Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Greetings! with a quick response to your latest snapshot on neuroscience and art trends

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todd siler sends us this response to greg dunn

roger

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:51 PM, toddsiler1 . <siler.todd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> I'm always interested in hearing Yasminers weigh in on emerging trends and
> issues concerning the deep connections between neuroscience and art. I'm
> inclined to believe they're long lasting and transformational, rather than
> flash trends.
>
> I'd like to bring to your attention these two peer-reviewed Perspective
> Articles in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. They may interest Yasminers:
>
> "Neuroart: picturing the neuroscience of intentional actions in art &
> science" (2015)
> http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00410/abstract
>
> And, "Neuro-Impressions: interpreting the nature of human creativity" (2012)
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469876/
>
> Additionally, regarding the SEAD community: I think it's always timely to
> revisit this short article on "ArtScience: Integrative Collaboration To
> Create a Sustainable Future" by Root-Bernstein et al. in Leonardo, Volume
> 44, Number 3, June 2011; p. 192. The article explores the possibilities of
> integrating the arts & sciences in purposeful and productive ways. As a
> "living document," it's intended to evolve through the ongoing interactions
> between individuals pursuing a spectrum of interrelated endeavors, fields of
> knowledge and frontiers.
> http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/LEON_e_00161
>
> I agree with Greg Dunn's point that 'many artists who use scientific methods
> in their work are not recognized as being "science artists" (such as Georges
> Seurat and John Singer Sargent), yet the inclusion of them under a broader
> umbrella term may help to educate the public about the pervasiveness of
> scientific observation in artistic practice.'
>
> All the best,
> Todd
>
>
> Todd Siler, Ph.D.
> ArtScience Publications
> P.O. Box 372117
> Denver, Colorado 80237 USA
> Mobile 720-988-8854
> toddsiler@alum.mit.edu
> www.ToddSilerArt.com
> www.ArtNanoInnovations.com

--
Roger F Malina
is in Dallas

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[Yasmin_discussions] Fwd: CALL FOR 5 YEAR UPDATES: art and neuroscience

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here is an input that just came in for our snapshot update
of emerging trends and issues
roger malina



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Greg Dunn <gdunnart@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:25:36 -0500
Subject: Re: CALL FOR 5 YEAR UPDATES
To: robert thill <robert.thill@gmail.com>

Hi Robert,
OK, here goes:

---
As we are in the golden age of neuroscience research, the findings and
technologies emerging from this work are birthing new artistic
endeavors such as the growing community of artists that use
self-recorded brainwaves to drive the creation of visual art, music,
dance, etc. Examples of artists utilizing these approaches are Luciana
Hall (https://lucianahaill.wordpress.com/), Lia Chavez
(http://www.liachavez.com/about/), and Laura Jade
(http://laurajade.com.au/).

A point that needs addressing is whether the term sci/art itself
marginalizes the SEAD community from art patrons or the public who may
perceive it as a passing trend. Many artists who use scientific
methods in their work are not recognized as being "science artists"
(such as Georges Seurat and John Singer Sargent), yet the inclusion of
them under a broader
umbrella term may help to educate the public about the pervasiveness
of scientific observation in artistic practice.

Emerging technologies provide powerful illustrative tools to create
art unprecedented in its scope and detail. Greg Dunn's art/science lab
(http://www.gregadunn.com) is fusing neuroscience, optics,
engineering, and fine art to create the worlds most intricate and
anatomically accurate piece of art on the brain using a new technique
called reflective microetching through a grant provided by the NSF
(http://www.gregadunn.com/?attachment_id=1653).

--

best,
Greg
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Friday, November 6, 2015

[Yasmin_discussions] yasmin moderation

Colleagues

I am your moderator on YASMIN this week, and Dimitris Charitos
will be taking over in Athens next week

We still have our discussion on YASMIN discussions where we are
asking scientists to explain why they engage in art science practices-
the discussion has gone quiet- so we solicit the scientists sleepers on
the list

The next discussion on yasmin will me moderated by Colette Tron in Marseille
Transformaking and critical making

but first on november 12 she is organising with Bernard Stiegler in Aix around
his interesting propositions on the art of hypercontrol

roger malina

Vers un art de l'hypercontrôle #2

Bifurcations, événement, inventions :

processus néguentropiques

Du 12 au 14 novembre 2015 à Aix-en-Provence

Une collaboration

Alphabetville

Ecole supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence

Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation du Centre Pompidou

Dans le cadre d'E-topie 2015

Avec l'aide de

la Fondation Vasarely et de l'Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence

Avec le soutien du Conseil régional P.A.C.A

Coproduction Alphabetville / ESA Aix

Il y a quelques mois, nous invitions Bernard Stiegler à venir nous
parler de "l'art de l'hypercontrôle". Aujourd'hui, une réflexion
croisée s'est ébauchée qui mobilise divers partenaires (Alphabetville,
l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix en Provence, l'Institut de Recherche et
d'Innovation initié par B.Stiegler dans le cadre du Centre Pompidou,
l'équipe de l'antiAtlas).

Nous proposons de partager une nouvelle étape ensemble et avec des
invités, acteurs et observateurs, artistes et scientifiques. Au coeur
de nos discussions se trouve toujours cette proposition, dont la
formulation est d'abord une matière à travailler et un point de
départ, d'un "art de l'hypercontrôle". Il s'agit pour chacun de nous,
à partir de ses recherches, de sa pratique, de son expérience, d'en
questionner le sens et d'en explorer les potentialités.

L'expression d'un "art de l'hypercontrôle" trouve sa source dans
certains aspects du travail de Bernard Stiegler. Celui-ci définit nos
sociétés comme des sociétés hyperindustrielles, dont l'une des
caractéristiques majeures consiste dans le développement de processus
d'automatisation non seulement des machines, mais aussi des
comportements, des savoirs, des désirs, des façons de vivre. Au coeur
de ce mouvement qui conduit vers des « sociétés automatiques », il y a
des technologies et des logiques de contrôle. Ces processus engagent
des dispositifs machiniques fondés sur la collecte et le traitement de
masses gigantesques d'informations, des processus d'homogénéisation
des pratiques et de quantification des normes, une typologie des
usages et des "profils" qui portent en eux la menace de ce que
Stiegler appelle une prolétarisation totale, une prolétarisation qui
touche non seulement le champ du travail productif, mais aussi celui
des loisirs, de la culture et du savoir.

Ce sont bien les façons de percevoir, de se projeter et de se
constituer comme des sujets qui se trouvent en jeu. Il ne s'agit pas
ici de condamner la technique considérée comme une mystérieuse
puissance indépendante, mais d'interroger le champ des potentialités
opposées qu'elle porte quand elle est associée à des stratégies à la
fois politiques, économiques, et culturelles. Il s'agit de mieux
comprendre ces processus, et ce qui vient y répondre non seulement par
des actes de résistance, mais par des actes d'invention, de création,
d'innovation et de réappropriation démocratique.

Si l'on conçoit l'automatisation sociale comme un processus
d'entropie, ces constructions singulières, complexes et vivantes,
apparaissent comme des bifurcations néguentropiques. De ce point de
vue, la question se pose d'un art de l'hypercontrôle.


« Un «art du contrôle» tel que Deleuze l'envisage, et de «
l'hypercontrôle » tel que je tente de le décrire, cela n'est pas
autosuffisant – sauf à entendre et à faire entendre ou réentendre ars
dans art : comme dans les grandes époques de l'inventivité artistique
et spirituelle, un « art de l'hypercontrôle » est indissociable d'une
inventivité juridique, philosophique, scientifique, politique et
économique. »

Bernard Stiegler, extrait de « Ars et inventions organologiques dans
les sociétés de l'hypercontrôle ».


Propositions de programme

Invités pressentis :

Cédric Parizot, anthropologue, Iremam/MMSH, coordinateur du programme
anti-atlas des frontières confirmé

Martina Tazzioli, sociologue, spécialisé en géopolitique des
migrations, LAMES, Aix-Marseille Université

Dominique Augey, économiste, laboratoire de droit des medias et des
mutations sociales, Aix-Marseille Université confirmée

Joana Moll, artiste, enseignante, travaille sur l'art aux frontières,
la sous-veillance, Barcelone

Benjamin Cadon, artiste, cofondateur de Labomedia (labomedia.org),
travaille sur le codage et l'encryptage, les données personnelles, la
surveillance, la cartographie, la citoyenneté…, Orléans

Cécile Portier, auteur, fondatrice du blog Petite racine, chargée de
mission jeune création au MCC, elle a conçu la web fiction Etant
donnée (etantdonnee.net/), interrogation sur les traces numériques
d'un individu, Paris

Intervenants Ecole supérieure d'art :

Jean Cristofol, philosophe, enseignant

Sous réserve : Peter Sinclair, artiste, enseignant, projet Locus Sonus
; Douglas Stanley, artiste, enseignant ; François Parra, artiste,
enseignant, projet Walk the édit ; Guillaume Stagnaro, artiste,
enseignant

Alphabetville :

Colette Tron, auteur, critique, directrice artistique, relations et
interactions écritures/technologies, langages/medias

Intervention : Pour des « technologies de l'esprit »

Intervenants IRI :

Bernard Stiegler, philosophe, directeur de l'IRI

Vincent Puig, directeur adjoint

Paul-Emile Geoffroy

Igor Galligo

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

[Yasmin_discussions] art science and field stations

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Newton and Helen Harrison send us this interest idea for an art
science project to be led
by artists where they argue that with global warming

The proposal noted that with a two-to-three-meter ocean rise the dyke
system and the bays would very likely be overwhelmed, and a giant
estuarial
lagoon would form over the next hundred years, reaching Sacramento.
Who was going to take responsibility for assisting a viable ecosystem
to form?

the Harrisons http://theharrisonstudio.net/ have forty years
experience in work in art and environment in the broadest sense -they
are currently working with a field station, Sagehen
http://sagehen-video.blogspot.com/2013/12/harrisons-break-ground-on-50-year-art.html
with an art work which Sagehen environmental artists on the
vegetation manipulation for their 50-year artwork.

Here is an example of artists developing scientific research in a
science lab setting

roger malina


The Bays at San Francisco become a 400,000-acre Estuarial Lagoon when
the Oceans rise about 3 meters.

Late in 2012 or early in 2013 we were approached by Laura Rogers, who
said she was the curator for a show called the Blue Line, which was
the brainchild
of an extremely ambitious person who intentionally is not named. The
idea was for local and international artists to make proposals for
indoor
and outdoor sites along the San Francisco harbor; a great boat race
was planned and they thought that they could capitalize on all the
excitement
around the race to gain attention for the exhibition. We asked if
there was any money for the project, and the answer was no; we asked
how they expected
to get support, and were told that there was a very intense belief
that once the work was produced support would come. We said okay and
did
a quick proposal, some text and a few images drawn from our earlier
Sacramento Meditations.

The proposal noted that with a two-to-three-meter ocean rise the dyke
system and the bays would very likely be overwhelmed, and a giant
estuarial
lagoon would form over the next hundred years, reaching Sacramento.
Who was going to take responsibility for assisting a viable ecosystem
to form?
We made arguments against leaving such a vast occurrence to chance.
And we made additional arguments as to why we should be permitted —
indeed,
encouraged, and certainly well funded — to form a scientific team to
help birth this estuarial lagoon. We expressed the need for
paleobotanical
research — that is, if you go down to the Eemian, perhaps a couple of
hundred feet down, you come to a time when the temperatures were
higher, the
waters were warmer, and part of the Central Valley was an inland sea.
We saw the Eemian as a teacher, much as we saw other such lagoons far
south
along the coast as teachers. Paleo-botanical research would reveal
what lived the when both the temperature and sea level were much
higher.
It was delightful to be forming these thoughts and images, which fit
in well with our work in the Sagehen watershed, as the Sierra Nevada
would be
supplying fresh water to the lagoon, making it estuarial in nature.

As part of our research we had a lot of fun doing a mini review of the
field. For instance, in his book What is Life published in 1944, the
physicist
Schrodinger addresses the question of how entropy can work in
ecosystems so differently than it does when it is applied to the laws
of thermal dynamics.
Most recently, diverse researchers add marvelously to ecological
thinking by reframing the first three laws of thermodynamics in
ecological
terms. We particularly like the metaphor when describing lowering
entropy as expelling entropy from a system, and we also like the
invention of the
term exergy, which means the raising of available energy in a system.
However big-systems thinking was oddly absent from the ecological
analysis.
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Why do Scientists engage in Art-Science practices today?

Hello everyone,

This is my first time writing to the list, so here you have a brief intro
about myself: I originally studied Mathematics, did research in
Computational Biology, and eventually pursued an MFA in Media Arts. I
currently work in the visualization and modeling of biomedical data, and
also contribute to open source tools used in computational arts and
design. This
site <http://andrescolubri.net/> lists various art and science projects I
have been involved in over the years.

I initially wanted to develop artistic practices to counter a perception of
increased specialization and institutional compartmentalization in the
sciences. I thought that the arts could help to create a more
multidisciplinary dialog by pointing to unexpected connections between
different scientific fields.

In general, I found scientists receptive to the idea of creating
connections between art and science... but they are ultimately constrained
by the demands of their academic jobs (publications, grants, etc). I also
think that making good art or science it is hard enough by itself, so doing
both is even more challenging!

I probably had an all-or-nothing mindset at the beginning in regards to
what art, science, and the art-science intersection are or could be, but I
softened my views over time. Back when I got interested in the art-science
practice, I did a little video <http://andrescolubri.net/s3-project/>for
the S3 Project (Sights and Sounds of Science) at the Materials Research
Center at the University of Chicago. This video is little more than just
myself walking around the research institute I used to work at them time. I
remember that one of the professors looking at the submitted projects said
something along the lines of "I expected that eventually someone was going
to start running around and filming us". This memory now makes me think
that if we look at the scientific activity as whole, perhaps we can
interpret it as another kind of societal performance, and and as such to
find its implicit or underlying art.

Adding to the list of scientific institutions offering art residencies, I'd
like mention the Art Residence at the Broad Institute
<http://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/artist-residence-program>, a
genomics medicine center in Cambridge, US, where I do part of my research
work.

Best,

Andres


On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Guillermo Muñoz <m.m.guillermo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Here i leave an in-put for this interesting discussion from Victor F.
> Puntes, ICREA Research Professor and leader of the Inorganic Nanoparticles
> Group - www.inorganicnanoparticles.net at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience
> and Nanotechnology (ICN2) - www.icn.cat
>
> He is developing art/sci interactions included in his team work (
> http://www.inorganicnanoparticles.net/outreach/art-science/) and directed
> a wiki for nanotechnology (nanowiki -
> http://www.inorganicnanoparticles.net/outreach/nanowiki/), with Josep
> Saldaña, Joan Escofet and Eudald Casals.
>
> Guillermo
>
> -------------------
>
> Nice. But soft. The question would be why there would be any reason why a
> scientist will not spend time, energy, efforts and resources in arts. Who
> first separated music from maths? who divided between wonder and poetry?
> Painting or displaying data? How can be scientist without studying
> intensively the history of knowledge, epistemology, and all the mistakes we
> already did? How limited would be the understanding of the laws of nature
> without philosophy? Maybe we should change our definition of scientist, and
> our definition of artist, and everything will be much clear. Mercenaries
> should be excluded. How are different my willing to know from my subjective
> experience of the world? Or looking for the missing parameter or note or
> stroke? if you can dance your phD, why not to paint your uncertainties?
>
> the benefits of spatial representation, data visualization, efficient
> communication are irrelevant details to me when compared with the benefits
> of using your brain, broadly and intensively, exploring all mechanisms of
> creations in order to better understand the world and the experience of it,
> and then communicating it. Beautiful ideas in a beautiful suit, specially
> when the content does not really exist and everything is its shape (every
> though is a precise local neuronal excited topography inside the brain).
> Beautiful is an emotion of good Espinoza would say.
>
> "I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external
> landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds."
> J. G. Ballard
>
> Therefore, the first question is why there is this sci-art division, the
> second is to look for those who escape from this situations and learn from
> them. There should be a continuum between the most
> duly incomprehensible mathematically computing brain and the most absurd
> surrealist expression of man, and we should be free to move through it. Why
> it is not like that and how to remove the barriers that prevent it (lack of
> education I guess) seems to me key questions on this debate... while others
> are developing the STEM* strategy as the revitaliser of science, ignoring
> knowledge and thinking I am affraid. Ignoring the brain.
>
> I think that there is a moral to this story, namely that it is more
> important to have beauty in one's equations that to have them fit
> experiment. If Schrödinger had been more confident of his work, he could
> have published it some months earlier, and he could have published a more
> accurate equation. It seems that if one is working from the point of view
> of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound
> insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete
> agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not
> allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be
> due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that
> will get cleared up with further development of the theory. Paul
> Dirac, *Scientific
> American*, May 1963.
>
> *Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
>
> Victor F. Puntes
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] why scientists engage in art science practices

Guillermo and Yasminers

Examples of scientists in residence in cultural institutions ?
there are not so many= perhaps yasminers can add to the list

There are many opportunities in the Museum world- i was an Osher
scientist in residence at the Exploratorium Museum of Art and Science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/collaborations/oshers
examples
http://www.exploratorium.edu/collaborations/oshers/all

the ZKM in Germany
http://zkm.de/en/institutes-research-centers
hosted a scientific research group a few years ago
and welcomes scientific researchers in residence

the IMERA mediterranean institute has hosted scientists
involved in art science activities
physicist bruno giorgini: http://imera.univ-amu.fr/en/resident/bruno-giorgini
jim jimgewski: http://sites.univ-provence.fr/imera/index.php/en/rss-feed/106.html
and many artists in residence working with local scientists

other organisations such as Banff, Arts Catalyst, Dublin Science
Gallery have active
programs that welcome scientists

maybe yasminers can add to the list

i take the opportunity to mention the exceptional NAFKI futures conference
http://www.keckfutures.org/conferences/art-sem/index.html

this is the first time the US National Academy of Science, National
Academy of Engineering
and of Medicine are organising an an art science meeting

The NAKFI Conference on Art and Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation & Realization
see below= which hopefully will be a new step in enabling the new
kinds of collaborations that are emerging

here are the reasons they think that scientists should be involved in
collaborations with artists:

Explore how arts, design, sciences, engineering, and medicine can
stimulate a renaissance of innovation that solves real-world
problems;

discover how collaborations can engage the public and other scientists
and encourage discourse in important issues;

examine how creative disruption and aesthetic experience engage the
human mind to stimulate creativity and innovation;

create concrete projects that can (and ultimately do) lead to at least
one of four kinds of impact – educational , cultural, social and
scientific.

but it is true that there is currently a large asymettry with many
more artists in residence programs
in scientific institutions that scientists in residence programs in
cultural insitutions

roger malina

The 2015 NAKFI Conference will take place at the Arnold and Mabel
Beckman Center in Irvine, California on November 12-14,
( applications are closed-it is not a public conference)

"Art leads to scientific innovation and science inspires art. Like a
pair of bookends they work best when used in tandem and change the way
we view the world. Without one you can't have the other…"[1]
-Kristi Charish, scientist and author, Owl & The Japanese Circus

The Renaissance has been described as an "integrative period" of
unified knowledge – a time during which art and science were one.
Homo Universalis, or polymaths, embraced a proficient understanding of
art, architecture, science and engineering, leading to a period of
wondrous discovery. A shift from integration to specialization
occurred over time, which some presume has separated the domains of
knowledge and experience and contributed to distinct cultures.

Have the cultures really become distinct? There are multiple examples
of collaborations ranging from American painter Abbot Thayer's
invention of camouflage to composer George Antheil and actress Hedy
Lamarr's collaboration that led to the invention of "frequency
hopping" – the encryption technology on cell phones that helps to
prevent messages from being intercepted. Stents used to treat aortic
aneurysms were designed using the principles of origami, and Kenneth
Snelson's tensegrity sculptures have created a new form of engineering
and have helped biologists explain the shapes of cells[2].

Every frontier of human inquiry is art-science in nature in that
intuition and imagination are equal partners to deduction and
precision. The question is not whether art, design, science,
engineering, and medicine are distinct and should be fully integrated,
but how do they meet to serve as the bookends for innovation.

The NAKFI Conference on Art and Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation & Realization will
bring together a diverse group of participants to:

explore how arts, design, sciences, engineering, and medicine can
stimulate a renaissance of innovation that solves real-world
problems;
discover how collaborations can engage the public and other scientists
and encourage discourse in important issues;
examine how creative disruption and aesthetic experience engage the
human mind to stimulate creativity and innovation;
create concrete projects that can (and ultimately do) lead to at least
one of four kinds of impact – educational , cultural, social and
scientific.

________________________________
[1] Charish K. Art, science, and the great disconnect:
http://www.scwist.ca/art-science-and-the-great-disconnect/
[2] Root-Bernstein R. 11 Apr 2011. The art of scientific and
technological innovations. ScienceBlogs. Accessed December 12, 2014:
http://scienceblogs.com/art_of_science_learning/2011/04/11/the-art-of-scientific-and-tech-1/.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Guillermo Muñoz <m.m.guillermo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We have a very active week, and now it seems that our energy fall a little.
> I will inject some new ideas.
>
> 1) Roger, do you know more examples of residences where scientist are asked
> to go to an art space, like Scientifi Delirium Madness?,
>
> 2) In my opinion, it is plenty of science places where nowadays are
> developing art residencies. The list is so big (Fermi Lab, CERN,
> Astrophysics and Astronomy observatories, ...).
>
> 3) At the same time, there are many art places where the idea of science
> work or methodology (Labs, new technologies) is integrated. Like before,
> the list is huge, but would like to present this new exhibition at Laboral
> center (Gijón, Spain):
>
> http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/exposiciones/materia-prima?set_language=en
>
> So, it would be very interesting to listen any of the experiences of the
> scientists engaged in both of this activities (receiveing artists in
> residence in their work place, or collaboarting in this art/sci activities
> developed in art centers).
>
> Best,
>
> Guillermo.
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] why scientists engage in art science practices

Guillermo
Here is what I was able to find on question 1:

SAIC: http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NexStar-2-5-Inch-External-Enclosure/dp/B002JQNXZC/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
(Cheng, a mathematician, followed, and I am unsure how many others the Institute has sponsored)

Delirium Madness: (you mentioned this one)
http://www.leonardo.info/2014-art-sci-residency/

Museum Rietberg
http://www.rietberg.ch/kosmos

Peabody Essex Museum
https://stemtosteamihe.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/a-scientist-in-an-art-museum/

Look at Phillips' bio:
http://www.bu.edu/arts/panelist-bios/

Note first Astronaut on Staff info (Seattle Art Museum):
http://themuseumminute.com/2013/03/22/what-happened-in-museums-this-week-march-16-march-22/

At the Smithsonian (speaks to Guillermo's post about the scientist doing art (or illustration in this case)):
Meek (1817 - 1876): http://paleobiology.si.edu/PaleoArt/Historical/Highlights/shells.html

-paul


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> On Nov 4, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Guillermo Muñoz <m.m.guillermo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> We have a very active week, and now it seems that our energy fall a little.
> I will inject some new ideas.
>
> 1) Roger, do you know more examples of residences where scientist are asked
> to go to an art space, like Scientifi Delirium Madness?,
>
> 2) In my opinion, it is plenty of science places where nowadays are
> developing art residencies. The list is so big (Fermi Lab, CERN,
> Astrophysics and Astronomy observatories, ...).
>
> 3) At the same time, there are many art places where the idea of science
> work or methodology (Labs, new technologies) is integrated. Like before,
> the list is huge, but would like to present this new exhibition at Laboral
> center (Gijón, Spain):
>
> http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/exposiciones/materia-prima?set_language=en
>
> So, it would be very interesting to listen any of the experiences of the
> scientists engaged in both of this activities (receiveing artists in
> residence in their work place, or collaboarting in this art/sci activities
> developed in art centers).
>
> Best,
>
> Guillermo.
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