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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