Bioart and Textiles Workshop with Anna Dumitriu :: May 26, 2012; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (UTC+01) :: The Barn Gallery, St. John’s College, The University of Oxford, St. Giles, Oxford, UK (map) :: Reserve your space here.

On this practical and theoretical workshop with Anna Dumitriu, participants will begin to learn how to work safely with bacteria as an artistic medium using commonly available supplies. They will start to develop a bacteriocentric view of the world, understand the textile techniques used in the exhibition and discuss the new advances in clinical microbiology being investigated by the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project. The workshop will also look at other key artists in the field of bioart, issues of public engagement in science, ethics, and the nature of collaborative art/science practice.

This coincides with the exhibition Normal Flora: Bioart Responses to Modernising Medical Microbiology.

[Tom Sachs, "Mars Yard," 2011-2012. Mixed media, dimensions vary. & "Mars Excursion Roving Vehicle (MERV)," 2010-2012. Mixed media, 123 x 52 x 60 inches. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.] Creative Time / Park Avenue Armory present Tom Sachs: Space Program Mars :: May 16 – June 17, 2012 :: Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York City.

Space Program Mars is a four-week mission to the Red Planet that explores the universe as a path to discovering ourselves. This interactive installation recasts Park Avenue Armory’s 55,000-square-foot drill hall as an immersive space odyssey featuring dynamic and meticulously crafted sculptures, including elaborate spacecraft, Mission Control, a launch platform, a Mars landscape, and much more. Continue reading

Carrie Bodle: Wavelines :: May 18 - July 14, 2012 :: Artist Reception: May 18; 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm :: CoCA Georgetown Gallery, Seattle Design Center, 5701 6th Ave S., Seattle, WA (Facebook event page).

Bodle creates a new video and sound installation for CoCA based on two previous works, Sewing Sonification (2009) and Waveforms (2010). Both projects use data from ecosystem models along the Washington Coast to create a multimodal experience of art through scientific research. In CoCA’s 4,600 sq. ft. space, a six-channel video installation layers five dimensions of oceanographic data on large semi-transparent textile screens, while a five-channel sonification engages viewers/ listeners with references to underlying systems of data. Continue reading

Jer Thorp’s work focuses on adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data as a way to help people take control of the information that surrounds them. Continue reading

Cynetart 2012 Award :: November 15-21, 2012 :: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56, Dresden, Saxony 01109, Germany :: Call for Entries — Deadline: March 31.

Cynetart is an international festival for computer based art in Dresden. The 16th Edition of the festival will present an exhibition of the winning projects and selected competition entries, first-class performances and a programme with live sets of international electronic musicians and VJs at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and other selected spots in Dresden.

The competition is open to artists, designers and scientists who dedicate themselves in their artistic and reflective discussion in particular interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Continue reading

Artists-in-Labs: Networking in the Margins, Jill Scott (Editor):

Networking in the Margins is about sharing information in the margins where immersive learning can expand the exact sciences and demand a more robust level of dialogue from the humanities and the arts. At base of these margins, sits an attitude, which values mixed levels of fantasy, reality and logic and accepts unexpected results. Therefore, this new edition will feature how the AIL artists from the disciplines of sculpture, installation, performance and sound and AIL partner scientists from the disciplines of physics, computer technologies, environmental ecology and cognitive analysis have complimented each others research from 2006 to 2009. While scientists have certainly learnt about art, artists have become more involved in ethical and social debates about scientific discovery in relation to society. Continue reading

Espacio Enter Canarias, Art, Science, Innovation :: November 8-11, 2012 :: Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands :: Call for Projects — Deadline: May 30, 2012.

Espacio Enter Canarias is a International Festival for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological innovation.

Art-Science-Innovation: Digitals Communities - Storytelling geoespacial - Artificial Life- Software Art - Transgenic Art- Generative Art - Videogames :: Robotic - Open Source- Animation, 2D, 3D - Videocreation - Net-art- Blog, Videoblog - Videodance - Creation for mobile platforms - Apps development. Continue reading

Anomalia :: February 16 - May 18, 2012 :: Opening: February 16; 5:30 - 8:30 pm :: University Art Gallery, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California. Continue reading

The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture :: June 22-23, 2012 :: Victorian College of the Arts, Federation Hall, Grant Street, Southbank, Melbourne 3006 :: Call for Papers: Interference Strategies for Art - Deadline for Abstracts: March 30, 2012.

The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference seeks papers that explore the theme of ‘Interference’ within practices of contemporary image making. Continue reading

Intimate Science: BCL, Center for PostNatural History, Markus Kayser, Allison Kudla, Machine Project, Philip Ross; Guest curated by Andrea Grover :: January 21 – March 4, 2012 :: Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Purnell Center for the Arts, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA.

The most recent manifestation of artists working at the intersection of art, science and technology demonstrates a distinctly autodidactic, heuristic approach to understanding the physical and natural world. Continue reading