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Dreaming of a Butterfly
45 acrylic tubes are arranged within the display box. Each tube has a "mechanical" butterfly placed within and their movements are synchronised with the sound system - where microphones obtain real time sound of the surrounding area, and amplify the sounds to the internal subwoofers speakers to produce the necessary input to cause the aleatory movements of the butterflies. As the sound captured reach higher volume, the movement of the butterflies increase.
Each butterfly is attached inside to the acrylic tube by a filament that runs to the battery housing. There is a certain amount of realness to it, while it is understated up close (people can see the filament when the butterfly is at a standstill - or the sound volume is low), but from farther away the fleeting butterfly appears to be real and trying to find its escape!
The butterflies are in some way interactive by reacting to the incoming sound, convincing illusion of a very natural butterfly through animatronic technology.
http://www.epacpublic.eu/artists.html
The Nerves
Impulses in different colours – red, blue, violet, yellow, etc., are transmitted through the optical fibre with such speed that is so high, that we are not capable to detect these impulses as separated tones - they become invisible and changes into a calmly floating white light. There are about 11'200'000 different colour, intensity and length impulses transmitted per second. This number is equal to the amount of bits that whole human nerve system can abstract. By comparison our consciousness can process only 10 – 60 bits per second.
http://www.epacpublic.eu/index.html
1st September, London, United Kingdom
"BEE BOX"
Anne Brodie
Opened
Laura Cinti (EPAC project coordinator in London,UK) writes: "Bee box opened last night (ed. September 1st) :) was fantastic! We also had a private view party overlooking the box as the day turned to night and the response was phenomenal. Bee Box has drawn a lot of attention and is located in a truly amazing location where the buzz of the city working meets nightlife surrounded by skyscrapers, markets stalls and cafes."
http://www.epacpublic.eu/index.html
Piritta Puhto (EPAC project coordinator in Finland, Helsinki) writes: "We had our opening and it went super well! The timing was perfect as it is the night of the arts and the streets were full of happy people. The work was received extremely well and people have come to tell me how nice it is. We are very happy about that.
CityBeat
http://citybeatproject.com/
http://citybeatdiary.tumblr.com/
The Citybeat project sets out to offer a meaningful form of connection between the individual and the city. It all started with the question - can one physically feel the heartbeat of a city?
In this iteration, co-produced with the Finnish Bioart Society and as part of the European Public Art Centre (EPAC), CityBeat will attempt to embody and communicate the heartbeat of Helsinki, Lisbon, Riga and London. With this installation you are able to feel the changing pace of the city and compare beats of different cities by touching the form. We are live recording sound in central places in these cities and translating it to a heartbeat. The installation attempts to look at a city the way we look at other living organisms and create a different experience of our city environment.
The box, provided by EPAC will be covered with concrete. Inside the box, on each side, we will attach a bass shaker. Each side of the concrete box represents a different city, different beat: four cities, four hearts. You are invited to move around the cube and touch the surface. We expect the heartbeats to alter during the day depending on the amount of activity in each respective city. The work is emphasizing the contrast between an organic function such as a heartbeat and the roughness of the material.
http://www.epacpublic.eu/artists.html
BioARTCAMP is a two-week residency program at The Banff Centre directed by Dr. Jennifer Willet from The University of Windsor, Canada. BioARTCAMP is a hybrid workshop / artist speakers series / performance event where 20 national and international artists, scientists, filmmakers, and university students will work for two weeks to build a portable biology laboratory in Banff National Park. BioARTCAMP will serve as a “field research station” housing a functional biological sciences lab and a variety of art/science projects. BioARTCAMP will open its doors to the general public for a one day “art/science fair” with food, music, and activities for all ages. BioARTCAMP will conclude at The Banff Centre with a two-day artist speakers series.
http://incubatorartlab.com/home/projects/bioartcamp/
Tagny Duff will visit Lisbon and the Faculty of Farmacy of the Unversity of Lisbon to prepare the stage for the residency she will develop here next Decembre with scientist João Gonçalves.
In the popular mindset, the viral is seen as a force of contagion to be combated, an impending crisis to be prevented. Yet there is research in both the arts and sciences suggesting that the viral is a necessary aspect of life. Viruses are, in many cases, generative of symbiotic relations across species and systems. Revisiting the viral at a point in time when fear of contagion is escalating to new levels, this research aims to demystify and emphasize the importance of viruses.
http://fluxmediaresearch.com/#515376/Project:-Going-Viral
The Canadian Artist Tagny Duff has confirmed her residency in June - July 2011. She will be devloping her work at the Faculty of Farmacy of the University of Lisbon.
http://tagnyduff.net/
We live today under the empire of image. After oral and written words, it seems that image acquires an unprecedented relevance. It dramatically determines our life, both our way of seeing the world and the way of performing our individual and collective existence. Is this a well grounded appreciation? What is the new status of image, if any? And, specifically, in Science and Art?
http://ica.fc.ul.pt/coloquio_en.html
Representações do Corpo na Ciência e na Arte
Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva
http://ica.fc.ul.pt/exposicao_en.html
The exhibition intends to compare the research of the Portuguese artist Marta De Menezes (her first presence in Italy) and Turin based Dario Neira. In the two personal show their works are made out of biological materials (DNA, proteins, cells) used as a new media art and they seem to respond to the latest research and biotech opportunities. In spite of De Menezes and Neira’s practices are very often included in the Bio-art sphere, they works are at the same time witnesses of personal views and creative poetics that explore the body nature, physically and socially.
De Menezes will guide the public a two-day workshop to discover the field of the uncanny body biotic matter.
http://www.parcoartevivente.it/pav/index.php?lingua_sito=2
28:01:11-25:02:11 - Visceral - The Living Art ExperimentWhy VISCERAL? There is something that makes us a little uneasy, perhaps even queasy, about the idea of creating artworks from living tissue. VISCERAL incorporates ten years of SymbioticA’s challenging work at the frontier between fine art and biotechnology and forms a series of provocations and puzzles around the nature of the living and non-living. Curated by Oron Catts and Dr Ionat Zurr, the works are occasionally playful, frequently uncanny and may even appear to be sentient.
http://www.sciencegallery.com/visceral
Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death that may occur in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes include blebbing, loss of cell membrane asymmetry and attachment, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, and chromosomal DNA fragmentation. In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury, apoptosis, in general, confers advantages during an organism's life cycle.
http://www.verbekegallery.com/
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