Buckminster Fuller – a short intro.

Buckminster Fuller
Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres. Fuller developed many ideas, designs and inventions, particularly regarding practical, inexpensive shelter and transportation. He documented his life, philosophy and ideas scrupulously by a daily diary (later called the Dymaxion Chronofile), and by twenty-eight publications. Fuller financed some of his experiments with inherited funds, sometimes augmented by funds invested by his collaborators, one example being the Dymaxion car project.

National Science Week & The Institute of Backyard Studies present ‘Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided’

National Science Week & The Institute of Backyard Studies present ‘Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided’
10 -12 August 2010, 8.30am – 5.00pm :: Eyre Peninsula Field Days, Cleve

Throughout much of the 20th Century, in an isolated workshop on a dusty windswept plain, Henry Hoke labored mightily to conceive a string of dazzling inventions that, to this day, still defy the imagination.

Hoke inventions including Demagnifying Glass, Waterproof Tap, Wooden Magnet, Long Weight, and Dehydrated Water Pills had pretty much vanished from the public gaze before being rescued as a result of the Institute’s intervention. Take this rare opportunity to view some very special tools and inventions from this unsung Australian.

http://anat.org.au/news_items/308

Also worth checking out is the Institute of Backyard Studies – Home of Shed culture.

Nanowiki – tracking #nanotechnology #geekgirl

NanoWiki is a digital online publication to track the evolution of paradigms and discoveries in nanoscience and nanotechnology field, annotate and disseminate them, giving an overall view and feed the essential public debate on nanotechnology and its practical applications.

Who said scientists can’t dance? Video Competition for chance to win $1,000 USD #verygeeky #geekgirl

“Dance Your Ph.D.” video competition is inviting applications from anyone who has a Ph.D. or is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in a science-related field to transform their research into an interpretive dance and submit it for a chance to win up to $1,000 USD. Finalists from each category will have their Ph.D. dance videos screened at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. This is your chance to prove to the world that scientists CAN dance!

http://www.facebook.com/danceyourphd
http://gonzolabs.org/dance/

Symposium on #Body, #Art, #Bioethics – #Perth

The Body, Art and Bioethics is a symposium exploring the culture and ethics of the use and ownership of living material, from the cell to the whole body, in art, science, law and philosophy. Speakers include Dr Catherine Waldby (University of Sydney), Elizabeth Costello (writer), Dr Ethan Blue (UWA), Kathy High (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dr Ionat Zurr (UWA), Dr Stuart Hodgetts (UWA), Oron Catts (Director SymbioticA).

Friday 6 August, 2010. $110 (including GST) registration. Students and unwaged free.

For more info email, sym@symbiotica.uwa.edu.au
Or visit, http://www.bodyartbioethics.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/#

#TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal stability points

XII International Festival for New Media Culture
ART+COMMUNICATION 2010
in collaboration with „Textures” – the 6th European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

Riga, June 14 – 20, 2010

This year the Festival for New Media Culture „Art+Communication” will focus on the emerging biotechnologies as means for artistic expression as well as challenge to the constantly changing materiality in arts. Festival programme with its title “TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal Stability Points” will take place in collaboration with a large scale academic research event – „Textures” – the 6th European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts which is devoted to exploring materials, structures, surfaces and interfaces transformed by the networked media.

The main event of the festival is the biotechnology art exhibition “TRANSBIOTICS” which will be held June 15 – 20 inkim? Galleries at Spikeri. Although using technologies and scientific discoveries in art is not a novelty, using “live matter” in creating artworks can be considered as an unusual practice. The exhibition will feature a collection of international biotechnology artworks which will be made available to Latvia’s audiences for the first time.

More information – http://rixc.lv/10

Open Call Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells, Yogyakarta International Media Festival

OPEN CALL CELLSBUTTON#04: INVISIBLE CELLS
YOGYAKARTA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
27 JULY – 7 AUGUST 2010. 
 
“That the modernist tradition of progress and ceaseless extension of the frontiersof innovation are now dead. Originality is dead. The avant-garde artistic traditionis dead. All religions and utopian visions are dead and resistance to the status quo is impossible because revolution too is now dead. Like it or not, we humans are stuck in a permanent crisis of meaning, a dark room from which we can never escape. Humans will not be visible, humans will be invisible.
(Inspired by Kalle Lasn’s Contemporary Society) – Irene Agrivina, 2010″ 
 
The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) are proud to present Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells – Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival. Cellsbutton#04 will take the theme of “Invisible” as part of Education Focus Program curriculum in 2010. 
 
Cellsbutton#04 will consist 12 days duration of the festival, focussing on educative artistic activities engaging local and global development and application in art,science and technology. As an annual international community-base festival, Cellsbutton#04 will be a cross collaborative starting platform for  international artists, communities, scientists, researchers, lecturers,  inventors, theorists, activists practitioners, to exchange knowledge that beneficial for the society. 
 
Cellsbutton is an annual community-base organized international media art festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia initiated by HONF.  

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) is a media art laboratory run by a community in Yogyakarta. They implemented a methodology called Open Community which is mostly concerned to the needs of cross-collaborative actions responding to technology development and practical use in daily life. 

 How to Apply
Please send an email to cellsbutton@gmail.com before 25 May 2010
an  A4 size pdf format files containing information of:
 1.    Applicant’s Name
 2.    Applicant’s Short Biography (100 words max)
 3.    Project Title to be presented in Cellsbutton
 4.    Project Description
 5.    Brief Explanation on how the project would be beneficial to local communities
 
 For more info and Terms and Conditions contact HONF 
 new media art laboratory (HONF)
 Jl.wora wari A80/6
 Baciro – Yogyakarta
 Indonesia
 T : +62 (0) 817468621
 F : +62 (0) 274 564276
 E : venzha@yahoo.com 
 venzha@natural-fiber.com
 URL : http://www.natural-fiber.com/
 
 http://www.myspace.com/electrocore_indonesia

Interactivos?’10: Neighborhood Science – Call for Projects and Papers

Submission Deadline 19 April 2010  ::
Workshop: 7 – 23 June 2010 ::
Medialab-Prado, Madrid

Interactivos?’10 is a workshop which develops projects gathering and putting into action collaboration and local urban knowledge networks using free software and hardware technologies and “Do it yourself” (DIY) and “Do it with others” (DIWO) methods. A maximum of five theoretical works will be selected, among theoretical and research papers, presentations and analysis of the experiences about the proposed subject matter. Subjects include: Urban Infrastructure (mobility, transport, urban and telecommunication networks); Health and environmental issues (quality of the air and water, meteorology, nutrition, gastronomy and recipes, urban gardens); Social relations and cultural production (games, education and learning in the street; exchange of services and knowledge).

For call guidelines and submission forms http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_ciencia_de_barrio

Fresh Science 2010 #Melbourne. Are you a Fresh Scientist? Enter now!

This national event brings together scientists, the media and the public to:

§  enhance reporting of Australian science

§  highlight and encourage debate on the role of science in Australian society

§  provide role models for the next generation of Australian scientists.

Fresh Science 2010 will be held at Melbourne Museum from Monday 7 to Thursday 10 June, 2010. Stories will be released to the media during the event and in the weeks following. The Fresh Scientists need to be available to talk to the media during this time.

Nominations are now open for Fresh Scientists and close Thursday 25 March 2010. More information and the online nomination form are at http://www.freshscience.org.au/

Super Human. Revolution of the Species Symposium, Melbourne 23rd and 24th Nov

Super Human: Revolution of the Species Symposium
23 – 24 November 2009
BMW Edge, Federation Square
Melbourne, Australia

Due to popular demand, we are releasing single-day and half-day tickets for the Super Human symposium.

Two-day $500 / $350
Single-day $250 / $175 concession
Half-day $125 / $87.50 concession

Join artistic and scientific researchers from the fields of cognition, augmentation and nanotechnology as they consider what it means to be human, now and into the future.

For the full program visit www.superhuman.org.au or select from the following:

23 November – morning session – 9.30am – 12.30pm
Keynote: Barbara Maria Stafford (USA)
Transparency or the New Invisibility; the Business of Making Connections
Panelists: Michele Barker (AUS), Dolores Steinman (Canada), Kathryn Hoffmann (USA)

23 November – afternoon session – 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Keynote: Ju Gosling (UK)
Super Human Rights
Panelists: Kathy Cleland (AUS), Natasha Vita-More (USA), Tina Gonsalves (AUS), Mari Velonaki (AUS), Reva Stone (Canada)

24 November – morning session – 10.00am – 12.30pm
Keynote: Junichi Ushiba (Japan)
Brain-Machine Interface into Virtual Worlds
Panelists: Jonathan Duckworth (AUS), Danielle Wilde (AUS)

24 November – afternoon session – 1.30pm – 6.00pm
Keynotes: Tami Spector (USA)
Nanoaesthetics
Panelists: Leah Heiss (AUS), Svenja Kratz (AUS), Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (UK).
Closing Address: Paul Brown (AUS/UK)

Visit www.superhuman.org.au for further information and ticket sales.