CHAIRED BY: Profa. Dra. Clarissa Ribeiro

Theme: Complex Adaptive Systems

This April the LASER talks Fortaleza invites to explore mechanisms that generates complexity in nature such as the concept of self-organized criticality (SOC) and applications that simulates the logic of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) in fields as diverse as art and science, atmospheric physics, architecture, navigating the universe of slowly driven non-equilibrium systems with extensive degrees of freedom and a high level of nonlinearity.

Featured artists and speakers:

Dr Diana Domingues

Pioneer and active artist and theorist, curator, she is a Senior Visitant Professor of CAPES and CNPq at the Universidade de Brasília . In 2010, she founded and she is the Director of LART- Laboratory of Research in Art and Techno Science. She is Professor at Post Graduate Art Program UnB and at the Graduate Biomedical Engineering Program at FGA - Gama – UnB. She holds a Post-doctoral level at ATI, Université Paris VIII, in 2004 and a PhD. in Communication and Semiotics at PUC/SP(2000). Member of International and Brazilian advisory and editorial board's, consultant and advisor of as, others: SCIELO, PETROBRAS, ABCiber, Fapemig, Digital Creativity, ISEA, Refresh!, Replace, CIV/DDD – The Centre for the Innovation Visualization and Data- Driven Design , Ontario. She published many books, more than 100 articles in journals, papers, and has about 50 solo exhibitions and more than 150 group exhibitions in several countries: France, Canada, England, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Germany, USA, Argentina, Mexico, Greece, Peru, Cuba, Slovenia and others. Her artwork focusing on the creative technologies and human factor, investigates the expansion of sensory and enactive systems, physiology and synaesthesia, mobile technologies and biofeedback . Her recent projects are in collaboration with Camera Culture Media Lab MIT/ CNPq . Artist references in S. Wilson’s books Art+Science Now, 2010, Information Arts, 2002, In: Art in Latin American XX Century, Edward Lucie- Smith, 2002; In: B. Wands, Digital Arts. Selected Prizes: ; Personalidade do século XX, Caxias do Sul. 2000, XX Unesco Prize for the Arts – 7th Biennial de La Habana,2000 Global Crossing 2005 -Rockefeller Foundation. – Leonardo Journal : Premio Sergio Motta 2011.

http://lattes.cnpq.br/5043080196932200

Aderson Passos

Architect and researcher, B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning by the University of Fortaleza, UNIFOR, is a Specialist in Bioclimatic and Sustainable Design by the same instituition. Following his research interest and incursions in algorithmic architecture, his is collaborating in a project supported by the CNPQ together with extension laboratories of the UFC – Federal University of Ceará, with emphasis on digital fabrication, parametric modeling, programming, environmental comfort and energy efficiency. In parallel, he is contributing in an R&D project linked to the National Agency of Electric Energy, ANEEL. Enthusiastic programmer, seeks the systemic approach in the conceptual stages of design and project implementation.

http://lattes.cnpq.br/3801250833960428

Bruno Raviolo

Architect and researcher,  B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning by the UFC – Federal University of Ceará, is a member of  the LED research group at the same university and develops research in applied technologies in design, architecture and urban planning, focusing on algorithmic simulations, parametric modeling, digital fabrication and augmented reality

http://lattes.cnpq.br/3749045486905435

Dr Carlos Jacinto de Oliveira

PhD, He received his BSc in Physics, Master and  PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the UFC – Federal University of Ceará where he served as a professor for more than 20 years developing research in Atmospheric Physics with special interest in self-organizing criticality.

http://lattes.cnpq.br/2280466083917488

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