Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events

(see also the list of past events)

26 November 2009

LEF@Re:live2009
Faculty of VCA and Music
University of Melbourne
234 St Kilda Road
SOUTHBANK Victoria 3000

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF) will run a one day forum on the 26th November 2009 prior to the media art history conference Re:live.The LEF@Re:live will be focused on mapping the terrain: Institutional capacities in media art, science and technology creating an exchange on the burning current issues in education.

The LEF intend to publish policy papers in the course of the next few years. Contributions by participants of LEF conferences in 2008 form the base of our introductory LEF Strategic Summary document available for comment at http://mass.nomad.net.au/leonardo-education-forum-strategy-summary-on-media- art-education/

The Forum will be held at Faculty of VCA and Music, University of Melbourne, 234 St Kilda Road, SOUTHBANK Victoria 300

10 00 am Welcome
Su Baker, Associate Professor Art, Head of School, Faculty of the VCA and Music, University of Melbourne

Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair, Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University and Dr Paul Thomas, Australian representative for LEF, Co chair Media Art History Conference, Re:live 09, Director Centre for Research in Art Science and Humanity Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.

10.10 am Nina Czegledy LEF co-chair presents LEF international initiatives & Policy Papers

10.30 am Dr.Paul Thomas and Jeremy Blank will report on the Australian national media art scoping study.

11.00 am Reports from delegates on LEF@ISEA - Ars on the three themes

11.15 am Professor Oliver Grau,, Chair for Image Science, Head Department for Cultural Studies
DANUBE UNIVERSITY, Krems, AUSTRIA

11.30 am Professor Ross Harley, Head of School, Media Arts, Acting Associate Dean Research, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia

11.45 am Professor Ian M Clothier, Faculty of Art, Commerce and Technology, Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki, New Zealand, Director: Intercreate.org, SCANZ2006 & 2009

12 pm lunch

1.30 - 3.00 pm 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

3.00 pm summary by session chairs

Working Groups

The Role of Research in media art & science & technology
Working group leaders: Oliver Grau & Melentie Pandelovski

The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
Working group leaders: Ross Harley & Cat Hope

The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational
Capacities and Benchmarks
Working group leaders: Ian Clothier & Attila Nemes

3.15pm - 4.30 pm Resolutions and outcomes
(With refreshments.)

Please feel free to circulate.

Contact/Organizers: Nina Czegledy (czegledy@interlog.com), Paul Thomas (p.thomas@curtin.edu.au) and Julian Stadon (j.stadon@curtin.edu.au)

9 December 2009

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
The SETI Institute
Palo Alto, CA

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

This event is FREE but space is limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com.

Schedule:

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.

9:30-10:00: More Socializing/Networking

Find out more about past LASERs

Updated 11 November 2009