Ellen Levy's installation, Norms of Behavior, addresses the cultural issues involved in adjudicating health and illness and in confronting the limits of our perception. She integrates these concerns in Cultural Epidemiology an annotated and transfigured reworking of Jan Steen's The Village School, and Stealing Attention which reflects on Carravagio's The Cardsharps.
Morten Søndergaard is a researcher working in media art, media art awareness, technology and art. His current projects include explorations on BIOTOPIA - Art in the Wet Zone, research on sound and culture, and history and theory of sound and media art. Aalborg University, Copenhagen Institute of Technology.
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium
Marko Peljhan is active in numerous arts and technology communities. His ongoing mobile laboratory project Makrolab, focusing on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems, finds an intersection between art and science, as do his microgravity and space art experiments in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Associate Professor, UCSB, Co-Driector UCIRA.
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium
Lecture by media artist developing new technologies and interaction design that may improve the lives of people who live with long-term chronic pain. Simon Fraser University. [Art | Sci fall 2011 artist in residence]
Location: EDA, Broad Art center.
Diane Gromala teaches in the graduate Information Design and Technology program at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work pushes art beyond the traditional canvas and computer graphics domains into Virtual Reality and Physiological Computing. She is the founding director of the multidisciplinary Transforming Pain Research Group exploring the silent epidemic of chronic pain.
Lecture and showing of material science and visualization by award winning chemist and documentary director and filmmaker. University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Location: Fowler A103B
Alfred Vendl is a specialist in making hidden scientific phenomena visible. He works at micro-and nano-scale, bringing invisible procedures to human perception through film. His cinematography in the series "Nature Tech" won a 2008 EMMY Award.
Patricia Olynyk's work investigates the tenuous relationships between art, culture, science, and the environment. Often using microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies, her work calls on viewers to expand their awareness of the worlds they inhabit - whether those worlds are their own bodies or the spaces that surround them.
In the 1980s, poetic and philosophical implications of the serious, scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) helped to inspire pioneering work in a new field of molecular biology art. This presentation will draw together ideas about radio, lasers, genetics, sculpture, mathematics, natural language, history and the nature of discovery itself.
The Role of Nature and Nurture in the Development and Intergenerational Transmission of Maladaptive Behavior: A Comparative Perspective
Professor Dario Maestripieri
Department of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry
University of Chicago
Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall
Abstract
Comparative research with animals can help us understand the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to the development and intergenerational transmission of maladaptive psychological processes and behavior. Cross-fostering experiments and the use of the candidate gene approach in studies of rhesus monkeys have allowed us to examine the relative contributions of genetic variation in brain serotonergic function and early traumatic experience in the intergenerational transmission of abusive parenting. We have also elucidated some of the neurobiological mechanisms through which genetic and experiential factors affect the development of maladaptive emotional responses and behavior.
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
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: "Climate Crisis, Food Crisis or Crisis of Agency?" Lecture
05 MAY 2009
EDA, BROAD ART CENTER
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, inventor, and engineer with the mission to reclaim technology from idealized, abstract concepts and to apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results.
Co-hosted with the Department of Design|Media Arts, “Climate Crisis, Food Crisis or Crisis of Agency?” discussed the technological opportunities for structuring participation in the contemporary environmental movement.
