Links and bibliography

Links

• A hombros de gigantes

  This is a scientific magazine of RNE radio station, directed and presented by Manuel Seara Valero. It airs live on Fridays, from 11 p.m. to midnight in Radio 5 Todo Noticias. Concerned with burning issues, this radio program goes through cutting-edge discoveries, and reviews the latest news published in the most relevant scientific magazines through the voices of its major figures.

• Agrupación Astronómica de Sabadell

  National non-profit organization whose main goals are to encourage and promote the amateur astronomy, and give support to its promotion and didactics.

• Allen Telescope Array

  The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) constitutes a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley to construct a radio interferometer that is dedicated to both astronomical observations and the simultaneous search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

• Alucine

  The website teaches you to observe the sky and understand its peculiarities.

• Art Futura
• Astrobloguers

  Blog for astronomy lovers.

• Astronomia e Historia

  Created in January 1995, this is a compendium of the history of astronomy that contains about 8000 links to external documents.

• Astronomy for children

  Web site specially designed to bring Astronomy closer to children through different activities, images, plays, tests, subjects…

• Astronomy Picture of the Day

  Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

• AstroRed

  Website providing a comprehensive introduction to astronomy and astrophysics, which includes a seven-chapter astronomy course as well as bibliographic and photographic resources and interesting links.
  Directory of links: http://www.astrored.org/directorio/enlaces/

• AstroSETI

  Website disseminating the SETI project featuring news updates and published articles on astrobiology, astronomy, astronautics and science in general.

• BioMedia Studio

  The BioMedia Studio is dedicated to creatively exploring the relationships between art, technology, and the biosciences. Our interests range across disciplines: biomedical phenomenology, open source DNA, visceral forensics, genome hacking, affective biometrics, and biomolecular networking.

• Calar Alto

  German-Spanish Astronomical Center directed by Joao Alves. It is located in the Sierra de los Filabres (Andalusia) and it is operated jointly by the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC).

• Caosyciencia

  “Once upon a time, there was an Astronomy tired of the seriousness that always went with her. Suddenly, one day she gave it the slip and went to meet the other sciences. All together decided that it was time for a change, a time to bring in videos, animations, images, short stories… All in all, a time to bring in anything that could help them to be better understood. That was the beginning of Caosyciencia.”

• Cel Fosc

  This is a Catalan association that proposes solutions to light contamination.

• CIANT (International Centre for Art and New Technologies)

  Created in 1998, CIANT organises festivals, workshops and lectures, and produces art projects exploring the links between art, science and new technologies. It also organises residencies for artists, operating like an art lab focusing on innovative experiments and interactive media developments.
  A full list of CIANT’s projects can be found at:
  http://www.ciant.cz/array.php?ntype=3&nlang=1&npix=1&nclr=black

• Citilab-Cornellà

  Citilab-Cornellà is a venue for activating, fostering and disseminating the technological creativity and innovation of entrepreneurs, businesses and citizens of the information and knowledge society. Citilab-Cornellà promotes social networking projects and places particular emphasis on work connected with the evolution of new spaces, concepts and methodologies in the information society and the new economy, including telecentres, living labs and e-learning.
  Ramon Sangüesa
  Citilab Innovation Director. Blog:
  http://fluxchange.typepad.com/ramonsanguesa/2007/11/innovaci-la-bar.html

• Cosmic Diary

  Astronomy blog, where astronomy professionals provide an insight into their day-to-day work.

• Cosmoeduca

  The Cosmoeduca project of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, aims to help teachers of ESO (Secondary Compulsory Education) and high school teachers, to develop subjects through concepts and contents taken from the field of Astronomy and give them a scientific-cultural-human approach.

• Daniel Dennett

  Prominent american philosopher whose research centers are the cognitive sciences, particularly those fields related to artificial intelligence and memetics. His contributions to what Darwinism means today are also very relevant. He is currently the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, where he is also Professor of Philosophy.

• Edge Foundation

  A foundation that promotes discussions on intellectual, philosophical and literary questions, and that works to achieve social and intellectual advances. It puts forward a vision of open science as a third culture in which the new intellectuals are the scientists.

• ElPaís.com. Astronomía

  El País newspaper website dedicated to astronomy

• ESO

  Intergovernmental European Organisation for astronomical research in the Southern Hemisphere.

• European Astronomical Society (EAS)

  The mission of the society is to contribute to and promote the advancement of astronomy in Europe, in particular by providing an independent forum for discussing subjects of common interest, and by providing means whereby action can be taken on those matters that should be handled at the European level.

• European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)

  Created in 1962, ESO provides state-of-the-art research facilities to European astronomers and astrophysicists.

• European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC)

  Asociación profesional para científicos que trabajan en el campo de la astronomía cultural o la astronomía antropológica.

• Eyebeam

  Eyebeam offers a cultural dialogue at the intersection between art and science. Its aim is to forge an understanding of the relationship between these practices, which increasingly are becoming important driving forces of cultural production.

• FoAM

  The Foundation of Affordable Mysticism is a laboratory of ideas and experiences that has two centres, one in Brussels and one in Amsterdam. Its interests, articulated around various events, workshops and publications, focus on cross-cutting relationships between art and science, creation and research into new interdisciplinary models of cultural production, and a hybrid reality of technology, the media, and physical and digital materials.
  Theun Karelse
  Illustrator, artist and builder of light structures. Member of FoAM Brussels and FoAMLab Amsterdam.
  http://www.mediamatic.net/person/21928
  http://www.tii.se/performingpictures/ragtag-website/theun.html (projects)

• Google Earth Sky

  With nearly a million stars and two hundred million galaxies, Google Earth Sky allows you to explore the sky as never before.

• Gran Telescopio Canarias

  When it comes into operation, the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), with a mirror equivalent in size to a 10.4 m diameter circular mirror, will be among the most advanced and best-equipped telescopes for astronomical research.

• Grandes mitos, grandes errores

  Website voicing its scepticism of SETI and the enigma of the cosmic silence.

• HispaSETI

  Association of Seti@Home Hispanic groups.
  The website provides a large number of links related to the SETI project and other fields of astrophysics and astrobiology.

• Institut d´Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)

  Private, non-profit foundation whose purpose is to cooperate and participate in the development, promotion and implementation of activities, studies and projects related to spatial technology and scientific research of the space.

• Institute of Physics

  A scientific membership organisation devoted to increasing the understanding and application of physics. It is a leading communicator of physics with all audiences from specialists through government to the general public.

• Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)

  As an institute of the CSIC and a unit of the IEEC, the Institute of Space Sciences aims to contribute significantly to the scientific and technological research, putting special emphasis on instrumentation on board satellites as well as all the technical aspects involved in such projects. Within this frame of work, the ICE is active in the following disciplines: astrophysics and cosmology, earth science and fundamental physics.

• Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

  Internationalized Spanish research centre where astrophysical research and technical projects are developed.

• International Astronomical Union (IAU)

  Founded in 1919, its mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its facets through international cooperation.

• International Dark-Sky Association

  The mission of the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) is to preserve and protect the nighttime environment and our heritage of dark skies through quality outdoor lighting.

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Trailblazing has been the business of JPL since it was established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s. America's first satellite, Explorer 1, was created at JPL. In the decades that followed, we sent the first robotic craft to the Moon and out across the solar system, reconnoitring all of the planets. Pushing the outer edge of exploration, in fact, is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory.

• lawrence Krauss

  Web page of the theoretical physicist and best-selling author, one of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture.

• Le Laboratoire

  A centre for art and science innovation opened in Paris in October 2007. Its aim is to develop projects involving both scientists and artists. Such collaboration is considered a catalyst for cultural, industrial and social development.
  A full list of Le Laboratoire’s projects can be found at:
  http://www.lelaboratoire.org/ius.html

• Medialab-Prado

  Medialab-Prado is a Madrid City Council Arts Department programme for digital culture production, research and dissemination related to the convergence of art, science, technology and society. Its main aim is to create a structure in which both research and production are processes open to user participation. To achieve that goal, it offers a permanent information, reception and meeting venue run by cultural mediators, issues open calls for proposal submissions and fosters participation in the development of collaborative projects.
  Marcos García
  Together with Laura Fernández, he is the manager of content programming and line-of-work coordination at Medialab-Prado, Madrid.
  http://www.cccb.org/now/ca/participant-marcos_garcia-30026

• MutaMorphosis

  The MutaMorphosis conference (8th - 10th of November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic) is a sequel to the Conference on a New Space for Culture and Society which took place in Prague from 19th - 23rd of November 1996. The objective of that meeting was to discuss some of the major directions in art and science with practitioners in various fields, particularly those concerned with the fundamental transformations taking place in certain areas of knowledge and the effect of those changes on contemporary culture and society.

• Natalie Jeremijenko and Eugene Thacker

  E-book: Creative Biotechnology: A User´s Manual

• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC)

  The NAIC enables advanced research in the areas of astronomy, planetary studies, and space and atmospheric sciences by providing the necessary technology and instrumentation for data collection and analysis, together with logistical support for users. NAIC operates the Arecibo radio telescope, located in Puerto Rico, from which the most sensitive SETI data is collected.

• Red Leonardo

  Citilab’s Red Leonardo (RL) is a social network for discussing white-hot themes in the arts, sciences and technology.
  Projects. Information about projects at: http://citilab.eu/projectes-citilab
  Resources and links: http://citilab.eu/recursos

• Res-Qualia

  Art-science and evolution of the conscience. A website that contributes towards improving holistic approaches to the construction of hybrid projects between art and science.

• Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project

  Resonance is an invitation for artists to create works in response to Nikola Tesla's (1856-1943) pioneering concepts. Tesla's innovations were based on the principles of vibration and resonance in the fields of electricity and electromagnetism. Echoing Tesla's concepts the primary aim of this interdisciplinary collaboration is to consider the human body (as well as other living organisms) simultaneously as a source, a transmitter and as a point of resistance to electromagnetic waves.

• Richard Dawkins

  This biologist is an example of the third culture, thanks to his analysis of how genes and memes define our conduct.

• Science Gallery, Dublín

  Opened to the public in 2008, the venue’s concept is to act as a place where ideas meet. The Science Gallery hosts a full programme of exhibitions, workshops, festivals and debates around the science-art-technology trinity. The main aim of the gallery is to reach a wide, mixed and mainly young (15-25 year-old) audience which can take advantage of the centre’s venues for professional and social networking and developing their own projects.
  Director: Michael John Gorman
  He has a BA in Physics and Philosophy and a PhD in the History of Science. Has taught at the University of Stanford and managed several art and science projects.
  More information at: http://nisenet.org/users/michael_john_gorman
  http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10396

• Seed Magazine

  Bi-monthly science magazine distributed internationally, subtitled Science Is Culture, which explores prevailing scientific ideas, burning issues at the intersection of science and society and the key players driving global science culture. Founded in Montreal by Adam Bly, the publication is currently based in New York.
  Director: Adam Bly
  Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group
  http://seedmediagroup.com/about/team/adam-bly/

• Seed Salon: Jill Tarter + Will Wright

  Conversation between Jill Tarter, astrobiologist and scientist at the SETI Institute, and video game designer Will Wright, who worked in conjunction with the institute while developing his new game, Spore.

• SETI Institute

  The SETI Institute seeks to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. Information regarding current projects (in addition to previous projects), links to other institutions and a wide-ranging documentation centre are available on its website: http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=241

• SETI.cat

  Website on scientific research into extraterrestrial life currently conducted in Catalonia. Extensive information on SETI@home and other services related to SETI, BOINC and distributed computing is also provided.

• SETI@home

  SETI@home searches for possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence. By means of a distributed computing platform using BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), volunteers from across the world take part in this initiative, processing and analysing the observational data captured by the Arecibo radio telescope located in Puerto Rico.

• Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA)

  The mission of the SEA is to contribute to fostering the development of astronomy in Spain, in its broadest sense, and, in particular, to provide an independent forum for the discussion of subjects of common interest.

• Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA)

  The Spanish Astronomical Society contributes to the development of Astronomy in Spain, in its broadest sense, and particularly, provides an independent discussion forum.
  http://sea.am.ub.es/

• Spanish Navy Observatory

  The Spanish Navy Observatory is a scientific center that besides its specific mission as an Astronomic and Geophysical Observatory, investigates all those physical and mathematical scientific fields that can be of interest to the Navy, providing also superior scientific education if required.

• Starlight

  International campaign in defense of the quality of the night sky and the right to observe the stars, open to the participation of all the scientific and cultural institutions and associations and all the citizens individually involved in protecting the night environment.

• Stephen Wilson

  Personal web page, with information on artists, projects and bibliography on art and science.

• Steven Pinker

  Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He is the author of several books and a regular contributor in first-rate international newspapers.

• Susan Blackmore

  One of the best-recognised specialists in meme theory. She has published several books and articles on the subject.

• The International Year of Astronomy 2009

  Website providing information on the events organised to mark the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei, as well as links on issues related to astronomy on a national and international scale.

• The One Trees Project

  The One Trees Project is a forum for public involvement in the cultural debate between genetic determinism and its environmental influence. A shared experience with tangible material consequences.

• The Planetary Society

  Founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman, its mission is to explore the solar system and seek life beyond Earth as well as to involve the public in space exploration through advocacy and educational initiatives.
  Spanish Planetary Society website: http://tierra.rediris.es/merge/tps-spain/

• Tomas Ray

  A scientist who has carried out much research in the field of genetics and its intersection with the virtual. Working from genome databases, he studies the origin and evolution of families of genes, always focussing on a greater understanding of the human mind. He is also researching how to apply evolution by natural selection to the digital world.

• Virtual Lab
• Virtual Symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience

  Experts from around the world discussed the intersections between the visual arts and the life sciences at this international event, which took place on the Internet. (5-13 March 2007)

• Worldmapper. The world as you have never seen it before

  Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.