DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)

Thursday, May 16, 2013, 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30)
Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100
No charge. Photo ID and registration required.
American Sign Language interpretation is available upon request.
Please email cpnas@nas.edu by Friday, May 3 to request interpretation.

D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) is a monthly discussion
forum on art and science projects in the national capital region and
beyond. DASERs provide a snapshot of the cultural environment and
foster interdisciplinary networking. Reservations and a photo ID are
required for admittance. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the event begins
at 6 p.m. This month, the discussion explores SEAD, The Network for
Science, Engineering, Art and Design, which facilitates research,
dialogue, and communication within and among those working in these
areas.

Program

5:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Check in

6:00 to 6:10 p.m.
Welcoming remarks and community sharing time. Anyone in the audience
working within the intersections of art and science will have 30
seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so
that those who are interested can seek you out during social time
following the event.

6:10 to 7:10 p.m.
Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology, and
Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas and Executive
Editor, Leonardo Publications, MIT Press

Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean, School of Art and Design, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor

Bill O’Brien, Senior Advisor for Program Innovation, National
Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Carol Strohecker, Director, Center for Design Innovation, University
of North Carolina system, Winston-Salem

7:10 to 8:10 p.m.
Discussion

8:10 to 9:00 p.m.
Reception

DASER is co-sponsored by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of
Sciences (CPNAS) and Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts,
Sciences, and Technology. DASER fosters community and discussion
around the intersection of art and science. The thoughts and opinions
expressed in the DASER events are those of the panelists and speakers
and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the National Academy
of Sciences or of Leonardo.

OPEN CALL FOR SPRING SESSIONS

*Deadline for applications: The 21st of April 2013 at 00:00h (GMT +1).*

This is an open call for participating in the first edition of Spring
Sessions at Hangar <http://www.hangar.org> art production and research
center based in Barcelona (Spain). The Spring Sessions are intensive and
interdisciplinary meetings between artists and other professionals for
developing a specific part of a larger research project.

The Spring Sessions provide the opportunity to an artist to invite a
professional from another discipline to work together in the development of
part of a larger research project within the framework of a one month
residency in Hangar. One participant will be based in Barcelona and the
other somewhere else. The person based elsewhere will be able to live in
Hangar’s guest house during the development of the residency (one month).

The first edition of Spring Sessions takes place in the framework of the
Hangar’s project Grid Spinoza <http://www.gridspinoza.net/>and the European
project Soft Control <http://softcontrol.info/>. Grid Spinoza explores the
processes, methodologies and dynamics of artistic and scientific research,
paying attention to spaces of confluence and ways of transferring knowledge
from one field to the other. The project is based on an online platform
that contains an open archive of articles and audiovisual interviews with
artist and scientists. The project Soft Control is a platform where
artists, scientists and other cultural operators open their laboratories
and their research projects to a specialised and non-specialised audience.
At the same time the project is a framework for artist and scientist
constructively sharing knowledge and cultural models of critical thinking,
activism and experimentation.

*Description of the elegible projects*
Ongoing artistic, theoretical or applied research projects that include
collaborative processes with other fields such as cultural studies,
scientific research or technological development.
The part of the project to be developed in Hangar has to include the
participation of a professional from another field, selected by the artist.

*Eligible*
Artists of all ages and nationalities that are carrying out a research
project and:
– Option A: They are based in Barcelona and need to work during one month
with someone from another discipline based in another city. This person
will live in Hangar’s guest house during the developement of the
residency<http://hangar.org/residencia/>(one month).
– Option B: They are based in a different city from Barcelona but need to
work with a professional from another discipline based in this city. In
this case, the artist will live in Hangar’s guest house during the
development of the residency <http://hangar.org/residencia/> (one month).

*Duration*
The duration of the first edition of Spring Sessions will be one month, in
June 2013.

*Conditions*
1. The artist or the professional from another field has to be based in
Barcelona while the other has to be based somewhere else. The one based
elsewhere will move to live in Hangar’s guest house during the development
of the residency (one month).
2. Hangar will contribute to the residency with (amounts are before taxes):
– Artist fee: 2.500 euros.
– Invited professional fee: 1.000 euros.
– Accommodation for one person in Hangar: 350 euros .
– Work space in Hangar: 150 euros.
– Production costs: 500 euros.
– Use of equipments.
– Technical assistance.

3. Travel costs up to 450 euros.

4.Artist, teacher and writer Simon Penny, who has a long history in
interdisciplinary practise internationally will be mentor of the residency.
Also the artist selected from this open call will participate in the
workshop “Art/Science Interdisciplinary Workshop” directed by Simon Penny
and held in Hangar mid- June.

5. The artist selected from this open call will present the results of the
residency during May/June 2014 when the second edition of Spring Sessions
is going to take place in Hangar. The possibility to do this presentation
by streaming can be considered.

*Selection procedure*
The application must be in pdf format (sent by e-mail) and must include:
1. A brief biography of the artist (2500 characters including spaces).
2. Curriculum vitae (2500 characters including spaces).
3. Brief description of the research field (2500 characters including
spaces).
4. Description of the research project including (2500 characters including
spaces):
– description of the part of the project to be developed in Hangar
– work plan for the development of the project in Hangar
– technical needs
– name of the invited collaborator and agreement of collaboration.

IMPORTANT: applications which do not include the required information
and/or exceed the extension limits will not be considered.

The Selection Committee is composed by:
– Roc Parés, artist, professor and researcher in Interactive Communication
of the University Pompeu Fabra and adviser of the Soft Control project for
Hangar.
– Simon Penny, artist and professor in Studio Art, University of
California, Irvine.
– Reimund Fickert, project manager of the Barcelona Biomedical Research
Park.
– Manel González, innovation director of the Biomedical Research Center of
the Polytechnical University of Barcelona.
– A person from one of the organisations composing the European consortium
for the Soft Control project.
– Marta Gracia, research project coordinator of Hangar.
– Tere Badia, director of Hangar.

*Calendar*
Deadline for applications: The 21st of April 2013 at 00:00h (GMT +1).
Announcement of the results: Week of the 29th of April 2013.
Residency: From the 1st to 30th of June 2013.

*For further information and submitting the applications, please contact*
Marta Gracia
marta@hangar.org
Telf: 933084041 ext. 22

The Second International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture

Interference strategies for art conference proceedings are available online now.

Today we’re saturated with images from all disciplines, whether it’s the creation of ‘beautiful visualisations’ for science, the torrent of images uploaded to social media services like Flickr, or the billions of queries made to vast visual data archives such as Google Images. These machinic interpretations of the visual and sensorial experience of the world are producing a new spectacle of media pollution.Machines are in many ways the new artists.

The notion of ‘Interference’ is posed here as an antagonism between production and seduction, as a redirection of affect, or as an untapped potential for repositioning artistic critique. Maybe art doesn’t have to work as a wave that displaces or reinforces the standardized protocols of data/messages, but can instead function as a kind of signal that disrupts and challenges perceptions. ‘Interference’ can stand as a mediating incantation that might create a layer between the constructed image of the ‘everyday’ given to us by science, technological social networks and the means of its construction.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Art and Science – Hybrid Art and Interdisciplinary Research 2014 Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of scientific and technological issues. The field of art that interacts with the practices of science and its technologies is commonly referred to as Art&Science. During the past decades, the hybrid field of art & research has become more or less established, with iconic works, established institutions and documented histories. The interrelation between music, art, natural and computer sciences can be seen in new media art, biotechnological or telecommunication art and other contemporary artistic practices that have an experimental character.
http://www.rhizope.org/
Deadline: 30 April 2013

This call is part of Studiolab, a 3-year, Europe-wide initiative that merges the studio with the research lab funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme in 2011. Studiolab is a European network that provides a platform for creative projects that bridge divides between science, art and design.

Studiolab relies on a network structure, with 5 core partners in the consortium (The Science Gallery – Trinity College, Le Laboratoire, Royal College of Art, Ars Electronica, Medialab-Prado) and 8 additional expert partners (ERG School of Design, ISI Foundation, Synergetica Lab, LEONARDO/OLATS, Medical Museion, CIANT, and RIX-C, Bloomfield Science Museum).

Find here all the information about the call and the entry rules:

http://studiolabproject.eu/opencall/yours-synthetically

Fill the the form below to submit your project. Remember to nominate your Studiolab partner and the status of your project on the Comments Field.

SymbioticA’s Agency in Movement Symposium Friday 21st June 2013 9am-5pm The University of Western Australia G06 Moot Court Free registration (RSVP essential to christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au) The Agency in Movement symposium employs a variety of disciplines to explore the complex relations between movement and vitality.

Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a “body” and measuring its change in position relative to another reference frame. Therefore, movement is relative, means ever changing and is perceived as visceral and “alive”. The Symposium will include invited speakers from diverse disciplines (art, performance, biology, biophysics, biomechanics, and philosophy) who will explore and interrogate the conceptual and technical relations between life (biological or artificial), movement and perceptions of “vitality”, with the hope that some interesting meeting points and/or negations will emerge.
The symposium stems from an Australian Research Council project exploring the use of skeletal muscle tissue which is grown, stimulated and activated in a techno-scientific surrogate “body”. This moving twitching (semi) living material evokes, makes unease, and asks, in sensorial and theoretical means about issues of aliveness and agency. The project is concerned with onto-ethico-epistemological (Barad 2010) questions about life and the affect created through the phenomenon of movement.
Speakers include: Kevin Kit Parker, Monika Bakke, Andrew Pelling, Elizabeth Stephens, Jonas Rubenstein, Stuart Hodgetts, Chris Salter, Jennifer Johung, Oron Catts, Miranda Grounds and Ionat Zurr http://bit.ly/Y62xbD

http://www.newmediacaucus.org/wp/call-for-entries-nmc-10-video-programme/

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the New Media Caucus, NMC Members are invited to submit entries for the video programme: 10.
DOWNLOAD PDF PROSPECTUS
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
1. Up to (3) submissions can be entered. Theme and process is open. Video works from the last ten years are eligible for consideration.
2. Only single channel videos are eligible.
3. Video duration is open. Submit excerpts 5 minutes or less for each entry.
4. Submissions must be made using Vimeo. Send one email with all three submissions to nmcvideo10@gmail.com Include the following information for each entry in this format:
Name of artist(s)
Title of Entry
Total Duration
Year
Vimeo URL
(optional) Synopsis and/or technical information
5. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 15, 2013 (midnight). Notifications will be emailed in early-to-mid May.
6. Questions? Contact the coordinator, Krista Hoefle – nmcvideo10@gmail.com
Juror: Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director of Artist Relations, Mixed Greens Gallery (NYC). Heather co-authored the book ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) as you Pursue Your Art Career (2009, Free Press).
The New Media Video Programme 10 will be available online; Additional venues for 10 are currently being scheduled for June 2013 – June 2014. Are you interested in screening 10 at your venue? Contact the video programme coordinator Krista Hoefle at nmcvideo10@gmail.com.