INAUGURAL UC DAVIS LASER
Emily Schleiner
cordia... at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 12:59:36 PDT 2013
Hey All,
Check out this interesting lecture series on the fusion of art and science
on October 3rd at UCD. Among other impressive speakers: Jordan Van Aalsburg.
https://www.facebook.com/events/521691811245532/
This event is organized by Anna Davidson, whom you may know already. She
had the fungus painting displayed at the ArtAbout last weekend.
Best Wishes,
Emily
Location: 3001 PES (Plant and Environmental Sciences) UC Davis Campus
Map: http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/plantsciences/visitors/map.htm
Speaker Schedule:
Inaugural Event!!!!!
Thursday October 3, 2013
6:30-6:50 Socializing/networking
6:50-7:00 Welcome, opening remarks on the Davis inaugural Laser-Anna
Davidson
Speaker Schedule:
Inaugural Event!!!!!
Thursday October 3, 2013
6:30-6:50 Socializing/networking
6:50-7:00 Welcome, opening remarks on the Davis inaugural Laser-Anna
Davidson
7:00-7:25: Dr. Diane Ullman and Donna Billick
7:25-7:50 Bob Ostertag
7:50-8:10 BREAK. (During the break anyone in the audience currently working
within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share
their work (a teaser/commercial)
8:10-8:35 Meredith Tromble and Jordan Van Aalsburg
8:35-9:00 Dr. James Crutchfield
9:00-9:30 Discussion/Networking
Speaker Bios/Information:
Donna Billick/ Diane Ullman
Co-Founders of the UC Davis Art Science Fusion Program.
Donna Billick:
Talk Title: “Fusion and Perception”
Donna is Director of Billick Rock Art and an educator at every level from
K-12 to College and University appointments (California State Universities:
Sacramento and Hayward, University of California Davis). In these roles she
has conducted community build projects and designed, fabricated and
installed large-scale public art commissions all over the world. She has
successfully developed over 200 large-scale public art works using ceramic,
mosaic, terrazzo, cement, bronze, steel and paint. Her work is shown in
galleries across the United States and she has been in a plethora of juried
exhibitions internationally. Donna served as a member of the Board of
Directors for the Tile Heritage Foundation for the past 8 years, in
addition to being a member of regional and national organizations around
the United States. She is the founder of Todos Artes in Baja Mexico and the
Heaven On Earth educational series. During the past 12 years she has been
co-founder and co-director of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program and
has been a partner in teaching the undergraduate course: Art, Science and
the World of Insects, as well as a series of Freshman Seminars covering
topics as wide ranging as Bees, Art and Survival, and The Face of Darwin.
Donna regularly conducts educational art-science fusion programs for K-12
students that result in community built artwork. Donna will talk about
Fusion and Perception. “I would like to map how fusion or the unity of
knowledge , includes cross-discipline, cross culture, cross generational
exploration and discovery. An experiential , hands-on approach to
education, as with Art/Science Fusion, is to access perception and grow new
associations and build life force or fusion energy “-D.B.
Dr. Diane Ullman is a professor in the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program
and Entomology Department where she teaches Art, Science and the World of
Insects, as well as a series of Freshman and Graduate Seminars covering
topics as wide ranging as the Evolution of Virus Vectors, Bees, Art and
Survival, and The Face of Darwin. She is currently Associate Dean for
Undergraduate Academic Programs in the College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences (October 2005). She is known for her passion for
innovative teaching strategies and is a leader in the arena of creating
visual and environmental literacy. She co-founded and co-directs the
Art/Science Fusion Program, an exciting new collaboration that crosses
college boundaries and includes design faculty, science faculty, museum
educators, professional artists, and UC Davis students, using a novel
experientially-based paradigm for learning.
Bob Ostertag cannot easily be summarized or pigeon-holed. He has published
25 CDs of music, two movies, two DVDs, four books, and dozens of articles
and essays. His writings on the Central American revolutions of the 1980s
have been published on every continent and in many languages. Electronic
instruments of his own design are at the cutting edge of both music and
video performance technology. He has performed at music, film, and
multi-media festivals around the globe. His radically diverse collaborators
include the Kronos Quartet, avant garder John Zorn, heavy metal star Mike
Patton, jazz great Anthony Braxton, transgender chanteuse Justin Bond,
Quebecois film maker Pierre Hébert, and others. He is rumored to have
connections to the shadowy media guerrilla group The Yes Men. In March 2006
Ostertag made all of his recordings to which he owns the rights available
as free digital downloads under a Creative Commons license. He is currently
Professor ofTechnocultural Studies at the University of California at
Davis. He likes to choose his lecture topics at the last moment.
Meredith Tromble/Jordan Van Aalsburg
Talk Title: “The Vortex Touches Down”
Meredith Tromble is an artist, faculty member of the San Francisco Art
Institute School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and serial collaborator.
With co-conspirators Dawn Sumner and Jordan Van Aalsburg, under the
auspices of Jim Crutchfield, she is creating an immersive, interactive 3D
vortex of dream elements called Take Me to Your Dream (Dream Vortex).
Jordan Van Aalsburg is a recovering physicist and research programmer for
the Complexity Sciences Center at the University of California, Davis. He
is a co-founder of the Davis Makerspace and the father of a wonderful
daughter who, at the age of three, has promised to protect him from all
sharks. Tromble and Van Aalsburg will present the vision for the long-term
project and the creation of the image vortex for the current prototype.
Dr. James P. Crutchfield
Talk Title: "Hidden Fragility & the Data Deluge"
Jim Crutchfield teaches nonlinear physics at the University of California,
Davis, directs its Complexity Sciences Center, and promotes science
interventions in nonscientific settings. He’s mostly concerned with what
patterns are, how they are created, and how intelligent beings discover
them; see http://csc.ucdavis.edu/∼chaos.
Moderator/Organizer:
Anna Davidson is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant
Sciences at the University of California, Davis studying ecophysiology of
fruit trees. She also makes bioart using fungus and other living materials
as a medium. As a teacher for the UC Davis Art Science Fusion Program, she
leads the found object and sculpture studio section of the class titled
Entomology 1, Art, Science, and the World of Insects. She is very
interested curriculum development and teaching at the intersection of
biology and the arts.
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