A presentation of outstanding wearable technology projects from the School of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From prototype to final design, Anne Niemetz will be discussing design strategies for creative expressions with wearable technology while presenting projects that have been created by her students, including World of Wearable Art finalist garments.
LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS
7:00–9:00pm | Presentation Space
5th Floor, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Featuring keynote speakers Iain Kerr & Petia Morozov, Mary Flanagan, Mary Tsang, and Daniel Landau.
Eat Your Sidewalk is a ground-breaking, category-defying foraging cookbook!
"It is a manifesto and a call to action. We want to inspire you to find wonder and ecological possibilities directly underfoot. We want to launch a sidewalk-to-table revolution that changes our cities and gives us a new sense of community and place." —SPURSE
Ian Kerr
Location: Montclair, NJ; Detroit, MI;
Core Practices: Systems Analysis & Design, Ecological Design, Workshop Facilitator, Innovation and Creativity, Foraging + Commons Facilitator, Foodways, Commons Facilitator
Petia Morozov
Location: Montclair, NJ; New York City, NY
Core Practices: Urban Ecosystem Designer, Socio-Eco Change Facilitator, Architecture, Urbanism
Beyond the Uncanny Valley of the Dolls
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Thursday, February 9th in the EDA at 6PM
"I want to be a robot." - Andy Warhol
In 1919, a year before the word “robot” was coined, Sigmund Freud published an influential essay, Das Unheimliche, later translated into English as “The Uncanny”. The essay and the concept of the Uncanny are familiar to literary theorists and art historians, who have charted its the literary and theatrical origins of the concept through works by ETA Hoffman, Mary Shelley, Karel Capek, and Eric Asimov, its rich history in psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and philosophy, from Jensch to Freud to to Heidegger to Derrida to Cixous to what Martin Jay described as the “master trope” of the 1990’s.
However, the Uncanny remains esoteric and unfamiliar to engineers, designers, and the public. They are familiar with the Uncanny Valley, a related but distinct concept that originated in 1970. I'll describe the Uncanny in plain language, trace its origins back to Descartes and medieval automata, and show how relates to our contemporary human fear and fascination with a broad variety of technologies from AI to cosmetics to robots to Siri to Google Glass to zombies.
January 19, 2017
5-7 pm: Exhibition Opening / Reception for the artist -- Art Sci gallery, CNSI 5th floor.
7-8:30 pm: LASER with Lucie Strecker, Kalus Spiess, Stephen Nowlin, Chris O'Leary, Ryohei Nakatsu and the featured artist. Presentation space, CNSI 5th floor. Directions to Art|Sci Gallery | CNSI 5th floor
This year's Japan Cultural Envoy appointed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, international artist Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) will join us on January 19th, 2017 for the debut of her Genesis exhibition! Genesis magnifies the intermixing of traditional Japanese pigments mobilized by viscous fluid and dry ice using cutting-edge technology to create an immersive experience out of phenomena normally invisible to the human eye.
Naoko Tosa's early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) is an international artist whose early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Website: http://www.tosa.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Streaming Live 7 pm PST / -8 UTC
January 19, 2017
5-7 pm: Exhibition Opening / Reception for the artist -- Art Sci gallery, CNSI 5th floor.
7-8:30 pm: LASER with Lucie Strecker, Kalus Spiess, Stephen Nowlin, Chris O'Leary, Ryohei Nakatsu and the featured artist. Presentation space, CNSI 5th floor.
Directions to Art|Sci Gallery | CNSI 5th floor
Art|Sci's current artists-in-residence Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess present the performative installation XCurrency as a work in progress. Their artistic research explores experimental currency systems that can negotiate value through their liveness when mediated by interfaces with consumers and their affective resources.
XCurrency is based on Lucie Strecker’s and Klaus Spiess’s previous work ‘Hare’s blood+’ which reflected on artworks incorporating animal relics. The artists designed a synthetic gene from a Joseph Beuys multiple that contained hare’s blood and spliced it into living cells which were put up for auction. The bids at the auction were linked to the living and dying processes of the cells, positioning them as agents in the making of value, in line with a counter-economy envisioned by Joseph Beuys.
Whether proposing exchange by liveness within an auction or as now relating the informational virtuality of the expanded genetic alphabet of XDNA with speculation on the financial markets, the artists always propose a reciprocal qualitative dependency between currencies and their consumers.
Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess have been developing transdisciplinary performances and installations that address biopolitical issues for many years. A former endocrinologist, psychosomaticist and medical anthropologist, Klaus Spiess now works as an artist and associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Lucie Strecker is an performance artist and researcher and holds a senior postdoc position at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Performances and installations by both artists have been shown at Budascoop Kortrijk, Tanzquartier and Belvedere/21er Haus, Vienna, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the BEALL Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, the Onassis Cultural Center Athens and the OK Center, Linz, where the duo were awarded an Honorary Mention (2015) at the Prix Ars Electronica. They have published numerous articles on their transdisciplinary performances in Performance Research, Kunstforum International, Springerin and The Lancet, among others.
Anne Niemetz, an Art|Sci Center alumni on sabbatical from New Zealand, will be joining us at the end of the quarter as the Bermant Foundation Resident.
Anne is a media artist and designer working in the fields of wearable technology, interactive installation and audio-visual design. She is particularly fascinated by the convergence of art, science, design and technology, and she pursues collaborative and cross disciplinary projects.
Learn more about Anne and her projects on adime.de.
