Open call for Village Idiots at the Leonardo Slam at UTDallas ATEC Friday Oct 19 2018. HELP US REDEFINE THE CRUCIAL ROLE THAT CAN BE PLAYED BY SO CALLED VILLAGE IDIOTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES. In the art science technology our pioneers were often treated as ‘idiots’ or not confirming to the social norms of …
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REDISTURB CREATIVE DISTURBANCE synonyms: disarrange, muddle, rearrange, disorganize, disorder, mix up, We are pleased to note that we now have podcasts in 14 different languages on the Creative Disturbance podcast platform- and over 100,000 downloads of podcasts https://creativedisturbance.org/disturbances/ The Creative Disturbance team is starting a project REDISTURB to redesign the creative disturbance project- we look for your ideas, critiques and …
Leonardo SLAM http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/leonardo-slam/ Info The Leonardo Slam is an event for cross contamination of ideas, a short open public gathering based on the format of poetry slam, but more free-form: an individual or group may present work, words, stories, video, sound, ideas about work, work about ideas, work about work, ideas about ideas, work about …
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Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Content of Interstellar colleagues I have no idea if this is fake news or not but indeed cold grease particles emit light at wavelengths and brightnesses we can’t detect. So maybe some dark matter is made of grease ?? Astronomers need help from grease monkeys ? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-28/milky-way-galaxy-contains-space-grease/9921076 The Milky Way contains about 10 …
Colleagues First Leonardo Publications in Mandarin As I have been thinking aloud for a while, I think we are in a linguistic transformation : we soon will read most things with translations engines to a language we understand, think or work in. And vice versa, we will write in the language that we think and …
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Colleagues Leo50 Birthday Party Invitation in Aveiro, Portugal Today June 26 2018 For other Leo50 Birthday parties, if you cant make it to Fabrica tonite : https://www.leonardo.info/50th-anniversary Announcing the Aveiro Proposal: A modest start How to start redesigning Science itself- both the scientific methods and the social embedding of science. 25% of science budgets to go …
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Colleagues Jack Parsons and Frank Malina: “Strange Angel” and “Sparks of Genius” for sure (read on for the “sex and rockets” version) The news is out: wide gratulations at the news that Ars Electronica has awarded the Leonardo network the 2018 Golden Nica to Pioneers in New Media Art: http://malina.diatrope.com/2018/06/12/an-embarrassment-of-strange-angels-ars-electronica-golden-nica-awarded-to-leonardo-on-its-50th/ But today we also share …
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Colleagues Jurgen and Nora Claus wish Happy 50th Birthday Gratulations to Leonardo In response to the wonderful news that the Leonardo network and collective has been awarded a Ars Electronica Golden Nica Awards for Pioneers in Media arts: http://malina.diatrope.com/2018/06/12/an-embarrassment-of-strange-angels-ars-electronica-golden-nica-awarded-to-leonardo-on-its-50th/ Jurgen and Nora Claus sent the Leonardo networks this wonderful birthday greetings drawing, with the caption …
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An Embarrassment of Strange Angels ? Ars Electronica Golden Nica Awarded to Leonardo on its 50th Anniversary In this blog post we are delighted to announce a wonderful synchronicity a) The Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award has been given to the Leonardo Organisations and Networks The Golden Nica is an award to visionary pioneers of new …
Colleagues Leonardo is dead, Long Live Leonardos- announcing the first Leo500 Wake Celebrate the first Leo500 wake and launch the redesign of culture for the digital age Am pleased that i will be keynoting at the International Symposium on Display Holography (ISDH) http://www.isdh2018.pt/index.php/program/ In University of Aveiro, at Aveiro City, Portugal June 24-27 and yes we will be having a …