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The Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust Newsletter: Winter 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 2008, and for future issues. Please complete the form at  
http://www.rosentrust.org.uk/news_contribute.html or email  
editor [at] rosentrust.org.uk if you have something for the newsletter.

Events: Barcelona, Spain: Taxonomies, to 20 Jan 2008

In "taxonomies" the relationship between human and nature is under  
analysis through different strategies that comprise the project.  
"taxonomies" consists of an exhibition, round tables, presentations,  
workshops and other activities. Identifying, analysing and ordering  
are the terms of this project combined through the process of  
investigation of artists, thinkers and other guests, among them Agnes  
Meyer-Brandis, Andy Gracie, Brandon Ballengeè and Ramon Guardans.
Comafosca, Node d'art i pensament a Alella, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.comafosca.net


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: Operations Of Sound, 28 Nov - 15 Dec 2007

Operations of Sound, a site-specific exhibition and events programme,  
includes new work FLOW  a 6-screen video installation with surround  
sound has been developed for the Herb Garret in the Old Operating  
Theatre Museum using material from the artists’ residency at  
Harefield Hospital, Middlesex. As part of the Operations of Sound  
events programme, the artists’ film ITU will be screened with  
surround sound in the Operating Theatre, on Saturday 1st & 8th  
December, from 3:30pm.
http://www.thegarret.org.uk/events.htm
http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/4882


Events: London, UK:  Something Somatic, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2007

'Something Somatic' is a play about the relationship we all have with  
our bodies and their uninvited guests.
This performance contains strong language and scenes of nudity.
Produced in collaboration with Professor Anthony Pinching (Peninsula  
Medical School), directed by Jeff Teare, designed by Miriam Nabarro  
and presented by Theatrescience.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, Free, booking  
required
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events
http://www.theatrescience.org.uk/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail, 
0&cntnt01articleid=17&cntnt01returnid=73


Events: London, UK:  Sleeping & Dreaming, 29 Nov - 10 March 2008

The second major temporary exhibition at Wellcome Collection,  
'Sleeping & Dreaming' combines art and medical science to explore  
sleep, the mysterious state we all inhabit for a third of our lives.  
The exhibition draws together 300 objects across five major themes  
and a public events programme, to enable visitors to explore the  
biomedical and neurological processes that take place in the sleeping  
body, and the social and cultural areas of our lives to which sleep  
and dreams are linked.
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, Free, opening  
times vary
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events


Events: London, UK:  Empty Spaces - The Neurobiology of Nothingness,  
12 Dec 2007, 18:30

The brain is not a passive chronicler of events, but an active  
participant in their creation. Professor Semir Zeki will discuss  
various forms of art which give the brain the maximum opportunity to  
create many different interpretations of a single happening.
The Louise T Blouin Institute, 3 Olaf Street, London W11 4BE
http://www.ltbfoundation.org/ltbi_events.asp
http://www.lecturelist.org/content/view_lecture/4832


Events: London, UK: Making music, making mathematics, making meaning,  
11 Dec 2007, 18:00 - 19:30

An LKL Maths-Art seminar by Meurig Beynon, University of Warwick  
which will address the relationship between formal and informal  
meanings in music, in mathematics and in computing. Formal notations  
and structures have played a prominent role in all three fields –  
musicologists, logicians and computer scientists all study meaning as  
defined by the interpretation of symbols and forms. At the same time,  
each field has a rich and extensive practice that forces us to  
confront meaning in a much broader and more informal sense, whether  
through the extra-musical qualities of programme music, the aesthetic  
appeal of a mathematical visualisation, or the emotional impact of a  
computer game. Music, mathematics and computing wrestle with the  
relationship between the formal and the informal in different ways.   
Meurig Beynon is Reader in Computer Science at the University of  
Warwick, where he is co-director of the Empirical Modelling Research  
Group.
London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS, Free
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/maths-art


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: 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) the next deadlines are 15 February, 2 May and 18  
July 2008. The deadline for awards over £30,000 is on 11th January 2008.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node2580.html


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