The Sci | Art NanoLab is a highly competitive summer program for high school juniors and seniors interested in collaborating with diverse and notable minds to challenge traditional, polarized perspectives of the arts and sciences. Throughout the 2-week intensive program, students will make connections between cutting edge scientific research, popular culture and contemporary arts. Lab visits, workshops, hands-on experiments, and meetings with world renowned scientists will be balanced with visits to museums, daily movie screenings and meetings with famous contemporary artists who collaborate with scientists.
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Geology Corner (Bldg 320), Room 105
Palo Alto, CA
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Shona Kitchen (San Jose State Univ's CADRE) on "Speculation of an Alternative Today"
A fresh outlook at technological adaptations and how they can enhance and enrich our surroundings rather that distract us from them.
7:25-7:50pm: Carlo Sequin (U.C. Berkeley) on "Knotty Sculptures"
Simple knots can be used as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures.
7:50-8:05: BREAK
Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.
8:05-8:30pm: Margarita Marinova (NASA) on "The Dry Valleys of Antarctica as an Analogue for Mars"
The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are a unique place on Earth: the coldest and driest rocky place, with no plants or animals in sight. Studying the Dry Valleys allows us to understand how the polar regions on Earth work, what the limits of life are - and to apply these ideas to the cold and dry environment of Mars.
8:30pm-8:55pm: Peter Foucault (SFAI) on "Systems and Interactivity in Drawing"
A discussion on how drawings are constructed through mark making systems, and how audience participation can influence the outcome of a final composition, focusing on an interactive robotic drawing installation.
The Leo/SIGGRAPH issue release reception is from 2-3:30 PM along with the Art Gallery Reception. These will take place at the Art Gallery along with remarks by Leonardo representatives and by the Digital Art Lifetime Award winner.
There will be two Educators Panels held in Theatre 411:
Part 1: 9 A.M.-10:30 A.M
Part 2: 10:45 A.M.-12:15 PM
The Leonardo Town Hall meeting will take place at 3:45 p.m. in Room 506 and continues until 5:45 PM. The last half of the meeting welcomes SIGGRAPH attendees, LEAF and Leonardo members to join in an open, informal discussion to discuss some of the innovative new programs created for transdisciplinary teaching. We invite people to identify the highlights of the SIGGRAPH events they have attended.
Roger Malina will discuss the possibilities for organizing another education panel with SIGGRAPH next year, and we ask that attendees express their preferences for future topics to be explored at upcoming symposia.
Students from Professor Victoria Vesna’s 2010 graduate seminars Data + Flesh, Department of Design | Media Arts, UCLA + Hybrid Worlds: Nano_Biotech + Art Parsons The New School for Design in New York and UCLA Honors class Biotech + Art exhibit their concepts / proposals / presentations of objects, performances / art installations -- all responding to how we are changing our bodies, the food we consume, the animals we breed & the environment we inhabit.
Parsons seminar co-taught by neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan
co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
supported by Leonardo ISAST + UCIRA + Parsons AMT
May 14 - June 7, 2010.Open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Parking is $10 all day, and is available near CNSI in structure 9, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 1.310.794.2118.
