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Synesthesia's blended senses - latimes.com
"The study of synesthesia has helped shift the way scientists think about the brain. In the past, they have focused on matching different areas with specific functions; now, the entire organ is viewed as a tapestry of interwoven connections.

"The whole system is a giant network," Eagleman says. "It's no longer sufficient to think about single areas in isolation."

Like synesthesia, many neurological disorders — such as schizophrenia, autism,Alzheimer's disease, depression and epilepsy — have been linked to abnormal communication between brain regions. The hope is that as neuroscientists learn about how the connections in the synesthetic brain differ from those in normal brains, they will also gain insight into how these differences develop — and how they sometimes manifest as harmful disorders."
davideagleman  sensoryprocessingdysfunction  depression  epilepsy  alzheimers  schizophrenia  autism  music  sudio  sounds  smells  colors  numbers  ucsd  networks  senses  brain  neuroscience  2012  synesthesia  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
There's No Place Like This Home - voiceofsandiego.org: Behind The Scene: The Art And Drama Of Making Art In San Diego
"If all goes well, the dream of artist Do Ho Suh will come true on Nov. 15 when the one-room cottage will be lowered into place by one of the biggest cranes in North America. The piece seems destined to become the most talked-about piece in UCSD's Stuart Collection of works of art designed to be permanent parts of the campus.

The roots of the project go back to Suh's earlier years, when he was "completely disoriented" by his move from South Korea to Rhode Island for graduate school, said the Stuart Collection's director, Mary Beebe. He's since become famous for art that explores issues of home and away-from-home, location and dislocation."
art  sandiego  ucsd  stuartcollection  2011  dohosuh  lajolla  tosee  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Fab Lab San Diego — A place where you can make almost anything
"In 2007, a collaboration between the MIT & the San Diego-based non-profit Heads On Fire allowed for the creation of an advanced digital design & fabrication laboratory where community members can utilize high-tech tools to actualize ideas through design & fabrication.<br />
Today, in addition to localized learning, Fab Lab programs are available in a distributed format, bringing the opportunity to turn concepts into creations to as many community members as possible. Fab Lab programs offer experiences in design, science, engineering, electronics, computation, mathematics & the scientific method, through project-based learning, resulting in personal development & real-world skill attainment.<br />
By promoting learning that addresses empirical education, innovation, production & creativity, we aim to provide accessible & applicable educational experiences for individual learners in order to support the development of more ingenious & resourceful communities."
diy  sandiego  fablab  education  fabbing  hackerspaces  headsonfire  macsd  ucsd  sdsu  steam  engineering  classideas  edg  srg  fieldtrips  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Software Studies: digital humanities, cultural analytics, software studies
"Cultural Analytics is the term we coined to describe computational analysis of massive cultural and social data sets and data flows. Over last 15-10 years, cultural analytics came to structure contemporary media universe, cultural production and consumption, and cultural memory. Search engines, spam detection, Netflix and Amazon recommendations, Last.fm, Flickr "interesting" photo rankings, movie success predictions, tools such as Google n-gram viewer, Trends, Insights for Search, content-based image search, and and numerous other applications and services all rely on cultural analytics. This work is carried out in media industries and in academia by researchers in data mining, social computing, media computing, music information retrieval, computational linguistics, and other areas of computer science."
datagriotism  datagriots  digitalhumanities  humanities  data  levmanovich  lastfm  netflix  amazon  ngram  ngramviewer  trends  media  culture  computing  computation  computationallinguistics  culturalanalytics  2011  ucsd  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
DESIGNING GEOPOLITICS · Jun 2+3 2011 · La Jolla, CA > D:GP The Center for Design and Geopolitics
"How does a digital Earth govern itself? Through what jurisdictions, what rights of the citizen-user, what capacities of enforcement, and in the name of what sovereign geographies? In fact we simply do not know. But in the face of fast-evolving cyberinfrastructures that outpace our inherited legal forms on the one hand, and a multigenerational arc of ecological chaos on the other, we need to find out quickly: we need to design that geopolitics."
via:robinsloan  geoffmanaugh  bldgblog  vernorvinge  caseyreas  levmanovich  mollywrightsteenson  teddycruz  ucsd  events  2011  togo  benjaminbratton  ricardodominguez  jamesfowler  hernándíaz-alonso  triciawang  peterkrapp  normanklein  sheldonbrown  joshuakauffman  metahaven  edkeller  elizabethlosh  kellygates  manueldelanda  renedaalder  jordancrandall  adambly  charliekennel  naomioreskes  larrysmarr  mckenziewark  joshuataron  danielrehn  tarazepel  calit2  geopolitics  design  architecture  computing  cyberinfrastructures  geography  emergentgovernance  governance  interdisciplinary  computationaljurisdictions  publicecologies  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Political Equator ["PE III is a 2-day cross-border mobile conference and community forum held June 3rd and 4th 2011."]
While in the last years, the global city became primary site of economic consumption & cultural display, local neighborhoods in margins of such centers of economic power remained sites of cultural production…peripheral communities & neighborhoods where new economies are emerging & new social, cultural & environmental configurations are taking place as catalysts to produce alternative urban policies towards a more inclusive social sustainability…<br />
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…continues to engage pressing regional socio-economic, urban & environmental conditions across San Diego-Tijuana border. These meetings have been focusing on a critical analysis of local conflicts in order to re-evaluate meaning of shifting global dynamics, across geo-political boundaries, natural resources & marginal communities…will focus on Neighborhood as a Site of Production, investigating practices in arts, architecture, science & humanities that work w/ peripheral neighborhoods worldwide…"
sandiego  tijuana  borders  togo  urban  urbanism  brunolatour  teddycruz  ucsd  sergiofajardo  emilianogandolfi  events  conferences  local  community  communities  culturalproduction  culture  environmentalism  activism  neighborhoods  art  arts  architecture  science  humanities  economics  development  quilianriano  publicculture  politicalequator  politics  policy  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Amazon.com: University of California, San Diego: Campus Guides (The Campus Guide) (9781568988603): Dirk Sutro, David Hewitt, Anne Garrison: Books
"Founded during the space-age boom of the 1950s, the University of California, San Diego campus showcases some of California's finest postwar architecture. Perched dramatically above the Pacific Ocean, the campus architecture ranges from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, from the new millennium, buildings that reflect the latest ideas about connecting buildings with the student community. University of California, San Diego is both a history of campus planning and growth and a series of map-guided walking tours of its architectural landmarks, including visits to buildings by world-renowned architects, such as Antoine Predock, Michael Rotondi, and Moshe Safdie."
books  ucsd  sandiego  lajolla  antoinepredock  michaelrotondi  moshesafdie  design  history  architecture  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Escuela Moderna - Wikipedia [See also http://struggle.ws/spain/ferrer.html AND http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheenachi/4351675600/]
"La Escuela Moderna was a progressive school that existed briefly at the start of the 20th century in Catalonia.<br />
Founded in 1901 in Barcelona by free-thinker Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, the school's stated goal was to "educate the working class in a rational, secular & non-coercive setting". In practice, high tuition fees restricted attendance at the school to wealthier middle class students. It was privately hoped that when the time was ripe for revolutionary action, these students would be motivated to lead the working classes.<br />
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It closed in 1906. Shortly after, Ferrer was executed for sedition.<br />
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Today, the only remaining archives from the school are held in the special collections department of the University of California, San Diego.<br />
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La Escuela Moderna, & Ferrer's ideas generally, formed the inspiration for a series of Modern Schools in the US, Cuba, South America & London. The first of these was started in NYC in 1911."
education  anarchism  escuelamoderna  franciscoferrer  unschooling  deschooling  coercion  modernschools  ucsd  anarchy  schools  barcelona  catalonia  spain  españa  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
UC San Diego : Twitter
"This feed consolidates tweets from UC San Diego accounts."
ucsd  sandiego  twitter  aggregator  news  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
CRCA - Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
"an organized research unit of UCSD that facilitates the creation of vanguard culture via computer science research. Areas of current activity include: next generation digital media, multicore computing, experimental computer games, future cinema, networked multimedia, software studies, cultural visualization, science/art collaborations, virtual reality and computer-spatialized audio. CRCA is also the home of the UCSD branch of the NSF sponsored Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research.<br />
As the University of California’s oldest arts research center, CRCA pursues speculative cultural activities that draw upon humanistic analysis, engineering innovation and the insights of artistic expression. Faculty members devise new modes of artistic practice through their liaisons with international cultural institutions, technology industries, and interdisciplinary collaborations…"
research  technology  art  software  video  crca  ucsd  sandiego  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
ICAM150/VIS159 | UCSD | winter 2009 [class schedule / readings / lecture notes]
"All readings for this class will be available online at no charge. The readings include articles and chapters from book drafts by the instructor and additional historical or theoretical texts by other authors. The students will be also asked to study the web sites describing particular cultural project, people, and art movements covered in lectures and sections…"<br />
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"In this class we will discuss the relationships between art, culture, and technology by focusing on two historical periods: beginning of the 20th century and the current period."<br />
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[Quotes from syllabus: http://manovich.net/icam150_winter2008/icam150_winter2011syl.html ]
levmanovich  media  history  art  ucsd  free  texts  technology  toread  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Tana Sprague | Lissom
"I am transfixed with micro details, and the elevation of consciousness that is obtained through attuned presence . With focus fluctuating between digital and organic, my work creates a space where one complements the other. Inspired by the elegant complexity of organic forms, I utilize various devices to synthesize a similar enveloping intricacy. My approach is primarily intuitive, but may also incorporate generative processes that either directly inform the structure, or become the perceptual data itself. My intention is to heighten and transform awareness of time, space, place and scale, by seeping through the senses." [found via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristandacunha/4844869500/ ]
tanasprague  lissom  art  glvo  artists  ucsd  sound  audio  sense  space  place  scale  perception  conciousness  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
UCSD Surplus Sales Online - Home
ucsd  surplus  sandiego  shopping  electronics  glvo  projects  make  making  laboratories  tools  technology  tcsnmy  supplies  furniture  components  machinery  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Stuart Collection - UCSD-TV - University of California Television - San Diego
"The Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego seeks to enrich the cultural, intellectual, and scholarly life of the UCSD campus and of the San Diego community by building and maintaining a unique collection of site-specific works by leading artists of our time. It has been inventive in both its curatorial point of view and its working processes."
art  sandiego  ucsd  stuartcollection  video  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
UCSD by Design [See also: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/22/mecca-modern-ucsd-art-and-architecture/]
"Beginning in fall of 2010 & continuing throughout UCSD's 50th anniversary year, the history & future development of UCSD's built environment will be explored & celebrated in UCSD by Design: Art, Architecture, & Urbanism in the Campus Context.<br />
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The UCSD Campus Guide by Dirk Sutro is latest addition to series of campus guides from Princeton Architectural Press…organized around 10 map-guided tours, & presents history of growth of campus & of its architectural landmarks…reveals stories behind architecture, landscapes, & sculptural works of UCSD’s contemporary built environment.<br />
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The centerpiece of UCSD by Design is a public lecture & moderated discussion series consisting of 5 events…At the moderated discussions, each keynote speaker will be joined, appropriate to the topic, by invited architects, architectural historians, landscape architects, art historians, Stuart Collection artists, urban planners, campus planners, and academics in related disciplines."
sandiego  ucsd  mcasd  todo  togo  architecture  design  2010  lectures  campus  history  future  dirksutro  kurtforster  johnwalsh  robertstorr  jean-phillipevassal  gilleclément  charlesjencks  art  landscape  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Dream-​​fortresses all look the same > Robin Sloan
"Ooh, I love this. The Citadel from Nor­mal Heights looks like the Geisel Library at UCSD looks like… the snow fortress from Incep­tion!" [points to: http://totallylookslike.com/2010/08/04/inception-snow-fortress-geisel-librar/]
inception  robinsloan  normalheights  ucsd  geisellibrary  tcsnmy7  tcsnmy  shelldrake  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Dream-​​fortresses all look the same > Robin Sloan
"Ooh, I love this. The Citadel from Nor­mal Heights looks like the Geisel Library at UCSD looks like… the snow fortress from Incep­tion!" [points to: http://totallylookslike.com/2010/08/04/inception-snow-fortress-geisel-librar/]
inception  robinsloan  normalheights  ucsd  geisellibrary  tcsnmy7  tcsnmy  shelldrake 
august 2010 by robertogreco
UCIRA: State of the Arts Conference
"The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts is pleased to announce the fourth annual system-wide State of the Arts Conference, to be held November 18-21st at UC San Diego. The theme of the conference, Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University, provides a broad umbrella under which to consider the encroaching privatization of public education and the complex mix of economic, cultural and social forces currently placing pressure on the status of the arts within the research university, as well as the notion of the university itself as haven for liberal arts education."
education  arts  pedagogy  california  ucsd  ucira  conferences  2010 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot - NYTimes.com
"Standing on a polka-dot carpet at a preschool on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, a robot named RUBI is teaching Finnish to a 3-year-old boy.
robots  robotics  education  autism  ai  schools  teaching  ucsd 
july 2010 by robertogreco
City Heights Free Skool [See also: http://www.myspace.com/cityheightsfreeskool]
"You have reached this page because the City Heights Free Skool is being censored by UC Chancellor Mark Yudof. We stand in solidarity with the B.A.N.G. Lab for worldwide social revolution. Our site is having technical difficulties related to the UCSD administration's decision to cut off network access to the B.A.N.G. lab. We will be back soon." [9 April 2010]
cityheights  community  education  sandiego  ucsd  banglab  freeschools  activism  censorship 
april 2010 by robertogreco
MySpace - City Heights Free Skool [Other site down: http://bang.calit2.net/freeskool/]
"The Free Skool works to facilitate a learning exchange as an instrument for individuals who want to learn in an open environment. Students are encouraged to follow their own interests. Free Skool is designed to stimulate curiosity and encourage cooperation. We believe that the most meaningful learning occurs in an atmosphere allowing opportunities for students to be self-directed, self-motivated and self-disciplined. We are a resource that provides free alternative educational opportunities to people of all ages and backgrounds. The Free Skool also works for profound social change by serving as a model for education in the future." From the site that is down: "You have reached this page because the
ucsd  sandiego  cityheights  freeschools  activism  bikes  computers 
april 2010 by robertogreco
b.a.n.g. lab » Bits.Atoms.Neurons.Genes
"Micro_Gestures at the Edge of Invisibility is an On/Off line space for artists in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD to explore and present works at the edge of invisibility, at the edge of the digital and biological, at the edge of micro-robotics and nano-art, from in-virtu to in-vivo works and back.
california  sandiego  ucsd  hacktivism  lab  biotech  bioart  artists  activism  art  education  community  technology  action  cartography  newmedia  mobile  blogs  politics  digital  ricardodominguez 
april 2010 by robertogreco
voiceofsandiego.org | Developer of Cell Phone Tool for Migrants Under Investigation by UCSD
"The investigations, Dominguez said, have slowed progress on the Transborder Immigrant Tool and raised questions within his department over the freedom of researchers at UCSD to conduct the work they were hired to do.
ucsd  sandiego  borders  us  mexico  disobedience  civildisobedience  legal  law 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Trevor Paglen [via: http://shannonspanhake.vox.com/library/post/whats-in-a-name-smart-grid-and-spy-networks.html]
"The city of San Diego is synonymous with the military. It is chock-full of defense contractors and military bases, and it’s sky is filled with so many F-18s and Blackhawk helicopters that it feels like an occupied country. In mid-January 2005, we undertook an expedition to view some of the more peculiar sites in this military city."
politics  research  technology  sandiego  ucsd  military  tcsnmy 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Saving the Tijuana River Estuary
"As part of this project, Romo and his UCSD students have set their sights on improving life in Los Laureles canyon and the university has been providing technical assistance and funding for their efforts. One of their most ambitious projects aims to build 40 sustainable homes from the ground up in the canyon. So far, the project has raised enough funds for three dwellings. The homes will be made of bamboo, which UCSD students suggested as a construction material because it can grow locally, Romo said. A micro-sewage plant that will treat wastewater from the neighborhood also is in the works."
ucsd  sandiego  tijuana  loslaurelescanyon  borders  environment  sewage  oscarromo  wastewater  mexico  us  tijuanariver 
march 2010 by robertogreco
@UCSD: Borderline
"The environmentally friendly pavers let rainwater drain through and slowly percolate into the soil. The process prevents erosion and reduces flooding hazards, as well as providing water for nearby plant life, before finally ending up adding to the underground aquifers.
coloniasanbernardo  oscarromo  ucsd  perviouspavers  pervious  pavers  runoff  contamination  pollution  water  borders  us  mexico  tijuana  2008  rainwater 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Academics make statement with project - SignOnSanDiego.com
"Because the promise of disentangling the ideological from the ethical in this American dream-turned-nightmare shimmers like a mirage on the horizon, we of Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab (a UCSD and University of Michigan artist-based research group), have opted instead to create a poetic gesture and safety device, equipped to identify water caches on the U.S. side of the border.
via:javierarbona  borders  us  mexico  tijuana  sandiego  bordercrossing  mobile  phones  gps  safety  ucsd  art  water  tbt  transborder  immigration  migration  ricardodominguez  bretstalbaum 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Ché Café Collective
"The Che Cafe is a community space, DIY venue, vegan cafe, resource center for radical grassroots activists, and a whole lot more. We put on all ages shows, serve tasty vegetarian food and host numerous political and social events. The Che Cafe is "owned" and run by a non-hierarchical worker's collective - no bosses! The Che is a great place to meet and hang out with other people who envision a better world.
sandiego  ucsd  activism  community  music  food  local  grassroots  collective 
december 2009 by robertogreco
UCSD: Global Information Industry Center
consumers  information  media  data  statistics  future  change  ucsd 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Brain Observatory - University of California, San Diego
"The Brain Observatory used several web cameras to invite the general public to participate in an extraordinary scientific endeavor. Researchers voyaged through the brain of the most famous medical patient in the history of science, Patient H.M., acquiring anatomical images and collecting 2401 paper-thin tissue sections during a 53-hour procedure.
ucsd  science  medicine  neuroscience  brain  health  research 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Better x Design: Teddy Cruz - Events - Dwell
""Designers are not creators of simple products, but translators of realities into new political frameworks and economic systems," he stated. Citing these "living rooms at the border," Teddy Cruz's fervent speech urged us to rethink the roles of certain players for affordable housing on the scale of the neighborhood. The neighborhood nonprofit: a thinktank, temporal city hall, micro-developer, and micro-policymaker. The single-unit land parcel: an economic engine, a mini-social-system, and a unifying neighborhood grassroots pedagogy. He pumped his fist and declared, "We should not be afraid to plug the word "Public" on everything. Housing cannot stand alone!""
teddycruz  ucsd  sandiego  tijuana  borders  design  architecture  reality  policy  politics  economics  nonprofit 
october 2009 by robertogreco
cityofsound: Benjamin H. Bratton (Postopolis! LA)
"now we have...no choice but to focus attention on the conception of the Pre-. We are now...Pre-other things & some of the things we do now will scale into epochal institutions... Stamen will make maps for Olympic committees but their real interest is in how informationally-enabled modes of a cognitive urbanism can make space more permanently adventurous not just more transparent. They are card carrying Situationists...Their project is a new city. Their mandate is of the Pre, not so much the Post...Because design was a symbol of the bubble it is also a symbol of the bubble’s collapse. ... many ways of doing things, of designing things, of consuming things, of consuming design are ... zombie ideas. ... the opportunity is potentially at hand to redesign many of the fundamental social, cultural, economic institutions that govern our lives, and not just design the content that would fill these forms ... design model to which we should pay more attention is not productive, but subtractive."
benjaminbratton  danhill  cityofsound  sustainability  postopolis  cities  urban  politics  architecture  design  urbanism  stamendesign  situationist  postarchitectural  crisis  2009  theory  oma  remkoolhaas  collapse  economics  gamechanging  ucsd  losangeles 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Benjamin H. Bratton
"Benjamin H. Bratton is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and on the Cultural Studies faculty at SCI_Arc ... a social theorist working within and across multiple institutional contexts --academic, artistic, corporate, theoretical, projective, literary-- experimenting with their systems of production, and with how the means allowed by each can work in strong and weak relation to each other. His research, writing, and practical interests include contemporary social theory, the perils and potentials of pervasive computing, architectural theory and provocation, inverse brand theory, software studies, systems design and development, and the rhetorics of exceptional violence. ... Bratton is a theorist who intervenes within multiple institutional contexts: art, design, computer science, architecture, in order to, like those others to enact new connections between aesthetics and technology and how each works for the social.
benjaminbratton  design  internet  architecture  philosophy  ucsd  sandiego  sciarc  interface  media  newmedia  theory  sociology 
april 2009 by robertogreco
ArtPower
"ArtPower! at UC San Diego builds creative experiences in music, dance, film, exhibition and food for our collective pleasure and inspiration. We engage diverse audiences through vibrant, challenging, multi-disciplinary performances by emerging and renowned international artists. Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower! provides exciting opportunities for research, participation, and creation of new work, igniting powerful dialogue between artists, students, scholars and the community."
art  sandiego  glvo  performance  performingarts  dance  film  music  ucsd 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD
"The mission of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD is to be the premier institute for social science research and economic and social policy on Mexico and U.S.-Mexican relations. The Center supports research relevant to current policy issues in Mexico and to the binational relationship in close collaboration with social scientists at Mexican institutions. In addition, most of the Center's research involves comparative studies with a substantial Mexico component." via: http://sandiego.metblogs.com/2009/03/05/bestandbrightest/
ucsd  sandiego  research  immigration  mexico  us  borders  education  tcsnmy  classideas 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Two Running Violet V Forms, 1983 , Robert Irwin, Stuart Collection, UCSD
"For his contribution to the Stuart Collection, Two Running Violet V Forms - his first permanent installation in California - Irwin was drawn to the eucalyptus groves east of the Mandeville Center and adjacent to the Faculty Club. The contradiction inherent in this man-made forest appealed to him; the geometric regularity of the grid of trees is balanced by the infinite variety of light and detail which the natural setting nevertheless provides. Irwin installed two fencelike structures in V-forms amidst the trees. The "fences" are blue-violet, plastic-coated, small gauge chain-link fencing supported by stainless steel poles which average twenty-five feet in height. The structure maintains a constant elevation as the hillside terrain drops gently beneath it. Purple flowering iceplant, echoing but not matching the color of the chain link, is planted under the fence."
robertirwin  ucsd  lajolla  sandiego  art  installation  1983 
september 2008 by robertogreco
MCASD/UCSD 2008 Russell Lecture: Robert Irwin
"The 2008 Russell Lecturer was renowned and influential artist Robert Irwin. This program was presented in conjunction with the MCASD exhibition 'Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries,' a survey spanning over five decades of the artist's work. The artist has lectured and participated in symposia at over 200 universities and art institutes, where he placed an emphasis on spending time with students. He has taught at a range of institutions including Chouinard, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Irvine. Irwin was the first artist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship ("genius") award in 1984.In addition to this lecture, Irwin had the chance to meet and interact with students in UCSD's Visual Arts Department, as part of the Russell Foundation program."
robertirwin  art  lectures  video  ucsd  macasd 
september 2008 by robertogreco
databeautiful » Blog Archive » Visualizing Cultural Patterns
"Digitization of media collections, the development of Web 2.0 and the rapid growth of social media have created unique opportunities to studying social and cultural processes in new ways."
culture  research  datavisualization  visualization  ucsd  innovation  media  via:cityofsound 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Feral Robotic Dogs
electronics  education  sensors  make  ucsd  sandiego  nataliejeremijenko  robotics  robots  environment  pollution  etech 
june 2008 by robertogreco
TSN : The Science Network: Brains R Us [videos available as well]
"highly interactive group of researchers, educators, policy makers, parents and students to discuss the state of the science of educating from synapse to schoolroom, from neurons to neighborhoods. Join us — and discover why timing is everything."
ucsd  salkinstitute  brain  research  events  sandiego  lajolla  learning  education  schools  video 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center
"aims to achieve an integrated understanding of the role of time and timing in learning, across multiple scales, brain systems, and social systems. The scientific goal of the center is therefore to understand the temporal dynamics of learning, and to appl
education  learning  research  ucsd  sandiego  lajolla  brain  science  teaching  schools 
june 2008 by robertogreco
TSN : The Science Network
science  education  religion  reason  video  belief  salkinstitute  sandiego  lajolla  ucsd 
june 2008 by robertogreco
TED | Speakers | Vilayanur Ramachandran [see also video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/184]
"Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran looks deep into the brain’s most basic mechanisms. By working with those who have very specific mental disabilities caused by brain injury or stroke, he can map functions of the mind to physical structures of the brain."
brain  neuroscience  philosophy  lajolla  sandiego  ucsd  salkinstitute  synesthesia  phantomlimbs  body  bodyimage  senses  creativity  vilayanurramachandran 
may 2008 by robertogreco
UCSD - VisArts - Mission Statement - "Artists at UCSD take advantage of large megalopolis stretching from LA across border to Tijuana."
"New efforts in Department address issues of trans-nationalism, border, globalization...on-going relationships with many divisions of university...Interdisciplinary Computing & Arts Major (ICAM) is fastest growing area of interest on campus"
sandiego  art  education  interdisciplinary  ucsd  lajolla  losangeles  tijuana  mexico  transnationalism  borders  globalization  nataliejeremijenko  colleges  universities  classideas 
may 2008 by robertogreco
CRCA - Center for Research in Computing and the Arts [Organized Research Unit of UCSD]
"mission is to facilitate invention of new art forms that arise out of developments of digital technologies. Current areas of interest include interactive networked multimedia, virtual reality, computer-spatialized audio, and live performance techniques f
art  newmedia  media  computers  computing  ucsd  sandiego  lajolla  education  learning  research  technology  psychology  events  multimedia  virtualreality 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Social Movement Laboratory :: Anti-Normalizer
"Anti-Normalizer is a location-based mobile phone scavenger hunt for weird and deviant behavior. The game was created as a mechanism for stimulating social change by presenting alternative models for public social interaction."
mobile  phones  play  games  arg  behavior  social  interaction  public  ucsd  sandiego 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Calit2 : ActiveCampus project
"ActiveClass enables collaboration between students & professors by serving as visual moderator for classroom discussion...Explorer uses person's context to help engage them in campus life...provides suite of location-based services such as buddy presence
sandiego  ucsd  presence  location-based  locative  awareness  education  learning  schools  colleges  universities  teaching  calit2  mobile  phones  mobility 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
"Calit2 represents a new mechanism to address large-scale societal issues by bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds (both on and beyond UC campuses) in a way that had been impossible earlier."
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may 2008 by robertogreco
Calit2 : Tracking Pollution and Social Movement: Love Fest for Calit2 Technologies at 'Make Fest 2007'
"For Calit2 postdoctoral researcher Shannon Spanhake, it meant putting her Calit2-funded mobile air pollution monitor through its paces - while giving press interviews between demonstrations."
mobile  phones  sandiego  ucsd  monitoring  sensors  shannonspanhake  make  personalinformatics  pollution  bluetooth  technology  art  environment  engineering  science  mobility  nataliejeremijenko  calit2  glvo  classideas  via:blackbeltjones  etech 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Shannon Spanhake: Meet Squirrel, a Personal Pollution Monitor | Visarts-Drupal
"Since 1990, San Diego’s population rose by 1.8m people, yet # of official pollution monitors increased by 1. UCSD engineer-turned-artist Shannon Spanhake has come up w/ new&better way to monitor environment: personal pollution sensor called Squirrel."
bluetooth  data  environment  personalinformatics  shannonspanhake  pollution  ucsd  classideas  sandiego  science  art  engineering  sensors  mobile  phones  monitoring  make  technology  mobility  nataliejeremijenko  calit2  glvo  via:blackbeltjones  etech 
may 2008 by robertogreco
La Jolla Festival of the Arts, Official Site
"Festival hosts over 190 award-winning local and national artists displaying watercolors, oils, sculpture, serigraphs, fine jewelry, photography, and more. Event attendees can also enjoy a variety of cuisines in the festival food area, listen to live ente
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may 2008 by robertogreco
UCSD University Art Gallery
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may 2008 by robertogreco

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