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A Memorial for the Still Living Beatriz da Costa Photo: Steve Shrimpton	Beatriz da Costa in conversation Friday 28 January, 6.30-8pm The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Rd, London EC1M 5PS Los Angeles-based artist, Beatriz da Costa discusses the inspiration and processes involved in creating her installation, A Memorial for the Still Living, with Rikke Hansen, host of Nature Calls: Animals in Visual Culture on Resonance 104.4 FM. Beatriz da Costa will talk about how this work, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and John Hansard Gallery and recently on display at the Horniman Museum, relates to her other projects which explore the biopolitics of endangered species. She will also describe her latest new media initiative - www.4thestillliving.net Please book online - admission free, but numbers limited.
	Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy New publication The second Arctic Perspective Initiative publication, Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy, edited by Dr Michael Bravo, senior lecturer at the Scott Polar Research Institute, and Nicola Triscott, director of The Arts Catalyst is now available. The book explores the interplay of visual culture, technology and indigenous activism in the North and highlights the cultural, environmental and geopolitical significance of the Arctic and its indigenous people. It features essays by Michael Bravo, Nicola Triscott, Katarina Soukup, Lassi Heininen and David Turnbull, and is richly illustrated. The Arctic Perspective Initiative project (API) is led by artists Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman and aims to empower local citizens of the North via open and free technologies. Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy - 128pp softback €19.80 (approx £17) order online from publishers Hatje Cantz. Or download pdf version from The Arts Catalyst.
James Acord The Arts Catalyst note with sadness the passing of James Acord, one of the artists in our Atomic exhibition in 1998. Also see Looking for Acord which reviews his work.	KOSMICA at The Arts Catalyst takes off at 7-10pm on Thursday 17 February 2011 A new series of galactic gatherings for earth-bound artists, space engineers, performers, astronomers, musicians and anyone interested in exploring and sharing space in original ways. Every KOSMICA session will be unique: bringing together the cosmically curious and culturally quirky space community. Monthly KOSMICA evenings will bring together a social mix of art–space programmes - a film screening, performance or live concert with a short presentation, talk and debate about alternative and cultural uses of space. Register online to be first to find out who'll be on the lauchpad for the first KOSMICA. Admission will be free but space and places are limited - priority booking will go to those who have registered. The KOSMICA series continues on Thursdays 24 March and 28 April 2011. The series is programmed by Nahum Mantra. The event will be held on the first floor at The Arts Catalyst, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PS (between Goswell Road and St John Street). Unfortunately, there is no lift. Please contact The Arts Catalyst to discuss any specific access needs. Information just wants to be free Tuesday 22 February, 7-8.45pm Dana Centre, Science Museum, London The Arts Catalyst's director, Nicola Triscott, will join actor and writer Jack Klaff of Intelligence Squared, Murad Ahmed, technology correspondent of The Times and Daniel Glaser, of the Wellcome Trust for an evening of informal, intelligent and exciting chat asking; Should information be free? Does any good come from restricting access to it?
Limited edition map A Journey through the Great Glen, Adam Dant's marvellously magical map described from beneath creatively charts sites en-route from HICA (Highland Institute of Contemporary Art) to the Library of Outlandia. The map was commissioned by The Arts Catalyst for the perambulatory bus tour as part of The Great Glen Artists Airshow 2010. Available now, £3 (inc UK P&P) THE ARTS CATALYST PUBLICATIONS For a full list of all our publications and online ordering. ONLINE labforculture.org A new networking platform for information on European arts and culture. yurigagarin50.org On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin made the first human flight in space. 12 April 2011 will be the 50th anniversary of this event. On the YuriGagarin50 website, you can find details of events and activities that will be held to celebrate this anniversary, as well as background information on Yuri Gagarin's flight and his legacy. moon-life.org Includes an essay by The Arts Catalyst curator, Rob La Frenais in the download document about our future project: Republic of the Moon.	EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Brainstorm GV Art, 49 Chiltern Street, London W1U 6LY, UK until 22 January 2011 The only private gallery in the UK to hold a Licence for Public Display and Storage from the Human Tissue Authority marks a unique collaboration between fine art and neuroscience with selected works by seven artists using the human brain as source of their inspiration. Open Transmission, Nam June Paik FACT Liverpool until 13 March 2011 Working across the disciplines of experimental music, performance, TV, video and sculpture, Paik’s career reflects the development of a set of counter-culture ideas that are central to artists working with technology today. Signal:Noise 13-16 January 2011 The Showroom, London Signal:Noise is an experimental cross-disciplinary research project that aims to explore the influence of cybernetics and information theory on contemporary cultural life by testing out its central idiom, ‘feedback’, through debates, performances, and events. This three day event explores cybernetics, information theory, systems and feedback. Artists and Curators Talking 'Liminal Space', 19 January 2011, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff 'Hospitality', 16 February 2011, East Street Arts: Union 105, 105 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 3HY 'Structure and Space', 9 March 2011, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire A series of practice-led discussions presented by Axis and a-n highlighting diverse, but interlinked, approaches and philosophies in contemporary practice. Viseral: The Living Art Experiment Science Gallery, Dublin 28 January - 25 February 2011 Visceral will confront audiences with the delicate processes of modern biology to explore our changing understandings and perceptions of life in the light of rapid developments in the life sciences and their applied technologies. Work from 17 artists will challenge visitors to consider the tension between art and science and the cultural, economic and ethical implications of biosciences today. Transmediale.11 - BODY:RESPONSE: Biomedial Politics in the Age of Digital Liveness 1-6 February 2011 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin The transmediale.11 Conference investigates the biopolitical and psycho-political power configurations in the age of the Web, arising from the increasing bioligisation of the media (immersion, tactility) and the communication-technological hybridisation (in location-based social media like foursquare) of virtual and real spaces. Memento Park, Carey Young Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK 5 Februrary - 20 March 2011 This exhibition surveys the artist’s investigations of language, rhetoric and performance. The new video Memento Park (2010) extends and reframes Young’s interests in performance, politics and leftist ideas. Kinetica Art Fair 2011 P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS, UK 4-6 February 2011 With a focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound, time-based and interdisciplinary new media art. Applications open. CONFERENCES NeuroArts conference University of Plymouth, UK 10-11 February 2011 An interdisciplinary exploration of human consciousness and interrogation of the emerging field of neuroarts, aesthetics, ethics and philosophy. The Future is Now: Media Arts, Performance and Identity after Nam June Paik FACT, Liverpool 18 February 2011 The Future is Now examines the legacy of Paik’s thinking and practice with a focus on performance and identity, situated within current debates around new technologies, ubiquity and human experience. £35/£30 booking essential. Dialogues Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Saturday 19th March 2011, 9-5pm A Northern Arts and Science Network one day conference to provide an insight into the varied types and modes of discourse and conversations, asking the core question: How do collaborations of arts and science manifest themselves? Keynote Speakers include: Dr Julian Kiverstein, Edinburgh University and Dr David James, Sheffield Hallam University’s Extraordinary Moves Project. Tickets: £25 /£15 Deadline for bookings 28 February 2011
	OPPORTUNITIES Berlin Biennale Within the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2012, curated by Artur mijewski, artists from all over the world are requested to send in their artist material for a research investigation. Deadline 15 January 2011. ISEA 2011 Istanbul We invite proposals for panels, artworks, papers and workshops from artists, scientists and academics interested in how the digital and electronic media are re-shaping contemporary society and behaviors. Deadline for submissions extended to 15 January 2011. Collaborative Research Residencies The Collaborative Research Residency offers one month residencies spring 2011 for research groups of three collaborators where at least one has a contemporary visual arts background (artist/curator/art critic). The programme encourages new relationships and should be seen as a chance to try out different types of collaborations, which may have an inter-disciplinary character. We welcome applications from research groups of three people, where a minimum of two people are based in or coming from the Nordic and Baltic countries. Deadline 1 February 2011. The Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica calls for entries and awards prizes in the following categories: computer animation/film/VFX, interactive art, digital musics and sound art, hybrid art, digital communities, u19 - freestyle computing, [the next idea] voestalpine art and technology grant. Deadline March 2011.

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