Through art / science collaborations, artists and scientists can critically engage with the concepts, methods, possibilities and implications of scientific research.

The 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2012) will be held at RMIT in Melbourne on 8 July 2012. ‘Colliding Ideas’ is calling for proposals relating to art and physics are invited. Topics may include:

    •    Visual art, scientific visualisation and the limits of interpretability
    •    ‘Higgs in space’ – what the Higgs Boson means for the rest of us
    •    CP Snow and violations of the ‘separation of the two cultures’
    •    From the teleporter to the death star – physics in cinema
    •    Cats vs rabbits – Quantum uncertainty and the real world
    •    The trials and tribulations of art / science collaborations
    •    Scientific philosophy and the politics of particle physics
    •    Digital art, technology and physics
    •    Risk and failure in science and art
    •    Possible futures in art and physics
    •    Outsider and DIY physics
    •    Holography
    •    Lasers
    •    Mathematics and statistics
    •    Geospatial sciences
    •    Applied sciences
    •    Computing and IT

Speakers should aim to present for 30 minutes per topic.  Speakers who are available will be asked to join a panel discussion in the afternoon session. We will recap on all topics covered throughout the day and open up to the floor to generate the ‘colliding of ideas’.

Contact Chris Henschke: chris.henschke@rmit.edu.au

http://www.rmit.edu.au

Vox on the Rox will make a debut this Friday evening at the Conservatorium Recital Hall with the first in a series of concerts which explore the marine environments and creatures of the Southern Ocean. Extensive and extremely complex datasets collected from southern elephant seals diving under Antarctic Ice or transiting across the Southern Ocean, represent a considerable interpretive challenge and have provided the potential for a hybrid art and science collaboration between Dr Mary Anne Lea and Dr Nigel Helyer to explore new methods of and forms for manifesting the data.

Three short movements, accompanied by data projections of the graphical score and environmental imagery, will be realised through improvised sound created by the Vox on the Rox Concert by the  Conservatorium improvisation collective iCon ~ translating digital information via visualisations into sonifications.

Venue:     UTAS Conservatorium Recital Hall ~ 5 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay
Date:       Friday 27th April ~19h30-20h00
Cost:       Free with Refreshments.
Contact:  Robert Rule, Conservatorium Concerts and Projects Coordinator for further details (Tel: 6226 7306).

This four-month collaboration is funded under the Australian Network for Art and Technology’s Synapse program matched by generous support from IMAS (UTAS) and the Conservatorium of Music (UTAS).

The AdA want to convince Australia’s national leaders to create and fund a national policy for design that will be embedded in all government policies but specifically linked to Australia’s Innovation Agenda and cultural and urban design policies.

The AdA is a not-for-profit organisation with a volunteer Board and a part time Executive Director. To dedicate resources, they need to raise a minimum of $15,000  to undertake research to strengthen their case, spend more time influencing political leaders and step up their communications strategy to showcase the work of Australian designers in all their guises.

You can pledge any amount towards the AdA’s campaign at their Pozible page.

 http://www.pozible.com.au

webcast live on http://edgeqld.org.au/webcast/ Wednesday 28 March 5pm AEST

Keith Armstrong (QLD) + Australian Wildlife Conservancy (VIC, SA, NSW)
Australia has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world – not something to be proud of. To halt this decline, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) acquires high ecological-value land, establishes sanctuaries and actively manages the land through feral animal control, weed eradication, fire management and the translocation of threatened species. This approach – practical land management informed by strong science – has at its heart an interdisciplinary focus that sits happily with one of Australia’s most established and successful artists, Keith Armstrong. Through a career spanning two decades, as well as his work as Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, Armstrong has focused on art-science and ecology-based collaborations with scientists, musicians, dancers, critical theorists and performers. With the AWC’s South-West Region Chief Scientist, Matt Hayward, he will explore ways of shifting cultural thinking to generate broad-based actions to reverse the decline of Australian habitat health and diversity.

Peta Clancy (VIC)|Helen Pynor (NSW) + Heart and Lung Transplant Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital (NSW), Victor Chang Cardiac Research Unit (NSW) + St Vincent’s Clinical School (NSW)
The ambiguities arising out of organ transplantation have provided fascinating fodder for artists Clancy and Pynor throughout their careers. In their most recent research and exhibition project exploring transplantation, The Body is a Big Place, they explored the tenuous boundary between life and death and the complex tensions between consciousness, subjectivity, mind and body. The current project enables the artists to extend this research through a focus on the emerging transplant protocol, ‘Donation after Cardiac Death – DCD’. The differences between DCD and the more conventional ‘Brain Stem Death’ protocol raises fresh questions that clinicians, with their demanding day-to-day surgical practices, have little time to address. The artists will explore an array of complex issues arising in clinical settings as a result of developments in transplantation technologies – beginning with the fundamental tension between the maintenance of donor dignity and the optimisation of organ condition.  

Nola Farman (NSW) + Centre for Organic Electronics, University of Newcastle (NSW)
Imagine a planet able to harness the abundant light energy received every second of every day, a city where every building, every vehicle and every surface has an electricity-generating coating that makes low cost energy available to all. This is the vision being pursued by Paul Dastoor and his research team at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Organic Electronics. Nola Farmer is an award-winning artist who has pursued a diverse sculptural and installation practice since the early 1980s. Her most recent installation works are realised, paradoxically, through the impacts of erosion, weathering, vegetation, insect infestation, human interference and other effects more usually construed as destructive. Together, the artist and researchers have proposed a project that takes a fresh approach to the integration of solar cells into highly-constrained environments, providing a mechanism for rethinking how solar energy is integrated into the very fabric of our society.

Four Views of Pinocchio archival pigment ink on German etching paper, 100 x 80 cm , edition of 3

Hill Smith Gallery, 113 Pirie Street, Adelaide is showing Rod Taylor New Works from Wednesday 7 March 2012 until 25 March 2012.

Rod Taylor, AM, was the founder and CEO of the Adelaide Central School of Art Inc., which he ran for some 25 years. He is a first-rate draftsman, painter and educator and has contributed immensely to the visual arts in South Australia.  For the past 3 years since his retirement from ACSA, Rod has been working with the challenging processes of 3D computer generated imagery (CGI). The resulting work is exhibited primarily as 2D digital prints of studies for 3D works but also includes some actual 3D printed works, including the above “Four Views of Pinocchio” which is life-size (1.7m)!

www.hillsmithgallery.com.au
113 Pirie Street, Adelaide SA 5000
08 8223 6558

ECHOLOGY brings together Australia’s leading artists and urban developers to create data-driven public artworks that engage with serious issues in evocative and playful ways. Come along to the seminar and networking event nearest you to find out how you can be a part of this exciting opportunity and to meet some of the best international artists working in the field: Julie FREEMAN (UK), Usman HAQUE (UK), Joyce HINTERDING (AU), Geo HOMSY (US), Natalie JEREMIJENKO (AU/US) and DV ROGERS (NZ/AU).

MELBOURNE  | 3pm – 6 pm | Monday 26 March | Conference Centre, State Library of Victoria
BRISBANE | 5pm – 8pm | Wednesday 28 March | The Edge, State Library of Queensland
SYDNEY | 2pm – 5pm | Thursday 29 March | Lecture Theatre EG02, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

Free Admission.  Places are limited – REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL:  Melbourne | Brisbane | Sydney

Enquiries: Vicki Sowry, 0400 320 205 or Jodi Newcombe, 0410 838 083.

DFEEST, Intel US, RiAus and Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) are proud to present a forum and technical workshop about 3D printing. Speakers will examine the impact these rapidly developing and increasingly affordable technologies will  have on many areas, including creativity, education, industry and manufacturing.

Both sessions sold out, register here to be added to the waitlist.

Twitter hashtag: #3DprintADL

Program

Morning Session (9am to 1pm)

9.30 – 11 am:  Presentations

9.30 – 9.45am:       RiAus, Dr Paul Willis, Director RiAus, and James Byrne, Programs Co-ordinator will introduce the day

9.45 – 10am:         ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology), Gavin Artz, ANAT CEO presents “Manufacturing and Creativity”: a strategic overview of 3D printing. 

10 – 10.15am:       Intel Labs, Genevieve Bell, PhD, Intel Fellow and Director, Interactions and Experience Research, Jay Melican, PhD, Design Team Captain, and Lucas Ainsworth,   Experience Designer, present “America’s Maker Movement and why Intel Cares”

10.15 – 10.45am:  Ponoko, David ten Have CEO presents “The Future of Products”: how the design, manufacture and distribution of products are changing in a networked world.

10.45 – 11am:       Institute of Backyard Studies, Mark Thomson, Research Director presents “Lighting up the Locals: possible networks of makers”. 

11 – 11.30am: Morning Tea and 3D printer demonstrations

11.30 – 11.45am:   UniSA: School of Art, Architecture and Design, Peter Schumacher, Lecturer – Industrial Design presents “Design & Digital Manufacturing”: examples of digital manufacturing and how they change the interaction of consumers with producers.

11.45 – 11.55am:   Dr Sivam Krish, Digital Design Expert presents  “Consumer Creation”: how the phenomenon of DIY design is enabling consumers to become creators.

11.55 – 12.05pm:   NAMIG (Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industries Group) and UniSA, Bernie Fitzsimons, General Manager of NAMIG and David Chan, Engineering Faculty UniSA present “Use of 3D Printers in schools”

12.05 – 12.15pm:   Bridge8, Kristin Alford, Founding Director presents “How industry is using advanced manufacturing, with a focus on the medical devices industry”

12.15 – 12.55pm: Panel Discussion

Chaired by Dr Genevieve Bell (Intel Labs).Panel members: David ten Have (Ponoko), Gavin Artz (ANAT), Jay Melican (Intel US), Peter Schumacher (UniSA)

Questions can be sent via Twitter using #3DprintADL

12.55 – 1pm: Carolyn Anderson, Director, Digital Economy and Technology, Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology, will close the morning session.

Afternoon Technical Workshop and Demonstrations (2 to 5.30pm)

2pm – 3.30pm: Presentations

2.00 – 2.05pm:    ANAT, Gavin Artz, CEO, introduces the afternoon session

2.05 – 2.30pm:    Monkeystack, Shane Bevin, Company Director, and Ben Dansie, 3D Artist, present “Overview of 3D design programs suitable for the creation of files to be printed” 

2.30 – 2.45pm:    Ponoko, David ten Have, Ponoko CEO, presents “The top mistakes to watch out for when designing for 3D printing”

2.45 – 3.00pm:    Fingo, Andrew Whittaker, Partner, presents “Overview of various prototyping methods for product commercialisation” 

3.00 – 3.10pm     UniSA School of Computer and Information Science, Ross Smith, Deputy Director, Wearable Computer Laboratory presents “Digital Foam: research into deformable input devices to support new human-computer interactions technologies”

3.10 – 3.30pm:    Dr Sivam Krish presents “Design Technologies and web platforms for consumer 3D printing / bottle necks to be aware of”

3.30 – 3.35pm:    ANAT, Gavin Artz, CEO, will close the presentations session and open the informal networking and demonstrations session.

3.35pm to 5.30pm: Demonstrations and Networking

Demonstrations:

• Generative design (Dr Sivam Krish)
• 3D design software (Monkeystack)
• 3D Printers (UniSA, Hackerspace, ANAT)
• Digital foam (UniSA)
• Rapid prototyping samples (Fingo)

For further information, go to: http://www.anat.org.au/2012/01/3d-printing

Bookings are essential and can be made at: http://3dprinting-efbevent.eventbrite.com.au

We are looking for three artists who are able to submit designs in a mesh format suitable for conversion to a .STL file, and who would be happy for (at least) two copies of the design to be printed out – one for ANAT and one for the artist.  ANAT will use its copy for demonstrating 3D printing capabilities (the artist will be credited at all times).  There may also be the opportunity for copies of the artworks to be displayed at RiAus (tbc).

If this is of interest please contact Karen for more information.

Submissions due Wednesday 8 February 2012.