ART+BRAIN: A CATALOGUE OF STORIES AND STRUCTURES
From the metaphorical potency of anatomical art and stories that probe decision circuits and mirror neurons in monkeys, to revolutionary biological visualizations of the dynamics of cellular and sub-cellular structures, ART + BRAIN: Stories and Structures explores the complex histories, practices, and interconnections between art, architecture, medicine and neuroscience, with the human brain as the central focus.
// Co-organized by Patricia Olynyk (Washington University in St. Louis) and Victoria Vesna (UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab)
MORPHO NANO
A retrospective exhibition of a decade of artworks created by media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist James Gimzewski. Their collaborative works create an intersection of space, time and embodiment by employing a very subtle and responsive energetic exchange. By reversing the scale of nanotechnology to the realm of human experience, the artist and scientist create a sublime reversal of space-time. Morpho Nano featured the premiere of a new collaboration between Mark Cohen and Victoria Vesna—BRAIN STORMING.
// Organized by David Familian (Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine)
UCLA and Art|Sci's own Erkki Huhtamo is featured as a keynote speaker at this year's ISEA held for the first time in the United Arab Emirates. He will be joined by another keynote speaker, cultural theorist Sally-Jane Norman.
Hosted by Zayed University, the theme of ISEA2014 is "Location," with numerous panel and research paper discussions will focus on the following topics:
Technology, Science, and Art: East Meets West
Emerging Economies/Emerging Identities
Nomadic Shifts & Digital Archaeology
Nomadic Highway -- Bridging Media
Collaborative Spaces and Fibres & Sensory Mediation
The 41st International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Leonardo will be hosting several eventsat the conference for the public, members, and affiliates alike.
Leonardo-Related Events @ SIGGRAPH 2014:
1.Art Gallery Reception:Tuesday August 12, 2-3:30 PM.In collaboration with the SIGGRAPH Art Program, Leonardo has published the SIGGRAPH art catalog as a special issue ofLeonardojournal every year since 2009.Again this year Leonardo in association with MIT Press will host an art gallery / issue release reception at the conference.
2.Leonardo Community Meeting(Birds of a Feather meeting):Wednesday August 13, 1-2:30 PM,featuring presentations about the Art/Science programs of our Leonardo Affiliates.These presentations always stimulate lively discussions about the joys and challenges of offering cross-disciplinary education to university students.
3.LEAF Panel,“Zen of Collaboration,”Monday August 11, 2:30-4 PM,hosted by Leonardo Education and Art Forum Chair David Familian (UC-Irvine). This session will explore a variety of approaches to creating productive and rewarding collaborations between artists and scientists. Presenters will share experiences from academia and encourage discussion from attendees and industry.
UPCOMING CONFERENCE AND CALL FOR ARTISTS AND PROPOSALS:
a2ru (Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities)
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) invites proposals for panels, breakout sessions, creative submissions and posters for its 2014 national conference hosted by Iowa State University, November 5-8, 2014. Faculty, deans, administrators, funders, leaders and students from any discipline who engage in arts-integrative interdisciplinary efforts are welcome to participate. The deadline has been extended to April 8th.
In the latest of its highly-successful series of Conferences addressing the new field of nanomedicine and related medical technologies, the Institute of Nanotechnology, in partnership with NanoNed (the Dutch national nanotechnology network), brings together some of the world’s leading researchers and companies in the fields of medical diagnostics, drug design and delivery, imaging and regenerative medicine to show how the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies can contribute towards answering this multifaceted challenge.
What is Nanomedicine?
A one-day professional training course: Tuesday, 23rd February, 2010
The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN) in collaboration with Cranfield University, the UK’s leading provider of postgraduate education, presents an exciting one-day professional training course aimed at providing a broad introduction to the rapidly-developing new field of nanomedicine.
This intensive one-day course will include how nanotechnoloy is being applied to medical imaging, lab-on-a-chip, quantum dots and other novel diagnostic tools, biosensors, regenerative medicine, advanced and “smart” medical materials, drug targeting and delivery systems, nano-bio-electronic interfaces and novel devices. The course will also examine some of the key associated risk, ethical and regulatory issues.
This course is targeted towards clinicians interested in learning about novel nanotechnology-based treatments and diagnostic tools, medical researchers, staff involved in innovation and technology transfer, healthcare administrators, regulators and others interested in how new and highly multidisciplinary technologies will impact on the practice of medicine and delivery of healthcare.
The New Gallery Lucerne organizes this two-day conference to bring together a group of internationally renowned scientists, sociologists, philosophers, ecologists, writers, artists, and policy-makers. From the debate about the pursuit of a “Theory of Everything” (TOE) in physics, extreme objectivity, our relationship to the “Universe,” to “human,” “nature,” “human culture,” and the “human mind,” The Large, the Small and the Human Mind will touch on the world’s first climate war, the destructive side of globalization, and the contradictions of our striving for unlimited economic growth and consumption.
Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
How do the media arts change? How did contemporary media arts come to look and sound like they do? What options, potentialities and eccentricities in the history of media have been lost, overlooked or suppressed? What is the history of speculation on alternate histories, and how have they altered the course of media art history? Over three stimulating days (November 26-29, 2009), historians, curators, media artists, creative arts practitioners and theorists at the forefront of their practice will gather in Melbourne, Australia for Re:live09 - Third World Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology to explore the latest research and theories that challenge.
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2009
Hong Kong
Four water bowls reflect different aspects of water related to the collective, global human condition. Some of the most common metaphorical associations of water -- such as the reflection of the moon, a drop of water, the sound of water, and oil and water -- are revisited through the use of some of the latest scientific observations. Moon and Sound are locally interactive and Drop and Oil are interactive both locally and remotely, emphasizing the global connectivity of water / human systems, beyond borders.
Conference: November 15th, 11:00-16:00 at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center Lecture Hall
Eco_Visualization: Combining Art and Technology to reduce energy consumption
Keynote lecture: November 15th, 14:00-15:00
Victoria Vesna: "Sound Thinking in Art Making: Ghosts, Quantum Tunnel & Butterflies"
Grand Opening: November 13, 2009 18:30 - 19:30
Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall
Allora & Calzadilla, Amy Balkin, Robert Bordo, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Ross Cisneros, Amy Franceschini and Free Soil, Andrea Geyer, Hans Haacke, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Runo Lagomarsino, Andrea Polli, Marjetica Potrč, Simon Starling, Temporary Services, Oscar Tuazon, Lidwien Van de Ven
Curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7-9pm
Exhibition on view: September 16-October 27, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6pm
41 Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Union School of Art, 41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave. b/w 6th and 7th Sts.)
Lower Level 1,
NYC, NY 10003
The Cooper Union School of Art's exhibition Free as Air and Water opens Wednesday, September 16, 2009 and will run to Saturday, October 27, 2009. In connection with the exhibition there will be a series of conferences, the first before the opening reception, 9/16, from 5 to 7 pm in The Great Hall and the second on 10/12 from 7 to 9 pm in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium.
The exhibition takes Peter Cooper's quote that "Education should be Free as Air and Water" as a starting point. The exhibition addresses the spirit of this statement by recognizing the difference between then (1859) and now (2009). Today, air, water, land, an all are all subordinated to the logic of privatization impacting the environment in challenging ways. As the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unfair ways, concerns such as human rights become increasingly tied to issues involving land, space, and environmental justice.
Free as Air and Water poses these questions for our contemporary moment linking a broad set of issues such as public access to resources, political ecology, and governmentality within a group exhibition that features a diverse array of artistic operations and tactics. Featuring projects that are rigorous and poetic in its conceptual processes, the exhibition provides a needed density when one discusses the role of art in relation to ecology.
Free as Air and Water inaugurates the 41 Cooper Gallery's exhibition program to the public and is scheduled to open along with the New Academic Building in September 2009, which commemorates Cooper Union's 150th anniversary. The building designed by Thom Mayne and the architectural firm, Morphosis, inaugurates the first green academic laboratory building in NYC.
SYMPOSIA DETAILS Free as Air and Water Symposium I: Artistic Responses to Self-Sustainability and Climate Change
Amy Balkin, Hans Haacke, Yates McKee, Andrea Polli, Marjetica Potrč, moderated by Doug Ashford
Wednesday, September 16, 5- 7 pm (before the reception)
The Cooper Union, Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street
Free as Air and Water Symposium II: Art in relation to Human Rights and the Freedom of Expression
Doug Ashford, Andrea Geyer, Paul Ramirez Jonas, among others
Monday, October 12, 2009, 7 to 9 pm
The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square
A catalog will be produced documenting the symposia and exhibition and will be available to purchase after the exhibition. Please contact the Cooper Union School of Art or check the website for additional information.
This project was funded in part by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert Lehman Foundation, and Duggal Visual Solutions.
