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May 22 2013, 10pm


Story Time by *AlectorFencer
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May 22 2013, 10pm


scotteagle: Source: Kate MacDowell (also on Facebook)   Artists at the Science Conference: Of Course By Glendon Mellow | February 3, 2012 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/03/artistsatscienceconferenceofcourse/ … There have been numerous communities of science-based artists online for a while now. I think what made this year different for ScienceOnline, once again started with Bora Zivkovic, Anton Zuiker and Karyn Traphagen and their vision for large umbrella science communication. After Pepsigate, while new science blogging networks were cropping up quickly, Bora approached me about the ambitious scienceblogging.org. He wondered if there would be enough science-based artists’ blogs updating frequently enough to warrant an RSS feed, to be carried on scienceblogging.org. I assured him there was: the Science Artists Feed was born, (a full list of blogs here and here). I started doing the Scumble posts on my own blog, The Flying Trilobite and have since moved them here to Symbiartic to showcase interesting links from around (but not exclusively) the Science Artists Feed. An interesting side effect is that so far, while the Science Artists Feed has not penetrated most science blogger’s consciousness, it has made more and more of the artists themselves aware of each other as they check out who else is included in the round-up of links…   SEED MAGAZINEThe Future of Science…Is Art? Fourth Culture / by Jonah Lehrer also see http://www.jonahlehrer.com/ To answer our most fundamental questions, science needs to find a place for the arts. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_future_of_science_is_art/ …This is why modern physics needs the arts. Once we accept the importance of metaphor to the scientific process, we can start thinking about how we can make those metaphors better. Poets, of course, are masters of metaphor: The power of their art depends on the compression of meaning into meter; vague feelings are translated into visceral images. It’s not a coincidence that many of the greatest physicists of the 20th century—eminent figures like Einstein, Feynman, and Bohr—were known for their distinctly romantic method of thinking. These eminent scientists depended on their ability to use metaphor to see what no one else had ever seen, so that the railroad became a metaphor for relativity, and a drop of liquid helped symbolize the atomic nucleus. Poets can speed this scientific process along, helping physicists to invent new metaphors and improve their old ones. Perhaps we can do better than a garden hose. Maybe a simile will help unlock the secret of dark matter. As the string theorist Brian Greene recently wrote, the arts have the ability to “give a vigorous shake to our sense of what’s real,” jarring the scientific imagination into imagining new things….   Directory of Art & Technology Programs https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=13017 Background: In 2004, Mark Tribe asked Michael Naimark to write an overview of academic art and technology programs as part of a proposal Mark was preparing for Columbia University. Mark wanted something comprehensive but with a point of view, in a similar spirit to Michael’s 2003 ArtsLab report. With the proliferation and growth of academic art and technology programs around the world, we decided to use our material as the seed for this wiki.     Science, Art and Technology at the Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/education/sciarttech/2a1.html Foldit Gamers Solve AIDS Puzzle That Baffled Scientists for a Decade “U.S. gamers, playing a protein-folding game called Foldit, have helped unlock the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme that the scientific community had been unable to unlock for a decade…” Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/09/19/foldit-gamers-solve-aids-puzzle-that-baffled-scientists-for-decade/#ixzz1hw2qWlTz
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May 22 2013, 5pm


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May 22 2013, 4pm


kiwitachan: Technology killed art by ~kiwiTACHAN
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May 22 2013, 4pm


slowasmoss: Might make these tiny pots as necklaces to hand out to people at the exhibition. Terracotta clay + moss.
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May 22 2013, 4pm


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May 19 2013, 10pm


yocalio: Let the sky fall. When it crumbles. We will stand tall.
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May 19 2013, 10pm


thingsthingsandthings: WIP Speedpaint for a painting idea. I’ve never painted something like this before.
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May 19 2013, 9pm


tachibanamakoto: by GUNNI
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May 16 2013, 7pm


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May 14 2013, 5pm


georginakincaid: ♛ POMEGRENADE (a playlist inspired by the beautiful and intriguing story of hades and persephone) beat the devil’s tattoo by black rebel motorcycle club / below my feet by mumford and sons / the devil’s tears by angus & julia stone / heavy in your arms by florence and the machine / jilted lovers by the naked and famous /i don’t want love by the antlers /blue blood by foals / undisclosed desires by muse / caged by within temptation / persephone by kingfisher sky / the razor by from our hands LISTEN / DOWNLOAD
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