Conversations on Art Is there Intelligent Art in Outer Space?
Panelists include Revisions artist Jonathon Keats; Ken Goldberg, director at the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, UC Berkeley; James Gibson, department of astronomy at UC Berkeley; Alla Efimova, chief curator at the Magnes; and Meredith Tromble, coordinator at the Center for Art & Science, San Francisco Art Institute.
Bio
Alla Efimova
Alla Efimova is the Chief Curator at the Judah L. Magnes Museum.
James Gibson
Adjunct Faculty, U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Astronomy
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations
Research (IEOR), with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) and in the School of Information at the
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He is also a
Co-Founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He is an artist,
writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and
automation.
Jonathon Keats
Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, novelist, and critic. He is creator of Atheon. For his most recent exhibition, at Modernism Gallery in San Francisco, he customized the metric system. He has also attempted to genetically engineer God in a petri dish, in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, and petitioned Berkeley to pass a fundamental law of logic – A=A – a work commissioned by the city's annual Arts Festival.
He has been awarded Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships, and his projects have been documented by The San Francisco Chronicle, KQED-TV, and the BBC World Service.
Meredith Tromble
Meredith Tromble is visiting faculty and co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary Center for Art+Science. She is an artist, writer, and editor. Her writing has appeared in the Flintridge Foundation Awards catalogue, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Women Artists in California, and many other publications. She edited Private Eye, on the new media artist Lynn Hershman, which was published by the University of California Press in 2003. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Artweek and NextMonet.com, and co-founded the Bay Area art website, Stretcher.org.