The Bee House at the Queensland Brain Institute opened recently. For the Mellifera project, this represents the site of exchange between artist, scientist and bee.

For further details see http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=15713 and http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/bees-spark-brain-research-buzz/2008/08/21/1219262372787.html

photo: (From left) Professor Srinivasan, Minister Boyle and Professor Bartlett, from the University of Queensland link above.

A short list of texts exploring some diverse aspects of bees – the cognitive, sensory and communicative habits of which will be playing a central role in our developing project. (not including texts and publications from the Visual & Sensory Neuroscience Group, which will form a separate list.)

Gould, James L. & Gould, Carol G. The Animal Mind, Scientific American Library, N.Y. 1994

Gould, James L. & Gould, Carol G. The Honey Bee, Scientific American Library, N.Y. 1988

Honey Bee Facts Page;
http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/honbeefax.html

Odrowaz-Sypniewska, Margaret, Bee Lore,
http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/Bee.html

Beuys, Joseph, Honey Pump in the Workplace, Documenta 6, Kassel:
http://www.slought.org/img/archive1/1258+press1.jpg

Gare, Shelley. The Sting, The Weekend Australian Magazine, September 15-16, 2007, pp14-18

Pundyk, Grace, The Honey Spinner, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2008

Klein, B.A. Insects & Humans: a relationship recorded in visual art in Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships, Bekoff, M. ed. Greenwood, New Hampshire, 2007

Bee Strategy Helps Servers Run More Sweetly,
http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1605