New Constellations: Art, Science and Society

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
17-19 March 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art
Circular Quay West, Sydney Australia

New Constellations: Art, Science and Society – an international conference charting the ways in which art and science are gravitating towards one another within contemporary culture.

The Conference will present the latest thinking about collaboration between artists and scientists and examine how the worldwide trend towards interdisciplinary engagement is changing the definitions, methodologies and practices they use and how they view the social implications of their work.

Plenary Speakers:

Ruzena Bajcsy, Immediate Past President, CITRIS (Centre for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society), University of California, Berkeley, California
Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Visiting Professor of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Steve Kurtz, Founding Member, Critical Art Ensemble; Associate Professor of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York
Roger Malina, Director, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille CNRS; Chairman, Board, Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology; Co-Chair, International Advisory Board, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
Due to unforeseen circumstances Roger Malina will no longer be able to attend the conference

The conference proceedings will be published on CD-ROM. Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, has indicated that the conference papers will be considered for publication in its print journal Leonardo.


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If you are having difficulty downloading any of these documents please direct conference enquiries to Melina Scarcella, Education Assistant, on +61 2 9245 2484 or education@mca.com.au


New Constellations is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia.

The Conference has grown out of a collaboration between artist Mari Velonaki and roboticists David Rye, Steve Scheding & Stefan Williams at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney. This collaboration is an Australian Research Council- Australia Council for the Arts Linkage Project.

The conference is supported by Artspace; Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney; Australian Network for Art and Technology; Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney; and Patrick Technology and Systems.

Conference Timetable at a glance

Friday 17 March

8.30am – Registration

9:30am – Opening Proceedings

10:15am
Vibration
Plenary Address by Professor Elizabeth Grosz

11:15am – Morning Tea

11:45am
Beyond Boundaries: Theory
Chair: Dr Mitchell Whitelaw, Lecturer, School of Creative Communication, Division of Communication and Education, University of Canberra
Contributors:
Karen Ingham – Descartes’ Eye: theorising the art and science of observat