12 ottobre, 2006
Live webcast: Laurie Anderson e il neuroscienziato Antonio Damasio - 21 ottobre 2006
Sui rapporti tra arte, scienza e tecnologia, il prossimi 21 ottobre ci sarà quasta conversazione tenuta alla University of Southern California tra la cantante Laurie Anderson e il neuroscienziato Antonio Damasio:
Live webcast on the HASTAC website:
Conversation with artist Laurie Anderson and neuroscientist Antonio
Damasio, moderated by Professor Anne Balsamo, following a lecture by Anderson.
Saturday, October 21st, 8 p.m. at USC's Norris Theater and simulcast
FREE, at www.hastac.org
(attenzione!! orario californiano)
Laurie Anderson will present a special audio-visual lecture exploring the
intersections of art, science and creativity. One of the permier
perfromance artists in the world, Ms. Anderson has consistently intrigued,
entertained and challenged audiences with her multimedia persentations.
Anderson's artistic career has cast her in roles as various as visual
artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, ventriloquist,
electronics whiz, vocalist and instrumentalist. Following her
presentation, Ms. Anderson will be joined in conversation by
neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, director of the USC Brain and Creativity
Institute and a leading researcher of cognition, emotions, and neural
systems.
This special presentation is part of the HASTAC In|Formation Year, devoted
to twelve months of public programming from a number of universities meant
to promote the human and humane dimenstions of technology and to encourage
conversation and exchange between humanists, artists, technologists, and
scientists (www.hastac.org).
Recognized worldwide as a leader in the groundbreaking use of technology
in the arts, Ms. Anderson has collaborated with Interval Research
Corporation, a research and development laboratory founded by Paul Allen
and David Liddle, in the exploration of new creative tools, including the
Talking Stick.
She received the 2001 Tenco Prize for Songwriting in San Remo, Italy and
the 2001 Deutsche Schallplatten Prize for Life on a String. Currently,
Ms. Anderson is touring a new solo work begun during her tenure as the
first artist-in-residence of NASA in 2003-2004.
Live webcast on the HASTAC website:
Conversation with artist Laurie Anderson and neuroscientist Antonio
Damasio, moderated by Professor Anne Balsamo, following a lecture by Anderson.
Saturday, October 21st, 8 p.m. at USC's Norris Theater and simulcast
FREE, at www.hastac.org
(attenzione!! orario californiano)
Laurie Anderson will present a special audio-visual lecture exploring the
intersections of art, science and creativity. One of the permier
perfromance artists in the world, Ms. Anderson has consistently intrigued,
entertained and challenged audiences with her multimedia persentations.
Anderson's artistic career has cast her in roles as various as visual
artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, ventriloquist,
electronics whiz, vocalist and instrumentalist. Following her
presentation, Ms. Anderson will be joined in conversation by
neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, director of the USC Brain and Creativity
Institute and a leading researcher of cognition, emotions, and neural
systems.
This special presentation is part of the HASTAC In|Formation Year, devoted
to twelve months of public programming from a number of universities meant
to promote the human and humane dimenstions of technology and to encourage
conversation and exchange between humanists, artists, technologists, and
scientists (www.hastac.org).
Recognized worldwide as a leader in the groundbreaking use of technology
in the arts, Ms. Anderson has collaborated with Interval Research
Corporation, a research and development laboratory founded by Paul Allen
and David Liddle, in the exploration of new creative tools, including the
Talking Stick.
She received the 2001 Tenco Prize for Songwriting in San Remo, Italy and
the 2001 Deutsche Schallplatten Prize for Life on a String. Currently,
Ms. Anderson is touring a new solo work begun during her tenure as the
first artist-in-residence of NASA in 2003-2004.
// posted by Admin @ 19:13 
