SCANZ 2013: 3rd Nature :: New Zealand #arts #residency #NZ #geekgirl

Expressions of Interest due 15 February 2012 ::
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art, technology, culture and ecology event and involves a symposium, creative residency, and public events and exhibitions. They have announced an early call for project concepts for the fourth SCANZ residency to be held in New Plymouth, New Zealand early in 2013.  Planned are: a two week residency and Open Lab beginning with a one night stay over at historic Owae marae, an exhibition at Puke Ariki museum, four projects in a local botanic garden, a Pecha Kucha night and a three day symposium with a presentation evening on the middle night.  The call is open to tangata whenua, artists, technologists, teachers, environmentalists, scientists, philosophers, educationalists, indigenous peoples, technologists and lecturers to contact SCANZ with ideas for talks, discussions, presentations, residency projects abd exhibition ideas.

http://www.intercreate.org/scanz2013-3rdnature

 SCANZ 2013 held 19 January – 4 February 2013

Ars Bioarctica art&science residency in 2012 #bioart #geekgirl

Ars Bioarctica art&science residency in 2012 :: Call for Applications
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland :: Applications due 31 January 2012
The Finnish Bioart socienty is seeking applications for the 2012 Ars Bioartica art&science residency the emphasis of the residency is the Arctic environment and art&science collaboration and is is open for artists and art&science research teams.The residency takes place in the facilities of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, which provides the residents with a combined living and working environment, a basic laboratory, internet connection and sauna and access to all scientific equipment, laboratory facilities, the library and seminar room as well as the usage of field equipment. A dedicated contact person in Kilpisjärvi will familiarise residents with the local environment and customs.  For applications or questions please contact Erich Berger: erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi
http://bioartsociety.fi

Hack the City Open Call #hack #cities #ireland #mashup #geekgirl

Hack the City Open Call :: Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Call closed 20 January 2012 :: Exhibition 22 June – 7 September 2012 :: Festival 11 – 15 July 2012
Science Gallery is seeking proposals for its 2012 flagship exhibition HACK THE CITY launching in June 2012. Currently more than half of the world’s population lives in towns and cities. This trend is expected to continue. Between 2025-2030 of the approximate 8 billion people who will live in the world 5 billion will live in cities. Yet the majority of our city infrastructures are based on inherited historical layouts and systems. Science Gallery’s 2012 flagship exhibition and festival HACK THE CITY will rethink our cities from the ground up through the spirit and philosophy of the hacker ethos – to bend, mash-up, tweak and cannibalise our city systems, to create possibilities, illustrate visionary thinking and demonstrate real-world examples for sustainable urban futures. The exhibition and events will explore hacking for good – the repurposing of useful resources, the innovators who customise existing tools for new uses and who purposefully challenge existing hierarchies.
http://www.sciencegallery.com/hackthecity

Center for Chemical Evolution: Seed Grants #artists #evolution #chemistry #geekgirl

Center for Chemical Evolution :: Exploratory Seed Grants for Visiting Artists
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, USA :: Proposals due 1 December 2011

The Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) is an NSF and NASA funded, multi-institutional research effort to study the question and determine the origins of evolution. The scientists at CCE are at the forefront of demonstrating that small molecules present in the early earth and its atmosphere react with one another, self-assemble and respond to environmental pressures to form larger molecules that resemble biology’s macromolecules.  With this research, the CCE is able to test the basic theory that formation of these important materials could ultimately have led to evolution.  The central mission of the CCE is to bring this cutting-edge research to the public, to diversify the audience of people interested in chemistry and to use these discoveries to educate and generate excitement about science. The CCE, with the Center for Creative Arts at Emory University is looking to provide seed funds of up to US$3000 to creative and performing artists who are interested in collaborating with CCE scientists to create unique works of art that explore the theme of Chemical Evolution and develop an outreach plan to bring these works of art to diverse audiences.
http://www.centerforchemicalevolution.com

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney #magic #science #art #geekgirl

Hokus Pokus :: Michele Barker & Anna Munster :: Performance Space, Sydney_  _Exhibition 3 – 26 November 2011 ::
Artist & Curator talk 5 November 2011_ 

Hokus Pokus visually references 19th century magic, early cinema and traveling science shows, alluding to the proximity between the history of magic and the genesis of both optical time-based media and the brain sciences. This new interactive artwork examines illusionistic and performative aspects of magic to explore human perception, senses and movement.  A magician appears on 3 separate screens performing tricks that use sleight-of-hand and deception. How the tricks unfold over time and across the screens depends on the participant’s movements and reactions in the space.  The installation continues Michele Barker and Anna Munster’s artistic research into perception, neuroscience and the histories of visual culture and media. It takes inspiration from recent neuroscientific interest in magic as a way of unraveling the relations between vision and movement in human perception. 
http://www.performancespace.com.au/

Ecsite Annual Conference 2012 :: Space and Time, Unlimited #France #science #technology #geekgirl

Ecsite Annual Conference 2012 :: Space and Time, Unlimited_ _31 May – 2 June 2012 :: Toulouse, France ::

Submissions due 25 October 2011

Space and time pervade contemporary science and technology; from cosmic exploration to minute nanotechnologies, or the plodding tempo of evolution to the speed of light. Some of the most intriguing scientific inquiry and discovery has, and continues to be, built on principles of space and time.  These two concepts literally and symbolically challenge science centres and museums with endless options and opportunities. Exhibitions and collections, institutional strategising, communications and marketing, education, learning and social presence & time and space have unlimited influence over all facets of our work. The 2012 Ecsite Annual Conference 
will seek to address how science centres and museums can use time and space to communicate science in new and innovative ways to remain relevant to audiences and whether institutional spaces keep up with the times in an unlimited way.  Submit session ideas to the 2012 Ecsite Annual Conference and share your vision of how to make science centres and museums timeless spaces. 
http://www.ecsite.eu/ 
http://www.ecsite.eu/annual_conference/call-for-proposal

Media Art History REWIRE Conference #mediaart #rewire #UK #geekgirl

   _MediaArtHistory REWIRE Conference _  _28 – 30 September 2011 :: Liverpool, UK_
  
The Rewire conference will increase the voltage and ignite key debates within the internationally distributed network of histories, and will illuminate the global phenomena of media art by discussing new paradigms for media art histories including Science and Technology Studies and Cybernetics, the connections between such histories and those of new technologies and computing, the relations between media art and craft, media archaeology, and institutional and curatorial responses to media art. Rewire will be supplemented with performances, book launches, workshops and special events, and runs concurrently with the AND Festival which will be hosted at numerous sites across Liverpool. http://www.mediaarthistory.org/

Honor Harger – now that’s the kind of Big Bang I’m talking about! #planets #pulsars #geekgirl

Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including “the oldest song you will ever hear,” the sound of cosmic rays left over from the Big Bang.

http://tinyurl.com/675oupw

Call Out: SymbioticA Exchange Laboratory

#Melbourne: Free Digital Light #Symposium #geekgirl

The Genealogies of Digital Light ARC Discovery Project [] presents Digital Light: Technique, Technology, Creation, a free symposium to be held at the University of Melbourne in March. This interdisciplinary symposium invites a number of leading international and Australian figures working with digital light-based technologies, including two artists previously commissioned by Experimenta, Lynette Wallworth and Van Sowerine.

Digital Light: 18 – 19 March 2011