BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Seven concurrent Breakout Sessions will be held in the morning and in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. Session facilitators will lead discussions about: art-sci best practices; new art-sci curriculum for various grade levels [from high-school to graduate level]; art-sci funding initiatives; professional developement and new global activities in the field. There will also be workshops on professional skills development.

BREAKOUT SESSION LEADERS
[click on names for description of sessions, bios & contact info.]

• Grace Weir, artist

• Donna Light-Donovan, biology research teacher, Croton-On-Harmon High School, NY
  
• Greg Little, VR artist, professor Bowling Green State University, OH
  Brian Betz, experimental social psychologist, Kent State University, OH
  Dena Eber, digital art/aesthetics researcher, Bowling Green State University, OH

 

• Amy Lipton, curator, Exec. Dir./ Ecoartspace.com, Beacon, NY
  Sam Bower, Exec. Dir./ greenmuseum.org [online museum of environmental art]

• Nicola Triscott, Exec. Dir./ The Arts Catalyst, London/ UK
  Rob La Frenais, curator /The Arts CAtalyst, London/ UK

• Terry Trickett architect, designer, initiator of "sci-art" at Wellcome Trust

• Remo Campopiano, artist, founder/Robotics Art Club [art-sci public art], Seconick, MA

• Chris Smith, Program Director for the EST/Sloan Project, and Artistic Director of Youngblood (playwrights)

• Victoria Vesna, artist, professor, and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA
  James Gimzewski, leading expert in Nanotechnology and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA

• David Poole, Head of the Media Arts Section of the Canada Council for the Arts
  

• Peg Dirckx, Communications Specialist, Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University-Bozeman
  Sara Mast, artist, professor, Montana State University-Bozeman
  Betsey Pitts, Sr. Research Assoc, Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University-Bozeman

• Pia Cordova, coordinator new art-sci initiative, Venezulean government
  Alberto Sato, architect, co-ordinator art-sci initiative, Venezulean government

• Ruth West, molecular genetics researcher/artist, University of California, Los Angeles

• Amy Ione, Director of the Diatrope Institute, Berkeley, CA

• Dominique Fontaine, Program Officer, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology

• Carl Weiman, computer scientist, robotics engineer, professor /Conneticut College, Bridgeport, CT
  Cynthia Pannucci, artist, curator, Exec.Director, ASCI, NYC
 

• Andrew Stones,  installation artist working with video, sound, digital photography; NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) Fellow, 2001-2002, UK.

• Oron Catts, Wet Biology Art Practitioner, Curator, Co-founder and artistic director of SymbioticA (Art Science collaborative Laboratory, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia ).
  Dr Stuart Bunt, Neuroscientist, Entrepreneur, Unionist, Co-founder and scientific director of SymbioticA
  Adam Zaretsky, Artist, VivoArt educator, Clinical associate Profesor, VivoArts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY

• Sara Diamond, Artistic Director, Media and Visual Arts and Executive Producer, Television and New Media at The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada

• Tony White, Interdisciplinary Arts Officer, Collab.Arts Unit, Arts Council of England

• Helen-Donis Keller, professor of Biology and Art, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA

• Laurie Milner, scholar, writer, curator, professor/Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

• Dana Francis Plautz, Manager, Intel Research and Chair Art and Entertainment Committee/Intel Corporation
  

• Anna Hill, artist