[Yasmin_discussions] Ethnic Cyborg?

Dear Yasminers,

I will be the moderator of july discussion, "Ethnic Cyborg", which
Dicle Kocacıoğlu and Lanfranco Aceti are invited responders.
Although we have a framework below, all Yasminers are invited to
explore the topic in the conjunction of art science and technology in
every possible direction.

Below you will find the official text on "(un)Cyborgable?", the theme
of amber'09 art and technology festival. This year amberFestival and
amberConference are revisiting the concept of Cyborg to explore what
digital technologies have changed in our lives after thirty years of
domination of our social realm Although digital technologies are not
unique in triggering such change we can easily give the leading role
to the digital -and information technologies- which altered our
perception with a speed and scope never reached before.

The body is a powerful tool to explore what is continuously and
permanently but also visibly or invisibly being changed over the last
decades through the mediation of new technologies. Body is also a
topic which limitations come along with when one starts talking about
it: sometimes a taboo, sometimes better not to mention, most of the
times the hidden object of anger, jealousy, honor, etc. But our bodies
are being changed anyway... What is then happening to the related
concepts, not only singular body but also the social constructs based
on bodily specifications?

Therefore to bring in the social aspect into our conceptual framework
we identified this month's topic of the Yasmin discussion as "ethnic
cyborg". Ethnicity is a very important blend of life in the Middle
East and Mediterranean basin. In a social historical geography where
all ethnic, religious and national identifications can be rephrased as
ethnic divides depending upon the political sphere and space. We are
bringing the Cyborg into the scene and would like to ask all history-
old questions once again. But beware; most of us are already Cyborgs,
aren't we?

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(UN)CYBORGABLE?

Living in a technologically-mediated environment causes changes and
shifts in human habits, postures and behaviors. Technologies have an
impact on our perceptions; each new technology demands new practices
of body and speech as well as a new comprehension of time and space.

The notion of the cyborg (cybernetic organism) explores the literal
and figurative integrations of the human body and technology. A hybrid
concept, cyborg links the organic and non-organic and raises questions
concerning human corporeality and subjectivity. In the same vein, the
field of Art and Technology also elaborates on the transforming and
emerging human and addresses the questions of who or what we may
become as a result of our increasing engagements with technology.

Based on the recent technological developments and their incorporation
in the social, cultural, and political domains, amber'09 explores the
consequences of exposing and augmenting our bodies with digital
technologies. It aims to elaborate on the body and its relationships
in the social and cultural domains, the asymmetrical structures and
practices inherent to contemporary societies and the possibilities to
break these asymmetries in order to achieve a free and equal society.

Re-visiting and re-thinking the notion of the cyborg, amber'09 asks:
Are you (un)Cyborgable?

The possibilities, restrictions and dangers generated by digital
technologies and their implications in the social, cultural, and
political domains have been subject of discussion for decades.
Currently Open source and the Internet are some of the many
technologies that enhance democratic practices and the promises of
democracy. Simultaneously the digital divide, surveillance and
technologically based wars provide argument for a dystopic and
totalitarian society.

These two contrasting visions of society enabled by digital technology
can be analyzed through a concept of the body interpreted as the locus
of contemporary politics and aesthetics. What are the consequences of
exposing and augmenting our bodies with digital technologies? Does the
perception of the body change as a consequence of its increasing
encounter with and assimilation of digital technologies? In what ways
does the change in the understanding of the body, the new cyborg body
(cybernetic organism) reconfigures the relation to social and cultural
domains? And in what ways are the asymmetrical structures and
practices inherent to contemporary societies reconfigured by the
digitally enhanced body? Or can these encounters between digital
technologies and the body implies the possibility of a more 'free'
and equal society?

What kind of selves will these encounters generate? Which ethical
ideas will these new cyborg selves turn to? In which ways will affects
of the cyborgs come together with their moral percepts? If one meaning
of technology is mediation as in 'techne' , how will these cyborgs
experience the world as that world gets to increasingly prevent
unmediated relations between self and other? Or can technology in the
hands of cyborgs go beyond itself and lead to new less controlled and
mediated relations?

In popular culture these ethical questions the cyborg poses us have
been explored. Blade Runner illustrates the willpower of androids;
Johhny Mnemonic explores the personification of memory, while The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy focuses on the feelings and desires
of robots. While these art works presume a smoothly produced and
received technology, in Turkey one prominent popular line of humor has
been on the twists and turns of the arrival of technology as part of
global, national and local uneven development. Indeed in locales such
as Middle East, the Balkans, The Mediterranean, Caucasian and Turkic
countries technology's potential in generating and enhancing social
and economic disparities is vividly visible. Moreover ongoing crises
in the region continue to attract attention to the manifold effects of
the asymmetrically produced technological violence. As we continue to
live in these lands that generate cyborgs in these violently uneven
ways and search for a new ethics that can respond to these through new
bodies we ask: Are you (un)cyborgable?

http://www.amberfestival.org
http://www.amberconference.org

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ekmel ertan
eertan@a-m-b-e-r.org
+90.532.4738971
www.a-m-b-e-r.org
skype id: ekmelertan

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[Yasmin_announcements] ETHNIC CYBORG: ARE YOU (UN)CYBORGABLE?

Yasminers

Tomorrow morning Ekmel Ertan will launch from Istanbul
our July discussion on the YASMIN discussion list.

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Pau Alsina in Barcelona is our moderator.
Indeed we are bridging the mediterranean from East to West !!

Roger

ETHNIC CYBORG: ARE YOU (UN)CYBORGABLE?

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ETHNIC CYBORG: ARE YOU (UN)CYBORGABLE?

The "amber Art and Technology Festival" (http://www.amberfestival.org)
will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 6-15 November 2009 The
"amberConference" http://www.amberconference.org
will be held on Nov 7, 8 2009 on the Theme  "(un)Cyborgable?". The
deadline for proposals
is August 1 2009.

Re-visiting and re-thinking the notion of the cyborg, amber'09 asks:

Are You (un)Cyborgable?".

For this discussion we are particularly interested in how concepts of
the Cyborg and Ethnicity interact. Are Cyborgs a separate ethnicity ?
How do differing cultural viewpoints of the body inform the future
development of Cyborgs ? What are examples of artists projects
Ethnicity interact. What are the different cultural viewpoints on the
development of involving Cyborgs that reflect the ethnic origin of the
artist ? How does the ethnic origin of scientists and engineers affect
their ideas for the development of Cyborgs ?

Yasmin  Discussion Moderator:

Ekmel Ertan:
Received his BSc degree on Electronics and Communication Engineering
and his MA degree on Interactive Media Design. Worked as design
engineer on telecommunication systems in Turkey and Europe. In 1997,
started a multimedia design company in Istanbul. Since 1999, teaching
multimedia / visual communication design / interactive design,
currently at Sabancı University, İstanbul. Exhibited his photography
work, interactive installations and cooperative performance works in
several international venues. Founder of BIS Beden-İşlemsel Sanatlar
Derneği (Body-Process Arts Association), as an education, research and
production platform on new technologies in art. Curator and director
of the annual amberFestival since 2007

Invited Responders:
Dicle Kocacıoğlu :
Dicle Kogacioglu is on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci
University (Turkey She is currently interested in understanding the
multiple ways in which formations of class, gender, ehtnicity and
sexuality interact in
national and transnational contexts of law reform. She is currently
conducting research on a grant from Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for the project entitled "Access to Justice at
Crossroads: Sociological Perspectives" (September 2007-2009).  .

Lanfranco Aceti :
Dr. Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is
Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul. He has written
for Leonardo and Art Inquiry and his interdisciplinary research focuses on
the intersection between digital arts, visual culture and new media
technologies.

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[Yasmin_discussions] ETHNIC CYBORG: ARE YOU (UN)CYBORGABLE?

Yasminers

Tomorrow morning Ekmel Ertan will launch from Istanbul
our July discussion. Pau Alsina in Barcelona is our moderator.
Indeed we are bridging the mediterranean from East to West !!

Roger

ETHNIC CYBORG: ARE YOU (UN)CYBORGABLE?

We invited everyone to post and participate in the discussion:

http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions

ETHNIC CYBORG: ARE YOU (UN)CYBORGABLE?

The "amber Art and Technology Festival" (http://www.amberfestival.org)
will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 6-15 November 2009 The
"amberConference" http://www.amberconference.org
will be held on Nov 7, 8 2009 on the Theme  "(un)Cyborgable?". The
deadline for proposals
is August 1 2009.

Re-visiting and re-thinking the notion of the cyborg, amber'09 asks:

Are You (un)Cyborgable?".

For this discussion we are particularly interested in how concepts of
the Cyborg and Ethnicity interact. Are Cyborgs a separate ethnicity ?
How do differing cultural viewpoints of the body inform the future
development of Cyborgs ? What are examples of artists projects
Ethnicity interact. What are the different cultural viewpoints on the
development of involving Cyborgs that reflect the ethnic origin of the
artist ? How does the ethnic origin of scientists and engineers affect
their ideas for the development of Cyborgs ?

Yasmin  Discussion Moderator:

Ekmel Ertan:
Received his BSc degree on Electronics and Communication Engineering
and his MA degree on Interactive Media Design. Worked as design
engineer on telecommunication systems in Turkey and Europe. In 1997,
started a multimedia design company in Istanbul. Since 1999, teaching
multimedia / visual communication design / interactive design,
currently at Sabancı University, İstanbul. Exhibited his photography
work, interactive installations and cooperative performance works in
several international venues. Founder of BIS Beden-İşlemsel Sanatlar
Derneği (Body-Process Arts Association), as an education, research and
production platform on new technologies in art. Curator and director
of the annual amberFestival since 2007

Invited Responders:
Dicle Kocacıoğlu :
Dicle Kogacioglu is on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci
University (Turkey She is currently interested in understanding the
multiple ways in which formations of class, gender, ehtnicity and
sexuality interact in
national and transnational contexts of law reform. She is currently
conducting research on a grant from Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for the project entitled "Access to Justice at
Crossroads: Sociological Perspectives" (September 2007-2009).  .

Lanfranco Aceti :
Dr. Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is
Associate Professor in Contemporary Art and Digital Culture at the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul. He has written
for Leonardo and Art Inquiry and his interdisciplinary research focuses on
the intersection between digital arts, visual culture and new media
technologies.

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[Yasmin_announcements] FESTIVAL TRAMUNTANA09 - Cadaques - 16, 17, 18 juliol

*Tramuntana09 – Magnetismes.
3a Edició**. 16, 17 i 18 de juliol a Cadaqués

Video experimental, instal·lacions, workshop, dansa interactiva, directes
audiovisuals i live-cinema*

Després de la passada edició, inspirada en els Quatre Elements, TRAMUNTANA09
se centra en l'eix temàtic Magnetismes. TRAMUNTANA'09 s'emmarca dins les
seccions de MIAC'09 (6ª Marató Internacional d'Artistes a Cadaqués) i està
organitzat per ACVEC (Associació Cultural de Video-art i Electrònica de
Cadaqués). Aquesta any el festival realitza una prèvia a Figueres, Capital
de la Cultura Catalana 2009, per tal d'estendre-hi l'objectiu de difondre
l'art emergent actual.

[ PROGRAMACIÓ ]
FIGUERES
Divendres 10 Juliol - Prèvia Tramuntana09
Pl. Teatre Jardí
23.00h Projeccions de video experimental
00.00h Actuació de Sonom www.sonom.org

CADAQUÉS
Dijous 16 Juliol
Workshop a l'espai RESONARIUM. Inscriu-te ara!
Apartir de les 11.00h - Ressonàncies: Tot vibrant al so de les freqüències.
Taller d'experimentació sonora a partir de camps electromagnetics. Víctor
Mazón ens introduirà en un món amagat als nostres sentits:
l'electromagnetisme. A través d'uns circuits bàsics ens mostrarà la forma
més senzilla de fer vibrar amb aquestes forces invisibles tot tipus de
cossos metàlics, amb finalitats sonores. Així es com es posaran de manifest
les característiques ressonants d'objectes metàl·lics (llaunes, bidons,
parrilles, filferros...) que podran fer-se servir com a eines d'expressió.

Cada assistent aprendrà a construir-se un amplificador, i es faran servir
imans i tot tipus d'artilugis recuperats de les escombraries. En finalitzar
cada assistent haurà fabricat un petit dispositiu amb el qual podrà fer els
seus propis experiments. "Ressonàncies" és un taller intensiu d'un dia en el
marc de Tramuntana09, i tindrà lloc a l'estudi del l'artista Daniel Zerbst.
No es requereixen coneixements previs.

El nombre màxim d'assistents és de 14 persones, en ordre rigurós de reserva.
*Inscripcions i info:* diegoeldeleon@gmail.com

Dijous 16 Juliol
ESPAI CONEXTRARIUM (Societat l'Amistat de Cadaqués)
19.00h Presentació del festival i inauguració de la instal·lació interactiva
we are waves. L'obra de Sebastián Gonzàlez i Javier Chávarri proposa al
participant d'explorar les qualitats del so mitjancant el moviment i les
formes del seu propi cos. Fins el 24 de juliol.

Divendres 17 Juliol
ESPAIS OSCILARIUM (A l'Espai Cap de Creus)

Terrassa Sa Freu
22.00h Projecció de la selecció de video experimental sota la temàtica
Magnetismes.
22.40h Espectacle de dansa interactiva Oscillare, d'Electronic Performers.
El moviment del cos funciona com a eina d'atracció magnètica que sotmet al
seu control els elements sonors i visuals.
23.40h Actuació de Live Cinema Reallity Oscillator, directe audiovisual
d'Animazon realitzat amb eines digitals i hardware propi.

Terrassa Restaurant Cap de Creus
00.30h Videos d'animació experimental musicats en directe per Don Simon i
Telefunken.

Dissabte 18 Juliol
ESPAI MAGNETARIUM (Teatre Art i Joia de Cadaqués)
21.00h Projecció de video experimental - selecció internacional (temàtia
lliure / d'autor). 1a sessió.
23.00h 2a sessió.

[ OFF Tramuntana09]
Dissabte 18 Jul - ESPAI ELEKTRARIUM (Shadows – Cadaqués)
24.00h- 03.00h EDUKANDO SHOWCASE & VJ MARC COLOMINES (IMAND)

+INFO: www.tramuntanafestival.com
contacte: tramuntana09@gmail.com

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[Yasmin_discussions] artists and atoms: fission and fusion

Dear Yasmin colleagues,

Today we finish our June discussion on Artist and Atoms: Fission and Fusion

I think the main question the discussion has raised in my mind is how natural
phenomena become culturally embedded, and the history of the cultural loading
we attach to natural phenomena.

We are ignorant of most phenomena that are going on in the world around us.
At a particular point of time, a phenomenon ( photosynthesis, nuclear fission,
planetary orbits, genetic mutations) become part of our consciousness
and cultural
focus. Artists place an important role in this process, and indeed at
the birth of the atomic
age a natural process of nuclear fission became part of the scenario of a world
war  followed by proposals for 'atoms for peace', artists were part of
the 'cultural
imaginary'. One of he largest applicationof nuclear radioisotopes is
in medecine , we had very
few posts about this, ( or polonium in devices that reduce
static electricity). In a different society with a different history,
a natural phenomenon
will not have the same cultural value. If ITER succeeds, nuclear
fusion will be seen in a new
cultural light.

In some societies with 'animist' belief systems, phenomena were often imbued
with 'volition', with a value system outside of human society. Maybe
we need a new
kind of animist to be able to look at natural phenomena in new ways !!

At the recent "eye of the storm " storm conference on scientific controversies,
Tommaso Venturini, Researcher, Bologna University presented a talk
Crash! A Short Introduction to Controversies Mapping, using methods
developed by Bruno Latour. For futher information:

http://www.ideaedi.it/2008/index.php?page=controversy-mapping

He provides methodologies for "mapping" controversies= of course no
maps is ideologically neutral, but Tommaso shows how using different
mapping techiques one can get new understanding of communities
organise themselves around controversies in ways that are replicable
and understandable-almost as a social natural phenomenon. Perhaps
we can work on the ITER nuclear fusion topic at a later time= we had
almost no reaction on this topic. The ITER reactor in being built
in Haute Provence and it would be interesting to map the controversies
around its development.

I have opened a Artists and Atoms: Fission and Fusion discussion on
the YASMIN2 NING for those of you that would like to continue the discussion
on Artists and Atoms: Fission and Fusion

here is the link:

http://yasmin2.ning.com/forum/topics/artists-and-atoms-fission-and

Roger

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[Yasmin_announcements] YASMIN moderator this week

Dear Yasminers,

this is Pau moderating this week YASMIN list directly from Barcelona,
preparing online summercourse lectures at my university and getting ready
for a great performance of Ryoji Ikeda (DATAMATICS 2.0) that will take place
tomorrow at GREC Festival.

Can't wait to experience it again....
http://www.timeout.cat/barcelona/ca/musica/feature/activity/60465/grec--ryoji-ikeda.html

Best,

Pau

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palsinag@uoc.edu

Lecturer
Arts and Humanities Studies
Open University of Catalonia

Artnodes: art, science and technology
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[Yasmin_discussions] YASMIN moderator this week

Dear Yasminers,

this is Pau moderating this week YASMIN list directly from Barcelona,
preparing online summercourse lectures at my university and getting ready
for a great performance of Ryoji Ikeda (DATAMATICS 2.0) that will take place
tomorrow at GREC Festival.

Can't wait to experience it again....
http://www.timeout.cat/barcelona/ca/musica/feature/activity/60465/grec--ryoji-ikeda.html

Best,

Pau

**************************************************

Pau Alsina
palsinag@uoc.edu

Lecturer
Arts and Humanities Studies
Open University of Catalonia

Artnodes: art, science and technology
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[Yasmin_announcements] P2P Networks and Processes Seminar - July 6 - 10 / Medialab-Prado

*The 4th Inclusiva-net Encounter: P2P Networks and Processes will take
place in Medialab-Prado Madrid from July 6 to 10, 2009. *

The goal of this international meeting is to debate about social and
cultural potentials of these peer-to-peer networked systems, as well as
their feasibility as an alternative model of knowledge production, based
in collaboration, decentralization and the lack of hierarchy.

This new edition of the Inclusiva-net platform includes a program of
lectures, seminars, round tables, paper presentations, and debate
groups. The topic will be addressed from many different perspectives,
such as cultural, philosophy, politics, technology, or law.

Core themes: artistic and social potentials; application of P2P
organizational models to knowledge and social life, legal controversies
of file downloading, "panarchy" and "P2P governance" concepts, roles in
the emergent countries, the future of P2P, among others.

Participants: *Andoni Alonso* (writer and philosopher),* Michel Bauwens*
(Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives), *Javier de la Cueva*
(derecho-internet.org), *Juan Freire* (Business School EOI), *Antonio
Lafuente* (Blog Tecnocidanos / CSIC), *Margarita Padilla*
(Sindominio.net) or *Juan Martín Prada* (director of Inclusiva-net),
among others.

Limited seating. RSVP for general program and debate groups.
http://medialab-prado.es/article/4_encuentro_internacional_inclusiva-net_redes_y_procesos_p2p

*Inclusiva-net: P2P Networks and Processes
Internacional Seminar
July 6 - 10, 2009
in Medialab-Prado
*Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)
tel. 914020 754
difusion@medialab-prado.es

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Artists and atoms: fission and fusion

Dear Yasminers

I found the discussion very stimulating and engaging and am thankful for
everyone's contributions.

Through the examples and references given, the diversity and strength of
engagements of individuals, groups and states with the nuclear is striking,
from reactions to events (positive or negative) to great or "crazy" ideas,
to large international collaborations like ITER.

Among all I find particularly worthwhile artists' direct interactions with
science, transcalar works at the nano-scale with quantum magnetic models as
metaphors for new consciousness and expression.

There were few examples of that given, but I think it was clear in the
discussion that they, and future ones, are essential to help advance and
foster the construction of new culture. Definitely more 'mileage to go'!

Jean-Pierre

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Artists and atoms: fission and fusion

Greetings

a short reaction to the winding down note by Patrick

a) yes "nuclear" has a negative image in a fraction of the public and its i think well deserved in many ways,the military applications are one of the most grim examples of how good sicience amd scientists can be driven by non scientific, completely ideological ambitions to produce real nighmares

b) yes, as i mentined some time ago most of the measuring and modelling techniques and devices in medicine and environmetal sciences ow very very much to good science done in "nuclear" environmets

c) despite the supposedly bad image, the work on fusion has mustered over the past 3-4 decades by far (several orders of magnitude) more funds than any other scientific field or discipline in history, so the bad image is really of very little practical consequence

d) high grade nuclear waste will be around and dangerous not for 1000 but 25000 years (half life of plutonium) at least, and the work to deal with them is indeed the only publicly funded endeavour that is thinking in terms of "devices", containers, deposits that could last those 25000y
some years ago i had a project arguing that it was sad that the only thing that our civilisation was explicitly preparing for our "neighbours" 25ky from now was a pile of toxic waste and that it would make sense to include in those canisters using a very small fraction of the funds and the space available could/should be devoted to send a positve message about who we where and appologizing for the mess

e) risk perception and the ways to deal with it present indeed interesting parallel features when deling with nuclear, nano and gmo, indeed an intersting field worth of further study

be well
r

--- On Mon, 6/29/09, W. Patrick McCray <pmccray@history.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> From: W. Patrick McCray <pmccray@history.ucsb.edu>
> Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] Artists and atoms: fission and fusion
> To: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
> Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 3:51 PM
> Dear All,
>
> As our YASMIN discussion for June winds down, I'd like to
> thank everyone for
> the stimulating ideas.
>
> The main point I will take away from this concern mostly
> the prevalence of
> negative images of nuclear fusion (bombs, reactors) that
> frame much of the
> public's perception. This is despite the uses of nuclear
> isotopes, as
> Gabrielle notes, for medical applications, an idea which
> dates back to
> Ernest Lawrence's cyclotrons of the 1930s. This makes me
> wonder about the
> uphill path projects like ITER might have to take if they
> are going to
> convince the public that fusion/fission projects, et al.
> are safe and
> desirable as well as scientifically interesting.
>
> One thing that I don't think came up - with discussions
> about how to store
> nuclear waste long-term - what are ways in which artists
> have been called
> upon to provide signs and symbols to make it clear what is
> buried deep in
> the ground at a site like Yucca Mountain in Nevada 1000
> years from now?
>
> I also found it interesting that our discussions unfolded
> in the context of
> North Korea's second nuclear test as well as political
> upheaval in Iran, a
> near-nuclear state (the idea of which brings up the whole
> question of what
> does it mean for a nation to become a "nuclear state.")
>
> While I knew something about art mobilized to promote and
> protest the atom
> in the United States, I remain interested in what these
> images looked like
> in other contexts - UK, France, India, China, and
> especially the USSR during
> the Cold War.
>
> Finally, the emergence of discussion about representing
> atoms at the
> nanoscale was an interesting albeit surprising turn. But
> people who study
> public perceptions of risk often draw parallels to fears
> about environmental
> and health issues around nanoscale materials to earlier
> worries about
> nuclear power...so maybe this topic has more mileage to
> go.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
> --
> W. Patrick McCray
> Professor &
> Co-PI/Executive Committee Member for the
> UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society
>
> Coordinates:
> Department of History
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
> TEL: 805.893.2665
> WEB: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=14
>
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[Yasmin_announcements] art and darwin on yasmin2 ning

Dear yasminers

I have just created a discussion group on the YASMIN2 NING on the topic

The Arts in the Context of Darwinian Theory Today

This is in connection with the by invitation symposium
on this topic that will be held by IMERA at the Maison
Mediterraneen des Sciences de l'Homme in Aix en Provence
on October 22 2009.

http://yasmin2.ning.com/events/the-arts-in-the-context-of

Yasminers that would like to attend
this symposium can contact me at rmalina@prontomail.com
please send bio and details on your involvement on this topic.

If you are interested in discussing the topic , whether or not
you can come to the symposium please join the ning group

http://yasmin2.ning.com/group/theartsinthecontextofdarwiniantheorytoday

Roger Malina

Preliminary program is:

« Art, culture, théorie de l'évolution »

Jeudi 22 octobre 2009

: « Neuroesthétique ? »
Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX, Jean VION-DURY, Jacques ARNOULD,

« Art/savoirs/public »
Samuel BORDREUIL, Jean GAGNEPAIN , Chu-Yin CHEN

: « Cultures animales et Vegetales»

Dominique LESTEL :
Annick BUREAUD
Louis BEC
Ramon GUARDANS

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[Yasmin_discussions] artists and atoms: fission and fusion

patrick et yasminers

re art and nuclear waste storage of course

we can mention the work of Stefan Shankland

http://www.ch
elsea.arts.ac.uk/17191.htm
Nucle-R - 3 year research program (2002-2005) on a Plastic Approach to
Nuclear Waste. Conducted in collaboration with the CEA (France's
nuclear research authorities) the program included publication, public
presentations, a permanent large sale multimedia installations,
commissioned art works, films and a DVD publication. Key outcomes
include:
2006 Permanent large sale multimedia installation and films for the
Visiatome, a new museum on nuclear waste France.
2004 '4 propositions for an integrated art approaches to nuclear
waste', CEA, Marcoule, France.

and for an interesting recent announcement:

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-The_art_of_radioactive_waste_storage-1604094.html

The Netherlands' centralized radioactive waste processing and storage
facility has agreed to help local museums store their artefacts and
works of art in its unused storage space for up to 100 years.

Museums in the Zeeland region of the Netherlands, where the Central
Organization for Radioactive Waste (Covra)
facility is located, have endured a shortage of storage space for the
artefacts that are not on display. This represents some 90% of their
stock.

Covra said that a pilot project was started in 2008 to determine
whether a radioactive waste storage facility is suitable
as a museum depot, to identify optimal conditions and equipment. The
pilot was successful and now at least seven
regional museums will start storing artefacts in a low- and
intermediate-level waste (LLW/ILW) store.

roger
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[Yasmin_discussions] Artists and atoms: fission and fusion

Dear All,

As our YASMIN discussion for June winds down, I'd like to thank everyone for
the stimulating ideas.

The main point I will take away from this concern mostly the prevalence of
negative images of nuclear fusion (bombs, reactors) that frame much of the
public's perception. This is despite the uses of nuclear isotopes, as
Gabrielle notes, for medical applications, an idea which dates back to
Ernest Lawrence's cyclotrons of the 1930s. This makes me wonder about the
uphill path projects like ITER might have to take if they are going to
convince the public that fusion/fission projects, et al. are safe and
desirable as well as scientifically interesting.

One thing that I don't think came up - with discussions about how to store
nuclear waste long-term - what are ways in which artists have been called
upon to provide signs and symbols to make it clear what is buried deep in
the ground at a site like Yucca Mountain in Nevada 1000 years from now?

I also found it interesting that our discussions unfolded in the context of
North Korea's second nuclear test as well as political upheaval in Iran, a
near-nuclear state (the idea of which brings up the whole question of what
does it mean for a nation to become a "nuclear state.")

While I knew something about art mobilized to promote and protest the atom
in the United States, I remain interested in what these images looked like
in other contexts - UK, France, India, China, and especially the USSR during
the Cold War.

Finally, the emergence of discussion about representing atoms at the
nanoscale was an interesting albeit surprising turn. But people who study
public perceptions of risk often draw parallels to fears about environmental
and health issues around nanoscale materials to earlier worries about
nuclear power...so maybe this topic has more mileage to go.

Cheers,
Patrick
--
W. Patrick McCray
Professor &
Co-PI/Executive Committee Member for the
UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society

Coordinates:
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[Yasmin_announcements] Mobilefest Calls - Extended up to 15th July

We've extend Mobilefest call for papers/videos up to July 15th.

Call for videos
http://www.mobilefest.org/conteudo_eng.aspx?id=16

Call for papers:
http://www.mobilefest.org/conteudo_eng.aspx?id=105

All the best,
Paulo Hartmann

CALL FOR PAPERS____________________________________________________

IV MOBILEFEST 2009 - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity
Call for Papers, Projects, Prototypes and Products.

THEME
How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art,
environment, peace, education, health and the Third Sector?

KEY WORDS
3g, mobile applications, interactive architecture, electronic art,
mobile activism, bluetooth, cyber culture, live cinema, mociology,
culture, democracy, inclusion design, ecology, education, d-i-y, gprs,
gps, LBS, innovation, mobile and wireless games, lbs, locative,
geotagging, electronic music, mobile music, m-health,_m-payment,
m-gov, mobile narrative, peace, interactive net performances with
mobile and wireless devices, interchange, video production and
distribution, augmented reality, open wireless, mesh, social nets,
rfid, expanded classroom, health, sms, mobile streaming, wearable
technolgies, tendencies, third-sector, citizen video, video call, TV
on mobile, wi-fi, wi-max, zigbee, etc.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AND EXHIBITION
This seminar attracts leading academics, researchers and other
serious-minded people engaged in the pursuit of knowledge related to
mobile technology. Mobilefest seeks papers for live presentation.

For the participation at the exhibition with interactive
installations, performances or urban interventions send a detailed
technical rider: installation plan, photos, video and complete
description.

PAST TOPICS
activism, art and technology, democracy, digital divide, ecology and
e-waste, games and behavior, inclusive design, innovation, locative
media, licensing, m-government, m-learning, mobile art, mobile
marketing, mobile music, network culture, new forms of distribution,
performance, rfid, video mobile production, wearable technology,
wireless cities.

CRITERIA
Papers should be of an academic or serious research nature. Papers
should address current topics of direct relevance to Mobilefest's
theme. Abstracts should be at least 500 words.

Final papers should be at least 1000 words long, and authors should be
prepared to deliver a presentation limited to 45 minutes.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Papers may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English.
Abstracts and final papers should be sent as email attachments in
.TXT, .RTF, .DOC or PDF format.

Presentations must be delivered in Portuguese or English.
Presentations will be limited to 45 minutes total.

DEADLINE
Abstracts must be received no later than 15th July 2009.
Abstracts will be selected for presentation by 15th August 2009.
Notification will be made via this website, as well as to the
applicant's listed contact email.

REGISTRATION FOR AUTHORS _
Registration must be received by 15th July 2009. Please submit the
following information via email to 2009@mobilefest.org:

Author's Full name:
Email address:
Optional 2nd email address:
Postal address:
City:
State:
Country:
Postal Code:
Landline telephone number:
Mobile number:

(Optional) University/Organisation/Company:_

Abstract Category (Please mark all that apply):
____Democracy
____Culture
____Art
____Environment
____Peace
____Education
____Health
____Third Sector
____All **

** MOBILEFEST is a transdisciplinary event.
The more interconnection of information, the better.

Short biography of principal author:
Abstract (minimum 500 words):

CALL FOR VIDEOS____________________________________________________

IV MOBILEFEST 2009 - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity
Call for mobile videos 2009

Mobilefest International Mobile Video Exhibition
17th to 28th September 2009
MIS - Museum of Image and Sound (Museu da Imagem e do Som) Sao Paulo,
Brazil.

THEME: How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture,
art, environment, peace, education, health and the Third Sector?

Mobilefest Call for Mobile Videos has a cultural emphasis and, thus,
is not competitive by design. We seek the very best content possible
to share broadly with our participants and via mobile technologies.
The 2009 Call for Mobile Video is for professional
filmmakers/videographers (writers/producers/directors), as well as
amateurs (people that do not make their primary living in the
film/video business). Mobilefest also seeks participation and
contribution from artists, researchers and developers actively engaged
in discovering new possibilities for uses of mobile media.

OVERVIEW
Today, several initiatives by non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
universities, media centers, companies, governments and regular
citizens all over the world use the new mobile technologies to promote
democracy, culture, art, the environment, peace, education, health and
the Third Sector. Mobilefest International Mobile Video Exhibition
will screen selected narrative, documentary and experimental
film/videos that support these.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS
Films and videos submitted should relate to one or more of the stated
Mobilefest general theme categories (democracy, culture, art, peace,
the environment, education, health, and the Third Sector). Video about
the environment is separately considered.

1. Professional Submissions
Mobilefest seeks films/videos that may be narrative, documentary or
experimental in nature, provided they relate to democracy, culture,
art, peace, education, health and the Third Sector. They must be
suitable for viewing on a small format, although they need not have
been shot using mobile technology. Running time is not restricted.
Films/videos can be independent, studio produced, or corporate
sponsored.

Criteria

Submissions must be professionally produced/directed and may be
submitted either by the writer, director or producer(s). Videos
should have been completed during the previous year, although
exceptions will be allowed with advance permission from Mobilefest
organizers. Previously submitted entries may not be resubmitted.

2. Amateur Submissions
Citizen filmmakers and videographers unite! Submit your creations
that were made either using your mobile phone, or made for watching on
a mobile. Whether telling a story or documenting something, you can
submit your video as long as it relates to any of the themes of
Mobilefest.

ENVIRONMENT SUBMISSIONS
A significant aspect of Mobilefest is its commitment to screen
informative and consciousness-raising digital content (shot either by
professionals or amateurs around the world) that encourages the
mobilization of everyone to protect and preserve our planet for
generations to come.

Mobilefest calls on all mobile users around the world - professional,
amateur, citizen journalists, etc. - to mobilize for the protection of
the environment by sending noteworthy videos of the environment from
their mobiles or computers. In addition to images that may reveal
lack of respect towards our Earth - like illegal cutting of trees,
water pollution, wild animal smuggling, or other irregularities -
Mobilefest also seeks videos that show the beauties of nature to draw
attention to what future generations will miss if we don't take action
now to preserve and protect Mother Nature.

Criteria

- Only the rightful owner of material may submit it. Material may not
be submitted by third parties on behalf of anyone else.
- Submissions may include fiction and non-fiction films/videos that
reflect the issue of environmental protection.
- Submissions need not be professionally produced or directed.
- Special attention will be given to documentary footage - either
professional, amateur or citizen journalist - that captures
environmental mistreatment. If your video documents acts being
committed against the environment, please include date, approximate
time and place of shooting, and total running time of the video.

NEW MOBILE MEDIA POSSIBILITIES
Mobile and wireless technologies are making it possible for artists of
all kinds to stretch the boundaries of their creativity. Mobilefest
encourages producers, developers and artists to explore their
imagination in search of new artistic expression that uses current
technology and hints at future possibilities for content production
and distribution.

Mobilefest Festival seeks artwork, video and mobile-related creativity
that incorporates such technologies as GPS; 3G/4G access; music;
wi-fi; scanning; video calls; micro-blogging; picture and video
messaging; new applications; localized content; real-time image
processing and recognition; augmented or mixed reality; streaming
video sharing; and mobile TV.

Criteria

We are looking for innovative and unique submissions that defy easy
categorization or prerequisites, so if you have something you believe
we should include, please send us a brief description (up to 500
words) of your project or digital artwork and then we will contact
you.

Please send your email to videos2009@mobilefest.org, ATTN: Paulo
Hartmann and Marcelo Godoy, and include the phrase NEW MEDIA
POSSIBILITIES in the subject line.

SHOWCASE OF MOBILE FESTIVALS WORLDWIDE
>From its very beginning in 2006 Mobilefest has built an international
network of festivals that involve content production created by or for
mobile applications. Our goal is to share with the Brazilian audience
what others are doing concurrently around the world, and to present an
expressive exhibition of the extraordinary emerging mobile video
scene.

Universities, media centers, cultural associations or companies that
have produced or curated festivals about videos created for or by
mobiles are encouraged to participate. We will work closely with
foreign embassies and cultural centers of your country of origin so
that the organizer/representative of your festival also can
participate in Mobilefest International Seminar.

Mobilefest receives extensive media coverage throughout Brazil. The
festivals represented will be included in Mobilefest's official
programme and have their logos published in the official catalogue.

Past international festivals represented have included:
. Mobifest Canada?(Canada)
. Pocket Shorts?(England)
. Pocket Films (France)
. Arte Mov?(Brazil)
. Microfilmes?(Portugal)
. The 4th Screen?(USA)
. FilMobile (UK)
. MobilityFest (Colombia)

To participate in the Exhibition of Mobile Festivals
We request that you send us, by email, some background information
about your festival, as well as a representative clip-reel of up to
1-hr. that characterizes the content and nature of your unique
festival. Please see technical specifications below.

Please send your email to videos2009@mobilefest.org,
ATTN: Marcelo Godoy and Paulo Hartmann, Mobilefest organizers, and
include the phrase SHOWCASE OF FESTIVALS in the subject line of your
email.

REGISTRATION/DEADLINE
All submissions are due no later than 15th July 2009
Selections for screening will be announced on 15th August 2009, via
this website and the registered director/producer also will be
informed via email.
Registration fee: Free

Registration should be sent by email to videos2009@mobilefest.org,
with the word REGISTRATION in the subject line, with the following
information:

Director's (Producer's) Full name:
Email address:
Optional 2nd email address:
Postal address:
City:
State:
Country:
Postal Code:
Landline telephone number:
Mobile number:

Description (maximum 200 words):

Tags:

Video Category (Please mark all that apply):
____Democracy
____Culture
____Art
____Environment
____Peace
____Education
____Health
____Third Sector
____All

Short biography of submitting writer, director or producer:

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS
Subtitles
If dialogue is not in Portuguese, English or Spanish, please include
subtitles in one of these languages.

Acceptable formats for all video submissions
Digital: 3GP, MPEG2, AVI, MOV?Files.
Can be up to 5Mb, with minimum resolution 128 x 96 pixels and maximum
resolution 720 x 480 pixels.

(Non-digital) Physical:?DVD, DV, Mini-DV, must be NTSC format.

Videos should be accompanied by the following information:
. A brief description (max. 200 words)
. Technical information (including total running time; year shot);
. Whether or not video has been broadcast and if so, where/when;
. Names of primary production crew.

Please submit this descriptive information as an email attachment in
.RTF, .DOC or PDF format.

Additionally, please include three (3) stills from the video in JPEG
(640 x 480 pixels), no compression, from 100kb to 500kb, with 200 dpi
resolution.

HOW/WHERE TO SEND
Videos up to 5 MB should be sent to: videos2009@mobilefest.org

Videos up to 50MB can be sent to mobilefestfestival@gmail.com

Videos over 50MB must be sent on physical media (DVD, DV, Mini- DV,
NTSC-only), to the following address:

Mobilefest
R. Helena, 280, cj. 1107
Sao Paulo - SP - Brazil
CEP 04552-050
ATTN: 50 MB+ video

You must send your submission with some sort of tracking or return
receipt (or proof of signature) to verify our receipt. Mobilefest
cannot be responsible for materials that never arrive. Materials will
not be returned. DO NOT SEND YOUR ONLY COPY!!!

MOBILEFEST COLLECTION
All materials sent will become part of Mobilefest's permanent video
collection. You consent to its possible use in conventional or
digital media, advertising and/or promotional materials for
Mobilefest, or at any venues related to Mobilefest, including but not
limited to school concerts, university functions, and social
gatherings. In such instances where any recognizable portion of your
video is used, Mobilefest will make best efforts to give credit to the
writer, director or producer who originally submitted the material.

QUESTIONS?
Please email us at videos2009@mobilefest.org

Important: Registrations will be considered complete and valid only
when the festival receives the emailed registration form and
corresponding DVD or video file (or physical entry). Registration
forms must be submitted electronically. You may send an additional
hard copy of your registration with a physical entry for
identification purposes, but you must submit your official
registration electronically.

Paulo Hartmann

skype:
paulohartmann

mobile: +5511 94531314
office: +5511 35257428

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Art and Atoms: Fusion and Fission

Hello Yasminers

Interesting discussion about Art and Atoms.
Sorry to go back in a time to Hugos post.

> First of all, I would like to say everything is connected somehow in my
> opinion. This search of relations is what allows me to open my mind and
> play (very important concept in arts).
The relationship of art to atoms has a long history.
For my own part I was interested in the work of the Italian futurist
Boccioni (as an artist influenced by Bergson) who visualised the
connectivity of matter.

But looking back at art history from this point in time our nano mediated
perception changes our conscious understanding of the past and being in the
world now. Nano art as a form needs time to explore relationships to the
technology that creates these new understandings. In the same way artists
are using emerging technologies to explore relevant ways to express and
represents Nano art.

I also wanted to bring to your attention an exhibition though it is not
directly talking about fusion and fission but might be of interest.

Art in the age of nanotechnology
24 September - 29 November
The unique works developed for art in the age of nanotechnology will operate
at the intersection of art, science, technology, demonstrating innovative
examples of contemporary art and scientific collaboration.

The exhibition will comprise of a series of collaborative projects designed
to challenge, explore and critique our understanding of the material world
and will bring together artists and scientists from the around the world to
present new ways of seeing, sensing and connecting with matter that's
miniscule and abstract.

The exhibition will feature internationally-recognised artists and
scientists such as Christa Sommerer (Austria) and Laurent Mignonneau
(France); Anne Niemetz (NZ)and Andrew Pelling (Canada); Paul Thomas (Aus) &
Kevin Raxworthy (Aus); Mike Philips (UK); Boo Chapple (Aus) & William Wong
(Aus); and Victoria Vesna (USA) & James Gimzewski (USA).

http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/exhibitions/future.cfm

All the best

Paul

On 12/06/09 11:36 PM, "hugo martinez-tormo" <hugo@hugomartineztormo.es>
wrote:

> Hello yasminers.
>
> First of all, I would like to thank Guillermo for his invitation to this
> discussion about arts and atoms, and to comment and share part of my work
> also. Such a nice guy.
>
> First of all, I would like to say everything is connected somehow in my
> opinion. This search of relations is what allows me to open my mind and
> play (very important concept in arts). Between atoms, its interactions,
> properties, features and what we can see, what surrounds us, what we are,
> it exists connections. Everything is connected, directly or indirectly.
>
> Regarding to the term nanorealism, this is a concept I have developed due
> to all contradictions and superficiality around the nanoart concept I
> found. Something similar between Pop art developed in USA and European
> Nouveau Réalisme of Klein, Arman, Manzoni o César. Same purpose but
> radically opposite ways. Pop art was always far more direct and it had
> lighter visual concept, closer to mass perception. However, interests
> around Europe were not the same, but manners were different. They wanted
> to go back to reality in opposition to abstract painting lyricism but
> avoiding the figuration in arts; offering a new vision of the world around
> them. That¹s, more or less, what is happening here with term
> ³nanorealism², taking more reference from concept than shape, from content
> than container. In my opinion, someone who takes an electronic sweep photo
> and then colours it in photoshop or uses real images of the matter in
> nanometric scale is not enough. Artists may arouse new sensations in
> people, to show how we sense or perceive the world with a personal point
> of view and different from any other, that is why I see much more
> interesting to deal with concepts directly, like going into the matter and
> energy properties and phenomenon in a nanometric scale to communicate
> feelings, perceptions or situations which can be found in our human being
> scale, for example.
>
> A good example to visualize what I¹m saying is the atomic fusion and
> fission. Why to present fusion instead of represent it? In the great
> majority of artistic art pieces which talk about this topic is visualized
> the typical huge mushroom shape as the produces by the explosion. In arts
> world, would it not be better to work, think and go into fusion and
> fission concept in depth to produce an art piece? Why not to take the
> meaning of union, unification to communicate fusion? This thinking could
> drive us into interdisciplinarity, or even better, into multidiscilinarity
> expressed in an only art piece to communicate fusion concept. The
> execution of an art piece using several artistic disciplines together
> would bring the concept of fusion into a different scale, keeping original
> concept. Conceptually, as thinking in the Theory of Everything, which
> tends to unify and connect, or to fusion, in just one theory all physic
> phenomena or fundamental interactions in nature: gravity, the strong
> nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force.
> Would it not be the biggest example of fusion?
>
> Personally I consider the concept of fission is present in my job, but
> instead of divide a heavy core in two or more small cores, plus some
> derivatives, I prefer to be focus on molecules, because the way to talk
> about a molecule is to deconstruct, or fission, until I get primary
> components, and from that point I build a personal imaginary. That is why
> I feel identify with the topic of the discussion somehow.
>
> I will follow the discussion attentively and visiting posts you all
> attach, due to there are so interesting.
>
> Hugo.
>
>
>
>
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[Yasmin_announcements] Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon Project, Natural History Museum.

>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:29:17 +0100
>From: tina gonsalves <tina@TINAGONSALVES.COM>
>Subject:Tina Gonsalves, Chameleon Project, Natural History Museum.
>
>After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions
>
>Natural History Museum, Jerwood Gallery, London
>
>After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions will
>feature work from artists and writers who
>explore Charles Darwin's book The Expression of
>the Emotions in Man and Animals in which Darwin
>examined the continuity of emotional states of
>animals and humans.
>
>Tina Gonsalves will be exhibiting the Chameleon
>Project, prototype 06, a 12 channel video work
>exploring emotional contagion. New film and
>installation commissions from Diana Thater,
>Jeremy Deller and Matthew Killip in
>collaboration with Richard Wiseman will be shown
>alongside existing video work by Bill Viola. New
>literature, commissioned from award-winning
>authors Mark Haddon and Darwin's
>great-great-granddaughter, Ruth Padel, will also
>form part of the exhibition. These works
>investigate today's cultural perspectives on
>human-animal kinship and the study of emotional
>expressions and offer a contemporary take on
>Darwin's challenge to the place humans occupy in
>nature.
>
>A publication, Expressions: From Darwin to
>Contemporary Arts will accompany the exhibition.
>It features new writing by Swedish author Aris
>Fioretos, essays from Julia Voss, Jonah Lehrer
>and a response to Mark Haddon's work by leading
>neuroscientist António Damásio as well as
>information on all the works in the exhibition.
>
>The Chameleon Project (2008-2010), built over
>ten prototypes, is a collaboration between
>artist Tina Gonsalves, neuroscientists Chris
>Frith and Hugo Critchley, affective computing
>scientists Rosalind Picard and Rana El Kaliouby,
>human computer interaction scientist Nadia
>Berthouze and curator Helen Sloan. Chameleon
>investigates the scientific foundations of
>emotional contagion, transforming it into an art
>experience. The project follows and critiques
>the scientific methodology, creating scientific
>and artistic research, as well as new models to
>be used in scientific experiments, and new ways
>to experience art.
>
>The Chameleon Project has been supported by the
>Wellcome Trust, Australia Council for the Arts,
>Australian Network for Art and Technology
>Synapse Residency, Arts Council England,
>Lighthouse, The Wellcome Department of
>Neuroimaging, The MIT Media Lab and Banff New
>Media Institute and SCAN.
>
>Bio:
>
>Tina Gonsalves creative investigations integrate
>art, science and technology to produce embodied,
>interactive, audiovisual works that offer new
>ways of experiencing the connection between our
>'internal' body and its external environment.
>She is currently honorary artist in residence at
>the Institute of Neurology, UK, visiting artist
>at the MIT Media Lab, USA and artist in
>residence at the Nokia Research Labs, Finland.
>
>http://www.tinagonsalves.com
>
>
>
>Visitor information
>
>
>
>Admission: adult, Gift Aid admission £6*
>
> concession, Gift Aid admission £4*
>
> child, Gift Aid admission £3*
>
> family, Gift Aid admission £16*
>
>Date: 26 June - 29 November 2009
>
>Venue: the Natural History Museum, Jerwood Gallery
>
>Opening hours: every day, 10.00-17.50
>
>Visitor enquiries: 020 7942 5000
>Monday-Friday, 020 7942 5011 Saturday-Sunday
>
>Website: www.nhm.ac.uk
>
>
>
>*If you are a UK taxpayer and pay the Gift Aid
>admission ticket price this allows the Natural
>History Museum to reclaim the tax on the whole
>ticket price you pay. For every £100 worth of
>tickets sold, we can claim an extra £28 from the
>Government. This means you can further support
>the work of the Natural History Museum. The
>standard admission charges are: adult £5.40,
>child £2.50, adult senior £3.50 and family £14.
>The right of entry is the same for visitors with
>or without the voluntary donation.

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[Yasmin_announcements] siva) (zona . grey) (area ::: Lemeh 42

>From: Darko Fritz <fritz.d@chello.nl>
>
>Subject: siva) (zona . grey) (area ::: Lemeh 42
>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:32:28 +0200
>
>grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art, Korãula
>and
>3 Volta Gallery, Lumbarda
>presents
>
>Lemeh 42 (Italy): Flowers of Alhambra
>
>
>location: 3 Volta Gallery, Lumbarda
>
>29. 6. - 9. 7.
>
>opening Monday 29th June 21 h
>
>
>This work is freely inspired to Washington
>Irving's tale "The rose" included in "Tales of
>the Alhambra", a collection of tales written by
>Irving during his long staying at the Alhambra.
>The protagonist of this tale is a beautiful
>woman kidnapped by the sultan and imprisoned
>inside the Alhambra, the antique fortress where
>the sultan lived along with all his court. This
>Irving's tale is based on the foundamental
>metaphor between the woman imprisoned inside the
>Alhambra and the roses cultivated inside the
>Alhambra. The Alhambra, as a fortress, had to
>protect its inhabitants from all the possible
>external dangers and in doing so it standed as a
>wall that divided the external reality from the
>internal one; so forth, instead of protecting
>the Alhambra finished to isolate its inhabitants
>and instead of preserving it killed them. So, as
>the flower needs water and sun so the feminine
>beauty needs it. Our work is focused mainly on
>the main character, the protagonist, leaving
>aside all the other secondary characters of
>Irving's tale. We have done this in order to
>recreate this character from the internal. She
>feels trapped because her heart as well as her
>soul are trapped and the Alhambra becomes an
>extension of the protagonist.
>
>on-line video: http://www.vimeo.com/467753
>
>Lemeh 42: http://lemeh42.indivia.net
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>open daily 20 - 21.30 h or by appointment
>
>contact: Darko Fritz darko@darkofritz.net / tel +31 [0] 91.5800193
>
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>powered by kor::net (korãula::network)
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>grey) (area program 2009: Lemeh 42 (Italy) .
>Petar Grimani (Croatia) . Ivan Marusic Klif
>(Croatia) . Toni Mestroviç
>(Croatia) . Samuel Cepeda (Mexico) . Nina
>Czegledy (Canada) and Marcus Neustetter (South
>Africa)
>
>participants in gray) (area program: Veaceslav
>Ahunov, (Uzbekistan), Abilsait Atabekov
>(Kazahstan), Dunja BlaÏeviç, Boris Cvjetanoviç
>(Zagreb), Gem Sqash (Adam Hyde and Ntsikelelo
>Ntshingila), Ulan Djaparov (Kazahstan), Ivan
>Faktor (Osijek), Faruk Lonãareviç (Bosnia and
>Hercegovina), Alban Muja (Kosova), Edita Pecotiç
>(Korãula / London), Ana Peraica (Split), PRO.BA
>(Bosnia and Hercegovina), Radioqalia (Adam Hyde
>and Honnor Hager, New Zealand), Lala Ra"ãiç
>(Sarajevo - Zagreb), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia /
>Romania), Tomo Saviç-Gecan (Zagreb - Amsterdam),
>Slaven Tolj (Dubrovnik), Transfer (Zagreb),
>Goran Trbuljak (Zagreb), Alexandr Ugay
>(Kazahstan), DraÏen Vitoloviç (Sovinjak /
>Rijeka) i Enes Zlatar (Bosnia and Hercegovina).
>
>
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[Yasmin_announcements] 30/6 19h Art Pollution Kit by Michal Kindernay & Gívan Belá @ OKNO/ Open Green

>Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:10:31 +0200
>To: okno@okno.be
>From: okno@okno.be
>Subject: [OKNO] 30/6 19h Art Pollution Kit by Michal Kinder
> nay & Gívan Belá @ OKNO/ Open Green
>
>OKNO - artist run organisation for art and media
>technology - Brussels
>
><http://okno.be/>http://okno.be
>
>
>ART POLLUTION KIT
>Michal Kindernay & Gívan Belá
>
>Dinsdag/Tuesday/Mardi, 30 June, 2009 19:00
>
>The Art Pollution Kit is a project geared at
>providing easy access to environmental data by
>using Arduino open source acquisition boards and
>specialized environmental sensors. Arists Michal
>Kindernay and Gívan Belá experiment with
>perceptual ideas about sound and visual
>pollution (using noisiness, speed of
>movement/change, and spectral spread). Currently
>they are working with humidity and temperature
>and working towards including readings of air
>quality, ozone, pressure, and windspeed. With
>The Art Pollution Kit, they work on algorithmic
>experiments with image and sound degradation,
>driven by the sensors, cameras and microphones.
>Over the coming months several new features will
>be added. Everyone interested is invited to join
>in to expand the initial setup as well as to
>develop data visualisations. The extended plan
>is to share the data expressions across
>geographic distances.
>
>Michal and Gívan Belá are currently working in
>OKNO. They will perform a short garden piece
>with their Art Pollution Kit on June 30th at 7pm.
>Free entrance.
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[Yasmin_announcements] art science project news

yasminers

you will be interested to see this excellent example of an art
science project

roger

The mystery of what causes frogs to have missing or deformed limbs
remained unsolved until Sessions teamed up with colleague Brandon
Ballengee of the University of Plymouth, UK. They report their
findings in the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and
Developmental Evolution.

For a decade, Ballengee and Sessions have collaborated on a series of
art and science projects that image amphibians' bodies to show the
detail within, the most recent of which is funded by the Arts Catalyst
organisation, based in London.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brandon Ballengee <obsoletestudios@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Subject: Our paper on the BBC!
To: bballengee@plymouth.ac.uk

Dear Friends,
Our Journal of Experimental Zoology Paper has come out (see attached)
and the BBC reported on it last week!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8116000/8116692.stm

Though they simplify our findings in the story, we have found what we
think is the primary mechanism behind the majority of limb deformities
in frogs!
The next challenge is to look at how environmental factors such as
degradation may alter otherwise natural predator/prey relationships!
We have a lot or work yet to do!
Currently, I have created a new lab at SAT in Montreal for the summer
to investigate this phenomenon in frogs in Quebec.
http://www.sat.qc.ca/post.php?id=40&year=2009&month=06&day=25&post_id=1802&lang=fr

Also, if you have time check out the recent interview in Antennae magazine
http://www.antennae.org.uk

best,
Brandon

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] artists and atoms: fission and fusion

yasminers

one other stort about use of nuclear explosions as art is the project , in which carl sagan was involved as a young man, to explode a device in the moon a show of force to friends and foes, the porject it seems whas discontinued when someone realized iy might be cloudy that day or people might not be looking up at that point, the risk of not havin the itended image impact killed the porject, fortunately..

the films in the perlinger arhives show well, hat is also known from other sources , that is that people were very much unaware of the effects of raditain (ie one film shows a scene where soliders that hve just witnessed an explosion drom a few km are carfully dusted off with a broom, while the voice says smothing about the many precautions ther ate taking

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