Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events

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14 May 2012

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
SF, CA 94117
Room: Fromm (FR) building, Maraschi room

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

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

Schedule:

6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

7:00-7:25pm: Shan Shan Sheng on "Reinterpreting the Great Wall of China for the Age of Globalization"

An artist's view of the critical intersection of Chinese and Western culture.

7:25-7:50pm: Sean Gourley (Quid) on "A global intelligence platform: the new AI - not Artificial Intelligence, but instead Augmented Intelligence"

How to Augment our Intelligence as Algorithms Take Over the World.

7:50pm-8:10pm: BREAK

Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.

8:10-8:35pm Mark Feldman (Stanford) on "Urban Ecology: New York City's Visionary Urbanism"

With most of the world's population living in cities, creating green cities has become essential.

8:35pm-9:00pm: Jeff Hull (Nonchalance) on "Unlocking the Power of Play; Situational Design Applications in the Civic Realm"

To provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play.

Find out more about the LASER series

24 May 2012

DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous
Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W.,
Room 100
Washington, D.C.

Join Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) at the D.C. Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), a monthly discussion forum on art and science projects in the national capital region and beyond. DASERs provide a snapshot of the cultural environment of the region and foster interdisciplinary networking. This month, the discussion focuses on recent developments in experimental and interactive technology in art.

5:30 to 6:00 p.m. - Check in

6:00 to 6:10 p.m. - Welcoming remarks and community sharing time. Anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.

6:10 to 7:10 p.m. - Panelists' presentations (15 minutes each) Blake Fall-Conroy, Artist, Ithaca, New York Michelle Lisa Herman, Artist, Washington, D.C.; Blair Murphy, Program Director, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Steven Silberg, Artist, Baltimore, MD; Max Kazemzadeh, Guest Facilitator and Assistant Professor, Art and Media Technology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

7:10 to 7:45 p.m. - Discussion

7:45 to 8:30 p.m. - Reception

Find out more

19 June 2012

Leonardo Day at NetSci 2012
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

We are pleased to announce the third Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 on Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks. The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities.

The symposium will highlight arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially segregated communities of practice. Furthermore, the symposium will focus on striking examples, where artists and humanities researchers make an impact within the natural sciences. By bringing together network scientists and specialists from the arts and humanities we strive for a better understanding of networks and their visualizations in general.

The overall mission is to bring together pioneer work, leveraging previously unused potential by developing the right questions, methods, and tools, as well as dealing with problems of information accuracy and incompleteness. Running parallel to the NetSci2012 conference, the symposium will also provide a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers and practitioners of complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.

Find out more: http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net

Updated 9 May 2012