Leonardo ISAST and SETI Institute invite you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science community. See below for location and agenda. The event is free and open to everybody. Feel free to invite relevant acquaintances. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com . Admission is limited. Like previous evenings, the agenda includes some presentations of art/science projects, and time for casual socializing/networking. In order to facilitate the networking, feel free to send me the URL of a webpage that describes your work or the organization you work for. I will publish a list on this webpage before the day of the event so that everybody can check what everybody else is doing. (Not mandatory, just suggested). See also... Art, Technology, Culture Colloquia Berkeley's New Media Center Art/Science Fusion at UC Davis Almost Scientific Previous Art/Science Evenings When: December 9, 2009 Where: SETI Institute 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, USA What: 6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on. 7:00-7:30: Chris Chafe (Stanford) on "Making Music in Data-Rich Environments" The material of music now includes possibilities from the vast and accessible "datascape" that we're able to hook into via computers and media. The lecture will traverse musical projects I've been involved with which have engaged data in many forms, from internet traffic and computer animation, to real-time environmental sensors as musical performers. 7:30-8:00: Paul Rabinow of UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science on "Ars Synthetica". "Ars Synthetica" is a website that, while centered on synthetic biology, is a multi-media experiment in documentation, critique, debate, and problems. 8:00-8:30: BREAK 8:30-9:00: Deborah Munk of the San Francisco Dump on "The Art of Recycling" An overview of the Artist in Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal and will focus on a few of the 70 artists who have had residencies. I will also discuss recycling, the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch and sustainability. 9:00-9:30: Cindy Stokes (Photographer) on "Dynamic Form" A discussion of photographs and comments on some of the universal principles involved in the image structures. I first became intrigued with structure and pattern in nature while examining cells and tissues in the microscope during graduate school. It wasn't until after graduation that I acquired a camera and began noticing, and photographing, formations in the macroscopic world that much resembled what was seen in the microscope. 9:30: Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening I will simply preview the line-up of speakers for the next Leonardo evening. 9:30pm-10:00pm: Discussions, more socializing You can mingle with the speakers and the audience Bios: Chris Chafe is a composer/ cellist / music researcher with an interest in computer music composition and interactive performance. He has been a long-term denizen of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University where he directs the center and teaches computer music courses. His doctorate in music composition was completed at Stanford in 1983 with prior degrees in music from the University of California at San Diego and Antioch College. Two year-long research periods were spent at IRCAM, and the Banff Center for the Arts developing methods for computer sound synthesis based on physical models of musical instrument mechanics. Two recent discs of his works are available from Centaur Records. Deborah Munk is the director of the Artist in Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. and has spent the last eight years working with artists who make art out of garbage. She was the assistant editor of "Parallels and Intersections, Women Artists in California" published by UC Press, in 2002 and is a proud graduate of San Francisco State University with a Masters in Educational Technology focusing on art and media. Deborah also manages the Educational Learning Center at SF Recycling & Disposal where she teaches children and adults the importance of sustainability and recycling. Paul Rabinow is is professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, and a co-founder of the Berkeley program in French Cultural Studies. He was a visiting Fulbright Professor at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (1987); taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1986) as well as the �cole Normale Superieure (1997), was a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Iceland (1999). He was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 1998 and was awarded the visiting Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal at the Ecole Normale Superieure for 2001-2. Piero Scaruffi is a cognitive scientist who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest book of poems and meditations is "Synthesis" (2009). As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock and Dance Music" (2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). He has also written extensively about cinema, literature and the visual arts. An avid traveler, he has visited 121 countries of the world. Cindy Stokes is a photographer and systems biology consultant living and working in the Bay Area. She focuses closely on the curious details of the world, having fun with structural and spatial complexity and ambiguity in her abstracts and still-lifes. Address and directions: 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043. Phone: 650-961-6633 Directions to SETI Confirmed so far: