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01 Oct, 2008

Convergent Conversations at the Informatics Forum, Edinburgh

Posted by: brian In: art|seminar

Michael Kozicki and Richard Brown in conversation

Image by sctv via Flickr

Last Saturday, I attended a seminar at the informatics forum on art and science collaborations, or more specifically how the idea of dendrites has allowed artist/researcher Richard Brown and an engineer Professor Michael Kozicki (Arizona State University/Axon Technologies founder) to start talking.

So what is the discussion, the thread is dendrites that Richard Brown explores in his art work, and Michael Kozicki uses in developing disruptive technologies (like nanoscale valves, and massively bigger memory silicon chips).

It was a lively discussion, with that wariness evident, from the artist(you are going to steal my ideas, and not pay for them) and the industrialist(what is the use of art), why should i employ you?). There is that power play too, where the person that has the purse strings gets to call the shots. As a provocation, is there any other reason for artists to work in industry but to come up with novel ideas?

What are artists looking for? To influence technology? To critique it?

The talk was put on by the Informatics Forum and New Media Scotland.

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