malina abciber 09
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Making Science Intimate
Re Thinking Cyberculture
Artists and Scientists collaborating onthe burning issues of our time
Roger F MalinaObservatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence
November 2009 ABCyber
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We know
That we have built acivilisation that isunsustainable
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We need the hard humanities
Four hundred years ago
Galileo Galilei invented
the telescope
150 years ago Darwinpublished his Origin of
the Species
? Developing the newculture that will allow us to
create a sustainable
civilisation ?
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The hard humanities
We face rapid cultural change in order to create sustainablesocieties
Over the next 50 years we must re engineer our cities, our
energy and water systems, our agricultural ecologies
History, Anthropology, Arts, but also the social sciences ,
the arts and humanities..
How to re design the human dimensions of the sciences
The Arts and Humanities are part of the tool kit for survival The hard humanities: descriptive >proscriptive
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We know landscape artists butwhat is a Climate Artist ?
1904 2004
Cezanne: Mont St Victoire.........Sabine Raaf: Translator II
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We know the taste of water..
But what is the song of CO2 ?
Char DaviesSarah Jane Pell
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Modern Science Doesnt MakeCommon Sense
Most knowledge about our world now comesthrough scientific instruments
o Few people have experience of mediated senseso Cyberculture: the human body with new sensuality
Most of the world isnt on human scales Nano science Femto physics
Our intuition, languages, metaphors, arts arebuilt training on the wrong data for survival
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Techno-Science as a Territory for
Artistic Experimentation
Forming intuition on mediated sensory data
Designing/Interacting with simulated systems
Making sense of dense data, petabyte era
Coupling the virtual world to the physical world
Making Science Intimate
Peoples Science
Micro Science
New Ontologies and Epistemologies New Intuitions,
New Sensualities
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Why Collaborate and Network ?
The burning issues of our times require us to workdifferently
TheHard Humanities require artists and scientists orengineers to work togetherCoupling micro-science to cultural change
Existing social networks re-enforce old approachesand protect old valuesThe tyranny of geography and personal history
Our institutional structures reflect other ways of thinking that
created an unsustainable civilisation
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The LEONARDO organisations and networks:
An evolving story.
Leonardo an organisation founded in the 1960sA generation of survivors of World War II
Creation of new international science organisations
A 1950 social contract between science and government
Cultural appropriation of science and new technologies:
The case for art-science-technology interaction
The birth of digital culture
Success of the computer art pioneers R and D budgets of game/entertainment now driving technology
But now we needRADICAL DIGITAL
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And now.?
Ask Not What the Sciences can do for the Arts
Ask what the Arts can do for the Sciences.Roy
Ascott
The Strong Case for art-science-technology interaction
Enabling and Promoting the New Leonardos
The mission of theLeonardo organisation and networksThe individual as genius versus the team as genius
The cultural transformation of networked collaborations
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Leonardo Publications @ MITPRESS
30 books, 4/year
Leonardo JournalsLeonardo Electronic Almanac
eg:Art and Innovation( XEROX PARC )
Immersed in Technology
(BANFF, Canada).
MA Moser/D MacLeod
Manovich: Language of New Media
Kac: Signs of Life: Art/Biology
DaCosta: Tactical Bio Media
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Leonardo Organisation activities since 1967
Working Groups:
Leonardo Education Forum
Lovely Weather: Art and Climate Change
Artists and Scientists in Times of War
Workshops/Conferences:
Mutamorphosis (extreme environments),LESS REMOTE
Prizes and Awards
Collaborations :
ITACCUS Committee for Cultural Utilisation of Space,
YASMIN mediterranean rim network
REDCATSUR/LATAM new latin american network
LASSI Leonardo Asian network
over 40 years we have promoted and documented the work
of over 6000New Leonardos
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Muliple Modes to Mediated Sensuality
INTIMATE SCIENCE: ownership of the data
about ones ownenvironment
Peoples or CitizenScience
OPENOBSERVATORIES :
distributed and openscience
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Open Observatories
The RIGHT to the data that exists aboutyou
andyour own environment
Taking data about yourself and your own
environment
A knowledge producing community OWNStheknowledge
Extended Senses, New Senses, Intimate Science
Database Aesthetics: Re-Imagining data
O Ob t i
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. Open Observatories:
The RIGHTto the data that exists about you andyour environment
Micro-Scienceo Micro Science is to the National Science Foundation What Micro Credit is to the World Bank PRO-AM Professional Amateurs
Making science intimateo Owning data about your own environmento Science creating communities own their knowledgeo
Building intution, language from mediated sensoryexperienceo
Science- Art Projects and Art-Science Projects Art driven driven science and engineering
Science driven development of cultural artifacts
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The Sound of Trees Growing
David Dunn (composer,
sound artist) Jim Crutchfield
( complexity scientist)
Artist driven recordingof sounds of treesgrowing led to researchproject in the coupling
of ultrasound fromtrees, beetles, forestfire system dynamics
Th S d f Thi ki
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The Sound of ThinkingCollaborations of nano scientist Jim Gimzewski and Artist
Victoria Vesna
BLUE MORPHis aninteractive installation that
uses nanoscale images and
sounds derived from the
metamorphosis of acaterpillar into a butterfly.
Has led to a project on the
sound of thinking>Gimzewski is able to
monitor the vibration of
neurons and convert to
sound
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Intimate SciencePigeon Blog ( B Da Costa)Inside Outside Handbag (Katherine Moriwaki )
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New Corporality; Physical, VirtualStelarc Marce li Antunez Roca
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Immersion in Extreme EnvironmentsAntarctica......Deserts
Marco Peljham and Macrolab
N I t iti
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Nano Intuition :feeling molecules
Sommerer/Mignoneau
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Embedded in Peta-Data Sets
Donna Cox Ruth West
Weather Data Bases Protein Sequence DataDATABASE AESTHETICS: Re Imagining the Sublime
P l d Citi S i
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Peoples and Citizens Science
Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti:
Indian Peoples ScienceNetworks Srishti School, Bangalore
Brazil Digital Culture projects Sergipe Human Project
o Humbi Umbi in Brazil
UK Citizens Science groups Futuresonic
Open Hardware, Hacker Culture,
Bricolabs.
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Crowd-Sourcing
Distributed Science
BOINC : Berkeley
Open InfrastructureNetwork Computingo SETI@home search
for extraterrestialintelligence
o climateprediction.net ,climate modelling
o malariacontrol.net
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Philanthropy 2.0 and open innovation
Eg INNOCENTIVE Organisations can submit
problems for solution Together with award
incentive Over 300 problems solved
to date
Problem solvingcommunities outside theAcademy
Eg www.fundscience.org
H
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How Artists in Labs
Scientists in Studios
Town Scientists
Micro Science funding
Open sourcing of data about your own worldOPEN OBSERVATORIES
Developing the hard humanities to change thecontent and direction of science
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Thanks
www.olats.org
www.leonardo.info