MYRIAD: Creation, Communication and Collaboration Between Insects and Humans by Loren Kronemyer :: June 15, 2012; 3:00 - 5:00 pm :: SymbioticA, School of Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth.

In this talk, Loren will speak regarding her current project attempting to manipulate the trailing behaviour of ants to form text and imagery, done in collaboration between SymbioticA, the Centre for Integrated Bee Research, and Beelab Sydney. What results are real-time living drawings that explore the relationship between humans, insects, and the emergent forms of intelligence that arise between us. Continue reading

Wilderness Art Conference: Wind As Context :: May 24-26, 2012 :: Marjaniemi Luotsihotelli & Cafe Bar Haiku, Hailuoto, Finland. Program here. Continue reading

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.

Hypo Chrysos by Marco Donnarumma - a new biomedia performance for enhanced body, interactive multichannel sound and video, Matadac Festival :: December 16. 2011; 8:00 pm :: Auditorium, CaixaForum, Madrid.

Hypo Chrysos is the second piece of a series of bio-interactive works based on the Xth Sense (XS), an open, biophysical and wearable technology I’ve recently developed. The work was composed ad hoc for the Matadac Festival in Madrid, which this year explores the theme of Machines and Flesh. In conjunction with this premiere, I’m teaching a workshop on biophysical generation and control of music and video using the Xth Sense tech.

Trust Me I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art/Science Collaboration presents Adam Zaretsky: Mutate or Die :: December 10, 2011; 3:00 - 6:00 pm :: The Theatrum Anatomicum, De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

This series of public events, taking place in international settings, investigates the new ethical issues arising from art and science collaboration and consider the roles and responsibilities of the artists, scientists and institutions involved. At each event (before a live audience) an internationally known artist will propose an artwork to a specially formed ethics committee Continue reading

Field_Notes – Cultivating Ground :: September 26 - October 2, 2011 :: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kilpisjärvi, Lapland, Finland.

Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds is a week long field laboratory for theory and practice on art&science work. Five expert groups (Arctic Waters, Biological Milieu, Body Nature, Environmental Computing, Second Order) will develop, test and evaluate specific artistic approaches based on the interplay of art&science.

With: Anu Osva, Andrew Paterson, Anne Lehtelä, Antti Tenetz, Beatrize da Costa, Benjamin Pothier, Continue reading

ISEA Istanbul presents Leaf++ by FakePress Publishing, part of Digitization of Biological Data :: Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011; 2:45 - 4:25 pm :: Sa­banci Cen­ter Room 2, Sa­banci Cen­ter, Lev­ent.

Natural interfaces and cross-medial technologies allow for the creation of new publishing paradigms in which the term book can be disarticulated and rearranged into unexpected forms, fostering new ways of interacting with data and information.

Leaf++ is the product of a research project that goes in this direction in which a prototypal interactive system involving computer vision, gestural interfaces, augmented reality technologies and cross medial systems to create a novel tool to experience botanical information about plants and their leaves. Continue reading

Tangible Feelings — A Symposium on EEG (and biofeedback) for the Arts Continue reading

Experimental Arts Conference :: August 19-20, 2011 :: National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, GPO Box 259 Paddington NSW 2021 Sydney, Australia.

What is experimentation? What makes art ‘experimental’? What are the results of aesthetic experiments and why do we need them? Could artists invent new modes of experimentation with/for science? What are the differences between experiments and inventions; experiments and failures; experiment and innovation? How do we set up ethico-scientific-aesthetic experiments?

This conference will showcase and discuss innovative arts projects by leading practitioners, thinkers and research groups that model new forms of transdisciplinarity and offer new ways of addressing real-world issues. Continue reading