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The Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust Newsletter: October 2007
Welcome to the Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust Newsletter, which features  
news of the work of the Trust, and news on science-art interactions  
in the UK and internationally, including events, publications, grant  
schemes and other initiatives that are within the remit of the Trust.
We welcome contributions and feedback for the next issue, which will  
be sent in November 2007, and for future issues. There's a real  
London focus to the events in this month's newsletter. So we'd be  
especially keen to hear from you if you know of events that showcase  
or encourage scientist-artist interaction from elsewhere - or is  
London really having all the fun? Please complete the form at http:// 
www.rosentrust.org.uk/news_contribute.html or email  
editor [at] rosentrust.org.uk.

Events: London, UK: Grace Weir, In My Own Time, 2 Oct – 25 Nov 2007
World premiere of four films by artist and filmmaker Grace Weir,  
which were inspired by her investigations of black holes, time and  
light, Einstein’s theory of relativity and other philosophical ideas  
about time during a residency at St John’s College, Oxford.

Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD, Free

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/Grace_Weir_- 
_In_my_own_time.aspx

Events: New York, USA: Digital‚07: Pattern-Finding, to 21 Jan 2008
For Digital'07, artists, scientists, and technologists were  
challenged to show digital prints that look at structure and pattern  
in the universe, whether visible or invisible to the naked eye. More  
specifically, this exhibition explores how today's scientific fields  
of systems science, chaos and string theory, fractals, nanoscience,  
genetics, molecular science, the wavelets or frequency of sound, and  
mathematical data-sets, plus nature itself, are being utilized to  
create two-dimensional art of provocative and sumptuous pattern. 23  
artists, scientists, and technologists were selected from 116  
entrants to this international competition.

The New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY 11368,  
USA, Free to $11

http://www.asci.org/index2.php?artikel=910

Events: London, UK: Computer-generated art using context-free  
grammars, 9 Oct 2007, 18:00 - 19:30
An LKL Maths-Art seminar by Brock Craft (London Knowledge Lab). Using  
software that applies "context-free grammars" it is possible to  
produce images containing many millions of distinct shapes with just  
a handful of instructions. Context-free grammars are logical  
constructs that can be used to formally describe programming  
languages and other complex entities. They are useful because they  
can very economically describe highly complex processes and  
structures. The rules of the grammar describe how to build the  
structure rather than describing the location and characteristics of  
its individual parts. Besides generating elegant images, research in  
complex grammars can lead to more efficient and powerful techniques  
for computation. In this seminar, I will discuss the application of  
context-free grammars to computer-based art and show some of my work  
which uses software employing this technique.

London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS, Free

http://www.lkl.ac.uk/maths-art

(Subsequent seminars (topic tbc), 13 November - Susan Tebby, 11  
December - Meurig Beynon)

Events: Arctic Ocean and web: Cape Farewell, to 10 Oct 2007
Cape Farewell brings artists, scientists and educators together to  
collectively address and raise awareness about climate change.  
Created by David Buckland, Cape Farewell has led expeditions into the  
wild, beautiful and icy High Arctic, a place for artistic inspiration  
and scientific enquiry. The current expedition is documented on the  
Cape Farewell website.

http://www.capefarewell.com/

Events: London, UK, Doctor as Scribe, 11 Oct 2007, 19.00-20.30
'Narrative medicine' describes the new move in medical health  
practice to revive the lost tradition of narrative in the teaching  
and practice of medicine and restore the diagnostic and therapeutic  
value of listening to, appreciating and interpreting patients'  
stories. Besides the scientific charts they keep on patients, doctors  
are being encouraged to write about their encounters and express  
their emotional reactions. This is leading to new writing by doctors  
who are trying to restore a sense of meaning and healing that  
counters the dehumanising effects of technology, bureaucracy and  
specialisation in the healthcare system. What can writing reveal that  
science can't? Can fiction ever be more powerful than fact? The  
second in a series of four events exploring medicine and literature.  
Further events on 8 November and 13 December.

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, Free, booking  
required

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events

Events: London, UK: Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon: Part 1 –  
London, 12:00 12 Oct 2007 - 15:00 13 Oct 2007
Last year’s 24- Hour Interview Marathon has been expanded in scope  
and geography. The 48-Hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon,  
introduced by Julia Peyton-Jones and presented by Olafur Eliasson and  
Hans Ulrich Obrist, will be in two 24-hour parts; first in the  
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 in London, then in Olafur Eliasson’s  
studio in Berlin in November. The experiments performed by leading  
artists, architects and scientists will explore ideas of time, space  
and of reality through models, vibrations and perception,  
investigating Eliasson's assertion that 'What we have in common is  
that we are different.'

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA, £20/£15 per  
day, £35 both days

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/08/ 
park_nightsserpentine_gallery.html

Events: London, UK: Laboratorium, 19 Oct 2007, 19:00- 21:00
Bruno Latour and Barbara Vanderlinden present tabletop experiments  
with leading artists, theorists and scientists reinventing the  
exhibition Laboratorium, (1999, Antwerp). For this event the Pavilion  
will operate as laboratory and artist’s studio exploring an  
interdisciplinary project that set out to search the limits and  
possibilities of places where knowledge and culture are made.

Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA, £5/£4 concs

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/08/ 
park_nightspublic_experiment_c.html

Events: Antwerp, Belgium: Confronting Mortality with Art and Science,  
Antwerp, 18-20 October 2007
The joint Annual Meeting of the Association Européenne des  
Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques (AEIMS) and the Medical  
Artists’ Association of Great Britain (MAA) is held 18-20 October in  
Antwerp, Belgium, on the theme “Confronting Mortality with Art and  
Science”.

http://www.artem-medicalis.com/congres/home.conference.htm

Events: Call for entries, 'Seeing Science' Photography Competition,  
closes 1 Nov 2007
The theme for the competition is 'the magic of science'. What is the  
magic of (your) science for you? Details of nanoparticles or a  
picture illustrating a mass psychological experiment - no matter how  
big or small - we want to see it! Organised by the Royal Netherlands  
Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Online entries permitted.

http://www.knaw.nl/photo

Events: Prague: Mutamorphosis, Challenging Arts and Science, 8-10 Nov  
2007
The conference will explore the major mutations that are affecting  
the future of our world. Papers from artists, scientists and  
researchers on the evolution of living beings and the societies they  
constitute, and on modes of knowledge, expression and communication  
of humans, animals and other forms of life. The conference will  
concentrate on the growing interest -- within the worlds of the arts,  
sciences and technologies -- in EXTREME AND HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS.

MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences

International Conference

Municipal Library, Prague, up to 120 euro (reductions for bookings by  
20 October and concessions available)

http://www.mutamorphosis.org

Events: London, UK: Materials Library presents: 'FLESH', 9 Nov 2007  
18.30-22.00
Touch, feel, smell, cut, drill and even taste flesh at this Friday  
night late for the curious. Join the maverick Materials Library for  
an experimental and experiential insight into the materiality of  
flesh and its connection to the human body, culture and medicine.  
Touch, feel, smell, cut, drill and even taste flesh with experts such  
as surgeons, body builders, butchers, artists and scientists. They  
will be giving talks and will also be available in the 'Medicine Man'  
and 'Medicine Now' galleries for more informal interaction. Materials  
Library will make a series of hands-on flesh exhibits for the  
evening, each one of which will be juxtaposed with one of the objects  
exhibited in 'Medicine Man' and 'Medicine Now'.

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, Free, booking  
recommended

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/events/ 
WTX041288.htm

Events: London, UK: POLAR: Fieldwork & Archive Fever, 19-20 Nov 2007
Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever is an interdisciplinary symposium  
focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge  
in the polar regions.  It brings together scientists, writers,  
artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge  
about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global  
climate and society. The symposium is organised by the Open  
University in association with the British Library and The Arts  
Catalyst with international partners as part of a wider multi- 
disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues  
surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar  
Year (2007-08). It incorporates the 2-day Polar symposium, a  
publication, and a series of public lectures taking place at the  
British Library.

British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London  
NW1, £25

http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html

Events: Keele, UK: Call for papers: The Third Conference of the  
British Society for Literature and Science, c/d 30 Nov 2007
Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited for the third annual  
conference of the British Society for Literature and Science at Keele  
University, from 27–29 March 2008. Papers may address topics in the  
interactions of literature and science in any period and any  
languages. Presenters need not be based in UK institutions.

We also invite panel proposals for three papers of 20 minutes or four  
papers of 15 minutes; members of the panel should be drawn from more  
than one institution.

Please send an abstract of no more than 400 words and a 100-word  
biographical note (or in the case of a panel, abstracts and notes for  
each speaker) to bsls [at] englit.arts.gla.ac.uk, by 30 November 2007.

Publications: A Disappearing Number, Nature, 6 Sep 2007
A Disappearing Number, a play exploring the partnership between  
mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, is the latest of  
several astonishing works devised by leading international theatre  
company Complicite, marbled with science and technology. Artistic  
director Simon McBurney tells Nature about the results of his most  
recent round of collaboration and experimentation.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7158/full/449025a.html

Publications: Call for papers for Science and its Publics: Following  
Scientists into Popular Culture, 30 Nov 2007
Papers are invited for consideration for a new volume of studies of  
science and its publics, based around (but not limited to)  
presentations at the 2007 Science & the Public Conference, Imperial  
College London. This conference showcased international research on  
subjects from science policy to science fiction. The volume will be  
interdisciplinary and papers are invited from history of science,  
cultural studies, sociology, education studies, philosophy, media  
studies, film and television studies, anthropology, literature, and  
history of art. Papers will, however, be united by an interest in the  
politics of science's relationship with society, and in particular  
‘popular culture’. All papers must be submitted by Friday 30th  
November 2007. It is anticipated that the volume will be published  
May 2008.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/sciencecommunicationgroup/ 
researchconference/scienceanditspublicsbook/

Funding: Arts Awards, Wellcome Trust, new deadlines, workshops available
Free grants workshops for those interested in applying will be held  
in London on Friday 23 Nov 2007, Belfast on 24 Jan 2008, Liverpool on  
10 April 2008, Bristol on 3 July 2008, York on Thursday 18 Sep 2008.  
The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with  
biomedical science through the arts. The scheme aims

to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science  
through the arts; examine the social, cultural, and ethical impact of  
biomedical science; support formal and informal learning; encourage  
new ways of thinking; encourage high quality interdisciplinary  
practice and collaborative partnerships in arts, science and/or

education practice. All art forms are covered by the programme:  
dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft,  
photography, creative writing or digital media. We invite  
applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young  
people. Projects should have some biomedical scientific input either

through a scientist taking on an advisory role or through direct  
collaboration. Applicants and activities must be in the UK or the  
Republic of Ireland and the activity must take place in the UK or  
Republic of Ireland. For small to medium sized projects (up to and  
including £30 000) there will be one more deadline in 2007:  15  
November, and more in 2008. The deadline for awards over £30,000 is  
on 11th January 2008.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node2580.html

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