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Intimate Science
Roger F MalinaBanff
August 2008
Arrhenius 1896
Modern Science Doesnt Make Common Sense
• Most knowledge about our world now comes through scientific instrumentso Few people have experience of mediated senseso Much science is now done by experiments on data rather
than experiments on the worldo The Galilean Fallacy…The End of Theory
• Most of the world isnt on human scales
• Our intuition, languages, metaphors, arts are built training on the wrong data for survival
Inhabiting New Scales cf Cheese Diagram Guardans, Czegledy
SLOW........................................................................................................
• FAST• SMALL OUR SIZE LARGE
New Senses: Gravitational Wave Observatories-
LIGO in USA ,VIRGO in Italy
New scales: The Antares Neutrino Observatory under the Mediterranean
Modern Science doesnt Make Common Sense
• We need a new sensuality
• We need a new scientific method o Most science is done in protected semi monastic enclaves
• We need to understand the world o « society » no longer think science is a priority for
government spending or for peoples careerso Need the « hard humanities »
WE NEED A NEW CULTURE
.• Micro Science:
• Coupling Common Sense to Common Science
• Micro-Science o Micro Science is to the National Science Foundation What Micro Credit is to the World Bank
• Making science intimateo Owning data about your own environmento Science creating communities own their knowledgeo Building intution, language from mediated sensory experience
Muliple Modes to Intimate Science
• INTIMATE SCIENCE: « ownership of the data about ones own
environment »
• New AMATEUR SCIENCE: « public science »
• CROWDSOURCING : » distributed and open science »
Intimate SciencePigeon Blog ( B Da Costa) Inside Outside Handbag (Katherine Moriwaki )
Mediated Sensuality1904 2004
Cezanne: Mont St Victoire.........Sabine Raaf: Translator II
Immersion in Extreme EnvironmentsAntarctica......Deserts…Oceans…
eg Marco Peljham and Macrolab
Hybrid Bodieseg Marcel.li Antunez Roca
Nano Intuition Sommerer/Mignoneau
Inhabiting New Worldscf Cheese Diagram Guardans, Czegledy
High Gravity.......................................................................................
• Zero G Seeing• Gamma Rays X Rays UV Visible Infra Red Micro Wave Radio
People’s Science, New Amateur Science
• Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti: Indian People’s Science Networks
• Brazil Digital Culture projects
• Sergipe « Human Project »o Humbi Umbi in Brazil
• Srishti School, Bangalore• Ubiquitous micro science
producing communities
Calm Technologies/Distributed Sensing
• Weiner 1991 Xerox Parc
• Eg Eric Paulos, Intel• www.urban-atmospheres.net/
CitizenScience
• active participation in basic scientific data gathering
• richer, finer-grain data sets for modeling and analysis
• mobile phone as a tool for grassroots participation in government and policy making
Crowd-Sourcing
• Distributed Science
• BOINC : Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computingo SETI@home search
for extraterrestial intelligence
o climateprediction.net , climate modelling
o malariacontrol.net
Innocentive: « open innovation »
• Organisations can submit problems for solution
• Together with award incentive
• Over 200 problems solved to date
• Problem solving communities outside the Academy
The way we do Science carries within in the seeds of its own failure
Vesna/Gimzewski
• Failure of the enlightenment
• Science is done in guarded monasteries
• Science education and outreach from the top floor not from the ground floor
• More science education will not help
• Science must be systematically culturally redesigned
How
• Artists in Labs• Scientists in Studios• Town Scientists• Micro Science funding for artists• Open sourcing of data about your own
world• Developing the ‘hard humanities’ to
change the content and direction of science
ArtsActive Network Artists in R and D Labs Programs
• Art in Labs, Switzerland, Jill Scott• ANAT/Synapse, • Symbiotica Australia• Dissonancias, :Laboral, Spain• Art and Genomics: Holland• ECTOPIA; Portugal• FUSE/CADRE: .Climate Clock• UK ITEM, ArtsCatalyst, FACT/
Blue Sky Residencies • Leonardo - UCB Space Sciences • Leonardo/POP SUD France• TRANSGENESIS; Czech rep
• Observers: James Leach, Emmanuel Mahe (Orange), Bronac Ferran, Sammuelle Carlson
• List of patents filed by artists• Exchange of Intellectual Property
approaches• Jurying systems• Announcements• Scientists in cultural organisations ?
• www.artsactive.net
Berkeley: Art and Space Exploration Residencies
• Space Sciences Lab• NASA and UK Arts
Council
• Rejane Spitz: web media• Semi Conductor: data
sonification, infographie• Liliane Lijn: robotique, new
materials• Joanna Griffin: data
visualisation, education• CNMAT STEREO Satellite
sonification “Sounds of Space”…Marty Quinn
SemiConductor residency
• Secret Life of Magnetic Fields
• Interviews of Lab scientists on limits of scientific knowledge
• Brilliant Noise Installation= repurposed solar data
Liliane Lijn: Silicon Aerogel SculpturesSolar Hills = solar robots
The Sound of Trees Growing
• David Dunn (composer, sound artist)
• Jim Crutchfield ( complexity scientist)
• Artist driven recording of sounds of trees growing led to research project in the coupling of ultrasound from trees, beetles, forest fire system dynamics
Thanks
• www.leonardo.info
• www.olats.org