Philadelphia artists enlist the help of a mathematician to convey the idea that sometimes, all it takes is one small change for an elaborate biological system to crash.
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CFP: The first International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture
“New Imaging: transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media”. Takes place on 5 – 6 November at Artspace, 43/51 Cowper Wharf Rd, Sydney, NSW 2011. Deadline for Abstracts: June 25, 2010 A profound shift is occurring in our understanding of postmodern media culture. Since the turn of the millennium the emphasis on mediation as [...]
Ann: MIT Sustainability Summit 2010: Mind the Gap: Collaborate and Communicate for a Sustainable World
The second annual MIT Sustainability Summit, titled “Mind the Gap: Collaborate and Communicate For a Sustainable World” will be held on April 23 in Microsoft New England Research and Development Center. This event will cap off the week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day at MIT. The theme of the Summit focuses on [...]
Science & the Arts Symposium: Imaging / Imagining the Skeleton
Friday, April 30 | 1:00 pm | Rms 9206-9207 Imaging / Imagining the Skeleton is a symposium exploring how social conceptions of the human form have evolved alongside the increasing ability of science and medicine to represent the body. Speakers will present a constellation of inter-disciplinary discussions about the relationship between representing/exhibiting the body, evolving [...]
Article: Scale models of museums aid designers
Great article by Kenneth Baker on how museums make models of the museum’s gallery spaces and all the objects that might appear in a given show, using foam core, balsa wood and cardboard. Paintings and photographs get miniaturized to scale using Photoshop. Read more
Ann: Turning the Pages: Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
The National Library of Medicine is proud to announce its next online Turning the Pages project featuring the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the oldest surviving surgical text: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html . The Smith Papyrus was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. This collaborative [...]
Lecture: Leonardo da Vinci’s Science, Technology, and Art
The Getty Center | Harold M. Williams Auditorium | Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010 | Time: 3:00 p.m. | Admission: Free; reservations required. Call (310) 440-7300 or “Make Reservation” here. Jonathan Pevsner, professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and scientific consultant to the Discovery Channel’s Doing DaVinci series, explores Leonardo’s wide-ranging [...]
Einstein’s Encounters with Mathematicians: The Swiss Years
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 • 6:00pm – 8:00pm • FREE event Speaker: David E. Rowe, PhD, Mainz University | Location: New York University More information It is well known that higher mathematics came to play a central role in Einstein’s general theory of relativity, even if he usually emphasized the importance of purely physical ideas [...]
