I'm very excited to announce that artist-curator Selene Foster and I have received a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant award for our Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions (BAASICS) proposal! BAASICS is a series of San Francisco-based evening programs that bring together local visual artists, choreographers, composers, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers to present engaging, multi-media lectures and performances that consider a given theme. The programs are free and open to the public.

BAASICS isn't goal or project oriented; after all, there are many important differences between art and science, but one undeniable likeness is that the best discoveries are often stumbled upon, not planned for. We hope that BAASICS will provide a forum for artists and scientists to come together to share the ideas and practices that animate their lives and work. A principal aspiration of BAASICS is that we will learn from and be inspired by one another.

The theme of the second BAASIC event -- albeit the first associated with the name -- will be technology and notions of "the future." The roster of presenters hasn't been determined (it will take place in May or early June 2012), but speakers and performers might ponder, for example, robotics, artificial intelligence, medical advances and human nature, how our globalizing culture will shape technology, or dystopian versus utopian prospects.

Artworld Digest Magazine is selling my limited edition print, "Everywhere Looks the Same #1." Each print in the edition of 100 is sold with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity and, importantly, 65% of the sales proceeds will benefit The Center for Contemporary Environmental Art (CCEA), the organization behind the Seed Project. The prints cost $25.00. Buy one here.

I've produced two limited edition prints for The Endangered Species Print Project, the red wolf and Javan rhinoceros. 100% of the sales price of these prints will fund the work of conservation groups working to protect and restore populations of these two species. The prints cost $50.00. Learn more about the ESPP and purchase prints here.

In 2009, I worked with the esteemed Greenberg Editions to produce two limited edition prints, "further murmuration" and "Synesthesia #1." Each print is $150.00, 50% of which will be donated to one of the four non-profit organizations that I am currently partnered with. Find more information on this charitable sales model here. If you are interested in purchasing one of these two prints, please contact me.