Past Leonardo Events (1997 to present)
(see also the list of upcoming events)
9 May 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
UCLA
California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
Los Angeles, CA
The next L.A. LASER will take place Thursday, 9 May 2013, 7-9PM at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA. This event is FREE and open to the public. Presentations by Donovan Keith (science animator) and Jon Christensen (UCLA Institute of the Environment). Everyone invited will introduce their work in a 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food/socializing and making new connections. Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com.
13 May 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
Fromm Hall - Maier Room
San Francisco, CA
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, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Lucia Ayala Asensio (UC Berkeley) on "Fluid Skies - or how to combine art, history and cosmology"
A collaboration between an art and astronomy historian, an astrophysicist and an artist.
7:25-7:50pm: Sara Loesch-Frank (Lettering Artist) on "Follow the Glow: Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art"
Many people are familiar with gilding as the flash of gold on medieval manuscript pages. Most people are unaware of how the metal adhered to the page or where the colors came from on the illuminations.
7:50-8:10: 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: Reuben Margolin on "Making Waves"
Ant colonies work without any central control. Gordon's work shows how this system, which we call "Anternet", is analogous to the one that regulates the flow of data in the Internet.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Sasha Leitman & John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA"
An overview of the history of The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)'s research and current work being done in Digital Signal Processing, Network Sound, Laptop Performance, Perception, Interface Design and Interactive Art Installations.
Find out more about the LASER series
25 April 2013
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.,
Lecture Room
Washington, D.C.
This month the discussion explores data visualization.
5:30 to 6:00 PM Check in
6 to 6:10 PM Welcoming remarks and community sharing time. Anyone in the audience currently working at the intersection 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 PM Panelists' presentations (15 minutes each)
Gary Berg-Cross, Cognitive Psychologist; Executive Secretary, Spatial Ontology Community of Practice: An Interdisciplinary Network to Support Geospatial Data Sharing, Integration, and Interoperability, INTEROP Project, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
Katy Borner, Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington; Curator, Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition
Ward Shelley, New York-based artist featured in the exhibition Places & Spaces: Mapping Science
Stephen Mautner, Executive Editor, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
7:10 to 8:10 PM Discussion
8:10 to 9 PM Reception
Find out more about the DASER series
18 April 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
UCLA
California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI)
Los Angeles, CA
The next L.A. LASER will take place Thursday, 18 April 2013, 7-9PM at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA. This event is FREE and open to the public. Everyone invited will introduce their work in a 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food/socializing and making new connections. Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com.
4 April 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Room 380-380Y (located in the basement of the Main Quadrangle's Math corner)
Palo Alto, CA
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, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Jesse Houlding on "Phenomena as Material"
Installations that use light and other natural phenomenon to explore perception.
7:25-7:50pm: Chris McKay (NASA) on "The Curiosity Mars Mission"
Searching for a second genesis of life beyond the Earth
7:50-8:10: 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: Vijaya Nagarajan (USF) on "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in Southern India"
The kolam and the key ideas embedded within this ephemeral ritual.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Niki Ulehla (Puppet Maker) on "Marionettes, Forms and Relationships"
How and why does a marionette move? How do the basic mechanics of the construction lead to the imitation of life.
Find out more about the LASER series
21 March 2013
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous
National Academy of Sciences
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 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 explores the theme of water.
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)
Hali Felt, Author of Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor and visiting lecturer, University of Pittsburgh
Kevin Finneran, Director, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), and Editor-in-Chief, Issues in Science and Technology, The National Academies, Washington, D.C.
Connie Imboden, Photographer and Photography Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Heather Spence, Marine Biologist
7:10 to 8:10 p.m. - Discussion
8:10 to 9 p.m. - Reception
11 March 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
Fromm Hall - Maier Room
San Francisco, CA
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, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Terry Berlier (Stanford) on "Where the Beginning Meets the End"
Making visible technology's vulnerabilities and illustrating how easily modern inventions can become footnotes to a bygone era
7:25-7:50pm: Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on "Historical Pigments: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Art, Chemistry and Madness: the Science of Art Materials.
7:50-8:10: 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: Deborah Gordon (Stanford) on "Anternet: How Ant Colonies Use Interaction Networks"
Ant colonies work without any central control. Gordon's work shows how this system, which we call "Anternet", is analogous to the one that regulates the flow of data in the Internet.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Katharine Hawthorne (Choreographer) on "Choreography as Research"
Choreography as embodied and experiential research.
Find out more about the LASER series
7 March 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
California NanoSystems Institute presentation space
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
The first UCLA LASER will take place 7 March 2013 at the California NanoSystems Institute presentation space. The topic for this meeting is Biotech + Art. Everyone invited will introduce their work in 3 minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This will be followed by drinks and food + socializing and making new connections. This event is FREE and open to the public. Art|Sci director Victoria Vesna will lead the LASER meetings.
13-16 February 2013
Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) @ College Art Association Conference
Hilton New York
New York, NY
Join the Leonardo Education and Art Forum at the 100th annual College Art Association conference in New York, NY
Thursday, 14 February 2013
12:30-2PM
Leonardo Business Meeting
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor
Chair: Joseph S. Lewis, University of California, Irvine
Thursday, 14 February 2013
5:30-7PM
Panel: Art and Medicine: Reciprocal Influence
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor
Chairs: Patricia Olynyk, Washington University in St. Louis; Adrienne G. Klein, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Reconceived Bodies
Patricia Olynyk, Washington University in St. Louis
Art and Medicine: Reciprocal Influence
Adrienne G. Klein, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Saturday, 16 February 2013
9:30AM-12:00PM
Panel: Re/Search: Art, Science, and Information Technology/ASIT: What Would Leonardo da Vinci Have Thought?
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor
Chair: Joseph S. Lewis, University of California, Irvine
Entrepreneurship and Experimentation: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide as a Case Study of Funding an Online, Open Access Journal
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University; Emily Pugh, Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts
New Resourcing Models for Hybrid Arts and Sciences Research Praxis
Shawn Brixey, University of Washington
Walking through Time: iPhone App and the Comob Net App
Chris Speed, University of Edinburgh
Artists as Connectors: In Education, Research, and Technology
Richard Jochum, Teachers College, Columbia University
Discussant: Juli Carson, University of California, Irvine
Learn more about the Leonardo Education and Art Forum
14 February 2013
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
The Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W.,
Room 100
Washington, D.C.
This month, DASER will occur on Valentine's Day and the discussion's theme is Love in the time of DASER.
5:30 to 6:00 PM Check in
6 to 6:10 PM Welcoming remarks and community sharing time. Anyone in the audience currently working at the intersection 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 PM Panelists' presentations (15 minutes each)
Bianca Acevedo, Social Neuroscientist, Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York City
Helen Fisher, Biological Anthropologist, Research Professor and member of the Center for Human Evolution Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Internet dating site Match.com
Claudia Hart, Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Michael Salcman, Poet, Art Historian and Neurosurgeon, Baltimore
7:10 to 8:10 PM Discussion
8:10 to 9 PM Reception
Find out more about the DASER series
6 February 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Building 320,
Braun Corner ("Geology Corner") Room 105
Palo Alto, CA
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, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Carina Earl on "Labyrinth of Infinite Doorways"
A visual point of access for places and times within our current framework of knowledge about the universe and evolution.
7:25-7:50pm: Luke Muehlhauser (Singularity Institute) on "Superhuman Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Peril"
Technological revolutions shape our world more than anything else, and superhuman AI will be the most transformative technological revolution of all.
7:50-8:10: 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: Christine Marie on "Cinematic shadows and stereoscopic objects"
Used as a tool for storytelling- giant cinematic shadow theater is a form that is both ancient and appealing.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Helene Mialet (UC Berkeley) on "On Stephen Hawking and his extended body"
These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality.
Find out more about the LASER series
12 November 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
University of San Francisco
Fromm Hall - Maier Room
San Francisco, CA
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, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Christina Mazza on "Trashed"
Art made of garbage.
7:25-7:50pm: Derek Sears (NASA) on "Sometimes Space Comes to Us: The Science of Meteorites"
We will never understand these materials, so chock full of information, until we visit their sources.
7:50-8:10: 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: Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley) on "'Natural' Search User Interfaces"
What does the future hold for search user interfaces?
8:35pm-9:00pm: Stella Zhang on "On The Edge of Culture"
Art as a process of rethinking oneself at the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures.
Find out more about the LASER series
9 December 2012
LevyArts
40 E 19th St #3-R
New York, NY
Speakers for the December NY LASER will include Charles Lindsay, a multi-media artist interested in the confluence of art, science and consciousness and Artist-in-Residence at the Seti Institute and Catherine Chalmers, a photographer and Artist-in-Residence at Imagine Science Films, an organization focused on the intersection of science, film and art. Wine + discussion @ LevyArts is hosted by the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Please note: The salon is open to all members of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) on a first-response basis. To become a LEAF member, contact LEAF Chair Patricia Olynyk at Olynyk@samfox.wustl.edu. Members who wish to present work after presentations are invited to contact Ellen Levy at levy@nyc.rr.com for details. The first 20 who respond will be saved a place. Attendance is limited in order to allow for a deep exchange of ideas.
10 October 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Jordan Hall (Building 420) Room 041
Palo Alto, CA
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, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Andrew Todhunter (Stanford) on "Bridging the Fuzzy-Techy Divide: The Senior Reflection Capstone in Biology"
Now entering its third year, The Senior Reflection provides three quarters--an entire academic year--to Stanford students in the sciences to explore and illuminate areas of scientific passion through creative media of all kinds in a small, workshop format. Program co-founder and author Andrew Todhunter will discuss the origins, methods and outcomes of the program's experimental first two years, and what may lie ahead for interdisciplinary capstones at Stanford.
7:25-7:50pm: Terry Berlier (Stanford) on "Where the Beginning Meets the End"
Making visible technology's vulnerabilities and illustrating how easily modern inventions can become footnotes to a bygone era.
7:50-8:05: 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.
8:05-8:30pm: Mark Jacobson (Stanford) on "A Plan to Power the World For All Purposes With Wind, Water, and the Sun"
Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the most significant problems facing the world today.
8:30pm-8:55pm: Cheryl Leonard (Composer) on "Music from High Latitudes"
Making music out of sounds, objects and experiences from the polar regions.
Find out more about the LASER series
18 October 2012
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
The Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W.,
Room 100
Washington, D.C.
This month, the discussion's theme is Brain Science and the Cyborg: Ethical Issues, Utopian and Dystopian Depictions and the Realities of Policy.
5:30 to 6:00 PM Check in
6 to 6:10 PM 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 PM Panelists' presentations (15 minutes each)
James Giordano, neuroscientist and neuroethicist, Director, Center for Neurotechnology Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA
Anya Meksin, director of "Temma", a short film inspired by recent developments in computational neuroscience, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Jill Scott, artist, professor for art and science research, Institute Cultural Studies, University of the Arts, Zurich, and co-director and founder of the Artists-in-Labs Program
Michael Swetnam, CEO, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA
7:10 to 7:45 PM Discussion
7:45 to 8:30 PM Reception
Find out more about the DASER series
6 October 2012
NY LASER
LevyArt
New York, NY
The upcoming NY LASER on Saturday, 6 October 2012, 4-7pm, will include a review of events held at ISEA. Speakers for this event will include Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, author of Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century, and Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space. Professor Kevles will be speaking about art and Zero Gravity. Astronomer Lucianne M. Walkowicz (Princeton University) will also present her work. Wine + discussion @ LevyArts is hosted by the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Please note: The salon is open to all members of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) on a first-response basis. To become a LEAF member, contact LEAF Chair Patricia Olynyk at Olynyk@samfox.wustl.edu. Members who wish to present work after presentations are invited to contact Ellen Levy at levy@nyc.rr.com for details. The first 20 who respond will be saved a place. Attendance is limited in order to allow for a deep exchange of ideas.
27 - 29 September 2012
Mexico City, Mexico
KOSMICA is a 3-day galactic gathering, an off-the-planet mix of art, science, debate, music and film, exploring alternative and cultural uses of space.
KOSMICA brings together earth-bound artists, astronomers, performers, space explorers and musicians from Mexico, the UK, France, Germany and the US, and is programmed by the artist Nahum Mantra and The Arts Catalyst (UK) in partnership with the Laboratorio Arte Alameda, INBA (Mexico).
For its first edition in Mexico City on 27 September, KOSMICA will see over 15 participants actively working in cultural and artistic aspects of space exploration. Urban stargazing, cosmic music, zero gravity dance, armchair space exploration, science fiction and DIY rocket science collide in a unique and unmissable event. The ideas are fantastic but the stakes are real: reclaim space and space travel for all!
Participants include: We Colonised the Moon (Sue Corke & Hagen Betzwieser), Regina Peldszus, Ale de la Puente, Juan José Díaz Infante, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Roger Malina, Ulrike Kubatta, Lyn Hagen, Jill Stuart, Julieta Fierro, Ariel Guzik
http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/kosmica_mexico/
20 September 2012
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
For those not in D.C., a live webcast is available here.
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's theme is Brain Science and the Cyborg: Fact, History, and Possibilities. This series is organized in collaboration with Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. This event is organized in collaboration with The Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of the National Academy of Sciences.
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) James Giordano, neuroscientist and neuroethicist, Director, Center for Neurotechnology Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA; Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, adjunct faculty, Visual Cognitive Neuroscience, Maryland Institute College of Art, Information Visualization, Baltimore; Jonathan Peck, futurist and director, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA
7:10 to 7:45 p.m. - Discussion
7:45 to 8:30 p.m. - Reception
19-24 September 2012
ISEA 2012: Machine Wilderness
Albuquerque, NM
Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina will give a keynote talk and members of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum will be participating in several panels at the upcoming ISEA 2012 conference in Albuquerque, NM, 19-24 September 2012.
Panel: Synaptic Scenarios for Ecological Environment
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
4:15-5:30PM
Natural History Museum, Sandia Room
Jill Scott and Ellen K. Levy are co-chairs of a panel for ISEA 2012: Synaptic Scenarios for Ecological Environments that addresses cognitive issues in relation to ecology with the goal of gaining a greater embodied sense of place within the ecological environment. Panelists are Patricia Olynyk, Nicole Ottiger, Angelika Hilbeck, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Ellen K. Levy. This panel is about how artists and scientists can collaborate with cognitive scientists to addresses environmental issues. Through these collaborations new metaphors and analogies about sensory perception might arise to cause a more pro-active discourse with the public about environmental problems.
Panel: Eco-Art + the Evolving Landscape of Social and Situated Practices
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
1:15-2:30PM
Natural History Museum, Sandia Room
Eco-Art + the Evolving Landscape of Social and Situated Practices, also a panel for ISEA 2012 is moderated by Patricia Olynyk, Chair, Leonardo Education and Art Forum. Panelists include Linda Weintraub, Sam Bower and Saul Ostrow. This panel will focus on education and the complex triad of eco-art, situated practices and project-based public work that embrace various democratic processes and inspire progressive social, cultural, and environmental change. Presentations will consider how situated, site responsive, ecologically based work that engages public participation can promote ecocentric tendencies, propose sustainable practices and support the case for ecological reform.
Keynote Talk: Roger Malina: Big Data, New Senses and the Avatar as Other in Cosmology
Thursday, September 20, 2012
3-4PM
Natural History Museum, Dyna Theater
Roger Malina discusses the history of astronomy as a science and its symbiotic relationship with technology. Many aspects of the universe cannot be known about until the right technology is invented, as has been pointed out by many scholars about how we augment, extend and develop new senses. An epistemological revolution is under way with the arrival of the era of "big data', which has been rich for art-science collaborations. In his keynote talk, Malina addresses the nature of some of these collaborations.
Forum: Breaking Tradition: Rethinking the Economy of Learning
Sunday, September 23, 2012
3:15-5:30PM
Hotel Andaluz, Majorca Room
This open forum brings together academics, researchers, educators and ISEA2012 participants to discuss the latest developments of educational policy investigations, evaluate the role of educational research, as well as existing educational business strategies, financial modeling and risk management. Verbal presentations and informal interaction between participants interested in the changes of the economic dimensions of education is strongly encouraged. The summary outcome of the forum is to be published in the Leonardo Education Almanac's series on education. Led by ISEA International representative Nina Czegledy, the forum includes: Andrea Polli, Artistic Director, ISEA2012; Juliana Pierce, Chair, ISEA International; featured presenter Chaouki Abdallah, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of New Mexico; featured presenter Patricia Olynyk, Chair, Leonardo Education and Art Forum, Director, Graduate, School of Art, Washington University. International contributors include: Ross Harley, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Ricardo Dal Farra, Concordia University, Montreal, National University Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina/ Canada; Susanna Sulic, artist, Paris, France; Shaurya Kumar, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US; Felipe C. Londono, Caldas University, Manizales, Colombia; Cheryl Wassenaar, Washington University in St. Louis, USA; Ian Clothier, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand; Suzanne Anker, School of Visual Art, New York, USA; and Claudio Rivera-Seguel, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
14 September 2012
LEA Special Event, "Not Here Not There"
6:30pm
Zero1 Biennial
345 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
San Jose, CA
Join Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Editor in Chief Lanfranco Aceti and Guest Editor Richard Rinehart at 6:30pm at the ZERO1 Biennial. The two editors present a special issue of LEA on augmented reality art titled “Not Here Not There”: a curatorial and academic collaboration with Kasa Gallery (Sabanci University) and Samek Art Gallery (Bucknell University). The LEA special issue features contributions by artists who work with AR technology, along with curators and writers who work on issues related to AR, sited art in relation to new media or site-specific interventions. This survey of the field provides an understanding on if and how contemporary art practices are changing. Meet Lanfranco and Richard at the California Theatre Courtyard, 345 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113, at 6:30pm. See www.zero1.biennial.org for additional ZERO1 Biennial events.
10 September 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
2130 Fulton Street
SF, CA 94117
Room: TBA
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 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: Hana Mori Bottger (USF Architecture) on "At the Intersection of Beauty and Strength: Earthen Structures that Survive Earthquakes"
An overview of the variety of earth-composite structures throughout the world.
7:25-7:50pm: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Lights, Nano, Action!"
Imagine a world where cancer is cured with light, objects can be made invisible, and teleportation is allowed through space and time.
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: Jesse Houlding on "Phenomena as Material"
Installations that use light and other natural phenomenon to explore perception.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Vijaya Nagarajan (USF) on "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in Southern India"
The kolam and the key ideas embedded within this ephemeral ritual.
Find out more about the LASER series
5-9 August 2012
Leonardo at SIGGRAPH 2012
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, CA
Reception: Leonardo, Art Papers, and Art Gallery
TUESDAY, 7 AUGUST 2-3:30 PM | Art Gallery
Experience a sense of wonder in the digital era. Talk with the artists, designers, and Art Papers authors about their work. And meet the members of the SIGGRAPH 2012 committee who organized this year's Art Gallery.
Visit the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery
Leonardo Birds of a Feather Meeting
WEDNESDAY, 8 AUGUST 1-2:30 PM | L.A. Convention Center, Room 512
SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather meetings feature informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds. Come hear presentations by Sheila Pinkel, Eleonora Bilotta, Roger Malina and Heather Lineberry.
HEATHER LINEBERRY (Senior Curator and Associate Director of the Arizona State University Art Museum) will present the Museum's work in art and sustainability, past projects and current thoughts on more powerful collaborations between disciplines.
ROGER MALINA (Leonardo/ISAST; Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities and of Physics at the University of Texas, Dallas) will present "How to Enable Deep Art-Science Collaborations Today," looking at the current international call to the community by the Science.Engineering-Arts.Design (SEAD) Network. This study seeks to identify concerns, roadblocks and new opportunities for deeper collaboration between the arts and humanities with science and engineering today.
ELEONORA BILOTTA and PIETRO PANTANO (Evolutionary Systems Group [ESG], Calabria University, Italy) will present "Creativity at the Edge of Art and Science" about the ESG work involving the discovery of creative patterns inside dynamic systems, the production of codes to translate these patterns, and the realization of software programs. During the presentation examples of music sound and visual arts will be given.
SHEILA PINKEL (Leonardo Co-Editor; Pomona College, Los Angeles) will talk about the current status of Leonardo Abstract Services.
http://s2012.siggraph.org/attendees/birds-feather
8 August 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Geology Corner, room 105
Palo Alto, CA
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by Danube University at Krems, School of Visual Arts Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and University of Calabria, Evolutionary Systems Group.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Sydell Lewis on "Why Upside Down? Paintings that Rotate"
Sydell Lewis's abstract paintings, mounted on rotating devices, allows the viewer to examine and interpret a work to its full potential. Her thesis is that we do not totally perceive an abstract work unless we view it from more than one position. She analogizes this to how we look at sculpture. We walk around the work to grasp it fully. In the case of paintings or prints she mounts her work on rotation devices so that the audience is still and the work moves thereby giving the viewer access to the complete work. This concept was born of a chain of connecting experiences that started in her early career with an amusing incident in her studio and later developed after attending an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence. She also raises the following questions: Is it essential to view an abstract work as the artist originally intended? Does the viewers interpretation count as much as the artists if they differ? She hopes that after her presentation the audience will never look at a work of abstract art without considering it upsidedown, sideways and possibly on the diagonal. She believes that the process of looking at many perspectives is a creative and effective tool for promoting cultural understanding and problem solving as well as looking at art.
7:25-7:50pm: Shamit Kachru (Stanford Physics Dept) on "Dark Energy and Dark Matter"
7:50-8:05: 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.
8:05-8:30pm: Indre Viskontas on "Music that Moves: the Art and Neuroscience of Effective Performance"
We are constantly bombarded by a cacophony of sounds and yet music still has the power to influence us, often outside our awareness. What is it about this art form that draws people in? What distinguishes a performance that is technically accurate but unmusical from one that elicits the chills? We will explore how music engages the brain and why it continues to be a worldwide addiction.
8:30pm-8:55pm: Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on "The Nanocentury: Bringing Digital Control to the Physical World"
Throughout human history, our species has worked to control the matter surrounding us -- building larger and larger, smaller and smaller, more and more precise. The payoffs from these efforts are starting to accelerate, as we move toward the ability to build physical objects with atomic precision, just as we program information with bit-level precision. What will this mean for our bodies, our minds, our families, our nations, our culture, our planet? There's good news and bad news, but one thing's clear -- we are in for a wild ride!
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9 July 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 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: Ian Winters on "Responsive Installations Based on Attention, Social Memory and the Use of Motion-Capture Analysis"
A look at projects that explore the observation and choreography of the viewer's or participant's attention and physical movement with a widespread use and integration of sensor-based systems.
7:25-7:50pm: Christina Smolke (Stanford) on "Synthetic Biology: The Next Generation of Biotechnology"
A discussion on research in the field of Synthetic Biology that is directed toward bridging the design gap and advancing our capabilities to design sophisticated biological systems.
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 Jacobson (Stanford) on "A Plan to Power the World For All Purposes With Wind, Water, and the Sun"
This talk discusses a plan to solve the problems of global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity by powering 100% of the world's energy for all purposes, including electricity, transportation, industry, and heating/cooling, with wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) within 20-40 years.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Paul Rabinow (UC Berkeley) and Adrian van Allen on "Synthetic biology and Security"
As the capacities of synthetic biology develop, the potential for a range of risks and dangers grows. How should we think about the ratios of capacities and dangers? More broadly how should we think about design when it comes to living beings?
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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
6 June 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Building 200 (History Corner), Room 203
Palo Alto, CA
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.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media"
Employing a range of strategies for acquiring, organizing, and re-contextualizing information found on the World Wide Web; exploring themes such as online communities (in which participants communicate through mediated, self-defined personas), "cyber-stalking," as well as using the Internet as a means of self-discovery and recollecting personal histories.
7:25-7:50pm: Javier Ideami (filmmaker) on "Art & Tech: From Fiction to Fact and All the Way Back"
Transforming technological reality and fact into artistic fiction and using artistic fiction to suggest new possibilities in technology. Javier Ideami has often used technology to enable his art, transforming technological reality and fact into artistic fiction and at the same time has been using art to suggest new possibilities in technology and science creating the potential to transform what today is a fiction into a fact of tomorrow. This same process has brought together art and technology throughout history. In this talk Ideami describes this process through one of his latest films, The Weight of Light. In this film current digital technology enables ideami to simulate demonstrations of millions of virtual characters and at the same time the artistic fiction in the film suggests a new type of technology that today is fiction but one day may become real technology able to transform the stress of people into useful energy. In the same project Ideami combines very simple antique technology (Edison type bulbs) to suggest a new potential future technology (transforming the stress of people into useful energy) and uses complex current technology (green screen shooting + digital compositing) to recreate very real events of today (massive demonstrations of people). Fiction and Fact are not only two sides of the same coin in the interlocked reality of art and tech but they can at any time switch and become the other. Artistic fiction can become technological fact and tech facts can serve as the seed, as the base to project new artistic fictions which in turn can end up becoming a new technology in the future. The talk will end reflecting about the present and future of visual media in connection with photography and filmmaking.
7:50-8:05: 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.
8:05-8:30pm: Abigail De Kosnik (Berkeley Center for New Media) on "Fan Fiction Archives and the Evolution of User Experience"
Fan fiction archives act as records of media consumers' interests in different historical moments. How do we use the Internet as a technology for remembering, especially for storing and retrieving, or "recollecting," memories of our passions and enthusiasms? How do we remember the Internet? That is, as online User Interfaces (UI) and User Experiences (UX) change - which they have done rapidly since the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1991 - modes of Internet use that are normal, even second-nature, for us, become forgotten. Updates of operating systems, new versions of browsers, site re-designs, and new platform launches constantly alter how we approach and navigate the Internet, as well as what we desire to do with it and what we feel we need it to do. How can scholars record the progression of our methods of interaction with the Web when we tend to be amnesiac about specific network technologies as soon as they become pass‚? I am seeking to answer these questions by researching one type of Web site, the Internet fan fiction archive. "Fan fiction," or "fanfic," refers to original stories authored by fans of specific media products, such as films, television programs, rock bands, novels, and comic books. In fanfic stories, fans appropriate characters from their favorite cultural texts, and situate the "borrowed" characters in scenarios of their invention. Internet fan fiction archives are sites created to collect and index fan-authored stories. Such sites have existed on the Internet since the early 1990s and have grown in popularity steadily since then, but have evolved greatly in front-end design and back-end structure. Since fan fiction archives were among the first Web sites created, they are ideal objects of investigation for my study, as I can document the shifts in the sites' formats and features from the start of the Web to the present day. Also, Internet fanfic archives are memory sites. Fans archive their stories so that other fans can find and retrieve them easily, days or weeks or even years after the stories were first posted online. Fan fiction archives therefore act as records of media consumers' interests in different historical moments. From these archives, we can see what media properties inspired fannish levels of enthusiasm, what storylines and characters prompted the most textual productivity from fans, and what aspects of fictional universes were the most frequently explored in fans' stories, over the past twenty years. I believe that exploring these sites today will yield insights into how we use digital networks as technologies for safeguarding and remembering our affective investments in cultural texts.
8:30pm-8:55pm: Luciano Chessa (San Francisco Conservatory) on "Futurist Art for the Present Future"
Music compositions inspired by his research on the work of futurist Luigi Russolo, the creator of "The Art of Noises" and pioneer of musical synthesis.
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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
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.
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4 April 2012
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Building 200 (History Corner), Room 203
Palo Alto, CA
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.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Michael Marmor (Stanford Univ) on "Simulating the Vision of Artists"
A number of great artists have had poor vision during their productive years, including Degas, Monet and O'Keeffe. With suitable knowledge of their disease, and careful computer manipulation, one can create images that show how the artists might have viewed their paintings or sculptures at any given time. Computer simulations do not duplicate all sensations of blurred vision for many reasons, but they do show where visual loss poses a physical limitation to an artist. Even this knowledge must be used with caution, for the impact of visual blur or color distortion will vary with the style of the artist. And paintings that appear blurred or distorted may be created that way for aesthetic reasons, so that the diagnosis of eye disease from an artist's work is hazardous.
7:25-7:50pm: Alan Cooper and Julianne Stafford (U.S. Geological Survey) on "Cultural perspectives of Science in Antarctica"
Science in Antarctica differs from that done anywhere else in the world. Why is this so? All modern science investigations are based on making observations and deriving theories from those observations. Yet in Antarctica, a unique science culture exists. The tenets of the Antarctic Treaty mandate open access to data and the oversight of research by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)(e.g., coordination of science programs of 47 countries) guide how science is to be done there. Political sages of the "Cold War" era masterfully designed and implemented the Treaty, adopted in 1959, to assure that Antarctica would become a peaceful location for collaborative science to benefit all mankind. Antarctica's history leading up to the Treaty holds a fascinating record of national explorations, commercial exploitations, melding of international science and arts cultures, and great personal triumphs and tragedies. From the earliest forays of Captain Cook until the mid-20th century, leaders, scientists and crews of Antarctic expeditions, as a matter of course, made use of cultural arts skills to describe and interpret their experiences, observations and discoveries in the region. Narrative, drawing, painting, poetry, music and later photography and film skills allowed them to recount experiences, illustrate observations, and communicate with colleagues and an interested public. In our talk, we use images, text-narrative and live music to briefly review and exemplify how some key cultural arts (e.g., art/drawing, photography, music) have supported successful exploration efforts, scientific research and national collaborations in times before the Treaty. Technological advances since the early 20th century, and since the time of the treaty, have improved scientists' ability to accurately and remotely measure and interpret Antarctic systems as indicators of Earth's history and climate. Concurrent with this increasing data volume and precision, Antarctic scientists (and other scientists) increasingly struggle to communicate the complex results and their theories to the public effectively. Scientists' historic use of the arts had high impact in conveying their discoveries to a general public who were interested to learn about science and exploration. We suggest, if scientists again focused on incorporating the Arts, especially narratives, humanistic imagery, humor and live music, to help convey their findings, their messages would be more widely understood and accepted. They would have greater impact. Today, Antarctic science is guided by the Treaty and SCAR, and is a universal role model for successful international collaborative research. Our presentation illustrates the link between science and Arts, to inspire research colleagues to revive their cultural arts skills - and use them in live presentation of their research.
7:50-8:05: 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.
8:05-8:30pm: Sara Loesch-Frank (Lettering Artist) on "Follow the Glow: Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art"
Many people are familiar with gilding as the flash of gold on medieval manuscript pages. Most people are unaware of how the metal adhered to the page or where the colors came from on the illuminations. Artists are still working with these materials on a myriad of substrates. Some present thought-provoking challenges to art conservators. Lettering artists are using metallic foils, not only on traditional vellum and paper but also on textured panels, encaustics, canvas, glass and metal. The use of various polymers and unusual substances make an exciting dynamic to mirror the hand's motion. While students explore and experiment, traditional techniques are often insufficient to answer their needs. Loesch-Frank will show examples of her own and her student's work using these techniques from the traditional to more exotic. This sophisticated time in which we live moves so quickly, the expressive touch of the human hand with tools on a surface can reacquaint us with the joy of making our own marks.
8:30pm-8:55pm: Leonard Pitt (Flying Actor Studio) on "The Art of the Body, The Art of the Pen"
The art of physical theatre through a collection of character masks and how the discipline of moving one's body can teach one how to become a writer.
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22 March 2012
DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
The Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W.,
Room 100
Washington, D.C.
6:30 to 7:00 PM Check in
7 to 7:10 PM 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.
7:10 to 8:10 PM Panelists' presentations (15 minutes each)
Gerald Borgia, professor, Department of Biology,
University of Maryland, College Park
Nathaniel Comfort, associate professor, Institute of the
History of Medicine