International Science-Art News

Leonardo,Vol. 5, pp. 375-377. Pergamon Press 1972. Printedin Great Britain INTERNATIONAL SCIENCEART NEWS John H. Holloway, Co-Editor Readers are invited to send advanced notice of forthcoming events and publications ,and information about their own activities in the$eld of the relationships between the sciences and the visual arts to: John H. Holloway, 26 Sherborne Avenue, Wigston Magna, Leicester LE8-2GP, England. I. EXHIBITIONS AND MEETINGS 1.1.-An exhibition of ‘Holographic Work‘ by Margaret Benyon was held at the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland from 7-22 Jan. 1972. Miss Benyon is the first artist to work in this field in Britain. (cf. Leonardo 5, 171 (1972)). 1.2.-‘Comp 3’ was a recent exhibition of computer graphics and filmby E. Zajec. An attemptwas made to stress the importance of the formative process and to ‘de-mystify’the art object, especially in its role as a profitablecommodity. The exhibition washeld atthe Municipal Gallery,Palazzo Constanzi, Trieste, Italy. (cf. Leonardo 3, 482 (1970)). 1.3.-There was a lecture by Stroud Cornock entitled ‘Towards a General Systems Model of the Artistic Process’ at the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, 1972 held in Vienna, Austria, 23-25 May. The same lecture was repeated at Leicester Polytechnic, England on 21 June 1972. I.4-’The Environmental Design Research Association’s (EDRA) Fourth Annual Conference’ will be sponsored by the College o f Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia on 15-18 April 1973. Enquiries should be directed to: W. F. E. Preiser and L. Olson, Jr., College o f Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Znstitute and State University, Blacksburg , Virginia 24061, U.S.A. The Third Annual Conference was held at the School o f Architecture and Urban Planning, University o f California, LOS Angeles, U.S.A. from 24-27 Jan. 1972. 1.5-The Human Factors Society’s ‘Convention 72: Technology for Man’ was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, from 16-19 Oct. 1972. The emphasis was on ‘new’areas in human factors, including urban planning and architecture and environmental design and ecology. Details of proceedings can be obtained by writing to F. A. Muckler, 17355 Raymer Street, Northridge, California 91324, U.S.A. 1.6-There was a retrospective exhibition of ‘The Mathematical Art of Herbert Paul Nightingale’ in Gallery 273, Physics Building, Queen Mary College, London in January 1971. Short reports about the exhibition appeared in New Scientist and Science Journal for 21 Jan. 1971 and in The Sciences for Dec. 1971. 1.7-Edward Ihnatowicz gave a talk with slides and film on his computer-based sculpture and on the interaction between scienceand art at London’s Institute o f Contemporary Art on Wednesday 22 Dec. 1971. 1.8-An ‘International Carnival of Experimental Sound (‘ICES-72’)’washeld in London and throughout Britain between 13-16 Aug. 1972. Performances included the use of films, video, electronics, lasers, computers and many other techniques. More details can be obtained from :-ICES-72, Gate House Cottage, Station Lane, Ingatestone, Essex, England. 1.9-An exhibition ‘Werkbeitragezur Computerkunst ’was held by the Viennesegroupfor computerart ‘Ars Intermedia’ from 10-26 Nov. 1961 in the Datenzentrum of the Zentralsparkasse in Vienna Austria. I.1 V T h e First National Video Tape Festival’ was held at Minneapolis College o f Art and Design in August 1972. Assisted by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Avon Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota, the competition sought to focus attention on the importance of video tape to the communications media and the creative arts. For further information contact the Director of the Festival, George de Stefano,Minneapolis College o f Art and Design, 200 E. 25th St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, U.S.A. I.11-‘Cultural Noise +Laserprojektionen’ were shown by Ulrike and Dieter Trustedt in the Kooperative at Turkenstrasse 51, Munich during 1971. Trustedt, a physicist, built the laser. The ray was projected onto a wall by a system of oscillating mirrors. These oscillations were manipulated by electronic generators of several kinds of superposed voltages. The red projection point of the heliumneon laser drew a continuous line of circles, rectangles and manifold entangled transition...