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Making Science Intimate
Science as a Territory for Artistic Experimentation
The LEONARDO Network: Artists and Scientists collaborating on the burning
issues of our time.Roger F Malina
Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence
September 2009
We know
• That we have built a civilisation that is unsustainable
We need the “hard humanities”
• Four hundred years ago Galileo Galilei “invented” the telescope
• 150 years ago Darwin published his “Origin of the Species”
• ? How are we developing today the new culture that will allow us to create a sustainable civilisation ?
We know “landscape artists” butwhat is a “Climate Artist” ?
1904 2004 Cezanne: Mont St Victoire.........Sabine Raaf: Translator II
We know the taste of water…………..……… But what is the song of CO2 ?
Char Davies……………Sarah Jane Pell
Modern Science Doesnt Make Common Sense
• Most knowledge about our world now comes through scientific instruments
o Few people have experience of mediated senses
• Most of the world isnt on human scales• Nano science• Femto physics
• Our intuition, languages, metaphors, arts are built training on the wrong data for survival
Techno-Science as a Territory for Artistic Experimentation
• Forming intuition on mediated sensory data• Designing/Interacting with simulated systems• Making sense of dense data, petabyte era• Coupling the virtual world to the physical world
• Making Science Intimate• Peoples Science• Micro Science
• New Ontologies and Epistemologies– New Intuitions,
» New Sensuality
Why Collaborate and Network ?
• The burning issues of our times require us to work differently
• The Hard Humanities require artists and scientists or engineers to work together– Coupling micro-science to cultural change
• Existing social networks re-enforce old approaches and protect old values– The tyranny of geography and personal history– Our institutional structures reflect other ways of thinking that
created an unsustainable civilisation
The LEONARDO organisations and networks: An evolving story….
• Leonardo an organisation founded in the 1960’s– A generation of survivors of World War II – Creation of new international science organisations– A 1950 ‘social contract” between science and government
• Cultural appropriation of science and new technologies:– The “case for art-science-technology interaction”
• The birth of “digital “ culture– Success of the computer art pioneers
• R and D budgets of game/entertainment now driving technology
– But now we need RADICAL DIGITAL
And now….?
• « Ask Not What the Sciences can do for the Arts…Ask what the Arts can do for the Sciences¨….Roy Ascott– The « Strong Case » for art-science-technology interaction
• Enabling and Promoting the New Leonardos– The mission of the Leonardo organisation and networks– The individual as genius versus the team as genius– The cultural transformation of networked collaborations
Leonardo Publications @ MITPRESS
30 books, 4/yearLeonardo JournalsLeonardo Electronic Almanac
eg: Art and Innovation( XEROX PARC )
Immersed in Technology (BANFF, Canada). MA Moser/D MacLeod
Manovich: Language of New Media
Kac: Signs of Life: Art/Biology
DaCosta: Tactical Bio Media
Leonardo Organisation activities since 1967• Working Groups:
– Leonardo Education Forum
– Lovely Weather: Art and Climate Change
– Artists and Scientists in Times of War
• Workshops/Conferences:– Mutamorphosis (extreme environments), LESS REMOTE
• Prizes and Awards• Collaborations :
– ITACCUS Committee for Cultural Utilisation of Space,
– YASMIN mediterranean rim network
– REDCATSUR/LATAM new latin american network
– LASSI Leonardo Asian network
• …over 40 years we have promoted and documented the work of over 6000 New Leonardos
Muliple Modes to Mediated Sensuality
• INTIMATE SCIENCE:« ownership of the data
about ones ownenvironment »
• Peoples or Citizen Science
• OPEN OBSERVATORIES :
» distributed and open science »
.• Open Observatories:
• The RIGHT to the data that exists about you and your environment
• Micro-Science o Micro Science is to the National Science Foundation What Micro Credit is to the World Bank “PRO-AM” Professional Amateurs
• Making science intimateo Owning data about your own environmento Science creating communities own their knowledgeo Building intution, language from mediated sensory
experienceo
• Science- Art Projects and Art-Science Projects• Art driven driven science and engineering• Science driven development of cultural artifacts
The Sound of Trees Growing
• David Dunn (composer, sound artist)
• Jim Crutchfield ( complexity scientist)
• Artist driven recording of sounds of trees growing led to research project in the coupling of ultrasound from trees, beetles, forest fire system dynamics
Intimate SciencePigeon Blog ( B Da Costa) Inside Outside Handbag (Katherine Moriwaki )
New Corporality; Physical, VirtualStelarc Marce li Antunez Roca
Immersion in Extreme EnvironmentsAntarctica......Deserts…
Marco Peljham and Macrolab
Nano Intuition : feeling molecules
Sommerer/Mignoneau
Embedded in Peta-Data SetsDonna Cox Ruth West
Weather Data Bases Protein Sequence Data
People’s Science
• Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti: Indian People’s Science Networks
• Brazil Digital Culture projects • Sergipe « Human Project »
o Humbi Umbi in Brazil• Srishti School, Bangalore• Ubiquitous micro science
producing communities• Open Hardware• Hacker Culture, Bricolabs
• OPEN OBSERVATORIES
Crowd-Sourcing
• Distributed Science
• BOINC : Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computingo SETI@home search
for extraterrestial intelligence
o climateprediction.net , climate modelling
o malariacontrol.net
Philanthropy 2.0 and « open innovation »
• Eg INNOCENTIVE• Organisations can submit
problems for solution• Together with award
incentive• Over 300 problems solved
to date
• Problem solving communities outside the Academy
• • Eg www.fundscience.org
How• Artists in Labs
• Scientists in Studios
• Town Scientists
• Micro Science funding
• Open sourcing of data about your own world OPEN OBSERVATORIES
• Developing the ‘hard humanities’ to change the content and direction of science
