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Leonardo@Djerassi 2019 (Scientific Delirium Madness 6.0)

19 June– 24 July 2019

View and download the SDM6.0 residency gallery in the June 2019 issue of Leonardo journal.

Explore resident field notes and updates below.

This Year's Residents

Vidhu Aggarwal
Poet
United States
A monochrome headshot of Patricia Alessandrini, in the style of a photograph negative.
Patricia Alessandrini
Composer
United States
Leah Dyjak
Visual Artist
United States
Katharine Haake
Writer
United States
Kathryn (Kathy) High
Artist Professor
United States
Doris Iarovici
Writer/Psychiatrist
United States
Alexandra Kleeman
Writer
United States
Michael Koehle
Biomedical Engineer
United States
Daiane Lopes da Silva
Choreographer
United States
Derek Lee McPhatter
Writer / Producer
United States
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
Anthropologist/Visual Artist
United States
Weidong Yang
Choreographer/Physicist
United States

Blog Posts from This Year's Residency

A little bit of noise
By Patricia Alessandrini

Using the Little Bits Korg Synth Kits and sensor elements, Weidong Yang and I constructed an installation entitled A little bit of noise and protyped a system for sonifying...

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Bringing typhoons closer
By Michael Koehle

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Djerassi support
By Kathy High

When artist Weidon Yang and I were preparing for the Open House installation of our interactive project "Sharing" (with a beating heart that you could hold in your hand), we solicited the help of...

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Nowhere More Than Here
By Katharine Haake

As we enter our last days here at Djerassi, I think it’s safe to say that a shift has occurred in all of us, even as the omnipresent marine layer of the first couple of weeks moves out to hot blue...

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Sharing - a beating heart
By Kathy High

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Eyes in the Cloud
By Weidong Yang

This is a fun little exercise of surveillance and surveillance technology.

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The real fake news room
By Weidong Yang

Deep fake

Fake news has been on the news a lot these days. How easy is it to make one yourself? It turns out to be really easy, as easy as how people generated gossip in the past. You...

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Djerassi Ranch Puma!
By Vidhu Aggarwal

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Painting Lizards
By Alexandra Kleeman

When our session ends at Djerassi, we're asked to leave behind an artist's page as a memento of our visit.  Because one constant of my time on the ranch was seeing lizards, I thought it would be...

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Playing In The Dark
By Doris Monica Iarovici

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Playwright's Log 7.13.19 - Ponedering "My Portal"
By Derek Lee McPhatter

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Poppies and Yams and Pumas, oh my!
By Vidhu Aggarwal

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The Meaning of Rocks
By Katharine Haake

Some years ago (before GPS), my friends and I stopped at a Forest Service office in the Trinity Mountains of Northern California to inquire how to cut through to the nearby Siskiyous, which lay to...

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The Helpers
By Leah Dyjak

The history of this place is like the fog, thick and enchanted. At one moment we are enveloped in its mystery, its care, the next the sun breaks through and we can see outward again. We are all...

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Creating Dream Maps at Djerassi
By Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

I brought to Djerassi recordings of over 400 memorable REM dreams of more than 300 residents of the Bay Area of San Francisco that I had made over a period of 5 years as part of my anthropological...

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July 5th
By Doris Monica Iarovici

Yesterday, July 5th, was the anniversary of Pamela Djerassi’s death. Her brother Dale joined us for dinner here in the hills, and moved some of us to tears with his remembrance. Pamela...

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The Senses of Djerassi
By Kathy High

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Salt Room Rocks
By Vidhu Aggarwal

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Hunting Berries
By Alexandra Kleeman

On one of my afternoon walks around the Djerassi grounds, I see a bright scrap of red set far back in the hunch of a thorny bush.  The color draws my eye, but as I crouch down to look close, it’s...

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Playwright's Log 7.2.19 - A Few Clumsy Thoughts on Dark Energy
By Derek Lee McPhatter

Random news reading Science.com --> Washington Post --> Google News-ing, and then on the radio. Keep encoutering this topic:

Dark Energy is a force that makes the universe expand...

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Heartbeat
By Katharine Haake

I'm writing now from my studio at Djerassi, looking down the green hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains that roll all the way to the ocean below. When it’s clear, you can see the water, which most of...

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Cloud hands on the mountain
By Doris Monica Iarovici

My third day in residence at Djerassi, I join fellow residents Wei and Daiane in their Tai Chi practice. I have only previously tried Tai Chi once, for twenty minutes, when it was part of an...

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