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Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events

(see also the list of past events)

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12 May 2008

    Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)

    SFSU downtown
    San Francisco, CA

    LASER is organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

    6:00pm-6:30pm: Socializing/networking

    6:30-6:45: Welcome by Jeff Babcock (Executive Director of the International Center for the Arts, SFSU, and Leonardo ISAST board member) and Piero Scaruffi

    6:45-7:15: Ken Goldberg, Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media on "Robots as Naturalists"
    Ken will present experiments and questions raised by robots and social networks, ranging from ouija boards to human "tele-actors," and tell a true story about how invasions of privacy led him and his students to investigate how robots can assist in monitoring the natural environment. he'll describe a robotic system they've deployed to assist the search for the ivory billed woodpecker, a bird of extreme interest to birdwatchers, ornithologists, and conservationists whose last confirmed sighting was in 1944. ken will also present the manifesto of the berkeley center for new media and propose a hopefully controversial definition of "media."

    7:15-7:45: Carlo Sequin on "Knotty Sculptures"
    This presentation explores the use of simple knots as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures. One approach places simple n-foil knots on the n-sided faces of a Platonic or Archimedean polyhedron. Another investigation explores various generating principles for the construction of recursive knots. For instance, a simple crossing of two strands is replaced with a more complicated tangled version of two strands, and the process is then repeated recursively. A few of these designs conceived on a computer are then developed further to make actual 3D models on various rapid prototyping machines.

    7:45-8:00: Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum, on the forthcoming UC Berkeley "Big Bang" conference
    Berkeley's New Media Center and Leonardo ISAST are organizing a two-day academic conference to be held in June 2008 at the Berkeley Museum. Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Museum, will present the Berkeley day of the conference (first day of the conference).

    8:00-8:20: Kris Paulsen, grad student at Berkeley Center for New Media on "Participation TV".
    Kris will examine a sequence of projects from the 1960s to the present in which artists have worked to reverse the unidirectional structure of broadcast television. These artists feed back into the networks by disrupting broadcasts, "hijacking" programs through pseudo-events and hostile takeovers, and by developing their own multi-directional systems that challenge the television viewer's traditionally passive role. By exploiting the potential for liveness on television news, CCTV, and public access, the artists addressed in this talk attempt to put viewers into direct contact with the event and with the others who are watching - the network becomes a crowd.

    8:20-8:40pm: Trevor Paglen of the Department of Geography University of California at Berkeley on "The Other Night Sky"
    Artist/geographer Trevor Paglen will talk about his recent project to track and photograph 189 classified "moons" (reconnaissance satellites) in Earth orbit. Along the way, he introduces us to an international network of satellite observers, tracks the history of two "stealth" satellites, and contemplates the relationship between classical empiricism and democracy.

    8:45pm-9:45: Discussions, more socializing

    Space is limited. Please RSVP to Piero Scaruffi: p [at] scaruffi.com

    http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2008.html

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3 June 2008

    Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age
    Berkeley Big Bang 2008

    Co-hosted by Leonardo/ISAST and the Berkeley Art Museum
    Berkeley Art Museum
    2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA 94720
    3 June 2008

    Berkeley Big Bang 2008 is a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Leonardo/ISAST will host a full day of panels and events on Sunday, June 3rd, including an exhibition of student artwork, organized by Piero Scaruffi.

    "Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age"

    Schedule of events:

    9:00: Introduction by Steve Wilson, Leonardo Board Member, Author of Information Arts, Professor of Conceptual/Information Art at San Francisco State University

    9:30-10:30: Osmosis: What can the arts do for the sciences?

    Art-Science interaction is a two way process. The impact of science and technology on the arts is much discussed and well documented. This panel seeks to examine the influence of the arts on the sciences, and the benefits that science can derive from the arts.

    • Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Instructor at Royal College of Art in London, Past director of the Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England
    • Melinda Rackham, Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology
    • Jim Crutchfield, Complexity and Chaos Researcher, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, Co-founder and Scientific Director Art and Science laboratory
    • Chris Chafe, Composer, Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, Director Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

    11:15-12:45: Brilliant Noise: how data becomes experience for artists and scientists

    Most information about the world we live in is now mediated by instruments. This data is often visualised and sonified both to aid analysis and to communicate with other researchers, but artists too can make this data meaningful and "sensual". The same data sets can lead to very different kinds of work. One person's noise is another person's sound.

    • Michael Joaquin Grey, New Media Artist and Inventor
    • Laura Peticolas, Geophysical Researcher at Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley
    • Douglas Kahn, Auditory and Sound Culture Historian, Director of Technocultural Studies, UC Davis

    12:45-1:30: Lunch/Leonardo Interactive Information Session

    1:30-3:00: The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very Very Small

    Human cognition is bounded by the inadequacy of human senses to allow us sensory contact with the world on scales larger or smaller than ourselves. To perceive the nano world one needs extended senses or new senses. The nano world requires a new ontology and a new epistemology.

    • Ruth West, New Media artist, Director Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Center, University of California, San Diego
    • Gordon Wozniak, Chemist, formerly of Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and current member of the Berkeley City Council
    • Wayne Lanier, Microbiologist, San Francisco Exploratorium

    3:00-6:00: Closing Reception


    More information about Berkeley Big Bang 2008: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang

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27 July 2008

    Leonardo Education Forum at ISEA 2008

    Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore
    July 27, 2008

    LEF@ISEA2008
    At the crossroads of media Arts&Science and technology: education in the 21st Century - what is to be done?
    Leonardo Education Forum, Pacific Rim New Media Education Working Group at ISEA 2008, Singapore

    More information: http://artsci.ucla.edu/LEF


Updated 7 May 2008

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