Yoichiro Kawaguchi, "Gemotion Dance" interactive installation with performance, 2002. copyright: Yoichiro Kawaguchi.

Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events

(see also the list of past events)

13 July 2009

    Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
    University of San Francisco
    San Francisco, CA

    LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

    Schedule:

    6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

    6:45-7:10pm: Jamie McHugh of John Kennedy University and Tamalpa Institute on "Inner and Outer Landscapes"

    We are nature: our soma and psyche are reflections of the elements. This informs my work both as a "body conservationist" (somatic movement educator) and as a photographer of Nature's body. My images - Nature Being Art - transmit the living earth not as figurative landscape but as contemporary abstract art, reflecting the dynamic balance of movement and stillness found both in nature and in body. I will present my images of the natural environment as contemplative objects in tandem with an embodied approach to meditation.

    7:10pm-7:35pm: Daniel "Cosmo Kichman" Grupp (Artist in residence at DeYoung Museum) on "Yielding to Irony: Understanding the Illusion of Importance in Art and Science."

    Both art and science can attain levels of great importance in our lives. We start from a clear intention, and may end up in a place where the importance itself is what is important. In both art and science, we may present with magnified importance an idea or an object, completely without irony. In this talk I explore the joy we can experience when we yield to the irony of our seriousness.

    7:35pm-7:50pm: BREAK

    7:50pm-8:15pm: Rhonda Holberton, artist, on "Geopolitical Ruptures: How Science, Technology, and Repo-modernism will save the World"

    My discussion will address visual language and how it operates within a cultural paradigm to reinforce political ideology. Is it possible that cultural indexes are beginning to suggest the end of one imaginary totality and the beginning of another; Post-Industrial, Post-postmodernism, Post-materialism, Post-oil, Post-technology, Post-capitalism, Post-global warming, Post-cultural revolution, Post-autonomous, Post-democratic? How are the arts, sciences, and technology fields working together within the ruptures of our current system to prepare us for this ideological shift?

    8:15pm-8:45pm: Terrence Deacon (U.C. Berkeley) on "The Aesthetic Faculty"

    Abstract

    8:45pm-9:30pm: Discussions, more socializing

    This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media

    More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

4-6 August 2009

    Leonardo @ SIGGRAPH 2009
    New Orleans, LA

    1. Leonardo/SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Reception and Special Issue Release Reception

    Time: Tuesday Aug. 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

    Place: SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference, New Orleans, LA, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hallway outside Rooms 353-355, adjacent to the BioLogic Gallery

    Celebrate the opening of the BioLogic Gallery and the release of the Leonardo Special Issue documenting the SIGGRAPH 2009 BioLogic Gallery and Art Papers.

    2. Leonardo Town Hall / Birds of a Feather Session

    Time: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 1:30 - 3:00PM

    Place: SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference, New Orleans, LA, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room 263

    Town Hall meeting for SIGGRAPH attendees interested in Leonardo projects and collaborations. We welcome artists, scientists, technologists, educators, students and others interested in work that integrates art, science and technology.

29 August 2009

    Leonardo Education Forum @ ISEA 2009
    Belfast, Ireland

    13.45 Welcome
    Kerstin Mey Director of Research Institute of Art and Design, University of Ulster. Artistic Director ISEA2009
    Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair

    13.55 Keynote Andrea Polli, Director, Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program, University of New Mexico, LEF outgoing co-chair

    14.15 LEF international initiatives & the White Paper
    Nina Czegledy, Senior Fellow KMDI, University of Toronto Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University, LEF co-chair

    14.35 Introduction to LEF working group session
    Daniela Reimann, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz
    LEF correspondent, Germany

    14.45 Working groups

    Focus:
    1. The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
    2. The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
    3. The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks

    16.15 Summary.

Updated 1 July 2009