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 ]]> http://www.ylem.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=377 http://www.ylem.org/blog/?p=372 http://www.ylem.org/blog/?p=372#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:18:51 +0000 Kathleen http://www.ylem.org/blog/?p=372

This special issue of Leonardo (published by The MIT Press), produced in collaboration with the world-renowned, annual SIGGRAPH Conference, presents the peer-reviewed SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Papers and documents the projects on exhibit in the BioLogic gallery at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference in New Orleans, LA, August 3-7, 2009.

View the Table of Contents and Abstracts: http://leonardo.info/isast/journal/toc424.html

This issue is part of the 2009 subscription volume of Leonardo Journal. It can also be purchased as a single issue from The MIT Press. To order a copy, visit: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/leon

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/

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

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

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.

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/

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 ]]> http://www.ylem.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=339 http://www.ylem.org/blog/?p=333 http://www.ylem.org/blog/?p=333#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:27:26 +0000 Torrey Nommesen http://www.ylem.org/blog/?p=333

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.

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

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
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