Monday, November 9, 2009
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
SF, CA 94117
McLaren room #251
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST)
This event is FREE but space is limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com.
Schedule:
6:15pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.
6:45-7:10: Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) on “Software Studies, Software Art, Software Design”
Since software design is a process of writing, the “computer revolution” can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium.
7:10-7:35: Jim Campbell (artist) on “More is Less: Delving Into Lo-fi”
I’ll discuss how my work over the last few years has gone from looking at very low-resolution visual image representations to looking at almost no-resolution non-image visual representations. I’ll show different ways of distilling time and rhythm information from an event, ways that , when successful, present an essential and felt (as opposed to analytic) extremely minimal representation.
7:35-7:50: BREAK
7:50-8:15: Phil Ross (artist) on “It’s Alive!: Curating life into the art realm”
An introduction to the ideas and ambitions that gave rise to BioTechnique, a 2007 show that traced the history of life as a cultured thing; the complicated logistics in curating living works into galleries and museums; a larger view of the bio-culture industry.
8:15-8:45: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on “The Internet as Media”
Employing a range of strategies for acquiring, organizing, and re-contextualizing information found on the World Wide Web; exploring themes such as online communities (in which participants communicate through mediated, self-defined personas), “cyber-stalking,” as well as using the Internet as a means of self-discovery and recollecting personal histories.
8:45-9:30: More Socializing/Networking
Find out more about past LASERs: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html
Close Nancy Worthington’s “The Police State” in the “Control” Exhibiton
NANCY WORTHINGTON’S POWERFUL SOCIAL COMMENTARY ARTWORK
“THE POLICE STATE-PART I (You Have The Right To Remain Silent”
will be exhibited in the CONTROL EXHIBITION at SOMArts Cultural Center.
This all-women show, presented by the Women’s Caucus for Art was juried by The Guerrilla Girls West.
In light of the arrest of Dr. Gates on July 16, 2009 at his home by Police Sgt. Crowley, and the escalation of this incident to national attention, “The Police State” created by Ms. Worthington in 1992 is extremely relevant in today’s world.
CONTROL
August 6 - 27, 2009
SOMArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA
Opening Reception, Thursday, August 6, 6-9 P.M.
Gallery Hours, Tuesday-Friday, 2-7 P.M., Saturday 12-5 P.M.
For more information on “The Police State” please click on: http://www.domjoy.com/image-gallery/socialpolical-commentary-art/the-police-state/