Going through the summer interns with @victorialouise3 - so many awesome applicants! #excited4summer
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Founder and editor of Art & Science Journal, a student-run journal about artworks that deal with themes of science, nature and technology. I'm currently studying English, Art History and Arts Administration at the University of Ottawa.
Going through the summer interns with @victorialouise3 - so many awesome applicants! #excited4summer
Cool cats and Nicole’s pretty work :-) #uhb #urbanhautebourgoisie
Me and my rocking kicks for gallery hoppin with @victorialouise3 #walkinglotstonight
I will be registered at two schools next year, which is a bit cray, but I’m really excited :)
Art and Science Journal Stamp
I recently got a stamp maker so that I could have professional-looking signage to go on all things Art & Science Journal: envelopes, notebooks, and the works! It might end up on everything else too since it’s so much fun :)
Undercurrents at the Fritzi Gallery
Last Thursday was the opening of an exhibit I curated with my friend Erin Saunders. The idea for the show was to have artworks that responded to the Undercurrents theatre festival at the GCTC—six plays and six artists! The Fritzi Gallery is such a beautiful space and so many awesome people showed up to the opening.
The artists included: Eric Chan (eepmon), Karina Kraenzle, Betty Liang, Zoe Hussey, Tony Clark and Kristy Gordon.
If you missed last Thursday, you can still check it out until this Friday. We also got a write up in apt613!
Art and Science Journal Issue Two
Today was the Art and Science Journal editing party for issue two. We peer edited all the articles for the first round of edits. We have loads of exciting articles for the next issue!
Ladies Learning Code and Life Drawing
Lots of learning! Yesterday was Ladies Learning Code: Wordpress for Beginners where we got to work on making wordpress sites and the basics of designing them. My site actually started looking like a real one by the end of it! This past Friday I also went to a life drawing class for the first time with my friend Betty. It’s a drop-in session every Friday at the University of Ottawa where you go and draw someone in different poses over two hours, for only $5. It’s so hard! But I noticed around half way that already I was getting better at it. I’m planning on going every week to keep working on it.
This weekend has been a real exercise for my brain. So many new things at once! But lots of fun too :)
Ladies Learning Code Ottawa
Lots of fun yesterday at Ladies Learning Code at Shopify. The learning was impressively effective — in only 6 hours we learned how to create a website and built one too! Simply learning what all the tags meant and how to use css was key. Most of what I had known had come through googling code, but to get a comprehensive explanation of how html and css work opened everything up. Now I can make all the things that I have wanted to make! Can’t wait for the next one :)
Art and Science Journal Print Issue Launch Party
Last night we had our first issue print launch at Raw Sugar Cafe. It was so much fun—great entertainment, great food, and great people! To see the full facebook album, click here. If you weren’t able to come, you can pick up a print issue and have it delivered to your door by clicking here.
Thanks for the great night everyone!
[photos by Siu Yu and Nikolina Vujosevic]
Written by Ryan Saxby Hill on Friday October 19th, 2012
This weekend you don’t have to choose between art and science. You get a decent dose of both with the launch of the Art & Science Journal, a student run project out of University of Ottawa. I caught up with Lee Jones the editor and founder of Art and Science to learn more about the project and what we can expect from the journal.
Lee is hosting a launch party for the journal this Saturday night at Raw sugar. They’ve booked a DJ and will have a print making workshop with Spins and Needles. Addmission is $2 and you can buy a copy of the journal for $6. All the details are in the Facebook invite.
Apartment613: Can you give us an idea of your background? What brought you to this point with an interest in the intersections between art and science?
Lee: I’m currently doing a double major in English and Art History, and I see art first of all as a form of communication. There’s so much wonder to be found in the subjects of science, nature and technology. Because these subject can create wonder, a physical presence like art can be the most effective way to show this to others, and to get them excited about our world! Artworks are a physical presence that can expand upon knowledge that we have read or heard about. Yes, humans can conceptually understand vast distances, numbers and quantities, but can we truly feel them? Art allows us to feel knowledge in a way that really makes ideas click. The added bonus with art is that through enlargement and artistic exaggeration, art can convey messages about these images and experiences, and can therefore be used for social awareness. Overall, Art & Science Journal isn’t about art for art’s sake, it’s art about ideas and the world we live in.
Apartment613: What is you vision for the magazine? What can we expect?
Lee: Art & Science Journal is a student-run publication about artworks that deal with themes of science, nature and technology. We feature this type of art daily on our website, but the print publication has a local focus and more in-depth interviews. In our first issue we have interviews and artworks by Sanjeev Sivarulrasa, Josée Dubeau, Cindy Stelmackowich, and Elaine Whittaker, along with exhibition reviews from the Ottawa area. It’s a small zine (24 pages) but it’s loaded with art that will blow you away.
Apartment613: How are you running things? Can people get involved?
Lee: Art & Science Journal is a work of self-publishing, and is both a print publication and a website with daily features. We aren’t affiliated with a university on purpose, because we want any student in the Ottawa-area to be able to write for us. We encourage artists to submit their work and for writers to shoot us an email. Writers can do weekly columns, or just a one-time article, depending on their preference. We’re currently a team of 8 writers, some who write for the website, some who write for the print publication, and some who write for both! The print issue is going to be a bi-annual publication, so the next one is already in the works and will be out in March.
Apartment613: Do you think that there are challenges in bridging the gap between artists and scientists? Are their two solitudes?
Lee: Ottawa is a really exciting place for this type of research because there are so many groups that are bridging art/science/tech. For example, Artengine, with the recent electric fields exhibition and mini-maker faire, PrototypeD, with their workshops on creating with tech, Pelling Lab, with their bio-hacking, and so many others. When art/science/tech collide, really cool things happen! Our goal is to show that art and science don’t have to be two solitudes, and it’s actually better when they aren’t. It’s interesting, by starting A&SJ it has lead us down a rabbit-hole, and we keep finding more and more cool projects in the Ottawa area.
My TEDxUOttawa Talk - The Collision of Art and Science for Communication and Wonder
(Source: leejones.ca)
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt