[Sci-tech-public] WEDNESDAY -- Visualizing Science: Image-Making in the Constitution of Scientific Knowledge (An interdisciplinary symposium)

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Just received notice of this interdisciplinary symposium at Brandeis 
on Wednesday, October 24:

>Visualizing Science: Image-Making in the Constitution of Scientific 
>Knowledge (An interdisciplinary symposium)
>
>Wednesday, October 24, 2007
>3:40-8:00 p.m.
>Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
>
>Co-conveners: Mark Auslander (Anthropology) and Andreas Teuber (Philosophy)
>
>This symposium explores the enigmatic relationship between science 
>and art, with particular attention to the power of visual images in 
>scientific imaginations. Do visual images simply represent 
>scientific data and concepts, or do images and image-making, at 
>times, actively inspire, catalyze or constitute scientific insight? 
>In what respects are scientists engaged in image acquisition 
>directly or indirectly influenced by iconographic conventions drawn 
>from the history of art? How, in turn, have artistic practices been 
>mediated and shaped through scientific investigations and 
>representational practices? Inspired by the art of Steve Miller, 
>whose work explores the mysteries of protein structures, we will 
>consider the visual dimensions of scientific thought in a range of disciplines.
>
>Revised Schedule:
>
>3:40 p.m. Welcomes (Michael Rush, Mark Auslander, Andreas Teuber)
>3:45-4:30. Images, Protein Crystallization and Organic Forms. 
>Moderated by Mark Auslander. (Dagmar Ringer, Greg Petsko, John 
>Lisman, Daniela Nicastro)
>4:30-4:50 p.m. Keynote address by Peter Galison ("Images of Objectivity')
>4:50-5:10 p.m. Discussion moderated by Andreas Teubuer
>5:10 p.m. Images and Complex Fluids (Seth Fraden, Zvonmire Dogic, Bob Meyers)
>5:30 p.m. Images in Mathematics, Quantum Theory, and Computer 
>Science (Albion Lawrence, Rosalind Reid)
>Commentary by Rick Parmentier and Peter Kalb.
>6:00 p.m. Break
>6:10 p.m. Address by Natasha Myers. "Molecular Affinities, Excitable 
>Media, and Embodied Animations in the Lively Arts of Protein 
>Modeling."Commentary by Steve Miller, Claudia Castaneda, Michael 
>Rush, and Mark Auslander
>7:00 Reception
>
>Likely participants include: Claudia Castaneda (Brandeis), Peter 
>Galison (Harvard), Brian Hayes (American Scientist), Natasha Myers 
>(York University), Rosalind Reid (American Scientist), Steve Milller 
>(artist), Michael Rush (Rose Art Museum), Mark Auslander 
>(Anthropology & Cultural Production, Brandeis), Zvonmir Dogic 
>(Physics, Brandeis), Seth Fraden (Physics), Daniela Nicastro 
>(Biology, Brandeis), Albion Lawrence (Physics, Brandeis), John 
>Lisman (Biology, Brandeis), Andreas Teuber (Philosophy, Brandeis), 
>Rick Parmentier (Anthropology, Brandeis), Greg Petsko (Biochemistry 
>and Chemistry, Brandeis), Dagmar Ringe (Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis)
>
>Part of our Fall 2007 series, Mirrors of Science
><http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/visualizing_science>http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/visualizing_science
>
>
>     * Please participate in our discussion of the work of Steve Miller
><http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/Steve_Miller>http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/Steve_Miller
>
>     * Please participate in our discussion of the relationship 
> between art and scientific imaging.
>     * Please read Andreas Teuber's review essay, "Camera Obscurities"
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