Leonardo ISAST invites you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science
community. See below for location and agenda.

The event is free and open to everybody.
Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com . Admission is limited.

Like previous evenings the agenda includes some presentations of
art/science projects, a couple of brief “news”, and time for casual
socializing/networking.

You can also view this invitation at
http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/july2008.html

Where: San Francisco facilities of SFSU

What:
* 6:00pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. We encourage you to
interact with Leonardo ISAST board members:

* 6:45-7:15: Joaquin Alvarado, Director of SFSU’s Institute for
Next Generation Internet, on “Economies of Representation and the Rise
of Transactional Identity”
Converging platforms and persistent user interactions on the
network have created a new tension in communities and communication.
Individual agency is now being applied as a quantifiable transaction in
the evolving event-horizon of ubiquitous computing. As users continue to
deploy mediated actions in abstracted media forms they are inevitably
engaging in negotiations with automated agents. This creates a friction
point that will deliver the new economics of identity.
* 7:15-7:45: Amy Ione, Director of the Diatrope Institute, on “Art
and the Brain”
Art practice and appreciation are generally considered products
of human culture, rather than areas for scientific investigation. Yet,
perhaps because art that is quintessentially exquisite speaks so deeply
to us, it is difficult to see human culture as a map for one1s
individual experience with art. Now, with the explosion of brain
research on cognition, perception, and sensation we are beginning to
explore the nature of art in ways that include neurobiological and
neuropsychological questions.
* 7:45-8:00: Roger Malina, CNRS Marseille, on Leonardo ISAST’s
worldwide activities
* 8:00-8:20: Robert Rich, Electronic and Digital Composer, on
“Microtonal Music and Just Intonation”
A brief introduction to the use of tuning systems based upon
ratios, focusing on musical examples and audio demonstrations, with just
a bit of history and not much math.
* 8:20-8:40: Lynette Cook, Artist, on “Art and the Cosmos”.
Known especially for her collaborations with Geoff Marcy and
other exoplanet discoverers, Cook has painted many planet portraits,
from those of our own solar system to those orbiting other stars. She
will explain how she knows what these distant bodies look like.
* 8:40: Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening
I will simply preview the line-up of speakers for the next
Leonardo evening.
* 8:45pm-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing