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Making Science Intimate

Re Thinking Cyberculture

Artists and Scientists collaborating onthe burning issues of our time

Roger F MalinaObservatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence

November 2009 ABCyber


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We know

That we have built acivilisation that isunsustainable


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We need the hard humanities

Four hundred years ago

Galileo Galilei invented

the telescope

150 years ago Darwinpublished his Origin of

the Species

? Developing the newculture that will allow us to

create a sustainable

civilisation ?


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The hard humanities

We face rapid cultural change in order to create sustainablesocieties

Over the next 50 years we must re engineer our cities, our

energy and water systems, our agricultural ecologies

History, Anthropology, Arts, but also the social sciences ,

the arts and humanities..

How to re design the human dimensions of the sciences

The Arts and Humanities are part of the tool kit for survival The hard humanities: descriptive >proscriptive


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We know landscape artists butwhat is a Climate Artist ?

1904 2004

Cezanne: Mont St Victoire.........Sabine Raaf: Translator II


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We know the taste of water..

But what is the song of CO2 ?

Char DaviesSarah Jane Pell


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Modern Science Doesnt MakeCommon Sense

Most knowledge about our world now comesthrough scientific instruments

o Few people have experience of mediated senseso Cyberculture: the human body with new sensuality

Most of the world isnt on human scales Nano science Femto physics

Our intuition, languages, metaphors, arts arebuilt training on the wrong data for survival


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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 Sensualities


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Why Collaborate and Network ?

The burning issues of our times require us to workdifferently

TheHard Humanities require artists and scientists orengineers to work togetherCoupling micro-science to cultural change

Existing social networks re-enforce old approachesand protect old valuesThe tyranny of geography and personal history

Our institutional structures reflect other ways of thinking that

created an unsustainable civilisation


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The LEONARDO organisations and networks:

An evolving story.

Leonardo an organisation founded in the 1960sA 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 needRADICAL DIGITAL


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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 theLeonardo organisation and networksThe individual as genius versus the team as genius

The cultural transformation of networked collaborations


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Leonardo Publications @ MITPRESS

30 books, 4/year

Leonardo 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


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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 6000New Leonardos


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Muliple Modes to Mediated Sensuality

INTIMATE SCIENCE: ownership of the data

about ones ownenvironment

Peoples or CitizenScience

OPENOBSERVATORIES :

distributed and openscience


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Open Observatories

The RIGHT to the data that exists aboutyou

andyour own environment

Taking data about yourself and your own

environment

A knowledge producing community OWNStheknowledge

Extended Senses, New Senses, Intimate Science

Database Aesthetics: Re-Imagining data

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. Open Observatories:

The RIGHTto the data that exists about you andyour environment

Micro-Scienceo 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 sensoryexperienceo

Science- Art Projects and Art-Science Projects Art driven driven science and engineering

Science driven development of cultural artifacts


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The Sound of Trees Growing

David Dunn (composer,

sound artist) Jim Crutchfield

( complexity scientist)

Artist driven recordingof sounds of treesgrowing led to researchproject in the coupling

of ultrasound fromtrees, beetles, forestfire system dynamics

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The Sound of ThinkingCollaborations of nano scientist Jim Gimzewski and Artist

Victoria Vesna

BLUE MORPHis aninteractive installation that

uses nanoscale images and

sounds derived from the

metamorphosis of acaterpillar into a butterfly.

Has led to a project on the

sound of thinking>Gimzewski is able to

monitor the vibration of

neurons and convert to

sound


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Intimate SciencePigeon Blog ( B Da Costa)Inside Outside Handbag (Katherine Moriwaki )


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New Corporality; Physical, VirtualStelarc Marce li Antunez Roca


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Immersion in Extreme EnvironmentsAntarctica......Deserts

Marco Peljham and Macrolab

N I t iti


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Nano Intuition :feeling molecules

Sommerer/Mignoneau


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Embedded in Peta-Data Sets

Donna Cox Ruth West

Weather Data Bases Protein Sequence DataDATABASE AESTHETICS: Re Imagining the Sublime

P l d Citi S i


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Peoples and Citizens Science

Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti:

Indian Peoples ScienceNetworks Srishti School, Bangalore

Brazil Digital Culture projects Sergipe Human Project

o Humbi Umbi in Brazil

UK Citizens Science groups Futuresonic

Open Hardware, Hacker Culture,

Bricolabs.


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Crowd-Sourcing

Distributed Science

BOINC : Berkeley

Open InfrastructureNetwork Computingo SETI@home search

for extraterrestialintelligence

o climateprediction.net ,climate modelling

o malariacontrol.net


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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 solvingcommunities outside theAcademy

Eg www.fundscience.org

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How Artists in Labs

Scientists in Studios

Town Scientists

Micro Science funding

Open sourcing of data about your own worldOPEN OBSERVATORIES

Developing the hard humanities to change thecontent and direction of science


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Thanks

www.olats.org

www.leonardo.info

[email protected]

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