COLLIDING IDEAS: art, society and physics

Public symposium, Sunday 8 July 2012 at RMIT University Storey Hall,

10am to 5pm

Call for presentations

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,

in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology” –

Carl Sagan

Recent discoveries in physics have changed our lives forever. From

iPhones and the internet to medical imaging and genetic engineering,

modern technology has largely been developed through advances in

physics, yet few people understand it. Melbourne is hosting the 36th

International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2012), where they

may announce the discovery of the Higgs boson, or ‘God Particle’. Taking

inspiration from this event, the ‘Colliding Ideas’ symposium will

address the social and creative parameters of such events.

‘Colliding Ideas’ will explore the worlds within the physical sciences

and ask what is going on in there, how it relates to our social world,

and how it affects us culturally and physically. And, in such contexts,

how do the perspectives of physicists relate to and differ from those of

artists and visual communicators who use physics-based technologies?

With digital technologies linking the ideas and methods of art and

science, we may be getting closer to a trans-disciplinary visual and

sonic understanding. And through art / science collaborations, artists

can critically engage with the concepts, methods, possibilities and

implications of scientific research. The symposium will feature key

speakers from CERN, the Australian Network for Arts & Technology,

alongside contemporary media and fine arts practitioners and theorists.

A series of thirty minute talks will be followed by panel discussions

and audiovisual presentations. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Proposals for presentations relating to art and physics are invited.

Topics could include (but are not limited to):

Visual art, scientific visualisation and the limits of interpretatbility

‘Higgs in space’ – what the Higgs Boson means for the rest of us

CP Snow and violations of the ‘separation of the two cultures’

From the teleporter to the death star – physics in cinema

Cats vs rabbits -Quantum uncertainty and the real world

The trials and tribulations of art / science collaborations

Scientific philosophy and the politics of particle physics

Digital art, technology and physics

Risk and failure in science and art

Possible futures in art and physics

Outsider and DIY physics

Mathematics and statistics

Geospatial sciences

Applied sciences

Computing and IT

Holography

Lasers

For further information please contact Chris Henschke

chris.henschke@rmit.edu.au

Proposals are due by June 8 2012

For more information and to register your interest please visit:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ntsfu36kmyfkz

Deadline: Friday, 27th April 2012 (midnight)

ISEA2013 is pleased to announce that our second call for Expressions of Interest from artists and organisations wishing to develop, commission or present work in association with ISEA2013 is now open. Please see the Proposals Page for general information on submissions.

Australian Artists and Organisations with large-scale projects and collaborations

In this round we are inviting applications from Australian organisations and artists who want to propose large-scale new works and developmental projects with long lead-times in the areas of Visual Arts, Theatre, Music, ATSIA, Dance, Literature and Community Partnerships. If you have an idea for a Creative Australia project that might be suitable for an outcome in ISEA2013, we encourage you to apply now.

Artists with Individual Artworks

Unless your Expression of Interest is for a large-scale project that requires long lead-times, we recommend that you apply in our next round. This next round will be an Open Call for Artworks and will have more specific categories and guidelines. We will be announcing this final round in the next few weeks.

International Artists

If you are an international artist, with an individual artwork, we recommend that you apply in the next round. However, if you have an idea for a particularly large-scale project that is dependent on funding from other sources (i.e. government, philanthropic agencies, etc.) with deadlines approaching, you should contact us at isea@anat.org.au to discuss your idea.

Please make sure you read our FAQ and visit our Proposals Page before making a submission.

Artists in the Labs

A public lecture by Dr Jill Scott, Zurich University of the Arts

Date: Wednesday 28 March 2012

Time: 6pm

Location: Webb Lecture Theatre, Geography Building, UWA

The nearest carparks are P18 and P19 off Fairway Entrance 1.

Cost: Free, no RSVP required.

The Artists-in-Labs Program, based in Zurich Switzerland, started as a pilot project in 2003 to place artists into Swiss scientific research environments. The program examines current debates and discourses that can help art and science gain a closer understanding of each other.

Jill Scott will discuss the work of artists based in the artists-in-lab program and their collaborating research centres, as well as her own projects, “The Electric Retina” and “Dermaland”. These projects, research directives and residencies are designed to inspire artists to create new works of complexity and address the relevant issues about scientific discovery for society. She will also discuss the ways in which scientists in the program are exploring more creative contemporary art approaches to the experimentation, interpretation and communication of their research.

Jill Scott was born in Melbourne and has been working and living in Switzerland since 2003. She is Professor for Research in the Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration with the Ministry for Culture, Switzerland), which places artists from all disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK-a program with 16 international research candidates.

Her recent publications include: Artists-in-labs Processes of Inquiry (2006 Springer/Vienna/New York) and Coded Characters Hatje Cantz (2002, Ed. Marille Hahne). She was awarded a PhD from the University of Wales (UK) and has a MA from the University of San Francisco, as well as a Degree in Education (University of Melbourne) and a Degree in Art and Design (Victoria College of the Arts). Since 1975 she has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. Her most recent works involve the construction of interactive media and electronic sculptures based on studies she has conducted in neuroscience- particularly the somatic sensory system artificial skin (e-skin) 2003-2007 and on neuro-retinal behaviour in relation to human eye disease (“The Electric Retina”, 2008) and (“Dermaland”, 2009).

This lecture is part of ‘Semipermeable’ – a public lecture series sponsored by SymbioticA and the Institute of Advanced Studies at UWA.

We invite you to respond to the Tribute to Uncertainty theme.

Deadline: March 1, 2012

Do you have something original to say about our world that is increasingly fuzzy, unstable and chaotic? Are you interested in how crisis, uncertainty and complexity can come together in order to question the known as well as predict and/or model yet unknown? Do you want to share projects intrinsically linking domains of scientific, artistic and technological research and creativity that can be introduced as relevant tools for better understanding of our common future?

The aim of this Call for Attractors is to provide opportunity for community of interdisciplinary practitioners to get engaged in conference preparation via proposing specific streams of research and creative interest and involving interested individuals in structured collaborative efforts before and during the conference. Research groups proposed and formed by the Attractors will be expected to elaborate on the general theme Tribute to Uncertainty while turning attention to concrete research objectives. Priority will be given to innovative and challenging proposals.

Attractors, via this application, have a chance to shape the Call for Abstracts (to open in early March), get involved in the evaluation of submitted abstracts as well as leading “their” research groups. All attractors will be given special recognition in the conference communication and publications.

Become a MutaMorphosis Attractor!

Send us your expression of interest

by March 1, 2012

via email to mutamorphosis at ciant.cz.

Subject of the email: /Attractor | Your Name and Surname/

Please follow this format of reply.

Stream of Interest: /Simple title/

Keywords: /Maximum 5/

Abstract: /Maximum of 200 words/

Methodology: /Towards which goals, how, and with whom do you plan to work? Maximum of 200 words/

Keynote(s) proposal: /Do you have in mind someone who would perfectly be in a position to address some of the conference subthemes or the general theme in a provocatively clear and innovative manner? Share her/his/their name(s) and www./

Keyword(s) proposal for the Call for Abstracts: /Maximum 5, if different from keywords of your own Stream of Interest./

Short biography: /Maximum of 100 words and www/

E-SCAPES: Artistic Explorations of Nature and Science,

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

REMINDER: DEADLINE MARCH 16 2012

We are pleased to invite you to Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks —
3rd Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2012 taking place at Northwestern University near
Chicago, IL on the shores of Lake Michigan, on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.

CALL FOR PAPERS: from both scientists and artists and humanities scholars

http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net/

Abstract:
We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 on Arts,
Humanities, and Complex Networks. The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary
research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities.
The symposium will highlight arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where
the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge
difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice.
Furthermore, the symposium will focus on striking examples, where artists and humanities
researchers make an impact within the natural sciences. By bringing together network
scientists and specialists from the arts and humanities we strive for a better understanding
of networks and their visualizations in general.

The overall mission is to bring together pioneer work, leveraging previously unused potential
by developing the right questions, methods, and tools, as well as dealing with problems of
information accuracy and incompleteness. Running parallel to the NetSci2012 conference,
the symposium will also provide a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers and
practitioners of complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.
In addition to keynotes and interdisciplinary discussion, we are looking for a number of
contributed talks. Selected papers will be published in print in a Special Section of Leonardo
Journal (MIT Press), as well as online in Leonardo Transactions.

For previous editions papers and video presentations please visit the following URLs:
2010 URL: http://artshumanities.netsci2010.net
2011 URL: http://artshumanities.netsci2011.net

Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Burak Arikan, Artist based in New York and Istanbul: http://burak-arikan.com/
Pedro Cano, Chief Technology Officer, bmat.com: http://bmat.com/
Miriah Meyer, Assistant Professor ,University of Utah: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~miriah/

Organizing committee:
Maximilian Schich, DFG Visiting Research Scientist, CCNR, Northeastern University, USA
Roger Malina, Executive Editor at Leonardo Publications, France/USA
Isabel Meirelles, Associate Professor, Dept. of Art + Design, Northeastern University, USA
Cristián Huepe, Visiting Scholar, Applied Math Department, Northwestern University. USA

Possible subjects include:
* Contemporary art and network science;
* Cultural analytics, culturomics, and high throghput approaches
* Cultural exchange and trade networks (from the Neolithic to modern supply chains);
* Emergence and evolution of canon in art, music, literature and film;
* Evolution of communities of practice in art and science;
* History and theory of network visualization;

http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net/

In 2012, as part of the project Zebrastraat and following the first three biennials, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation will organize update_4 update. In this update_4 we would like to keep and strengthen the philosophy of the past, and at the same time we would like to emphasize new trends. In the past, the exhibitions were associated with the New Technological Art Award Liedts-Meesen which enjoys increasingly more interest from the artists and the public. For this reason we wish to enhance the importance of this competition through the following measures:

– A new set of rules that is stricter but more focused on the contribution of new technologies to art
– The number of nominees having the chance to show their artwork to the public increases from 10 to 20,
– Finally, the works will be presented at three different locations: the Zebrastraat in Ghent, La Cambre in Brussels (with Caroline Mierop, Director; works will be exhibited outside only) and iMAL, also in Brussels (Yves Bernard).

The second part of the event includes an exhibition by established artists in the field of New Technological Art. Only two or three works should be exhibited at each location. Both these activities are complemented with a colloquium. During three days, artists and theorists will be invited to reflect on contemporary art in relation to new media and technology, both during private and public sessions. The traditional catalog of the Update exhibitions and Prize will be enriched with texts and conclusions of the discussions at the colloquium.

As you can see, from an exhibition combined with a contest, we will evolve into an event where contest, conference and exhibition will come together and yield a leading reference work. These principles lead to a new set of rules and the corresponding normalized registration form.

http://www.newtechnologicalartaward.be/en/index.html