Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, science photographer Felice Frankel's images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences. She will take us through her process of how she creates communicative representations of scientific research and discuss the hurdles and ethical questions confronted by all those representing scientific data and concepts.
Colleen Macklin focuses on creating new games, simulaltions and playing experiences which encourages experimental learning and investigation into social and global issues. She is the director of PETlab (prototyping, evaluation, teaching and learning lab) and has led social media learning projects with partners such as the UN and Open Society Institute. She will be exploring the development of science games while in residence at the Art Sci Center. Associate Professor, Parsons the New School for Design.
"The Lifeification of Games: some thoughts about science, games and saving the world"
4:00PM Talk, CNSI Auditorium
5:00PM Reception and Games, CNSI Presentation Space.
Location: CNSI Building 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles
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.
Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts Book Launch Party
North | South social mixers are quarterly gatherings of faculty, staff and students from north and south campus for networking and interaction. Come meet and greet colleagues from the other side of campus!
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
North | South social mixers are quarterly gatherings of faculty, staff and students from north and south campus for networking and interaction. Come meet and greet colleagues from the other side of campus!
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.
Exhibition “Genesis” by artist in residence in the department of Design | Media Arts. Fulbright scholar, Ukraine.
Artist Lecture at 2:00pm in Fowler Museum, A103B Exhibition Opening at 6:00pm in EDA, Broad Arts Center
Location: EDA, Broad Art center.
Oksana Chepelyk, a Design | Media Arts Fulbright visiting artist, presents Genesis, a multi-part video and photography installation that examines the genetic currency of the nation. A real-time data stream monitoring newborn births creates an infant data base, triggering visual changes on projected images of children around the world. Each act of childbirth adds up to the collective image of a newborn baby.
