February 2012
15 posts
Beverly Fishman
In her artistic work, Beverly Fishman explores our relationship with technology. Pill Spill, her most recent project, explores our relationship to drugs, and our vulnerability in that relationship. This work is made of 90 glass capsules whose psychedelic patterns are inspired by the drugs made to alter our moods. This piece points out that medicine can be both a cure and poison. This ties into...
Todd Johnson
Todd Johnson’s Shockfossils are works of art created with a particle accelerator. As Johnson describes the process (and get ready for it, it’s scientific), “The accelerator produces up to five million volts and is used to accelerate a beam of electrons. The electrons are fired at pieces of acrylic plastic and penetrate deep within the slabs, resulting in a pool of electrons...
Reads and Zines: Afterzine Issue 2
Afterzine is a biannual arts and culture journal, curated by Hamish Robertson, featuring a collection of invited works upon dictated themes. This issue’s theme was coincidence, and was a cool change from the first issue. In terms of structure, rather than using last issue’s magazine format, Robertson switched it up to newsprint. The graphic design throughout is impeccable and the...
Photo Friday with Sean Chilibeck of Art and Math
[Photo Friday is a weekly column on Art & Science Journal featuring upcoming photographers. To submit your work email LeeJones@artandsciencejournal.com] Sean Chilibeck of Art and Math uses photography as a way to avoid a habitual life. As he states, “I don’t want to live by habit. I don’t feel like I’m living when I do. I want to do something real, and I’m always...
Jean-Sébastien Rochon
Jean-Sébastien Rochon makes art about the relationship we have with the natural environment. As he describes his work, “I’ve always tried to portrait this coexistence [between us and nature] by showing different transformations, but without photographing people. I try to represent ourselves through the landscape.” One of the best examples of his work is the photo above, part of a...
Sean Avery
Sean Avery, an illustrator and artist from Perth, Australia, makes sculptures of animals using fractured cds. When asked about his sculptures, Avery, who has been building them since he was 15, states, “I’ve always been fascinated with the way light and colour reflects off a disc. I’ve never found any other material to match it.” In terms of process, each creature starts as...
Photo Friday with Cléo S.P. of Fortune Camera
[Photo Friday is a weekly column on Art & Science Journal featuring upcoming photographers. To submit your work for consideration email LeeJones@artandsciencejournal.com] Cléo S.P.’s Fortune Camera begins with her own fortune telling, “You have unusual equipment for success: use it properly.” With a camera and an eye for images, Cléo takes us on a journey through the obscure...
PressPausePlay
PressPausePlay is a film about today’s to-it-yourself culture and its impact on creative production. It discusses the possible effects of democratized art, such as what does it mean if anyone can do anything. If everyone can create youtube videos, websites, photographs, then how does the good stand out? Though both sides are presented, the yays and the nays, the film is overall optimistic....
Reads and Zines: The Transcribed Photographs by...
Just got The Transcribed Photographs from Venus (the pseudonym used by Jess Petrella) in the mail recently. It’s a unique project where, instead of showing us photos, Petrella describes scenes for us to imagine. The project was inspired by Petrella’s process of writing down the photographs she wanted to take. As she states in The Transcribed Photographs, “I would write down the...
Jeannie Phan
Jeannie Phan is an illustrator with an interest in the human body. As Phan states, ” I like to take the human body and try to bend and distort it in ways that aren’t beyond physically impossible while creating interesting shapes.” With this interest, she focuses on all the tiny aspects of the body. “My work pays homage to all things teeny tiny that work together to birth...
Photo Friday with Gracie Jones
[Photo Friday is a weekly column on Art & Science Journal. Gracie Jones is the second installment of this series. To submit your work for consideration email LeeJones@artandsciencejournal.com] Gracie Jones’s work is concerned with how we see the world. Many of her images, with their layers of lenses and glass, reflect the process of photography as a medium. Currently studying at the...
Janet Tam
Janet Tam began her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Sciences at Guelph University, and then moved over to Fine Arts to create an artistic vision of what she saw. Because of her experience, her work is a balance of art and science. As she states, “In my art practice I am able to think about science from a more visual standpoint, and visual language from a more scientific viewpoint.”...
Anthony Mattox
Anthony Mattox’s series Neuron Fractal was made with computer script. As Mattox states of his use of computers to create organic-looking pieces, “Computers are often considered the antithesis of organic growth, however, their incredible ability to replicate such processes seems to be the very nature of object oriented programming. The complexity that can be formed from such simple...
Photo Friday with Lindsey Fast
[Editor’s note: Every Friday we will be interviewing prominent photographers as a new addition to Art & Science Journal. Lindsey Fast will be the first of many. To submit your photos to Art & Science Journal email LeeJones@artandsciencejournal.com] What drew me to Lindsey Fast’s photos is her use of spatial environments. Whether it be architecture, underwater, or open fields,...
Lisa Nilsson
Lisa Nilsson’s Tissue Series involves anatomical cross sections created with paper. As Nilsson describes how she created this series, “These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree.” The technique came into practice when...
January 2012
14 posts
Wally Dion's Star Blankets
Empowerment through communication. That was the message throughout Wally Dion’s exhibit “Star Blankets,” on display until February 19th at the Ottawa Art Gallery. In this exhibit, curated by Catherine Sinclair, Dion uses circuit boards to create hanging tapestries that demonstrate the importance of community. The circuit boards, once brought together, create grids that look...
Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet will be at the National Gallery of Art until March 25th. This work is a sound sculpture that involves 40 separately-recorded choir voices played on 40 speakers throughout the National Gallery’s Rideau Chapel. Once you walk into the chapel you will be surrounded by sound, but this piece is a trick in perception. Through sound you feel the people around...
Articulation seminar at the Ottawa Art Gallery...
What? The Ottawa Art Gallery Articulation critical writing workshop with Paddy JohnsonWhere? The Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave, OttawaWho? Paddy Johnson, founding editor of the blog Art Fag City (artfagcity.com).When? Saturday January 28th 10a.m. to 4p.m.Why? This workshop will present ways to reduce the need to pitch by marketing writing more effectively; this seminar will help writers develop...
Jason deCaires Taylor
Jason deCaires Taylor is an eco-sculptor whose creations turn into reefs. Termed “living sculptures,” Taylor’s work attracts corals to help increase marine biomass and encourage the growth of fish species. They also divert tourists away from fragile natural reefs and therefore help to rejuvenate the natural habitat. Because nature latches onto these sculptures, they are...
Bartholomäus Traubeck
Bartholomäus Traubeck plays slices of tree trunks on a record player to create beautiful music. As Traubeck describes the process, “A tree’s year rings are analyzed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as a basis for a generative process that outputs piano music based on the year ring data. Those are analyzed for their thickness and growth rate and are...
