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-> Forwarded: Art & Aesthetics of Artificial Life Exhibition
by "Wayne Miller" 
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Date: 9 Jul 1998 08:37:16 -0700
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Forwarded: Art & Aesthetics of Artificial Life Exhibition
FINAL EVENT OF THE "ART & AESTHETICS OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE"
EXHIBITION:
Speakers on Artificial Life: Art, Architecture, Mars Robotic Explorers,
Synthetic Sentience and more...
UCLA, Saturday, July 11, 1998, 9:00 to 4:30.
On the Web at
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aaal
"THE CUTTING EDGE, IT'S ALIVE!...  In many ways, the strange pieces
of
computer art provide the clearest illustration of the unpredictable
union of
machines and life."  ---Ashley Dunn, LOS ANGELES TIMES, Monday,
July 6,
1998. Business Section D, pages D1 and D6.
9:00 - gallery open
9:30 - 9:45  Nicholas Gessler, curator of the exhibition: welcome, an
anthropological perspective.
9:45 - 10:15 Barry Gott, technoartist:  from aerospace surplus to
interactive sculpture.=20
10:15 - 10:45 Stewart Dickson, Disney:  art of mathematica, algorithmic
sculpture, stereolithography, laminated paper.
=20
10:45 - 11:00 break
11:00 - 11:30 Charles Ostman, UCSF: synthetic sentience, nanotechnology
&
biochips, digital biota and growing art.=20
11:30 - 12:00 Steven Rooke:  evolutionary art, the principles of
Darwinian
evolution applied to the  breeding of visual forms.=20
=20
12:00 - 1:00 lunch break
1:00 - 1:30 Sarita Thakoor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory:  1ST NASA/ JPL
WORKSHOP ON BIOMORPHIC  EXPLORERS FOR FUTURE MISSIONS TO MARS.
1:30 - 2:00 Jean-Pierre H=E9bert:  the "algorists"
(algorithmic artists),=
the
HO collaboration, cellular automata, plottings.
2:00 - 2:30 Rodney Berry, Australia:  "feeping creatures,"
evolving musical
agents, interactive environments.
=20
2:30 - 2:45 break
=20
2:45 - 3:15  Rebecca Allen, UCLA:  "the bush soul,"
interactive, behavior
rich environments.
3:15 - 3:45 Tarek Naga, Venice:  living architecture, Sharm - Malibu
retreats project, architectural - cyber - telepathy!=20
3:45 - 4:15 Marcos Novak, UCLA:  trans architecture, transmitting the
spaces of consciousness.
=20
4:30  gallery closed
cosponsored by:
*  6th international conference on artificial life
*  ucla cognitive sciences program
*  ucla center for the study of evolution and the origin of life
*  ucla center for digital arts
located in the center for digital arts
second floor, above the wight art gallery
dickson art center, north campus, ucla
admission free, parking $5 (lot3)
Nicholas Gessler, 
Curator, "Art and Aesthetics of Artificial Life."
UCLA Center for Digital Arts - June 26 - July 12, 1998.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aaal