UCLA SCI|ART NanoLab

The presentation is based on the book “How Nikola Tesla Invented the 20th Century”. The biography tells the story of Tesla’s life and analyses his impact on the development of our modern world. Tesla’s significance is derived from well-researched facts, without speculative conspiracy theories. His story is told as a fascinating mix of ingenious inventiveness and narcissistic hubris against the background of the birth of modernity. Myths and facts are separated to paint the picture of Nikola Tesla as the intellectual founding father of our modern world.

http://tesla.byethost10.com/

IMPORTANT: please note that the lectures will take place in different locations, and that the Tesla Talk will not be in the usual lecture theatre.

1. Time and location: 1pm – 2pm, UCL (University College London), Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, WC1E 6BT
2. Time and location: 6pm – 7pm, UCL (University College London), Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, WC1E 6B

It’s one explanation for why humans no longer have tails, birds and turtles are toothless and snakes have stayed limbless.

But a new analysis, done by a researcher at Stony Brook University, found that while frogs lost teeth in the lower jaw at least 200 million years ago, a particular type of marsupial tree frog regained those lower teeth about 20 million years ago.

Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/science/15obfrog.html?ref=science

When art and science collide, the Riverside Gallery in London takes the opportunity to display the resulting dissection, decay and disease in all its multi-tonal glory. The result is its latest exhibit, Picturing Science.

After whittling down a massive 650 entries submitted to the open exhibition, the final 26 will be shown at the Richmond gallery until 26 February.

Taking the symbol-filled language of science and layering it with another symbol-fuelled discipline, the artists had great scope to explore themes of medicine, astronomy, neurology and more.

Inspired by experiments to detect neutrino trails, artist Frédérique Swist depicts the subatomic particles as an immense flash of lines, light and neon.

Check out the online gallery for a selection of the best works on show.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/02/picturing-science-exhibit

Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kirstin Ringelberg, Elon University; Michael R. Salmond, Northumbria University
Mao Goes Pop Online: Game Art Worlds in China
Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University
Female Otaku: Beyond the Mask of Anime, Art, and Film
Stephanie Denise Silberman, University of Colorado at Boulder
Episodes: Intersections of the Imaginary and the Real through the Lens of Anime
Adam Fotos, Chicago State University and College of DuPage
Sharing Girlhood
Heather Warren-Crow, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Thursday, February 10, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Norma Broude, American University; Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Attaining Full Equality: Women Artists, Museums, and Markets
Connie Butler, Museum of Modern Art

Wednesday, February 09, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York

Chairs: Jeremy Gardiner, Ravensbourne; Bruce Wands, School of Visual Arts

Digital Masters

Matthew Lewis, London Metropolitan University

Form Giving: Investigations into Technologically Driven Object Making Practice

Rebecca Strzelec, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

Object and Illusion: Crafting 3D Rapid Prototype Art Objects from a Printmaker’s Perspective

Paul Thirkell, University of the West of England

Pixels to Stone: Changing the Way Sculptors Think about Their Practice

Jonathan Monaghan, University of Maryland

Wednesday, February 09, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Sarah Cook, University of Sunderland and CRUMB; Beryl Graham, University of Sunderland and CRUMB
Axel Lapp, International Curators Forum
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam

Wednesday, February 09, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hilary Braysmith, University of Southern Indiana
Artists Engaged with Science and Technology
Ellen Levy, University of Plymouth
Unresolved Problems in the Practice-Based PhD
James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Learning from the Sister Art of Music: The Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) as Possible Model for the Doctor of Fine Arts
Margaret Kennedy-Dygas, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Wednesday, February 09, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marjorie Och, University of Mary Washington
Step Away from the Podium! Adjusting Our Teaching Style to Accommodate Interactive Classroom Learning
Susan Healy, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha
The Sound of Art: Audio-Casting and Student Engagement
Frances Altvater, University of Hartford Hillyer College
Look, Listen, Speak, Text, Draw: VoiceThread TM Changes the Balance of Power
Janice Lynn Robertson, Fashion Institute of Technology
Collaboration in the Virtual Classroom: A Few Strategies that Work
Eva J. Allen, independent art historian

Wednesday, February 09, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jennifer Johung, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Bio Art Predecessors: Counter-Culture Artists in the 1960s and 1970s
Linda Weintraub
Regeneration: Tissue Engineering, Maintenance, and Gendered Infrastructures
Kelly Rafferty, Arizona State University
Eco-Locative: Media Art and Sustainability Practices
Meredith Hoy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Moving Spaces
Yevgeniya Kaganovich, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Nathaniel Stern, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee