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NANCY WORTHINGTON CREATES WINE LABEL ART

Planet Pluto Meritage wine (2005), released in April 2009, was created by winemaker Clark Smith (of Vinovation fame), Winesmith Cellars, Sebastopol, CA, to honor Pluto–the absurdly demoted planet.
The original artwork design for Planet Pluto Meritage was done by the internationally acclaimed artist Nancy Worthington, whose unique and controversial style has attracted thoughtful connoisseurs the world over with a gravity all its own. Her insightful and courageous art distills the essence of complex themes, sometimes social, sometimes political, sometimes romantic. Nancy Worthington’s dreamy artwork of Pluto the planet addresses all three realms as we stretch to reconcile science, tradition and our love for the ninth planet.
This delicious blend of Meritage varietals will rock your world!

http://www.domjoy.com/image-gallery/socialpolical-commentary-art/planet-pluto/

PLANET PLUTO MERITAGE WEBSITE http://planetplutowine.com/planetpluto/

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Alex and Martha Nicoloff to show work at Bay Area Visual Music meetup, March 12

Filed under: — tjt @ 9:00 pm

Longtime YLEM members Alex and Martha Nicoloff will be showing their work (visuals generated with sunlight and prisms) at the next meeting of the Bay Area Visual Music Meetup. The meeting will also include a live performance by Scott Davey (visuals) and Lx Rudis (music) . A unique aspect of this performance is that Scott’s visuals will be transmitted live over the network from Sacramento.

The meeting will be at the New Nothing Cinema (16 Sherman St, San Francisco) at 8pm on March 12. Complete details can be found at the Bay Area Visual Music calendar.

Together with his wife Martha, Alex Nicoloff, based in Berkeley, California, creates environments consisting of sunlight, prisms, the spectrum and sound. They convert scientific principles and technological innovation into a variety of aesthetic formats. Their focus involves the organization in video of visual energies released by means of improvisation and orchestration. Here’s an article about their work.

Scott Davey is a musician and visual artist living in Sacramento. He is again involved, both live and remote, in an improvisational abstract cinema project with LX Rudis called Live Feed. In addition to that he plays in a rock ‘n roll band called Lost Lake, records solo as Tackhammer, and teaches learning disabled elementary school students.

lx rudis is a new media producer and live performer with roots in san francisco’s art-punk-industrial movement. mostly known for his work in videogames and related technology, lx also is a prolific experimental artist who works comfortably in a wide range of disciplines; from audio/video synthesis to social computing.

Complete details on the evening be found at the Bay Area Visual Music calendar.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ACCEPTS NANCY WORTHINGTON ART INTO PERMANENT COLLECTION

Filed under: Member News — Tags: Add new tag, domjoy.com, http://www.domjoy.com/image-gallery/fantasycommentary-art/not-some-random-thoughts/, Nancy Worthington, social commentary art — worthington @ 1:26 pm

The San Jose Museum of Art has enthusiastically accepted “Not Some Random Thoughts” into its permanent collection. Nancy Worthington, M.F.A. created “Not Some Random Thoughts” between 1980 and 1998. The work is a book art mixed-media double triptych comprising both handwritten commentary and graphic imagery as a satrical and sardonic view of everyday life.

Click here to see full view of artwork: http://www.domjoy.com/image-gallery/fantasycommentary-art/not-some-random-thoughts/

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Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous at SETI Institute

Filed under: Non-YLEM — Tags: art, lectures, networking, science, technology — Kathleen @ 12:55 pm

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043

February 11, 2008, 6:30-10PM

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST.

Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:15pm: Amy Ione of the Diatrope Institute on “Perception, Photography, and the Art/Sci Equation”

7:30-8:00pm: Frank Pietronigro, co-founder and director of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, and Lowry Burgess, former Dean and Professor, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, on “I See The Earth and it is Beautiful”

8:00-8:30pm: break

8:30-9:00pm: Daniel “Cosmo Kichman” Grupp (Artist in residence at DeYoung Museum) on “Yielding to Irony: Understanding the Illusion of Importance in Art and Science.”

9:00-9:30pm: Robert Rich, Electronic and Digital Composer, on “Microtonal Music and Just Intonation”

For more information, visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

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Member Show: In the Light - 50 Years of Figures

Filed under: Member Events — Torrey Nommesen @ 5:27 pm

Show runs January 16th through February 4th, 2009
Smith Anderson Editions
440 Pepper Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306

Reception: Saturday, January 17th
3pm to 5pm

Smith Andersen Editions presents “In the Light: 50 Years of Figures”, an exhibition of small-scale, figurative painting and drawings by Eleanor Kent. All 27 pieces were created in Kent’s San Francisco studio over the span of 50+ years in various large or small groups. The work featured is an array of black and white and saturated color, and while some figures verge on abstraction, the focus of light dancing with the human form is evident in all. These painting and drawings are not portraits, but studies of people: model’s such as Flo Allen, neighbors and her children in relation to real and imagined landscapes or interiors.

Eleanor Kent began to concentrate on painting and drawing the figure in North Beach during the late 1950s. She describes this period as “an exhilarating time where the coffee shops and bookstores were full of ideas and people and music”. Kent studied with the likes of Bischoff, DuCasse, Lobdell, Marie-Rose, McGaw and Oliveira at today’s San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is in the collections of the Fresno Museum of Art, Cornell University Museum in New York and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Eleanor Kent exhibits regularly in the Bay Area and Mexico as well as other international sites.

Exhibition hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and by appointment.

For information please email Smith Andersen Editions or visit the Smith Anderson website.

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Art/Science Evening Rendezvous in San Francisco

Filed under: Member Events, Non-YLEM — Torrey Nommesen @ 2:55 pm

Click here to view this invitation online.

Leonardo ISAST invites you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science community.

Like previous evenings the agenda includes some presentations of art/science projects, a couple of brief “news”, and time for casual socializing/networking.

Feel free to forward to relevant acquaintances.

Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com. Admission is limited.

When: January 12, 2009 at 6pm

Where: Downtown facilities of SFSU, San Francisco
(RSVP for detailed address and directions)

What:
6:00pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.
6:45-7:10: Steve Wilson (Artist and Author) on “Overview of Art and Biology Experimentation”
7:10-7:35: Dor Abrahamson of Berkeley’s Embodied Design Research Lab on “Close Listening to Gesture - An Embodied-Design Perspective on Mathematical Reasoning”
7:35-7:50: BREAK
7:50-8:15: Kavita Philip and Beatriz da Costa on “Tactical Biopolitics
8:15-8:45: Paul Rabinow of UC Berkeley’s College of Letters & Science on “Ars Synthetica”.
8:45-9:30: More socializing, Q/A

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Call for papers and artworks - ACM SIGGRAPH 2009/Leonardo

Filed under: Call For Entries — Torrey Nommesen @ 2:47 pm

Call for papers and artworks - ACM SIGGRAPH 2009/Leonardo

Leonardo/ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Special Issue

Featuring SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Papers and Juried Art Gallery

Guest Editor: Jacquelyn Martino

We are now accepting submissions for a forthcoming special issue of Leonardo. The issue will feature SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Papers and the SIGGRAPH 2009 Juried Art Gallery, “Biologic: A Natural History of Digital Life.”

SIGGRAPH Art Papers present work that illuminates and explores the process of making art and its place in society, helping people understand the changing roles of artists and art-making in our increasingly computerized, networked, multi-sensory, online world. The papers present challenging ideas in accessible ways. They inform artistic disciplines, set standards and stimulate future trends. In addition to the core topics of the digital arts and interactive techniques, Art Papers explore the theme of SIGGRAPH 2009’s juried art gallery, BioLogic Art.

The BioLogic exhibition, chaired by Elona Van Gent, will showcase work by artists who engage technology and the natural world in their creative processes. The artworks and installations chosen for the exhibition will demonstrate, celebrate, critique and conjecture about the flux of natural and technological forces. Plants and animals, insects and even the weather have long served as subjects of study and as metaphors for human experience. Technological gadgetry and digital code are amplifying our understanding of organic processes and enhancing our innate capabilities. Grafting these together–things occurring naturally with those altered or modified—offers opportunities for novel expressions of life as we know it or imagine it to be.

BioLogic will focus on projects that graft together biological forms and systems with mechanical equipment, electronic instruments, robotic devices and digital code and networks that amplify our understanding of organic processes and enhance our natural capacities, allowing us to explore expressions of life as we know it or imagine it to be. Artworks selected for the Juried Art Gallery will also appear in the special issue.

Publication of the special issue, Leonardo Volume 42, Issue 4 (August 2009), will coincide with the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans (3-7 August 2009).

Submission deadlines are at 22:00 UTC/GMT

Art Papers, Thursday, 8 January 2009

BioLogic Art, Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Submission details available online:

Submiting to Sessions
Submiting Art Papers
Submiting Biologic Art
Submiting to the Art Gallery
Contact Information

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Evaluating the creative? Symposium to examine evaluation in creative practice

Filed under: Non-YLEM — Torrey Nommesen @ 8:59 am

Beta_Space with Iamoscope by Fels and Mase. Photograph by Lizzie Muller.

Evaluating the creative? Symposium to examine evaluation in creative practice

As the lines between creativity and commerce become increasingly hazy, the days of artists, designers and other makers-of-media working solely from personal conviction – regardless of the reception of their work – are gone. Today, intelligent artists and designers are deeply interested in knowing and understanding how their audiences experience and respond to their work.

On 19 January 2009 a symposium organised by the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University, in conjunction with the British Computer Society and the Design Research Society, is set to bring together artists, designers, scientists, developers and academics to explore the role of evaluation in creative practice and how this can be affected and enhanced by technology.

Entitled Completing the Circle: Incorporating Evaluation Methods in Creative Work, this one-day event will feature speakers from Australia, Sweden, the United States and the UK. They will include such prominent figures in the field as Ernest Edmonds, Head of the Creativity and Cognition Lab in Sydney, and Kristina Höök, Professor of Human- Machine Interaction at Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, as well as Piotr Adamczyk of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

According to Stephen Boyd Davis, Head of the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University: “Interactive digital technologies offer an increasing range of opportunities for artists, designers and other creative workers to find out how their work is experienced. Some creative people are keen to embrace these opportunities, while others consider such methods an intrusion. We aim to share ideas and expertise and tackle some hard questions”.

The eight papers to be presented in the programme have been peer- reviewed by an international panel, and will discuss projects that focus on using interactive technologies and other novel methods to evaluate the user’s or audience’s response to media including artworks, designs and performance. These papers include three that look at innovative uses of eye-tracking technology and two that examine how the relationship between artist, exhibit, gallery and public is altered by digital interaction.

Follow this link for more information.

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Call for Entries: Infectious

Filed under: Call For Entries — Torrey Nommesen @ 12:25 am

INFECTIOUS OPEN CALL

Calling all cultural epidemiologists, microbial artists, viral marketers, digital immunologists, social modelers, pyramid schemers, fashion vectors, mimetic engineers, and carriers of dangerous ideas…

The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin requests proposals for works to be included in a new exhibition entitled INFECTIOUS. Focused on contagion and its mechanisms in media of all kinds, the exhibition will explore both how things spread and why it matters from the perspectives of agents, hosts, and systems. INFECTIOUS will sample not only the workings of human diseases and immune responses, but the propagation of ideas and the recent developments in network theory that link all of this together.

Opening 18th April 2009, INFECTIOUS will run for three months along with a full complement of related performances, talks, debates and other events. Science Gallery plans to include within the exhibition works created in response to this call as well as components developed by project staff and advisors. Entries must be submitted no later than Monday, 1 December 2008, 5pm GMT.

Please visit this website for further details and Expression of Interest form.

Start infecting others! Please forward this email to friends and colleagues who might help this idea to spread.

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SCIENCE GALLERY
Pearse Street, Trinity College
Dublin 2 Ireland
www.sciencegallery.com
Link to Science Gallery on YouTube

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Call for Submissions: Network Your Senses at SIGGRAPH 2009

Filed under: Call For Entries — Torrey Nommesen @ 9:15 am

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 invites you to Network Your Senses as a contributor or volunteer at the 36th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 3 - 7 August 2009 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in festive New Orleans, Louisiana.

SIGGRAPH thrives because of the quality and diversity of our members, and the tremendous value of the work they produce in a wide range of disciplines. From students to studio heads, from independent artists to scientists and researchers, SIGGRAPH gives you an opportunity to present your work to colleagues, old friends, and industry peers you have yet to meet. You’ll also get to see their work, and meet and socialize with them. This year we’re also expanding our focus to include gaming as well as music and audio. As was done last year, SIGGRAPH will again implement a unified General Submission process that allows contributors to submit content to be evaluated across several formats.

Every piece submitted to SIGGRAPH 2009 through the Call for Submissions is reviewed by a highly qualified jury composed of top practitioners in the relevant field. Because we want each jury to have the time to review each piece carefully, submission deadlines generally are several months ahead of the conference itself. All the submission deadlines are strictly enforced, so plan ahead!

For focused ideas on how you can contribute to SIGGRAPH 2009, see our Calls for Submission for:

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