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Panel discussion at Location One » NYC
A Journal of Performance and Art celebrates the growing discourse on this topic in an evening entitled “Neuroscience and the Arts today: Shared Interfaces.” The discussion features contributions by visual artists, a dance therapist, a musician, an author, and a neuroscientist. Artist Ellen K. Levy will moderate the event.
Panelists:
Ellen K. Levy
Michael E. Goldberg
Michael Century
Siri Husveldt
Denis Pelli
Jill Scott
K.C. Wiley
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Below is the list of science museums all over the world. See Science museum for definitions. (listed by province) For all categorized science museums in Canada, see: Science museums in Canada Delete the scoop?
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Call for professional collaborators Field_Notes – Deep Time Field_Notes – Deep Time is a week long art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, will develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the Deep Time theme. Field_Notes – Deep Time is in search of artistic and scientific responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and comprehension, and the time of biological, environmental, and geological processes in which we are embedded. The local sub-Arctic nature, ecology, and geology, as well as the scientific environment and infrastructure of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station will act as a catalyst for the work carried out. Dates and places: 15th – 22nd September 2013 field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station 23rd, 24th of September 2013 conference in Helsinki Delete the scoop?
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On May 16 I was one of several invitees to participate in the Networking Sciences, Engineering, Arts, and Design to Confront the Hard Problems of our Time. This conference was co-hosted by the Smit...
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Nettrice Gaskins aka Renegade Futurist reports on joint NSF NEA conference, w/ Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts, and Design Delete the scoop?
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CONSUME CONSUME, is a group exhibition informed by my research at the intersection of art, technology and food systems. It opens at gallery@calit2 on Thursday, April 11, 2013. Projects in the galle... Via Jules Rochielle, Amanda McDonald Crowley
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An exhibition I have curated that looks at health, food systems, the pharmaceutical industry and environmental health systems... 
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At this point, the TED talk of Wake Forest University researcher Anthony Atala 3-D-printing a dummy, human kidney on stage is the stuff of nerd mythology. Delete the scoop?
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The artist Beatriz da Costa lost her long, fierce battle with cancer on the evening of 27 December 2012, at the age of 38. This is not an obituary, but simply a personal reflection on the Arts Cata... Delete the scoop?
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Sloan Science and Film is a website devoted to exploring the intersection of science and film, and enhancing the public understanding of science and technology. It features award-winning science-themed short films that have been supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, videos of discussions with filmmakers and scientists, news about the Sloan Film Program’s awards and activities, and original articles exploring the cinematic depictions of scientific ideas and the portrayal of scientists and engineers in film and television.
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In the series Dialogues on “Bioart”, I will speak about these and other issues with curators, artists, cultural workers and other professionals who deal with "Bioart" in different ways and have been working in this field for a number of years. Delete the scoop?
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“Researchers call for Public Town Hall to Discuss Drone Malfunction and Crash” In light of the recent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) malfunctioning and crash on UCSD’s campus, researchers associated... Via Christiane Paul Delete the scoop?
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Molly Watson writes on Pierre Bourdieu’s assessment of food in "Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste" (1979), and updates his data graphic. Delete the scoop?
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Futures & fiction- A digital quarterly from the makers of New Scientist Delete the scoop?
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Forthcoming magazine exploring the convergence of art, science and technology. Delete the scoop?
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A new commission in collaboration with FACT for the exhibition Turning FACT Inside Out celebrating the last 10 years of FACT, until 15 September 2013 Delete the scoop?
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Amazing sounding Art Science residency program in Singapore w/ additional themes for 2013: Climate Change & Environmental Futures + Contemporary Asian & Future Cities. Delete the scoop?
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Science journalist Emily Anthes talks about how scientists are engineering mice with tumors and working to create pigs that can grow organs for human transplant and insects that could serve as drones for the military.
""It puts animal welfare and human welfare in conflict," says Anthes. "Most thinking, feeling humans, I think, would say that they don't want animals to suffer, but a lot of us — the majority of Americans — surveys show, also accept some sort of animal research and experimentation. ... Most people, for instance, would say that they're willing to see some mice engineered to get cancer if it cures human cancer, but they're less willing to see mice suffer if we're just looking for a cure for baldness. It's really something we have to tackle on a case-by-case basis based on what the potential benefits for humans are versus the cost to the animals themselves."
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Very interesting read in relation to Beatriz da Costa's artwork, Dying for the Other. Delete the scoop?
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Art and Science - Hybrid Art and Interdisciplinary Research
An international conference “Art & Science – Hybrid Art and Interdisciplinary Research” and related exhibition takes place in 2014, organized by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA) and the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA). The main goal is to nurture synergetic cooperation of art and science and to present a multiplicity of practices in different research fields by doctoral students, internationally renowned researchers and practitioners, and the emerging ideas regarding convergence and confluence of different disciplines. Delete the scoop?
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Last year's Society of Biology photography competition winner discusses visual art, science and entries to the 2012 competition entitled How Biology Can Save the World (A personal thought on photography, art, biology and science Delete the scoop?
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Momentum is building to explore how the arts can be linked with STEM subjects to enhance student learning and help foster creativity and innovation. Via Stephanie Sandifer, Shannon Marie Robinson Delete the scoop?
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A mutation that allows cells to grow out of control could also provide a new way to target and destroy cancer cells. This potential Achilles’ heel comes from a mutation in a gene called PTEN, which is found in a wide range of cancers.
PTEN is one of many tumor suppressor genes that we have to prevent our cells from growing out of control. If the PTEN gene stops working because of a mutation, it can cause tumours to develop – indeed many tumors have a mutated form of PTEN. However when a door closes, a window opens: the PTEN mutation helps the tumor to grow, but it could also mark it out as a target.
Researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that switching off another gene known as NLK (Nemo-like kinase) killed tumor cells that had the PTEN mutation. This makes NLK a good target for drug developers to create a new cancer treatment.
Initially, the researchers took samples of tumor cells with and without the mutation, and switched off genes for important proteins that are used for regulating lots of processes in the cell. To do this they used small interfering RNA (or siRNA) which interfere with the processes of specific genes. These siRNAs block the chain of events that allow a gene to produce a protein, effectively switching it off. By switching off 779 genes individually, they could look for ones where cells with the PTEN mutation died and cells without the mutation survived.
This is how the researchers discovered the powerful effect of switching off the NLK gene. They are not certain how this works but it appears to protect a protein called FOXO1 that can act as a backup tumor suppressor and cause the cancer cell to die. When PTEN is mutated, the FOXO1 protein becomes vulnerable to a process called phosphorylation, which means it is ejected from the cell nucleus and destroyed. NLK is one of the proteins that phosphorylates FOXO1 and so by switching off the NLK gene, FOXO1 is able to do its job.
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The artist exhibits real nimbus clouds in a highly ephemeral installation. Delete the scoop?
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Would it be possible to integrate biological components with advanced robotics, using biological cells to do machine-like functions and interface with an electronic nervous system — in effect, creating an autonomous, multi-cellular biohybrid robot? Researchers Orr Yarkoni, Lynn Donlon, and Daniel Frankel, from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University think so, and they’ve developed an interface to allow communication between the biological and electronic components. One of the major challenges in developing biohybrid devices is in the interface between biological and electronic components. Most cellular signals are simply not compatible with electronics.
However, manipulation of signal transduction pathways is one way to interface cells with electronics. So the researchers genetically engineered protein cells from a Chinese hamster ovary to produce nitric oxide (NO) in response to visible light. Here’s how:
1. They genetically engineered the nitric oxide synthase protein eNOS by inserting a light-oxygen-voltage (LOV) domain into the gene. This created a photoactive version of the eNOS protein that could produce NO in response to excitation by visible light.
2. They attached these mutant cells to a nickel tetrasulfonated
In summary: The researchers converted an optical signal into a chemical signal (NO), and converted the chemical signal into an electrical signal. This signal could, in turn, be used to control a robot. Unlike solid-state photodetectors, the cells have the ability to self-reproduce and the potential to combine input signals to perform computation. With rapid advances in synthetic biology, manipulation of metabolic pathways to integrate with machinery will some day allow the development of advanced robotics, the researchers suggest.
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The virtual home of Grizedale Arts, a new idea for an art institution which exists as a growing network of projects and ideas brought together through this website.
Grizedale Arts is a curatorial project in a continuous state of development, based in the historic site of Lawson Park farm above the Coniston valley in the lake district. The site is run as a productive small holding and working farm house, with an ongoing programme of events, projects, residencies and community activity which develop the contemporary arts in new directions. Delete the scoop?
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Aeon is a new digital magazine of ideas and culture, publishing an original essay every weekday. Delete the scoop?
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Hedonistika will be a three-day, multi-modal event held in Montréal, CA that brings together food scholars, artists, and roboticists to examine the innumberable (and often hidden) ways in which technology and food are related. By engaging with the hegemony-challenging ideology of hacking, participants will seek to interrogate and expose the mutually constructive bonds of food and tech, while proposing alternative, playful, and stimulating reconfigurations. Part festival, part workshop, and part symposium, Hedonistika will merge research-creation with critical analysis, and community engagement with celebration. (Plus, it will taste and look really cool.)
Hedonistika is looking for projects and individuals that explore the critical issues within these realms. The curators are accepting proposals for robotics, installation and performance work, completed or not for exhibition in the festival portion of the event. Artists should submit a pdf document comprised of…
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