CONTENTS:
–Art, Science and Technology Groups
–Some S.F. Museums on Art & Technology
–More good Art, Science and Technology links
–Science, Technology and Patterns in Nature
–Crafts
–Resources for Artists
–Nature, Awe and Cosmology (Also see Patterns in Nature Study Group Resources)
–Contemporary Art in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
–More about Quakers
–El Salvador


Art, Science and Technology Groups

YLEM: Artists Using Science and Technology
a group Myrrh founded in 1981, was active until 2008. It still has a web site.
http://www.ylem.org

Leonardo/ISAST
International Society for Art Science and Technology.
Principally known for the prestigious journal, Leonardo, published since 1967, of artists working in this field.
http://www.leonardo.info

ISEA, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
Principally known for its tech art conferences, held in places as various as Finland, U.S.A., Brazil, Japan and Australia. The next one will be in San Jose, CA, August 2006.
http://www.isea-web.org/

Wonderfest
Holds autumn weekend-long seminars in cutting-edge science for the general public at Stanford and UC Berkeley.
http://www.wonderfest.org

ISAMA, International Society of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture
Holds an annual conference.
http://www.isama.org/

ASCI, Art, Science Collaborations, Inc.
A New York City organization dedicated to organizing art/science exhibits and conferences
http://www.asci.org/


Some S.F. Bay Area Museums on Art and Technology

The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium has created hundreds of exhibits relating to perception and the visual aspects of science. It has actively collaborated with artists.
http://www.exploratorium.edu

Silicon Valley Art Museum
An online art museum originating in Belmont, CA that emphasizes the links of art to technology, education and collecting.
http://www.svam.org

The Computer History Museum
has just opened at 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View, CA. The world’s largest collection of computer artifacts. Currently on display: 500 key objects from the collection. Also, lectures, tours and restoration projects.
http://www.computerhistory.org

The Tech Museum of Innovation
in San Jose, CA. Celebrates technology developed in Silicon Valley and beyond. Its people-and-technology focus and the integration of advanced technologies into visitor experiences and infrastructure, distinguishes it from other science centers. IMAX Theater.
http://www.thetech.org/


More good Art, Science and Technology links

Stephen Wilson
Professor, Computer and Information Arts (CIA) Program, Art Department, San Francisco State University, author of Information Arts (MIT Press,2001). To find:
Artists' Work 
Art Festivals, Competitions, & Shows 
Art Organizations, Journals, Research Centers, Research Organizations, Alternative Science 
Online Essays - Theory Resources - Syllabi 
Introduction to Emerging Research Areas of Interest to Artists (Technological & Artistic research in GPS,Biotechnology, Biosensors, Materials Science, Wearable Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, etc.) go to:
http://online.sfsu.edu/~swilson/    click “Links”


Science, Technology and Patterns in Nature

Science Images - Outer space
Hubble images: The easiest way to access a library of Hubble images is to go to the search window and type "Hubble Images" with some identifier like "nebulae" or a particular year.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

Space.com is a site paid for with annoying ads, but some of Hubble's prettiest, most interesting images are very accessible from a window on its front page.
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/

Beautiful microscopy! Nikon "Small World" contest winners.
http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/

Images from the Lab
Felice Frankel: An artist who helps scientists make images of what they do. Author of Envisioning Science, MIT Press, 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12frankel.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


Patterns in Nature

Ned Kahn
Kahn creates moving fluid dynamics effects as public art. He received the Mac Arthur “Genius” Award in 2003. Did some of his early work as exhibits for the Exploratorium.
http://www.nedkahn.com

Roger Ferragallo
Digital paintings, especially “The Universe Knew we were Coming.” This has the most intriguing property of having unexpected detail when you interactively zoom into it.
http://www.ferragallo.com:80/tol_index.html

Alex Grey
Visionary artist of exquisite skill whose detailed knowledge of anatomy forms part of his symbolism.
http://www.alexgrey.com, http://www.cosm.org

ASCI exhibit of digital art on patterns curators' statement - eloquent!
http://www.asci.org/index2.php?artikel=910

Visual math in sculpture

Ruth Asawa, crocheted wire interlocking structures, designs based on paper folding
Asawa
http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2003/Articles0503/RAsawaA.html

Harriet Brisson, Many polyhedra held in place by monofilament; mirror and neon infinity boxes
http://www.number53.com/harrietbrisson/50NOW/page08_active.htm
(Keep clicking ahead to the pages that follow).

Helaman Ferguson
http://www.helasculpt.com/gallery/

Nathaniel A. Friedman
Mathematics in wood sculpture. Started several Art and Mathematics Conferences beginning about 1990.
http://www.isama.org/prints/friedman/

Bathsheba Grossman, ingenious designs in cast metal
http://www.bathsheba.com

George Hart, polyhedra from a variety of sometimes humorous materials
http://www.georgehart.com/
Fun links about polyhedra, too.

Carlo Sequin, collaborator with Brent Collins - computer design of minimal surfaces; knot theory
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/SCULPTS/sequin.html

Charles Perry, polyhedral and loop sculptures. Also, puzzles and jewelry.
http://charlesperry.com

Math and Dance
Dr Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance ensemble
Dancing about Math
http://www.mathdance.org/

Escher and the “Droste” effect.
Mathematician Hendrik Lenstra has done an infinite-regress animation in the center of the Escher print called “Gallery.”
http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/index.php?menu=animation

Anamorphic Art
Kelly M. Houle
(Distorted images which only look right in a misshapen mirror)
http://www.kellymhoule.com/anamorphic_art_frameset.htm

Mathematics in Computer Art
Tom Banchoff
art, math and art exhibits, computer animation demonstrating fourth-dimensional concepts
http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/gc/projects.html

Clifford Pickover
Prolific writer and puzzle-master
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/home.htm

Kenneth Snelson, sculptor and inventor of the tensegity structure
http://www.grunch.net/snelson/index.html

Crafts

American Museum of Arts and Design
Near the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it features a wider variety of media, including crafts and electronic art, than you will usually see elsewhere. An outgrowth of the “crafts as fine arts” movement.
http://www.americancraftmuseum.org/


Surface Design on Fabric
Surface Design Association
http://www.surfacedesign.org/gallery.asp

Lia Cook, extraordinary experimental weaver, paints her warp and weft.
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/allusions/cookbio.html

Mary Stieglitz, and her collaborations with J.R. Campbell
Computer imagery based on nature inkjet printed onto fabric.
http://www.design.iastate.edu/IDRO/DIGICLOTH/mary.html

Shibori (an intricate form of tie-dye)
World Shibori Symposium
http://www.shibori.org/

Good pictures of shibori:
http://www.silkpainters-guild.co.uk/shibori.html


Resources for Artists

Digital Giraffe
A prize-winning online magazine offered since 1994 by computer and high-tech artist Corinne Whitaker
http://www.giraffe.com
Myrrh's article on patterns is published in a shorter form on Giraffe:
http://www.giraffe.com/gr_patterns.html

Helpful Articles about the Art Business Online
http://www.artbusiness.com/artists.html

Open Studios
Since the vast majority of artists don’t have gallery representation, open studios are a way to get their art before the public. About 1980, arts organizations began to form to facilitate this. A search on “Open Studios” shows this is important all over the US and the UK. In the San Francisco Bay Area alone, six organizations have websites.
www.svos.org/

South Bay Area Women’s Caucus for Art
A branch of the national organization, which has done much to break down barriers for women in the arts.
http://www.sbawca.org/id84.html


Nature, Awe and Cosmology

A growing number of people are finding meaning in knowing how the universe works. Astronomy and cosmology have pushed the boundaries of our concepts of where we are. Molecular biology is showing that our DNA is closely related not just to chimpanzees, but yeast! Ubiquitous patterns found in the natural world at all scales provoke wonder. There are probably a billion billion galaxies. Here are some people and groups studying this:

Brian Swimme
http://www.brianswimme.org/

Joel Primack
UCSC cosmologist speciallizing in "dark matter" and "dark energy".
Authors of View from the Center of the Universe. He and his wife, Nancy Abrams, have published this most readable, yet profound book about where we fit in the universe. It gives new meaning to the existence of life and consciousness in the universe.
http://viewfromthecenter.com/

Nancy Abrams - Alien Wisdom CD
Composer wife of cosmologist Joel Primack, she explores the implications of the new cosmology for society in her songs.
http://www.expandinguniverse.org/about.html

Earthlight: Literature for ecological and Spiritual Living
http://www.earthlight.org/

Heron Dance: meditative watercolors about wilderness.
http://www.herondance.org/

Contemporary Art in the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Quakers and the Arts - Historical Sourcebook
E-texts of significant writings about the arts by Quakers past and present
http://home.att.net/~quakart/

James Turrell’s Rodin Crater Project
A mountain-sized monument that enables viewers inside the crater to look up and see the sky in a new way.
http://home.sprynet.com/~mindweb/page38.htm

More about Quakers

American Friends Service Committee
Carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs worldwide. In 1947 it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize together with the British Friends Service Council on behalf of all Quakers.
http://www.afsc.org

Friends Committee on National Legislation
Lobbies for legislation on peace and social justice issues.
http://www.fcnl.org

El Salvador Project of Palo Alto Friends Meeting
The art Myrrh has done about El Salvador is mostly an outgrowth of her work with this committee.
http://www.pafmelsalvadorprojects.org


El Salvador

Background on El Salvador, from the U.S. State Department
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2033.htm
War, Peace, and Human Rights in El Salvador, 1980-1994
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/elsalvador2/

SHARE Foundation, helps make poor communities viable
http://www.share-elsalvador.org/

Trees, Water and People, reforestation projects, solar ovens and more efficient stoves
http://www.treeswaterpeople.org/

Voices on the Border, community aid to peasants who got land after the civil war as part of the Peace Accords of 1992.
http://www.votb.org/