Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events

(see also the list of past events)

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, The University of Illinois eDREAM Institute, The University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

Admission is free but limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com

Schedule:

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Tanu Sankalia (USF) on "Urban Fabric of Past, Present, and Future"

"Slots" are interstitial spaces located between Victorian-era buildings in San Francisco. Slots can be interpreted as architectural devices that can connect past, present and future urban forms.

7:10-7:45pm: Deborah Aschheim on "Memory"

Creating installations using video, light and sound to map, investigate, recreate and try to give form to invisible networks of memory.

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Anne Fougeron (Architect) on "City of the Future"

As of 2008 over 80% of the land of the world that is suitable for raising crops is in use. Where will we find the farm land we need? By 2040, 80% of the world's population will reside in urban centers, pushing urban edges further out into neighboring agricultural land. How will we feed ourselves?"

8:15pm-8:45pm: Jeff Hull (Nonchalance) on "Situational Design; Interactions at the Conflux of Narrative, Consciousness and Genuine Space"

The trans-media narrative adventure called "The Jejune Institute" leads participants on a journey of urban exploration and discovery through San Francisco's hidden future and past.

Find out more about past LASERs

16 and 17 September 2010

3rd 01SJ Biennial
San Jose, CA

The GLOBAL WARNING Symposium is organized by ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, City of San Jose Public Art Program and CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University in collaboration with LEONARDO/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and with additional support from the Montalvo Arts Center.

The two-day symposium examines the interconnectedness of ideas and actions and the current relationships between art-making, science and ecology. A group of distinguished artists, scientists and policy-makers will present and examine case studies of collaborative environmental projects. A session highlighting environmental policy and an overview of activist environmental art will provide context for scientist-artist dialogues engaging active audience participation. Three teams selected to develop designs for the Climate Clock---a landmark public art project that incorporates Silicon Valley’s measurement, data management and communications technologies to aid the understanding of climate change---will present their work. Public policy, urban planning, sustainable design and civic cultural/economic development strategies serve as platforms for a look at how public art can stimulate community dialogue about these issues of critical importance.

Find out more about the Global Warning Symposium

February 2011

Leonardo Education and Art Forum at the College Art Association Conference
New York, NY
February 9-12, 2011

The Leonardo Education and Art Forum will participate in the 99th annual College Art Association conference in New York City. Among the panels and sessions LEAF will be participating in is the panel "New Media, Art-Science and Mainstream Contemporary Art: Toward a Hybrid Discourse?" chaired by Edward Shanken. More information will be announced as it becomes available.

Find out more about LEAF

Updated 17 August 2010