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(((Click on each presenter's name to read their abbreviated biography.))) 9am - 9:30 BREAKFAST SOCIAL tables are themed (science and art areas of specialization) to enable people of shared interests to find oneanother. 9:45 - 10:00 WELCOME by Cynthia Pannucci , Director of ASCI and introduction of keynote speaker. 10:00 - 10:30 KEYNOTE - "Who says that science and the arts don't mix?" by Dr. Laurence Smaje Dr. Laurence Smaje is Director of the Medicine, Science & History Division of The Wellcome Trust in London, the world's largest medical research charity. Two years ago he launched a new commissioning program at the Trust called "Sci-Art", one of the few such programs in the world. He will share what led to its inception, what were its earliest and current challenges, and the reactions by the public, artists, and the international scientific community. He will also present examples of several of the competition's winning sci-art public projects. 10:30 -11:10 MODERN-DAY LEONARDOS: John Maeda Is Sony Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor of Design and Computation at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he also directs the Aesthetics & Computation Group (ACG). His mission at MIT is to foster the development of individuals who can find the natural intersection between the disciplines of computer science and graphic design. Agnes Denes As early as 1968, her Philosophical Drawings represented extensive investigations across the range of human knowledge by integrating science into art. She is perhaps best known for "Wheatfield - A Confrontation", a two-acre wheatfield she planted and harvested in downtown Manhattan, and "Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule," the largest reclamation site on earth. 11:15 - 12:15 PANEL #1: "Reports from the Front: The Nature of Past Art-Sci Industry Programs" MODERATOR - Richard Leslie independent art historian, critic and curator specializing in the art, theory, criticism, and photography of the twentieth century. There have been collaborations between scientists and artists in times past. The panel will report on and examine the nature of selected institutional collaborations to learn and hypothesize for the future. The panel will address several general domains, to which the audience is invited to contribute: - What are the instances of collaboration and the basic facts of the various situations? - What was the structure of the relationships between the participants and the supporting institutions? - Is there a difference between collaboration and consultation and are there different benefits from different models? - What was the nature of the results, tangible and intangible? - What can we learn from these circumstances that is useful for future endeavors? PANELISTS: Samuel Yanes - Was the VP Corporate Communications at Polaroid for 15 yrs. where he was involved with their artist program. Carl Machover - 20+ yrs. as computer graphics consultant and recent producer of "The Story of Computer Graphics" feature-length film for SIGGRAPH. Marah Rosenberg - A member of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at Lucent Technologies; will present overview of artists contributions to research at Bell Labs 12:30 - 1:30 BREAK-OUT SESSION FOR PANEL #1: (8 groups of approx. 50-60 people each facilitated by a "LEADER") Group LEADERS will be excellent facilitators. They will pose a provocative question relevant to the previous panel meant to provoke the members of the group to express their various perspectives. It is hoped that by revealing "how people think", synergies will surface thus furthering personal connections, and perhaps future collaborations. ***QUESTION & LEADER info. will be posted to this website by Nov.1st... so check back then to make your selection and sign-up by sending an email to asci@asci.org. 1:30 - 3:00 LUNCH BREAK neighborhood restaurants or indoor food concession 3:00 - 3:40 ARTIST-SCIENTIST TEAMS Betty Beaumont & Dr. Don White Reflections on the Interdisciplinary in the Ocean Landmark Project Betty Beaumont, an environmental artist, planner, and educator (New York University), collaborated with a group of scientists on the Ocean Landmark Project. This underwater environmental work on the floor of the Atlantic, is made of 500 tons of processed coal-waste, a potential pollutant which has undergone a planned transformation, turning it into a flourishing ecosystem. This work has been documented as sound, video, image and written information. Jack Ox & David Britton "Expectations: Meet; Exceed; Challenge; Change, or Disappoint?" "How do the artist and scientist translate vision into technology? We will make an effort to illuminate some milestones and millstones of this alchemical union." The technologist and the artist do fundamentally different things, but there are important areas of overlap (eg. valuing elegance) and underlap (eg. valuing usefulness). Beauty vs performance, form vs. function, fancy vs. fact, the questions of purpose, intention, utility and value push the ontological envelope as we wonder what is science? what is art? and how the heck are we going to get paid for doing this? while we pragmatically get on with the process. 3:45 - 4:45 PANEL #2:"Art-Sci at the Millenium: Why Now?" MODERATOR - Diana Meckley Composer, writer, arts program consultant, researcher. From popular and scholarly books to magazine and newspaper articles to the many art-sci- technology sessions on the conference circuit, there seems to be a trend toward greater communication and collaboration between the artistic and scientific communities and of cross- discipline inspiration and influence in general. Techno-artists, humanistic scientists, and artists-engineers abound. Pre-millennial bandwagon or true Renaissance? This panel will seek to examine what is different about today from any other period (e.g. 1960s) of strong, art-science relationships and define some of the factors behind this most recent convergence. PANELISTS: Dr. David Peat Writer and theoretical physicist; founder of new art-sci center in Italy Leslie Brothers Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Paul De Marinis Multimedia electronic artist, San Francisco Richard Loveless Director, Institute for Studies in the Arts, College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 5:00 - 6:00 BREAK-OUT SESSION FOR PANEL #2 ***QUESTION & LEADER info. will be posted to this website by Nov. 1st... so check back then to make your selection and sign-up (before event!) by sending an email to asci@asci.org. (((This ends the Saturday Program))) ((( CLICK HERE ))) FOR *SUNDAY'S PROGRAM* |
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