Computer technology is as important to art as the invention of paint. We are proud to announce our first ever event focused on the convergence of art and tech. We will bring some of the great artists and thinkers in this space together with local technology companies and software engineers.
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Speakers
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David G. Stork PhD
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Title: Â When Computers Look at Art
New methods in computer vision and rigorous image analysis have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. For example, computer fractal analysis has been used in authentication studies of paintings attributed to Jackson Pollock. Computer wavelet analysis has been used for attribution of the contributors in Perugino'sHoly Family. An international group of computer and image scientists is studying the brushstrokes in paintings by van Gogh for detecting forgeries. Sophisticated computer analysis of perspective, shading, color and form has shed light on David Hockney's bold claim that as early as 1420, Renaissance artists employed optical devices such as concave mirrors to project images onto their canvases.
How do these computer methods work? What can computers reveal about images that even the best-trained connoisseurs, art historians and artist cannot? How much more powerful and revealing will these methods become? In short, how is computer image analysis changing our understanding of art?
This profusely illustrate lecture for non-scientists will include works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Lorenzo Lotto, and others. You may never see paintings the same way again.
Biography
Dr. David G. Stork, Distinguished Research Scientist and Research Director at Rambus Labs, is a graduate in physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park. He studied art history at Wellesley College, was Artist-in-Residence through the New York State Council of the Arts and is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and a Fellow of SPIE, in part for his work on computer image analysis of art. He has published eight books/proceedings volumes and has one forthcoming, includingSeeing the Light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision and holography (Wiley), Computer image analysis in the study of art(SPIE), Pattern Classification (2nd ed., Wiley), and HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality (MIT).
List of Technical Publications
http://www.diatrope.com/stork/TechnicalPublications.html
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Tami Spector, Professor of Chemistry, USF
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Title: Â Chemistry and Contemporary Visual Art
This presentation explores how modern and contemporary artists reveal the art-chemistry connection, focusing on the unique material and conceptual aspects that chemistry and the visual arts share. I will discuss specific works by artists who self-define their art in relation to chemistry and nanoscience, and others whose art can be recontextualized through the lens of chemistry, including those who work with issues related to chemical properties and transformations, the representation of nano-chemical structures, and chemistryâs cultural impact.
Biography
Tami Spector received her B.A. from Bard College, her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. She teaches fundamentals of organic chemistry, organic chemistry I and II, organic laboratory I and II, and a graduate course in advanced mechanisms.
She also has a strong interest in aesthetics and chemistry and has published and presented work on The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease, John Dalton and The Aesthetics of Molecular Representation, The Visual Image of Chemistry, and the Relationship between Chemistry and Contemporary Visual Art. She serves on the board of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and as the treasurer for the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry (ISPC). She is the chair of the Leonardo Scientists Working Group and is the facilitator of a project for Leonardo with the San Francisco Exploratorium on Art and Nanotechnology.
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Scott Kildall, New Media Artist
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Title: Â Tweets in Space
Tweets in Space, an art project by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, will beam Twitter discussions from participants worldwide towards GJ667Cc â
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