http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/50articles

As part of MIT Press’s 50th anniversary celebration, 50 influential articles published by the Journals division of the MIT Press have been selected based on suggestions from MIT Press journal editors. The selected articles will be freely available through the MIT Press web site until 19 June 2012. Among the selected articles are “The Artist and Advanced Technology” by Frank Popper (originally published in Leonardo 28:1, February 1995), “Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity and Culture in Voyager” by George Lewis (originally published in Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 10, December 2000) and “Nanotechnology: The Endgame of Materialism” by James K. Gimzewski (originally published in Leonardo 41:3, June 2008).

Roger

VINCI 2012
International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
September 27 – 28, 2012
Hangzhou, China

http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/home/chenwei/VINCI2012

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IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission: June 30, 2012

(http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/home/chenwei/VINCI2012/) ?

The VINCI conference brings together people with an
interest in the confluence of technology and art/design, providing a
forum for discussing topics of mutual interest and discovering new
avenues for collaboration.

If you have questions regarding the conference or the relevance of
your work, please don’t hesitate to contact the program chairs
vinci2012@easychair.org

Best wishes
Roger Malina

you are invited to Trust Me, I’m an Artist

The Salle des Actes, The École normale supérieure, 45, rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris, France

http://www.facebook.com/events/370084929694221/370086293027418/

“Trust Me, I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art and Science Collaboration” is an international project investigating the new ethical issues raised by art/science collaboration and the forthcoming event in Paris on 31st May at 6:30pm, at the prestigious location of The Salle des Actes at the École normale Supérieure, will feature the French duo Art Orienté objet. They will propose a new work called ““Du cheval au panda…” to a panel of experts who will consider the legal and moral issues that it raises and consider the roles and responsibilities of the artists, scientists and institutions involved. Art Orienté objet have been creating works concerned with the environment, trans-species relationships and the questioning of scientific methods and tools since 1991.

The project “Trust Me I’m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art/Science Collaboration” is led by artist Anna Dumitriu in collaboration with Professor Bobbie Farsides (Chair of Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School) in collaboration with the Waag Society and The University of Leiden.

Art Orienté objet’s performance Que le cheval vive en moi (May the horse live in me) is an extreme, medical self-experiment with a blood-brotherhood beyond species boundaries. With this performance the French duo Art Orienté objet calls for greater ecological responsibility from humans, whose technologies increasingly instrumentalize other animals and plants. The artist Marion Laval-Jeantet has turned herself into a proverbial “guinea pig,” allowing herself to be injected over the course of several months with horse immunoglobulins (glycoproteins that function as antibodies in immune response) and thus developing a progressive tolerance to these foreign animal bodies. In February 2011, having built up her tolerance, she was able to be injected with horse blood plasma containing the entire spectrum of foreign immunoglobulins, without falling into anaphylactic shock—the intention being that the horse immunoglobulin would by-pass the defensive mechanisms of her own human immune system, enter her blood stream to bond with the proteins of her own body and, as a result of this synthesis, have an effect on all major body functions.

Due to the high symbolic value of this animal, the duo would like to reenact the performance, this time with the panda. This performance would be entitled « May The Panda Live in me ». This is this scenario they introduce to the Ethics Committee.

The aim is to reveal the mechanisms that drive this usually hidden process which behind scientific research decisions, enabling the wider public to understand the driving forces behind ethical decision making and the role of artists working in scientific settings more deeply. Other events in the series have featured projects by Adam Zaretsky, Neal White and Anna Dumitriu. We are grateful for the support of Leonardo OLATS in putting together this event.

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=12971

This is my post to the NEA Blog

My body doesn’t care which governmental or private organization funded or provided the source of my body’s health and healing. It doesn’t care from which sub-discipline or branch of the tree of knowledge the expertise was derived. My body lives in an inter-connected web of personal and social relations, biological, physical, and ecological systems. Yet to function, we fragment knowledge and the civic space into organizations with boundaries.

READ MORE

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/?p=12971

Making Science Intimate: Translating and Integrating the Arts and Humanities with Biology and Medicine

I wanted to alert you to a conversation around the intersection of art and science that is taking place this week on the NEA’s Art Works blog @ http://www.arts.gov/artworks/
http://www.arts.gov/artworks/

You can see a summary of my introductory post below. Throughout the rest of the week, we’ll be hosting additional posts by art/science enthusiasts Roger Malina, Andrea Grover, Marina McDougal and Whitney Dail.

People interested in learning more about how the NEA can support art/science projects in the future are encouraged to join our art/science mailing list by emailing us at artandscience@arts.gov We’d be happy to forward information on our application process and to invite you to join a webinar we will be conducting in the coming months to support applications seeking support for art/science projects.

Feel free forward this alert to anyone in your network you feel would be interested, and please drop in and post your own thoughts to the blog. We’d love to hear from you.

Best,

Bill O’Brien\Senior Advisor for Program Innovation
National Endowment for the Arts\ 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 628
Washington, DC 20506\202 682 5550 o\www.arts.gov

The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science—a True Story

April 30, 2012

by Bill O’Brien, Senior Advisor for Program Innovation

“Signals,” a collaboration between Casey Reas and Ben Fry, depicts an image where each graphical cluster represents signals between networked proteins in a cancer cell as they change over time.

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — Albert Einstein

The fundamental emotion described by Einstein above has been felt by artists and scientists across the eons. Increasingly, artists and scientists are eager to explore creative practices emerging at the intersection of their two fields. Some are motivated by how these ties can spur vibrant new economies for the 21st century. Others are interested in how they may foster creativity in our schools and in more informal settings. Still others share the same motive that likely drove the ‘seeker’ who turned the bone of a vulture into a musical instrument 40,000 years ago; a mysterious quest for beauty and meaning.

Terms like “art/science hybridity.” “inter-disciplinary,” “trans-disciplinary,” and even “anti-disciplinary” have emerged to describe new and fertile terrain that exists outside the confines of our traditional silos. The platforms for these new modes of investigation and expression range from theaters and museums and other traditional performance spaces to research labs, personal computers, health facilities, public squares, hacker spaces, Processing software, maker-faires, and cyberspace.

The “transformative impact of art” is a challenge to define, and tricky to prove. Recent neuro-scientific advances by Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel and others have shown that the brain constantly re-wires itself based on how we experience the world in our daily lives. It’s intriguing to think how we may one day (perhaps soon!) be able to build on this work to solve the mystery of what happens at the molecular level when our brain is “on art.” We sense that it enhances our awareness of ourselves, each other, and the world. In profound examples, it radically alters the perceptions of the person experiencing it, infusing them with new insight and understanding. Great moments of scientific discovery can produce similar eurekas. Artists and scientists both chase the exhilaration of “knowing” something new and important. And the urge to share this new knowledge with others is strong.

http://www.arts.gov/artworks/

You will be interested in this house resolution in the US House of Representatives
adocating STEAM iniatives !!

http://sead.viz.tamu.edu/files/House_Resolution_319_STEM_to_STEAM_2011_112Congress.pdf

H. RES. 319 (Introduced-in-House) 24 Oct 2011 19:34
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112TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. RES. 319
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
adding art and design into Federal programs that target
the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) fields encourages innovation and economic growth
in the United States.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 21, 2011
Mr. LANGEVIN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
adding art and design into Federal programs that target
the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) fields encourages innovation and economic growth
in the United States.
Whereas the innovative practices of art and design play an
essential role in improving Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and
advancing STEM research;
Whereas art and design provide real solutions for our
everyday lives, distinguish United States products in a
global marketplace, and create opportunity for economic
growth;H. RES. 319 (Introduced-in-House) 24 Oct 2011 19:34
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Whereas artists and designers can effectively communicate
complex data and scientific information to multiple
stakeholders and broad audiences;
Whereas the tools and methods of design offer new models for
creative problem-solving and interdisciplinary partnerships
in a changing world;
Whereas artists and designers are playing an integral role in
the development of modern technology; and
Whereas artists and designers are playing a key role in
manufacturing: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) recognizes the importance of art and design in the
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) fields;
(2) encourages the inclusion of art and design in the
STEM fields during reauthorization of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act;
(3) encourages institutions of higher education to
incorporate the role of art and design into their STEM
curricula; and
(4) encourages the Secretary of Commerce, the
Secretary of the Department of Education, the Chairman of
the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Director of
the National Science Foundation to develop a STEM to
STEAM Council representative of artists, designers,
education and business leaders, and Federal agencies in
order to facilitate a comprehensive approach to incorporate
art and design into the Federal STEM programs.

http://www.leonardo.info/ldr.php

What is Science ?, by Sundar Sarukkai,
National Book Trust, India, New Delhi ; 2012; 225pp; paper 285 ruppes; ISBN 978-81-237-6367-5

Reviewed by Roger F Malina

In “What is Science ?” Sundar Sarukkai provides a magisterial overview of science as a human activity today, covering definitions of science, the social organization of science, philosophy of science, and ethical issues arising in and from scientific activity. He ends with an impassioned plea for deep engagement in new dialogue and negotiation by the scientific community with other segments of society. Through this process he argues scientists will both enrich their creativity, develop new forms of science, but also become far more responsible citizens of the world. The book is written for a general, non academic public and is accessible both to working scientists and artists.
Several particularly strong narratives stand out.

In chapters on Science and Logic, Science and Reality and Science and Knowledge he outlines the history of concepts such as Time and Space within different philosophical traditions and their connections to scientific periods. I was intrigued be his discussion of the ontological status of space, with some comments on the concept of aether in Indian traditions. It would be interesting to trace this issue of the aether, a topic that has come alive again with the mystery of dark energy in cosmology, but also certain concepts of cyberspace. Linda Henderson, in her forthcoming Leonardo book on the 4th Dimension and non-Euclidian Geometry in Modern Art ,develops at length the way the concept of the aether was dominant in much of 19C science and art work even until 1919 and the eclipse confirmation of one of the predictions of general relativity; the concept of the aether continued to have influence in the arts in the post war period and also in spiritual circles and is being re-injected into current art-science discussions as documented by Henderson. Concepts of space in science continue to evolve with string theory.

Sarukkai contextualizes the development of scientific ideas and methods , and more particularly mathematics,within the multiple influences and exchanges between the various Mediterranean and Asian civilizations, with a strong rebuttal to the dominant European mythology of its predominantly Greek roots (more on this below). He develops at lengths the variety of ways that mathematics is connected at the hip with modern science, arguing in part that this due to the fact that mathematics, as a language, is a proliferating combinations of sub-mathematical languages adaptable to the evolution of scientific practice; here he offers a variety of responses to Eugene Wigner’s ill-posed question about the ‘mysterious effectiveness of mathematics’.

Finally in a very rich and well argued section he further develops his previous arguments on the ethics of curiosity, and its social evolution from a christian sin to a scientific virtue, and the lack of corresponding discourse in the Indian philosophies.

I am particularly interested in his argument, argued at length in the closing chapters of this book, that the scientific community should and must engage in deep dialogue with other sectors of society, This line of reasoning connects to Helga Nowotny’s call a ‘socially robust science”; and the proposition that the art-science dialogue currently burgeoning internationally was one example of the beginnings of a deep dialogue and negotiation.

A connected issue is the concern that after 45 years of existence the Indian subcontinent is virtually invisible in the Leonardo publishing program and networks. In the Chapter on “Doing Science” he explains some of the perverse effects of scholarly publishing, and mechanisms with social consequences that reinforce the hegemony of government supported science in north America and western Europe, mechanisms among others that contribute to the relative invisibility of Indian science in the global scenario.

He frames his book in the chapter on “Defining Science” with Article 51 A(h) in the Indian Constitution which states as a Fundamental Duty of the Citizens of India “ To develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry of reform”, the only world constitution that embeds science so overtly. He goes on to explain how Nehru himself misunderstood Indian intellectual history and allied himself with the ‘sciento-optimism’ that was so characteristic of the immediate post world war II era, symbolized by Vannebar Bush’s report on “Science, the Endless Frontier”. Since that time the relationship between science and government and science and society more generally has become more complex, a topic Sarukkai explores in depth in the chapter “Science and the Human Subject” arguing that science must more aggressively develop internal controls on unbridled curiosity. The recent debate on whether to permit open publications of the work on genetic engineering modification of flu viruses is indicative that this deeper debate is perhaps being initiated within the scientific community. Even Alan Leshner, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has advocate the need for such deep dialogue, noting that “The link between science and the rest of society is a little fragile these days “.

The closing sections of the book are perhaps less convincing. In a section titled “Science and its Impact on the Self” Sarukkai opens up an almost Jeremiad like complaint, reminiscent of some of Virilio’s laments, about the pace of change and the desire for speed. “In an age defined by speed, nothing is enough…there are important psychological and social consequences of living life in this manner..”. However I find myself in sympathy with his conclusion that it is necessary “to humanize science is to bring back the human subject in its fullness within science and technology”. Indeed over the past few years I have helped create the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMERA: Chimera,fr ) with its aim of working on ‘the human dimension of the sciences” as one place perhaps where the deep dialogue that Sarukkai calls for is being initiated. Sarukkai’s arguments join my own belief that we need new systems of translation between Science and other sectors of society, and not just science education.

Sarukkai relates some examples of the different ways that science and religion interact in different cultures, citing the way that some scientists from the Indian Space Agency take models of their satellites to a temple in Tiripati Temple before the launch of the satellite. He explains how in the Hindu Festival Ayudha Pooja has evolved to include prayers to computers and scientific apparatus. The cultural and spiritual embedding of the scientific enterprise is rarely made explicit, as Sarukkai successfully does in his discussion of the ethics of curiosity. I remember at the International Astronautical Congress in Bangalore a few years ago, hearing the heads of space agencies each articulate in a few sentences their vision for the contribution of their agency to society. The head of NASA brazenly spoke of exploring and exploiting the solar system, a direct extrapolation of the American manifest destiny doctrine and the endless frontier mythology. The head of the Indian Space Agency, ISRO, talked of contributing to helping human civilization “stay in balance with its planet”, clearly responding to a different cultural discourse; yet it is not simple..one of ISRO’s proudest achievements is the launch of the Chandrayan missions to the moon, symbols of technological prowess and tokens of military capabilities, and China also has bought into the cold war era use of space as terrain for national competition. Nehru’s original reasoning for including the ‘duty to develop the scientific temper’ in the Indian Constitution is still alive an well in governmental circles.

Finally, I Iook forward to Sarukkai’s future writing on new narratives of the history and philosophy of science. In a number of sections he develops elements of a new histories of the multicultural origins of modern science. Drawing on recent scholarship of Arun Bala and others, one begins to see the outlines of new answers to Joseph Needham ‘s query of why modern science first developed in Europe and not elsewhere; incidentally Needham was a founding Leonardo editorial advisor, and author of Science and Civilization in China. The developing answers to Needham’s question include; it did; it isn’t always called science now though there are continuity of concepts and methods; science and its methods are not stable objects and are still evolving; modern science is not organically rooted only in Greek thought; in a 3000 year history of science it would be apparent that the interchanges between Asia, the Middle East and Europe were consequent;that European scholarship has ideological and political reasons for a particular reading of history of science; that the invention of the printing press in Europe ensured disproportionate documentation of euro-centric historical sources. Finally it is hard not to observe that the history of modern science may look very different 400 years from now ( 800 years after Galileo) when scientific productivity of the BRIC countries outpaces that of North America and Western Europe and other cultural embedding of science bears its fruits. This will be particularly the case if the kind of deep dialogue and negotiation between science and other sectors of society called for by Sarukkai really takes place allowing the emergence of a new ethical basis for the scientific community.

I highly recommend this book to Leonardo readers. It is intended for students, but also interested scientists and researchers in the arts and humanities.

(for deontological reasons I need to mention that Sundar Sarukkai is a professional colleague as a member of the Leonardo Editorial Board and section editor for the “Re-Imagining the Moon” editorial project of the Journal)

We are pleased to announce that the speakers for the Leonardo Day at
NETSCI 2012 have been selected.

The Leonardo e-book on Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks is available at

http://www.amazon.com/Arts-Humanities-Complex-Networks-ebook/dp/B007S0UA9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334458539&sr=8-1

In the coming days we will be posting their abstracts to this blog

http://www.ahcncompanion.info

In addition to the three key note speakers:

• Burak Arikan, Artist based in New York and Istanbul, USA/Turkey
• Pedro Cano, Chief Technology Officer, bmat.com, Barcelona, Spain
• Miriah Meyer, Assistant Professor, University of Utah, USA

We are pleased to announce that Elijah Meeks will be presenting his paper:

ORBIS – Modeling Transportation in the Roman World

Meeks is Digital Humanities Specialist, SULAIR: Stanford University
Library and Information Resources

Further Information on his work can be found at

https://dhs.stanford.edu

Roger Malina, Co Organiser

ORBIS – Modeling Transportation in the Roman World
Elijah Meeks
Digital Humanities Specialist, SULAIR: Stanford University Library and
Information Resources.

ORBIS is a multimodal network model of the Roman Empire, built by
Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, suitable for exploring historical
transportation patterns based on traditional transportation network
analysis. This paper begins with a brief description about how ORBIS
was envisioned and ultimately came into existence, including a
discussion about network analysis coupled with spatial analysis in
spatial databases such as the PostGIS2 database where the ORBIS data
resides. Of particular interest is the time-enabled and multimodal
nature of the network, along with the variable edge cost based on
duration, length or economic cost (what’s referred to in the parlance
of the model as selecting either the cheapest, fastest or shortest
routes). This allows the user to select different months and vehicles
for travel, as well as other route-based restrictions, and their cost
metric, to develop dynamic centrality measurements of the network
based on time, vehicle and purpose of travel.

The main thrust of this paper is on the use of ORBIS to identify
historical phenomena using geographic network analysis. The
core/periphery structure of the Roman Empire can be demonstrated using
network analysis to identify dynamic distance from administrative
centers. Other World Systems structures are visible, such as the
variation between political/military, prestige good, information and
bulk goods networks. The identification of such structures
statistically will be compared to the representation of such
structures visually using variable distance cartograms developed for
this project by Meeks in the network analysis toolkit Gephi as well as
represented the network cost as a geographic surface, where contours
represent time (isochrone maps) or, as in the case of the attached
figure, expense.

Finally, the suitability of geographic network analysis tools and
methods for non-geospatial networks and the reverse will be touched on
through the demonstration of distance cartograms used in genealogical
and literary networks as well as an exploration of dynamic modularity
within the ORBIS network over time

http://nas.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Experience_Future_Events_DASER_May24

http://nas.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Experience_Future_Events_DASER_May24

Join Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) at the D.C. Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), a monthly discussion forum on art and science projects in the national capital region and beyond. DASERs provide a snapshot of the cultural environment of the region and foster interdisciplinary networking. This month, the discussion focuses on recent developments in experimental and interactive technology in art. This series is organized in collaboration with Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

The event will be live streamed online at mms://stream.nas.edu/webcast.asx

Click here for instructions about accessing the webcast

Program

5:30 to 6:00 p.m. Check in
6:00 to 6:10 p.m. Welcoming remarks and community sharing time. Anyone in the
audience currently working within the intersections of art and
science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please
present your work as a teaser so that those who are
interested can seek you out during social time following the
event.
6:10 to 7:10 p.m. Panelists’ presentations (15 minutes each)
Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Artist, Writer, and Assistant
Professor at Parsons School of Art and Design, New York City
Max Kazemzadeh, Guest Facilitator and
Assistant Professor, Art and Media Technology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

3 additional panelists to be announced soon.

7:10 to 7:45 p.m. Discussion
7:45 to 8:30 p.m. Reception

DASER Community Engagement

When: Saturday, May 26th and Sunday, May 27th 2012
Where: 150 Stanley Hall, University of California, Berkeley

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Registration at is free but required for admittance
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Play behavior is not only the origin of our cultural ingenuity, but is intimately linked to the shape and function of that most ingenious feature of our biology, our brain. According to the social brain hypothesis, our large human brains have evolved to deal with the increasing complexity that characterizes the social life of primates. It is not only our ability to maintain different relationships with large numbers of people that makes unprecedented cognitive demands, but the sophisticated forms of play behaviour that facilitate such bonds – ritual, dancing, singing and laughter. Neuroscientists have begun to unravel how play affects brain maturation, social competency, impulse control and stress reduction, how it engenders positive emotions by stimulating endorphins and dopamine, the role of mirror neurons in collective enactments of joy, or the effect of rough-and-tumble play in increasing dendritic arborization in the orbito-frontal cortex, which is involved with cooperation and social competency.

We aim to highlight the importance of play as a fundamental expression of humanity, chart its ontological significance and stake out the role of play in the 21st century, while indulging in some play ourselves!

Speakers
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Isabel Behncke
Primatologist,
Oxford University
Title of Talk: ‘Adaptive Joker Hypothesis’
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Professor Marc Bekoff
Emeritus Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado
Title of Talk: ‘Animals at Play: Why Joy and Fairness are the Names of the Game’
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Shakti Belway
Human rights lawyer
Title of Talk: ‘Play as a Social and Political Catalyst’
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Professor Margaret Boden
Research Professor of Cognitive Science,
University of Sussex
Title of Talk: ‘Play, Art and Creativity’
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Baba Brinkman
Rapper and Playwright
Title of Talk: ‘Wordplay: From Chaucer to Darwin to Dr. Dre’
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Dr Stuart Brown
Director of the National Institute for Play
Title of Talk: ‘From Play to Innovation: Play as a Long-Term Survival Necessity’
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Dr Scott Eberle
Vice-President for Play Studies, The Strong
Editor, The American Journal of Play
Title of Talk: ‘Playing with Multiple Intelligences’
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Christopher Hobbs
Bafta-nominated Production Designer
Artist
Title of Talk: ‘The Playful Eye’
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Jeff Hull
Founding Director of the Jejeune Institute
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Professor Nicholas Keynes Humphrey
Emeritus Professor of Psychology,
London School of Economics
Title of Talk: ‘Dreaming as Play’
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Dr Beau Lotto
Reader in Neuroscience
Director of LottoLab, University College London
Title of Talk: ‘Seeing the Light’
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Dr Mark Moffett
Entomologist,
National Museum of Natural History
Title of Talk: ‘Ants as Complex Beings: Seriousness and Play Among the Insects’
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Professor Anthony Pellegrini
Professor of Educational Psychology,
University of Minnesota
Title of Talk: Object Use in Childhood: Development and Possible Functions
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Professor Sergio Pellis
Professor of Neuroscience,
University of Lethbridge
Title of Talk: A Playful Brain Makes for a More Adaptable Brain
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Dr Phillip Prager
Lecturer – Designing Digital Play,
IT University of Copenhagen
Research Associate, Minerva Foundation
Title of Talk: ‘Play and the Avant-Garde: Aren’t We All a Little Dada?’
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Please visit us at http://www.minervaberkeley.org for further information.