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Scientific Delirium Madness

Scientific Delirium Madness has begun at the Djerassi art science residence program

in collaboration with Leonardo

Read the daily blog of 6 artists and 6 scientists

http://leonardo.info/blogs/category/scientific-delirium-madness/

If you care to learn more about the context of the Djerassi Residence and the ideas behind their collaboration with Leonardo, watch this video of director Margot Knight who spoke at the US National Academy of Science DASER on March 27, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZvwIadn40
For a month this hybrid group have time and space to think and

find unexpected connections

Devavani Chatterjea, Saint Paul, MN. Biologist
Jim Crutchfield, Davis, CA. Physicist
Curtis Frank, Stanford, CA. Chemical Engineer
Ari Frankel, New York, NY. Composer
Charlotte Jacobs, M.D., Stanford, CA. Writer
Natalie Jeremijenko, New York, NY. Engineer/Artist
Sasha Petrenko, Richmond, CA. Media Artist
Budi Prakosa, Bogor, Indonesia, Industrial Engineer
Andreas Siagian, Bogor, Indonesia, Industrial Engineer
Donna Sternberg, Santa Monica, CA. Choreographer
Dawn Sumner, Davis, CA. Geo-Biologist
Pireeni Sundaralingam, San Francisco, CA. Poet
Meredith Tromble, Oakland, CA. Media Artist

NOTE: THERE IS A CALL FOR RESIDENCY PROPOSALS FOR THE SCIENTISTS AND ARTISTS RESIDENCIES in 2015

http://www.djerassi.org/scientific-delirium-madness.html

Scientific Delirium Madness

Scientific Delirium Madness is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP). Empiricism and intuition are not mutually exclusive. The goal of the project is to explore and expand how the creativity of scientists and artists are connected.

At its heart is a month-long residency in July of 2015 for six (6) artists and six (6) scientists at Djerassi’s 585-acre retreat in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco. The program will also include public and academic forums, published blogs and articles in LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal published by MIT Press.

Scientists selected must be involved in significant art-related research and/or be practicing a form of art and/or have original ideas on how to integrate aspects of art and science. This includes but is not limited to poetry, playwriting, fiction, creative non-fiction, choreography, music composition, media arts/filmmaking, sculpture and photography. By the same token artists selected will have a track record of work driven by the influence of biology, chemistry, physics, math, environmental or agricultural science. A strong sense of play and experimentation is essential.

Applications are now open via djerassi.org for artists who wish to be considered for this special residency. The deadline is March 15th. Scientists, mathematicians and additional artists will be proposed via nominators selected by the project’s steering committee. Invitations for residencies will be sent in August of 2014. To apply use the APPLY button on the left or go to this link https://djerassi.slideroom.com:

This is not a product-based residency. Artists and scientists will be free to work on their own projects. Participants will be expected to be in-residence for the entirety of the session. Accommodations, food, and local transportation are provided. Residents will also be expected to interact with colleagues in differing fields, participate in a two public forums during their stay and document/share their experiences for both academic and general audiences

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CFP The Inaugural (Rest of the World) SLSA Conference

The Inaugural (Rest of the World) SLSA Conference

Perth Western Australia

1-3 October 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

Neolife; full of surprises.
From the odd to the mundane, new forms of life are emerging in labs, workshops and studios. With the promise of exploitation for health and wealth we are seeing life as it previously never existed, albeit smothered in hyperbole, rhetoric and speculation. How do cultures such as Indigenous Australia respond to Neolife? On what terms are countries like China, India, Singapore and Japan, who have a rapidly growing biotech industry embracing or rejecting Neolife? How different it is to the west? Neolife: The Rest of the World SLSA 2015 meeting in Perth, Western Australia will attempt to address these questions from a wide range of approaches.

Abstracts (max 300 words) accepted from November 1 2014 due 21 March 2015. Topics include:

• RotW (Rest of the World) Biotech and life science
• Cultural and literary studies of new life
• Representations of new life
• Non-Human biopolitics
• Non-Human bioethics
• Animal studies
• Cultural teratology
• Biotech consumer products
• Speculative biology in Design/Art/Film/Literature
• History of (life) science
• Regenerative biology /Stem Cells (STAP, iPS)
• Synthetic biology
• Biological/biomedical Law
• Anthropocene

SymbioticA presents the inaugural Rest of the World (RotW) SLSA conference in Perth, Western Australia from 2-5 October 2015. This will be the first time the conference, will be staged outside of Europe or the United States, presenting an excellent opportunity for SLSA members in Australia, Asia and New Zealand to take part in the conference.

2015 represents the 20th anniversary of the public outing of regenerative biology which ushered an ontological crisis and new perspectives into the ways living bodies have been related to. The last twenty years also seen a shift in (or maybe a return of) the approach of scientists’ attempt to capture the public imagination; public engagement in forms of science on the display and as a spectacle. This meeting will try to get western and non-western perspectives in relation to life on display as well as life transformed into a raw material to be engineered.

The meeting is planned to take place at the beautiful Crawley campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. SymbioticA will arrange a series of workshops and pre-meeting events, as practical and conceptual build up to the main event via the SymbioticA Lab which was established at UWA in 2000.

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