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(((Click on each presenter's name to read their abbreviated biography.))) 9am - 9:30 BREAKFAST SOCIAL tables are themed (science and art areas of specialization) to enable people of shared interests to find oneanother. 9:45 - 10:00 WELCOME by Cynthia Pannucci , Director of ASCI and introduction of keynote speaker. 10:00 - 10:30 KEYNOTE"Research Across Disciplines: Success Stories and Challenges" by Dr. France Cordova In 1996, Vice Chancellor for Research, France Cordova, launched a new initiative at UCSB called "Research Across Disciplines." The purpose was to promote new synergies between scholars across disciplines represented at the university. Faculty and students in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and education were encouraged to develop research partnerships with colleagues in the life and physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The goal was to attempt novel approaches to broad topics and issues that required multiple perspectives and backgrounds. The initiative has spawned some wonderful new research projects at the intersections of traditional disciplines. Cordova will describe some of the innovative programs that resulted, as well as the challenges incurred when people from many different backgrounds approach new intellectual territory. 10:30 -11:10 MODERN-DAY LEONARDOS: Kenneth Snelson "Keeping Things Together" In a quarter of an hour I'll relate all I've learned about structures from fifty years as a working artist. Credited with the development of the tensegrity principle, Snelson's aesthetic vision has pushed the boundaries of science over and over again. Donna Cox "Rennaisance Project" Donna founded the "The Rennaisance Project," an interdisciplinary research team that collaborates to solve visualization problems at the National Super-Computing Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She will show and discuss their ground-breaking work. 11:15 - 12:15 PANEL #3: "Scientific Theories of Creativity and Their Effect on Collaboration" MODERATOR - Adrienne Klein is an artist and curator and adjunct professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY Neurological science, cognitive science, and psychology have looked at creativity and arrived at some interesting conclusions that quantify the creative process. Is this, however, too simple a way to look at creativity? Could such research discourage a full appreciation of the irreducible act of artistic invention? What about the mental processes needed to create that have been identified? Are they common to scientists, writers, choreographers, etc. -- to all creative individuals? Can people be trained to be creative, or is creative ability innate? Technology, economic, and cultural shifts spur changes in all discplines. How do these agents of change motivate creative scientists and artists? Does the discussion of creativity in art and in science have any implications for collaboration between artists and scientists? PANELISTS: - Amy Ione Artist and lecturer about perception of artistic process - Don Mender Neuropsychiatrist, author and artist - Todd Siler Ph.D., artist, inventor, and author of "Think Like A Genius" and "Breaking the Mind Barrier". - Robert Root-Bernstein is a Polymath 12:30 - 1:30 BREAK-OUT SESSION FOR PANEL #3 (8 groups of approx. 50-60 people each facilitated by a "LEADER") Group LEADERS will be excellent facilitators. They will pose a provocative question relevant to the previous panel meant provoke the members of the group to express their various perspectives. It is hoped that by revealing "how people think", synergies will surface thus furthering personal connections, and perhaps future collaborations. ***QUESTION & LEADER info. will be posted to this website by Nov.1st... so check back then to make your selection and sign-up by sending an email to asci@asci.org. 1:30 - 3:00 LUNCH BREAK neighborhood restaurants or indoor food concession 3:00 - 3:40 ARTIST-SCIENTIST TEAMS Todd Siler & MIT group "Experiencing 'artscience': the integration of many worlds in one." He will talk about and show the work that came from the challenge of integrating the arts and sciences to create "Architectonics of Thought: A Symbolic Model of Neuropsychological Processes," the first Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Psychology and Art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986). Victoria Vesna "Emergence of a Third Culture: Research Across Disciplines" artist and Chair, Dept.of Design, UCLA; working in networked spaces Vesna was the first visual artist to join the pioneering, "Research Across Disciplines Program" and the University of California in Santa Barbara that is spear-headed by theoretical physicist and x-Chief Scientist at NASA, France Cordova. Questions such as what happens when disciplinary boundaries are crossed in an academic setting and how the role of the artist shifts when the work is reframed into collaborative research are directly addressed through this collaborative work. 3:45 - 4:45 PANEL #4:"Bio-Ethics: The Response by Art and Science" MODERATOR - Hank Whittemore author and Emmy Award-Winning PBS science producer Today's scientists are exploring the cosmos of the living brain and penetrating the universe of living cells that contain all the genetic instructions to create an individual life. What fears and warnings are being projected? How will the artistic community react? As scientists and artists increasingly join on a common ground of visual technology, will they work together in new ways? With what impact on public perceptions? Do we expect researchers to "stand back" and address the social and ethical implications of their work? As issues from bio-warfare to gene manipulation to the health of the biosphere become more urgent, what are the responsibilities of the artist? The scientist? What, if anything, does the artist need to know about the science? What, if anything, does the scientist need to know about art? Is there more need now for collaboration? PANELISTS: Dr. Ruth MacKlin Author and professor of bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYC. Dr.Louis Visentin Molecular Biologist/poet/artist-Vice President Academic, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Alice Wilson Corporate trainer with 17-yr.career as theatre director/producer/playwright; recently created performance work, "Bucky" (on Buckminster Fuller). Rob La Frenais (Curator, The Arts Catalyst, London, UK 5:00- 6:00 BREAK-OUT SESSION FOR PANEL #4 ***QUESTION & LEADER info. will be posted to this website by Nov.1st... so check back then to make your selection and sign-up by sending an email to asci@asci.org. (((This ends the Symposium!))) ((( CLICK HERE ))) FOR *SATURDAY'S PROGRAM* |
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