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Deadline for proposals to participate: 10am, Mon 4 April 2011
Synthesis will be a 6-day intensive exchange laboratory for artists, designers, synthetic biologists, engineers, and others from relevant disciplines, collaboratively exploring synthetic biology's ideas and techniques and its social and cultural implications.
The exchange laboratory will be devised and led by scientists including Prof John Ward (UCL) in collaboration with artist/designers Oron Catts (SymbioticA UWA/Royal College of Art) and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Synthetic Aesthetics). Synthesis is organised by The Arts Catalyst with UCL and Synthetic Aesthetics. The exchange process is intended to explore and challenge the notions of synthetic biology, the level of control and manipulation of living systems, the application of engineering logic, and the social and cultural dimensions of synthetic biology; with the hope to inspire proposals for future projects from all participants.
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The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS *
James Acord, the “nuclear sculptor”, passed away on the 8 January 2011. The Arts Catalyst worked closely with Acord over many years. We invite you to join us at this event to remember and celebrate his life and work.
Acord was the only private individual in the world licensed to own and handle radioactive materials. He is likely to remain so since the authorities closed the loopholes after he achieved his license. His life became a 20-year cat and mouse game with the nuclear regulatory authorities, in which he pursued his dream of sculpting with nucleear materials. Along the way, he created sculpture and events that probed the history of nuclear engineering, often incorporating radioactive materials. Acord's astonishing story shines light on the secrecy and security with which society cloaks the nuclear industry.
The evening will include an exhibit of Acord's work, stories of his work, film clips, photos, and a reading from 'The Book of Ash', a novel based on Acord's life, by the author James Flint. James Acord was a master storyteller, and we will also have an 'open mic' session and invite your memories and stories!
We expect this free event will be popular, so please
* ACCESS: The event will be held on the first floor at The Arts Catalyst. Unfortunately, there is no lift. Please contact The Arts Catalyst to discuss any specific access needs. The event will be live streamed.
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KOSMICA
7-10pm on Thursday 24 March 2011The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS
Our monthly intergalactic gathering brings you:
Agnes Meyer-Brandis' lecture performance on art, science and weightlessness. Her starting point is an artistic project, entitled Cloud-Core-Scanner, conducted under weightless conditionswith the DLR (German Aerospace Centre) in which she explores the boundaries separating fact and fiction, fantasy and technology.
We Colonised the Moon (Hagen Betzwieser and Sue Corke), who explore an idiosyncratic world view based on popular science, flexible wikipedia knowledge, graphical illustrations and various display formates. Hagen Betzwieser will talk about his experience in The Institute of General Theory and Sue Corke will describe their projects Moon Scratch and Sniff and Lost in Space.
In a 1:1 performative encounter, 'Tinned Fingers take you into space', Tinned Fingers provide a short encounter for audience members - one at a time - that combines film, music and performance to give an experience of space travel in DIY style.
KOSMICA is a free event, but space is limited, so please
The event will be live streamed.
Each month KOSMICA will bring together the cosmically curious and culturally quirky space community for a social mix of art–space programmes. The series is programmed by Nahum Mantra and the next KOSMICA will take place on Yuri's Night, Tuesday 12 April 2011.
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Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy
The second Arctic Perspective Initiative publication, Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy, edited by Dr Michael Bravo, senior lecturer at the Scott Polar Research Institute, and Nicola Triscott, director of The Arts Catalyst is out now.
The book explores the interplay of visual culture, technology and indigenous activism in the North and highlights the cultural, environmental and geopolitical significance of the Arctic and its indigenous people.
Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy - 128pp softback €19.80 (approx £17) order online from publishers Hatje Cantz.
THE ARTS CATALYST PUBLICATIONS
For a full list of all our publications and online ordering.
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FACT Liverpool
until 13 March 2011
Working across experimental music, performance, TV, video and sculpture, Paik’s work reflects the development of counter-culture ideas central to artists working with technology today.
Cornerhouse, Manchester, UKuntil 20 March 2011This exhibition surveys the artist’s investigations of language, rhetoric and performance.
Ronald Feldman Gallery, 31 Mercer Street, New York, US
in collaboration with the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art
To 26 March 2011
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, pioneers of ecologically-oriented art whose proposals have often influenced long-term public policy planning, will exhibit a multi-media installation that addresses the effects of global warming on one of the world’s great mountain chains covering 28,000 square miles
To 27 March 2011 The exhibition explores the work coming out of the perceptions of artists, scientists, and philosophers of the time just before and after the October Revolution of 1917
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
10am-6pm, Friday 6 May 2011
Tickets: £55 (£25 concessions). Book online.
Curating Science brings together cultural leaders from galleries, museums, and innovative sites of engagement, to reflect on the changing role of science in their practice and consider its future direction. Speakers include representatives from the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, and The Arts Catalyst.
Curating Science is organised by Kingston University.
Dialogues
Northern Arts and Science Network, Rose Bowl, Leads Metropolitan University
9am-5pm, 19 March 2011
This conference will provide an insight into the varied types and modes of discourse and conversations that are currently emerging from combinatory areas of arts/science research and collaboration.
The Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica calls for entries and awards prizes in the following categories: computer animation/film/VFX, interactive art, digital musics and sound art, hybrid art, digital communities, u19 - freestyle computing, [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant. Deadline 18 March 2011.
Conexiones Improbables is calling for international artists, creators, experimental designers and architects, software designers and social scientists interested in developing projects in the fields of innovation and social responsibility. The call is open to all nationalities. Successful applicants will collaborate with nine organisations located in the Basque Country and Salamanca.
COAL website
is a web-portal of international opportunities for artists wishing to work in the area of environmental art; funding opportunities, residencies, and Open Calls, etc.
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