Science Art-Nature invites you to participate in a juried virtual exhibit, WINDOWS ON EVOLUTION:  An Artistic Celebration of Charles Darwin, commemorating Darwin Day, February 12, 2013.

• The top 40 entries will be posted on Darwin Day, but all qualifying works will eventually be added. 
• The exhibit will remain accessible through the Science Art-Nature website indefinitely. 

We intend to have the exhibit announced through various websites including that of the Darwin Day Organization. Darwin Day, as described there, is “an international celebration of science and humanity.” Visit their site to see videos, lectures on evolution, and information on Darwin, evolution, Darwin Day events and more.

As always, our aim is to display and promote the best contemporary Science Art and to encourage discourse between the scientific and artistic communities.

• Each selected piece of art must portray a narrative about evolution. To help viewers step inside that narrative it must be accompanied by a 100-word caption describing the evolutionary context. For comparable caption examples, please refer to our previous shows in 2010 and 2011. For an example of evolutionary art, see our placeholder for the exhibit.
• The exhibit may be interactive, inviting commentaries from viewers.   Send us your preference!
• The exhibit is open to all living artists working in any medium, although submission of traditional photographs is discouraged.
• Each artist may submit up to three works, but no more than two works from each artist will be selected.

SUBMISSION DATE:  The deadline for entries is midnight, October 15th, 2012.

Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. 

Charles Darwin managed to compress his entire theory into a single summary paragraph that a layperson can readily follow. 

Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper on the structure of DNA with a single deliciously diffident sentence. (“It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.”)

And Alan Turing created a new world of science and technology, setting the stage for solving one of the most baffling puzzles remaining to science, the mind-body problem, with an even shorter declarative sentence in the middle of his 1936 paper on computable numbers:

It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.

'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About Artificial Intelligence by Daniel C. Dennett