COTB and the Visual Voice Gallery present Art+Science in Motion short film festival featuring a collection of 13 science-inspired art videos by eight international artists exploring the solar system, zooms into the microcosmos, turning sound into sight, and visualizing mathematic principles.

Highlights from the reel include three films by Charles Lindsay, the first artist in residence at the SETI Institute. Titled CARBON I, II, and III, the short films were created with a carbon-based imaging process Lindsay invented, for which he received a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. The film BLACK RAIN by UK artist duo Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) transports us into the orbit around the Sun. The artists worked with images collected by the twin satellite solar mission Stereo, which captured visual data of solar wind and coronal mass ejections. Semiconductor's unique creative approach has won them the Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship and NASA Space Sciences Fellowship. Australian artist Andy Thomas works with data from the Netherland's Institute for Sound and Vision. His mesmerizing animations NIGHTINGALE AND CANARY and BIRD ECHOES are particle-driven 3D abstractions reacting to the sound of bird calls.

The total length of the looped reel, which was curated by gallery owner Bettina Forget, is about half-hour. Each film is between 3 and 6 minutes long, which means you don't have to commit to pedalling for long stretches of time. The Art+Science in Motion short film festival takes place at Visual Voice Gallery in the last two weeks of January, from January 14 - 31, 2015.