Creative Disturbance

Ellen Levy discusses the burgeoning work at the nexus between the arts and neurosciences today. There is a renewed interest in how artists can provide outlooks insights and new approaches for cognitive and neuroscientists. and recognises the inadequacies of contemporary science to understand subjective experience, qualia and consciousness . She notes that some qualia can now be measured; her discussant Roger Malina, her discussant, jokes that this is the first time he has heard an artist comment favorably on reductionism. http://www.complexityart.com/

Jayneil Dalal and Art Sanchez discuss their transition into the user experience field and their encounters with politics, portfolios and pixels. Their panel talk at the Big Design Conference 2015 was moderated by Adam Polansky and included Adrienne Guillory and Sophia Siragusa. http://bigdesignevents.com/

Neuroscientist Gil and Artist Tiago discuss working together and creating a symbiotic object during the project Roots of Curiosity, and how they created their performative art-science peice  

In this podcast, Rita Venturini describes her idea for a project inspired by her comnined experience as a contact improvisation dancer and as a neurocientist. She wants to understand how what you think about others can biase your decisions in social contexts.

Dr. Matthew Brown, Dr. Heather Hayenga, and Eun Ah Lee talk about Femgineers.

Neste podcast, Madalena Wallenstein dá a sua visão sobre o projeto de arte e ciência “Raízes da Curiosidade: Tempo de Ciência e Arte” e fala sobre o culminar do ciclo com o lançamento de um livro onde os intervenientes (duplas cientista-artista, criadores da ideia original, diretores artísticos e curadora) refletem sobre o processo de criação. http://ccbfabricadasartes.blogspot.pt/2015/11/raizes-da-curiosidade-tempo-de-ciencia.html

Drawing on the work of Neri Oxman with her use of biomaterials and 3d printing for the design exploration Mushtari, and considering the popular examples of Henri Damon and Oscar Pistorius, Laini Burton investigates the use of prosthetic organs as wearable art in fashion industry and biodesign. From cosmetic surgery and extreme body modification to the design of astrobiological artefacts that could host life, she questions the agentic capacity of synthetic biology in our perception of liveness. The podcast also talks about the ideas of fiction and suspension of disbelief in design from the speculative and the contestable approaches.

The curator Jurij Krpan discusses his approach, thinking and activities as Director of the Kapelica Galeriaj with a focus on Špela Petrič's performance Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis that the artist created in Ljubljana on September 10th-11th 2015 as part of Trust Me, I'm An Artist, an EU funded project that is exploring ethical issues in art that engage with biotechnology and living organisms. This podcast is linked to the one with Špela Petrič discussing the same performance from the point of view of the artist. Enregistré par Annick Bureaud le 12 septembre 2015 à Ljubljana dans le cadre du projet Trust Me, I'm An Artist [http://olats.org/trustme/trustme.php] Jingles et habillage sonore Jean-Yves Leloup, musiques Carl Harms, David James Elliott "The Wire", Sergey Lopoukha "Lull" (Universal Production Music Publishing), Stefanski "Last Light Lament" (Atmos Production Music/UNIPPM). http://olats.org/trustme/trustme.php

A talk between artists, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault and Kazjon Grace, Assistant Research Professor at UNC Charlotte. Moderated by Stephanie Grace, an Interaction Designer at Bloomberg in NY. The discussion will relate to a recent work just completed by the artists, an interactive marionette, and how it relates to art, technology and artificial intelligence. https://vimeo.com/108598429

Bio-Fiction is an art-science and film festival that explores the social, cultural and environmental ramifications of synthetic biology. Markus Schmidt, its founder, and Georg Tremmel, a Tokyo-based artist from Austria, are moving it for the first time in Japan. This edition follows a previous workshop (organized and produced by the Bioartsociety) that focused on the topic of exo/xenobiology. http://bio-fiction.com/2014/#home http://bioartsociety.fi/making_life/

The artist Špela Petrič discusses her performance Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis that she created in Ljubljana on September 10th-11th 2015 as part of Trust Me, I'm An Artist, an EU funded project that is exploring ethical issues in art that engage with biotechnology. This podcast is linked to the one with Jurij Krpan who discusses the same performance from the point of view of the curator. Enregistré par Annick Bureaud le 12 septembre 2015 à Ljubljana dans le cadre du projet Trust Me, I'm An Artist [http://olats.org/trustme/trustme.php] Jingles et habillage sonore Jean-Yves Leloup, musiques Carl Harms, David James Elliott "The Wire", Sergey Lopoukha "Lull" (Universal Production Music Publishing), Stefanski "Last Light Lament" (Atmos Production Music/UNIPPM). http://olats.org/trustme/trustme.php

Le microbiome (ou microbiote) désigne l’ensemble des microorganismes qui vivent sur et à l’interieur de nos corps. Cet ensemble constitue un microfilm que l’on trouve chez tous les êtres vivants et dans tous les milieux. Qu’est-ce que cela nous apprend t-il sur l’individu et la notion d’espèce ? Est-il possible de se servir de ce matériel génétique pour créer des oeuvres ? Entre performance et recherche scientifique, l’artiste-chercheur François-Joseph Lapointe développe une pratique expérimentale (paradisciplinaire) où l’art et la science se nourrissent l’un l’autre. http://www.fjlapointe.ca/

Eun Ah Lee and Roger Malina talk about how interesting and, at the same time, how terrifying it could be to make the first step to do something new. Starting a new channel "Femgineers" is such a step to build a place for women engineers.

Stelarc comments the various degrees of aliveness running through his work from his recent robotic choreography (Propel, 2015) which combines the automated and the improvised. In reflecting upon the NeoLife conference opening exhibition Futile Labor (I. Zurr, O. Catts, C. Salter, D. Wards) that examined shifting perceptions of life through motion and agency, Stelarc offers elements of response to the very question of what minimum vocabulary of behavior or movement is needed to generate a sense of aliveness. http://stelarc.org/video/?videoID=20300

By looking at the history of Eugenics and Design, Christina Cogdell questions the cultural values we affect to biologically designed artifacts and how humans, through that process, may become mere products. She also takes into consideration the evolution of technology in relation to the history of energy and the horizontal gene transfers that occur between living organisms to balance her ‘techno-pessimistic’ approach. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14070.html

What can we learn from the regulation of the physical world when looking at the world of information? Who controls the technology ? What could be the effects of biotechnology on Nature? These questions are among the important issues that this podcast addresses with Robert Cunningham, Assistant Professor at The University of Western Australia and author of Information Environmentalism: A Government Framework for Property Rights. Here we touch upon a variety of topics ranging from the environmental movement to issues of power and the role of artists in society. http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9780857938435.xml

Elisabeth Schalij, an artist discusses her belief in positive energy and how that shaped her life. As a sequel of last year's "Cancer: Finding Beauty in the Beast" podcast, Elisabeth shares her motivations for working in such complicated subject matter. While interviewed by Yvan Tina, a Ph.D. student at Art and Technology, UT Dallas, Elisabeth talks about her recent work: Snowbear illustrated book and art installation named "Beauty in the Beast", at LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA.  

This podcast talks about the increasing relationships between biology, computation and architecture. How could synthetic biology evolve in contact with architecture and how does it changes its aesthetics ? By looking at biology as a technology, SFU PhD candidate and (bio) designer Mahsoo Salimi gives some insight into the potential evolution of architecture and design with the integration of bioengineering and bioluminescence, just to name a few possibilities. http://www.terreform.org/people_mahsoo.html

Guy Edmonds , a researcher in audiovisual history, discusses the very early days of cinema and his PhD work restaging some of the devices and performances. With Roger Malina he comments on the early days of the cell phone as a cinematic device and celebrate audivisual heritage day. He also discusses his interdisciplinary interactions wtih the 25 PhD students currently at the Cognovo program at the University of Plymouth. http://www.cognovo.eu/people/research-fellows/guy-edmonds.php

Helen and Newton Harrison are pioneers in the art and the environment movement since the 1970s. Over the last twenty years they have been doing projects and installations around art and climate change. Past projects have focused on watershed restoration, urban renewal, agriculture and forestry issues. see http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=806 for the Force Majeure ebook. They are currently working with the Sagehen Creek Field Station for a long term art and climate change project. http://theharrisonstudio.net/