yocom, Louise Baxter&, Joan Linder, Dylan Leech.
Project Assistants: Billie Mclaughlin, Arturo Herrera, Lauren DiVito, Dianne Clinton, Patrick Bodnar.
Supporters: The Canada Council for the Arts, the Banff Centre, the University of Windsor, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, Hostelling International, Parks Canada, Banff National Park, The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden, Fonds BKVB.
The exhibition will travel to three more confirmed sites; Forrest City Gallery (London Ontario, Jan 2015) to Harcourt House Gallery (Edmonton, August 2015) and to Open Space (Victoria, 2016).
BIODESIGN: on the cross pollination of Nature, Science and Creativity
The New Institute
Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi)
Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion
Virtueel Platform, e-culture knowledge institute
23.1.2014, 19:00–23:00
How Do You Do Biodesign
How Do You Do Biodesign is an evening for architects, urban designers, product designers, fashion designers, artists and developers of digital technology and media, which will illuminate exactly what biodesign co-produced by Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Willem de Kooning Academy.
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For more info, follow this link here.
A short history of anatomical maps
| A short history of
knowledge has been used to teach and protect communities since mankind’s early years. However, the desire to represent our inner physical selves in pictures has not always been as strong as our need to speculate. The contemplation of our internal workings has ranged from the mystical and spiritual to the surreal and then the informative. In all these forms the the manifestation |
Read more here: http://www.designboom.com/history/anatomical_maps.html source: designboom, www.designboom.com
“Hidden Music”: Sonic translations of the biological world by Milton Mermikides
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Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition in Athens until the 16th of February 2014
The exhibition ”Leonardo Da Vinci: The Man, The Inventor, The Genius” has been hosted in more than 20 cities in the world over the past few years and we now welcome it in Athens until the 16th of February 2014 where we will admire an illustration of various aspects of his life and his work.
The exhibition includes more than 40 interactive, three-dimensional models of inventions and machines: flying machines, models based on hydraulics and the mechanical sciences, as well as, military equipment.
Real-time MRI music video by Sivu: “Better Man than He”
Medicine, Anatomy and Music collision in the song of Sivu “Better Man Than He”.
UK based musician Sivu, lay in an MRI scanner at St. Barts Hospital London for hours while repeatedly singing his song,”Better Man Than He.” The real-time MRI footage shows the sagittal section of Sivu’s head as his mouth and tongue move to each word. The video also combines some coronal journeys through Sivu’s face and 3D volume rendering of his entire head.
Director: Adam Powell
The video was created with the help of doctors Marc E. Miquel and Andrew David Scott at St Barts.
Enjoy!
