Interrogating Methodologies - Exploring Boundaries | 2014

Schedule

Friday, April 18

9:00 - 9:15

9:15 - 10:30

Keynote [ Video ]
Introduction

Bruce Robertson (AD&A Museum, History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)
Problems in the Theory of Visualization

James Elkins (Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

10:35 - 12:00

The Big Picture: Visualizing Big Data [ Video ]
Introduction

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (MAT, UCSB)
Supercomputing the Universe

Joel R. Primack (UC HiPACC, UCSC)
The Original Big Data: Geospatial Information

Keith Clarke (Geography, UCSB)
The Big Picture: Discovering knowledge from pictures

B.S. Manjunath (Center for Bio-Image Informatics, UCSB)

12:00 - 1:00

1:00 - 2:30

Interrogating the Methodologies of Art & Science [ Video ]
Introduction

Lisa Jevbratt (Art / MAT, UCSB)
Art|Sci in the evolution of intelligence

James K. Gimzewski (Chemistry & BioChemistry, UCLA)
From knowhow transfer to the sharing of methodologies:
PhD research. Z-node

Jill Scott (Swiss Artistsinlabs- ICS. University of the Arts Zurich)
Avoiding the Itch: Development of a Fluorescence Detection of Poison
Oak Oil

Rebecca Braslau (Chemistry & BioChemistry, UCSC)
Respondent

Victoria Vesna (DMA, Art-Science Center, UCLA)

2:35 - 3:50

Citizen Science: How does the Public Contribute to Science? [ Video ]
Introduction

Marko Peljhan (MAT, UCSB)
Open science and wicked problems: how new ways of doing science
can help tackle pressing global challenges

Lina Nilsson (Teklalabs, Blum Center, UC Berkeley)
The Berkeley Atmospheric CO2 Observation Network--monitoring the heartbeat of the urban carbon cycle

Virginia Teige (Beacon, Chemistry, UC Berkeley)
GalaxyZoo and the Zooniverse of Astronomy Citizen Science

Joel R. Primack (UC HiPACC, UCSC)

3:50 - 4:00

4:05 - 5:15

Asking the Right Questions, Avoiding the Wrong Ones,
How Research Evolves [ Video ]
Introduction

Marcos Novak (MAT, UCSB)
Panning for gold in the lab: Scientists as prospectors

Dave Deamer (Biomolecular Engineering, UCSC)
Building on a chip? Scalar boundaries of multifunctional building
enclosures

M. Paz Gutierrez, (BIOMS, Architecture, UC Berkeley)

5:30 - 6:45

Saturday, April 19

9:00 - 9:15

9:15 - 10:30

10:35 - 11:50

Art and Science: Sources of the Great Divide [ Video ]
Introduction

George Legrady (MAT, UCSB)
From Congruence to Competition: Art and Science in the Early
Modern Period

Ann J. Adams (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)
Between Art and Algorithm: Histories of the Engineer-Artists Nexus

Patrick McCray (History, UCSB)

12:00 - 1:00

1:05 - 2:30

Inviting Artists Into the Lab and Science into the Museum [ Video ]
Introduction

John Weber (Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UCSC)
Visualizing the Universe

Enrico Ramirez Ruiz (Astronomy, AstroPhysics, UCSC)
Blurring the Boundaries-beyond a one-sided love affair!: The Swiss
artists-in-labs program

Jill Scott (Swiss Artists in Labs)
LACMA's Art & Technology program in the late 1960s, its impact and how the newly activated Art+Tech program builds upon and differs from the original

Amy Heibel (Technology and Digital Media, LACMA)

2:35-3:30