ILLUSION: Nothing Is As It Seems at the Ruben H. Fleet Science Museum

ILLUSION: Nothing Is As It Seems, which runs until Jan 11, 2015 at the Ruben H. Fleet Science Museum 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 here to see a video about ILLUSION and click here to read about it in the New York Times.

Not to be missed from May 2014 to Jan, 2015

 

STEAM Connect Ascend Conference 2014 at Qualcomm

We are happy now to report on the STEAMConnect Ascend Conference presented on March 28 at Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall.. Video One The opening performances by Zori Tinker and Eastlake High School Dance Team was outstanding and well worth watching. The emcee Alex Kajitani was the” rapping mathematician”, STEAMConnect co-founders are Kim Richards and Dr. Edward Abeyta, and there were various messages from Chula Vista Mayor Cheryl Cox, Reps Susan Davis, Scott Peters, and Sen. Carol Liu, as well as a first ever co-presentation by Chris Roe, CA STEM Learning Network, and Craig Watson, CA Arts Council. Research Updates Video Two led by Dr. M.A. Greenstein, George Greenstein Institute, and panelists included Dr. John Iversen, UC San Diego; Lauren Widney, San Diego Youth Symphony; Carol LaFayette, SEAD; and Dennis Doyle, Collaborations: Teachers and Artists (CoTA). Quality Criteria Video Three Discussion on STEM and STEAM criteria led by Pat Wayne, Arts Orange County, and panelists included Denise Grande, Los Angeles County Arts Commission; Heather Lattimer, University of San Diego; John Spiegel, San Diego County Office of Education; and Ellen Peneski, San Diego Science Alliance and San Diego STEM Collaboratory. Creative Collaborations Video Four Discussion on STEAM led by Anne Bown-Crawford, CREATE CA, and panelists included Ed Hidalgo, Qualcomm; and Shari Asplund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Molly Kelton, CRMSE/InforMath; Nan Renner, Art of Science Learning (Innovation Incubator); Brent Bushnell, STEAM Carnival/Two Bit Circus.

Here is session three which gives you an update on the Innovation Incubator project in San Diego.



 

DNA of Creativity at Oceanside Museum of Art

You are invitedDNA of Creativity at the Oceanside Museum of Art
Saturday, April 12, 6-8 pm
Show continues until August 4View our DNA of Creativity CatalogSponsored and Produced by San Diego Visual Arts Network 

 

Grant RecipientsSD View Art Now (a smart phone app to locate local arts events near you) Patricia Frischer, Emily Kay, Denise Bonaimo Sarram, Alison Renshaw
Sea Changes: Act (a project featuring  plastic pollution) Michelle Kurtis Cole, Kira Carrillo Corser, Lauren Carrera, Dale Sweetnam, Caitlan B. Whalen, Debb Solan, Marjorie Pezzoli.   Urban Succession (preserving wildlife in urban settings) Jason Rogalski, Jean Tsau, Dr. David Lipson, Jeremy Gercke, Jonathan AustinPAMM - PolyAesthetic Mapping: The Muses (ways to think about the collaborations that artists and scientist experience) Kaz Maslanka, Vicki Leon,Microtonal music by Jonathan Glasier, Joe Monzo, Arthur Frick, AntiQuark and poetry by Ted Washington,  Jeffery Haynes, Brianna DelGuidice

704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, 92054

More info: patricia@sdvisualarts.net 760.943.0148 or OMA 760-435-3721

 

Opening Reception and the events below are Free for OMA members and $10 for nonmembers

 

• Sunday, April 27 from 1- 5 p.m. – Sea Changes: ACT will run an interactive art project during the Free Family Art Day/Oceanside Days of Art and North County Earth Festival, and will include making fish masks, recording fish tales and re-purposing t-shirts into recycled shopping bags.  (Please donate heavy weight t-shirts by bringing them to the OMA opening on April 12!)
• Tuesday, June 3 from 7- 8:30 p.m. – PAMM and Art and Science Evening 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.
• Sunday, Aug. 3 from 1- 4 p.m. – Urban Succession Family Art Day including free art and science-themed workshops including learning to use a light microscope, basics about arachnids and how to weave your own web.

The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m.

Free admission the first Sunday of every month, general admission $8, seniors $5, and free for students and members of the military.

 

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 San Diego REPertory Theatre  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.

Honeycomb Hunt guerrilla art campaign installed around San Diego

Honeycomb Hunt guerrilla art campaign installed around San Diego right now.in April  10, 2014

The San Diego ‘Honeycomb Hunt,’ is a city wide public art installation that raises awareness about ways to help dying honeybee populations.

The details of the project can be found here: 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/beeinitaly/mysterious-glitter-hexagons-appear-all-over-san-di-l4tj

The San Diego Honeycomb Hunt, is a city wide scavenger hunt that raises awareness about dying honeybee populations. 

Boston based artist Renée Ricciardi uses photography and art to save bees. As the creative force behind this public art installation, she is on a mission to inspire and change.

The kickstarter photography project, Bees in Italy highlights these issues.

The honeycombs are installed in high traffic areas from La Jolla to Coronado and each has a QR code for Renée’s kickstarter campaign, Bees in Italy.

Bees in Italy is a photography project that aims to document progressive organic life in Italy, so that other nations can learn about how Italy is banning pesticides to save bees. 

People are encouraged to photograph the public art pieces and upload to social media with the hashtag #HoneycombHunt. 

Honeycomb hunters can stay up to date by following the hashtag #HoneycombHunt @Bees_in_Italy on instagram and twitter.

This is link to embed the kickstarter video:

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The kickstarter campaign is active for 20 more days. To make a donation and receive a free postcard and photo, please check out this groundbreaking project.

 

 

 

 

Picking Up STEAM in San Diego by John Eger

Next Friday, corporate technology leader, Qualcomm, will play host to a unique one-day forum organized by non-profit STEAM Connect, spelled STE [+a] M Connect, in San Diego.
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.
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.
In making the gift Jacobs said:

"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."

During the day the community will hear about:

• California's initiative to create a blueprint for creative schools.
• Balboa Park's NSF funded experiment to create an incubator for schools using art based learning of STEM.
• Another NSF's Funded program called SEAD, an educational initiative aimed at elevating the role of art in science and vice versa.
• USD's masters program for educators to teach STEAM.
• National City's program to retrain teachers using art to teach math and science,
• And teachers using art to teach math, science and other complex subjects.

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.
STEAM Connect does what its name suggests.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Spray-on clothing newer than 3-d printers!

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!

LACMA Launches Art and Technology Lab

John Eger sent us this update on LA  County Museum of Art

LACMA Launches Art + Technology Lab

December 10, 2013

An exciting thing happened today: we launched our new Art + Technology Lab 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 first call for proposals. 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 companies.

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).

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

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 Reading Room a few years ago, the Report on the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971 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.

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.

The exterior entrance to the new Art + Technology Lab at LACMA via the Director’s Round Table Garden at the east end of the museum campus.

The Lab is housed in our newly remodeled Balch Research Library. 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.

For questions about the Art + Technology Lab, or to find out about upcoming programs at LACMA, join our mailing list: lab@lacma.org.

Amy Heibel, Vice President, Technology, Web and Digital Media