tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3552017075655698752024-03-13T00:31:44.600-07:00DNA Of Creativity - Arts and SciencesDNA of Creativity: Fusing the Energies of San Diego Arts and Sciences, the San Diego Visual Arts Network is gathering information and making connections between the art and science worlds with a goal of fusing the energies of both communities to produce a series of projects. These projects will enhance the viewing public’s perception of creativity and its role in our lives. This blog will endeavor to add links of interest and provide a way for free discussions on this subject.Kaz Maslankahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215535360917928880noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-51828279700413033212015-12-06T22:51:00.001-08:002015-12-07T08:46:33.914-08:00Innovation Incubators are proved great success<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have been waiting for the results of the<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-size: small;">study made</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> about the Innovation Incubators</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> by <b>Harvey
Seifter,</b> head of the NSF funded project and founder of the Art of Science
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He says, "We found a strong causal
relationship between arts-based learning and improved creativity skills
and innovation outcomes in adolescents, and between arts-based learning
and increased collaborative behavior in adults." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Specifically: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">•
The high school students who had arts-based learning showed large and
statistically significant pre/post improvements in such creative
thinking skills as idea range (13%), problem analysis (50%) and number
of solutions generated (37%). In many cases, students who had
traditional STEM learning actually declined in these aspects of creative
thinking -- so the overall differentials between arts-based and
traditional learning was even more dramatic (idea range = 22%, problem
analysis = 121%, solutions generated = 43%). Thus, it appears as though
arts-based learning may be an effective way to "inoculate" learners
against the collapse of creativity that may sometimes accompany
traditional forms of high school learning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• Arts-based
learning had a far more powerful impact on the collaborative behaviors
of adults than traditional learning, based on actual observed behaviors.
Examples from the final week of the study: arts-based teams exhibited
56% more instances of empathic listening, 33% more instances of mutual
respect being shown, 119% more instances of trust being demonstrated and
24% more sharing of leadership. All differences cited here are
statistically significant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• The innovation outputs of high
school student teams who had arts-based learning showed 111% greater
insight into the challenge, a 74% greater ability to clearly identify a
relevant problem, a 43% improvement in problem solving, and their
innovations had 68% more impact. All are statistically significant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">•
120 days after the study, high school students who had arts-based
learning were 24% more likely to have been able to apply the learning to
school, extracurricular, work or volunteer activities, than students
who had traditional learning. They were also 44% more optimistic in
their belief that the training would prove helpful in those realms in
the future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its grant agenda in art and
science. Proposals that demonstrate how both subjects can be woven together in
an artwork, or play, demonstration or lab experiment or even an educational
effort costing no more than $10,000 to $100,000 were welcomed. A Congressional
STEAM Caucus was formed last year led by Representatives Suzanne Bonamici and Elise
Stefanik. The STEAM caucus “aims to change the vocabulary of education to
recognize the benefits of both the arts and sciences and how these
intersections will benefit our country’s future generations.”</span></span></div>
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</span>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-8330387073600390582014-10-16T14:13:00.001-07:002016-12-20T09:10:41.442-08:00My latest art collaboration with musician Erik Scott promoting peace!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/okZePaD6A-A" width="480"></iframe>ResilienceArts.org - ArtConnectingCommunities.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16524628093391293613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-3177176393029236262014-09-07T16:12:00.005-07:002014-09-07T16:14:20.378-07:00Arts Integration Works Says Portland's 'Right Brain Initiative' This article first published on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-m-eger/arts-integration-works-sa_b_5716221.html#es_share_ended" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-m-eger/" rel="author"><span class="name fn">John M. Eger</span></a>
<span class="teaser">Director of
the Creative Economy Initiative at San Diego State University (SDSU) is
also the Van Deerlin Endowed Chair of Communications and Public Policy</span>
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Tomorrow the<a href="http://therightbraininitiative.org/" target="_hplink"> Right Brain Initiative (RBI)</a> serving the greater Portland region<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4408204/RightBrain_2014ProgressRpt.pdf" target="_hplink"> releases</a>
a report that confirms "There is a meaningful and quantifiable link
between integrated arts education and student learning," specifically:<br />
<blockquote>
• Students' reading and math scores increase at least 2.5 times<br />
more than the average annual rate of increase. <br />
• This growth is even greater for English Language Learners. Student's scores <br />
increased 10 times more after schools partnered with Right Brain. <br />
• For all children, scores continued to rise as schools engaged more deeply<br />
with the Initiative, with a particularly large rate of increase for English<br />
Language Learners.</blockquote>
<a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-08-26-rightbrainchart.jpeg"><img alt="2014-08-26-rightbrainchart.jpeg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-08-26-rightbrainchart-thumb.jpeg" height="388" width="570" /></a><br />
The study released today tracking student progress over a 5 year period, was conducted by <a href="http://wolfbrown.com/" target="_hplink">WolfBrown</a>, a leading research and advisory firm serving a wide range of foundations, public agencies and charitable organizations. <br />
RBI
was launched in 2008 by a unique collaboration of artists, art and
cultural organizations, school districts, governments, businesses and
donors who believed in the concept of "arts integration", using the arts
as a catalyst for teaching across the curriculum, and in the process
creating a truly interdisciplinary curriculum. <br />
RBI agreed to
embrace arts integration as few other regions have done. Other than
teacher retraining, their approach is not more classes, more arts or
music, more anything. That would be nice but, frankly, there is not
money for doing anything more, only doing things differently. <br />
As
the RBI Study shows, the initiative is working. According to Rebecca
Burrell, Outreach Specialist at RBI, we are convinced that it is "art
integration that makes the difference" in the progress being made in the
schools.<br />
This school year, RBI is bringing arts learning to over
20,000 students at 59 K-8 schools in seven districts. The arts
integration education initiative serves every K-8 classroom serving
Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, including the metro area
of Portland, Oregon, and its changing teachers as well as students. Is
is also making it easier for them to embrace the principles of the
Common Core being adopted by schools districts around the nation. <br />
This
is auspicious news to be sure, but while this represents a tremendous
show of progress toward creating real world interdisciplinary curricula,
the work is not over. As most advocates of the arts and arts
integration know, the struggle to recognize the important role of the
arts, and art integration has been extremely difficult. <br />
As far
back as 2002, a unique consortium of arts organizations expressed it in a
report called "Authentic Connections." They said then that such
interdisciplinary work in the arts enabled students to "identify and
apply authentic connections, promote learning by providing students with
opportunities between disciplines and/or to understand, solve problems
and make meaningful connections within the arts across disciplines on
essential concepts that transcend individual disciplines."<br />
That
was mostly anecdotal though well founded. There remained many, simply
put too many, people that saw art as nice but not necessary...children's
art, even less valuable. Sadly, that is true even today perhaps because
many people don't take the term "arts" seriously. It's soft, not
muscular unlike the sciences where there is more certainty, more
equations, formulas etc. Art by contrast is uncertain.<br />
Unfortunately, we live in a "left brain world" says noted neuroscientist, Ian McGilchrist, in a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704304504574609992107994238" target="_hplink">commentary</a> for The Wall Street Journal:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
"There is an inevitable rise in bureaucracy, with
paper replacing people, and experience increasingly virtualized. In
going all out for what we believe will be our own happiness, we exploit
the world and see ourselves as alien to it, rather than seeing that our
happiness depends on being part of it, and therefore on helping it to
thrive. This is the world of the left hemisphere, ever keen on control".</blockquote>
The
right, as well as the left hemisphere of the brain cry out for
nurturing, and the future of America depends on reinventing the way we
think, and in the process, how education is redefined. <br />
Fortunately,
more neuroscientists, psychologists, educators and others are finding
that the arts help nurture the right hemisphere of the brain. This is
exactly what the more left brained curriculum needs to create the new
thinking skills leading to creativity. <br />
<a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-08-26-right_brain_left_brain.jpg"><img alt="2014-08-26-right_brain_left_brain.jpg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-08-26-right_brain_left_brain-thumb.jpg" height="320" width="570" /></a><br />
We
now know a lot more about learning and know "arts integration" works.
The President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, in a report
called "Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through
Creative Schools." has said as much after spending years of research and
study. <br />
According to the Committee report, "Cutting-edge studies
in neuroscience have been further developing our understanding of how
arts strategies support crucial brain development in learning." <br />
The <a href="http://www.pcah.gov/news/pcah-launches-turnaround-arts-initiative-help-improve-low-performing-schools" target="_hplink">Turnaround Arts program</a>
of the Obama Administration provides yet more evidence that art and art
integration works. As the First Lady Michelle Obama, Honorary Chair of
the President's Committee, said:<br />
<blockquote>
"The Turnaround Arts
program has exceeded not just our expectations, but our wildest hopes
and dreams. With the help of this program and some School Improvement
Grants, math and reading scores have gone up in these schools...
attendance is up, enrollment is up...parent engagement is up...
suspensions have plummeted...and two of the schools in our pilot
improved so dramatically that they are no longer in turnaround status.
And today, the students in these schools are engaged in their education
like never before."</blockquote>
<a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-09-07-20140520taiobama940x400.jpg"><img alt="2014-09-07-20140520taiobama940x400.jpg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-09-07-20140520taiobama940x400-thumb.jpg" height="242" width="570" /></a><br />
Author
and educator Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi calls such total emersion in a
task, FLOW...a " mental state of operation in which a person in an
activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full
involvement, and success in the process of the activity." Dr Richard
Restak in his book, The New Brain seems to agree. He uses the words
"plastic" and "malleable" to describe the brain. He believes that we can
be creative by acquiring the right series of "repertoires;" that we can
"preselect the kind of brain (we) will have by choosing richly valued
experiences." <br />
As demand for a new workforce to meet the
challenges of a global knowledge economy is rapidly increasing, few
things could be as important in this period of our nation's history than
reinventing education.<br />
While not everyone sees the Arts as the
answer to America's economic prosperity, and in Washington, D.C. the
differences in viewpoints become a matter of contention at the outset of
any issue regardless of the merits. But the evidence is mounting, in
Portland and in other communities, in favor of blurring the lines
between art and science, and developing more real world
interdisciplinary courses.<br />
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-27450005423237229102014-09-06T21:08:00.001-07:002014-09-06T21:08:27.310-07:00Art as a Tool for Social Justice - Arts On Purpose Resilience Arts<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7BAgWsBtCzc" width="480"></iframe>ResilienceArts.org - ArtConnectingCommunities.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16524628093391293613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-50559839462439531852014-08-31T16:21:00.002-07:002014-08-31T16:21:50.885-07:00More 3-D printingThis short video is fascinating.
<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/51474096" width="500" height="281" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-7547684662553885092014-08-07T10:41:00.000-07:002014-08-07T10:41:25.555-07:00Projecting on transparent screen at MIT<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was sent to us by Anand Bora</span><br />
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Transparent displays have a variety
of potential applications — such as the ability to see navigation or
dashboard information while looking through the windshield of a car or
plane, or to project video onto a window or a pair of eyeglasses. A
number of technologies have been developed for such displays, but all
have limitations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the whole article here: <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/seeing-things-a-new-transparent-display-system-could-provide-heads-up-data-0121">http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/seeing-things-a-new-transparent-display-system-could-provide-heads-up-data-0121</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Posted on July 31, 2014 by Harvey Seifter in <a href="http://informalscience.org/perspectives/blog/the-art-of-science-learning" target="_blank">The Informal Science Education site.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.artofsciencelearning.org/">The Art of Science Learning (AoSL)</a>
is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores
innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the
arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development
of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our current project, funded by NSF grant DRL-1224111 (<a href="http://informalscience.org/projects/ic-000-000-000-099/Integrating_Informal_STEM_and_Arts-Based_Learning_to_Foster_Innovation">“Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation”</a>),
has developed a new curriculum for adolescent and adult STEM learners
that uses the arts to teach the innovation process, and has launched
three year-long arts-based incubators for innovations in STEM products,
processes or services, as well as in learning programs and initiatives,
to test the new methodologies and approaches embodied in the curriculum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The incubators—hosted by San Diego’s <a href="http://www.bpcp.org/">Balboa Park Cultural Partnership</a> (encompassing 27 art, science and cultural institutions), <a href="http://www.msichicago.org/">Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry</a> and Worcester’s <a href="http://www.ecotarium.org/">EcoTarium</a>—have
brought together more than 300 STEM professionals, formal and informal
educators, artists, business leaders, researchers, policymakers and
students to create and bring to market innovative responses to
STEM-based civic challenges. The challenges chosen by each community
include water resources (San Diego), urban nutrition (Chicago) and
transportation alternatives (Worcester).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since last October, Art of Science Learning faculty have used the
arts to teach incubator participants (known as Art of Science Learning
Fellows) new ways to identify problems and opportunities; generate,
transform and communicate creative ideas; collaborate on cross
disciplinary innovation teams; empathically engage audiences; and
co-create innovations with audiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="Gathering data at the San Diego Incubator site." height="225" src="http://informalscience.org/images/uploads/Gathering_data_image.jpg" width="300" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, we use “Metaphorming” (a collaborative symbolic modeling
process created by Dr. Todd Siler, our ArtScientist in Residence) to
give our Fellows the opportunity to embody, enrich and communicate their
aspirations as they launch their year-long innovation journeys.
Open-ended jazz improvisation allows Fellows to practice their
observational skills and encourages them to “suspend disbelief” as they
strive to identify opportunities within the challenge domains.
Laban-based movement work helps Fellows learn to “feel numbers” and
bring openness to their search for productive convergence around shared
insights. The Fellows use visual and spoken word techniques derived from
the Surrealists to engage the flow of intuitive insights in their
ideation, and clay sculpture as a medium for modeling their ideas and
assessing how they “stand up”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During this same period, the Fellows learn about innovation by introducing tools drawn from the <a href="http://www.pdma.org/p/cm/ld/fid=49">Product Development Management Association Body of Knowledge</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_startup">Lean Start-Up methodologies</a>, which they subsequently apply to their own innovation processes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After four months of this “front end” work, the Fellows identify the
specific problems they want to solve and vote on the solutions they want
to develop, in a largely self-organized process which ultimately led to
the formation 26 cross-disciplinary Art of Science Learning innovation
teams. At present, all the teams have advanced to their development
phases and are transforming their initial concepts into creative
learning programs and practical innovations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While the teams work separately on their 26 innovations, the Fellows
are also learning prototyping techniques, practicing visualization
skills, spending time with string quartets to observe successful
collaborative behaviors in multi-leader environments, learning the
audience-centric iterative process of design thinking, and working with a
theater-based technique called Rehearsing Ideas to accelerate their
iterative cycles by rapidly incorporating audience feedback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the final “launch” period of the incubators (October in San Diego,
December in Chicago, January in Worcester), all the teams will have
developed – and in most cases actually gone to market with—“minimally
viable products” (MVPs).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Incubator Projects</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These three examples of work in progress already emerging from the
San Diego incubator will give a vivid picture of the robust and exciting
innovation now underway across the project sites. (San Diego started
three months ahead of Chicago and five month ahead of Worcester,
allowing us to apply the innovation process to the development of the
innovation curriculum through a set of iterative cycles of improvement).</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Trash to Paradise” is a bi-national US/Mexico team that
is developing a novel ecosystem that uses trash from the Tijuana River
and wetland plants to treat water locally in response to untreated
sewage flowing from the Tijuana River Valley into Imperial Beach. The
team has now moved from 3D modeling and prototyping toward breaking
ground on a 5-acre test site they have secured in Tijuana. With the help
of hundreds of volunteers from the community, they expect to be
operational by October. The curriculum the team is developing to teach
the volunteers will provide the basis for a replicable and scalable
informal learning program to train unskilled workers in other
communities to design, construct and maintain this kind of system.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Team “Aqua Diao” has developed a lightweight water-generating
backpack that extracts water from air, for use in remote locations and
emergency situations. In order to refine their new product before going
to market, the team built an atmospheric test chamber, which it is now
planning to replicate for use in K-12 classrooms and informal settings
to create opportunities for dynamic science learning.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img alt="San Diego Team C won first prize at the San Diego County Fair for their project." height="245" src="http://informalscience.org/images/uploads/Kates_Place_post.jpg" width="325" /></span></div>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The “Kate’s Place” team (named in honor of Kate Sessions, the
“mother of Balboa Park”) is developing a model house and garden to
highlight innovation in water conservation and demonstrate integrated
sustainable water systems. After only three months of developmental
work, the team decided to go to market with a 250 square foot MVP at the
San Diego County fair, where their innovation could benefit from the
feedback of thousands of visitors. In early June, Kate’s Place won
first prize at the fair, helping to promote their innovation and fund
their next iterative cycle of development.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next Steps</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Still to come in this four year project are experimental research
studies that will measure the impact of arts-based learning on the
creativity skills, collaborative behaviors and innovation outputs of
STEM learners and professionals, and a traveling exhibition, designed
and built at the Reuben H Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. The
exhibition will incorporate the arts-based immersive learning activities
of the Art of Science Learning curriculum to take visitors across the
country inside the world of STEM innovation. The experimental studies
represent an important opportunity to better understand the relationship
between the arts, STEM learning and innovation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Foundational studies from the past decade, such as <a href="http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/FINAL_REPORT_PDF09-29-06.pdf"><em>Are They Ready to Work?</em></a>
have documented the central role of creativity, collaboration and
communication skills to the development of an innovative STEM workforce.
During the same period, a substantial body of practice developed around
the use of the arts to enhance employee skills in high performance
teamwork, change management and intercultural communication, with 80% of
America’s Fortune 500 companies experimenting with the use of artistic
skills, processes and experiences to foster creative thinking and
strengthen innovation processes.</span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But research into the impact of arts-based learning on STEM education
is limited, and research into arts-based STEM innovation processes even
more so, leading the team of 90 national researchers who participated
in Art of Science Learning’s Phase 1 conferences (funded by NSF grant
DRL 0943769, <a href="http://informalscience.org/projects/ic-000-000-008-682/Art-Based_Learning_in_ISE">Arts-Based Learning in Informal Science Education</a>)
to conclude that when it comes to proving that “arts engagement
improves performance in STEM disciplines…there is the need for a series
of more sophisticated and developed quantitative studies than have been
conducted to date” (Storksdieck, 2011).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The upcoming Phase 2 research was designed to respond to that need.
Starting in September, some 120 high school high school students (40 per
incubator site) will participate in five successive 4-hour weekend
sessions, learning and doing the front end of innovation. Half will use
the Art of Science Learning innovation curriculum; the other half will
use a traditional innovation curriculum based on PDMA best practices. A
similar study will involve an equal number of early career STEM
professionals. Both studies will test the hypothesis that integrating
the arts into STEM-related innovation training results in more robust
innovation processes and enhanced creative thinking skills. Changes in
collaborative behaviors will be carefully observed and measured, and
innovation outputs will be blindly assessed by expert panels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In recent years, the rapid growth of interest in art/science
integration has led to a rich body of “STEAM” learning practice, and the
26 Art of Science Learning innovation teams now in the field provide
vibrant case studies of ways in which arts-based learning can spark STEM
innovation. We hope that by next year, research data from our
experimental studies, along with data tracking the outcomes of the
incubator innovation teams, will provide us with new insight into
whether, and how, arts-based learning impacts the foundational
innovation skills needed for a 21st Century STEM workforce.</span></div>
Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-74293587101770979812014-08-05T23:12:00.001-07:002014-08-05T23:12:27.671-07:00DNA of Creativity Video now available<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are very happy to present this short video about the DNA of Creativity project. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span class="HeadingRed"><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/dna.php"><br />DNA of Creativity</a></span></strong><span class="HeadingRed"> at the <strong><a href="http://www.oma-online.org/">Oceanside Museum of Art</a> </strong></span><strong><br />
<span class="Heading">Opening reception: Sat. April 12, 6-8 pm</span> <span class="style87"><span class="Heading"><strong><span class="style100">EXTENDED </span>until Aug 7, 2014</strong></span></span><br />
<span class="TextNormal">704 Pier View Way Oceanside, 92054 <br />
Free for OMA members, $10 <br />
More info <a href="mailto:patricia@sdvisualarts.net">Patricia Frischer</a> 760.943.0148: <a href="mailto:danielle@oma-online.org">Danielle Susalla</a> 760.435.3721<br />
More info: <a href="mailto:patricia@sdvisualarts.net">patricia@sdvisualarts.net</a> 760.943.0148</span></strong><span class="TextNormal"><br /></span> </span><br />
<span class="Heading"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grant Recipients showing at OMA</span> </strong><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span><a href="http://www.sdvan.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>SD View Art Now</strong></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(a smart phone app to locate local arts events near you) <strong>Patricia Frischer, Emily Kay, Denise Bonaimo Sarram, Alison Renshaw </strong></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.seachanges.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Sea Changes: Act</strong></span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(a project featuring plastic pollution)<strong> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michelle Kurtis Cole, Kira Carrillo Corser, Lauren Carrera,</span> </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><strong>Dale Sweetnam, Caitlan B. Whalen, Debb Solan, Marjorie Pezzoli. <br />
</strong><a href="http://urbansuccession.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Urban Succession</strong></span></a> </span></span><span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(preserving wildlife in urban settings) <strong>Jason Rogalski, Jean Tsau, Dr. David Lipson, Jeremy Gercke, Jonathan Austin</strong></span><br />
<a href="http://polyamm.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>PAMM - PolyAesthetic Mapping: The Muses</strong></span></span></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(ways to think about the collaborations that artists and scientist experience) <strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kaz Maslanka, Vicki Leon,</span>Microtonal music by <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Glasier, Joe Monzo, Arthur Frick,</span> AntiQuark and poetry by <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ted Washington, </span> Jeffery Haynes, Brianna DelGuidice</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-32675227703793224632014-08-01T21:52:00.001-07:002014-08-01T21:52:31.514-07:00and the EARTH BLEEDS<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/HYsA-VXSiNg" width="480"></iframe>Erik Scott's new song with a celtic sound and haunting lyrics combine in mystery and concern about the future of the earth due to toxic pollution, overfishing and climate change acidification killing almost 80 percent of the world's tropical coral reefs. Help us by contacting www.seachanges.org, or on Facebook at Sea Changes ACT teamResilienceArts.org - ArtConnectingCommunities.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16524628093391293613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-50794153614437943242014-07-23T17:37:00.000-07:002014-07-23T17:37:32.079-07:00Louie Schwartzberg, Hidden miracles of the natural wordJoe Nalven turned us on to this short Ted Talk about nature that is to fast, too slow or too small for us to see.<br />
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<b>These are grants for residencies in Santa Cruz which used to be just for artists but now include scientist. They are for one month. Take a look at the blog as each of the scientist were asked to blog at least three times during their session:<a href="http://leonardo.info/blogs/category/scientific-delirium-madness/" target="_blank"> http://leonardo.info/blogs/category/scientific-delirium-madness/</a></b><br />
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Margot H. Knight, Executive
Director, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California, spoke
at the March 27, 2014 DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous(DASER). The
event took place at the Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington,
D.C.<br />
DASER is a monthly discussion forum on art and science projects
in the national capital region. DASER strives to provide the public with
a snapshot of the cultural environment of the region and to foster
community and discussion around the intersection of disciplines. The
thoughts and opinions expressed in the DASER events are those of the
panelists and speakers and do not necessarily reflect the positions of
the National Academy of Sciences nor of Leonardo.<br />
For more
information on upcoming DASER events please visit <a href="http://www.cpnas.org/">www.cpnas.org</a>. To
learn more about the work of the National Academy of Sciences visit <a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://nationalacademies.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://nationalacademies.org/">http://nationalacademies.org/</a><br />
Intro music Ibiza (Trance Mix) by Delta Dreams</div>
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-9040384687435050552014-05-28T20:44:00.001-07:002014-05-28T20:44:19.664-07:00DNA of Creativity Lesson Plans<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Heading"><strong> Here is a list of the lesson plans generated by the four DNA of Creativity Teams. These can be used by any educator interested in adding STEAM programming to their classes. </strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Heading"><strong><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNALessonVAN.pdf">SD View Art
Now Lesson Plans</a></strong><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNALessonVAN.pdf"> <b>1 -
Application Evaluation </b></a><br /><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNALessonVANlogo.pdf"><strong>SD
View Art Now Lesson Plans</strong> <b>2 - App Logo Design </b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Heading"><span class="TextNormal style84"><a class="Heading" href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNALesson2SC.pdf"><strong>Sea
Changes: ACT Lesson Plan 1 - Floating Bottled Jellyfish <br />Sea changes: ACT
Lesson Plan 2 - T-shirt Tote</strong></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Heading"><span class="TextNormal style84"><span class="Heading"><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNALessonUS.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>Urban Succession Lesson Plan Microbial
Knot</strong></a></span><span class="SubHeading"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><a href="http://www.rogalskiart.com/microbial-knot.html" target="_blank" title=""><br /></a><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNALessonPAMM.pdf" target="_blank"><span class="Heading"><strong>PAMM Lesson
Plan </strong></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-86864528702180213292014-05-27T22:57:00.000-07:002014-05-27T22:57:08.247-07:00Press for DNA of Creativity project<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><strong>We are very pleased to list the press generated by our DNA of Creativity project. You still have time to see the show at OMA and we love to invite you to <br /></strong></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><strong><strong>PAMM Art and Science</strong> - <strong>Tuesday, June 17, 7- 8:30pm, </strong><span class="TextNormal">DNA of Creativity PechaKucha Lecture with presentation by the team leaders.. The lecture will begin and end with a <strong>PAMM</strong> microtonal performance and Photoscopia demonstration. </span> </strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNASDBusinessJournal.pdf"><strong>SD Business Journal,</strong></a> Does Business Need Art and Science to be Innovative? Kira Corrilla Coser,</strong> page B38,May 25,2014</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://pickedrawpeeled.blogspot.com/2014/04/artists-scientists-and-educators.html" target="_blank">Artists, Scientists and Educators Collaborate: "DNA of Creativity" Exhibition at OMA Shares Their Work</a> Art Scene </strong>by<strong> Cathy Breslaw</strong>, May 2014 <strong><a href="http://pickedrawpeeled.blogspot.com/2014/05/five-sizzling-exhibits-oceanside-museum.html" target="_blank"><br />
Five Sizzling Exhibits: Oceanside Museum of Art presents an eclectic mix</a> La Jolla Light and Picked RAW Peeled </strong>by<strong> Lonnie Burstein Hewitt,m, </strong>May 2014 <strong><span class="SubHeading"><strong><a class="SubHeading" href="http://pickedrawpeeled.blogspot.com/2014/05/dna-of-creativity-sea-changes-act-at.html" target="_blank"><br />
DNA of Creativity , Sea Changes: Act at Museum of Monterey</a> <strong>Picked Ripe </strong></strong></span></strong><span class="style95">by</span><strong><span class="SubHeading"><strong><strong> Patricia Frischer</strong>, </strong></span></strong><span class="style95"> May 2014</span><strong><span class="SubHeading"><strong> <br />
</strong></span>Coast News, <a href="https://thecoastnews.com/2014/04/fusion-of-art-and-science-in-innovative-exhibition/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Fusion of Art and Science in innovative exhibition">Fusion of Art and Science in innovative exhibition</a> <span class="TextNormal">by</span> Kay Colvin<span class="TextNormal">, April 10, 2014<br />
</span></strong><span class="SubHeading">Voice of San Diego</span>, <strong><a href="http://voiceofsandiego.org/2014/04/08/culture-report-creative-dna/">Culture Report: Creative DNA and NCVII and SD Art Prize</a></strong> by<strong> Alex Zaragoza</strong>, April 8, 2014 <strong><br />
</strong><span class="SubHeading">SD City Beat <a href="http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-12872-dna-of-creativity-grant-fuses-arts-with-science.html" target="_blank">DNA of Creativity grant fuses arts with science</a></span> by<strong> Kinsee Morlan</strong>, April 7, 2014</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="SubHeading">San Diego Travel,</span><span class="Heading"><a class="SubHeading" href="http://www.sandiego.org/members/museums/oceanside-museum-of-art/events/dna-of-creativity.aspx" target="_blank"> DNA of Creativity at OMA, San Diego Travel,</a></span> <span class="TextNormal">April, 2014 <br />
</span><strong>Pacific San Diego Magazine, <a href="http://www.pacificsandiego.com/magazine/pacific-magazine-april-2014/" target="_blank">Art Beat</a> </strong>by<strong> Amy T. Granite,</strong> April 2014 <strong><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNAPressApril2014.pdf" target="_blank"><br />
Press Release, DNA of Creativity </a>,</strong> April, 2014</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/PressDNAMarch2014.pdf">Press Release, DNA of Creativity </a>,</strong> March 2014<strong><br />
Union Tribute, <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/19/san-diego-visual-art-network-creativity/" target="_blank">Art, science and the ‘DNA of Creativity’</a></strong> <strong> by Jim Chute</strong>, Dec 19, 2013 <strong><br />
The Reader, </strong> <a href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/dec/14/art-sea-changes-act-coral-regeneration-project/" target="_blank"><strong>"Sea Changes: Act" coral regeneration project shows signs of life</strong></a><strong>, <span class="TextNormal">by </span></strong><span class="TextNormal"><strong>Ian Pike</strong></span><strong><span class="TextNormal">, Dec 14, 2013 </span><br />
Voice of San Diego,The Culture Report: <a href="http://voiceofsandiego.org/2013/12/10/the-culture-report-creating-coral-from-glass-art/" target="_blank">Creating Coral from Glass Ar</a>t <span class="TextNormal">by</span><a class="url fn n" href="http://voiceofsandiego.org/author/alex-zaragoza/" rel="author" target="_blank" title="View all posts by Alex Zaragoza"> Alex Zaragoza</a>,</strong><span class="breadcrumb twelve columns"><span class="by-author"><span class="author vcard"> Dec 9, 2013<br />
</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNAofCNovPress2013.pdf"><strong>Press Release, DNA of Creativity,</strong></a> Nov 2013</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="SubHeading"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117820025963517916392/albums/5886888859422115265" target="_blank">Sea Change Panel on <span class="SubHeading">Entrepreneurial</span> Success</a>,</span><span class="TextNormal"> Photo album, June 6, 2013 </span><span class="Heading"><br />
</span><span class="SubHeading"><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNAPressMay2013.pdf">Press Release, DNA of Creativity</a> </span><span class="TextNormal">May 2013 </span><span class="Heading"><br />
</span><span class="TextNormal"><a href="http://thecoastnews.com/2012/10/striving-to-save-the-ocean-through-art-and-science/" target="_blank"><strong>Coast News and Rancho Santa Fe New: Saving the Ocean Through Art, Kay Colvin</strong></a>, Oct, 2012<br />
</span><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/national-endowment-for-the-arts/linking-artists-and-scientists-getting-down-to-the-basics-of-creativity/10151700502105931" target="_blank">Linking Artists and Scientists: Getting Down to the Basics of Creativity</a></strong> by<strong> Whitney Dail</strong> of the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NationalEndowmentfortheArts" target="_blank"><strong>National Endowment for the Arts</strong></a> , June 14, 2012 </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="TextNormal"><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNApressGrantee.pdf"><strong>Press Release, DNA of Creativity Grantees Announced</strong></a>, June,2012<br />
</span><span class="style87"><span class="style89"><a href="http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10619-an-app-for-finding-local-art.html?utm_source=cooleremail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1773&utm_campaign=160578" target="_blank">City Beat, An App for finding local art,</a></span></span><span class="TextNormal"> June 6, 2012<br />
</span><span class="style87"><span class="style89"><a href="http://vimeo.com/43541974%20" target="_blank">Video of Information Meeting</a></span></span><span class="TextNormal">, May, 31, 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/DNApressShape.pdf"><strong>Press Release, DNA of Creativity Takes Shape</strong></a>, April 18, 2012 <br />
<a href="http://www.ornamentmagazine.com/departments_news_events.php#california"><strong>Ornament Magazine Announcements and Events,</strong></a>, Issue 34.5, Aug, 2011<br />
<span class="style89"><a href="http://www.biocom.org/bcq/current_issue/workforce_development/#2240" target="_blank">Biocom Institute's Biocommunique Newsletter</a></span><a href="http://www.biocom.org/bcq/current_issue/workforce_development/#2240">,</a> July 21, 2011<br />
</span><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/PressDNAInfoMeetingJan18,%202012.pdf"><strong>Press Release DNA Information Meeting</strong></a> Jan, 2012</span>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-24628837936383779972014-05-21T21:42:00.003-07:002014-05-21T21:42:46.827-07:00San Diego Grants for Art and Science projects<!--
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>La Jolla Community Foundation 2014 Grants</u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The La Jolla Community Foundation (LJCF) is
in its first grant cycle and invites nonprofits serving La Jolla to submit a
Letter of Intent (LOI) to express interest in applying for a grant ($20 K
available) during the 2014-15 grant cycle. The Foundation will be accepting
LOI’s for projects that focus on arts and / or science. Priority consideration
will be given to projects that combine both arts and science. This grant cycle
is committed to the financial support of organizations, projects and programs
dedicated to improving the lives of those who live, work or attend school within
the geographic boundaries of 92037. The deadline for submitting the LOI is
</span><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Monday, June 23, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.
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information please click here: <a href="http://echo.bluehornet.com/ct/8594329:3311598659:m:1:68993127:611F772ADAC20F5BD7FBE8FC9CB09E4E:r">http://www.sdfoundation.org/CommunityFoundations/LaJollaCommunityFoundation/Grants.aspx</a>.</span></span></span></div>
Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-32457493993158677422014-05-12T21:43:00.002-07:002014-05-13T00:09:15.166-07:00SciArt Magazine<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a magazine dedicated to the combination of art and science. <b><a href="http://www.sciartinamerica.com/" target="_blank">SciArt </a></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is the statement by the editor:<b> </b></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Julia Buntaine</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Art and science have long shared a common
ground; the ground of boundless inquiry about the nature of our
existence. It has only been for the past few decades, however, that
artists have turned their eye to the sciences as their sole source of
artistic information, inspiration, and conceptualization. SciArt, or
science-based art, is a quickly growing movement in the art world, with
an increasing number of artists who hold doctorate degrees in the
sciences, who are funded by the National Science Foundation, and who
hold artistic residencies in scientific institutions such as CERN. </span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">With
science-based art having a strong presence in the UK and Berlin
contemporary art scenes, I began to wonder: why it is that the SciArt
community in the United States is barely established? Although SciArt is
certainly happening in America, it remains scattered. I want to fix
this. As a science-based artist myself, I see community as essential
to our success because the methods, challenges, materials and goals of
science-based art are new and unique, lying in uncharted art
historical territory. It is through this online publication, featuring
science-based art events, spaces, artists and conversations that I
want to bolster science-art in America.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.sciartinamerica.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="Picture" src="http://www.sciartinamerica.com/uploads/6/0/8/9/6089526/7824289.png" style="max-width: 100%; width: auto;" /></span></span></span></a>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-335845361571113332014-04-30T21:55:00.003-07:002014-04-30T21:55:52.281-07:00 ILLUSION: Nothing Is As It Seems at the Ruben H. Fleet Science Museum<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">ILLUSION: Nothing Is As It Seems, </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">which runs until Jan 11, 2015 at the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.rhfleet.org/">Ruben
H. Fleet Science Museum</a></b> is a mind-bending new exhibition that combines
science and art to deceive the visitor through optical, perceptual and audio
illusions. It shows that what we perceive is often radically different from the
reality of what we observe by playfully allowing visitors to experience
concepts used by magicians and explored by neuroscientists. Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_5rsqsx4lY">here</a> to see a video
about ILLUSION and click <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/science/science-events-magic-illusions-and-the-music-of-particles.html">here</a>
to read about it in the New York Times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Not to be missed from May 2014 to Jan, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>We are
happy now to report on the <b><a href="http://steamconnect.org/">STEAMConnect</a>
Ascend Conference</b> presented on March 28 at Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall.. <b><a href="http://youtu.be/GDXainYTLNg">Video One </a></b>The opening performances
by <b>Zori Tinker </b>and <b>Eastlake High School Dance Team</b> was
outstanding and well worth watching. The emcee <b>Alex Kajitani </b>was the”
rapping mathematician”, STEAMConnect co-founders are <b>Kim Richards</b> and <b>Dr.
Edward Abeyta</b>, and there were various messages from Chula Vista Mayor <b>Cheryl
Cox,</b> Reps <b>Susan Davis,</b> <b>Scott Peters</b>, and <b>Sen. Carol Liu</b>,
as well as a first ever co-presentation by <b>Chris Roe</b>, CA STEM Learning
Network, and <b>Craig Watson</b>, CA Arts Council. <b><a href="http://youtu.be/x7bmJW_lBco">Research Updates Video Two</a> </b>led by <b>Dr.
M.A. Greenstein</b>, George Greenstein Institute, and panelists included <b>Dr.
John Iversen,</b> UC San Diego; <b>Lauren Widney</b>, San Diego Youth Symphony;
<b>Carol LaFayette</b>, SEAD; and <b>Dennis Doyle</b>, Collaborations: Teachers
and Artists (CoTA). <b><a href="http://youtu.be/31JBwW9m_40">Quality Criteria
Video Three</a> </b>Discussion on STEM and STEAM criteria led by <b>Pat Wayne</b>,
Arts Orange County, and panelists included <b>Denise Grande</b>, Los Angeles
County Arts Commission; <b>Heather Lattimer</b>, University of San Diego; <b>John
Spiegel,</b> San Diego County Office of Education; and <b>Ellen Peneski,</b>
San Diego Science Alliance and San Diego STEM Collaboratory. <b><a href="http://youtu.be/B_1t68NIpEM">Creative Collaborations Video Four</a></b> Discussion
on STEAM led by <b>Anne Bown-Crawford</b>, CREATE CA, and panelists included <b>Ed
Hidalgo</b>, Qualcomm; and <b>Shari Asplund</b>, NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; <b>Molly Kelton</b>, CRMSE/InforMath; <b>Nan Renner</b>, Art of
Science Learning (Innovation Incubator); <b>Brent Bushnell,</b> STEAM
Carnival/Two Bit Circus. </span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is session three which gives you an update on the Innovation Incubator project in San Diego.</span></span><br />
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-51451649341190665952014-04-10T15:43:00.001-07:002014-04-10T15:43:14.835-07:00DNA of Creativity at Oceanside Museum of Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold';">You are
invited</span><u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/dna.php"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">DNA of Creativity</span></strong></a></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> at the </span><a href="http://www.oma-online.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Oceanside Museum
of Art</strong></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Saturday,
April 12, 6-8 pm <br />Show continues until August 4</strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pdf/dnacat.pdf"><span class="HeadingRed"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>View our DNA of Creativity
Catalog</strong></span></span></a></span><a href="http://sdvisualarts.net/"><strong>Sponsored and Produced by San Diego
Visual Arts Network </strong></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></b> </div>
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<span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Grant
Recipients</span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span><a href="http://www.sdvan.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong>SD View Art
Now</strong></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (a smart phone app
to locate local arts events near you) <strong>Patricia Frischer, Emily Kay,
Denise Bonaimo Sarram, Alison Renshaw </strong><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.seachanges.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Sea Changes: Act</strong></a></span> (a project featuring
plastic pollution)<strong> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michelle
Kurtis Cole, Kira Carrillo Corser, Lauren
Carrera,</span> </strong></span></span></span><span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Dale Sweetnam, Caitlan B. Whalen, Debb Solan, Marjorie Pezzoli.
</span></strong><a href="http://urbansuccession.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Urban Succession</span></strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">(preserving wildlife in urban
settings) <strong>Jason Rogalski, Jean Tsau, Dr. David Lipson, Jeremy Gercke,
Jonathan Austin</strong></span><a href="http://polyamm.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong>PAMM - PolyAesthetic Mapping: The
Muses</strong></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (ways to think
about the collaborations that artists and scientist experience) <strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kaz Maslanka, Vicki Leon,</span>Microtonal
music by <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Glasier, Joe Monzo,
Arthur Frick,</span> AntiQuark and poetry by <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ted Washington, </span> Jeffery Haynes,
Brianna DelGuidice</strong></span></span></span><span class="TextNormal"><br /></span></span><strong></strong></span></div>
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<span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">704 Pier View Way, Oceanside,
92054</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>More info: </strong><a href="mailto:patricia@sdvisualarts.net"><strong>patricia@sdvisualarts.net</strong></a><strong>
760.943.0148 or OMA </strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>760-435-3721</strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Opening
Reception and the events below are Free for OMA members and $10 for
nonmembers</strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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ACT</strong> will run an interactive art project during the Free Family Art
Day/Oceanside Days of Art and North County Earth Festival, and will include
m<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">aking fish masks, recording fish
tales</span> and <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">re-purposing t-shirts
into recycled shopping bags. </span></span> <strong>(Please donate
heavy weight t-shirts by bringing them to the OMA opening on April 12!)</strong>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span><strong>Tuesday, June 3 from 7- 8:30 p.m. – PAMM and Art
and Science Evening </strong>featuring DNA of Creativity team members in a
PechaKucha-style lecture. It will begin and end with a PAMM microtonal music and
poetry performance and Photoscopia demonstration. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??';"></span>
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Family Art Day </strong>including free art and science-themed workshops
including learning to use a light microscope, basics about arachnids and how to
weave your own web.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>The
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS ??'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Free admission the first Sunday
of every month, general admission $8, seniors $5, and free for students and
members of the military. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">P.S. Don't forget Sat April 26, 7 pm when we are
making a DNA of Creativity presentation before the performance of RED at the <a href="http://www.sdrep.org/">San Diego REPertory Theatre</a> in Horton Plaza.
This is a FREE event or you can stay and see the play about Mark Rothko and if
you buy tickets, $10 goes to SDVAN if you use code SDVAN.
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-22622100982046583732014-04-10T15:40:00.000-07:002014-04-10T16:46:56.702-07:00Honeycomb Hunt guerrilla art campaign installed around San Diego <div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Honeycomb Hunt guerrilla art campaign installed around San Diego right
now.in April 10, 2014</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: black;">The San Diego ‘Honeycomb Hunt,’ is a city wide public art
installation that raises awareness about ways to help dying honeybee
populations.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The details of the project can be found here: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/beeinitaly/mysterious-glitter-hexagons-appear-all-over-san-di-l4tj" target="_blank">http://www.buzzfeed.com/beeinitaly/mysterious-glitter-hexagons-appear-all-over-san-di-l4tj</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">The<i> San Diego Honeycomb Hunt</i>, is a city wide scavenger hunt
that raises awareness about dying honeybee populations. </span></span></span></div>
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save bees. As the creative force behind this public art installation, she is on
a mission to inspire and change.</span></span></span></div>
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to Coronado and each has a QR code for Renée’s kickstarter campaign, <i>Bees in
Italy.</i></span></span></span></div>
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a unique one-day forum organized by non-profit STEAM Connect, spelled <a href="http://steamconnect.org/" target="_hplink">STE [+a] M Connect</a>, in San Diego.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It
is major step forward to have Qualcomm, one of the largest and most
influential companies in the region, embrace the STEAM event and make
their views known as this was what the Conference Board in their report,
"Ready in Innovate", was most concerned about, i.e., education and
business alignment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Foundation
(Paul is CEO of Qualcomm and a Berkeley alum) donated $20 million to
the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,
for a new institute that will expand the role of art and design in
engineering education.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In making the gift Jacobs said:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"In
our interconnected innovation economy, it is not enough to provide our
future engineering leaders with technical skills.... they must also
learn how to work in interdisciplinary teams, how to iterate designs
rapidly, how to manufacture sustainably, how to combine art and
engineering, and how to address global markets."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the day the community will hear about:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• California's initiative to create a blueprint for creative schools.<br />
• Balboa Park's NSF funded experiment to create an incubator for schools using art based learning of STEM.<br />
• Another NSF's Funded program called SEAD, an educational initiative
aimed at elevating the role of art in science and vice versa.<br />
• USD's masters program for educators to teach STEAM.<br />
• National City's program to retrain teachers using art to teach math and science,<br />
• And teachers using art to teach math, science and other complex subjects.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More
and more people are talking about STEAM, adding the "A" to the science,
engineering, math and technology initiative which first began under the
second Bush administration.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">STEAM Connect does what its name suggests.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">STEAM
Connect, located on the UCSD campus, is doing something about the need
to create whole brain thinkers by bring together all the actors in the
community on a regular basis. By emphasizing the need for both
left-brain convergent and right brain divergent thinking in our schools,
STE[+A}M is clearly elevating the discussion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Art and cultural
organizations, philanthropic organizations, business executives and
educators--meet to converse with one another, hear what cutting edge
thins are being done in the community, and collaborate to demonstrate
what can happen when art and science are merged.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Across the
country other communities are struggling to change their schools to
insure young people get the new thinking skills the new economy demands.
This approach of connecting the dots, bringing people in the community
who share similar concerns, and highlighting the best applications of
STEAM learning is one model that seems to work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And getting
businesses like Qualcomm on board makes this is a model to keep the idea
of STEAM in the forefront of things every community must do to change
the curriculum.</span>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-11653500776941772962014-02-23T15:02:00.002-08:002014-02-23T15:05:15.522-08:00Spray-on clothing newer than 3-d printers!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Jeffery Laudenslager we hear news of this amazing fabric that can be used also as bandages embedded with healing drugs. Of course, Jeffery sees used for building audience with nudity and recreational drugs!</span>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ScvdFeh1aOw" width="420"></iframe>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-15745273456671771482013-12-11T23:24:00.000-08:002013-12-11T23:24:16.620-08:00LACMA Launches Art and Technology LabJohn Eger sent us this update on LA County Museum of Art<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">An exciting thing happened today: we launched our
new </span><a href="http://www.lacma.org/LAB"><span style="color: #d9001d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">Art +
Technology Lab</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> at LACMA. The Lab
is an experiment in bringing artists and technologists together to develop
projects that we plan to share with the public here at the museum. We also
issued our </span><a href="https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/LACMALabRFP.pdf"><span style="color: #d9001d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">first
call for proposals</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">. Artists and
collectives interested in pursuing projects that engage emerging technology are
invited to apply by January 27, 2014, for grants up to $50,000, plus in-kind
support from our advisory board and participating technology
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We plan to fund a small number of projects in the
first year of the program. Several technology companies have joined the effort:
Accenture, NVIDIA, DAQRI, SpaceX, and Google are helping to make this project
possible. Our advisory board also includes independent artists and academics,
such as Dan Goods (visual strategist at Jet Propulsion Labs) and Ken Goldberg
(professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University
of California, Berkeley).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Robert Irwin and James Turrell in the anechoic
chamber at the University of California, Los Angeles. The artists explored the
concept for an unrealized project with the Gannet Corporation as part of the
original Art and Technology program at LACMA. Photograph © Malcolm
Lubliner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This isn’t the first time LACMA has embarked on a
program to bring artists and technologists together. The Art and Technology
program at LACMA that ran from 1967 to 1971 is legendary, and included Andy
Warhol, Claes Oldenberg, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and others. When we
launched our online </span><a href="http://www.lacma.org/art/reading-room"><span style="color: #d9001d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">Reading
Room</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> a few years ago, the
</span><a href="http://www.lacma.org/sites/all/themes/custom/lacma/reading_room/A_Report_on_the_Art_and_Technology_Program_of_the_Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art_1967_8211_1971.html"><i><span style="color: #d9001d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">Report
on the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
1967–1971</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> quickly jumped to
the top of the list of popular out of print publications. The publication
includes some amazing documentation of the collaborations between artists and
industry, including several projects that failed to lead to a completed work of
art, but gave rise to innovations many years or even decades later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Lab is inspired by the history at LACMA, but
the program we’re launching now differs in some respects. Today, compared to the
late 1960s, the boundary between art and technology is much more fluid. We fully
expect to see participants in the program that move easily between both
disciplines. That makes aligning artists and technology developers all the more
exciting and fruitful. We also plan to reveal projects in progress through
regular presentations at LACMA, including talks with artists and demonstrations
of prototypes. Our commitment to exploring the nexus of art and technology is
long-term, and we look forward to building on the program over time.</span></div>
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Lab at LACMA via the Director’s Round Table Garden at the east end of the museum
campus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Lab is housed in our newly remodeled </span><a href="http://www.lacma.org/libraries-research-intro"><span style="color: #d9001d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">Balch
Research Library</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">. The County of
Los Angeles supported the renovation, which wraps up this month, with a grant
from their Productivity Investment Fund. Those of you familiar with the research
library will, we hope, be surprised and pleased by the transformation. We opened
up a wall of windows looking out on the park and gave the space an overhaul that
enables us to accommodate not only the new Lab program, but also more books and
space for our librarians to work with researchers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For questions about the Art + Technology Lab, or to
find out about upcoming programs at LACMA, join our mailing list: </span><a href="mailto:lab@lacma.org"><span style="color: #d9001d; font-family: Verdana; text-decoration: none;">lab@lacma.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fb0007; font-family: Verdana;">Amy Heibel, Vice President,
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-2231986227552597052013-12-09T12:03:00.001-08:002013-12-09T12:03:17.564-08:00 Natalie Jeremijenko: Women who talks to fish
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Four years ago, the Australian-born artist Natalie Jeremijenko stood at
the edge of Pier 35 in Downtown Manhattan, trying to start a
conversation with some striped bass. Just north of the Manhattan Bridge,
she and several collaborators dropped 16 tall buoys into the East
River. The buoys were fitted with submersible sensors that monitored
water quality and with LEDs that flashed when fish swam by, charting the
Piscean passage. “I fell into the river four times installing it,”
Jeremijenko recalls. “You have no idea, just standing on land, how
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David Benjamin, stayed in the river for several months — a miniature
skyline bobbing and blinking in the reflected glare of the real thing.
With the piece, Jeremijenko was interested, she said, in “highlighting
what’s under this pretty reflective surface that enhances real estate
value but is actually a diverse, teeming habitat.” Viewers on land
alerted to the presence of fish could send them text messages care of an
SMS number. The fish then “responded” with texts of their own, chatting
about themselves and their surroundings: “Hey there! There are 11 of
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Jeremijenko had developed seaweed bars containing a PCB-chelating agent
that observers were encouraged to hurl into the river — food meant to
help rid the fish, and by extension, the water, of toxins. This snack
was formulated to taste “delicious” to fish and humans alike: if you
were feeling peckish, you could have what they were having. “It’s a very
visceral way of demonstrating that we share the same natural resources,
we eat the same stuff,” she once explained. “They’re not inhabiting a
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the whole five page story in the New York Times</span><br />
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Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), Co-Chairs of a Congressional Caucus
committed to putting A (the role the arts play in nurturing young
peoples new thinking skills) into the language of the America COMPETES
Act (also know as the STEM act), together with 28 other house members,
wrote the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology urging inclusion of provisions supportive of
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research and programs across federal agencies through 'Sense of
Congress' provisions and language clarifying that current research, data
collection, and STEM programs may include arts integration strategies
and programs,"..."Additionally, we ask that, where appropriate, data
collection, surveys, and reporting on STEM activities and grant making
in the federal government specifically look at arts integration
activities. Finally, current interdisciplinary and inter-agency
programs should be strengthened and language added to clarify that arts
integration is an avenue for doing so."</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Caucus reflects what more and more educators, parents, and
policymakers and researchers are saying about merging the arts and
sciences and creating more meaningful interdisciplinary experiences as
the best way to nurture the next generation of leaders and workers for a
workforce demanding creativity and innovation.</span></span><br />
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scientist, artist, writer, poet, and designer based in India, has said,
"Art and science ... are two sides of the same coin." While science is
Dr. Challa's first love, art and literature are "life itself."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Challa, like many scientists see science as art and art as
science and often inspired by each. Unfortunately, many others still see
art and science as distinct and separate disciplines. Not unlike
physicist-turned-novelist C.P Snow, who <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5273453/Fifty-years-on-CP-Snows-Two-Cultures-are-united-in-desperation.html" target="_hplink">wrote</a> over fifty years ago there are "two cultures":</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Physicists and writers exist, where "hostility and dislike"
divide the world's "natural scientists -- its chemists, engineers,
physicists and biologists -- from its literary intellectuals."
</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He found it strange that more scientists weren't artists and
musicians and more artists lacked a similar interest in the sciences.
What happened to the classically trained person, he mused. In his day
all these subjects were "branches of the same tree."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The challenge of our age is to blur those lines, merge art and
science, and develop the new thinking skills kids need to be creative
and innovative in the wake a truly global-knowledge-economy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein who authored a seminal book called <u>Sparks of Genius</u>
looked and at the top 150 scientists who lived over a period of 200
years and made a rather startling discovery that each was equally
accomplished in the fine arts as well as the hard sciences.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To those educators lobbying for more emphasis on the sciences, they
pointed out that Galileo was a poet and literary critic. Einstein was a
passionate student of the violin. And Samuel Morse, the father of
telecommunications and inventor of the telegraph, was a portrait
painter. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Root-Bernstein's examined the minds of inventive people and found
that creativity is something both artists and scientists can learn and,
more importantly, that the seemingly disparate disciplines of art and
science, music and math, complement and enhance one another. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When the White House and Congress first <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/06/america-competes-act-keeps-americas-leadership-target" target="_hplink">passed</a>
the America COMPETES Act, they were clearly thinking about the vital
import of science, technology, engineering and math--not art. At the
time, they authorized $151 million to help students earn a bachelor's
degree, math and science teachers to get teaching credentials, and
provide additional money to help align kindergarten through grade 12
math and science curricula to better prepare students for college. The
Act has been reauthorized several times since.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the meantime, educators are discovering the power of the arts and
art integration, adding "A" or the arts to the mix, and insuring that
both hemispheres of the brain are nurtured, the whole brain is engaged,
and art and the humanities and all the sciences reinforce the
connections.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also in the last few years, the National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA), realizing that creativity and innovation clearly support U.S.
economic interests , launched an effort to fund proposals that
demonstrate how art and science can be woven together in an artwork, or
play, demonstration or lab experiment or educational effort. Proposals
costing no more that $10,000 to $100,000 were encouraged. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The National Science Foundation, responsible for STEM initiatives,
also funded the Art of Science Learning last year to produce three
conferences -- in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Illinois and San Diego,
California -- to look at what business, education, and communities
across the United States were doing to merge the "two cultures" of art
and science; and is closely examining ways to make young people creative
and innovative.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More recently, the NSF funded experiments in Chicago, San Diego and
Worcester , Massachusetts, called "Integrating Informal STEM and
Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation," to find a new model for
sparking creativity and innovation in our schools. Specifically they <a href="http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1224111" target="_hplink">stated</a>:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The goal of the project's development activities is to
experiment with a variety of innovation incubator models"... "to
generate creative ideas, ideas for transforming one STEM idea to others,
drawing on visual and graphical ideas, improvisation, narrative writing
and the process of using innovative visual displays of information for
creating visual roadmaps."
</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Both the NSF and the NEA stopped short of endorsing STEAM per se --
but it now may be time to change the focus and change the vocabulary and
thus send a message to schools across the country: Merge art and
science curricula, provide more interdisciplinary courses.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barney Mansavage, a principal architect at SRG Partnership focusing on architecture for education and civic places, <a href="http://www.djc.com/news/ae/12058836.html" target="_hplink">put</a> it this way: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span><blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Architecture is not a science, it's an art; cost estimating
is not a science, it's an art; leadership is not a science, it's an
art"... "We might also say that even science is not a science. It, too,
is an art, and as such, evolving from STEM to STEAM makes real sense."
</span></span></blockquote>
Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355201707565569875.post-67777047710774590502013-11-08T21:19:00.000-08:002013-11-08T21:19:13.059-08:00Examples of Datamade Remixes? Or digital art by another name? by Joe Nalven<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The recent article posted by <a href="http://merc-art-science.blogspot.com/2013/11/new-ways-of-seeing-and-knowing-by.html" target="_blank">Patricia Frischer</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> about West, Malina, Lewis et al)</span> suggests a digital path to Duchamp's <i>readymades</i>. Consider the analogy: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>In both process and outcomes, <b>the “datamades” resulting from DataRemix are envisioned to function analogously to Duchamp’s readymades.</b>
Their ultimate objective is to destabilize the framing narratives of
data creation and representation in order to generate the possibility
for new forms to arise in hopes of allowing us to see and know beyond
what our instruments, algorithms, representational schemas and
prevailing culture enable us to see and know. Yet, reappropriation and
recombination also bring with them the framing narratives of artistic
traditions from the early 20th Century that continue to evolve in our
digital culture. (excerpt from DataRemix: Designing The Datamade -
Through ArtScience Collaboration by Ruth West, Roger Malina, John Lewis,
Member, IEEE, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Alejandro Borsani, Brian Merlo,
and Lifan Wang)</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, there are no examplars in the article (or that I could find on the web using their terminology): What kind of <i>art</i> this might be? In the spirit of the <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/weblogs/joe-nalven/2010/oct/13/the-digital-zeitgeist-in-san-diego/" target="_blank">digital zeitgeist</a>, I will propose several examples (below) that might fill this void.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">owever</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,
before doing so, an important and final disclaimer in the article is
worth noting - can these art objects be created from a 'neutral'
exercise in finding datamades or must there be a deus ex machine (or an
artist ex machina or artist ex computer)? Simply put, if there is no
artist making a decision in whatever field of experience, on whatever
planet in the universe, then there is no art. If a tree falls in the
forest, etc. etc. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let
us remind ourselves that Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, and other
readymades, did not magically get transported into a gallery. There must
have been: (1) a recognition by Duchamp that this was the object he
wanted to put in the exhibit; (2) Duchamp's purchasing the object; (3)
Duchamp's reorienting it for display; (4) Duchamp's signing the object
with a pseudonym; (5) Duchamp's submitting it for exhibition; (6) a
rejection by the art committee and hiding of it during the show; and (7)
photographing of the object by Alfred Stieglitz. (There are other
versions of what happened, but that is simply another path of
decision-making of taking the 'fountain (urinal)' and transforming it
into a 'readymade.'</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Obviously,
to get an analogous object - in whatever form(s) - there needs to be a
similar set of interventions by the artist and others.<br />
But, why even bother about an analogy to finding readymades in Big Data,
genomics, astrophysics and the like -- and then calling them datamades?
There still must be an artist making a decision to call 'X' (whatever
'X' is) something other than what it seems to be in the real world and
labeling it 'art.' <br />
<br />
The abstract provides an answer of sorts. A crisis is imagined and the datamade is offered up as a solution. Does it work? <br />
<br />
<i>We propose a role for ArtScience research and creative work in
contributing to the necessary shifts to go beyond the current crisis of
representation. We specifically describe DataRemix, a recombination and
reappropreation (sic) practice intended to trigger novel subjective
experiences and associations. The narratives framing data creation and
representation circumscribe what we can see and know, and how we see and
know. How do we see and know beyond what our instruments, algorithms,
representational schemas and training guide us to see and know? How do
we look for what we don’t know we’re looking for when we can only
examine at most a tiny fraction of the available data? Our argument is
grounded in and will be illustrated by experience with several
ArtScience collaborations spanning genomics, astrophysics, new media,
and holographic sound design.</i><br />
<br />
I might note in passing that Protagoras' famous quote suggests that we
are stuck with ourselves and the tools of measurement we use in
representing what we know and perceive. Clearly, our tools and methods
change, but these newfangled tools are still a human view of reality.
Big data, genomics, etc. are still 'human tools and human measures.' So,
how are we to get outside of the human condition - a NHI type of art?
(NHI = no humans involved)<br />
<br />
I appreciate the concluding words which admit of an impossibility to the proposed tasks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Yet,
reappropriation and recombination also bring with them the framing
narratives of artistic traditions from the early 20th Century that
continue to evolve in our digital culture. These carry an aura of
arbitrariness that runs counter to the functioning of science which
requires reproducibility and validity. This very contradiction is at the
heart of our working definition of DataRemix. In proposing DataRemix we
hope to contribute to the dialog about arbitrariness already ongoing in
the visualization community. Maintaining the dichotomy of artistic
approaches as devoid of meaning, decorative or subjective and
non-artistic approaches as meaningful, valid and objective eschews the
practical reality that, as Monroe observes, visualization is inherently
aesthetic and created for an intended audience, and iterates towards the
audience as part of the analytic process. Additionally, familiarity
with a representational schema enables us to forget that at one point
elements of its design were also based on arbitrary yet repeatable
mappings that lead to their utility and meaning. Stylistic and aesthetic
concerns are increasingly a subject of study in the VIS and HCI
communities. As Viegas and Wattenberg reflect, <b><span style="color: purple;">the
power of artistic data visualization arises from artists “committing
various sins of visual analytics” and directly engaging and guiding an
audience towards a point of view. </span></b></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[Ah yes, their are artistic interventions and somehow geared to an audience!]<i><b><span style="color: purple;"> </span></b><br /><br />They
remind us that even with dispassionate analysis as its goal, creating a
visualization that is truly neutral is “generally impossible” and
propose further exploration of the value of artistic explorations. In
this light, we propose to explore DataRemix as a mechanism for artistic
approaches to engage empirical approaches in creating new ways of seeing
and knowing. (References are in the <a href="http://visap2013.sista.arizona.edu/papers/West_DataRemix.pdf" target="_blank">original article.</a>)</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well,
what is really possible and fruitful? There are any number of artists
that play with randomness. Such randomness can be applied to the
incorporation of any field of data. I would think that if one allows
impurity (namely, human and artistic interventions) then the model
works. Without those 'impurities' (that's me and you and all the other
humans reading this narrative), we get Platonic zip. Idealized
nothings. But then, that's my point of view. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here goes with some impure artistic inventions that incorporate randomness into their methods. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These
examples would be DataRemixes that yield datamades. (I suppose if
there is an objection to my use of these neologisms, I can call my
examples 'DataRemixes2' and 'datamades2.' A rose by any other name is
still a rose.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul Reiners Cellular Automata</span></b></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I
don't pretend to understand the mechanics of cellular automata, but
Reiners has been incorporating this method into music and visualization.
While the approach is intentional, the results provide randomness. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Paul Reiners, Cellular Automata in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVQmE-YLGk" target="_blank">Van Gogh's Sunflowers</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reiners: </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A CA consists of:<br /><br /> A matrix, or grid, of cells, each of which can be in one of a finite number of states<br /> A rule that defines how the cells' states are updated over time<br /><br />The
matrix of cells can have any number of dimensions. Given a cell's state
and the state of its neighbors at time t, the rule determines the
cell's state at time t + 1. (This will become clearer after you look at
some concrete examples.)</span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, how would this look. If you go online you can watch (enlarge the screen) the cells within </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVQmE-YLGk" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Van Gogh's Sunflowers</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> move as if they were little insects.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Don Relyea's <a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/resampled_lo_fi_hilberts.htm" target="_blank">Random Art Generator</a></i></b></span><br />
<br />
What
I was able to do with Relyea's random art generator is to control its
source data - either limiting it to a predesignated folder on my
computer or allowing it to mix with randomly selected objects on the
web. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Paradox </i>created with Relyea's Random Art Generator limited to file folder on my computer. (Upper) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Konecni Random</i>
mixes an image provided by Vladimir Konečni with an object selected at
random from the web. (Lower) Layout of items is randomly assigned by
Random Art Generator and then reworked by the artist.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These
two examples, it might be objected, begin with an artist's intent with
randomness subsumed to the original purpose. The examples are not just
found. But then, neither was Duchamp's readymades just found. Their is
a conceit in each approach that gives the appearance of some found
object as if it were randomly encountered. Hardly. While the
readymade is not studio art or a plein air painting or an intended
photograph, it is carefully selected with an artistic purpose. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
proposed DataRemix must also rely on some conceit to give it the air of
being found - as the analog to a readymade, the newly minted datamade. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We
are trapped inside the human condition, the human measure of things.
The artist can create a novelty as if it were found out there somewhere -
a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_%27As_If%27" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">philosophy of 'as if.'</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I
am arguing for a lower threshhold, a less ambitious approach to finding
art in the vast hurricane of data on the net and in our minds. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">And all of these are wonderfully included in the making of contemporary art in digital media (might even call it, digital art). </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">In that regard, I am pleased to see further advances with all things digital. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>COMMENTS:</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As
Joe Nalven obliquely points out, essentially all of the concepts
discussed by the authors of the article are old hat – as concepts. To
realize this, one needs only to examine developments in electronic
music since 1950s in which a variety of approaches to randomness has
been utilized. In some of the allegedly aleatoric work of John Cage,
there is actually a great deal of composer's intervention. Iannis
Xenakis sometimes intervened very minimally indeed, using the
random-field stochastic processes. <br /><br />May I briefly go off the
subject and introduce the Chinese man whose portrait I took? (Joe
combined it with some allegedly randomly chosen object from the web.) I
met him on one of the many thousands of stone stairs leading to the
peak of Tai Shan, a holy mountain (5,000+ feet) in Shandong province.
Off to the side of the giant staircase, the charming man ran a
miniature fertility counseling center!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vladimirkonecni.net/" target="_blank">Vladimir Konečni</a></span><br />
<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09466326752758836872noreply@blogger.com0