[Image: Robert Duffy] Leonardo Day at Berkeley Big Bang 2008: Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age :: June 3, 2008 :: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Join us in Berkeley for a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. This event is timed to link with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, so come spend the week in the Bay Area and be part of the biggest explosion of new media art in the nation. [On June 2, Embodied Media, the first of a two-part symposium.] June 3:

8:30 - Introduction by Steve Wilson, Leonardo board member since 1983, about the 40 years of Leonardo ISAST

9:00-10:30 - “Osmosis”: What can the arts do for the sciences?

Art-Science interaction is a two way process. The impact of science and technology on the arts is much discussed and well documented. This panel seeks to examine the influence of the arts on the sciences, and the benefits that science can derive from the arts.

- Bronac Ferran
- Jim Crutchfield physicist at UC Davis
- Chris Chafe at Stanford’s CCRMA

11:00-12:30 - Brilliant Noise: how data becomes experience for artists and for scientists

Most information about the world we live in is now mediated by instruments. This data is often visualised and sonified both to aid analysis and to communicate with other researchers, but artists too can make this data meaningful and “sensual”. The same data sets can lead to very different kinds of work. One person’s noise is another person’s sound.

- Michael Joaquin Grey, artist and inventor
- Laura Peticolas, geophysicist at the Space Sciences Lab in Berkeley
- Douglas Kahn, UC Davis Technocultural Studies Program

12:30 - free-form meeting of the interested audience with Leonardo ISAST board members during the lunch break

1:30-3:00 - The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very Very Small

Human cognition is bounded by the inadequacy of human senses to allow us sensory contact with the world on scales larger or smaller than ourselves. To perceive the nano world one needs extended senses or new senses. The nano world requires a new ontology and a new epistemology.

- Ruth West artist with background as a molecular geneticist
- Gordon Wozniak former nuclear scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Wayne Lanier microbiologist at the Hidden Ecologies project of the San Francisco Exploratorium

3:00 - Closing event of the two-day conference for the audience to mingle with the speakers of the various panels and with Leonardo board members.