September 16 and 17, 2010
San Jose City Hall Council Chambers
San Jose, CA
GLOBAL WARNING Symposium Starts Tomorrow
The GLOBAL WARNING symposium is organized by ZER01, LEONARDO/ISAST, City of San Jose Public Art Program and CADRE Laboratory for New Media with additional support from the Montalvo Arts Center. The two-day event will take place September 16 and 17, 2010 at the San Jose City Hall Council Chambers in San Jose, CA as part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial.
Buy tickets now: Tickets are $15 for one day or $25 for both days and are available through the ZER01 web site: http://01sj.org/programs/symposium/.
Featured speakers for Day 1 (September 16) include: Kathleen Dean Moore (Editor/Author; Professor, Oregon State University: "Why It’s Wrong to Wreck the World"), Gail Wight (Artist; Professor, Stanford University: "Landscape Disrupted: Brief History of Artists and the Environment"), Gerard Kuperus ("Environmental Ethics through Aesthetics"), Peter Roopnarine (Curator/Researcher, California Academy of Sciences: "Embracing Uncertainty" and "Marine Food Webs and the Environment"), Karen Holl (Researcher/Professor, UCSC: "Conserving Tropical Forests to Reduce Global Warming"), Marisa Jahn (Artist/Author/Activist: "Wormholes as Solutions: Art and Social Change"), Tiffany Holmes (Artist; Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: "Beyond Eco-Art: 21st-Century Eco-Visualization"). Plus a special performance by the Shamanic Cheerleaders!
Featured speakers for Day 2 (September 17) include: Andrea Polli and Tim Dye (Artist and Senior Vice President and Division Manager for Meteorological Programs and Public Outreach at Sonoma Technology, Inc.: "Particle Falls"), Robin Lasser and Marguerite Perret (Artists: "Floating World"), Jade Chang (Writer: "From Gas Bills to a New Game Theory: Can Having Fun = Doing Good?"), Buster Simpson (Artist: "Poetic Utility") and the Climate Clock Initiative artist groups: Freya Bardell, Brian Howe and Brent Bucknum; Usaman Haque and Robert Davis; and Chico Macmurtrie, Geo Homsy, Bill Washabaugh and Gideon Shapiro.
All symposium ticket holders will receive access to a virtual goodie bag which includes free access to dozens of articles on art, science and the environment published in Leonardo, Leonardo Music Journal and Global Environmental Politics, discounts on journal subscriptions, books and more!
To find out more about the schedule, read speakers bios and purchase tickets for the event, visit our web site:
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/2010symposium.html
Can't make it to the event? No problem! For those unable to make it to the symposium, there are several ways you can still experience it. Join Leonardo/ISAST on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LeonardoISAST to receive live updates throughout the two-day event. Otherwise we will be broadcasting the symposium live via Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/climate-clock. Join us on Ustream each day of the event to watch the event live and participate in the facilitated on-line discussions.
Other Events
PROMETHEUS INSTITUTE, GALEYEV READINGS, 2010
The "Prometheus" Center cordially invites you to take part in "Galeyev Readings" in Kazan, Russia from 1-7 October 2010. The event will include a conference, an exhibition and a festival in honor of scientist/artist and Leonardo Editorial Board member Bulat Makhmudovich Galeyev (1940-2009). Find out more
Publications
Transactions Call for Submissions:
Leonardo and The International Year of Chemistry
2011 is the international year of chemistry. Leonardo Transactions welcomes submissions that describe projects that relate the arts and humanities and chemistry. Find out more
Leonardo 43:5 Now Available!
Inside Leonardo 43:5: Bouncing beamforms: Sound becomes a very spatial thing in the aural architecture of Auditory Tactics. The universe in a shadow box: Heather Green's space art ports Chris Impey's astrobiology into cabinets of cosmic curiosities to fuel the antimatter drives of our imaginations. The name of this app is talking heads:
Buddha, Leonardo and Einstein kibitz with actors' virtualized visages in the authors' Face3D system. Silicon calligraphics:
Ayça Ünlüer and Oguzhan Özcan bring a traditional Turkish art form to the screen-poking masses. Find out more
Opportunities and Community Announcements
Faculty Position in Composition, Wesleyan University
The Wesleyan University Music Department seeks an original composer with specialization in experimental music and digital media. Interests that cross disciplinary boundaries are welcome, as are additional fields of expertise. This is a full-time, tenure-track position beginning July 1, 2011. Find out more
The Wired Lab
The Wired Lab is an art + science project investigating æolian instruments that sonically capture the magnificent and dynamic universe of the natural world. Based in rural South West NSW, Australia, WIRED Lab was established in 2007 to ensure the legacy of The Wires, a unique and distinctly Australian invention that primarily exists in rural landscapes. Find out more
Representationz
Representationz is a new blog covering how symbols, images, and language affect our daily lives -- from representation in art, science, and culture to cryptic puzzles. Find out more
