From paul at paul-brown.com Wed Jul 6 08:27:36 2011 From: paul at paul-brown.com (Paul Brown) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:27:36 +1000 Subject: [Yasmin_an] Darrell Viner: Early Work at Henry Moore Institute Message-ID: <13ACF2D2-3895-4589-82AF-EFF0455F71FB@paul-brown.com> Darrell Viner: Early Work 28. Jul - 30. Oct 2011 Henry Moore Institute 74 The Headrow Leeds LS1 3AH United Kingdom www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmi/ http://www.artrabbit.com/all/events/event/24963/darrell_viner_early_work This new exhibition focuses on Viner?s experimental work with computer drawings created at the Slade School of Art. Darrell Viner (1946 ? 2001) was a pioneer in the field of 3-D computer art. As one of a small number of British artists in the mid-1970s who learnt to write in code, he developed computer systems and built his own equipment to pursue his interest in movement and animation, applying the technology to kinetic and interactive sculpture. Inscribed on computer paper, using a pen plotter, the drawings have a remarkable hand-drawn quality. They are arranged in formal sequences, each one developed from a single programme, appearing almost as stills from an abstract animation. ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ February to August 2011 mailto:paul at paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ==== From rmalina at alum.mit.edu Wed Jul 6 18:01:55 2011 From: rmalina at alum.mit.edu (roger malina) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:01:55 +0200 Subject: [Yasmin_an] Fwd: [LEF:178] LEAF@Rewire In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: p.thomas The second Leonardo Education and Art Forum: Transdisciplinary Visual Arts, Science & Technology Renewal Post-New Media Assimilation workshop Sponsored by the National Institute for Experimental Arts Presented in collaboration with Rewire the Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. LOCATION: Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University Art & Design Academy Duckinfield St, Off Brownlow Hill, Liverpool DATE: 27th September TIME: ?2-5pm WORKSHOP MODERATORS: Associate Professor Paul Thomas:, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales; Nina Czeglady: Senior Fellow, KMDI, University of Toronto, Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Senior Fellow, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest. WORKSHOP ABSTRACT: Transdisciplinarity is deemed ?radical?, ?provisional and opportunistic? because it challenges traditional educational paradigms. It focuses critical and creative attention onto domain- specific problem areas of ?chance?, ?discontinuity? and ?materiality? (Foucault, 1976) to transcend limits within established disciplinary knowledge practices. This enables (re)visioning of the role, activity and value of Art Schools in uniting the pedagogical and technological strengths of the humanities and sciences in a university context, utilising conceptual growth, experimental innovation, visual communication and flexible learning spaces to deliver a model of Transdisciplinarity. The second Leonardo Education and Art Forum workshop is a follow up to the post iSEA2011 Istanbul workshop which explores the transdisciplinary model from various international institutional perspectives. Similarly structured around three focus areas this workshop continues to seek to identify and share ways to address challenges encountered in interdisciplinary art/science practices and curricula with the aim of publishing a guide to effective models and best practices in ?LEAF International. WORKING GROUPS? FOCUS AREAS: 1. Transdisciplinary collaborations Working group leaders: Petra ?Gemeinboeck ?and Mike Phillips 2. Transdisciplinary practice in the studio Working group leaders: Ross Harley and Peter Ride 3. Transdisciplinary theory Working group leaders: Edward Colless and Wendy Coones Dr. Petra Geminboeck and Prof. Mike Phillips, the group leaders of group 1, will focus on transdisciplinary collaborations within the existing institutional framework. Dr. Geminboeck will explore how historically experimental arts practices seem to be particularly privileged for opening up and navigating via transdisciplinarity such a complex, slippery terrain. She will explore how we can develop and foster a horizontal, open transdisciplinary framework for research collaboration that perforates and transcends existing disciplinary boundaries. Prof. Mike Phillips will offer another angle on the fractious debate surrounding the ?qualitative? and ?quantitative? approaches to research, from the Earth Sciences perspective. Rather than considering the diverging approaches that can polarise even a single disciplinary community as a threat to the cultivating of interdisciplinary relationships, this friction is viewed as the necessary ingredient to creating the conditions to put the ?Trans? into disciplinarity Prof. Phillips? presentation will explore the importance of developing an understanding of data as a creative ?material? and as a Rosetta Stone for unlocking transdisciplinary dialogues and collaborations. Here the ?qualitative? and ?quantitative? research methods are understood as a coherent whole. Focus Group 2 led by Prof. Ross Harley and Peter Ride will focus on transdisciplinary studio practice. Prof. Harley?s presentation will briefly outline some of the successes and challenges encountered in the process of working across disciplinary, cultural, and institutional boundaries. This will be explored through the specific cross cultural project that took place for two weeks in September 2009. More than sixty art, design, and architecture students, practitioners and academics worked on a live design brief in an intensive two-week studio at Donghua University, Shanghai. e-SCAPE was a partnership between Professor Richard Goodwin?s Porosity Studio, and The Collabor8 Project (C8), in collaboration with Donghua University (Shanghai) and COFA (Sydney). Peter Ride will be looking at the changing boundaries of curatorial practice, which is becoming an increasingly an interdisciplinary activity. Using the term that is current in Visual Culture, what constitutes a ?visual event?? Recent educational theories around fine arts practice-as-research suggest that we can see the construction of meaning in practice as a point of cognitive transference. Ride proposes that these models can be adapted and used to explain the ?visual event? when the audience, too often overlooked in the discussions of curatorial practice, meets the work and the entire construction of meaning as an example of cognitive transference. Focus Group 3 will discuss transdisciplinary theory. The group leaders Dr. Edward Colless and Wendy Coones will present productive possibilities opened by transdisciplinary research practices within the university. Dr. Colless by inviting us to think of the ?transdisciplinary? disruption, not as a deregulation of academic discipline (as a cultural relativising of the arts and sciences meeting on equal ground), but as an irregularity within academic discipline; as an insurgency or ?in-discipline? of academe. He suggests that we use the prefix ?trans? to suggest drift and errancy, as disciplines cross each other with the eventful possibility of collision or collusion but without the eventuality of their consensus. Colless refers to these crossing provocatively as an occultation, in that it induces an esoteric knowledge not manifestly conferrable, discernible or communicable. In this respect, the ?transdisciplinary? induces an occulting of disciplinary research by an abnormality or unnaturalism, which is to say it offers a new manner of occult knowledge. Wendy Coones will be exploring the possibility of emergence of polycultural space where formal education curricula, digital and print dissemination points, common research tools, national / international collaborations and continually developing interaction structures meet. Taking into consideration the parameters of individual endeavours and their possible influence on one another, a larger image of the interconnectedness can be discussed. Further information contact Mazena Topka marzena.topka at westnet.com.au --