[Leonardo/ISAST Network] "Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age" -- Leonardo/ISAST at Berkeley Big Bang 08

[Leonardo/ISAST]

"Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age"
Co-hosted by Leonardo/ISAST and the Berkeley Art Museum
Day 2 of the Berkeley Big Bang 08 Symposium
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
9:00am - 5:00pm
UC Berkeley Art Museum, Museum Theater
Berkeley, CA, USA

Register Now: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang
 
 
Schedule of Events:
 
8:30am: Registration and Check-In

9:00-9:30am: Introduction: Celebrating Forty Years of Leonardo, by Steve 
Wilson, artist, author, Leonardo board member since 1983 and Director of 
the Conceptual/Information Arts Program at San Francisco State University

9:30-11:00am: "Osmosis": What Can the Arts Do for the Sciences?

Art-Science interaction is a two-way process. The impact of science and 
technology on the arts is much discussed and well-documented. This panel 
seeks to examine the influence of the arts on the sciences, and the 
benefits that science can derive from the arts.

"Osmosis" Panelists:

- Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Instructor at Royal College of Art 
in London, Past director of the Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council 
England
- Melinda Rackham, Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art 
and Technology
- Jim Crutchfield, Complexity and Chaos Researcher, Professor of Physics 
at UC Davis, Co-founder and Scientific Director Art and Science laboratory
- Chris Chafe, Director, Stanford University Center for Computer 
Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
 
Moderated by Piero Scaruffi, Poet, Cultural Historian and Cognitive 
Scientist

11:15am-12:45pm: Brilliant Noise: How Data Becomes Experience for 
Artists and for Scientists

Most information about the world we live in is now mediated by 
instruments. This data is often visualized and sonified, both to aid 
analysis and to communicate with other researchers, but artists, too, 
can make this data meaningful and "sensual." The same data sets can lead 
to very different kinds of work. One person's noise is another person's 
sound.

Brilliant Noise Panelists:

- *Camille Utterback**,* Interactive Video Artist, Inventor, and Founder 
of Creative Nerve
- Michael Joaquin Grey, New media artist and inventor
- Laura Peticolas, Geophysical Researcher at Space Sciences Lab, UC 
Berkeley
- Douglas Kahn, Auditory and Sound Culture Historian, Director of 
Technocultural Studies, UC Davis

Moderated by Tami Spector, Professor of Organic Chemistry at University 
of San Francisco and Leonardo Board member
.
12:45-1:45pm: lunch break

2:00-3:30pm: The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very, Very Small

Human cognition is bounded by the inadequacy of human senses to allow us 
sensory contact with the world on scales larger or smaller than 
ourselves. To perceive the nano world one needs extended senses or new 
senses. The nano world requires a new ontology and a new epistemology.

The New Sensuality Panelists:
- Ruth West, New Media artist, Director Visual Analytics and Interactive 
Technologies National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Center, 
University of California, San Diego
- *Jennifer Frazier*, Project Director of the Visualization Laboratory, 
San Francisco Exploratorium
- Wayne Lanier, microbiologist at the Hidden Ecologies project of the 
San Francisco Exploratorium

Moderated by Piero Scaruffi, Poet, Cultural Historian and Cognitive 
Scientist

3:30-5:00pm: Closing reception. Audience members are invited to mingle 
with panel speakers and Leonardo board members. Winners of the first 
Leonardo Art/Science Student Contest will also be presented.
 
*REGISTER NOW* for "Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital 
Age" (Tuesday, June 3, 2008) at Berkeley Big Bang 08. Entrance is only 
$3 to encourage students and the general public to attend. Space is 
limited, and registration via the UC Berkeley Art Museum website is 
required. Visit: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/events/education/bigbang
 
For more information about Leonardo projects and activities, visit: 
http://www.leonardo.info
 
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