Sound + Science: Vibrations of Metamorphosis
By Victoria Vesna
2-3:30pm
Nano is not only making the invisible visible but also changing our way of relating to "silence" or making the in-audible audible. With all the noise of chattering technologies and minds, we propose the interactivity to be stillness for in this empty space of nano we can get in touch with the magic of continuous change.
This workshop will center on sound vibrations from natural systems both metaphoric and actual applied in three artworks that seek to create an experience though immersive, vibrational interactive environments: Mood Swings, Cell Ghosts and Blue Morph. Through these works, I will argue that amplified inaudible vibrations are critical in media arts explorations.
Victoria Vesna, Media artist, Professor at the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts, Director of the UCLA Art | Sci center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network and holds a joint appointment at the New School / Parsons in New York.
3:30-4:30pm
My old media arts
By Yan Jun
The conference will focus on the artist's creation based on Field recording iI will talk about my creation based on Field recording, including “Wormhole” and “Nan Ya Island Diary”.
"I don't have that much interest in new media arts. It may be because I didn't study the field in any International university. Many people have made new media arts and multi-media arts pretty important. I can only emphasize on old media arts. It somehow sounds like a joke. All my understanding about media arts comes from my understanding on the media. This media first of all is about the public communication medium. From the printing technique to the interactivity between human being and computer, many experts have written numerous books. I didn’t do any deep research on it, so am only able to tell something about the relation between the media and myself. This to say, what I have done with the recording equipments." - Yan Jun
Yan Jun, working on realm of sound and words. Born in Lanzhou in 1973, now based in Beijing.
Yan’s live performance engages space feedback, loop and voice/language to make hypnotic noise. He also is doing filed recording and related sound art.
Yan runs the label Sub Jam since 1998. In 2004 he co-founded KwanYin Records for experimental music and sound exploration.
He runs Waterland Kwanyin, a weekly event of experimental music and sound since 2005, and the annual festival Mini Midi.
He had published 5 essay collections about Chinese new music and 3 poetry collections.
4:30-5:30pm
The re-definition of Sound Art in China
By Lin Chiwei
1st part: Introduction about Lin Chiwei's art works along with audio/video projections.
Art works:
Dog-Man-Eat,1993
La Jouissance obscène d'une machine parlante, 2001
The Last Strike of Lin Chiwei's noise house, 2006
Tape Music - social measurements through sound, 2008
2nd part: Open discussion with the public about the re-definition of Sound Art in China.
Lin Chiwei, artist, researcher. Born in 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan; currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
Bachelor of French Literature at Fu-Jen University (Taiwan); Master studies of Cultural Anthropology (NIA); Media Art Studies at the Studio National des Arts Contemporains - Le Fresnoy (France).
Works on Video and Music composition since 1992.
Projects in process:
- Art of Noises, Sound Art in 20th Century (dissertation)
- Philosophies and Practices of Sound in Chinese Culture (translation)
LEF Business Meeting, Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2
Thursday, February 26th
9:30am–12pm
Science And Aesthetics: Models And Metaphors
Concourse Meeting Room 403A, Level 2
Chairs: Susan Jarosi and Elizabeth Kessler
Panelists: Tanya Sheehan, James Maxwell Stevenson, Jean Robertson, Aspen Mays and Annie Laurie Erickson, Anna Vallye, James K. Gimzewski, Mark A. Cheetham and Oliver Grau
9:30am-12pm
Proof Positive: Art Illuminates Science
West Hall Meeting Room 515A, Level 2
Chair: Ellen K. Levy Respondent: Barbara Stafford
Panelists: Bill Tomlinson, Lev Manovich, Carol Steen, Lillian Ball and Aviva Rahmani.
12:30pm-2pm
LEF session: Shifting Paradigms in Media Art, Science and Technology Education in a Global Context, Concourse meeting room 406AB, level 2
Chairs: Nina Czegledy and Andrea Polli
Panelists: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Paul Thomas, Diana Domingues, Christo Doherty and Felipe C. Londono
Thursday, February 26th
An Evening at UCLA
3:00pmVan from conference center to the UCLA Art | Sci Center
4:00pm-6:00pm LEF Meeting, Art | Sci Center, Broad Art Center
6:00pm-9:00pm Special Events, Reception: CAA Annual Exhibition
Open houses at the Art | Sci center gallery at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), Fowler Museum, the Hammer Museum and The Broad Art Center/New Wight Gallery
9:00pm Return by Van
Friday, February 27th
5:30pm-7:00pm
Education Roundtable: Education at the Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, West Hall Meeting Room 501ABC, Level 2
Led by Andrea Polli, Nina Czegledy, Ellen Levy, Andres Burbano
Saturday, February 28th
9:30am-12pm
Database Aesthetics: Sorting Through Bits & Flesh
Concourse Meeting Room 406 AB, Level 2
Chair: Victoria Vesna
Respondent: Lev Manovich.
Panelists: Sharon Daniel, Carol Gigliotti, Eduardo Kac, George LeGrady
The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities, including the College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an affiliate society. http://www.leonardo.info/isast/lef.html
From medieval mythologies we are familiar with hybrid creatures like the Centaur and the Griffon. The creation of these fantasy beings denies in itself the very existence of species as we define the term today.
This year's conference looks closer on how knowledge from new research radically can happen to change human biology and self understanding, and how art practice both becomes influenced by this development, as well as being able to influence it.
The conference keynote speaker is researcher and artist Roy Ascott (UK), pioneer within interactive computer art in the 60's and later telematic art. Ascott is founder of the Planetary Collegium, he is a professor at Technoetic Arts at the University of Plymouth in addition to several other positions and appointments. Ascott is today one of our most innovative theorists regarding our virtual present and future.
Further at the festival you will among others be able to experience speakers and exhibitors as moderator Laura Beloff (FIN), Natasha Vita-More (US), Margarete Jahrmann (AUS), Eva Sutton (US), Victoria Vesna (US), Marta De Menezes (P), Eric Singer (US), Amy Youngs (US), Peter Flemming (CAN) and George Gessert (US).
This year's festival concerts includes names as ALEPH (N), BOL (N), LEMUR & ADAM MATTA (US), PIERRE BASTIEN (NL), INCITE/ (D) and XPLODING PLASTIX (N)!
The exhibition HYBRIDS opens Friday the 17th of Oct. at Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art.
- Detailed backround material and presentations.
- Reserve tickets online (free conference entrance for students and senior citizens).
- Reserve room at the festival hotel at a discount rate for festival visitors.
WARMLY WELCOMED!
Trondheim Matchmaking is supported by the City of Trondheim and the Arts Council Norway. Trondheim Matchmaking was founded in 2002.
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created by artist Tom Shannon. The OmniOculi will be presented to Dr. John Todd, winner of the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, along with a check for $100,000 at a press conference and conferring ceremony, taking place at the Center for Architecture.
536 La Guardia Place, New York
City, Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 2pm.
"The OmniOculi brilliantly embodies the spirit of The Buckminster Fuller Challenge and I anticipate it will become the icon by which our prize program is identified," said Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. "Artist Tom Shannon, with geodesic expertise provided by Fuller colleague Joseph Cl! inton, has somehow captured the dazzling beauty and geometric complexity at the heart of nature's design, as well it's infinite, universal and ever-changing interconnectedness. It is just amazing."
"When asked to conceive a sculpture to represent the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, I knew I wanted it to be as loaded with Fuller thinking as possible", explains Shannon. "Shape: spherical, because Bucky elucidated spheres perhaps more than anyone; geodesic patterning, because that's the special geometry with which he meant to emulate nature's behavior. It came to me to highly perforate the surface of the sphere so one could see the inside at the same time as the outside. The vertices would be open viewports like [Fuller's] fly's eye domes.
This sculpture is also an interactive optical instrument. The concave inside is mirror-polished so it produces in its center a hovering aerial real image while it inf! initely re-reflects the incoming light. The outside surface i! s also m irror reflective so it is omni-directionally visually alive with its changing surroundings.
The geodesic sphere is held by a hidden shaft seated in ball-bearings inset in the smaller sphere. This enables the geodesic sphere to be rotated or spun. The top half of the geodesic sphere is held in place by magnets so it can be removed occasionally for dusting the internal mirror."
Title: OmniOculi
Material: 2024 aluminum (w/ magnets and ball bearings)
Dimensions: 8 inch diameter sphere above 4 inch diameter sphere
Sculpture concept and design: Tom Shannon, http://tomshannon.com
Geodesic concept design: Joseph Clinton
Engineering, machining: BlueChip Engineering
Computer rendering: Jonah Tobias, 1Q.co! m http://www.1q.com/
For more information about the OmniOculi, the prize conferring ceremony and other events taking place in New York City, please visit http://challenge.bfi.org and http://bfi.org
CNSI: The Driving Force for California Nanotechnology
Conference and Grand Opening
Discover how Leading Technology Companies Collaborate with Academic Researchers
at CNSI to bring Nano-Scale Technologies into the Marketplace.
Abraxis BioScience Inc. - Patrick Soon-Shiong
BASF - Ulrich Müller
Hewlett-Packard - Stan Williams
Intel - Paolo Gargini
FEI - Don Kania
Opening Remarks by CNSI Interim Director, Leonard H. Rome
Conference Sessions 8:00am - 4:00pm
Grand Opening Ceremony and Reception 4:00 - 7:00pm
Dedication Ceremony Speakers:
Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA
Gray Davis, Former Governor of California
Anthony Portantino, Assemblymember, 44th Assembly District, CA
David Crane, Special Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger for Jobs and Economic Growth
Rafael Viñoly, Founder, Rafael Viñoly Architects
Speakers: Felice Frankel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Freedberg, Columbia University; Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School; and V. S. Ramachandran, University of California at San Diego This event is sponsored by Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and is supported in part by the David Schwarz family and the National Science Foundation.
This one-day conference will explore the nature of the scienceart interface, the inspiration this interface provides to scientists and artists alike, and the impact of such interactions in areas of research and other human endeavors.
The morning session will feature a discussion of the current knowledge of vision, why we perceive art in certain ways, and emotional response to art. The afternoon session will focus on the interface of art and science and will include discussions with artists or scientists whose work represent the beauty and power of science as well as those whose art dwells on social and ethical implications, often with anxiety and apprehension. Confirmed speakers include:
Felice Frankel, director, Envisioning Science Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Envisioning Science: the Design and Craft of the Science Image.
David Freedberg: professor of art history and director of the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and author of a 1989 classic The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response.
Margaret Livingstone: professor of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, and author of Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing.
V. S. Ramachandran: director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego, and author of several books, including, mostly recently, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers.
