[spectre] Copenhagen June 4th – Join Leonardo programme!

[Annick Bureaud]

Dear Spectrites

June 4th is going to be Leonardo Day in Copenhagen with 2 
events:
- The 4th Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks Symposium 
organised by Leonardo at NetSci (8:30 am – 5 pm)
- The Data Body on the Dissection Table round table 
co-organised in the evening by Leonardo/Olats and the 
Medical Museion Copenhagen (6:30 – 9:30 pm)

* Short info on the 4th Arts, Humanities and Complex 
Networks Symposium
The fourth Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013 on 
Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks takes place on June 
4th at DTU in Copenhagen. The aim of the symposium is to 
foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within 
or with the help of arts and humanities.
The symposium highlights arts and humanities as an 
interesting source of data, where the combined experience of 
arts, humanities research, and natural science makes a huge 
difference in overcoming the limitations of artificially 
segregated communities of practice. Furthermore, the 
symposium focuses on striking examples, where artists and 
humanities researchers make an impact within the natural 
sciences. By bringing together network scientists and 
specialists from the arts and humanities we strive for a 
better understanding of networks and their visualizations in 
general.
The overall mission is to bring together pioneer work, 
leveraging previously unused potential by developing the 
right questions, methods, and tools, as well as dealing with 
problems of information accuracy and incompleteness. Running 
parallel to the NetSci2013 conference, the symposium also 
provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading 
researchers and practitioners of complex network science, 
potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.
more here: http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/



* Short info on The Data Body on the Dissection Table
Dissection reveals what lies beneath the skin, but for a 
brief moment in time, and for a priviledged few. Depictions, 
models, and preservations have long been used to share what 
dissection uncovers; from ancient anatomical drawings to 
today’s virtual 3D anatomies.

Contemporary medical sciences reveal ever more about the 
complex systems of the human body – but at a barely 
perceptible level. The (medical) human body today is 
understood, tested, and treated as a huge system of data, 
including complex interactions between our genetic material, 
our environment, and our host of microbial companions.

How do we grab hold of this data? How do we make sense of it 
and communicate it to others? How do contemporary artists 
and designers give our ‘data body’ material form through 
images, sound, and touch? What kind of tools are complex 
networks science proposing, and what kind of body do they 
reveal?

Speakers include Albert-László Barabási, Distinguished 
Professor and Director of Northeastern University Center for 
Complex Network Research, Boston; François-Joseph Lapointe, 
Professor at the Biological Sciences Department, University 
of Montreal and Artist; Annamaria Carusi, Associate 
Professor in Philosophy of Medical Science and Technology at 
the University of Copenhagen and Jamie Allen, Artist and 
Head of Research at CIID/Copenhagen Institute of Interaction 
Design.

The event is co-organised by Leonardo/Olats and Medical 
Museion under the EU Studiolab framework, and in conjunction 
with the Leonardo Day "Arts, Humanities and Complex 
Networks" satellite event for NetSci 2103.

More here: http://www.olats.org/studiolab/databody.php


Looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen and for those 
afar, video recordings of both events is planed, stay tuned !

Best Regards
Annick

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