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1. The Influencers festival / Barcelona, February
2. Re: Nanotechnology and art
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From: paualsina@gmail.com
Subject: The Influencers festival / Barcelona, February
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:12 +0200
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG and Bani present:
THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment
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*February 28-29-1 March 2008*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
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with ALAN ABEL, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO, SANTI CIRUGEDA, BRODY CONDON,
LAIBACH, MONOCHROM, TREVOR PAGLEN
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program:
http://www.theinfluencers.org--------------------------------------------------
Welcome to 4th edition of The Influencers, the talk show you won't see
on TV!
The Influencers explores controversial forms of art and communication
guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global
popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions,
consumption and technological fetishism.
The key to The Influencers is found in its guests and stories:
impostors, pseudo-totalitarian musicians, conceptual hackers, deviant
geographers, anarchitects and actors from invisible theatre. In these
three days they are going to present their work, show known and less
known material and speak with the public about challenges, goals and
strategies.
With The Influencers, the border between disciplines is erased (since
the message really is the message, and the medium is just a tactic),
links between apparently distant projects are found, and bold
genealogies are drawn between different countries and generations.
Ambiguities are also explored and contradictions are discussed. In the
manipulation of everyday symbols, as well as within what is excessive
and politically incorrect, we will possibly find inspiration for
changing the present and imagining the future.
See you all in Barcelona!
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For more information please contact Irene Ruiz of the press office: iruiz @ cccb.org / +34 933064100
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From: rmalina@prontomail.com
Subject: Re: Nanotechnology and art
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:10 +0200
relayed from the NISE list roger A new interactive piece led by the New York Hall of Science as part of the Viz Lab strand of the NSF NISE project (got that?) will be featured at MRS in San Francisco in the last week of March. It's been up at the Hall for more than a month as part of the Sound and Light Lab project, and is working beautifully. Some of you may have seen the prototype at the NISE meeting last year, and you can see a short video of it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xj6_GlqEI8. Diffusion was created through a great collaboration among Zack Simpson (artist/molecular biologist), David Goodsell (artist/ molecular biologist), Carl Batt (biologist who has created two major NSF-funded nano traveling exhibits), and the Hall of Science, a working partner in NISE. This kind of collaboration is exactly what I hoped that the NISE net, and Viz Lab in particular, would foster. The Hall has learned a huge amount from working with these brilliant polymaths, the kind of opportunity that NISE net has made possible. The results are experimental, again an outcome that we had hoped for from NISE. Eric Marshall from the Hall of Science will be at MRS most of the time, if you can touch base with him there, we would be grateful for your feedback on the piece. We are doing a second round of audience evaluations in Feb. This piece and Crystals, also created through Viz Lab with Zack Simpson, will be at the Hall of Science on a Nano Day in late March, along with a bunch of nano-demos that we have created with Columbia's MRSEC Thanks to Richard Souza and MRS for making this showing of Diffusion possible. A short description is below: =========================== Diffusion By Zack Simpson of Mine Control in collaboration with Carl Batt of Cornell University, David Goodsell of the Scripps Research Institute, and Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science This interactive exhibit allows visitors to experiment with control of chemical reactions at the nanoscale. In this projected simulation of the interaction of molecules, visitors can use their shadow to "corral" molecules coming from two point sources, thereby controlling reactions with nanoscale precision, subject only to short-range diffusion kinetics. In this case, the reaction of diazonium salt with dimethylaniline to form methyl orange is modeled. Diffusion was created through the Viz Lab strand of the the Nano Informal Science Education Network with funding from the National Science Foundation. ==================== Please pardon any duplicates you receive of this email, and I hope you are all well. Eric Siegel Director and Chief Content Officer New York Hall of Science www.nyscience.org (718) 699-0005 x 317 esiegel at nyscience dot org
