[Image: Trevor Paglen] Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) - featuring presentations by Ken Goldberg, Carlo Sequin, Richard Rinehart, Kris Paulsen and Trevor Paglen :: May 12, 2008 6 - 10 pm :: SFSU Downtown, 835 Market Street, San Francisco, CA [organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST]

Trevor Paglen of the Department of Geography University of California at Berkeley on The Other Night Sky - Artist / geographer Trevor Paglen will talk about his recent project to track and photograph 189 classified “moons” (reconnaissance satellites) in Earth orbit. Continue reading

Welcome Upgrade! Eindhoven, the newest Upgrade! International node! - Upgrade! Eindhoven: Mateusz Herczka and Frederico Bonelli :: May 5, 2008; 8 - 10:30 pm :: TAC (Temporary Art Centre), Vonderweg 1, 611 BK Eindhoven. The discussion will be in English.

The artists will introduce themselves and their projects related to the discourse between art and technology. To get things clear, we want to discuss the notion of ‘art VS science’. Is art hacking technology? or is technology hacking creativity? Where do we stand as artists, curators? And what do technologists, academics say about this? Continue reading

First Call for Papers :: Fourth International Conference on Multimodality (4-ICOM) :: Singapore :: July 30 - August 1, 2008. The conference theme is From Print to Interactive Digital Media: Technology, Multimodal Representation and Knowledge.

4-ICOM brings together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines (i.e. linguistics, social semiotics, communications & new media, digital media art, history, mathematics, science, computer science and education) to explore the ways in which technology enables and constrains the ways knowledge, social relations and culture are constructed and enacted, with a special focus on interactive digital media. Continue reading

NEO-LEO: Leonardo 40th Anniversary Conference :: March 18-21, 2009 :: ARTS Lab, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM :: Pre-Registration is now open.

We encourage you to pre-register for NEO LEO as this will help us plan, design the conference and fundraise. Pre-registration is voluntary and free, and is not required for final registration. Pay registration will launch later in 2008. Fees are planned at 300 USD for general, 200 USD for students, UNM and Leonardo members.

This conference, the final in a series of Leonardo 40th Anniversary events, will bring together scientists and artists, elder practitioners and younger creators, scholars and administrators from around the world. Continue reading

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - Upgrade! Boston: Seth Riskin :: April 17, 2008; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: North 181 - entrance on Evans Way [map], Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. [Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass) [Green Line “E”].

Seth Riskin is an artist, researcher and teacher of light. A former U. S. national champion gymnast, Riskin brings his physical ability to his Light Dance art. In silent, space-defining performances, Riskin’s precise movements articulate light effects that extend from his body. Continue reading

Test_Lab: Topology :: April 17, 2008; 8:00 pm :: V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam :: This event will be streamed live.

Featuring: Tiziana Terranova (IT), Christoph Wachter (DE), Mathias Jud (CH), Yolande Harris (UK), Bureau d’etudes (FR), and Di Mainstone (UK).

Topology is often mentioned as an ultimate example of the same subject being studied in parallel within various branches of science and art, each branch approaching the subject from its own background and with its own methodologies. Today, there are numerous initiatives on the radar in which representatives of the various branches of topology explicitly state a desire to exchange ideas and methodologies related to the topic. But do all these diverse branches even share a common understanding of what topology is? Continue reading

AREA 10 Project Space, Peckham presents () RE | BOOT - the launch event of Area10’s new media media platform: AREA 10: MEDIALAB /> :: Live Event and Opening: April 12, 2008; 7:00 pm - film screenings, live performances, interactions, vjing, sound art, experimental and electronic noise music :: April 11-12; 11 am - 5 pm - activities include workshops, lectures presentations being held alongside an exhibition of digital and interactive arts :: Area 10 Project Space, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Square, London SE15 5JT (White building behind Peckham Library). Continue reading

Laurent Duthion: Coefficients de réalités :: until April 27, 2008 :: La Criée center for contemporary art, Place Honoré Commeurec – Halles Centrales, 35000 Rennes, France.

Based in Rennes, artist Laurent Duthion is a confirmed experimenter with sensations, objects and environments. Intensely curious about scientific research, he works with soil and crop researchers and has spent time in the Antarctic collecting samples of odours and discovering new vegetable and animal species. For Duthion the question is not one of blindly applying scientific experiments to the sphere of art, nor of claiming to revolutionise science with an artistic vision. Continue reading

EcoArtTech will be demonstrating their Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-­AT (ERAR­AT) at Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY each evening at dusk on 3/27, 3/28, and 3/29, 2008.

Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-­AT, Version 1.0, 2008: “Sooner rather than later, one comes up against the law that so long as risks are not recognized scientifically, they do not exist–at least not legally, medically, technologically, or socially, and they are thus not prevented, treated or compensated for. No amount of collective moaning can change this, only science. Scientific judgment’s monopoly on truth therefore forces the victims themselves to make use of all the methods and means of scientific analysis in order to succeed with their claims.” -German risk theorist Ulrich Beck Continue reading

[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: Continue reading