aaal
revised July 7
art + aesthetics of artificial life - special event
speakers - Saturday, July 11, 1998 - 9:00 until 4:30

www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aaal

   
 

9:00
gallery open - welcome from curator
Nicholas Gessler

9:15 - 9:45
Barry Gott
  • technoartist
  • from aerospace surplus to interactive sculpture
9:45 - 10:15
Stewart Dickson, Disney
  • art of mathematica
  • algorithmic sculpture
  • stereolithography
  • laminated paper
 

10:15 - 10:30
break

10:30 - 11:00
Charles Ostman, San Francisco State University
  • synthetic sentience
  • nanotechnology & biochips
  • digital biota and growing art

11:00 - 11:30
Steven Rooke
  • evolutionary art
  • the principles ofDarwinian evolution applied to the breeding of visual forms

11:30 - 12:00
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
  • flora
  • dynamic growth algorithms
 

12:00 - 1:00
lunch break

1:00 - 1:30
Sarita Thakoor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1:30 - 2:00
Jean-Pierre Hébert
  • the "algorists" (algorithmic artists)
  • the HO collaboration
  • cellular automata
  • plottings

2:00 - 2:30
Rodney Berry, Australia
  • "feeping creatures"
  • evolving musical agents
  • interactive environments
 

2:30 - 2:45
break

2:45 - 3:15
Rebecca Allen, UCLA
  • "the bush soul"
  • interactive behavior rich environments

3:15 - 3:45
Tarek Naga, Venice
  • living architecture
  • Sharm - Malibu retreats project
  • architectural - cyber - telepathy !

3:45 - 4:15
Marcos Novak, UCLA
  • trans architecture
  • transmitting the spaces of consciousness
 

4:30
gallery closed

cosponsored by:
6th international conference on artificial life
ucla cognitive sciences program
ucla center for the study of evolution and the origin of life
ucla center for the digital arts
located in the center for the digital arts
second floor, above the new wight gallery
dickson art center, north campus, ucla
admission free, parking $5 (lot3)