One of the most fascinating aspects of art is that two artists can use the same exact materials and create vastly different works. Last week, I posted an interview with Heather Knight, an artist who creates abstract porcelain tiles inspired by nature’s patterns and textures. Today, I introduce Kate MacDowell, another artist working in unglazed [...]
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Heather Knight is a North Carolina-based ceramic artist. Her work in porcelain extracts patterns from nature and presents them in their simplest repetitive forms. I don’t recall how I came across Heather’s work – perhaps it was a random find at Etsy. I can’t remember. But I do know that since then, the images of [...]
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“…Resources for colonies of bacteria to research a theory of everything, reconciling cosmic and quantum observations in their own bacterial way.” -Jonathon Keats Part of the Vast and Undetectable show at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery is housing a unique school to study the universe. Jonathon Keats has created the Microbial Academy of Sciences, [...]
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February 7th, 2012 |
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Last week, Rob Dunn posted a thought-provoking piece on the hygiene hypothesis that made me wonder… what will the shelves of the supermarket cleaning aisle look like in twenty years? How will Proctor & Gamble respond to the mounting research that says some bacteria in our lives is not only good, but necessary? Obviously, they [...]
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February 5th, 2012 |
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Willy Chyr is a fine artist and designer interested in emergent properties and systems: and he sometimes works in balloons. I’ll be presenting an interview with Chyr here on Symbiartic soon; we met recently over coffee and from such fun, complicated work, Willy is refreshingly unpretentious and creatively versatile. To inflate your expectations of his [...]
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February 3rd, 2012 |
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ScienceOnline2012 was my 4th time attending the rockstar unconference in North Carolina. For ScienceOnline09, I had approached Bora Zivkovic about attending, mentioning that I know I’m not a scientist or journalist. He leapt at the opportunity to have me, and asked if I could do an art+science session and a workshop on putting images on [...]
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Is it possible that two weeks have passed since the ScienceOnline 2012 conference?! I still find my heart goes pitter patter just thinking about it. What a wealth of people were in those conference rooms! I had no idea how exciting it would be to be around them – during the keynote address by Mireya [...]
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January 29th, 2012 |
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Scumble #29 featured images by graphic designer David Orr of Love in the Time of the Chasmosaurs: David Orr is a graphic designer and book cover artist who I had the privilege of sharing a session with at ScienceOnline2011, along with John Hawks. You can view the video of our art+science talk here. – Orogenic [...]
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January 27th, 2012 |
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Already announced by Karyn Traphagen on the ScienceOnline2012 blog, I’m taking another look at the winners of the first ScienceOnline Science-Art Show. Artwork at a science communication conference in many ways should be a no-brainer: visuals are often left as frills and afterthoughts in blog posts, books and articles. But a strong image can viscerally [...]
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Extinction Looms for Rare Frog Species, Now Down to 1 Individual
A Science Miniseries: The Big Story of Alcohol, Civilization and a Little Fungus
And you can tell everybody, this is your mouse's song
Surprising Truths about How We Think and Act
Chestnut Tree Circadian Clock Stops In Winter
Fracking gets the NMA Taiwan animation treatment
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