SEED - seeking dialogue between art and science

Bridges Leeuwarden

2007-11-15T16:17:00.000Z

Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture

CHN University Netherlands
Leeuwarden, Native Town of M.C. Escher

http://www.bridgesmathart.org/

A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BY
Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
Municipality of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

July 24-28, 2008 (Excursion on Saturday July 26)
July 29 -- Mathematical Art Public Activity Day

Please see http://www.bridgesmathart.org/2008/2008.html for the
call for papers, art exhibit submissions, teacher workshops, and
other details.

We also invite you to click on "2008 Conference Flyer", and post
printed copies.

See you in Leeuwarden!
The Bridges Organization

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MutaMorphosis in Prague Nov 8-10

2007-10-23T23:34:00.000+01:00

If you have not already registered there still may just be time to get to Prague for Mutamorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, a major conference taking place from 8-10 November, organized as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of MIT press art-science journal Leonardo.

"More than 80 presentations of artists, interdisciplinary researchers, scientists and creative technologists will focus on the growing interest within the worlds of arts and sciences in extreme and hostile environments", says Roger F. Malina, conference co-chair.

There will be a keynote lecture about the architecture of complexity by Albert-László Barabási, who is recognised for the introduction of the scale-free network concept and popularization of
network theory, and a lecture by Roy Ascott, pioneering cyber artist who published in 1967 in the first volume of the Leonardo Journal.

Among the invited speakers there are Stelarc, one of the world-famous artists using technology to extend capabilities of human body, nano artist Victoria Vesna who will be speaking with nano scientist James Gimzewski, the author of 2005 most downloaded paper in Nature on a pocket sized nuclear fusion device, or artist-scientist duo James Crutchfield & David Dunn who
will focus on exploration of bioacoustic ecology of deforestation.

In addition, MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences conference will take place in the framework of art festival ENTER which will feature number of experimental performances, screenings and exhibitions. Among the exhibitions there will be the first retrospective of Frank J. Malina (1912 -1981) who was an American aeronautical engineer and painter as well as
initiator of the Leonardo Journal. He constructed the first rocket to break the 50-mile altitude mark, becoming the first sounding rocket to reach space, while his kinetic paintings embed an ambitious attempt to explore territories of art-science collaboration.

View MutaMorphosis programme

Le Laboratoire opens in Paris

2007-10-23T23:24:00.001+01:00

Le Laboratoire is a brand new creative space bringing artists and science together that has just opened in a stunning building in central Paris. Founded by Harvard professor David Edwards, who has just completed the book ArtScience: Creativity and the Post-Google Generation, Le Laboratoire aims to provide a space for the development and display of innovations that involve scientists in collaborations with artists and designers. Currently on show are Bel-Air: News about a Second Atmosphere, a collaboration between Edwards and designer Mathieu Lehanneur, and Matière a Penser, a collaboration between Fabrice Hyber and MIT biotechnologist Robert Langer.

View Le Laboratoire website
Read Nature article (Oct 18) about Le Laboratoire (Nature subscribers only)

Grace Weir exhibition in London until 25 November

2007-10-23T23:18:00.000+01:00

The Science Museum in London is currently hosting an exhibition of four thought-provoking films by Irish artist Grace Weir that investigate time. The films are the results of the artist's investigations into black holes, notions of time and light, Einstein's theory of relativity, and questions in philosophy and theoretical physics regarding our shifting relationships with clock time. Science and processes of science are Grace Weir’s subjects. But her perspective is firmly that of an artist investigating the world around her, and her work is as much involved with the qualities and structure of film-making as it is with science. The show ends on 25 November.
View more details

Karl Grimes show in Gallery of Photography and National Museum

2007-10-04T19:52:00.000+01:00

Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk is the title of Karl Grimes' extraordinary new exhibition of photographs of the collections of the Natural History Museum. Drawing its title from a mnemomic for the Linnaean classification system (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species) the exhibition takes a behind-the-scenes look at the order of nature in one of Ireland's most beloved collections presenting humorous and occasionally disturbing perspectives.

The exhibition, based on work done during an artist-residency that was sadly cut short when a staircase in the museum collapsed, is a must-see for anyone interested in the interplay between art and science. It is in the Gallery of Photography and the National Museum, Kildare Street and runs until November 4.

More details on Karl Grimes' website
Gallery of Photography website

Stop! Look and Listen -- Multimedia Systems exhibition

2007-09-22T13:05:00.000+01:00

Want to interact with a waterfall, probe a brain for memories, or talk
with a therapist made of pins?

Every year students participating in the M.Sc. in Multimedia Systems
Programme at Trinity College collaborate to create exciting and
innovative projects for display to the general public. This year is no
different, with students producing interactive environments that
explore the diverse nature of multimedia.

26th - 30th September, Regent House, Trinity College, Dublin 2.

More details

Gormley sculpture for Liffey inspired by Weaire-Phelan structure

2007-09-22T12:27:00.000+01:00

The Dublin Docklands have recently announced a giant sculptural commission for the Liffey by Anthony Gormley inspired by the bubble-matrix structure discovered by physicist and SEED salon habitué Professor Denis Weaire with Robert Phelan. This structure is the most efficient form of foam yet discovered. More art-science-technology projects are in the pipeline with the Dublin Docklands including a visit by Australian performance artist STELARC in November.

Read more about the Docklands commission
Read more about the Weaire-Phelan structure

Constant Light -- Sean Hillen wins Omagh commission

2007-09-22T12:12:00.000+01:00

Artist and SEED member Sean Hillen, working with landscape architect Desmond Fitzgerald, has recently been awarded the commission to develop the Omagh Bomb memorial with a piece entitled Constant Light using mirrors tracking the sun to pour 31 sunbeams (one for each victim of the Omagh bombing) onto a heart in a large glass pillar marking the site of the blast.

Read more about the project

July 11: SEED salon: EDUARDO KAC

2007-07-05T20:33:00.000+01:00

Wednesday July 11, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
Donation: 5 Euro

SEED presents a rare opportunity for an informal conversation and discussion with Brazilian artist EDUARDO KAC (www.ekac.org), one of the most famous and controversial of contemporary artists in the world working with the materials and tools of science and technology.

In 2000 Kac caused a media storm with GFP Bunny (pictured), a new life form consisting of a living green fluorescent rabbit. Another work, Genesis, involved encoding the beginning of the King James Version of the Bible into the DNA of bacteria and allowing Internet participants to mutate the scriptural text at a distance.

Kac was recently featured as himself in the science fiction novel NEXT written by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. In the 1980s and 1990s he was responsible for pioneering experiments in telepresence art, including his robotic parrot installation Rara Avis. New projects explore the convergence of the digital and biological, the cultural impact of biotechnology, and nanotech poetry. Kac's book Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond was published by the MIT Press in June of 2007.

As places at this event are limited please confirm your attendance by email to seed.artscience@googlemail.com

This event is presented in partnership with the Chester Beatty Library and Science Gallery

July 3 SEED salon with PHILIP ROSS -- LIFE INDOORS

2007-06-26T21:32:00.000+01:00

Tuesday July 3, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
Donation: 5 Euro.

Many of the artworks made by Bay Area biological artist PHILIP ROSS are created through the design and construction of controlled environmental spaces.

Juggernaut (pictured) is a self-contained habitat for one living plant. Three blown glass enclosures provide a hydroponic environment; the plant's roots are submerged in nutrient-infused water, while LED lights supply the necessary illumination. In creating it Ross drew on two culturally divergent traditions - Chinese scholar's objects and Victorian glass conservatories, which share the belief that nature is best understood when seen through the lens of human artifice.

In this SEED art-science salon, Philip Ross will present the evolution of his own artwork, which consists of transforming a variety of living species into sculptural artifacts that are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic. Mr. Ross is based in the Bay Area of California, where he teaches courses on art, technology, and philosophy at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts.

June SEED art-science salon: BRIAN SCHWARTZ on Science As Performance

2007-06-06T12:40:00.000+01:00

Wednesday June 13, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
Donation: 5 Euro.

THEATRE, MUSIC, DANCE, the literary and the visual arts can convey the joys and controversies of science. In this SEED art-science salon, New York-based physicist BRIAN SCHWARTZ will illustrate a program at the CUNY Graduate Center entitled Science & the Arts which is designed to communicate to the public the excitement and wonder of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

BRIAN SCHWARTZ is VP for Research, Professor of Physics, and co-director of the New Media Lab at the Graduate Center of CUNY. In 2000, Dr. Schwartz ran a landmark symposium, Creating Copenhagen, prior to the opening of the play Copenhagen on Broadway. He produces major public programs at the Graduate Center on the interface between science and theater, art, music and dance (link) He operates a National Science Foundation grant entitled Science as Performance: A Proactive Strategy to Communicate and Educate Through Theater, Music and Dance. Another NSF grant is with the Feminist Press focused on developing science related books for women (link). Currently he is co-producing a musical based on the novel “Einstein’s Dreams” by Alan Lightman.

Image: Richard Wiseman in a Faraday cage with a million volt spark

Festival of Light: Event on May 28

2007-05-22T01:02:00.000+01:00

Monday May 28th, 6.30pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
Entrance: FREE.

Are you interested in light? Does your work involve playing with, controlling, understanding, tweaking or manipulating light?

Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerilla projectionists and inventors...

The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin is developing a two week FESTIVAL OF LIGHT as its launching programme in January 2008 which will celebrate the art, science and technology of light through a range of installations and events around the city centre.

SEED and the Science Gallery are hosting an informal brainstorming meeting to discuss ideas and possibilities at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2 on May 28th at 6.30pm.

We welcome your ideas and suggestions for projects, people to involve and approaches to engaging diverse communities in the project.

Projects could be tiny enough to fit in a matchbox or large enough to control the lighting system of a whole skyscraper. Please feel free to bring along examples of your work.

For more information on the Festival of Light or to suggest ideas contact: Elizabeth Allen at the Science Gallery eallen@tcd.ie

Admission to this event is free but as places are limited, please confirm your attendance by e-mailing Sheloa Nichols: seed.artscience@gmail.com

May SEED Salon: TILING SPACE WITH MUSICAL CANONS

2007-03-26T09:20:00.000+01:00

Monday May 7th, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.
Donation: 5 Euro.

Most people believe that music and mathematics have little in common. Whilst one seems the fabric of dreams, the other is the skeleton of abstract reasoning. That both are in fact tightly linked will be shown by French composer Georges Bloch and Italian mathematician Moreno Andreatta, who are based at the interdisciplinary centre for music IRCAM in Paris. Using the rich examples of musical tiling canons, which tile the musical space in much the same way as the famous geometrical structures do in M. C. Escher's intriguing drawings, they demonstrate how much of music can be penetrated and/or inspired by mathematics - and vice versa, how musical questions can lead to interesting problems and answers in mathematics. The salon will finish with a multi-media improvisation, which combines sound and video, jazz and contemporary music.

An accompanying 3-hour WORKSHOP takes place on Saturday 5th of May. For more information on the salon and the workshop click here.

Georges Bloch is a composer, teacher and singer, who studied engineering in France and Composition and Computer Music at University of California, San Diego. He currently teaches at the University of Strasbourg and at IRCAM in Paris. As a singer he performed with “Vorwärts Harmonic Blass Band”, sound poetry with Jaap Blonk, new music with several ensembles. As a composer he conceived Memories of Monk (2004-2006), an installation with saxophone, live video and computer assisted improvisation, and many other pieces, which make use of musical tiling canons.

Moreno Andreatta graduated in Mathematics at the University of Pavia and in Piano Performance at the Conservatory of Novara in Italy. He is a researcher at IRCAM within the Music Representation Team where he also contributes to the development of new tools for the mathematics and music software OpenMusic. In his spare time he composes, sings and plays French and Italian chansons with “Nationale 91”.

Both events are supported by the ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY in conjunction with the DEPFA BANK.

SEED WORKSHOP on MATHEMATICS AND MUSIC

2007-03-26T08:33:00.000+01:00

"TILING SPACE WITH MUSICAL CANONS"
Saturday 5th of May
10.30 am - 3 pm, Odessa club
20/10 Euro professionals/students

Are you a composer who would like to understand and employ the mathematical structure of music? Are you a mathematician, who would like to see the connections between mathematics and music? Are you an educator, who is interested in utilising the connection between both fields to make mathematics and music easier to grasp for your students? Or are you neither, but with a general interest in interdisciplinary connections?

Whatever your background, you will have the unique opportunity to explore the connections between mathematics and music together with French composer Georges Bloch and Italian Mathematician Moreno Andreatta, both linked with the internationally renowned centre for interdisciplinary research on music IRCAM in Paris.

For more information on the workshop and for registration click here.

VizNET 2007 Workshop

2007-03-25T11:15:00.000+01:00

Intersections in Visualization Practices and Techniques
17-19 April Leicestershire, UK

New visualization technologies, practices and techniques have drawn science and the arts ever closer together, and the exchange of ideas between the two has become increasingly important. This workshop is about how to create and represent information or ideas through visualization techniques with a view to achieving better understanding through collaboration in visualization. The workshop is an opportunity for researchers working in science and engineering, or the arts and humanities, to develop practical experience across a broad range of visualization practice and thus a framework for articulating new ideas about working together.

Who should attend?
• Arts and Humanities researchers, performers and artists, expert in one or more areas of visualization, who would like an introduction to, and overview of, other areas of visualization, including the latest research results, ideas and applications.

• Arts and Humanities researchers, performers and artists new to visualization who would like an introduction to, and overview of, the latest visualization practices and techniques.

How much will it cost?
Registration is free of charge, but essential as places are strictly limited. Participants can click here to register online and reserve a place at the workshop. There are three registration schemes: Day 1 and Day 2, Day 3 only, and all three days. Participants are asked to pay their own travel and accommodation costs. Two levels of hotel accommodation are offered on the workshop website. Participants can elect to find their own accommodation, for example a B&B in Loughborough, but still need to register online to reserve a place at the workshop.

Visit VizNET 2007 website for further information, or email Dr. Julie Tolmie or Dr. Nijad Al-Najdawi

"Life, Consciousness and Gaia" - 21st March

2007-03-21T17:08:00.000Z

"Life, Consciousness and Gaia: Reflections on the Work of James Lovelock"

"Agee seems to have hit that fine balance between allusiveness and clarity, and formal control and spontaneity, that so few poets manage to achieve these days" said Don Paterson referring to "First Light" by author Chris Agee who will deliver the next lecture in the Faculty of Science Public Lecture Series at UCC.

At the next lecture which will take place on Wednesday, 21 March, Chris Agee will discuss the two seminal works of James Lovelock, Gaia and The Revenge of Gaia. Whilst recently re-reading the former Chris Agee says he was struck not only by the prescience of the atmospheric chemistry, but his fascinating discussion about the absence of a satisfactory scientific answer to the question of "what is life? "It is this line of thought that I would like to give especial consideration (though not all in relation to the sense of the phrase in the embryo debate), connecting as it does with some of my bio-tech preoccupations in The Earth Issue. I also noticed the strongly contrarian streak in the earlier book and would like to analyse how this continues
in the newer one" said Mr Agee.

Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. He attended Harvard University, where he studied with the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald. Since 1979 he has lived in Ireland. He is the author of two books of poems, In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992) and First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003). A former guest editor of Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry (Chicago) and Metre, he also edited Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia (Bloodaxe Books, 1998, Poetry Book Society Recommendation) and Unfinished Ireland: Essays on Hubert Butler (Irish Pages, 2003). His work is included in the landmark Northern anthology, Magnetic North: The Emerging Poets (Lagan Press, 2006). He now edits Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He reviews regularly for The Irish Times and has recently completed a new collection of poems, Next to Nothing.

The lecture takes place at UCC's Boole Lecture Theatre 4 at 8pm on Wednesday, 21 March. The highly popular lecture series, organised by Professor William Reville of the Faculty of Science, UCC, continues weekly until 28 March 2007. Admission to the lecture is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.

For further information contact: Marie McSweeney, Press Officer, University College Cork, Tel. 021 4902371; mobile 086 0845182.

On Visual Culture and Bioscience

2007-03-13T14:40:00.000Z

Virtual Symposium, March 5-15, 2007

Experts from around the world will discuss the intersections between the visual arts and the life sciences at this international event, which will take place on the Internet. A group of 30 participants comprised of artists, scientists, historians, ethicists, curators, sociologists, and writers will present a variety of perspectives on topics such as artists in the lab,
imaging in art and bioscience, and the sociological implications of the growing connections between the two fields.

The panelists include: Suzanne Anker (Symposium Facilitator), Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Andrew Carnie, Catherine Chalmers, Troy Duster, Sian Ede, David Freedberg, Karl Grimes, Martin Kemp, Vladinir Mironov, Orlan, Nancy Princenthal, Jill Scott, Andrew Solomon, Susan Squier and Catherine Wagner.

The symposium is sponsored by the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
U.S.A.

Click here for more details.

TALK: Science and Art: How to Understand Failure and Accident?

2007-01-29T09:59:00.000Z

This event explores the idea of ambiguity and failure in science and art. Is there a common language that has the power to transform either practice? Artist Cornelia Parker and art historian Adrian Rifkin are among the speakers.

TALK: Science and Art: How to Understand Failure and Accident?
Wednesday 7 February, 18.30-20.00
Tate Britain, Auditorium

£7 (£5 concessions), booking required

Find out more

Book online

BRIDGES CONFERENCE on Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture & Culture

2007-01-26T11:35:00.000Z

School of Architecture
The University of the Basque Country
San Sebastian (Donostia), Spain
July 24-27, 2007

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 01.02.2007

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

February SEED salon: Finding The Art Of Medicine

2007-01-24T16:08:00.000Z

Tuesday February 6th, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2.

Donation: 5 Euro.

MICHAEL FARRUGIA is a Canadian with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Victoria and is currently studying medicine at University College Dublin (UCD). He is an aspiring documentary film maker combining film and medicine in his projects. He feels that this marriage of art and science provides an effective educational tool to help promote health, social, and global awareness. Previous work includes research films in the fields of orthopaedics and paediatrics, and he is currently working on a film on infectious diseases. Michael sees art in medicine as an important way of empowering individuals to make healthy life choices and to influence human behaviour to support global sustainability.

Click here to email Michael Farrugia

For more details, contact: seed.artscience@yahoo.com

Science In Museums Conference

2007-01-24T15:52:00.000Z

The Irish Museums Association is holding its annual conference 2007 in Dublin to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Natural History Museum. The theme is 'Science, Technology & Society, the role for museums' and events will be centred in the Merrion Square area of Dublin on 2-4 March. The Taoiseach is opening the main session and there are workshops, talks, evening receptions, site visits and a conference dinner in the programme. Speakers include Dr Jonathan Bell, Dr Marie Bourke, Paul Bowers, Leo Enright, Dr John Falk, Eoin Gill, Dr Michael John Gorman, Dr Peter Wyse Jackson, Mark Leslie, Mary Mulvihill, Nigel Monaghan, Dr Sally Montgomery and Dr Patrick F. Wallace.

The Natural History Museum has just been allocated 15M Euro for redevelopment under the National Development Plan 2007 - 2013. An outline of this project will be presented at the conference.

Click here for full details and booking information.

Second Call for Abstracts for MutaMorphosis

2007-01-23T10:48:00.000Z

A Leonardo 40th Anniversary celebration

Deadline to submit abstracts: 31 January 2007.

MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences
8-10 November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

The international conference will concentrate on the growing interest -- within the worlds of the arts, sciences and technologies -- in EXTREME AND HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. These environments appear as symptomatic indicators of the mutations that are taking place. They are potential vectors that make possible an awareness of the different problems at the origin of the disturbances that threaten the ensemble of the Earth's eco-systems.

We invite practitioners in the arts, sciences, engineering and humanities to submit abstracts that explore the limits and extremes within the following streams of interest:

1. LIFE
How do the arts and sciences deal with new ideas about strategies of life in extreme conditions?

2. SPACE
How do the arts and sciences face radical scales and extreme environments?

3. COGNITION
How do the arts and sciences address evolving ideas about cognition in extreme environments?

500-word abstracts required by 31 January 2007 via email to mutamorphosis@ciant.cz

All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed by the members of International Advisory Committee including Marc Battier, Nina Czegeldy, Michele Emmer, Machiko Kusahara, Lubica Lacinova, Michael Punt, Sonya Rapoport, Nicolas Reeves and others.

Submissions accepted and presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference is organised by CIANT as part of the ENTER festival in the framework of the Leonardo 40th anniversary celebrations. The festival will feature also the first retrospective exhibition of Frank J. Malina.

Conference Honorary Panel includes: Rudolf Arnheim, Ivan M. Havel, Jasia Reichardt, Itsuo Sakane, Sonia Sheridan

Join us in Prague 8-10 November 2007.

Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's projects, programs and activities, visit http://leonardo.info
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Support SEED

2007-01-22T13:17:00.000Z

SEED has received generous support from Discover Science and Engineering, the Royal Irish Academy, the Odessa Club, and Zero-G design agency.

SEED also benefits from the involvement and enthusiasm of many skilled volunteers.

If you are interested in supporting SEED, organizing a SEED event or becoming involved as a SEED volunteer please contact seed.artscience@googlemail.com

NanoArt 2006 Competition open for VOTE

2007-01-18T11:18:00.000Z

Voting for the first ever NanoArt international online competition is now open. 71 works have been submitted. Please visit artists' albums and vote for your favourite work.

To VOTE please click here and follow directions.

NanoArt is a new art form where micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and/or natural micro/nanostructures are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. The monochromatic electron microscope images are processed further to create a piece of art that can be showcased for a large audience to educate the public with creative images that are appealing and acceptable. To read more about NanoArt and Nanotechnology please visit www.nanoart21.org.

January SEED salon: Sean McDougall

2007-01-06T19:22:00.000Z

Tuesday January 9, 7 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2. Donation: 5 Euro.

How can connecting art, science and engineering transform education? SEAN MCDOUGALL has some provocative ideas about this which he will explore through his new intelligent fountain project with FutureLab and other adventures in learning through design.

SEAN MCDOUGALL is Managing Director of Stakeholder Design. He came into prominence as a commentator on the Northern Ireland peace process and his suggestions influenced the design of the decommissioning process. Sean was a founder member of the UK Department for Education and Skills Schools Design Advisory Council, which is overseeing the implementation of Building Schools for the Future and the Academies programme. He has helped a number of organisations to improve their dialogue with young people, and he advises Back Care, a national charity concerned with the negative impact that poor school furniture has on physical health. a and seminars on risk management for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Prior to establishing Stakeholder Design, Sean was Campaign Leader for Learning Environments at the UK’s Design Council. Here, he was responsible for a Government-funded investigation of how to use design to improve educational outcomes. The result, Schools Renaissance, changed the way in which schools across England think of themselves. Its process of user-led design allowed teachers and students to co-design their own outcomes rather than commissioning specialist suppliers. Outcomes from the campaign included new types of furniture, 360 degree flexible classrooms, new approaches to teaching and learning, a new magazine on educational renewal and www.designmyschool.com

December SEED salon: MEET THE MAKERS

2006-12-06T19:34:00.000Z

Monday December 11, 5.30 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2. Donation: 5 Euro.

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of the legendary MAKE magazine will give an informal presentation followed by a conversation about their work in creating Maker Faire, an event bringing together art, science and home-made technology.

"I saw the future of conferences today. It was the Maker Faire. " - Robert Scoble, Microsoft

Maker Faire is a family-friendly event that celebrates science and technology projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. The Maker Faire Mission is to inspire, inform, connect and entertain thousands of Makers and aspiring Makers of all ages and backgrounds through a public gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science clubs, students, authors, and commercial exhibitors.

The first-ever Maker Faire was held in May, 2006 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. The event was wildly successful with over 20,000 attendees including honoree guests Steve Wozniak, Daryl Hannah, Tracy Chapman, and the MythBusters. Makers and Crafters came to show off their projects ranging from robots, bubble blowing, fire torches, to tech-fashion and silk screen-printing.

"Everywhere I looked, I saw people of all ages with *wonder* and *delight* in their eyes. I can't wait to bring my son to the next one" - David Pescovitz, Boing Boing.

MAKE magazine

CRAFT magazine

View the Post Event Summary of last year's Maker Faire

View user photos on Flickr

Quick Maker Faire overview

REMINDER: SEED Still Seeking Artist-Scientist for Documentary...

2006-12-04T18:04:00.000Z

Italian director Guido Chiesa, known for his political documentaries, is looking for an Irish-based artist-scientist, to become one of three leading characters in his new feature-length documentary for cinemas. In an attempt to bridge the art of political movements and the science of weather forecasting, he is looking at the fundamental ingredients of human progress, which are common to both worlds. To close the gap, he is looking for a scientist, who is also actively involved in the arts, and who will be interviewed and filmed during their activities.

As an artist-scientist (or scientist-artist) the individual will be actively working with both disciplines, and not solely using one to describe the other. All amateur/professional levels are welcome.

The selected artist/scientist will be required to be available for filming during one weekend, and also for some shorter sessions (in the evenings, etc.). Filming will ideally take place before the end of January.

If you think that you might fit the profile for this exciting opportunity, or if you happen to know somebody else who does, please contact seed.artscience@yahoo.com as soon as possible, with a brief summary of your activities.

Peter Yeadon on Nanotechnology and Architecture

2006-11-23T12:49:00.000Z

Archfarm have just published a new fascicle, an essay by Peter Yeadon --
architect, educator and an expert in advanced technologies -- on
nanotechnology and its future confluence with architecture.

Click here for more details

A Small Hours Picture Show with Donal Dineen & Chequerboard @ The Digital Hub

2006-11-17T16:48:00.000Z

The Digital Hub is pleased to present an intimate Christmas event for 2006, "A Small Hours Picture Show" with visuals by Donal Dineen (Today FM DJ & visual artist) and live musical accompaniment by Chequerboard and special guests.

A Small Hours Picture Show will commence with mulled wine and festive food, just the thing to kick off the Christmas Season!

Tickets are priced at €20 and available from The Digital Hub by e-mailing exhibit@thedigitalhub.com or through our credit card line on 4806200.

Date: Thursday 7th December 2006
Time: 8pm
Venue: Digital Exchange, Crane Street, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8.
Further info: www.thedigitalhub.com/exhibit or exhibit@thedigitalhub.com

Proceeds will go to a number of local community organisations:
Fountain Resource Junior Youth Club
Oliver Bond Youth Group
Little Flower Homeless Project

Digital Hub Development Agency
Digital Exchange
Crane Street
The Digital Hub
Dublin 8

Art of Innovation Seminar December 8

2006-11-09T14:34:00.000Z

Engineers Ireland will host a seminar on the Art of Innovation on December 8 at 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge Dublin 4.
The seminar will explore the role of creativity in business, and bring together perspectives from art, science and new technology. More details

November SEED salon: STEVE COLLINS on GAME DESIGN AND PHYSICS

2006-10-21T00:46:00.000+01:00

Tuesday November 7, 7pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2. Tickets: 5 Euro.

WHAT IS "RAGDOLL PHYSICS"? How can we simulate the laws of physics in 3D games? What possibilities for artists and scientists might game physics engines present? DR STEVEN COLLINS is currently a lecturer in Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin and manager of the graphics research group, the ISG Lab. He co-founded Havok, the leading developer of real-time physics and animation middleware for the game and movie industries and was CEO and then CTO. Steve is still affiliated with Havok, and is currently chairing the Havok Advisory Board. He also acts as a consultant for various companies and government agencies and is a board member of Dyoptyka, an Irish start-up exploring innovative applications of dynamic optics, and the Irish Chapter of the International Game Developers Association. His research interests are in real-time rendering and animation and global illumination techniques.

Contact Eimear Bruen to reserve a place.

Emergence: Connecting Art, Consciousness and Ecology

2006-10-20T14:40:00.000+01:00

An open submission for artists

Emergence: Connecting Art, Consciousness and Ecology
An exhibition at the Cultivate Centre

The Cultivate Centre for sustainable living and learning in Dublin's Temple Bar invites submissions from artists for an exhibition within a festival entitled, 'Emergence - Connecting Art, Consciousness and Ecology'. This exhibition will take place from the 27th of November to the 22nd of December and selected pieces will feature on a CD ROM learning resource that Cultivate is producing.

The theme of this exhibition is art that inspires and stimulates action in response to the issues of biodiversity, climate change and energy scarcity. Any artwork embracing these themes will be considered. Cultivate seeks proposals in all media from local, national and international artists offering challenging viewpoints on these themes, incorporating diverse and innovative approaches that explore the definition and boundaries of these issues.

Artists provide perspectives that can differ in important ways from those of scientists and environmentalists. This exhibition will allow us to focus in on the particular contribution that art can and does make, as well as creating space for a dialogue with wider constituencies about shared concerns.

Indoor and outdoor exhibition space is available. There is no funding attached to this exhibition, however all artists selected will be given passes for the festival and an opportunity to sell their work.

Deadline for submission Friday the 17th of November.

For further information, to apply or to discuss, please contact
Davie Philip, Event Coordinator
Cultivate Sustainable Living and Learning Centre
15-19 Essex Street West, Old City, Temple Bar, Dublin 8
T: 01 674 6396
E: davie[at]cultivate.ie

Photos from first SEED DATING event

2006-10-18T23:31:00.000+01:00

The inaugural SEED DATING event yesterday was a great success. People involved included visual artists, musicians, inventors, architects, neuroscientists and nanophysicists including Anna Hill, Sean Hillen, Chris Leonard, Liz Allen and Oisin Breatnach. The gong rang every three minutes, and conversations happened.
View some photos of the event taken by Owen Higgins
Thanks to all who took part and helped put it together, particularly Jane Jerry of Exploration Station for suggesting the idea to SEED, Ciaran O'Gaora and Zero-G for design, Tim Redfern for developing the fantastic seed-dating algorithm, Eimear Bruen for organizing the whole evening and being the gong-mistress, and Laura Mc Quaid and Sheloa Nichols for all their help.

Coming soon ... SEED DATING

2006-10-01T19:27:00.000+01:00

We are planning an inaugural SEED DATING event in the Odessa Club on October 17 where artists, scientists, techno-artists and artful scientists can come together to explore common interests. Contact Eimear Bruen soon to express interest and receive an invitation. Places will be strictly limited.

Kinetica to open in London on October 6

2006-09-24T18:36:00.000+01:00

Kinetica, a new museum space devoted to robotic art, kinetic art and new media art opens its doors in London’s Spitalfields Market on October 6, 2006. According to its press-release, Kinetica will showcase the most cutting-edge U.K and international contemporary New Media art alongside pioneering works from the recent past, with a revolving permanent collection and at least six temporary exhibitions each year, as well as seminars, workshops, discussions and special events. The first show features Amorphic Robot Works and Venezualan kinetic artist Elias Crespin
Link

Call for proposals: Nanotechnology and the arts

2006-08-23T01:06:00.000+01:00

Special Section in Leonardo Journal on Nanotech and the Arts
Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Art
Guest Editors: Tom Rockwell and Tami I. Spector

Over the last decade, "nano" has become a buzzword signifying
everything from imagined atomic-scale robotic utopias to small
electronics. For scientists the shift toward nano has also become
ubiquitous; what used to be referred to as molecular has been reframed
as nano; 27 journals devoted to nanotech/nanoscience are now
published; and the National Science Foundation and other granting
agencies have devoted a significant amount of funding toward
nanotech/nanoscience. Among engineers, scientists and science-studies
scholars, discussions of the potential of nanotech/nanoscience abound,
including conferences that debate the pros and cons of a nano-hegemony
and attempt to debunk some of the hype. Artists, however, have only
begun to explore this emergent scientific field, leaving it wide open
for creative interpretation. With this special section of Leonardo,
we hope to ignite artists' interest in the exploration of
nanotech/nanoscience and encourage scientists, scholars and educators
to contemplate the implications of an art-nanotech/nanoscience connection.

Leonardo, in collaboration with the Exploratorium under the auspices
of the Nanotech Informal Science Education Network, will publish a
series of special sections periodically over the next 5 years
exploring the intersections of nanotech/science and art. We are
especially seeking submissions of artworks (visual, performance,
sound, etc.) with artist's statements explaining the relationship of
the work to nanotech/science; essays from scientists, engineers and
scholars exploring the connection between nanotech/science and art;
and essays and visuals aiming at nanotech/science education that use
the arts as a pedagogical tool.

Interested artists and authors are invited to send proposals, queries
and/or manuscripts to the Leonardo editorial office.
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Valve portal game explores opening wormholes in space

2006-08-15T08:28:00.000+01:00

Portal is a first-person shooter game set in the Half-Life universe where you use an "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device to create dimensional doorways", wormholes between different surfaces.
View the trailer

BIOS Centre at London School of Economics:Upcoming Events

2006-07-20T18:08:00.000+01:00

The BIOS Centre is a multidisciplinary research centre analysing the practice and implications of developments in bioscience, biomedicine, biotechnology and society.

Click here for more.
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Exploring the Mind:

Creative State of Mind was an art project devised by artist Ruth Maclennan and Professor Nikolas Rose at the BIOS centre at LSE, supported by a People’s Award from the Wellcome Trust and the Arts Council England. The project was an original approach to a difficult and broad subject: the mind and brain in contemporary art, science and society. See full article here.

Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science

2006-07-20T18:04:00.000+01:00

Two-day international conference in London, 22-23 June 2006

Representations play a critical role in both science and art. Perceived as different in kind, artistic and scientific representations have been studied as objects of distinct disciplinary and intellectual traditions. However, recent work in both the philosophy of science and studies of the visual arts suggests that these apparently different representational traditions may be related in challenging and provocative ways. “Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism,” a conference co-sponsored by the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, the London School of Economics, and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of London, seeks to open conversations between and beyond these compartmentalized traditions of thinking about representation.

Click for more info.

OPEN CALL: Bio/Med SciART

2006-07-18T18:36:00.000+01:00

OPEN CALL
Deadline: August 3, 2006
Digital06: Bio/Med SciART
International Digital Print Competition/Exhibition in NYC

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc (ASCI) is pleased to announce the Open
Call for its 8th annual, international digital print competition/exhibition,
"Bio/Med SciART," to be held at the New York Hall of Science from September
30, 2006 - January 15, 2007. The aim of this exhibition is to explore how
the health, medical, biosciences [including biology in general and also
neuroscience] and biotechnologies are influencing the content of
contemporary art via digital prints.

JURORS: This year's competition selections will be made in an art-science
collaborative process between ASCI Director, Cynthia Pannucci, and Ramunas
Kondratas, Curator of the medical collections in the Division of Medicine
and Science at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American
History.

Entry Details: http://www.asci.org/artikel795.html
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Cynthia Pannucci
Founder/Director
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
www.asci.org

RTE announce commissions for science television programmes

2006-07-14T16:28:00.000+01:00

RTE have announced that they are looking to fund original science programme ideas for a prime time television slot after the 9 o'clock news up to €480,000. The deadline for proposals is August 28th. Here is an excerpt from the presentation of the new commission: "Home-produced science programmes have not had a prime place in our schedules for some time now – So, with this in mind, RTÉ is now seeking to commission a short series of exciting, inventive, imaginative and, above all, accessible, Irish programmes on science. What we’re looking for are proposals for four one-hour programmes which will showcase exciting, science-related stories with an Irish angle. The programmes will go out in a prime time slot – most likely in the documentary slot after the 9 o’clock news. We’re specifically looking for proposals for programmes that treat science in a non-scientific way: human-interest stories with a science angle or populist, personal stories with science content are particularly welcome. Think “The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off” – a deeply personal and moving landmark documentary, about a boy with a rare medical condition and how he coped with it. There was science there, but the human story was paramount. We do not want worthy, voiceover-heavy, technical programmes about exciting new gismos; we don’t want to bash people over the head with science; what we want to see is science as part of life. So stories about people, and stories which have an undercurrent of science will help to bring science to a wider public. We’d also welcome new faces: if there is an exciting “new face of science” out there who will engage and excite the audience, we would be happy to receive proposals based around that person’s ability to bring science to as wide an audience as possible".
For more details see the RTE website.
If you have an idea for an art-science programme and might be interested in partnering with SEED on a submission, contact Eimear Bruen: ebruen@googlemail.com

Featured artist: Robert Lang's computational origami

2006-07-12T19:04:00.000+01:00

Robert Lang is a pioneer in the emerging field of computational origami, a branch of mathematics that explores the formal properties and potentialities of folded paper. Like the study of knots, pioneered in the late nineteenth century, computational origami and its practical offshoot origami sekkei or “technical folding” turn out to have a surprising range of applications to real world problems; from working out how to fold up stents so they can be threaded into arteries, to designing thin-film telescopes that are packed into the hold of a space shuttle. Lang is the inventor of the TreeMaker computer program, which allows him to design and calculate crease patterns for a wide range of origami models—including intricate insects, crustaceans, and amphibians. He has been one of the very few Western columnists for the Japan Origami Academic Society and is the author of eight books, including Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art. Lang received a doctorate in physics from Caltech and spent twenty years as a laser physicist before becoming a fulltime paper folder (from the Institute for Figuring) Link (thanks, Josh)

Lines of Enquiry: Thinking through Drawing

2006-07-11T23:06:00.000+01:00

Even with cameras in our phones sometimes only a drawing will do. Lines of Enquiry is a new exhibition opening on July 15 in Kettle's Yard, Cambridge exploring drawing as thinking through drawings by physicists, geologists, architects, engineers, zoologists, archaeologists, palaeontologists, geneticists, surgeons, historians, philosophers, and composers as well as artists.
(image: Drosophila cell, prometaphase stage by Adelaide Carpenter, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge)
Link

Living Lenses exhibition at IMMA opens tomorrow

2006-07-10T15:52:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow (Tuesday July 11) Living Lenses will open an exhibition of some of their latest explorations at the Irish Museum of Modern Art where they are currently artists in residence. Living Lenses, an art duo based between Copenhagen and Berkeley California, made up of Louise Bertelsen and Po Shu Wang, believe that we live every day in a reality that is constantly inspiring the most wonderful and tragic human interactions, and their work involves subtle alterations of the bits and pieces of everyday reality in public places, mischievous social experiments that reveal the underlying dynamics of everyday experience. Link

Read Kroto on Art and Science

2006-07-06T22:15:00.000+01:00

The SEED art-science salon with Harry Kroto was a great success, participants got to build their own buckyball models and hear about how a promising graphic designer had his career prospects thwarted by the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, and also enjoyed the jazz duo of Francesco Amico and Lou van Laake at the Odessa Club.
Professor Kroto has kindly made his article Art and Science I: Drawing Buckyballs available to SEED -- enjoy.

New Science Communication Blog

2006-07-05T20:48:00.000+01:00

Diarmuid MacMathuna's new Science Communication blog has interesting info on science communication/science journalism in Ireland.

Radio interview on art and science with Harry Kroto

2006-07-04T14:54:00.001+01:00

In addition to participating in the SEED art-science salon last night Professor Harry Kroto generously agreed to do a live radio interview on the connections between art and science for RTE's Rattlebag yesterday afternoon. Listen to the interview (Real Audio).

July SEED salon: Nobel Laureate HARRY KROTO

2006-06-26T09:43:00.000+01:00

Monday July 3, 5pm at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro

PROFESSOR SIR HAROLD W. KROTO, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, one of the founding figures in the field of nanotechnology and one of the world’s best-known science communicators will talk at the July SEED salon on the theme of ‘Science and Art Can Be One and the Same, Sometimes’.

In the last ten years, the soccer-ball shaped carbon-60 molecule Buckminsterfullerene, better known as the ‘Buckyball’, has become something of a superstar amongst molecules. Part of the reason is its eye-catching structure but it is also scientifically intriguing, and of critical importance in the emerging field of nanotechnology. It was for the discovery of this remarkable molecule that Professor Sir Harold W. Kroto was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Professor Kroto’s career has bridged art and science. Graphic design was his first love, only to be set aside in 1985 on the serendipitous discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (thus named for its resemblance to American designer and architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes), and his work has frequently emphasized the importance of aesthetic and design considerations in science. For this special SEED art-science salon, Professor Kroto will give an informal presentation, to be followed by an open discussion with artists and scientists. Professor Kroto will also be participating in a major international conference on nanoscience at Trinity College Dublin.

Kroto is currently Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University, and is a founder of the Vega Science Trust, which broadcasts science programmes free over the internet. More information about Professor Kroto and his work can be found at http://www.kroto.info/ and on the Nobel Prize Website.

Please note that this salon is now BOOKED OUT. If you would like to be put on the SEED e-mail list to hear about future events please contact Eimear Bruen, ebruen@googlemail.com

The Bridges Conference: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science

2006-06-20T13:50:00.000+01:00

at the "Institute of Education
London Knowledge Lab"
August 4 – 8, 2006

The Bridges Conference, created in 1998 and running annually since, brings practicing mathematicians, scientists, artists, educators, musicians, architects, writers, computer scientists, sculptors, dancers, weavers, model builders together in a lively atmosphere of mutual exchange and encouragement. Important components of these conferences, apart from formal presentations, are gallery displays of visual art, working sessions with practitioners and artists who are crossing the mathematics-arts boundaries, and evening musical/theatrical events.

Conference Website

Soap Opera: Contact Information

2006-06-10T18:48:00.000+01:00

For any further information regarding the recent "Soap Opera" salon by Tim Durham and Stefan Hutzler, contact Tim directly by email:

en-vision@esatclear.com, or by phone at: +353-87-2297427.

June SEED salon: SOAP OPERA by S. Hutzler and T. Durham

2006-06-02T09:23:00.000+01:00

Tuesday June 6th, 7pm at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

The intricately patterned, multi-coloured pictures of photographer Tim Durham are not unlike the computer images of our information society. However, they are very real photographs of real soap suds, and what's more, they might equally well be displayed at a scientific conference. A scientist admiring them faces an additional challenge: how are they to be explained?

In a brief presentation, Stefan Hutzler will unravel some of the science of soap films in relation to Tim Durham's photographs. This will mainly be done through experiments which demonstrate the effect of surface tension and the geometry of soap films. Guests at the salon are more than welcome to get their hands clean and play with the suds!

Dr Stefan Hutzler is a lecturer in the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, where he researches “The Physics of Foams” and co-authored (with Professor Denis Weaire) a book of the same title.

Tim Durham is an artist living in Killucan, Co. Westmeath. For the past 10 years Tim has been working on images of soap films. What makes these photographs different from any other images Tim makes is that he has created the object being photographed as well as the capturing it on film.

Tim will be exhibiting a series of soap film images at the W5 gallery in Belfast from August 31st to September 22nd and at the Institute of Physics in London from November 1st to December 22nd.

Arcane knowledge: The Athanasius Kircher Society

2006-05-26T23:09:00.001+01:00

The Athanasius Kircher Society was chartered to "perpetuate the sensibilities and pursuits of the seventeenth century polymath and visionary Athanasius Kircher, SJ". The interests of this commendable institution extend to "the wondrous, the singular, the esoteric, the obsessive, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible". Link

Copenhagen performance tomorrow Thursday May 18

2006-05-17T18:35:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow Thursday May 18 at 8pm in the old Physics Building in TCD acclaimed Dublin theatre company Rough Magic will carry out a staged reading of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen. In the autumn of 1941, at a critical point in the second world war, German physicist Werner Heisenberg paid a strange visit to his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. To this day, speculation has raged over precisely what they discussed. For these two former friends were among a handful of scientists around the globe who could unlock the secret of nuclear warfare...
See more information about the original Rough Magic Production
For more information phone: +353 1 6081675 (Thanks,Iggy)

EcoSensor website launched

2006-05-17T18:29:00.000+01:00

The EcoSensor Network launched earlier this week is an innovative project for young people involving real-time tracking of humidity, light and temperature in the glasshouses of the National Botanic Gardens carried out by the National Centre for Sensor Research at DCU Link (Thanks, Emma)

Inspiration and Discovery

2006-05-13T13:20:00.000+01:00

Inspiration and Discovery is a project in Dundee "designed to bring together artists and scientists to mutually inspire and excite, to spark off ideas and radical new ways of thinking and to catalyse collaborations" led by artist David Mach who, according to the site, "acts as a totem in a series of visits meeting with artists and scientists formally and informally" Link

Peter O'Kennedy percussion performance at IMMA on Friday

2006-05-09T21:24:00.000+01:00

On Friday May 12 at the Baroque Chapel in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, renowned Swedish percussionist Jonny Axelsson will perform “Akrodha”, written for him by celebrated composer Kevin Volans, as part of a unique and varied program. The concert has been arranged to facilitate a collaboration between artist and SEED member Peter O’Kennedy, Jonny Axelsson and Kevin Volans resulting in:
• A live performance.
• A video documentation of the performance.
• A new video artwork.

A miniature camera is mounted on an arm and attached to the percussionists head so that it points back at his face as he plays. The camera is locked on the x / y axis of his face, producing a visual feedback loop of the music created in real time by and through the player in the act of playing the piece.

Two additional cameras also record the live event, one recording the audiences’ view, the other recording a bird’s eye view of the percussionist’s performance. During the initial live performance, the footage being recorded by the miniature camera is shown on a large screen above the percussionist. The performance thus becomes a unique and documented event in itself, while also generating a separate artwork: The final new video work.

If you would like to book a place contact Peter O'Kennedy at peterokennedy@eircom.net

May SEED salon: A Clinically Useful Artwork? – The Open Window Project

2006-05-05T12:40:00.000+01:00

Wednesday May 10, 7pm at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

The Open Window Project is a novel art intervention which is taking place in The National Stem Cell Transplant Unit, St.James Hospital Dublin. Patients who are being treated for leukaemia are given access to a selection of contemporary artworks which may help them to deal with having a life-threatening illness. The impact of the intervention and the art practice is being researched concurrently by Catherine McCabe of Trinitiy College Dublin and Denis Roche of NCAD.

Prof. SHAUN MCCANN is professor of Haematology in St.James Hospital/Trinity College and Director of the National Stem Cell Transplant Programme. DENIS ROCHE is an artist and composer. He is a member of the Artists Panel of IMMA and is currently conducting a masters by research in NCAD. His sound work has been exhibited in the Temple Bar ‘Diversions’ Festival and he has performed in the ‘Meet in Beijing’ Festival as part of the China Ireland Cultural Exchange 2004. CATHERINE MCCABE qualified as a nurse in 1988 and worked in surgical and emergency nursing for the following 5 years. In 2004, She was awarded a Research Fellowship and is currently a PhD Student at Trinity College, School of Nursing and Midwifery and researcher on the 'Open Window' Study. FRAN HEGARTY is a Senior Physicist in the Medical Physics & Bioengineering Department, St James’s Hospital. He has over twenty years experience supporting the application of technology at the point of care and has worked in a number of leading hospitals in Dublin and abroad. He is also an accomplished musician, music producer and composer of new music.

Ken McMullen Exhibition in Letterkenny

2006-05-05T08:52:00.000+01:00

Ken McMullen (Presenter of the September 2006 SEED Salon on Science and Poetry, see Archive for information) will be mounting a solo exhibition at the Glebe
Gallery, Church Hill, Letterkenny, County Donegal in the June 2006.
The opening is to be held at 7.30pm on Friday the 2nd of June and all
are welcome to attend. For more information ring 087 2837567 or email Adarian Kelly on adrian.kelly@opw.ie.

Artist residency: Genomics and Society, Edinburgh

2006-05-02T17:39:00.000+01:00

The ESRC Genomics Forum in Edinburgh is seeking an artist to help connect research on the key aspects of the relationship between genomics and society in a critical, fresh and exciting way with public policy debates and decision making. The Residency is hosted in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery, the public art gallery of the University of Edinburgh.
Link (Thanks, Yazz!)

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!

2006-04-25T10:44:00.000+01:00

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! is a remarkable new piece of software that analyzes and searches audio samples in real time to take human beatboxing/VJing to a new level and also raises some provocative IP issues watch the video (Thanks, Dan)

SEED is looking for an administrator

2006-04-21T18:38:00.000+01:00

We are seeking a dynamic, proactive person to assist SEED with administration and fundraising during its start-up phase.

The ideal candidate would have an interest in developing a career in administration and management in the non-profit/cultural sector.

This is an opportunity for a high degree of responsibility in an innovative non-profit start-up.

For more information contact: drenckhan@yahoo.com

Tracing tracks of Pacific Pelagics

2006-04-09T17:59:00.001+01:00

The TOPP project (Tagging Of Pacific Pelagics) is a spectacular experiment in visualization of data collected by sea creatures including blue whales, loggerhead turtles and great white sharks. Link

Going for a stroll on Mars

2006-04-09T13:38:00.000+01:00

March Salon: Leo Enright's enthusiasm beamed the audience onto the surface of the red planet for a breathtaking stroll with sexy-looking glasses...

Taxi-generated art

2006-04-08T10:06:00.000+01:00

Cabspotting is a beautiful new project by the San Francisco Exploratorium which traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise invisible. The Exploratorium has invited a number of artists and researchers to use this information to reveal the invisible dynamics of the city. Link

April SEED Salon: MARS 3D with Leo Enright

2006-03-29T21:56:00.000+01:00

Wednesday April 5, 7pm, at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

Ever wondered what it would be like to walk on Mars? This Wednesday prepare to don your 3D glasses as Ireland's legendary space broadcaster, LEO ENRIGHT, takes us on a journey through the red planet and invites us to consider its culture and history, drawing parallels with the experiences of Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean and other Irish Antarctic explorers. 3D image processing will allow viewers to witness Martian landscapes as if they were actually standing on the surface. To get yourself in the mood you might like to visit Google Mars.

Ireland's leading broadcaster on space exploration and science, Leo Enright, started as a schoolboy space commentator in the 1960s and has broadcast live commentaries on every major space event since the first Moon landing. He studied science in UCD and in 1978 was elected Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society in recognition of his superb contribution to our understanding of space. Leo is a Science Writing Fellow of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachussets, where he studied molecular microbiology. In 2000, with support from NASA's Astrobiology Institute, he completed the renowned Workshop on Molecular Evolution at the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution. He is the author (with Professor Carl Sagan, Sir Bernard Lovell, and others) of 'The Encyclopaedia of Space Travel and Astronomy' and in 2003 was appointed Chairman of the Irish Government's Discover Science and Engineering, a national programme to co-ordinate public and private promotion of engineering and science throughout Irish society.

Molecular science and cultural heritage, FRIDAY 31st March

2006-03-29T18:54:00.000+01:00

Discourse at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Friday 31 March at 6.00 p.m.

by Professor Antonio Sgamellotti
"SMAArt, CNR-ISTM and INSTM"
University of Perugia

Molecular Sciences provide a powerful tool to solve many problems in archaeological and art-historical studies and can be used to suggest appropriate procedures for conservation and restoration. The discourse will touch a number of aspects ranging from historical paintings to molecular science.

To reserve a place please
phone: 01 676 2570 or
email: sgamellotti@ria.ie

SCIART Awards available from WELLCOME TRUST

2006-03-28T20:23:00.000+01:00

Applications for R&D awards (up to 20k Euro) are available for Art/Science projects in Ireland and the UK from the Wellcome Trust:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node2530.html
Deadline for applications: 28th of April

March SEED Salon: GRACE WEIR and IAN ELLIOTT

2006-02-25T18:58:00.001Z

Tuesday March 7, 7pm, at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

presenting BENDING SPACE TIME IN THE BASEMENT

The March SEED salon will present screenings of video work by artist Grace Weir, including Bending Space Time in the Basement, Dust Defying Gravity and The Darkness and the Light. Dublin-based artist Grace Weir takes a deliberately low-tech approach to science, exploring the extraordinary process whereby the simplest materials can be used to make claims ranging over vast reaches of space and time. The everyday is juxtaposed to the universal, and time and space themselves are the subjects of household experiments.

The works screened at the March SEED salon are the result of a series of collaborations between Grace Weir and astrophysicist Ian Elliott.

GRACE WEIR has exhibited internationally for a number of years. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia and Cornerhouse in Manchester and represented Ireland at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and previously exhibited at the PS1 institute, New York, and The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

Trained as an experimental physicist, Dr IAN ELLIOTT carried out research in solar physics at Dunsink Observatory, Dublin, and in the United States. He is involved in promoting the informal learning of science and he chairs the Royal Dublin Society, Science & Technology Committee.

"L'ORÉAL Art and Science of Color Prize"

2006-02-24T17:38:00.000Z

Awarded for a particular piece of work that has successfully achieved a fresh and original meeting between science and art in color. It can either be works of art or research papers.
Awards: Euro 30 000, 20 000 and 10 000
Deadline: 31 March 2006
More info: Link
(Thanks, Chris!)

Endangered Species in Glass

2006-02-19T15:20:00.000Z

In September 2006 Dublin will host the first ever international meeting exploring the art and science of nineteenth century glass artists Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka, creators of some of the most extraordinarily intricate glass sculptures in the world. Dublin's natural history museum will exhibit some of its world-class collection of Blaschka models not normally displayed to the public for the occasion. These sculptures include anatomically detailed, scientifically correct models of hundreds of species of marine animals, and greatly magnified microscopic organisms... something not to be missed.

Link (thanks George)

Crocheting and Maths

2006-02-18T13:29:00.000Z

Discover how the art of crocheting and maths meet in the visualisation of Lorenz Manifolds -- and submit your own creations. (Unfortunately, these objects can neither be worn as jumpers, nor are they any use as carpets...) [Thanks, James!]

Coming soon: Pigeon smog blog

2006-02-08T21:17:00.000Z

Pigeons could track air-pollution in cities and send the information to a blog. The pigeons (apparently very strong) will be loaded up with GPS receivers, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide sensors and a modified mobile phone, as well as a video camera, and will be released at the ISEA symposium A Global Festival of Art on the Edge in San Jose California on August 5. They will transmit air-pollution levels to their blog in real time using SMS messaging. This intriguing project has been devised by artist Beatriz da Costa. link
ISEA website

February SEED Salon: Valentina Nisi and Mads Haahr

2006-01-17T20:57:00.000Z

February 7th, 7pm, at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

Valentina and Mads describe how they combine art and science/technology in the Media Portrait of the Liberties. This is concerned with the development, production, and interactive delivery of multiple short stories about the Dublin Liberties community. Mairen Johnston's book “Around the banks of Pimlico” provides the basis for the script that shapes the media segments. Based on the author’s memories of growing up in the neighbourhood, the book describes the life, lore and color of the Liberties. Real individuals become characters and the anecdotes about their lives are woven together with historical descriptions of the social condition of the people living in the area in past and recent times.

Valentina is currently working as a research assistant with Mads in the department of Computer Science of Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She is completing her Ph.D.on Location Aware Narratives and mobile technologies. Her research focuses on bringing stories out into real space merging architecture, environment and landscape with the narrative experience.

Mads is actively involved in crossing arts and technology. He is also editor of the electronic journal "Crossings".

enSight 2006 - from raw science data to works of art

2006-01-15T13:40:00.000Z

enSight - engaging collaborative art installations between scientists and artists

A new fringe to Edinburgh's International Science Festival will be happening in April 2006. One of the events will be a gallery of artwork inspired by science research. Biological, Mathematical, Engineering - all fields are welcome!

If you'd like to you can put up an image or some data from your research and it may then act as inspiration and become part of that exhibition.

For more details:
www.ensight.org.uk (Thanks, Anke!)

No Salon in January 2006

2005-12-21T19:23:00.000Z

There will be no Salon in January to allow your recovery from the Christmas and New Years festivities. But we look forward to seeing you at the next Salon on the 7th of February 2006. Program to be announced soon!

A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you, and thanks for your contributions to the Art-Science community in 2005. We look forward to the next year!

Impressions from the December Salon

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The audience learns about how an artist can inspire scientists to understand and communicate their work on a different level.

EMBO Science and Society Funding Available

2005-12-13T21:12:00.000Z

EMBO Small Grants Scheme

The EMBO Small Grants Scheme for Initiatives in Science & Society is intended to help initiate activities or projects that make the biosciences and/or bioscientists more accessible to non-scientists. No specific conditions as to the medium through which this is achieved, and the target audience, are set; EMBO particularly looks for novelty of approach.
A maximum sum of Euro 2.000 may be awarded to any one project. This sum may, in some cases, cover the costs of the entire undertaking; in others it may allow a start to be made, from which more funding can be attracted for expansion of the original concept.

IMPORTANT: Applicants must be practising life scientists working in Europe, and must use the grant for an activity organised in Europe. The planned activity or project must be carried out in Europe. No deadline! (Thanks Eve!)

The Institute for Figuring

2005-12-11T19:49:00.000Z

The interests of the recently founded Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles are twofold: the manifestation of figures in the world around us and the figurative technologies that humans have developed through the ages. From the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding, the tiling patterns of Islamic mosaics and graphical models of the human mind, the Institute takes as its purview a complex ecology of figuring. Link (Thanks, George)

December SEED Salon: Cathy Fitzgerald and Paula Murphy

2005-12-01T18:55:00.000Z

December 6, 7pm, at the Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

Presenting A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, an informal exhibition of work created by artist Catherine Fitzgerald during her recent Arts Council supported art residency in the labs of the Zoology Dept, Trinity College with Dr Paula Murphy, a molecular geneticists working in developmental biology.

CATHERINE FITZGERALD is a New Zealand artist now living in Ireland. Catherine’s art practice is informed by her background in agricultural microbiology research. After working in the science area in New Zealand for ten years, she attended the National College of Art and Design, in Dublin, Ireland during 1996-2002 and gained a BA then an MA in Fine Art. Catherine’s practice involves studio work and written research about art + science. Over the last few years she initiated two residencies in science laboratories in Dublin that has enabled her to work on larger projects (much of her recent work was on public display in the BA Festival of Science, held at Trinity College, Dublin in Sept 05; she also recently curated HETEROPTERA, a show of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger's work for Carlow’s Visualise programme investigating the effects of nuclear fallout from Chernobyl and other sites on insect mutations. Catherine uses a range of traditional, new media and interactive skills to engage and enable a wide audience to reflect on ideas and developments in contemporary biological science. She has exhibited her work both in galleries and in science spaces - the more interesting and challenging exhibitions have occurred in places where both the public and science communities do not normally encounter contemporary art.

DR PAULA MURPHY is a developmental biologist at the Zoology Department at Trinity College Dublin. She works on visualizing gene expression patterns in vertebrate embryos.

ART and SCIENCE Series on the RADIO

2005-12-01T09:24:00.000Z

Left Brain / Right Brain
A new four part series.
Every Sunday, 10 - 10.30 pm on RTE Lyric fm, December 4th to 25th
Presenter: Mary Mulvihill.
Producer: Eoin Brady.

Today it is recognised that we all have a range of intelligences - emotional, artistic, logical, linguistic - but all too often we still end up working in jobs that require us to use only very specific parts of our brain. The received wisdom is that the arts use the left side of the brain and the sciences use the right, and rarely the twain shall meet. Occasionally though artists and scientists do collaborate for various reasons and in a new four part series Left Brain / Right Brain, Mary Mulvihill talks to four different artist and scientist collaborations about why they decided to play yin to the other's yang and the results that emerged.

Sunday 4th: Artist Dorothy Cross & Marine Zoologist, Professor Tom Cross talk about their collaboration on the Medusa project.
Sunday 11th: Artist Anna Hill & Space Scientist Dr. Peter Gallagher share an interest in the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
Sunday 18th: Artists Cathy Fitzgerald & Developmental Biologist Dr. Paula Murphy share their experience of their collaboration in developmental biology.
Sunday 25th: The influence of science on literature, with theatre director Lynne Parker of Rough Magic in conversation with poet-physicist Prof Iggy McGovern.

Emergence - Connecting Art, Science and Consciousness / Saturday 3.12. / 10.00-17.00

2005-11-30T12:15:00.000Z

As part of the 10th Convergence Festival the third 'Emergence' hosted at the Cultivate Centre promises to be an enthralling experience exploring the connections between art, science and consciousness in the company of some distinguished guests like Dr. Otto van Nieuwenhuijze, Saskia Bosman, Ph.D and Alicia Falvey. The trio represent The Visions Lab, a group of scientists and independent researchers from the Netherlands. They have formed a virtual lab as a platform to broaden the scope of science to connect with personal involvement, art, consciousness and sustainability. Irish sacred geometry architect Michael Rice will join them. Michael's emphasis is on Holistic Design using the principles and proportions of Nature.

Convergence, as it's name suggests, brings people together: to share ideas, to explore the latest solutions and approaches to a more balanced lifestyle and together to figure out how we can live fulfilled, dynamic and healthy lives without endangering the ability of the next generation to do the same. It all sounds quite serious but in fact Convergence is both inspiring and perhaps most importantly, great fun!

For detailed program click here!, Fee: 20 Euro

From the CULTIVATE Centre for Sustainable Living and Learning
15-19 Essex St. West, Old City, Temple Bar, Dublin 8

Reviewed: Doing Likewise with Jonathan Miller and Oliver Sacks

2005-11-21T16:50:00.000Z

This Saturday a symposium on Doing Likewise was held at the New York Institute of the Humanities, exploring the themes of imitation, impersonation and emulation in animals, robots, children, magic, art, fashion, philosophy and law convened by neurologist and opera director Jonathan Miller. Participants included neurologist Oliver Sacks and sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay. Highlights included an astonishing presentation on camouflage in octopi and other cephalopods by Roger Hanlon, work on language mastery in grey parrots by Irene Pepperberg, Ricky Jay's description of the Inimitable Dick, who inspired an explosive proliferation of dancing poodles in 19th century Europe, and Oliver Sacks' extraordinary accounts of compulsive imitation in victims of Tourette's syndrome. Yale roboticist Brian Scassellati and I discussed imitation in robots, including Dirk the Robotic Tramp whom you may have spotted in Dublin in July.
Link

Art to science/science to art in Glucksman this Saturday

2005-11-21T12:30:00.000Z

If you are passing through Cork on Saturday don't miss ART TO SCIENCE/SCIENCE TO ART on 26 November 2005 at 2pm in the Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork (free). Speakers include Suzanne Anker, Head of Fine Art, School of Visual Arts, New York City, Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan, and Cathy Fitzgerald.
Link (Thanks, Cathy!)

SEED SALON: ART IN SPACE, postponed to November 8

2005-10-22T20:27:00.000+01:00

November 8, 7pm, Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Voluntary contribution: 5 Euro.

Artist Anna Hill will introduce her Space Synapse System, which seeks to establish a new two-way dialogue between artistic and scientific perceptions and abstractions by installing an interactive artwork in the Columbus Module of the International Space Station (ISS). While her initial motivations for the project were the anthropological relevance to environmental and human concerns on Earth and the spiritual and poetic insight that space travel offers artists, the project has rapidly become a multi-bodied Russian doll. New and more intricate insights into life in space and the relevance of space to life on Earth are unraveling from a multitude of perspectives. To explore these, Anna works closely with engineers, scientists and governmental bodies like the European Space Agency.

Anna Hill received degrees in Fine Art Sculpture from the Saint Martin's School of Art the Royal College of Art. She has been resident in Dublin, Ireland for four years, working as artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Fire Station Artists' Studios. She developed her Space Synapse Project during this time following on from her MA thesis on the relationship of mind to matter and quantum consciousness. Anna Hill remains a practicing artist and is CEO of Space Synapse Ltd, which is situated in Dublin's Digital Hub.

SEED featured on RTE's Quantum Leap

2005-10-22T00:12:00.000+01:00

SEED's Poetry and Science salon was featured on Thursday's Quantum Leap, produced by Ella McSweeney and presented by Mary Mulvihill on RTE Radio 1. link

Impressions from the second SEED Salon

2005-10-20T13:36:00.000+01:00

The audience follows Iggy McGovern and Ken McMullen on the mystery trail into the realm of science and poetry. (Photo courtesy of P. Whittaker)

SEED SALON: POETRY AND SCIENCE, October 4

2005-09-26T23:46:00.000+01:00

October 4, 7pm, Odessa Club (above The Odessa Restaurant, at 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2). Free.

In this SEED art-science salon, physicist and poet IGGY MCGOVERN presents his thoughts on science and poetry suitably laced with poems by Keats, William Rowan Hamilton, Miroslav Holub and others. This will be followed by the first public screening of KEN MCMULLEN'S new film ART, POETRY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS, based on interviews with John Berger and particle physicists at CERN in Geneva. The Director Ken McMullen will be joining us for the salon. The film, is an initiative of tthe Arts Council England's Interdisciplinary Arts Department, as part of the series Pioneers in Art and Science.

Iggy McGovern is Associate Professor of Physics at Trinity College. He won the RTE Rattlebag Poetry Slam in 2004. His first collection of poetry is 'The King of Suburbia', published by Dedalus Press 2005.

Ken McMullen is a Film Director and Artist living currently in London. His Feature Films are distributed world wide, his Documentaries broadcast extensively and his Art Works exhibited in leading contemporary art galleries in Europe, The United States and the Far East. His recent art work 'Skin Without Skin' was awarded 'The Prize for the Outstanding Work' in a major International Exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Bejing, June 2001.

Making Time art-science exhibition at Farmleigh

2005-09-26T23:25:00.000+01:00

The Making Time exhibition at the new gallery space in Farmleigh House which opened tonight explores artists' notions of time, and includes work by Brigid Riley, Richard Long, Alexander Calder, Bill Viola, Katsushika Hokusai and the French artist and theoretical physicist Jacques Mandelbrojt. link

Sean Hillen at the first SEED salon

2005-09-25T12:03:00.000+01:00

Artist Sean Hillen explains the curious electromagnetic effects produced by introducing a quartz sphere into a prehistoric torc at the first SEED salon on September 19.

Dr. Atomic website

2005-09-25T10:45:00.000+01:00

The Exploratorium has developed a website for John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera Dr. Atomic about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos Atomic Bomb project. Link

SEED salon: Sean Hillen -- 19 September

2005-09-16T06:02:00.000+01:00

SEAN HILLEN -- ARCHAEOLOGY FROM IRELANTIS?

A SEED Art-Science Salon

Venue: Upstairs, 4 Dame Lane, Dublin 2
Date: Monday 19 September 2005
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE

Artist Sean Hillen presents an exhibition and presentation titled: "Archaeology from Irelantis?". Though the title may be tongue-in-cheek, the joke is in fact that he's serious. Inspired by the idea that function is often expressed in form, Hillen points out and ponders certain isomorphisms (literally, similarities in shape) between archaic Irish artifacts and certain technological devices.

About the artist
Well known for his collage and photomontage works, artist Sean Hillen is also a sometime inventor (he was a prizewinner in the 1990 UK Design council 'Year of Invention' competition) and as well as public sculpture commissions and video for BBC TV and Super Furry Animals, has also made 'special effects' for the theatre. He studied at Belfast college of Art, The London College of Printing and the Slade School. His work can be seen at www.seanhillen.com .

SEED Introduction

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SEED believes that art and science are both victims of a new confusion of tongues. They have become languages unto themselves. New approaches are required to rehumanize art and science.

Rather than pushing a specific agenda for artistic or scientific practice, SEED aims to provide a place for the germination of new creative ideas through dialogue and action. Such action might include: collaborative ventures involving artists and scientists, artistic projects that explore, use, or critique science, scientists creating or critiquing art, performances, exhibitions, workshops, and street events that are tangible, visible and audible.

SEED challenges the notion of “science outreach”, based on the dilution of science to make it palatable to a lay audience. Instead it reverses this process and aims to give new constituencies access to the creative processes at play in both science in art.

SEED does not have a single institutional base, but hopes to draw support from multiple institutions and organizations, both on the arts and science side. It is based in Dublin, but is particularly keen to attract visiting artists and scientists with an interest in developing
original projects.

An initial focus of SEED’s activity will be open monthly salons. The aim of these meetings is to discuss projects, and invite artists and scientists to present ideas and projects in an informal atmosphere.

SEED is not a grant-awarding body but a place where ideas can be developed through open dialogue with artists, scientists and people with an interest in the relationship between art and science.

SEED is not setting itself up as an arbitrer of the quality of art-science projects – rather the optimistic philosophy that inspires SEED is that if the ideas are timely and we provide the right environment, the necessary support structures will crystallize around them.

SEED Events

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Opening SALON

SEED Members

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Michael John Gorman
Wiebke Drenckhan
Iggy McGovern
Sean Hillen
Anna Hill
Raymond Keane
Mary Mulvihill
Catherine Fitzgerald