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Leonardo ISAST and SETI Institute invite you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science community.
See below for location and agenda.
The event is free and open to everybody.
Feel free to invite relevant acquaintances.
Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com . Admission is limited.
Like previous evenings,
the agenda includes some presentations of art/science projects,
and time for casual socializing/networking.
In order to facilitate the networking, feel free to send me the URL of a webpage that describes your work or the organization you work for. I will publish
a list on this webpage before the day of the event so that everybody can check
what everybody else is doing. (Not mandatory, just suggested).
See also...
Art, Technology, Culture Colloquia
Art/Science Fusion at UC Davis
Previous Art/Science Evenings
When: June 9, 2010
Where: SETI Institute
515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, USA
What:
- 6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.
During the evening anyone in the audience is welcome to present their work in 30 seconds.
- 7:00-7:30:
- Robert Lang (Origami Artist) on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes"
Origami, the ancient Japanese art of has undergone a renaissance over the last few decades, in part due to the contributions of scientists and mathematicians to the art. Mathematical techniques can give rise to both artworks of remarkable beauty as well as real-world applications in medicine, space, and more.
- 7:30-8:00:
- Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison on "How can art help create a sustainable world?"
"The Force Majeure" is a work to reflect on the oncoming effects of Global Warming from a whole systems perspective. What can culture do, specifically the artist, as a response to the loss of glaciation and the ensuing problems with rivers and droughts in a region like Tibet? This work suggests a sweeping, but possible, biological response to the 2.4 million square kilometers of the Tibetan plateau as well as to other regions of the world.
- 8:00-8:15: BREAK
- 8:15-8:45:
- Victoria Scott and Scott Kildall (Zer01 Artists in Residence) on "Imaginary Gifts"
Gift Horse is a sculpture constructed almost entirely of recyclable materials, which depicts the mythological Trojan Horse, as originally modeled in and exported from the virtual world of Second Life.
- 8:45-9:15:
- Robert Buelteman (Photographer) on "Photography Without the Camera"
The application of high-voltage electrical currents and hand-delivered fiber optic light can create fine-art photographs of living plants through a creative process inspired by Japanese ink-brush painting and improvisational jazz
- 9:15:
Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening
I will simply preview the line-up of speakers for the next Leonardo evening.
- 9:15pm-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing
You can mingle with the speakers and the audience
Bios:
- Robert Buelteman has published 4 books of photographs and thirteen limited-edition portfolios of his work. He has been honored with three residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the subject of his monograph Eighteen Days in June (2000), as well as a three year residency at the Santa Fe Institute. He is currently working on a new collection of images as a guest of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. His work is found in the permanent collections of he Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Santa Fe Institute, Yale University Art Museum, Stanford University and numerous corporate and private collections as well.
- Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison are an artist team, emeritus professors from the University of California San Diego, Department of Visual Arts. They are pioneers in the development and evolution of what can be described as ecologically-based art from a systems perspective.
- Robert Lang, after a 15-year career doing research and development in semiconductor lasers and optoelectronics, became a full-time origami artist devoted equally to the art of origami and its practical applications. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 9 books on origami and his work has been exhibited in shows worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Zer01 Artist in Residence.
- Piero Scaruffi is a cognitive scientist who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest book of poems and meditations is "Synthesis" (2009). As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock and Dance Music" (2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). He has also written extensively about cinema, literature and the visual arts. An avid traveler, he has visited 121 countries of the world.
- Victoria Scott strives to understand the transformation of matter and energy as it flows from one state into another. Working with electronic media, sculpture and social relations, she creates site-specific installations, digital prints, objects and audio works. Her recent projects include constructing 3D paper representations of objects that exist both in simulated environments and real life. She is also developing a series of batteries that are charged by human emotional energy. Scott Kildall is a cross-disciplinary artist working with video, installation, prints, sculpture and performance. He gathers material from the public realm as the crux of his artwork in the form of interventions into various concepts of space. Zer01 Artists in Residence.
Address and directions: 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043.
Phone: 650-961-6633
Directions to SETI
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