Persistent Arts and Crafts Education for Future Scientists and Engineers

This article was brought to our attention by John Chalmers:

Roger Malina is launching a series of discussions around Robert and Michele Root Bernstein’s White Paper for the SEAD White Paper Study that has just been delivered to the US National Science Foundation.  The title of the White Paper is:The Importance of Early and Persistent Arts and Crafts Education for Future Scientists and Engineers and provides empirical evidence of why training in the arts and crafts (including the making and hacking movements) should be a key component for the early training of future innovative scientists and engineers. The full white paper is available at

http://seadnetwork.wordpress.com/white-paper-abstracts/final-white-papers/the-importance-of-early-and-persistent-arts-and-crafts-education-for-future-scientists-and-engineers/

The topic was part of a SEAD workshop that was just held in Washington DC with representatives of the US National Science Teachers Association, the US National Art Educators Association , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Association for Gifted Children, Association of Science and Technology Centers, Art of Science Learning, Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, American Association for the Advancement of Science . There were also observers from the US National Science Foundation, the US National Endowment for the Arts and the US Congresssional STEAM caucus. They will be including questions and comments that arose during the workshop. Much excitement arose in the workshop when they were informed that a Memorandum of Understanding between the US National Science Foundation, the US National Endowment for the Arts and the US National Endowment for the Humanities had just been signed to better coordinate and respond to transdisciplinary research and education arising between the sciences, engineering, arts, design and humanities.

Digital Grotesque: Printing Architecture

With thanks to Dana Levine for sending us this link:

Digital Grotesque . Printing Architecture from Digital Grotesque on Vimeo.
Digital Grotesque is the first fully immersive, solid, human-scale, enclosed structure that is entirely 3D printed out of sand. This structure, measuring 16 square meters, is materialized with details at the threshold of human perception. Every aspect of this architecture is composed by custom-designed algorithms.

Please visit www.digital-grotesque.com for a further description.


Architects:
Michael Hansmeyer
Benjamin Dillenburger

Partners and Sponsors:
• Chair for CAAD, Prof. Hovestadt, ETH Zurich
• Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
• voxeljet AG
• FRAC Centre
• Strobel Quarzsand GmbH
• Pro Helvetia

Research for the Digital Grotesque project was carried out at the Chair for CAAD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. All components were printed by voxeljet AG. The first part of Digital Grotesque is a commission by FRAC Centre for its permanent collection.

Fabrication Team:
Maria Smigielska, Miro Eichelberger, Yuko Ishizu, Jeanne Wellinger, Tihomir Janjusevic, Nicolás Miranda Turu, Evi Xexaki, Akihiko Tanigaito

Video & Photo:
Demetris Shammas, Achilleas Xydis

Music:
"Flicker" by Origamibiro (http://www.origamibiro.com)

Digital dress for a strip teaser

At the Ace Hotel in New York to a crowd of uber-cool fashonistas and paparazzi we revealed the 3D printed gown designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti modeled by queen of burlesque Dita Von Teese.

OK NO, just for the fun of it.

Just for the fun of it look at this video made by Brent Bushnell who was at a SteamConnect event at the Children's Museum in July 2013. His site is Two Bit Circus. and STEAM Carnival,

Two Bit Circus is a think tank and talent magnet building products at the crossroads of amusement and education. The interdisciplinary team strives to make entertainment more enriching and education more fun. Our endeavors include attractions that increase traffic and revenue for public venues; large-scale, cause-based events that are impossible to forget; and original content that has already gathered millions of loyal followers online.

Art and Science: Why does it matters

Stephen Nowlin speaks about natural vs. supernatural



LASER-UCLA-2013-04-18-02-Stephen Nowlin from Art|Sci Center on Vimeo.

Call for Papers Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2014
3rd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design
April 2014, Baetha, Andalusia, Spain
Part of evo* 2014
evo*: http://www.evostar.org
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New this year: Special track on Artificial Neural Network applied to
Music, Sound, Art and Design
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Following the success of previous events and the importance of the
field of evolutionary and biologically inspired (artificial neural
network, swarm, alife) music, sound, art and
design, evomusart has become an evo* conference with independent
proceedings since 2012. Thus, evomusart 2014 is the twelfth European
Event and the third International Conference
on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design.
The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of
artistic systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of
research. There is a growing interest in the application of these
techniques in fields such as: visual art and music generation,
analysis, and interpretation; sound synthesis; architecture; video;
poetry; design; and other creative tasks.
The main goal of evomusart 2014 is to bring together researchers who
are using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic
tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss
ongoing work in the area.
The event will be held in April, 2014 in Baetha, Andalusia, Spain, as
part of the evo* event.

Crativity in the Art Lecture at UCSD

The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind and The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination: "Creativity in the Arts: A Neuronal Hypothesis"

4 pm, SME 149, UC San Diego
Visiting from the College de France, Professor Changeux is one of the most distinguished scientists of our era, having made major breakthrough discoveries in both biochemistry and neurobiology. In addition to his scientific accomplishments, he has organized art exhibitions, served as chair of the inter-ministry commission for the conservation of French artistic heritage, and written on the subject of art and philosophy and their relation to neuroscience.