Body Films: New Approaches to Medicine and Film

Body Films: New Approaches to Medicine and Film
Date: Monday 12 July 2010
Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm
Venue: Convocation Room, Room 218, Main Building

Mediatizing Epidemics: Filming an Outbreak of an Unknown Disease
Prof Charles Briggs (Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

The Moving Image: Touch, Sound and the Sensory Medical Film Body
Prof Lisa Cartwright (Department of Communication Studies, UC San Diego)

Bare Feet, Fine Hands, and Flexible Bodies: Visual and Filmic Representations of Barefoot Doctors
Prof Laikwan Pang (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

From Medical Imaging to Experiments of Wetware: Art Projects for the Mediated Body and the Cyborg
Ms Ellen Pau (co-founder and artistic director of the media art organization Videotage)

How are medical technologies shaping contemporary visual culture, in particular, the moving picture? And conversely, how is film impacting upon the ways we think about and experience health and illness? In this symposium, participants from medicine, anthropology, communication studies and beyond will address these issues and explore the complex ways in which medicine and film are enmeshed. Participants will consider the moving image and the sensory medical film body, visual and filmic representations of barefoot doctors, and the issues at stake in the making of 'health' documentaries.

This event is co-sponsored by the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities.

Art and the New Culture City: Hong Kong, China and the World Art System

Friday, October 3, 2008
9:00am-5:30pm
Leavey Library Auditorium, University of South California
association with the visit of artist Choi Yan-chi, this one-day symposium examines the current rise of international interest in Chinese contemporary art in relation to the politics of its contexts of production in the new art spaces and studio districts at the core of China’s economic transformation.

Panel 1:
"HK 97+10': Art and the City In-Between"
Speaker: Choi Yan-chi, Artist, Co-founder, Hong Kong Baptist University, Provost's Distinguished Visitor, USC
"Beyond Beyond"
Speaker: Matthew Turner, Professor of Design, School of Creative Industries, Napier University

Panel 2:
"Rise of China as an Aesthetic Question"
Speaker: Richard Kraus, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
"Multicentric Themes in Chinese Time-based Art"
Speaker: Meiling Cheng, Associate Professor of Theatre/Critical Studies and English, USC

Panel 3:
Visual Presentation: "Hong Kong Art Outside the Limelight'"
Speaker: Choi Yan-chi, Artist, Co-founder, Hong Kong Baptist University, Provost's Distinguished Visitor, USC

Panel 4:
"When East Really is West: A Look at Some Models of Cultural DupliCities"
Speaker: Henry Tsang, Artist; Head, Critical & Cultural Studies, Emily Carr University of Art & Design
"The Struggle to Make Space for Art in an Era of Creative Industry"
Speaker: Carolyn Cartier, Associate Professor of Geography, USC

Panel 5:
"Emergence: Contemporary Chinese Art in Beijing and LA"
Speaker: Karon Morono, Co-owner, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles
"Hybridity as Cultural Capital"
Speaker: Jenny Lin, Doctoral Student, Department of Art History, UCLA

"Competition of Making Flowers"

Choi Yan-chi
Artist, Co-founder, Hong Kong Baptist University, Provost's Distinguished Visitor, USC

Thursday & Friday, October 2nd and 3rd, 2008
9:00am-5:00pm Exhibit
Lindhurst Gallery, USC School of Architecture, 2nd Floor

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, Provost's Distinguished Visitor's Program, U.S.-China Institute and USC College Visual Studies program, and made possible by a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation.

Please rsvp to eascrsvp@usc.edu.

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, Provost's Distinguished Visitor's Program, and Visual Studies

Berkeley Big Bang 2008

Berkeley Big Bang 2008 is a three-day symposium and festival of new media and art hosted by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Leonardo/ISAST will host a full day of panels and events on Tuesday, June 3rd, including an exhibition of student artwork, organized by Piero Scaruffi.

"Remix: From Science to Art and Back in the Digital Age"
co-hosted by Leonardo/ISAST and the Berkeley Art Museum

Schedule of events:

Introduction by Steve Wilson, Leonardo board member since 1983, celebrating forty years of Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.

"Osmosis": What Can the Arts Do for the Sciences?

Art-Science interaction is a two-way process. The impact of science and technology on the arts is much discussed and well-documented. This panel seeks to examine the influence of the arts on the sciences, and the benefits that science can derive from the arts.

"Osmosis" Panelists:

- Bronac Ferran, Writer, Researcher, Instructor at Royal College of Art in London, Past director of the Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England
- Melinda Rackham, Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology
- Jim Crutchfield, Complexity and Chaos Researcher, Professor of Physics at UC Davis, Co-founder and Scientific Director Art and Science laboratory
- Chris Chafe, Composer, Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, Director Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics

Brilliant Noise: How Data Becomes Experience for Artists and for Scientists

Most information about the world we live in is now mediated by instruments. This data is often visualized and sonified, both to aid analysis and to communicate with other researchers, but artists, too, can make this data meaningful and "sensual." The same data sets can lead to very different kinds of work. One person's noise is another person's sound.

Brilliant Noise Panelists:

- Camille Utterback, Interactive Video Artist, Inventor, and Founder of Creative Nerve
- Michael Joaquin Grey, New Media Artist and Inventor
- Laura Peticolas, Geophysical Researcher at Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley
- Douglas Kahn, Auditory and Sound Culture Historian, Director of Technocultural Studies, UC Davis

Free-form meeting of interested audience members with Leonardo ISAST board members during the lunch break.

The New Sensuality: Epistemologies of the Very, Very Small

Human cognition is bounded by the inadequacy of human senses to allow us sensory contact with the world on scales larger or smaller than ourselves. To perceive the nano world one needs extended senses or new senses. The nano world requires a new ontology and a new epistemology.

The New Sensuality Panelists:

- Ruth West, New Media artist, Director Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Center, University of California, San Diego
- Wayne Lanier, Microbiologist, San Francisco Exploratorium
- Jennifer Frazier, Project Director of the Visualization Laboratory, San Francisco Exploratorium

Closing event of the two-day conference for the audience to mingle with the speakers of the various panels and with Leonardo board members. Winners of the first Leonardo Art/Science Student Contest will also be presented.