ASCI BULLETIN - FEBRUARY 2000

ASCI, PO Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301, 718 816-9796,

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WELCOME TO THE ASCI BULLETIN: news, events, resources, and opportunities

in the international field of art & technology.

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THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! (new & renewing members):

Diana Meckley, Dean Hoskins, Jeremy Keller, Eugene Thacker,

Robert Schechter, Nancy Klotz, Suzanne Anker, Meghan Boody,

Tony Giovannetti, Tim Watkins, Michi Itami, Ana Maria Nicholson,

Maureen Nappi, Stacy Pershall, Laurie Spiegel, Aviva Rhamani.

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UP-COMING ASCI EVENTS:

- ASCI will be presenting a panel (organized by Anne Collins - University

of Virginia) called "The Impact of the Artistic Imagination on Science and

Technology During the Second Half of the 20th Century" at the CAA (College

Art Association) national conference in NYC, Fri. Feb.25th at 9:30am. There

are also many other panels featuring art and science this year! See full

details- https://www.collegeart.org

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FYI:

NEW FEATURED ARTIST on ASCI's homepage... is Eric Staller.

Check-out his "circular bicycle" (art & engineering feat), one of his

futuristic Urban UFO's that has entered the mainstream hastened by the

embrace of his adoptive city, Amsterdam, the bicycle capital of the world.

Blind people are able to ride this bike.... and it is also the site of

corporate Board mtgs! https://www.asci.org

NEW SLANT AT ASCI MEETINGS...

ASCI has designated the year 2000 as the "year of the scientist" at our

monthly meetings. First meeting began with Dr. Tom Ettinger,

psychologist/NYU, who presented his collaborative research project on how

the brain interprets visual art. Dr. Ettinger's follow-up letter to ASCI

members whose feedback he felt was valuable to his research model is posted

at... https://www.asci.org/ettinger.html (Mtgs.are last Tues/or Wed. of the

month.)

NEXT MEETING....

FEBRUARY 29th, 7-9pm - (Speaker To Be Announced)

MARCH- Ned Seeman, father of DNA nanotechnology/NYU, Molecular machines

and the importance of visualizing the invisible.

APRIL- Greg Matloff, technical aspects of interstellar travel (NASA), and

a new mythology for the space program. (collaboration with C.Bangs).

LOCATION: 330 Broome St. (btw.Chrystie/Bowrey) black door; ring the bell

that says- "A's". 212 431-9464. BYOB/chips, etc.

-As Studio Arts Theme Chair of the upcoming College Art Association( CAA)

2000 conference being held at the New York Hilton from February 23 through

26, ASCI member, Ellen K. Levy is responsible for this conference's

unusually extended focus on relationships among art, science, and

technology. Over 125 panelists will be involved, many ot them members of

ASCI. Levy's solo show of computer animation and paintings opens to the

public at Trans Hudson Gallery from 6 to 8 PM on Saturday, February 26. The

Gallery is located at 416 West 13th Street.

-Athena Tacha will present a talk, "Form and Chaos", at the session

"Structural Intuition in Art and Science" chaired by British art historian

Martin Kemp, during the College Art Association (CAA) meetings (Hilton

Hotel, NYC) on Saturday, Feb. 26, 9:30 - 12 a.m. One of Athena Tacha's

outdoor public art commissions, "Marianthe" (1986), in Fort Myers, FL, is

going to be destroyed on Feb. 6 by the University of South Florida and

Edison Community College who commissioned it and own it. They failed to

maintain it over the past 15 years and they now claim that it is beyond

repair because it was structurally weak. The artist cannot afford to sue

two institutions, even though supported by a contract signed by USF. If

you want to read more details and help her protest against the destruction

of works of art built with public funds, see

https://www.oberlin.edu/~art/athena/tacha.html

- LECTURE AT YALE...Gabriele Leidloff, German-Jewish video and digital

artist will present work that examines the body by means of video,

installation, and radiograph images, addressing, as Dr. Michael Salcman has

put it," the complimentary and occasionally antagonistic relationship

between art and science." February 21 & 22, Digital Media Center for the

Arts, Yale University PHONE 203-432-8188

-As announced in December, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has initiated

"Artists in Multimedia," a two-year partnership with Lucent Technologies in

which BAM-selected artists will work on new-media arts projects with

scientists from Lucent's Bell Labs research division.

- "COPENHAGEN".... IN NEW YORK - Monday, 27 March 2000

Presentations of the basics of quantum mechanics and of the contributions

of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and others, such as Erwin Schrödinger.

Discussion of the Copenhagen Interpretation and of present views of how the

wave function yields definite states. Introduction to fission. Also,

panels on the historical context and the play itself will take place.

Produced by the Graduate Program at CUNY, Brian Schwartz, VP and Special

Programs.

Tentative Program Details: https://www.asci.org/copenhagen.html

-Digital media installation and performance artist ANDREA POLLI presents

her recent work while in residence at the UCSD Center for Research in

Computing & the Arts (CRCA), through Feb. 12. Polli's work examines the

ways in which the computer and cyberspace are said to mimic physical reality.

- New Earth Reader party at ECOBOOKS on Friday, Feb. 11, 7:30 pm

Celebrate the release of The New Earth Reader: The Best of Terra Nova

from MIT Press. 192 Fifth Ave.,Brooklyn, NY 11217 (between Sackett St.

and Union St.) 718-623-2698 ; info@ecobooks.com

- The Csound Catalog with Audio - a collection of over 2000 working

Csound instruments with links to either MP3 or QDesign compressed audio and

recent versions of the Csound tutorials, reference manuals and the Csound

application for MacOS, Windows95/98/NT and Linux is available at

https://www.csounds.com/catalog/ ; email: radiobaton@earthlink.net

Dr. Richard Boulanger, Professor of Music Synthesis, Berklee College of Music

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EXHIBITIONS:

- "Impure Photography," an exhibition of 7 artists who use photography in

an unorthodox manner. Feb 17 - Mar 18, 2000. Reception: Thurs Feb 17, 7-9

pm. Gallery Taranto, 245 West 19th St (near 8th Ave), NYC, 212-691-9040.

- The Body of the Line: Eisenstein's Drawings; Symposium 7pm, participants:

Oksana Bulgakowa, Jan Christie, Jean Gagnon, Mikhail Lampolski, Annette

Michelson @ The Drawing Center Tel. 219 2166 ($15)

- C A R O L E E S C H N E E M A N N , V E S P E R S P O O L: An

Installation with V O L U P T U O U S: New Iris Prints @ Emily Harvey

Gallery, Tel. 212 925-7651 Carolee Schneemann has been a major force in

transgressive art. Her work has influenced the entire tradition of

performance art and created the context in which the sacred erotic entered

visual art as a primary subject.

-SODIUM BLINDNESS, 3-24 February

APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3EW

Sodium Blindness is a group exhibition of six female artists working with

video and photography whose work explores contemporary experiences of the

urban space at night. For further information: 020 7250 1173 email

lefeuvre@ndirect.co.uk

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SYMPOSIA / FESTIVALS:

- CALL FOR PAPERS/PERFORMANCES

The submission deadline has been extended to March 1, 2000!

Symposium 2000: Performative Sites

Intersecting Art, Technology, and the Body on October 24-28, 2000

The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, State College, Pennsylvania

Performative Sites will examine the theoretical, experiential, and

pedagogical implications of performance artists' works that use mechanical

and electronic technologies.

https://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/performativesites

- MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC... produced by the New York Academy of

Science on May 20-22, 2000 at The Rockefeller University, NYC.

Full details: https://www.nyas.org/scitech/contents/confwebnbm.html

A limited number of fellowships are available.

- The Genetic Revolution: What Values and Principles Should Guide Its

Course? What are the key ethical issues that must be addressed to ensure

that the promise of genetics is not lost while the challenges to society

are appropriately managed? Arthur L. Caplan, Trustee Professor and Director

of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, will discuss these

issues at a luncheon meeting of the Science and Technology Policy Forum on

Monday, February 28 at the New York Academy of Science. https://www.nyas.org

- Invisible Computing: Designing for Hidden Devices....

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and Digital Image Design Incorporated invite you to

attend their one-day mini-conference on Friday February 18, 2000 from 9:00

a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; reception to follow. The conference is being held at The

Katie Murphy Amphitheater at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT),

27th Street at Seventh Avenue. On-site registration begins at 8:30 a.m. To

PDF from our web site: https://www.siggraph.org/chapters/nyc

- International Conference:

CHALLENGES FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING in the 21st century

Stockholm, Sweden, 14-18 June 2000, organized by the International Network

of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility, (INES), in

cooperation with major organizations in the fields of science and

engineering: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA, Stockholm), Royal

Institute of Technology (KTH, Stockholm) Swedish Council for Planning and

Coordination of Research (FRN). For full details- https://www.ines2000.org

-The School of Sound, a symposium, April 12-15, London, UK, exploring the

art of sound with the moving image. For details about the programme:

Epesound@aol.com

-Also in London during April: SONIC BOOM: The Art of Sound The Hayward

Gallery, 27 April - 18 June 2000. An examination of 'sound art' with

installations by 20 artists currently working with sound. Curated by David

Toop. For more information: www.hayward-gallery.org.uk

-Closing the Loop 2000 a.k.a. "CTL2000"

A laboratory on sound & gameplay across networks, Adelaide, Australia,

February 2000. https://www.timesup.org/closing/ctl2000.html

-"The Sciences for the Arts: Building a Coalition for Arts Education" is a

two-day conference that explores the issue of assessment in arts education.

For arts educators, researchers in brain and biophysiological sciences,

artists, social scientists, foundation representatives and policy makers.

Sponsored by UC ArtsBridge, an educational outreach program of the

University of California. To be held April 7 - 8 in Irvine, CA. Contact:

Rebecca Slavin; 949-824-8182; rrussell@uci.edu; www.arts.uci.edu/ucartsbridge

-The Society for the Arts in Healthcare presents its annual conference,

"Arts & Medicine: Restoring the Soul to Healthcare," April 27 - 29 in

Providence, RI. Contact: 401-444-3153.

-Cyberarts Festival in Warwick, NY - Feb. 26 & 27, 2000.... features

evening presentations and performances on Saturday (7:30 pm - 9:30pm) by

Helen Thorington (networked performances), Laetitia Sonami (her "lady's

glove" that processes sound live), and Nick Didkovsky (new Java-based

music language). Sunday's program (3:00 - 5pm) features: Carol Parkinson/

Harvestworks, Troika Ranch, Tennessee Rice Dixon, and Val Jeanty. (914)

987-9826 ; email: festivalwarwick@aol.com

-NEW MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC Symposium, Monday, 14th February 2000,

Sydney, Australia. Info: Brad Miller or Karen Telfer,

PH: 02 9361 5318 or EMAIL: metro@metro.org.au

-Anomos is organizing an Internet Art Festival that will take place from

March 17-19 at the Hôtel du Nord (Paris-France). For more information:

anomos@anomos.org or by phone : 0033 1 42 00 06 78 https://www.anomos.org

-Collision, AIGA Conference on Design for Converged Media, April 12-14,

2000, The Equitable Center, New York. Collision is a two-day conference

that will examine the concept of digital convergence from a design

perspective. For more information, e-mail programs@aiga.org

-Starting March 31 at Dock 11 (Berlin / Prenzlauerberg) for 2 weeks Die

Audio Gruppe presents... An Evening of Orchestrated Bodies and

Choreographed Sounds. GEISHA 3.0 Info: 49-33841-8265

-The Maid in Cyberspace Web Festival explores Web art creations and

installation works that combine digital media and traditional art

practices. DATES: 1st-6th February, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal,

INFO: Valérie Lamontagne, PH: (514) 845-7934

EMAIL: grrls@studioxx.org https://www.studioxx.org

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OPPORTUNITIES / JOBS:

- FRANKLIN FURNACE CALL TO ALL ARTISTS

DEADLINE: April 1st, 2000 (postmark date) https://www.franklinfurnace.org

THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART

Supported by Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts,

Franklin Furnace awards grants of $2,000-$5,000 to performance artists,

allowing them to produce major works anywhere in the State of New York.

Artists from all areas of the world are invited to apply.

- ANTICIPATED OPENING FULL PROFESSOR in DIGITAL MEDIA DESIGN

FULL TIME TENURE TRACK in Hunter College's Department of Film & Media

Professor $52, 898 - $81,924. Requires terminal degree (Ph.D. or M.F.A.)

or its creative equivalency. Examples of creative work, and proof of

creative recognition should be included with all applications. Letter of

application, a detailed resume,and at least three letters of reference

should be sent to: Prof. Isabel Pinedo, Acting Chair, Department of Film &

Media Studies Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021.

- ** POSITION AVAILABLE **WEB & TECHNICAL OFFICER (Part-time)

30 hours/week @ $36,000 (AUD) pro rata. The Australian Network for Art and

Technology (ANAT) is Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists

working with technology. Please contact ANAT for job specifications:

PH: +61 8 8231 9037; Email: anat@anat.org.au https://www.anat.org.au/

-Computer graphics lab technician to manage the City College (NY) Art

Department's computer graphics lab and assist the dept. with its technical

needs. Questions about this position can be addressed to:

Annette Weintraub 212 650-7410 anwcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

-VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT, University of California, San Diego COMPUTER

ARTIST. Assistant Professor, tenure-track, with possibility of low

Associate with tenure. We seek an artist with a proven exhibition record

whose work exhibits an in-depth understanding of computing and its

relationship to contemporary art and its discourses...

Full Details Contact: sgbrown@ucsd.edu

((( so much is happening... cont'd. in Part II )))

Cynthia Pannucci

Founder/Director of ASCI

(11 yrs.of service to field of art/sci/technology)

New York City (718) 816-9796

https://www.asci.org

asci@asci.org