Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events

(see also the list of past events)

• Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), January 12, 2009
• Leonardo Education Forum at College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, February 25-28, 2009

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12 January 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU Downtown Center, 835 Market Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA

LASER is a bimonthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.

Schedule:

6:00pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:15: Steve Wilson, artist and author, on "Overview of Art and Biology Experimentation"

7:15-7:45: Paul Rabinow

7:45-8:15: Dor Abrahamson of Berkeley's Embodied Design Research Lab on "Close Listening to Gesture - An Embodied-Design Perspective on Mathematical Reasoning"

8:15-8:45: Kavita Philip and Beatriz da Costa on "Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism and Technoscience"

For more information, see: http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/jan2009.html

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25-28, February 2009

Leonardo Education Forum at College Art Association Conference 2009
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California

Leonardo Education Forum will be participating in the 97th annual College Art Association meeting in downtown Los Angeles, CA. Among the events they are hosting are a panel session, a business meeting and a special visit to the UCLA Art|Sci Center.

Wednesday, February 23, 2008

12:30PM-2PM
LEF Business Meeting
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2

Thursday February 24, 2008

9:30AM-12PM
Related Panel: Proof: Art Illuminates Science
Bill Tomlinson, Lev Manovich, Carol Steen, Lillian Ball, and Aviva Rahmani with Barbara Stafford as a respondent.

12:30-2PM
LEF session: Shifting Paradigms in Media Art, Science and Technology Education in a Global Context
Concourse meeting room 406AB, level 2
List of panel: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Paul Thomas, Diana Domingues, Christo Doherty Felipe C. Londono.
Moderation: Nina Czegledy and Andrea Polli

3-9PM
Visit to UCLA Art|Science Center
Will arrange for a van to pickup guests at conference center at 3pm and bring them to the UCLA Art/Sci Center, Please note this same evening there will be a series of special events on the UCLA Campus. See below for more information.

4-6PM LEF Meeting
Art|Sci Center, Broad Art Center

6-9PM Special Events, Hammer Museaum and Fowler, Broad Art Center Open House

9PM Return by Van

An Evening at UCLA
Reception: CAA Annual Exhibition
Fowler Museum
Continental Rifts: Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa
Curated by Mary Nooter Roberts, this exhibition presents the work of five outstanding artists with close associations to Africa: Yto Barrada, Claudia Cristovao, Alfredo Jaar, Georgia Papageorge, and Bernie Searle. Each offers a compelling example of the ways that time-based media lend themselves to the representation of complex transnational, postcolonial identity politics resulting from diasporic displacement, geographic rifts, and deep emotional attachments and divides.

Exhibition viewing and wine-and-cheese reception. Also on view are Transformations: Recent Contemporary African Acquisitions; Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda; Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives, and Reflecting Culture, The Francis E. Fowler, Jr. Collection of Silver. Open House

Hammer Museum
On view will be Portraits from the Collections, a selection of works on paper and paintings drawn from the collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Hammer Contemporary Collection, curated by Cynthia Burlingham and Gary Garrels. Artists represented in the exhibition include David Dupuis, David Hockney, Ray Johnson, Gustav Klimt, Sharon Lockhart, Edvard Munch, Catherine Opie, Pablo Picasso, Jack Pierson, Kiki Smith, John Sonsini, and James McNeill Whistler. Also on view will be two Hammer Projects by artists Erin Cosgrove and Shirana Shahbazi, and the Armand Hammer Collection of old-master and nineteenth-century European and American paintings. Open House

The Broad Art Center
Designed by Richard Meier and Partners Architects, the UCLA Art Department's headquarters will welcome visitors. The various visual-arts departments will be open, and the undergraduate juried art exhibition will be on view in the New Wight Gallery.

Saturday, February 28, 2008

9:30AM-12PM
Related Panel: Database Aesthetics: sorting through bits & flesh
Concourse Meeting Room 406 AB, Level 2
Sharon Daniel, Carol Gigliotti, Eduardo Kac, George LeGrady. Respondent: Lev Manovich.

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