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The Dennis Rosen Memorial Trust Newsletter: January/February 2008
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.
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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: Bristol, UK: Full Beam Visual Theatre’s R&D for 2009  
production, February/March 2008
Full Beam Visual Theatre is offering up to 9 places on their R&D to a  
recently qualified science communicator or scientist interested in  
the arts for this exciting new production to celebrate the  
bicentenary of Darwin’s birth in 2009. This is an ideal opportunity  
for newly qualified science communicators to participate in high  
quality professional development workshops in puppetry, music and  
physical theatre with experienced practitioners, and to develop their  
own working practice. After the workshops participants will have the  
opportunity to give input and feedback on the material created in  
response to the scientific and artistic ideas coming out of the  
workshops. The R&D will culminate in a showcase of work to both the  
company, partner organisations and other arts professionals. The  
workshops take place over several days in February and March. A  
participation fee of £60 applies for successful applicants. Deadline  
for applications is 21 January 2008.

http://www.fullbeamvisualtheatre.org.uk

Events: London, UK: Creative Arts and Cultural Studies, 24 - 25  
January 2008
The third of three workshops exploring how artists have and can  
engage with Darwinian themes, in anticipation of the Darwin200  
celebrations in 2009. How might the set of original works by Darwin  
(Origin, Voyage of the Beagle, Expression of Emotion in Man and  
Animals, etc) inspire contemporary responses by artists in various  
media? Do these media and material developments in art have more  
profound implications in terms of a creative contemporary reaction?  
Is the rise of animal studies within cultural discourse of interest  
to contemporary practitioners?

Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, Request to  
attend

http://www.speciesoforigin.org/workshop3.jsp

Events: London, UK: Little Savages, to 29 January 2008
An installation by artist Tessa Farmer in the Natural History Museum.  
After a year researching the predatory behaviour of insects at the  
Museum, working with scientists from the Museum's Entomology  
Department, she's created a series of sculptures that are included in  
the existing displays, and drawings echoing Farmer's experiences  
working in the scientific laboratories.

Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, Free

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2007/october/news_12492.html

Events: London, UK: In the Mood for Dancing, 31 January 2008, 7pm
A dancer performs in total darkness. Points of light illuminate her  
movements. Is watching dance enough to make you feel like dancing?  
Take part in this live experiment investigating emotion perception  
and dance. No dance skills necessary, dancing shoes optional.

The Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HD,  
Free, pre-booking required

http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2008/01/31/359

Events: London, UK: Catherine Yass: Artist in Conversation, 7  
February 2008, 7pm
Catherine Yass is one of Britain's foremost artists working with film  
and photography today. Previously nominated for the Turner Prize, she  
lives and works in London. Her works 'Sleep (Eye)' and 'Sleep (Mask)'  
feature in the 'Sleeping & Dreaming' exhibition. Catherine has long  
been fascinated by ideas around sleep and dreams. She researched  
these areas with Mary Morrell at the National Heart and Lung  
Institute, Imperial College London, in a project called Waking Dream.  
This event is the first opportunity to see a new film work that  
documents these waking moments and dream recollections. Catherine  
will be joined in conversation by Lucy Reynolds, art writer, curator  
and content manager at LUX online.

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

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/events/ 
WTX041672.htm

Events: London, UK: Vision Impossible!, 12 February 2008, 6.30pm
A lecture by Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience at the  
Universities of Oxford and Warwick. Vision seems so easy. Just open  
your eyes and the world is there in all its glory. But seeing is by  
far the most difficult thing that we do. Twenty thousand million  
nerve cells; two thousand billion connections; 4% of all the food we  
eat. That’s what it takes to see. Colin Blakemore will reveal the  
tricks, deceit and artistry through which the brain invents the world  
that we see.

Louise T Blouin Institute, 3 Olaf Street, London W11 4BE,  £5, or  
free for Institute members

http://www.ltbfoundation.org/ltbi_institute.html

Events: New York, USA: Call for entries for Images from Science 2008,  
c/d 28 February 2008
Entries are being accepted by the School of Photographic Arts and  
Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y., for  
the autumn 2008 exhibition Images from Science 2008. The organizers  
are soliciting images created specifically for the purpose of  
recording of scientific and engineering research or images from other  
related fields such as oceanography, geology, biology, engineering,  
medicine, physics, or other related disciplines. Entries are accepted  
worldwide, a maximum of four digital files must be submitted by email  
by 28 February 2008. Full details and terms are available on their  
website>

http://IMAGES.rit.edu

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: Liverpool, UK: sk-interfaces, 1 February – 30 March 2008
An exhibition exploring the idea of skin as a place where art,  
science, philosophy and social culture meet, curated by Jens Hauser.  
sk-interfaces launches FACT’s Human Futures programme in Liverpool’s  
year as European Capital of Culture and as an interdisciplinary  
exhibition will feature works from 15 international artists. There  
are two related events: an International Artist Workshop on 2  
February 2008 and the sk-interfaces Conference on 8 - 9 February,  
where a variety of specialists will discuss skin and its role as an  
interface, and biotechnology as an artistic medium and subject.

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street,  
Liverpool, L1 4DQ, Exhibition Free, Event fees apply - see website

http://www.fact.co.uk/whatson/detail/?infoID=2962785423051707046

Events: Lisbon, Portugal, Call for papers: Computational Aesthetics  
2008 - CAe'08, c/d 15 February 2008
You are invited to participate in the fourth annual Symposium on  
Computational Aesthetics that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal  
from 18-20 June 2008. Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic  
and synthetic and integrates aspects of computer science, philosophy,  
psychology, and the fine, applied & performing arts and seeks to  
facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative  
behaviour. It investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the  
expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our  
understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning.  
Technical papers are invited, a call for artist's presentations,  
artworks, performances, posters and demos will be issued shortly. For  
more information including paper formatting and submission guidelines  
see the website at http://www.computational-aesthetics.org

Events: Keele, UK: The Third Conference of the British Society for  
Literature and Science, 27–29 March 2008
Tthe third annual conference of the British Society for Literature  
and Science at Keele University. Papers will address topics in the  
interactions of literature and science. Plenary speakers are Frank  
Close, OBE (Professor of Physics, Exeter College, Oxford), Steven  
Connor (Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College,  
London), and Helen Small (Fellow in English, Pembroke College, Oxford).

Keele University, Keele, fees payable

http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/humanities/BSLS3/registration.html

Publications: The great pretender, The Scientist, 30 November 2007
Short profile of Theo Jansen, a sculptor who creates "new nature" -  
kinetic, walking sculptures that are inspired by cellular automata  
and biological animals.

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53935/

Funding: Science and society grants for Scotland, c/d 1 February 2008
Projects must take place in Scotland predominantly in the financial  
year 1 April 2008-31 March 2009. The maximum grant available is  
£30,000. They are particularly keen to hear about projects involving  
a wide public or young adult audience and/or activities with a  
climate change-related theme. We would also like to consider projects  
involving collaborations, to prevent duplication, share best  
practice, and ensure good value for money.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/science/16607/ 
engagement-grants

Funding: Arts Awards, Wellcome Trust, new deadlines, workshops available
Free grants workshops for those interested in applying will be held  
in 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 next deadline for awards over £30,000 is to be announced.

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

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